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Okay I love this one, it is great. Thanks for the good laugh! > And what's with the projects? A business card that runs Linux? Next, you'll tell us you’re work
by tuetuopay 2y ago
Okay I love this one, it is great. Thanks for the good laugh!
> And what's with the projects? A business card that runs Linux? Next, you'll tell us you’re working on a coffee mug that serves sarcastic remarks.
I honestly find this idea pretty amusing and I am half-tempted to do it. Embed some flexible e-ink display in the walls of a mug and have it show sarcastinc fortune cookies. It could even roast you when the coffee gets cold.
- spyspy 2y agoI had the idea for a sarcastic weather app once. “It’s raining. Maybe the strangers won’t be able to tell you’re crying today.” “It’s sunny and 72°. If only you had friends to enjoy it with.”
- dmd 2y agohttps://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/ https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/ is kinda famous for that feature.
- j_bum 2y agoSounds like an awesome idea!
- tuetuopay 2y agoDang it, now I feel like I have to do it. Flexible E-ink displays are also pretty cheap on aliexpress, and the rest is some glue and a microcontroller. I’ll see when I’m back from holidays. I even have the name. "The Coffee Smug".
- nucleardog 2y ago> And a PHP library for ASN.1? That’s a niche so small it practically qualifies as a hobby project with more dust than downloads. I think "hobby project" is overselling the effort there. Also I'd entirely forgotten I'd written that.
- ffsm8 2y agoThe punchline could be "get roasted after your coffee got roasted"? Cuz, yknow,coffee beans are roasted and... Okay, maybe not such a good pun after all
- tuetuopay 2y ago"I like you the way I like my coffee. Roasted." So many ways to turn it