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This is a wonderful overview. Many thanks to the OP for putting this together.

jeffehobbson Automatic Photography with Google Clips

I have one of these. It's neat, but the low frame rate for video makes the clips themselves look choppy and genrallly subpar compared to phone video. The "editorial" choices the camera makes are usually pretty great, though, erring on the side of conservative even at the higher settings.

jeffehobbson Tapster’s robots are built to poke touchscreens

Ugggggggghhhgh. The repercussions of this, I don't want to think about.

jeffehobbson My Chumby hacking story: Do you believe in the Users?

What a great story. Thanks for writing it up, I loved reading it.

jeffehobbson Timers, reminders, alarms – oh, my

It's not documented anywhere. I miss documentation.

jeffehobbson Study finds police body cameras had no significant impact on use of force

Better than nothing, however?

jeffehobbson Yelp Wi-Fi

Nope Wifi.

jeffehobbson Shoutem – A platform to build, publish, and manage React Native apps

This is a great team. Hats off for this release and I can’t wait to play with it.

jeffehobbson Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye

Kiss smooth native scrolling goodbye.

jeffehobbson What's killing us?

The illegible labels on this non-enlargable chart are currently what’s killing me.

jeffehobbson Xeno Kovah: macOS 10.13 EFI firmware integrity check

Great to see this level of transparency from Apple’s folks. (Also, hope he doesn’t get in trouble for this!)

jeffehobbson Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation – A Survey

Some of us, yes, some of us, no?

jeffehobbson Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”

I'll be honest, I'm just glad to see they are still actually working on their software.

jeffehobbson The JavaScript Way book

Note to the author: your social news app on heroku is overwhelmed by spam.

jeffehobbson Don't Use Raspberry Pi for Everything

This article does not really need to exist.

jeffehobbson Show HN: Twetestorm

Hi. I wasn't happy with the way Twitter's "Moments" aggregates tweets together, so I worked up a different way to place tweets together in a single embed.

Here are a few examples!:

http://www.twetestorm.com/thread/841833971700899841_84183884...

http://www.twetestorm.com/thread/840260007719403520_84026609...

http://www.twetestorm.com/thread/839302764328976385_83930277...

I'd be psyched if this could become a useful tool for web producers, feedback is warmly welcomed. ~Jeff

jeffehobbson I used LAMP to make a SaaS app with $3700/month profit

"Anyway, I always hated manual labor and decided to make a little tool to help me scrape the posts of my competitors and publish them to my group on a regular basis.”

Other things you must hate: morality and ethics.

jeffehobbson Show HN: Realtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning

You could probably get cleaner input for step 1 via the Mercury API [https://mercury.postlight.com/web-parser/] — it has a lot of affordances for different kinds of HTML formatting.

jeffehobbson Noise Protection for Short Term and Vacation Rentals

Well, that's creepy as fuck. If you're going to do this, why not also go ahead and don't rent your space out.

jeffehobbson Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

Apple should have removed the indicator that showed Tim Cook what his sales goals were.

jeffehobbson Please don't pay to use a pay toilet

Honestly, he's right.

jeffehobbson Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator

Very cool!

jeffehobbson Norwegian Air Shuttle to offer $69 Transatlantic flights

Nice

jeffehobbson Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox

Excellent choice!

jeffehobbson Show HN: Google Blade – discover, create, and share custom search engines

Bro, you are going to get sued and you will be flattened. Change the name.

jeffehobbson Open Source Software Wall of Shame

Yeah, Uber sucks. I’ve deleted their creepy app and won’t use the service until they go ahead and up they game.

BuuuUUUuuuut, this shaming is not an information-rich presentation. It would be interesting to see a presentation on which big, heavily-invested companies are not good OSS citizens, but this is not that presentation.

jeffehobbson Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools

This was standard in Netscape 4.x on, if I remember correctly.

jeffehobbson [dead]

This is an ad, right?

jeffehobbson Amazon Polly – Lifelike Text-To-Speech

Probably the Ivona team, no? https://www.ivona.com/

jeffehobbson Ask HN: How many of you have paid for sublime text?

I got my company to buy it for the whole team. :)