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Super frustrated by the state of videos for kids on youtube, especially in the arts and crafts department, i decided to launch a channel and start creating my own content. Basically, all videos start half decent but for some reason end in a big noisy mess, weird sounds, spoiling food, questionable product placements, zero creativity and always incentivize more watching and trapping viewers in the infinite ‘next video…
I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…
I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…
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Most of these people are forced to work. I think for me personally a 4-6h workday on 4 days per week would be optimal. It's enjoyable to actually work together with a team on a product and provide a service which people want to use. Such part time jobs can be very fulfilling if money is not an issue.
Wouldn't there be resentment from the team because they work harder than you or just generally putting in more effort? Open source might be the right avenue for this type of freedom. Work on something important like Matrix or something
not in my experience. there are often people around that only do 25-35hours per week... at least in the places I've worked at 'till now.
> Open source might be the right avenue for this type of freedom
with open source, you're always an outside contributor. That might be enough for some - but I doubt that my motivation could keep up long term in that setting.
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Have a look at Bangle.js. It's nominally an open source smartwatch, but the difference between that and a bike GPS is just a handlebar mount. v2 has just gone on Kickstarter - I've ordered one specifically for bike mounting.
Nice, thanks! Now I need to reconsider. My goals were to have 180+ days battery life and wired connectors, but maybe no one really wants those.
https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Nations-Shaped-Todays-Economy...
I run a website that shows immigrants how to settle in Berlin. These days I'm thinking of codifying more things, so that people could fill a form and get answers instead of reading a long article. For example, a simple calculator that replaces pages and pages of information. I made a German health insurance calculator last week that saves a lot of reading and gives accurate results. Aside from that, I'm building a ti…
Launched https://caratdrop.com/ - a secondhand diamond marketplace - a few months back but don't have the audience and marketing to such a small and hidden sliver of customers is difficult. Rethinking the idea, maybe as a discovery website for people to find custom jewelers, with an emphasis on ethical and sustainable practices. If anyone thinking about buying an engagement ring, happy to chat! roger[at]caratdrop.com…
Don’t forget about those of us who wouldn’t mind spending a few hundred on diamonds pretty regularly but dropping $10k is a once in a lifetime event. We also likely have kids who would spend less but non-zero for mother’s day etc.
Much of the new "DTC" engagement ring market is trying to figure out how to capture that market too for repeat customers
I'm trying to write a test tool that recompiles a .Net binary so you can swap in mock objects without dependency injection. The goal is to allow you to write normal code without all the ceremonies needed to make it testable; and the let the test tool create testing hooks after compilation. It's interesting working closer with IL, and without a lot of StackOverflow posts when I get stuck.
Similar to Moq?
With Moq, you just can't call "new Foo()" in your code, because that's not mockable. You need to pass in a delegate that returns an IFoo. Or, you can't use statics, because those aren't mockable. What I'm trying to do is take the compiled IL, automatically convert Foo to an interface, and replace "new Foo()" with calls to a delegate. Then in your test, you set the delegate and provide an IFoo. You could use Moq to make your IFoo.
Likewise, with Moq, if you're writing code against a 3rd party API based around static methods, you need to wrap them in an interface, make a shim object, write your code to the shim object... I'm trying to take IL that's directly calling static methods, and redirect them to an alternate class.
The point is that you don't need to write interfaces for every type you want to mock, nor do you need to use dependency injection in every class you want to unit test. All that is done automatically, after compilation.