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I was tired of not finding any recruitment portals for product people and the affiliated work pipelines.
I added a bit of gamification with the play on words but haven’t marketed it, as I just figure everyone else likes LinkedIn.
I personally feel LinkedIn is a cesspool on fire in it’s current state, so I’ve just given up there.
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I would be super interested to see it. The aspect of text adventures or MUDs [0] that attracts me the most is the fact that you can actually move through a "textual landscape". Sorry, I have no better words to express it. Ditch all the quests and puzzles and fighting. Just immerse myself in a landscape evoked by words, that maybe adds some surreal elements, or other stuff that you couldn't express in a graphical way.…
Some of the very first scripting I did was for a MUD, back in the day! I really like that feeling of painting a very subjective map of a place in my head, just based on text. Part of the joke of this project, for me, was treating an entire country like a room in a MUD (e.g. "You are in the United States. Exits are Canada, Mexico...") You can see the game here: https://travelsimulator.rodeo/ `/help` shows commands, bu…
About half of the 30 or so bands I have played with have been abandoned after a couple of gigs, or non at all. Mostly I've only just played music for fun. It's much more fun (and certainly easier) playing at some friend's house every week for 18 months than it is to book performances, market the band, produce works for the public, etc. I have a sticker on my truck that says "This Sticker Will Last Longer Than Your Ba…
I am in the same situation at the moment and it is a bit sad. I've been trying to do more "solo" work because I'm the only constant in my musical journey. I envy bands that last for a long time because they can make it work, but I had to travel a lot and it made it impossible to have a band that would endure even the smallest of hiatus. At the same time, every time I am with musicians that "made it" only talk about h…
To be fair, that has a lot of appeal.
I've also gotten a lot out of bands that are just like, "guys night out for bowling". Way more than the long term commercially functioning bands, actually.
We just meet up and play every week (when we can), usually in the early evening or after my buddys' kiddos have gone to bed.
Once I leaned into the idea that these friendships were important both for me (as an old, single almost-pro musician) and my buddies (who have careers and wives and youngsters), the idea that simply playing (and practicing to support my friends) became really rewarding as an end in itself.
That appreciation really changes the dynamics, because I select more for how I get along with the people than I do for chops or genera.
The dream of taking that kind of band out isn't stupid or immature, nor is the dream of just having to play music for a living.
I have found that it's just so much easier and just as much fun to do "bowling night" at someone's house, and so much easier to make my money doing software.
I don't think there is anything sad in that situation.
Here's me playing it with a silly wig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgH-WU-9CZA
The artist "Mezerg" uses a MIDI-enabled Theremin to do something similar, but it's costly.
The BOM for my thing is around $30 when building just one at at time (excluding time spent of course); if mass produced the unit cost could probably be quite low. But the market is probably extremely small... maybe 200 devices? So I didn't pursue mass production.
I spent 7 years building my own static site generator CMS. I added drag and drop, Wordpress-like UI and lot of complex functionality based on studying extensively the existing systems like Jekyll, Hugo, etc. Originally, I started with a Wordpress theme I designed myself. It was great until it wasn't - I tried to add E-Commerce to it and it was the most pathetic architecture for a CMS I've ever worked with. Although I…
In its current form this sign-up page looks sketchy or just broken at best: - Terms of service link is broken - No explanation like this on the site itself - ‘Beta tester 50% off’ doesn’t link to anything - Header image is cut off For those reasons I would not trust my email to this site if I came across it on the web
Someone who ran a Minecraft hosting business contacted me asking permission to use it in their product, which was very surprising to me.
(it was GPL so I couldn't and wouldn't say no, but I also politely explained that I wasn't their free tech support and that patches would be welcome)
A browser extension for Twitch.tv (mainly for MOBAs) that enabled live-stream viewers to mouse-over in-game items/abilities and be shown a tooltip describing that item/ability as if they were playing the game themselves. Useful for viewers who are new to watching competitive matches and have no idea what certain icons/abilities/items represent. Scraped millions of publicly available property tax documents for a speci…
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That sounds great. Can you put it up on GitHub so I can use it please?
I mean sure, but I wasn't exaggerating when I said it is probably not usable on other peoples computers. It only works on linux, it doesn't work on wayland, and because I am using xinput to disable the keyboard, you will have to replace the device name in blockKeyboard.py: https://github.com/TT-392/keyAlarm/tree/master It shouldn't be too difficult to write your own though, so, if anyone wants to do so, feel free to…
That's totally okay! I love when people share their "works on my machine programs". Just say upfront that it's your personal tool so others won't expect production-grade software.
The code might inspire others, let others fork it (if a license says it's okay), teach code readers about some technique or tool, or just be fun to poke around.
I, for one, learned about pyxhook while reading your code. Thank you!
A simple browser extension for Hacker News that shows a sidebar with links buried deep in HN comment threads such as this one - so that you can quickly glance at all the external things people are talking about. https://github.com/dit7ya/hnlinks