greaterscope
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Comment · 5 years ago
I love this idea! Bookmarking "Terraform Graph Algorithms" and "HTTPie Download Progress" for later. Thank you!
Comment · 5 years ago
I've been creating something akin to Minecraft creative mode in the browser since 2016: https://github.com/alanszlosek/voxeling. It all started when I found the VoxelJS project. The possibilities really hooked me so I forked it, learned a ton about WebGL, then started my own repo and rewrote nearly everything from scratch. I've been having a blast. There are endless opportunities for optimization (must maintain 60fps!), which is extremely rewarding to me.
Last year I started making videos showing the code and the improvements I've made: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGonE3T1sorRgdHNBGhpj...
That's just one of my projects, but the one I'm most proud of. Even if the code isn't conventional or pretty. :-)
Comment · 6 years ago
Great timing on this post as I'm looking for something to replace my aging Dell Inspiron 1420n from 2008. Thanks for asking! It sounds like you just need something to run an editor (maybe VIM?), PHP and a browser... Like others have mentioned, if you need to run docker it will require something quite modern.
What's your budget?
Can anyone chime in about the Asus Eee PCs, or the Dell Inspiron Mini series? Or anything else near the 10 to 11-inch form factor? Would they be hard to type on for someone under 6ft tall?
I'm personally looking for something that can run Linux (perhaps even as slimmed down as Puppy Linux), Vim (or maybe VSCode) can run a browser (preferably Firefox but Pale Moon or other might be fine). Just bought an Asus VivoBook X202E on Ebay, but that's an 11.6" display, so I'll see how it goes.
What I'd really love is to find a blog post of the "Best Linux-compatible Netbooks Through the Ages". Has anyone come across anything like this? Would help me search Ebay for successively older machines until I get to the price point I'm looking for.
Comment · 6 years ago
I second the point that it's helpful to know the actual landscape, so the division within GE should definitely be listed. After all, if they end up contributing something positive it deserves visibility.
And your mention of Zipcar, Maven, etc makes me think it'd be great to include the entities that own or fund each organization. Definitely means there's more information to hunt down, but crowd-sourcing can lessen that pain.
Comment · 9 years ago
You made me lol. Thank you :-)
Comment · 11 years ago
I wrote a self-hosted tool that fills this need for me. Been using it since 2008. Content is written in markdown, though it doesn't have a fancy editor. Supports tagging and searching too. Since you mentioned self-hosted, I thought you might be interested.
Screenshot: http://greaterscope.net/files/tracker.png Github project: https://github.com/alanszlosek/tracker
Comment · 11 years ago
Seconded. He was on episode 199 of Software Engineering Radio two years ago (http://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebra...), which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was so informative that I took a page of notes while listening! Really great stuff.
Comment · 13 years ago
Two projects you may want to review for ideas are Redis and toybox.
Redis comes to mind because it started out as largely a single file of code that has since been split and organized into multiple files. The code is quite approachable; you'll likely understand how most of it works after a day of causal browsing. http://redis.io
Toybox comes to mind because it's insanely modular, and aggressive about code re-use. The logic can feel a bit dense at times, but he's going for size and speed. I'm a big fan of Rob's efforts. http://landley.net/code/toybox/
Comment · 15 years ago
Wish were able to download our ebs snapshots, which are supposedly hosted on S3. What does everyone else do?
Comment · 16 years ago
Recently bought the box-set of this series .... love it!
Comment · 17 years ago
hilarious. but maybe a few people will participate (fall for it) and thus indirectly donate to jquery, postgres, or apache.
Comment · 17 years ago
Sounds like you might have become disinterested in your project? Maybe there's too much on your plate? Maybe there's not enough risk/reward pressure going on?
I don't think a piece of software can help you. What about bringing someone else on-board that's a naturally hard worker to help pull you more in that direction?
Comment · 17 years ago
starting off with "it's a sad state of affairs" sets a smug tone, begging for a smart-ass response. and the "FAIL" just turns it hostile.
i'm not defending the station, but i do think customers should be as civil as companies are expected to be, if they want civil treatment in return.