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Cofounder of a web mapping startup acquired by Apple.
Received awards from the US Coast Guard and the Governor General of Canada for creating a map that helped rescue 1,700 people during Hurricane Harvey.
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Currently refurbishing laptops with robots! https://www.reviserobotics.com/ (YC W25)
Also working on Disco, an open source self-hosting software: https://disco.cloud/
See my talk about it at the Recurse Center: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M
And this (slightly less chaotic) Devtools FM episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3JJpbCRP0
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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology • https://tandy.link/s/greg.technology
I did not do sentiment analysis on the comments (to modify my fudge factor mentioned elsewhere - which is the bulk of my complexity rating computation), but that could be a good next step..!
I adjusted the formula by researching online what people reported as the time it took them to build some of the items. ie there’s a linear regression “fudge” factor - but it’s still an extremely simplified “model”, if you can call it that.
What are the missing products?
- https://bernardgreenberg.com/Subway/
- https://github.com/BernardGreenberg/NXSYS
- and the incredible pages on the nycsubway.org site such as https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_Signals:_A_Complete_Gu...
It was definitely formative - I still have friends from back then, and remember logging on daily.
As you say, the transition to the real Internet and web was painful/slow for them, and obviously being a commercial software made it especially hard. The software and the user group all disappeared around the same time - hard to say which came first.
I submitted this more 'nonfiction-y' entry:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/gregsadetsky/08b6cdd56902...
It looks like it's only one entry per person, so I'm playing fair and not submitting this second entry, which encodes a compressed version of the image using a 128 word dictionary (ie each word encodes 7 bits).
The explanation + the dictionary + the encoded image result in 1000 words.
https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/97ac9c8efe9c2a9f08c9cfe...
Dealing with the ridiculously limited upload speed, the outages, the locked router. The 40 minutes it takes on the phone to get it disconnected. Their constant attempts at upselling you cell phone plans and other terrible tech you’d never consider.
Truly, Fios is the most bare minimum. And there are much better options if you can pay commercial rates (stealth.net! Pilot!).
Truly embarrassing and sad.
But the thing that struck me even more is that - again, I may be wrong - those cards actually ran Linux? They were super tiny computers?
In a sense, I find it incredible because - is there a parallel world where we'd all be using SD cards as micro computers, and would just have small docks with usb/ethernet? These could have competed with Pis, could be deployed as micro servers..?
Anyway, if someone has real actual information, I'd love to learn more!
Actually - this article [0] seems to imply that this whole micro-world is sorta dead? But wifi SD cards are real and exist? Do they run Linux...??
Just curious, have you looked at https://browser.engineering/ - and generally speaking, what are your thoughts on the few new browsers appearing these days?
Angry Birds generated $500M [0], supposedly.
I would also not be surprised if the Rovio developers, designers, testers, etc. who worked on this game did not get a share of that $500M pie - I actually assume they didn't.
But still, you know. Dare I say it - what about "fairness"? :-)
[0] https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/02/28/angry-birds-2-reven...
https://kotaku.com/this-guy-created-angry-birds-physics-and-...
Do you recommend finding a working Atari? Are they still reliable in your experience?
Thanks!
A beautiful project by fellow Recurse Center alums Victoria Ritvo and John Pribyl!
Also see this [1] for the full list of issues.
[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all-places-in-the-atla...
[1] https://gregsadetsky.github.io/clustering-is-not-my-favorite...
- don't cluster aggressively ie break out the clusters earlier (even if markers end up overlapping) - allow clusters and non-clusters to co-exist on the same zoom level (this is usually the case - except when maps are implemented to have "cluster only" levels and "point only" levels) - show immediately useful information in the point marker (the price!)
I agree with you that the point itself could show that it’s special - or - rely on users tapping/clicking it and then show all the info
In a sense, maybe conveying that the point has more than one data point attached to it isn’t critical - as long as you can see everything inside when clicking it!
Feel free to email me, would love to jam/chat about this!
I typically deal with dots at the same place as a single dot and, when clicked, open an infowindow/infopanel that will let people see all of the points’ data.
ie you do need to deal with this issue (by default, no mapping library will do it for you) - and most clustering librairies (or at least their default settings) will also not solve this for you.
The ui for what happens when a point (or even a cluster) is clicked but that point contains more than one point’s worth of data is its own separate problem basically
Their hours are "2:30 PM to 12 Midnight", I sort of believe... 7 days a week?
Rich will actually answer the phone, and guide you. I've done it a few times (it's an incredibly cool gift). A single record is $12. Extremely worth experiencing it.
I'll email you. sorry everyone, just two pal's pall'ing around xx
I was also looking into https://codeberg.org/fsphil/hacktv which generates a variety of different analog tv signals (meant to be broadcast using HackRF) - but yes, I want the opposite - an analog-receiver-emulator...? And one that would be "ok" with incorrect signals // fail like an analog TV would... :-)