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neiledon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

(Currently totally free) online greeting cards that can be signed by many people digitally.

Started it to learn sveltekit but fairly happy with how it turned out. Still more work to be done with optimisations etc but the framework is there.

Currently losing $60/month as it’s part of my mongo atlas subscription and I’ve not gotten around to putting it on a free version yet.

neiledon Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/08/ios-16-weather-app-upda...

neiledon Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

iOS only seems to be taking Dark Sky weather as of iOS 16, so guess start comparing them again as it was released today!

neiledon Luck Surface Area: How to Get Lucky In Life

Exactly the same for me, I really liked the concept if not the phrase itself, but definitely the first place I heard it too!

neiledon CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology

This sounds a lot like Matt Levine's newsletter today (Money Stuff). So funny!

neiledon Turtletoy

So many memories of using a physical robot version of this at school. Good times.

neiledon AVX-512: when and how to use these new instructions

Oh now I get the name of that TV show! I never realised it was the name of a joke opcode before, thanks :)

neiledon Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look

Seems to me it is initially a 'developer release' for people to start working out what they want to do with it. That being said it sounds like it might be quite a challenge to get the price point down to something even a VR enthusiast might be interested in purchasing.

neiledon Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need

I would suggest that, in 2018, you are in the minority.

neiledon A week-long programming retreat

I'm not sure we agree on the definition of very simple. It maybe very simple if you already know it...

neiledon Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

I was surprised by this. Anyone know the levels of philanthropy of Bezos vs Gates? I've ready many times of the great work and resources (money and otherwise) that Mr Gates has contributed to many causes.

neiledon iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews

10.3 is in beta and the first beta was released to developers yesterday. That link is to pre-release documentation.

neiledon $30 Toll to Use Express Lanes

Wonder if there will be any exemptions for high occupancy or EVs or whatever. Not necessarily saying there should be, but wouldn't be the first time a 'special' lane has exemptions.

neiledon Chrome browser for businesses

Not only does Dev stop, but the people that built the app, agreed on the specs and really understood it, all left too. Auto update is unfortunately something that's just not worth the risk in a lot of cases.

neiledon Bill seeks to put porn block on computers sold in SC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNa2B5zHfbQ

neiledon Master List of Data Broker Opt-Out Links

Are there any downsides to opting out of all these things?

neiledon How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage

Anyone have any nice links to describe more about queue prefetching as described in this case? My google skills are failing because of all the CPU related articles.

neiledon Know before you go, with Google

That would be useful, especially for someone like a traveling salesman.

neiledon Show HN: Turn a markdown document into an interactive tutorial

I think the main point you're not taking yet Dan is that you SHOULD be able to accommodate every user in your sales pipeline demo. Even if you fake it with pre-baked results or something in the meantime, Pick a sample->click next->load static html.

If they want to try out their own markdown, then worry about spinning up a container.

neiledon Ask HN: Which VPN do you use and why?

VyperVPN has always been good to me and I've never read anything bad against it, anyone had bad experiences I should know about?

neiledon John Oliver buys $15M in debt and forgives all of it on 'Last Week Tonight'

As has been mentioned elsewhere, it seems the real 'value' of this debt to people buying it, is not the debt itself because it can't legally be enforced, but the personal information that goes along with it.

neiledon How I Accidentally Captured the SpaceX Falcon 9 Landing

The stars sure are beautiful.

neiledon Marine Corps Shelves Futuristic Robo-Mule Due to Noise Concerns

http://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand...

neiledon Io.js 1.3.0 released

heroku is: https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/595

neiledon Philae has landed

Seeing their faces on the live feed when it landed was amazing. It must be so exciting.

neiledon Automate the iOS build/test/deploy cycle with Distiller and Hockey

I was just looking for something like this. I missed my push->circleci->test->deploy workflow when I moved to iOS development. Will be having a serious look at this later.

neiledon New MacBook Air Released – $100 Cheaper

They're just minor bumps to specs and a reduction in price, they normally don't do big announcements for something like this. Now if/when the retina MacBook Airs come out you can be sure there'll be an announcement for that...

neiledon The microhydro plant

Ah, I finally found it, including the full show. If anyone is interested it was Science Shack with Adam Hart Davis. I've not rewatched the show but I guess it was either the heat pump or the vortex tube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggzfqRTzJ9M

neiledon The microhydro plant

I saw something similar to this, using the power of a nearby stream, but in this case it was to generate heat. Apparently it used the difference in temperature between two parts of the river and magnifed this somehow to generate hot water. It was called a vortex valve or something like that (but I can only see this relating to gas in my google searches), I never have been able to find it again, anyone know what it was?

neiledon From Zero To Kickstarter In $5k

Kind of, with the moleskine partnership it's still up to you to take the photos yourself.