bthallplz
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Comment · 24 days ago
I started out "self-hosting" by paying for self-hosted app instances on PikaPods, but then I learned could get a $5 VPS and run most of the same apps there for less cost overall per month while knowing very little about how it all works (using CapRover on a DigitalOcean VPS).
The main apps I run are Actual Budget (YNAB alternative), Wallabag (read-it-later service), and FreshRSS (RSS aggregator).
I've also been using the VPS to run some scripts daily for my planet site(s): they ingest RSS feeds, regenerate the static site files, and push the files to my static site host (https://pgs.sh) instead of worrying about hosting them myself (threatening the VPS's apps).
Comment · 25 days ago
As some others have mentioned, the /new page is a better source for the quirkier stuff. I'd recommend checking out the HN blogs newsletter, which rounds up a lot of those types of things since they're items that were posted to personal blogs: https://hnblogs.substack.com
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't code much in my position (State of California), but I'm pretty sure the public sector/government is a solid bet. Government has a major reluctance to use (and depend) on techniques and tools that haven't been proven out for like 5+ years. I suspect that most government coders' practices aren't at a 2021 best practices level yet.
Comment · 1 month ago
Watching it in the theater was a fun experience. It seemed like most of the audience were containing their laughter, but me and one other guy were just belting out laughing. It'd be fun to go see again simply to get a sense for how many people will be less reserved with their laughter.
Comment · 3 months ago
No, none that I'm recalling. I think there was one that had a table of the prior few days' key metrics, but it was way down the page and just in a table format, way less intuitive than how your tool shows this info.
Relatedly, I would love it if a site offered some info about how irregular a place's recent weather has been lately. This would be really nice for a place you're vacationing in or visiting with an interest in moving there.
Comment · 3 months ago
I love the graphs, it's a very neat approach!
I also greatly appreciate getting to see the past few days' history for my location - too many weather sites are only really forward-looking, and I sometimes want to compare to a prior day when the current day feels different somehow.
Comment · 3 months ago
Have you posted anywhere online about your experiences with color e-ink displays? I think they're super neat, and I love the idea of using dithering for them. :D
Comment · 3 months ago
Neat! I really liked the look of the Floyd-Steinberg algorithm in the article, so when I googled for a web tool that'll do it for me, I found the tool mentioned here: https://www.ascii-magic.com/styles/dither
It has some fun animation options and settings to play with, and there's other dithering algorithms to play with.
Comment · 4 months ago
I haven't read Kant, but I like this description so much that I how it's indeed a good summary of some of his works. o7 Is this the main idea of Critique of Pure Reason?
Comment · 4 months ago
Yay for dictation! It's so nice to just think aloud and then have an easily editable record of your thoughts, even when you aren't feeding the outputs to LLMs.
Comment · 5 months ago
Post the link as a non-Show HN post?
Comment · 5 months ago
Heh. Sometimes when I'm stuck at work and feeling unmotivated/catch myself procrastinating, I'll write out my thoughts in my OneNote notebook that I take all work notes in. I do kinda cringe about the idea of IT reading those notes sometimes, but oh well, and it's helped a lot.
This is connecting to another commenter's idea that AI can be sort of a stand-in for journaling.
Long-term jollies, short-term follies.
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