Been working on a fishing journal app. Pulls in weather, tides (salt), USGS streamflows (streams), add access points, save notes, make journal entries with catch log, and photo/videos.
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#162Been working on a fishing journal app. Pulls in weather, tides (salt), USGS streamflows (streams), add access points, save notes, make journal entries with catch log, and photo/videos. https://bluelines.app/
This is really neat! Kudos.
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#163You know how sometimes the gift you really want is cash or a gift card, but people often prefer to give you physical gifts that you can open and admire? Imagine a line of faux jewelry that is marked up to real-jewelry prices and that, unbeknownst to the gift giver, comes with a hidden gift card code. So somebody asks you what you'd like for your birthday and you say, "Oh, I'd really like some Lagniappe brand jewelry,…
This is such a first world problem. It's normalized in many 3rd world countries to give and receive cash (red envelopes). Directly not giving money and resorting to gift cards (and roundabout methods like these) just, doesn't make sense to my third world brain is all I'm saying.
Okay, and what is your hope by making this comment?
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
I replicate the service across several AWS regions, and Cloudflare Workers. At the moment, it's really good at answering "am I down everywhere?", since I can just double check in several other regions. I recently taught it to answer "Am I down just in this region?" by monitoring across cloud providers in the same location, though it's more of a niche use case (for the people I chat to, anyway)
How do you check sites behind cloudflare or similar that block the status code?
I don't. It's your website, you can unblock me.
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#165I'm working https://annotate.dev , a tool inspired by the Stripe documentation, to let anyone create step by step code walkthroughs. Here's a sample of a walkthrough you can create: https://annotate.dev/p/hello-world/learn-oauth-2-0-by-buildi... Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
This is really cool. I wish there was something like that when I learned to code.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are your clients sure that your storage lasts decades and doesn't end if you lose interest / fail / sell to another company? (They can't, of course, so: how do you convince them?)
It's a good question. A lot of it centers around creating good corporate governance and a reason for either me (or someone else) to stay interested (careful incentive design). This is obviously antithetical to the typical scale-up strategy of a tech company, and the financials are very similar to an insurance company. It's also why there is no free plan in the pricing. In terms of convincing, for the technically-mind…
That last sentence should be in your marketing
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#167I'm working on a very experimental music generator: https://app.bars.ai (I regret my domain choice). It's free to use and you can play around with it pretty easily. The idea is that you have a "framework" that you can change for what you want the music generator to produce. You can download the MIDI files it produces as well.
I honestly loved (!) the created melody, but stumbled across a couple UX issues. Most of those, I think, could be fixed with smarter defaults and some tweaks. Excellent work, though. Would love to see how it develops...
During creation of a new track:
- Why do I need a description?
- Why do I need a name, actually?
- Why is there only Latin and Empty available?
- Edit: Just realised that the Latin track is hardcoded?
During editing:
- I was not sure whether / how my actions affect the tracks / track items. (One remedy could be showing the actual waveform of the created sounds in the editor instead of a placeholder waveform.)
- Creating a new instrument — I found the "Instrument Sound Pack" dropdown menu only by accident after some clicking. It would be great to see what type of instrument I'm dealing with without having to click on the instrument itself. (Maybe map it directly to the displayed name? I'd rather have Acoustic Bass 1 to 4 instead of a bunch of "Unnamed Instrum...")
- Some actions have no effect until you restart the playback (e.g. changing speed of a track item).
- Some actions stop the playback (e.g. changing the instrument type)
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#168I’ve been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically, I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I make it in real life for them, then ship it to them.
Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me!
After almost a year of work I finally smoothed out all the kinks in the process, so can now go from a design to synthetic DNA in a cell in about a week (not counting oligo pool synthesis time). I can do about 600,000bp per week, which is large enough to synthesize the smallest bacterial genome (each week), tho I only do about 1000bp fragments. I’m also completely bootstrapped and self funded, and only get help from my several opentrons robots
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#169https://pirep.io - a collaborative database of all airports in the US & Canada and their local amenities for general aviation pilots. There's a bunch of local knowledge scattered about for recreational pilots, most of it unpublished. Pirep aims to make that more accessible so it in turn gets more people out flying.
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#170I'm building a registrar, beachfront/, for Handshake TLDs I own.
For the uninitiated, Handshake is a blockchain that democratizes the issuance of TLDs via Vickrey-style auctions. Handshake does NOT handle SLDs (second-level domains, or just "domains").
That's where beachfront/ comes in. I recently presented my progress at HandyCon a couple weeks ago and published the transcription this morning.
https://blog.neuenet.com/post/handycon-presentation
Why do I bother with this? Handshake is a blockchain-based naming system focused on TLDs (and security via DANE/DNSSEC). Other blockchains are focused on finance, data, &c and just so happen to have (SLD) naming systems.