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#51
I started a blog about no-dig gardening. I think it could have some value to people because I am just starting out on my new vegetable garden, but I have some experience in the subject.

The site is very new and has some rough edges still.

I wrote a simple markdown to static site script in python, and am hosting on Netlify.

https://watchingplantsgrow.com

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post #50

https://loodio.com - A smart device for bathroom privacy I built it for myself because I just hate not having privacy living with my girlfriend. Then some other people enjoyed it and I made it into a product that is launching on Kickstarter soon.

Do you know of the Japanese version? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan#The_Sound_Pri... Edit: In a Shared Apartment we once connected a Radio and a Disco Ball to the light Switch. It was a windowless guest bathroom, we completely painted it black. Fun times.

Yes I bought it and tried it but it kinda sucks because you need to hold your hand against it and it’s pretty obvious what you are doing.

Loodio always plays music when you enter the bathroom unless you mute it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#55
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=checkr.c... - Checkr: write simple code checks with regex for vscode.

I strongly believe big libraries will come with their own easy to plugin static analysis rules as the norm (a lot already do). I also believe writing static analysis rules needs to be easier. And that devs will write their own static analysis rules more regularly in the future. I wrote checkr as a small rope bridge towards this. Clearly we need something better than simple regex, yet less daunting than abstract syntax trees. But regex gets us a lot of the way there.

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#57
Started a music blog that I aim to be nearly fully automated: https://pulse.input.sh/.

This change isn't live yet, but in the v2 (next month or so) it will a) fetch new Spotify releases by genre every week, b) rank them by popularity and extract top 10, and c) publish them as a blog post and add them to a playlist others can follow.

Basically the opposite of Spotify's generated (Discover Weekly / Release Radar) and other curated playlists, because it doesn't care about your listening history what so ever, you just pick a genre and know you won't miss anything.

Starting small (3 subgenres of house music), but once I nail it down, it should be rather easy to scale it up to dozens of genres with little to no time investment on my part.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#60
https://emojibang.com/ - a casual web-based game where you combine emojis

Coded it during the Christmas break and improved it a bit since. Scoring still doesn't work and it's rough around the edges, but people been praising it as a fun 5 minute novelty.

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