I have a few different ones, mainly running on a Raspberry Pi 3B (which is likely overkill)
- A monitor for my infant daughter's room temp that communicates with a "smart plug" to thermostatically control a heater
- A second process that creates a dashboard to display temp/humidity
- A webcam for said infant daughter
- An app for logging and displaying health/fitness data
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Did you share 2?
No, but I could share it as well. That one is a mess right now, though. It needs a lot of refactoring to make it readable. Let me see what I can do. It uses spotipy ( https://github.com/plamere/spotipy ) to fetch my liked songs and generate the recommendations.
What criterias do you extract from your liked songs to pick new songs?
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#663Calendar appointment system
API Encoder/Decoder
Journaling app
Units of measure converter
Camera downloader and processing
Music player
Automate display/data mining of weather info for 24 cities every 15 minutes
Translator
Loan Calculator
Onscreen menu system for the above
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No, but I could share it as well. That one is a mess right now, though. It needs a lot of refactoring to make it readable. Let me see what I can do. It uses spotipy ( https://github.com/plamere/spotipy ) to fetch my liked songs and generate the recommendations.
What criterias do you extract from your liked songs to pick new songs?
I pick five tracks at random as a seed to generate the recommendations (https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/2.19.0/#spotipy.client.Spo...). If I want I can also filter recommendations according to certain filters (audio features such as danceability, track duration, etc.).
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#666A reading journal named BookBrain!
https://github.com/ben-n93/BookBrain
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#667All of the time. Isn't this what computers are personal for? Doesn't everyone?
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#668Yes. And it’s a strange one. I made a program to gender swap any text you put into it and then got a book deal to rewrite and illustrate Fairy Tales. It’s been published around the world. https://genderswappedfairytales.com The idea is to shine a light on the original versions but it also creates a lot of never-written-before characters. A lot of brave princesses and lady-beasts, but also men desperately wanting chil…
Wow this book is beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks! It’s illustrated by my wife. She did a frickin incredible job! More of her stuff here if you’re interested: KarrieFransman.com
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I think this is a case of "chop your wood and it will warm you twice"... ie. the value derived from this exercise was not just from the outcome, but also the journey there!
Totally agree and get it, I do it selectively as well - and on this one, I don't think I would have enjoyed the challenge of it so I would have just outsourced the work to be done manually. It's such a straight forward thing to explain to someone else, I think most gig workers that spoke english reasonably well could quickly knock it out. Actually, so much so that since most of these stories are fairly short and you…
One reason it was nice was to instantly swap the story and get to read it back as if it’s new.. if I’d had to swap it all myself I’d already have been bored of it by the time I was done! Also allowed swapping lots of versions to see which I liked best.
But I have to admit too, that I just wanted to see if I could make it work ;)
Re: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
#670Yes. And it’s a strange one. I made a program to gender swap any text you put into it and then got a book deal to rewrite and illustrate Fairy Tales. It’s been published around the world. https://genderswappedfairytales.com The idea is to shine a light on the original versions but it also creates a lot of never-written-before characters. A lot of brave princesses and lady-beasts, but also men desperately wanting chil…
For anyone else who enjoys this, consider the Jailbreak the Patriarchy browser extension, which does basically this for text on the web. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jailbreak-the-patr...
This is great, thanks - this was actually my initial idea and it sat there in my head for 5 years and then morphed into doing a book.
We’re doing a sequel this year and I’m going to redo the website with the aim of turning genderswapping into a movement and getting other people to join in. I’ll link this this for sure!