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by johnbuckman 2y ago
https://www.mistachkin.com/joe/ has been talking about setting up a Tcl Foundation and to use that to try to corral corporate donations toward further development. I think it’s a good idea and I’m trying to help. I’d r
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by johnbuckman 2y ago
We’re using tcl’s Androwish build, to write tablet apps for Android to control our espresso machine, and the app runs nicely on Mac/win/linux “for free” and also makes app development more pleasant. Distribution of an app with sou
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by johnbuckman 7y ago
"Androwish", which is Tcl/Tk ported to Android, runs mostly on the C layer sitting on top of Linux. As such, it's way more "performant" than Java.
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by johnbuckman 7y ago
There are lots of people who have "Arduinoed" their coffee machines, especially the Rancilio Silvia, which is an ugly-but-good-value machine, which can be PIDed and hotwired. That's a good place to start.
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by johnbuckman 7y ago
The problem is that your mental model of how a boiler based espresso machine works is not how they are actually wired. Here is how they actually work: 9 bar of pressure are generated between the pump and a flow constrictor which is placed b
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by johnbuckman 7y ago
Ironically, because Tcl was made to run GUIs on very limited hardware (old Unix machines, 30 years ago) it runs really nicely on slow Android tablets. Its focus on asynchronous programming, rather than relying on threads, really helps, as d
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by johnbuckman 7y ago
Two very fun coffee RFCs: 1) Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt 2) Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2 h
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by johnbuckman 7y ago
That's me on the video. I'm a long-timer Hacker News reader, and happy to have a geeky chat here about what I'm up to. -john
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by johnbuckman 11y ago
This comment from one of the original consulting engineers is really interesting: "Bio-Med Engineer Langhorne PA 13 hours ago I worked in an engineering design consultancy that was contracted early on to help productize the ZPM design,
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by johnbuckman 16y ago
It's my site, would be interested in any HN comments. -john
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by johnbuckman 19y ago
Another vote for Tcl...
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by johnbuckman 19y ago
Both Magnatune ( http://magnatune.com ) and BookMooch ( http://bookmooch.com ) are bootstrapped by me. The hardest things for me are: 1) sometimes you come up with an idea that would make money at a certain scale (in my case, lots of shoutc