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Connecting Firebase to Google Analytics is optional, for now.
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West With the Night, by Beryl Markham. It’s a beautiful autobiography about and by a woman who grew up in British East Africa, became a bush pilot, and eventually became the first person to fly across the Atlantic from East to West, departi
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Devonthink[1] seems like a good personal database, but it's Apple only. I'm in a situation where I'm trying to coordinate a few academic projects with people from multiple institutions and I have yet to find a tool that suppo
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Purple Air hits on a bit of the neighborhood pollution sensor idea: https://www2.purpleair.com/ I've used their API to look at California wildfire data.
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My personal opinion is that you'll find it most rewarding to locate a non-profit near you that supports a cause that you support and to volunteer to help them with various tech/data projects as a way to improve their service deliv
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I have a blast with Godot. It lets me really focus on making the game instead of navigating through a bunch of stuff I don't understand. The Discord and various other Godot communities are great, too. As open source software, there are
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Looks like a Godot point release today fixed a lot of GLES2 issues, so I’ll see if I can get that working soon. https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-...
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In case anybody comes across this in the future... I added this to the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-jumping-jouster/id14895181...
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The horse animations took a long time, but also were a lot of fun to work on. I thought I was going to need to use a tool like Spine to create the animations, but the built-in AnimationPlayer node in Godot is really powerful, so I ended up
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I made The Jumping Jouster over a few months, in my spare time. The browser version requires Chrome. I'm happy to answer any questions about working with Godot, the rewards and/or challenges of making the game, the effectiveness o
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Show HN: The Jumping Jouster, a Godot game I made in my spare time(clay.itch.io)
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I’m about to go through a series of job interviews. Any tips on determining whether potential future managers or coworkers are narcissists? Seems like it can be hard to suss this out without some longer-term exposure.
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It’s supported through Patreon.
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A lot of EVs simply drive better than ICE cars. The acceleration, lack of noise, and more pleasant charging atmosphere go a long way.
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Kids need A LOT of sleep; more than you think. I would say that 80% of the time you see a kid crying or throwing a tantrum, it’s a combo of not having enough sleep and not having the emotional toolkit or communication skills to express thei
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All looks good, but the charging rate seems really slow.
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Trying to figure out the "perfect" tech stack, game engine, etc. to use instead of just going with one for my personal project.
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It was kind of crystalized and ew.... I just shudder thinking about it. To the point of the article, however, I didn't get sick.
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Good thing my parents keep it around and eat it anyhow. My dad once made me a sandwich with mayo that had "expired" nine years earlier.
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This article also directly aligns with my experiences. Once a team has sunk its teeth into Slack (or a similar real-time tool), it’s extremely painful to remove it.
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Probably because the electrical grid is important to national security.
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Where this site really shines is when you get into a genre that links to a series of linked Spotify playlists. Pretty awesome for exploring Intro, Edge, Pulse, playlists of genres of music you like. It's great for discovery of new arti
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Learning Processing (book), by Daniel Shiffman. Here's the Amazon link. https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Processing-Beginners-Program...
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Ask HN: How do you use your tech skills for public good?
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I wonder if this is related: https://twitter.com/w84death/status/1152511872001892352?s=20
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You can rent cabins there. Great place to fish and find awesome seashells, if you can dodge the aggressive flies.
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There are way more than 150 people who speak that dialect. I spend a lot of time down east - there are lots of similar dialects, etc. all around the area, not just on Ocracoke, but in Atlantic, Harkers Island, Beaufort, and other similar ar
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The author of this piece is the President of Environmental Progress, a pro-nuclear lobbying group. He's posted multiple articles to Forbes to try to discredit the Chernobyl show.... ... which is a TV show meant to entertain people. Sin
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Take in a few Pocket Operators from Teenage Engineering and let the kids make some music!
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Dataset is my favorite dumb wrapper on top of SQLAlchemy. https://dataset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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