anyone interested in the pdf -> word doc space?
I'm interested to hear more if you can share.
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#42I'm a front-end developer / artist / father. I'm trying to make a software application for families common in my situation. I have an 8 year old daughter who is very autistic and there is a huge lack in tools I feel that a family and kid can communicate with. To that end - I am trying to make a communication board tool. In my mind think of Trello board but there's not much in the way of words only symbols. Right now…
This is quite interesting and important. Do you have anything I could follow or some literature about the topic? I'm not even sure what to search for as I never thought about alternative modes of communication.
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Perhaps you can work with this site. https://www.ontheissues.org/Issues.htm
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That's a great project, would be awesome to have an EU variant to this, maybe extend to EU as well
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#45I just released a barebones MVP yesterday for a sports betting site with a little twist:
We give users a little bit of money each week to play with ($0.50 right now) and if they can run it up past a certain point we'll pay them out in cash. If they lose the money, we put another $0.50 in the next week. It's legal in the US since the users aren't allowed to deposit and mainly for entertainment purposes.
The plan is to make money through affiliate referrals if users want to bet with real cash.
I think sports betting is inherently social, so the end game is to create more of a social sports betting experience where you can invite friends and talk shit about their bets, have leaderboards and so on, so forth.
I'm a front-end dev / designer with some back-end chops but not great. I'd be down to chat with anyone who has a complementary skill set. Hit me up at will@pennywagers.com
Stack: Next (serverless back-end), React, Tailwind, Prisma ORM, Postgres
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#46I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…
I'm intrigued by mesh networking, too. I'd like to see an open source implementation of Bluetooth Mesh networking for embedded SoCs like ESP32 that's not limited to a single chip (and ideally usable with MicroPython).
This could make cool games possible running on all those hacker conference badges!
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#47I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…
I'd love to follow along once you get this started. Sounds like a lot of fun. I'm personally limited on cycles currently (N.B. I am a cofounder / direct of eng. of an ISP that builds custom 802.11ax-over-mmWave last mile access networks and CPEs in-house), but since I have enough experience in that world I can probably jump in at points to help as I free up.
I'd bet you'd be a fantastic person to lend cycles to keep the guesswork within reason. And if you had cycles to put to the weeds, I doubt an engineer would turn you away. We should get in touch! pavgup at gmail dot com!
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#48In a slightly different direction, I'd love to collaborate with someone on writing and producing low-budget short films in NYC. I have some plot ideas bouncing around, as well as some basic equipment and (mostly theoretical) skills in cinematography, sound, and editing.
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#49I am building an open source web framework comparison. The idea is to put together a project that gives an overview of how to set up a minimal viable web application from scratch via all the different frameworks. For each framework the project features a self explanatory shell script that builds a web app with routing, templates and user accounts. So there is no ambiguity of how to reproduce the results. And it is ev…
That sounds really cool, I have no knowledge of frameworks but I will definitely be a beta-testing user if needed.
Great! You can find me on Twitter to be updated on the progress of the project:
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#50I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…
I'd be interested in that! Would be a good learning experience and a way to understand WiFi more deeply. My experience so far is mostly in cellular.
I'm convinced every side project should lend you awesome learning experiences. Why else would you do it? These specs and the chipsets that are implementing them seem to be deeply maddening, but I bet that's a good thing, right? :)