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Could you link the issues please? Planning to use Gitea with a lot of mirrored repos.

kasbahon Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

I'm wondering if this could be used for building a crowd-funding platform or if there are headless solutions someone might recommend for that.

kasbahon Tomu – An ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port

Shameless plug but you can try and build a Tomu yourself with help of the Kitspace page.

https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/im-tomu/tomu-hardware...

kasbahon Ask HN: Source Recommendations for Category Theory?

Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers'

https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/

kasbahon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2021)

SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote (UTC+1)

We are building a search engine for open source hardware. Seeking two software engineers with experience in building search engines for a 3 month full-time contract (4500 Euro a month). Interest in hardware (electronic engineering, mechanical engineering) and enthusiasm for open source a plus.

https://search.openknowhow.org (proof of concept site built in a few days)

https://openknowhow.org

Please email your CV to kaspar [at] kitspace.org

kasbahon Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?

Put GrapheneOS on that Pixel. I run it on a 3a. It's pretty easy to install and updates itself very regularly, can recommend.

https://grapheneos.org/

kasbahon Three questions that can help you decide when to terminate a side project

Stop spamming.

kasbahon It's been three years. Stop saying your European visitors are important to you

I recommend the Consent-O-Matic browser extension and failing that, the "I don't care about cookies" browser extension.

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

kasbahon Show HN: I am building am app to fight climate change

Can you stop spamming Show HN?

kasbahon Show HN: I quit my job to start a podcast podcast

Can you stop spamming HN with your podcast?

kasbahon Gitlab 14

Not the OP but we can't enable our self-hosted runner on our open source project because if we do then the pipeline won't run on external merge requests. It simply fails with permission errors when we get merge requests. So we have to use the shared runners which are less powerful.

kasbahon Ripgrep 13.0

Mine are fd [0] to replace `find` and tldr [1] to replace `man`.

[0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

[1]: https://tldr.sh/

kasbahon Show HN: Milkldown – Plugin Based Wysiwyg Open Source Markdown Editor

Not sure what you mean by that, but yes, would be interested in an example.

More generally, what inspired you to make this, what did you feel is missing from prosemirror-markdown? What does this do differently or better?

kasbahon Show HN: Milkldown – Plugin Based Wysiwyg Open Source Markdown Editor

Looks really nice. As someone who just found out about Milkdown and Prosemirror through this post could you clarify what this adds over prosemirror-markdown? Would it be hard to be able to do the "switch to markdown" thing they do in this example? https://prosemirror.net/examples/markdown/

I'm thinking about using something like this but would require a custom markdown extension. Would that be easier with Milkdown because it uses markdown-it?

kasbahon Show HN: My 3D Printer Robots

Neat! If there were robots with specific models of 3d-printers (e.g. Prusa i3 mk3) I might be tempted. That could make a nice gift for my 3d-printing-nerd friends that swear by a particular model.

kasbahon Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

Not a direct competitor but https://kitspace.org is our take on electronics project sharing. Feel free to get in touch if you are interested in taking part.

kasbahon OpenFlexure Microscope, an open-source optical microscope

Some more images here: https://gitlab.com/openflexure/gallery-wiki#galleries

And someone used the Openflexure delta stage to make a scanning laser microscope recently (and made an entertaining video about it): https://old.reddit.com/r/microscopy/comments/mvmznq/i_made_a...

kasbahon OpenFlexure Microscope, an open-source optical microscope

The main value of this is a low-cost precision positioning system that can be 3d-printed. A lot of the challenge of microscopy is getting the sample into the right place. And yes, this design can be motorised and controlled automatically as well.

kasbahon OpenFlexure Microscope, an open-source optical microscope

That's a fair criticism of the website and one that we had been meaning to address for a while now. We did start collecting pictures over on this Gitlab wiki but most of the pictures out there that are not listed there yet.

https://gitlab.com/openflexure/gallery-wiki#galleries

kasbahon Next.js Conference Site Is Multiplayer

That's fun, but what can I expect from the conference? What are the talks (and will they be recorded to view later)?

kasbahon Shelljs – Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js

`sh` might be what you are looking for.

https://amoffat.github.io/sh/

kasbahon I Hate Git Submodules

You can change that behavior now in newer versions of git:

    git config --global submodule.recurse true

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1899792/why-is-git-submo...

kasbahon From Idea to Printed Circuit Board in One Week

Maybe SnapEDA and their new KiCad plugin [1] would be a good fit for you? I've not used the plugin myself but I do use SnapEDA footprints myself occasionally. I also try and keep on top of all the footprints available on GitHub and add them to our repo [2], you can add this globally and search through it from within KiCad.

1: https://blog.snapeda.com/2020/09/09/introducing-the-snapeda-...

2: https://github.com/kitspace/kicad_footprints

kasbahon How to design a motherboard for your electronics project

Sure, if you get a chance.

kasbahon How to design a motherboard for your electronics project

Nice guide for beginners. Will add this to our Awesome Electronics list: https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics/

kasbahon Lalboard – A 3D-printed keyboard inspired by the DataHand

Seems like they could easily turn the PCB into something you can just order online instead of this labor some vinyl cutter technique.

https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard/wiki/Vinyl-Cut-PCBs

kasbahon DVD Laser Scanner Microscope

>The OpenFlexure Microscope is a customisable, open-source optical microscope, using either very cheap webcam optics or lab quality, RMS threaded microscope objectives.

https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/

kasbahon Ask HN: What are you working on?

A platform for sharing electronics projects with a focus on replication (actually building the projects).

https://kitspace.org

kasbahon Show HN: A DIY particle detector kit developed at CERN

The same PCB can be used to build an alpha spectrometer. This variant is a little harder to use correctly which is why we are not selling it as a kit yet. You can however use the links in the page to buy most of the required components from 3rd parties.

https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/ozel/diy_particle_det...

kasbahon Show HN: A DIY particle detector kit developed at CERN

Hey HN, this is a particle detector developer by my friend Oliver Keller for his PhD at CERN. I've put together some kits so you can more easily build one yourself.

Previously discussed:

- DIY Particle Detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23196177

- CERN publishes instructions for building your own particle detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23185665

- CERN at Home: Building a Particle Detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24344382