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i think there's a way but it's hacky. instead of using the barcode property it would add an image based on your inputted codabar.

noted

my use case is a loyalty barcode for a major retailer here. they provided a digital version but you had to download their app or take a picture. apple wallet is convenient, u just double tap and the Wallet loads on screen with full brightness to make it easy to scan. i dont have to keep anymore.

but on apple wallet u can't create your own a pass from a simple scan. creatign the ".pkpass" need a signature from a apple developer account.

that's a good idea. i'll release a BYOK version but don't plan to host it myself. will include a quick run script to run it locally.

let me look into it.

i should've been clearer: while browsing i found multiple apps that do this. most use AI to extract data from images and are much more feature-rich - you can photo your boarding pass and it goes straight to wallet. however, i noticed that AI sometimes gets details wrong. for example, when i uploaded just a barcode image, it couldn't create the pass because the model also wanted a "name" field.

Apple Wallet passes use CMS signatures. you're right that only hashes are signed. but Apple requires an official Developer certificate ($99/year) with a private key that can't be exposed to browsers. for true privacy, each user would need their own cert. and defeats the "free" goal. and if you have a dev certificate it's trivial to generate one on your own machine.

agree. implemented QR code scanning using the great html5-qrdecode package so scanning happens locally.

nice! don't have an android device to test - did u download it and it worked?

not really. the .pkpass needs to be signed. you can build the file locally but you won't be able to load it in apple wallet.

I’m in a company where English is not our native language, yet we write almost everything in it. Being a second language I sometimes need to phrase and rephrase my ideas while writing them. I found that it sharpens my thinking.

I'm also in the process of hiring a Senior Brand Designer. I use https://dribbble.com and recently launched Polywork.

That’s interesting. Do friends use it for themselves as well or update it to keep you in the loop?

I found the 9$ / month pricing to be a little steep.

La Gomera, Romanian indepedent movie, is based on this. The director learned about the whistling lunguage and then, for almost a decade, looked fot ways to transform it into a movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7921248/

The biggest value an aggregator can provide here is curation. The amount of free resources are so vast there's no way you would be able to find the perfect PNG or SVG — and sometimes it's badly traced from raster. I've been using https://thenounproject.com whenever I'm looking for symbols. They also have collections when you want to maintain consistency in a project.

I think the conditions for a "unsplash.com/deathtothestockphoto.com" will soon come for illustrations as well.

If you’re excited about something there’s a good chance other fellow HNers will find it interesting. Just pot it here for starters.

Yet, it does get to HN frontpage almost every quarter...

Nicky Case also does it in the most delightful way — https://ncase.me/remember/

Andy goes into even deeper detail of the need of having Executable Books in order to enable learning — https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2UKZTkAbLUKR85d92gqB7ahoxcS...

quantum.country is actually a study in the effectiveness of spaced repetition. Andy and Michael have documented the results from Quantum Country here — https://numinous.productions/ttft/

I'm using multiple sources — Most of the news are NYTimes archive from printed newspapers and WIRED's WebArchive. I forgot about Slashdot. That's a nice one. I see they even have an active history from 2000 — https://slashdot.org/archive.pl?op=bytime&keyword=&year=2000...

Reading news from two decades ago has something special about it — one: it gives meaning to the present — two: it shows that things to change eventually.

That's why I've launched this — decades.tech

As I've been studying news from the last decades I can see certain categories unfolding. Tech that is available now and was predicted pretty precisely — eg. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/magazine/tech-2010-24-all...

Ideas that took a lot more time to get implemented — https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/magazine/tech-2010-14-fee...

And, essays with ideas that seem even more relevant today — https://web.archive.org/web/20000815060013/http://www.beyond...

There was an undocumented update to ReCaptcha https://2captcha.com/blog/google-search-recaptcha

Doesn't everything start out like that? How would you define a feature vs. a product? Could an app like Zoom be considered a feature of an OS because of its dependency of the host system to act?

Michael Nielsen's essay, Augmenting Long-term Memory, points to an article from the late 80s which goes through a list of reasons why "Spacing Effect" hasn't implemented been implemented in US's teaching system.

http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Dempster1988.pdf

This absolutely brilliant. Been using Segment for multiple project on over 1m MTUs and now at a B2B SaaS where we simply can’t invest in writing events for every interaction. You’ve perfectly captured our/my pain.

I think UIPath recent success shows that the market already values this.