cjflog
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Comment · 6 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Laboratory.love, still a one-person side project, and the goal is still to make supply chains transparent with regard to plastic chemicals.
If you eat the same product every morning please consider kicking off a crowdfunding page to get it tested.
Check what's been tested so far here: https://laboratory.love/results
Comment · 1 month ago
laboratory.love - a platform for testing everyday foods for plastic chemicals!
both crowdfunding and direct testing are available. all results are published openly!
you eat the same thing for breakfast everyday. worthwhile to make sure it’s not a nuclear bomb of plastic chemicals imho.
Comment · 1 month ago
https://www.laboratory.love
it's independent lab testing of everyday food products for plastic chemicals (phthalates + bisphenols), with all results published publicly. I got nerd-sniped by PlasticList and wanted this kind of testing to keep happening. Now it's a full-blown platform with a fast pay-money -> get any food triplicate tested pipeline
Comment · 1 month ago
Through Beacon via encrypted VOIP!
Comment · 2 months ago
This is a great project! I've been to Burning Man 10x and interactive projects are my favorite part.
Also, if I may, for folks that might appreciate more phone-based spontaneity, I've built an app to revive the social phone call. It works like a bat signal. Light your beacon and it reaches all your friends at once. The first friend to answer connects 1-1 and every other signal quietly drops. Check it out at trybeacon.chat
Comment · 2 months ago
I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which friend is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a group, and everyone gets rung at the same time. The first person who answers gets connected for a 1-1 call, and for everyone else the signal drops silently. No missed-calls or pressure to answer. Works pretty well given most people keep their phones on silent (and there are in-app settings for quiet hours too).
It works best if you're able to join with at least four people you don't speak with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them:
iOS TestFlight access here -> https://trybeacon.chat/
Android also in beta here -> https://appdistribution.firebase.dev/i/afe3c44d8443c4c0
Comment · 3 months ago
This app could work as is for an elderly grandmother as once set up (could be set up for her by family), it's just "open app → press single giant Beacon button" which would try to reach everyone in her network at once.
It doesn't really solve for incessant calling by folks with dementia...but could at least spread the load a bit. I think the dementia solution is occasionally, or often(!), routing the call to an AI-friend that has endless patience for repeated questions and circular conversations.
But for a cognitively capable elderly person I think Beacon as-is actually solves for the use-case. The instigator has tons of free time and is searching for the family member who happens to be free right now.
Comment · 3 months ago
please share if it works for you and any feedback you have!
Comment · 3 months ago
thanks, it is fun! I now spontaneously talk to friends 1-2 hours/week more than I did.
Comment · 3 months ago
haha, thank you :)
Comment · 3 months ago
Can you say more about what you mean by a messaging version?
Comment · 3 months ago
I think it went away because everyone became "online" all the time, but that also meant most communication transitioned to async
Overall it works pretty well given most people keep their phones on silent (and there are in-app settings for quiet hours too if you don’t).
It works best if you're able to join with at least four or five friends/family you don't chat with as much as you'd like. I have a couple dozen connections on the app now, and it feels like magic to me. Would love feedback from both introverts and extroverts who still like phone calls, or wish they had more of them.
https://trybeacon.chat/