kingsloi

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A 30-something Brit living in Gary, IN. Working as a software engineer, mainly in open source tech.

https://kingsley.sh

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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
It has this in the README

> Large files may take some time to process and use a lot of tokens if you use ChatGPT. For a rough estimate, the tool takes about 2 tokens per character to process a file:

> echo "$((2 * $(wc -c < yourscript.min.js)))" > So for refrence: a minified bootstrap.min.js would take about $0.5 to un-minify using ChatGPT.

> Using humanify local is of course free, but may take more time, be less accurate and not possible with your existing hardware.

Comment · 2 years ago
> IN THE UNITES STATES DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH, CENTRAL DIVISION

Is UNITES > UNITED a typo? Would that cause any weird legal consequences, or are typos (if it is a typo) like this just accepted?

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I have a https://www.birdie.design/en-us (I think it was previously called a Canary) mounted in my living room, and it's a great lil device! Overly dramatic, fun, and easy to know whether air quality is good or bad - would recommend!
Comment · 2 years ago
One of the best things I've done recently was install bird feeders that hang from the soffits of my house. My main level is on the the top floor, and seeing all the birds while I'm at work or on the sofa is such a joy. They keep me, my cats, and toddler entertained... but having to refill every week gets expensive
Comment · 2 years ago

  Location: Gary, IN
  Remote: Remote (would consider hybrid in/around Chicago-land)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Anything open source, mainly: Node.js, Laravel, Vue.js, Alpine, Nuxt.js, AWS (S3, SES, EC2, LB, RDS, ECS, etc), Serverless (Lambda), CI/CD, High Availability, Vite/PostCSS/Babel/Webpack/Transpiling, Pest/PHPUnit/Cypress/Mocha/Jest, Bash, Docker, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://kingsley.sh/kingsley-raspe-full-stack-developer-resume.pdf
  Email: [email protected]
Hi - I'm Kingsley, a full stack web developer and DevOps engineer with 11+ years experience, specialising in a broad range of open-source tech, including Node.js/Express.js, PHP8/Laravel 10, JavaScript/Vue.js, SCSS, Vite/Webpack, CI/CD, and more. Passionate about writing highly available, clean, maintainable, and testable code. Originally from the UK, now residing in the beautiful lake-side city of Gary, Indiana. I like DIY, long walks on the beach, gardening/nature/greenery, and vintage roots reggae.
Comment · 2 years ago
Here's one more for your list: https://southshore.etaspot.net

Southshore Line - connecting Chicago, IL (Millennium Station) to South Bend, IN, via East Chicago, Gary, Chesterton, etc

Comment · 3 years ago
I purchased a Miku when I brought home my newborn from the ICU, who had 24/7 oxygen needs. Although not 100% accurate, the Miku did give my wife and I peace of mind when we didn't connect the pulse oximeter and laid our baby down in her crib.

Hearing that Miku will now be subscription-based is really disappointing. From being at the top, to bottom with the other wifi monitors. We'll still use as a monitor, but wont be recommending to anyone anymore like we used to.

Comment · 3 years ago
That's a great tip/trick! Thanks for sharing!
Comment · 3 years ago
Exactly the same happened to me & my family, and we've also appeared on NPR for a similar situation:

> https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/09/22/1121612...

My daughter died. Our story aired a year later. Another year later, so around 2 years after my daughter's death, I received a hospital bill for a little over $3,000, for her initial few weeks of ICU care. I never acknowledged it. I couldn't bring myself to call the hospital to setup a payment plan, say my daughters name in the same sentence as a dollar amount again. We haven't heard a peep since.

Comment · 3 years ago
Awesome work! Do you have any plans to add/track gas pollutants?

I run a similar open source app specifically for my little community in Gary, IN https://millerbeach.community and run a RAMP monitor provided by a local company Sensit Technologies, and a PurpleAir II and have about ~4 years worth of data in 15 min intervals. I've been meaning to swap out the PurpleAir with another, but I'll swap it out with this instead!

Comment · 3 years ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Gary is home to some beautiful flora and fauna, we have miles and miles of beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline, the 61st National Park. I'm at 990~ miles of biking in/around Gary and I've took some really beautiful photos, which I'm hoping to compile into something like blog post "1000 miles in/around Gary" or something.

Everything else is just like everywhere else. Poverty.

Comment · 3 years ago
Hey I appreciate that, just been tinkering with it as I added more to it... it's came a long way from when I ran a simple PurpleAirII!

Yeah I'm working on the Darksky replacement, but the trends issues is because of another hidden cost of air quality monitoring: lots of data! My mongo queries aren't the most efficient and for the past week or two I must have topped a Mongo/RAM issue and my DO box is running into memory issues. I'll hopefully get that fixed soon! Especially now, it's a cool lil feature as you can see around what day/time we first started to get hit with the CA wildfire smoke.

Feel free to pull it and add to it as you want! You could probably just use a PurpleAirII monitor near you and use that as for your AQI until you get something else, and disable all the other stuff (boats, advisories, etc), and keep traffic, planes, air quality. That's kinda how I've been doing it anyway.

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