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by semireg 4y ago
Infrastructure spending.
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by semireg 4y ago
I know this is morbid, but the first thing that popped into my head was tombstone engraving. Maybe it’s because I work in b/w thermal printers all-day every-day reminding me of the limitations of monochrome … and the shortness of life.
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by semireg 4y ago
Agreed. This is the best advice I wish I could tell myself 20 years ago.
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by semireg 4y ago
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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by semireg 4y ago
Trout are also notorious for only striking food that has more calories than the energy required to strike. It seems obvious … but if you want to catch big trout you must use larger bait or make it … effortless for the fish.
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by semireg 5y ago
Think Roman numerals. 1M is thousand 1MM is million https://gettingpeopleright.com/resources/what-does-m-and-mm-...
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by semireg 5y ago
This is awesome. I'm a solo dev and I created an electron app named Label LIVE. I recently added an HTTP API so you can fire off label jobs using a POST request (or retrieve label PNGs via GET). What Label LIVE affords is a WYSIWYG ima
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by semireg 5y ago
FTA: Another Defense Intelligence Agency document speculates that, because the "shock and pressure waves cause minimal damage to brain tissue ... it is possible that victims of FAEs are not rendered unconscious by the blast, but instea
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by semireg 5y ago
Atom X by Leopold is a good short story similar to this idea of a single atom’s travels. https://www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-1942/from-archives...
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by semireg 5y ago
Linux support is often requested in HN comments (but not so much from other users). I'll be sure to post to HN if/when I add it! Printing to DYMO via CUPS should work on macOS/Windows. I just added MDNS/IPP support so an
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by semireg 5y ago
I use Primera printers for a lot of color label requirements. Epson also makes a line. My app works with both thermal and color printers. Give it a shot and let me know if you have any questions or issues.
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by semireg 5y ago
It doesn’t work. There’s an authenticity layer to the NFC they’re using. You can scan the rolls with Android NFC readers to get an idea of the tech involved.
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by semireg 5y ago
It’s worse than anyone thinks. If you look closely at the official DYMO labels sold in recent years the packaging has changed color. The color was DYMO seeding the RFID stock into the market. Once saturated they launched the 550 with RFID.
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by semireg 5y ago
Agreed on the thousand small improvements. I now spend my days prioritizing work that will move the sales needle with the minimum amount of work.
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by semireg 5y ago
IIOT iOS and nodeJS consulting, $200/hour in Minnesota, USA.
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by semireg 5y ago
I’m generally writing drivers for certain USB VIDs (vendors) that all speak the same “language” e.g. Zebra (ZPL), DYMO, Brother, etc. Often their are edge cases for individual USB PIDs (products), and even more granularity based on device s
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by semireg 5y ago
Supporting USB enumeration and reads/writes to arbitrary endpoints on windows took an act of god, maybe 200-300 hours of work to get it working similar to node-usb (libusb) on macOS (which maybe only took 100 hours). I’m probably under
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by semireg 5y ago
AFAIK, there is no support for electron apps on chromeOS.
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by semireg 5y ago
Should work great. It’s a very popular printer with my users.
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by semireg 5y ago
Which models, specifically? Tape are less supported by the roll-based models. However, Label LIVE can submit PDF-based jobs to any printer installed with a driver. So it might work if the manufacturer drivers work as one would expect (hint:
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by semireg 5y ago
Label printing is still a world of hurt. My hope is to make it incrementally better, a smaller dumpster-fire, if you will. I definitely have users triggering labellive:// integrations. The nice thing about the URI is it automatica
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by semireg 5y ago
I'd love to connect to compare notes. I'm well on way to $50k/month, but I have a feeling I can attain that revenue without a few of your bullet points. * B2B niche - agreed, this is essential * Viral component - I wish I cou
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by semireg 5y ago
It's more than just USB, but it's the first that comes to mind. Label LIVE has built-in drivers that talk directly to USB hardware (thermal label printers). The actual "label printer driver" part (talking ZPL, etc) is cr
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by semireg 5y ago
I am definitely part grumpy old neck-beard, which is why I offer one-time licenses and an experience that lets a user run 100% offline/air-gapped. You can register and license a computer that is only accessible via USB thumb-drive. If
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by semireg 5y ago
I believe it for an app that's 100% hitting remote APIs and playing sound. In my case I'm highly dependent on the host OS for about a half-dozen native modules that each have their own ultra-finicky native build environments.
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by semireg 5y ago
Sorry, it's right here: https://label.live/printers
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by semireg 5y ago
Use Electron and leverage your web skills. Learn as much as you can about the architecture before you start. For example, an Electron app has two main processes: main and renderer. The main process is like your backend API and the renderer(
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by semireg 5y ago
As an electron developer I used NodeJS to implement a custom licensing system on top of JWT. My app "registers" a computer (fingerprint) with the server. The server can grant licenses where it signs a JWT with a secret key, and th
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by semireg 5y ago
This is my 3rd (or is it 4th?) year of developing and selling Label LIVE, an electron app for designing and printing labels. Originally it only worked with USB thermal printers, but over the last few years it's grown into a multi-funct
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by semireg 5y ago
This year marks 3 years working on Label LIVE, an electron app for designing and printing labels. Think: import a spreadsheet and print barcodes to a zebra printer. In 2021 the profit eclipsed my consulting income. My 2020 goal is to double

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