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Right age to try color blind glasses on kids?
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by semireg 5y ago
Dark Matter Devs are a bit like people who have successfully built a life off-grid. You don’t hear from them much. Probably too busy chopping, splitting and stacking wood.
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by semireg 5y ago
I’ve given this some thought with regards to small-scale off-grid solar and battery use. Last summer I installed 540Ah (12v) in a houseboat and was able to power a small air conditioning unit overnight to allow our family to sleep comfortab
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by semireg 5y ago
DO NOT TURN THE PAGE
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by semireg 5y ago
Looks to me like an existing company afraid of disruption (by a future driverless taxi fleet) doing “things that don’t scale” in a way that for them, scales quite nicely. Good for Hertz on the long pivot.
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by semireg 5y ago
Wow, I never knew hostas were edible. Now I wonder why we don’t see these at the farmers market. I wonder what effects repeated yearly harvest does to the health of the plant. With asparagus there’s a clear window of opportunity then you le
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by semireg 5y ago
Ours also doesn’t like shrimp. We always put one on the plate for him to look at, inspect, discard. As a shrimp loving dad all I can think of is: more for me!
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by semireg 5y ago
Sure. Why not? If you can write a resume and interview for a full-time job then why not do the same for something short-term that ends/finishes with less risk for both parties…
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by semireg 5y ago
The answer to your situation is the one you choose, and not choosing anything is a choice. I’m in my late 30s and basically unemployable in any traditional sense. I’ve never held a professional developer role, but I have played one as “cons
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by semireg 5y ago
+1 for restaurant auctions. I browse them like a child walking past puppies in a window.
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by semireg 5y ago
I love building electron apps that integrate with hardware. If you’ve got hardware (USB, serial, Bluetooth) that needs a new UI/UX - get in touch! I came across this niche while building Label LIVE ( https://label.live ) for
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by semireg 5y ago
I know next to nothing about a bug’s life, but interesting to consider distress signals being tuned into otherwise solitary creatures. For colony wasp/bee I could see why distress would bring help (bring more venom!) but solitary… mayb
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by semireg 5y ago
I grew up in Minneapolis and then the suburbs and left as soon as I could... but returned to a small town about 2 hours drive southeast in a small town called Winona. It's the home of Fastenal, Peerless Chain, and a ton of other "
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by semireg 5y ago
It's always 80°F inside my jacket. Like the saying goes, "no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing."
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by semireg 5y ago
I haven’t read the whole article but I’m deeply opinionated about this topic. I was a good but not great student in college. The computer science classes bored me to death. Years later, post college, I wanted to learn iOS mobile app develop
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As a solo/bootstrapped dev with a fairly successful Electron app in the business space, it has taken me YEARS to embrace marketing and I still fall flat. I've hired mentors to listen to me rant for a few hours. They ask questions,
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by semireg 5y ago
Another option is to use an Electron boilerplate and then start learning a web framework of your choice. Electron development is incredibly rich. The UI is web tech, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s RPC back to a node process
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by semireg 5y ago
Where do you learn advanced techniques?
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by semireg 5y ago
Also worth noting they in my journey I’ve added the ability to submit the label jobs as PDFs to existing printer drivers. This allows for targeting full color label printers like epson and Primera, but also inkjet and laser printers that us
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by semireg 5y ago
Yes, the app uses node-usb to read and write directly with printers matching vids/pids. Each vendor is a custom implementation with some similarity and lots of differences. It usually involves parsing status to get DPI, busy states, th
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by semireg 5y ago
Early in the Apple Maps days I took a road trip from Minneapolis to the west coast and back. Somewhere in southern Wyoming we were headed to the front range in Summit County (west of Denver) and maps took us on what I can only describe as a
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by semireg 5y ago
Three years ago I started a proof of concept electron app to design and print labels on thermal printers. That app has grown into mid-6-figures revenue from mostly “one-time license” sales. I do offer monthly subscription pricing with an ex
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by semireg 5y ago
Is this something that would allow me to demo my electron app to visitors on my website? Or take it a step further and sell instances to users? If someone has consulting chops to help me with this I’d love to chat.
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by semireg 5y ago
Using node-usb which means all USB interaction happens with the main process of the electron app (node), not the renderer (chromium). It wasn’t easy or straightforward how to make it work seamlessly across Mac and windows.
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I never thought I’d grow up creating label printer software but I just love making good hardware usable by average people. As my (electron) app’s revenue accelerates through 6-figure territory I think about how the money is a good measure o
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When the drive doesn’t show up in the bios.
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Maybe not explicitly but the system did that for you implicitly. That’s an entire tangent of pain. My app, when possible, talks directly to the printer via USB at a low level, which means all page-size/speed/darkness/DPI&#x2F
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by semireg 5y ago
Indie dev here. I made an electron app to generate and print barcoded labels/images. It’s one of the only apps available allowing windows and macOS users to print to thermal printers without drivers. You can create forms for variables
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by semireg 5y ago
Consider adding a code snippet showing a.csv output. I had to watch a video just to see text.
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by semireg 5y ago
Does this kind of app distribute easily? As in, can I package up the runtime and the app into a single exe? I see this, but does someone have experience to share? Edit: Found it! https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleG

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