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I wish there was more written in the readme about the motivation for this project.
by bagels 2y ago
I wish there was more written in the readme about the motivation for this project.
- jsheard 2y agoKnowing the status of the ISS piss tank is its own reward.
- jaennaet 2y agoSee, you get it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoI mean, > Not the epitome of good coding practices since this was my first Swift & macOS app ever, may break in exciting ways at the slightest excuse. sounds like it's a learning exercise. One of my first interesting programs was a weather app; this is just a weirder version of that.
- beAbU 2y agoI wonder how many amazing things put there died a crib death because the creator struggled to find a "real" motivation for it's existence. I reckon more often than not "because I wanted to" is more than enough for many things.
- dialup_sounds 2y agoI expected to see a CoC in the repo.
- jaennaet 2y agoGood point! I'll have to add that in at some point after the holidays. My motivation was entirely that I thought this was both a hilariously stupid use of a space station's telemetry stream, but also kind of amazing at the same time. Also a great excuse to learn Swift, but the sheer ridiculousness was what drove me. Like I said in my earlier Show HN post on this (I think? Or maybe on Bluesky), it's remarkable that we live in a world where it takes an afternoon to bang out a joke application that reads actual realtime telemetry data from a space station's toilets.
- zanderwohl 2y agoI enjoy that you learned how to use Swift in some new ways, including the MacOS menu bar. This is a perfect practice project, it seems.