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Post by cdubzzz »

imgabe wrote: post #228

No Nonsense Recipes - https://nononsense.recipes I built it mainly to scratch my own itch out of frustration with recipe blogs and their endless stories and photo collages before they get to the point where they actually tell you how to make the recipe. It seems a pretty common complaint, so I thought other people might be interested. I added a subscription because I don't like ads and tracking and everything that go…

Nice — in a similar realm I made kcal[0] to scratch a very specific itch for myself and my spouse. Our diet is mostly plant based but we both also do a lot of weight training and running so we needed something for close tracking of macros. It’s maybe 75% finished but takes care of all our needs with some quirks so it’s slightly neglected now.

[0] https://github.com/kcal-app/kcal

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Post by na85 »

byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

Your wiki's JavaScript hijacks the navigation controls on Firefox for Android.

No way to escape the page except closing the browser

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Post by ackbar03 »

radiantexp21 wrote: post #162

Believe it or not, I sell the following on Fiverr as radiantxp21: "I will special stocks and option picks lose all your money fast and intelligently" I know, it sounds a bit, non-English, but in my defense: it was my first time using Fiverr and I had no clue how to use it. The ad is up for a few months already, and I had many laughs creating it, but yesterday I had my first client! I panicked, I realized that I am as…

> I panicked, I realized that I am as bad at picking bad stocks as good ones. I felt like a fraud! And I was laughing so hard that I felt like a fraud.

Seems easy enough. Just tell them to give the money to you to buy them "special" stocks and options, keep the money, and make them do the New York Times crossword puzzle or something. You've then just "special stocks and option picks lose all [their] money fast and intelligently" and kept your end of the bargain. The original task is in such broken English anyways I doubt your legally liable for anything.

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Post by Aeolun »

Hmm, I have a few now, but none of them are actually released. Most of them I use in my day job to make my life easier.

- System to visualize code coverage/quality, to figure out where to focus improvement efforts, think mix of codecov/sonarqube, but better (in some ways)

- A desktop client for Jira, so I can work offline and have instant responsiveness

- Website for building resumes based on JSON, with export to word and PDF (currently offline)

- Typescript to Go transpiler (only for really simple programs right now)

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Post by KerryJones »

tma wrote: post #288

I've been working on something that helps me track my investments. It was to scratch my own itch since everything I've used was terrible. It's now grown to have a social angle and I hope to keep working on this for the rest of my life since investing is a life long journey for me. https://wealthly.com

Wow! This is great, I've done something similar but more focused on options trading -- did you do your own design?

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Post by byecancer21 »

na85 wrote: post #292
byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

Your wiki's JavaScript hijacks the navigation controls on Firefox for Android. No way to escape the page except closing the browser

Thank you for letting me know, this will be fixed soon. I should point out this is, for legal reasons, not "my" wiki.

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Post by shakezula »

tpoacher wrote: post #55

A nice terminal-based ticketing system. https://github.com/tpapastylianou/bashtickets v2 on master is as simple as it gets, but still incredibly functional; my team is dogfooding the hell out of it at work. v3 on the "commandbased" branch is a total rehaul on the works, hoping to make this a more traditional/complete package, with a command-based interface (i.e. similar to how git works)

This is amazing. I’ve wanted a system like this for so long.

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

I tried to use a SAT solver to take strings like "I am Lord Voldemort" and generate human pronounceable permutations such as "Tom Marvolo Riddle".

I thought that if I could express permutation generation in language that the SAT solver could understand I'd end up with something faster than simply generating every permutation and checking to see if it is pronounceable.

I can't be sure if I was wrong, or if my implementation sucks, but it's halting-problem grade slow (https://github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/tomriddle), an utter failure.

Despite this, I sent a link to it in an interviewer with the message "here's some code I've written, in case you're curious". Instead of a coding challenge he just had me give him a tour of the code. I got the job (which is a good thing, because I become a much worse coder when people are watching me, I'd probably have bombed the coding challenge).

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Post by Delphiki »

I work at a consulting firm with 20k people and get a lot of restaurant recommendations while traveling. I don't like any of the existing methods of managing these recommendations and associated data, so I'm building an app that makes it easier for me.

I envision the focus to be on the users writing the reviews/recommendations (rather than on a restaurant's star rating), where users and restaurants are suggested based on how well their own recommended and visited restaurants overlap with yours. In this way, you would be able to follow other users whose taste you trust.

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