rocktronica

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by rocktronica 4mo ago
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of too. It came out in 1997 and predates all the Game Boy stuff. IIRC there was a "Game Boy don't TOUCH the net!" marketing campaign but I can't seem to find find it now. The c
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by rocktronica 2y ago
If you'd like to get out of the weeds, "The Beauty of Games" by Frank Lantz (of Universal Paperclips fame) is a thought-provoking read. The basic premise is that games are the aesthetic experience of systems and reason, cause
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by rocktronica 4y ago
Agreed with other commenters' advice to err towards good documentation. Don't just go for cheap. Another consideration is community: I think the Adafruit guides ( https://learn.adafruit.com/ ) are really great, espe
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by rocktronica 6y ago
I've picked up indoor gardening and designed some 3D-printed, self-watering planters that screw into jars. https://blog.tommy.sh/posts/adventures-in-self-watering-plan...
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Prototype Post-Mortem: Four-Step Octaved Sequencer(blog.tommy.sh)
1 points by rocktronica 9y ago|0 comments
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Making Time-Lapse Videos with an iPhone by Command Line(blog.tommy.sh)
2 points by rocktronica 9y ago|0 comments
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by rocktronica 9y ago
I was surprised this didn't already exist, so I made it... even though it's honestly just a wrapper around curl and ffmpeg!
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Timelapse video with an iPhone and CLI(github.com)
3 points by rocktronica 9y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: 3D-Printed LM555 “Synth”(blog.tommy.sh)
6 points by rocktronica 9y ago|0 comments
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by rocktronica 9y ago
Believe it or not, lots of folks use Youtube as a music player and just waste the video bandwidth
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by rocktronica 9y ago
That would entail them permanently storing the images, which they probably don't want to do.
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by rocktronica 9y ago
This is incredibly useful, regardless of the veracity of its "computer vision." A technique that seems to work well for it with simple drawing style icons is to thicken and simplify as the image gets smaller, so it seems like the
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by rocktronica 9y ago
There are a lot of great photos and PCB closeups that obviously won't translate into narration.
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by rocktronica 9y ago
Regardless of legality, it will be interesting to see how this is spun if/when Zuckerberg runs for public office.
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Typhoid Mary(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rocktronica 9y ago|0 comments
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by rocktronica 9y ago
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Pub... Regardless of its veracity, I'd rather not have ExxonMobil-funded propaganda on HN.
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by rocktronica 9y ago
Looks like a "paint" font on top of a filtered stock photo https://blog.ghost.org/content/images/2017/07/DJI_0006-Edit....
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by rocktronica 9y ago
I have three Pis currently "deployed": 1) Internet radio w/ an amplifier in a cigar box. It was a gift for my gf and only plays the station she listened to in college. https://github.com/rocktronica/curpi
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by rocktronica 9y ago
Sure seems like correlation to me. Older fathers are more likely to have established careers, establishing higher socioeconomic status, affording a lifestyle that engenders "geekiness".
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by rocktronica 9y ago
This looks great, and I see the utility of it. Really, honestly, well done. May I ask what made you settle on the name "Monica" instead of something more gender-neutral?
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by rocktronica 9y ago
Glad to see your concierge service decoupled from Upverter, as nice as Upverter is. It will make it easier to try w/o the full commitment of changing software.
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Show HN: SplitFrame - side-by-side site testing bookmarklet(rocktronica.github.com)
2 points by rocktronica 14y ago|0 comments
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by rocktronica 14y ago
Lazy, sure, but not always a worse experience for the end user. Testing w/ Modernizr _will_ use client resources, and sometimes it's faster, cheaper, and less costly to make assumptions than run those tests. Terrible case in point: "positio
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by rocktronica 14y ago
With respect, a guide to dotfiles should explain what dotfiles are.
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by rocktronica 14y ago
Learning the minutiae of a language is important, sure, but I can't fathom why you'd willingly introduce unnecessary fragility or overthink into your codebase. Ideally, your goal as a hacker is to make cool shit. Your goal is not syntax.
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by rocktronica 14y ago
Entirely agree. Sometimes real evolution is slightly horrifying. :)
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Show HN: An Auto-Updating Data URI Text Editor(iamnotagoodartist.com)
1 points by rocktronica 15y ago|0 comments
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by rocktronica 15y ago
Thanks! Took me about two weekends.
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Tmpltr - jsFiddle clone for realtime JSON templating (rocktronica.github.com)
36 points by rocktronica 15y ago|5 comments
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by rocktronica 15y ago
Kinda sorta. "Edge" rendering on X browsers is still X different ways for all those stuck-in-time browsers to decide what "edge" meant at the time of their release or last update. That meta tag is a good practice but not the ultimate soluti

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