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This seems like the proper place to plug my dumb little side project, an actuarial table calculator that I put together with Alpine.js and a lot of poorly writt
by SantiAchi 4y ago
This seems like the proper place to plug my dumb little side project, an actuarial table calculator that I put together with Alpine.js and a lot of poorly written JS. It's my first "app" though, and I'm happy to share it here if anyone else can use it:
https://timelefton.earth/ https://timelefton.earth/
I keep it in a pinned tab to help me recontextualize things when I'm stuck in a poorly functioning dopamine loop. If I'm doing something for leisure, I want to really like doing it, not do it as a holding pattern.
- neals 4y agoI love how you call it 'holding pattern', that really hits home for me. Playing stupid dopamine games, keeping me in a loop...
- doomroot 4y agoLove this! It would be amazing if you added a date query string so that you could share this link with a friend you think is wasting their time! :)
- kwhitefoot 4y agoI know it's just meant to be a bit of fun and a gentle reminder but life expectancy varies quite a lot depending on where one was born, grew up, what education and employment one had, even on where one lives now.
- SantiAchi 4y agoYes, also I have yet to find a node module for accurately predicting when people will die. Well, that's not entirely true. I found one but npm keeps failing to pull it.
- al_borland 4y agoOof… this just told me I just crossed 50% of the way through my life. I am going to choose to reject this prediction.
- SantiAchi 4y agoIt's the SSA's actuarial table, there are enormously important factors outside of that to think about. I mostly wanted a reference point and a countdown timer with an impossibly large number, but to be able to see it steadily decreasing. That's been somewhat psychologically impactful for myself, but YMMV. Live long and prosper :)