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by jsomau 4mo ago
Thanks for checking it out!
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by jsomau 4mo ago
Thank you - it's encouraging to get this feedback! Please let me know if you've got feedback or something you'd like to see.
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by jsomau 4mo ago
A small thing I've been building as an antidote to doomscrolling. Open a new tab and see a public domain artwork from a real museum: https://toregard.art Mostly I wanted more art and colour in my workday - something to look
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by jsomau 5mo ago
Neon, the Vercel recommended database storage integration, doesn't use the sensitive option for the environment variables it manages including the database connection string/password and need to be rotated then deleted and manuall
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by jsomau 6mo ago
I built a cooking timer that solves the mental arithmetic of roasting multiple things at once. Pick chicken legs, sweet potato, green beans, etc and it'll give you a simple plan telling you when to put things in, flip them and take the
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by jsomau 3y ago
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by jsomau 3y ago
Self plug but I used WebGL and the texture technique to build: https://www.doorsofdelirium.com/ Click on Random a few times to get a flavour. Uses the GOL concept as a brush to spawn cells combined with some fun shader tech
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by jsomau 4y ago
I like Carlin. I like the joke. The problem is we're taking a huge number of species with us. That is after all what makes Earth special compared to any other barren rock.
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by jsomau 4y ago
Adding to this: > By the time I'm down in the weeds I've forgotten what I'm doing, what the purpose of the actual API call is. If I can craft tests up front in terms of the higher level goals then when I finish a subcompon
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Show HN: Doors of Delirium – Game of Life and Spotify Visualisation(doorsofdelirium.com)
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by jsomau 5y ago
A Confederacy of Dunces is amazing. It’s in my top 5. Not in the same vein but I read Flowers for Algernon for the first time as an adult and it really touched my soul.
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by jsomau 5y ago
This new wave of social investment platforms is really exciting. Stocktwits is just noise. I'm still shocked Twitter hasn't capitalized on cashtags by at least showing market data. I've recently been a big fan of Commonstock:
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by jsomau 5y ago
If you're in to the space race, don't miss Public Service Broadcasting - Race for Space album. They have an epic track for Gagarin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY-kAnvOY80 The entire album is one of my favouri
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by jsomau 6y ago
Surely you're joking, Mr ambivalents!
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by jsomau 6y ago
I just submitted a Twitter support request to figure that out myself :)
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by jsomau 6y ago
Thanks for trying it! So unfortunately I can't launch an extension popup over top of the checkout, it's just not in the browser extension APIs AFAIK. One alternative was to inject the popup in to the checkout page but I figured if
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by jsomau 6y ago
I hear hardware startups are hard.
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by jsomau 6y ago
The extension also shows you a random but helpful prompt to reflect on the nature of consumerism and happiness. Maybe it won't help everyone, but I hope that it reaches some.
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by jsomau 6y ago
Thanks for your response. The extension itself won't solve global overconsumption, poverty or climate change in the same way that any one individual won't. I do believe that by being more mindful of our purchases it can influence
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by jsomau 6y ago
That is actually where I was going to start. Tracking the CO2 output for the production of millions of individual items across the internet is hard but I believe there are some services that can estimate CO2 for deliveries based on country
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by jsomau 6y ago
It does not except in a single case. All the data is stored locally in the browser extension storage otherwise. As part of the onboarding flow you can choose to anonymously submit your money saved to the online tally at https://w
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by jsomau 6y ago
This is an interesting idea. If people know they should not buy a trashy set of knives that they'll throw away in a year that would indeed reduce consumption. I'll think more on this. Thanks for the idea!
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by jsomau 6y ago
I'm stoked you connect with the idea. Feel free to reach out with any feedback.
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by jsomau 6y ago
It also shows you a random but helpful prompt to reflect on the nature of consumerism and happiness. Maybe they'll decide to not buy all 3. Not guaranteed to save everyone or anyone.
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by jsomau 6y ago
Haha, I love this - yeah there's lots of incentives available so maybe I allow the user to select which types of metrics are most meaningful to them. This is going on the list for sure!
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by jsomau 6y ago
A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase. The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases
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by jsomau 6y ago
Cool. What are you planning on exposing in the SDK? Will it simplify the process of sending data between the clients? Will you be able to get raw access to the audio and video data to create filters? What apps are in development or availabl
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by jsomau 7y ago
Thanks! It was a bit more work than I expected to be honest. I wish I had started originally using Mozilla's polyfill: https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill
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by jsomau 7y ago
I've been building a browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you're on a checkout page for a website and redirects you to a screen that shows you how long you had to work to earn the purchase you're a
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by jsomau 7y ago
That's a possibility or perhaps they will work less and enjoy their family, relationships, exercise, nature and art more. Maybe they'll decide to pay off their loans or save for retirement or their kids education or donate to a ch

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