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With the recent flurry of historic events unfolding, I want to see it from different perspectives (e.g. U.S., Europe, Russia, China, pro-Palestine vs Pro-Israel), therefore I included channels from all these areas, even channels that may be considered propaganda. So keep a critical eye when watching them.
And it's a way for me to try out Vidstack and SvelteKit. Feels like the routing can be improved though.
I've been building mentions.us[1] - it sends you alerts when your keywords are mentioned on Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky, LinkedIn and a few other places. For anyone who uses F5Bot, it's similar but with some extra data sources and a Slack integration. It's been a fun project. Dealing with the scale of Reddit (~300 posts/second) creates some interesting technical challenges. It's also let me polish up my frontend dev…
This seems very useful. Why not make it paid ? Do you think your customers won’t buy ? Have you tried ? What would your customers need to make them want to pay for it ?
I do have a paid plan for people who want Slack notifications, and I think those folks ought to be happy to pay. My hope is that I'll eventually get a few paid signups and that those will cover the costs of the service (which are minimal).
I know I lose a bit of revenue with the above approach, but it's a tradeoff I'm happy to make.
The one that's furthest along is a database and (currently extremely crude) webapp for asking interesting data type questions about Lotus setlists. I built a little scraper for Nugs and have all their setlists, I just need to take it further and get some of the queries I want implemented and put some kind of halfway decent interface in front.
I also built a little app that uses your Claude API key to generate "generative art," so you send in a prompt and it sends back some visualization code and renders it. It's fun to mess with but I haven't seen anything come out that's wowed me yet.
Got some other little hackeries going too, a lot of my recent hacking time has gone towards getting the -arr apps and their whole little ecosystem set up on my home server. I got a little N100 machine back in December and have been having tons of fun hosting little docker gewgaws.
Https://AppGoblin.info Free online database of all apps and their third party trackers. I made an Android app that lists the trackers on your phone. You can checkout that app by going to https://AppGoblin.info/about and clicking the link there. It is a test url for an open source ad tracking software. (ie track where an install came from, in this case the about page of the site). Feel free to reach out if you're inte…
Just a friendly ping that your first link is throwing a 502, could be a gentle hug of death? Will check back later, it sounds very intriguing to me!
I'm working on a new Event Sourcing database that elevates the WAL into a first class application concept like a message queue. So instead of standing up a postgresql instance and a kafka instance and a bunch of custom event sourcing plumbing, you stand up this database and publish all your application events as messages. For the database part you just define the mappings from event to table row and you get read mode…
Graffiti art.
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Awesome. Would suggest considering a built-in URL shortener.
Not too short or it's too easy to guess. The app might be stateless right now (I haven't checked); if it is, adding a URL shortener will break that.
We're increasing the brain's restorative function during sleep. Over the last 4.5 years, we've been developing slow-wave enhancement technology which increases the effectiveness of deep sleep. We've developed the full stack, our own hardware, soft conductive dry (no paste or gel) electrodes, comfortable EEG headband, embedded sleep stage classification and stimulation models, the list goes on and on. We're currently…