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I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
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Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#42Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#43Nice. Any time you submit a bug, you give the maintainer a little bit of cancer.
is thermal paper bad?
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#44This is a fun idea, but I've read thermal paper is surprisingly nasty stuff. [Edit: unless it's advertised as "phenol-free".] It's not just paper. It contains plastics (BPA or BPS) that you absorb through your skin when handling it. I'd avoid working with receipts at my desk all day. (I'd also avoid being a grocery store cashier...) https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
We would have a lot of cancer victims who happen to be cashiers in that case?
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#45Building one of these is probably easier than wrangling the GitHub notifications settings into having a meaningful signal:noise
Literally why I built this in the first place. Work is one thing, but my side project issue notifications kind of just got lost in the mix of noise coming through my email, and I'd forget to check them out.
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#46Rather than the chmod of the printers /dev node, the user could probably be added to the `lp` group to grant the correct permissions. "Just `chmod 777` it" as the universal solution to permission issues is usually solving the wrong problem.
Forgot to mention that in the article, but I tried that as well. Added `lp` group to both the pi and root users, to no avail.
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#47This is a fun idea, but I've read thermal paper is surprisingly nasty stuff. [Edit: unless it's advertised as "phenol-free".] It's not just paper. It contains plastics (BPA or BPS) that you absorb through your skin when handling it. I'd avoid working with receipts at my desk all day. (I'd also avoid being a grocery store cashier...) https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
We would have a lot of cancer victims who happen to be cashiers in that case?
I found this in two minutes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29778011/
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#48This is a really funny read for a Friday morning. It should play an MP3 of a line cook in a busy diner shouting, "Order up!", and then he can stick it on a rotating order wheel hanging above his desk. EDIT: One of these things: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/choice-stainless-steel-orde...
I hope he at least has one of those receipt spikes to stick it on when the issue is closed.
I've already been looking at kitchen rails to hang above my desk lol
https://www.amazon.com/Winco-Order-Rack-Aluminium-24/dp/B01E...
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#49This is a fun idea, but I've read thermal paper is surprisingly nasty stuff. [Edit: unless it's advertised as "phenol-free".] It's not just paper. It contains plastics (BPA or BPS) that you absorb through your skin when handling it. I'd avoid working with receipts at my desk all day. (I'd also avoid being a grocery store cashier...) https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
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Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#50This is awesome, I'd add a QR code with the link to the bottom (if possible on printer).
Then could scan with your phone to bring the issue up for immediate triage. I imagine lots of issues can be closed right away (or very quickly).