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ISNIT

73 karma · joined September 2, 2014

meet.hn/city/gb-London

Socials: - github.com/isnit0 - linkedin.com/in/josephereeve - x.com/isnit0

Interests: AI/ML, Entrepreneurship, Hardware, Open Source, Outdoor Activities, Programming, Space Tech, Startups, Technology

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ISNIT··on Generic interfaces
Sort of wild that the Go blog doesn't have Go syntax highlighting...
ISNIT··on Reimagining Web APIs – Multilingual/ Rusty Web Servers Ft Robyn
Excited for this - in particular for LLM inference. Congrats on the launch :)
ISNIT··on Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?
I was at a house party full of non-tech YUPPies (economics, politics, etc.) over the weekend. Every single group was talking about ChatGPT. I couldn't get away from it.
ISNIT··on Analytics data you can trust
Hey hackers! I'm on the Iteratively team - we're super excited to be improving the analytics story for developers.

I've personally implemented Google Analytics, MixPanel, Amplitude, and some other event analytics libraries. It always felt a bit weird to call a totally un-typed analytics api from TypeScript/Kotlin/etc. Iteratively code-gens a typed analytics SDK, so analytics gets type-checked at dev-time.

ISNIT··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
SES Templates: https://sestemplates.com/ I built it over a weekend to scratch an itch. It's useful, it works, but needs some sales/marketing effort.
ISNIT··on Ask HN: I want my pupils (~12yo) to create their own website. Suggestions?
They could make JoeDocs sites (joedocs.com) and have them either publicly editable or only viewable. They feel like GoogleDocs to edit, but have video chat, public visibility, custom domain names, etc.

Disclaimer, I am on the founding team of JoeDocs.

ISNIT··on Covid-19 Open Research Dataset
Have you put this in https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/data?
ISNIT··on Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
Have you seen https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/volunteering?
ISNIT··on Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
Have you seen https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/volunteering ?
ISNIT··on Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak
You should totally add this to https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
ISNIT··on Ad.watch – Breaking open Facebook's machine of political persuasion
Seems quite similar to https://whotargets.me/en/
ISNIT··on Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
Maybe we should all just learn a graph query language and live on WikiData ;)
ISNIT··on GitHub Is Down
Confirming I can't even get the home page to load from the UK, Hungarian colleagues aren't having any issues
ISNIT··on I'm going to work full-time on free software
For anyone who'd like to try their hand at paid open source work, an organisation I write code for is hiring an Android dev to lead development on their Wikimedia-funded open source app... https://kiwix.org/android-dev/
ISNIT··on Ask HN: Which tool do you use to take math-heavy notes?
Math Notepad is quite nice: http://mathnotepad.com/
ISNIT··on Ask HN: Where do founders vent?
Mentors, partners, humans that know you and your situation well.
ISNIT··on Show HN: A Social Icon Repository
Unfortunately those are the official icons - they don't provide SVGs or higher res images through their brand guidelines. I wasn't sure if it'd be worth finding copies of them elsewhere.
ISNIT··on Show HN: A UI for generating WebAudio code
Glad you like this, feel free to make a GitHub issue if you notice a missing feature :)
ISNIT··on Show HN: A UI for generating WebAudio code
Thanks for reporting this, I've solved the issue - was a typo :)
ISNIT··on Show HN: A UI for generating WebAudio code
Sorry, I think there should be an intro popup, but it seems your question has been answered :)
ISNIT··on Show HN: A UI for generating WebAudio code
Thanks for the feedback! I'll shove it all in GitHub and start working on them.

All help welcome ;)

ISNIT··on Ask HN: What would you use to build a small biz banking app?
If you're UK based, it's definitely worth looking at Teller (https://teller.io/developer) IMHO they're quite a good example of what a banking API should look like.
ISNIT··on Ask HN: Advice needed; drop out of university or not?
I think the most important thing to bare in mind is the "Sunk Cost Fallacy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_th...)

Don't make your decision based on what you've already done/paid. Make your decision based only on looking forward. Try considering: - What's my goal? (Make a family, take over the world, have a masters) - What actions get me toward my goal most efficiently? (Start making money, steal the moon, keep head down)

At the end of the day, it's a highly personal and contextual decision.

If you do decide to drop out, it'd be worth talking to staff about ways to keep credit for things you have already done - perhaps in a few years you could finish your course with Open University?

ISNIT··on New Raspberry Pi Model B+
I'm looking forward for the Pi 3 Model B+Xv2.0
ISNIT··on Google Shopping now returns no results for searches containing “gun”
Damn... I should've bought my "gunge" before today. Now I'll have to use Yahoo!
ISNIT··on Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
This year I'm committed to launching 12 projects in 12 months. For January, I took a couple of days out and built API Console

https://apiconsole.io/

NOTE: the website was "heavily inspired by" (copied from) ZeroNet.io - I built the whole thing in 2 days, didn't have time to make my own.

The aim is to have it making some money, but I'd really appreciate any feedback on the copy, pitching, etc. Copy is NOT my strong point (though I'm learning).

Any feedback is welcome, but I'd primarily appreciate the following: - Framing/Pitching of the product - Copy - Product/idea itself - Should I continue developing it before I get email addresses?

ISNIT··on Ventusky – Weather data visualization
I personally prefer https://earth.nullschool.net/ I find it works better with Mac Trackpads
ISNIT··on Ask HN: Making time for side project?
I find a lot that being around people helps. Go to a hack space (e.g. https://www.meetup.com/HackWimbledon/) or spend and evening with a friend who's working on their own side project. My biggest problem when working on side projects is that Netflix is only a few keypresses away, so if you put yourself in a situation where those distractions are impossible, it really helps focus and makes the best use of your limited time.
ISNIT··on Amazon Go
"No lines" I'm just imagining a huge group of people standing by the door waiting to download the app so they can buy eggs.
ISNIT··on Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux
It'll super useful when/if it supports XCode + Mac Developer Tools for iOS development. I think that's the main thing keeping app developers on their Macs.
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