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The State of Hourly Work: 2020(breakroom.cc)
2 points by scraplab 6y ago|0 comments
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by scraplab 6y ago
I followed the Hifiberry/Beocreate guide to install a Beocreate amplifier inside an old Beovox CX50 speaker. https://www.hifiberry.com/beocreate/ Inside it runs HifiberryOS on a RPi 4, which I use to connect to Sp
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by scraplab 6y ago
My Dad was a sound engineer. When I was 9 or 10 I interviewed my neighbour about life in London during the Blitz in WWII for a school project. We recorded the audio, edited it (on DAT!), and added some background effects for atmosphere. It
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A Clean Start for the Web(macwright.com)
4 points by scraplab 6y ago|1 comments
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by scraplab 6y ago
I made a silly Twitter bot, @lowflyingrocks, that announces close passes of NEOs. https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks It tweets everything within 0.2AU at the moment of minimum distance. Not that close, but enough to keep it
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by scraplab 6y ago
There's so much to like about Elixir/Phoenix. The only real downside I've experienced is that there isn't the range of libraries available compared to Ruby/Rails. That said, many of the libraries that do exist are o
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by scraplab 7y ago
Breakroom | Mid/Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE | London, UK | £50-70k + equity | Full-time | < https://www.breakroom.cc> Join Breakroom and help our people powered job comparison reach millions of hourly workers, an
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by scraplab 7y ago
I was a co-founder of Newspaper Club ( https://www.newspaperclub.com ) (but left a few years ago). They do this sort of thing, such as printing internal and public papers for Facebook, Mailchimp and Spotify, amongst others. We bri
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by scraplab 7y ago
Once upon a time I wrote an automated newspaper layout/preview system in Cocoa, the rendering engine in MacOS. It was the only thing I could find that could do high quality text (ligatures, OpenType fonts, etc.), had native CMYK suppor
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by scraplab 7y ago
Who do people recommend for alternative UK/global registrars? Security is high up my list of priorities, and Cloudflare looks great, but doesn't offer .co.uk domains currently.
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by scraplab 7y ago
No, but it's open source, so maybe future surviving generations can pick up that issue? https://github.com/tomtaylor/lowflyingrocks
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by scraplab 7y ago
I made a Twitter bot @lowflyingrocks, that tweets whenever something passes close enough to note. If you find Twitter doesn’t offer you enough existential dread already you might like it. It scrapes the JPL data hourly, and it’s satisfying
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by scraplab 7y ago
I drove a Hertz vehicle in Germany. Two weeks later, back home, I got a letter from a German town/municipality with a speeding fine. Included is a photo from the camera... the person in the photo is not me, and the timestamp is days af
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by scraplab 8y ago
Heroku does. The $50 standard-0 plan has 4 days of rollback available.
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by scraplab 8y ago
I’ve not tried it, but this looks good: https://buttondown.email/
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by scraplab 9y ago
And his Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/chrisdorleybrown
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by scraplab 9y ago
Teller isn't part of the PSD2/Open Banking world. They've reversed engineered all the bank's private APIs for their mobile apps, in part because they believe the banks will hobble and cripple the Open Banking APIs becaus
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by scraplab 11y ago
I'm a bit uncomfortable side loading an unsigned binary blob on my device. Does anyone know if it's possible to see the source and compile it from scratch?
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by scraplab 11y ago
Agreed, but there are plenty of votes that aren't important enough to justify the expenditure, and would be better administered digitally. Members organisations, etc.
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by scraplab 11y ago
Offset (MOO's Digital Studio) | London, UK | Full-time, ONSITE Offset is a new digital studio set up by MOO (the business card people). We’re a small, autonomous team, run like a startup but with the big engine of MOO behind us. Our br
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by scraplab 12y ago
On the other hand: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
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by scraplab 12y ago
You're right - I mean BSSID, which is the same as the MAC address.
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by scraplab 12y ago
It uses Apple's CoreLocation framework. The data was, I believe, initially bought from Skyhook, and then augmented by iOS devices reporting SSIDs from a known GPS fix. It's abstracted away behind the API, but I think the framework
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by scraplab 12y ago
I saw Tom give this talk at Ruby Manor. It melted my brain, but it was completely worth it, and challenged lots of assumptions I had about programming but never realised I had. Highly recommended!
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by scraplab 12y ago
Thanks!
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by scraplab 12y ago
Not at the moment. The icon shows useful information like whether a map is downloading or there's a location error. It's all open source, so happy to accept a pull request though. https://github.com/tomtaylor/
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by scraplab 12y ago
Shameless plug: I made a silly little Mac menu bar app called Satellite Eyes that automatically changes your desktop image to the satellite/map view from overhead your current location. I just pushed out a version that supports retina
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by scraplab 12y ago
Yes, this would be brilliant. I'd really like it as an always available app with a hotkey to activate recording, and Dropbox integration for upload + sharing. Even limited to a few seconds it'd be very useful for developing comple
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by scraplab 12y ago
An understanding of colloquial geography, such as: - informal place names - boundaries of neighbourhoods - nesting of those things within administrative boundaries Yahoo's Where On Earth database had a lot of this, but it doesn't
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by scraplab 12y ago
FWIW: we tried to submit a patch to Redactor, but it was refused, partly because they didn't use version control.

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