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hartzellon The Amazon Builders' Library

Write more and find ways to get feedback on your writing. It's important to get outside input to help you see the things that don't work and experienced readers/editors/friends/coworkers can often provide suggestions on how you can fix it.

hartzellon Open-Source Home Automation

I just checked, and Plex happily played my local media with my internet connection powered down. I'm using Plex 1.16.5.1554 running in a jail via the FreeNAS plugin and playing from a Roku Stick+.

Only hiccup was the Roku client took unusually long to bring up my list of local content; I could imagine it timing out on DNS connections.

I've never connected it to the Plex servers ("associated it with my Plex account"), perhaps thats the difference?

hartzellon Show HN: Borg Voice Generator

There are a handful of Dalek effects for the Teensy/Teensy Audio platform:

- https://pastebin.com/dYf49wp5 (from this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TyN__5MuJs)

- https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/47157-Distort-Voice-to-Someth...

Teensy info is here: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

Teensy audio board is here: https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy3_audio.html (heads up, there's a rev D board to use with the Teensy 4, has the same functionality but different pinouts to match the Teensy 4).

hartzellon Mail in a Box

AWS throttles port 25 traffic but in theory you can petition to get it opened up.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-p...

hartzellon Moto Razr 2019: A foldable smartphone with no display crease

All I'm seeing here: https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/iphone is X's. Did you find the SE somewhere else on the site?

hartzellon Instant stone (just add water) (2018)

Thanks for reminding me of trips to See the Atlantus at Cape May when I was a kid.... :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Atlantus

(and horseshoe crabs and Cape May diamonds and ...)

hartzellon Database as Filesystem [video]

See also Michael Olson's "The Design and Implementation of the Inversion File System (1993)", from the 1993 USENIX conference (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...), PDF here: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/S2K-93-28.pdf

hartzellon Pi-Top 4

Wow, never knew that was there. Learn something new everyday. Thanks!

hartzellon Pi-Top 4

What is "Idle" (link?)? thanks!

hartzellon Ask HN: How do you handle data migrations in SQL databases?

I've used sqitch (https://sqitch.org/) in the past, happily.

Noticed that it released its 1.0 a couple of days ago (https://github.com/sqitchers/sqitch).

hartzellon Adafruit Founder Limor Fried: Open-Source Hardware Revolution [video]

I think that you wanted your first link to be:

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406

hartzellon The Parker “51” (2018)

And, if you're feeling acquisitive, there's also the Pen Swap subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pen_Swap/new/

hartzellon The Parker “51” (2018)

At the higher end there is also Ariel Kullock's "Fantasy" 51's [1]. I believe that he's no longer making them, but it's not uncommon to see his pen parts for sale (e.g. [2]).

[1]: http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Parker/Parker51FantasyPart...

[2]: https://www.ebay.com/str/arielkullockpens/Parker-51/_i.html?...

hartzellon The Morris Worm at 30

One of my favorites!

hartzellon Z80 computer wirewrapped on perfboard

I think it would be fun to build one of these, but I don't really have a use for it.

I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, let me know if you'd like to collaborate.

hartzellon MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

ctrl-[

(a habit I picked up on DEC and Wyse and etc... terminals where the key labeled ESC was in different locations)

hartzellon Tiny Core Linux

[piCorePlayer](https://sites.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home)!!!

hartzellon Soylent’s Next Chapter

Here's a link to the 12-bottle variety pack of the caffeinated flavors: https://www.amazon.com/Soylent-Replacement-Drink-Variety-Bot...

There are ASIN's for smaller packages (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01MTBJCR6/) but the pricing isn't rational.

hartzellon Ask HN: What do you do for physical exercise?

I like scheduled classes, they help me keep a rhythm and I can hide in the crowd when I need to.

TRX (https://crufit.net/pages/trx and http://www.flying-studios.com/strength) -- Core conditioning, I like the structure and the ability to dial the difficulty up/down depending on what my body's up for.

Circuit training classes (https://crufit.net/pages/circuit-training) -- strength and cardio.

Yoga (http://www.flying-studios.com/yoga/) -- Flow and Happy Hour.

Indoor Cycling (https://crufit.net/pages/cycling) -- find a place with bikes that measure power output and heart rate so that you have an objective measure how hard you're working. Subjective measures are sneaky....

All of that supports telemark skiing, mtn biking, surfing (aka, falling, swearing).

hartzellon HEML: an open source markup language for building responsive email

Have you seen [Markdown Here](http://markdown-here.com/)?

I've been a happy user in Gmail at work.

hartzellon Libsqlfs: A POSIX-style file system on top of an SQLite database

Reminds me of Mike Olson's [Inversion Filesystem](http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/S2K-93-28.pdf) from the early 90's.