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Comment · 8 months ago
we struggle with a similar problem at my workplace - vuln alerts from GCP container image scans put a ton of noise into Vanta which screams bloody murder at CVEs in base images which we A) can't fix, and B) aren't relevant as they're not on the hot path (often some random dependency that we don't use in our app).

Are there any tools for handling these kind of CVEs contextually? (Besides migrating all our base images to chainguard/docker hardened images etc)

Comment · 8 months ago
can you give some more detail about the airtag-sized device you made? This is exactly what I've been thinking about doing to test the "idea" of the Index, but haven't figured out how to go about doing it.

(Tried looking on your blog, but ended up instead reading your article about the little ESP8266 clock which convinced me to buy one to play with myself, thanks!)

Comment · 8 months ago
Since we recently moved out of the city and into the mountains of Switzerland, I had a niche problem... agreeing with my buddies which is the best ski field to meet at when we all live in different towns. So I made a little web app to help:

https://skicompromise.ch

This was a fun little project I did over the Christmas holidays but only finished off recently. Basically I precalculated the public transport time between the most populated towns in Switzerland to every ski field (about 350 of them!) and then built a little web app around it using Django.

You can choose to prioritise shortest (lowest time overall) versus fairest (smallest variance in group members).

Totally free to use. Next steps are to integrate it with live snow conditions/open lifts...

Claude did help a lot with the FE part. The biggest part was actually finding the best public transport stop for each ski field - that was a very manual process trawling through skimap.org images and Anreise info on ski resort websites.

Comment · 9 months ago
This sounds great :D feel like sharing the prompt?
Comment · 10 months ago
This is cool. It looks like it's possible for devs to add their own games, similar to Airconsole. What sets your platform apart?
Comment · 10 months ago
Absolutely loved that the intensity of the music is synced with the swiping. Fantastic job as always!
Comment · 11 months ago
your other PR made me laugh: https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/pull/46 absolutely wild that they had the gall to report you, lol
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes please!
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been actually kind-of enjoying using Jules as a way of "coding" my side project (a react native app) using my phone.

I have very limited spare time these days, but sometimes on my walk to work I can think of an idea/feature, plan out what I want it to do (and sometimes use the github app to revise the existing code), then send out a few jobs. By the time I get home in the evening I've got a few PRs to review. Most of the code is useless to me, but it usually runs, and means I can jump straight into testing out the idea before going back and writing it properly myself.

Next step is to add automatic builds to each PR, so that on the way home I can just check out the different branches on my phone instead of waiting to be home to run the ios simulator :D

Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely! Send me an email. Address in my profile
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm making a kind of "Tinder for hiking trails".

I live in Switzerland and am (like many people here) an avid hiker. There are a lot of great hiking websites but they all suffer from the same problem: They are ultimately just a list of hiking routes that you need to plan around. Because I do a hike almost every week, the extra planning has become an overhead that takes time out of my life: how far away is it, what train should I take, whats the weather situation like, do I need to bring snowshoes, etc. The 65,000km of trails in this country also gives me decision paralysis!

So I'm building an app (React native/django) which takes a users current situation and preferences and then algorithmically suggests a few best options for them that they can quickly give a yes/no to. It's integrated with a lot of data like the train timetables, snow data, weather forecast etc.

I was able to reduce an hour of planning down to 5 minutes last week, so it's definitely working for me. What I am currently trying to do is figure out if other people have this problem and there's interest in the app concept.

Comment · 1 year ago
that was an absolute joy of a read, thanks for sharing!
Comment · 1 year ago
Congrats on the launch! How did you find the experience of developing a PWA as opposed to going the native app route?

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