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jekie2675 commented on Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?    · Posted by u/freeelncer
git-pull · 8 years ago
Published The Tao of tmux: https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read. Thanks to the HN readers who bought the book!

Created new design for all my open source projects: https://www.git-pull.com (see sidebar at left, e.g. https://libtmux.git-pull.com)

Rebooted CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language project, cihai: https://cihai.git-pull.com (see also: https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com). Needs funding.

New docutils based website started, https://devel.tech. Example: https://devel.tech/features/django-vs-flask/

I catalog open source contributions I make while working on the website at https://devel.tech/site/open-source

Updates to https://www.hskflashcards.com. Switching from Bootstrap 4 to Bulma

jekie2675 · 8 years ago
Discovered Bulma few month ago. Like it much but have no chance to use in project. What was your point to chose it over bs?
jekie2675 commented on Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?    · Posted by u/freeelncer
alin23 · 8 years ago
Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year.

I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here:

1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engine inside the new Kindle firmware.

2. A Spotify music discovery website. I'm trying to make a two-click-playlist-generator by using Spotify APIs to look at the top artists/genres of a user and create playlists on the fly with tracks that the user could like.

I use Spotify daily and found myself overwhelmed by how much music there is available. Because of that, I'm mostly listening to my saved songs, Discover Weekly/Release Radar and trying out playlists that usually have the same too popular songs.

3. An adaptive brightness/contrast app for external monitors. Adjusting brightness using the monitor's controls is always annoying to do.

4. A morning alarm that starts playing an algorithmically generated Spotify playlist each time, with fade-up volume, external speaker support, adaptive algorithm based on likes/dislikes and self-updating alarm times based on day moments (twilight, sunrise, golden hour, dusk etc.)

5. A detector for processes that eat up all your CPU and battery. I started writing this in Rust so I can make it cross-platform and learn the language at a lower level.

jekie2675 · 8 years ago
Was looking for same Poket->Kindle app, found nothing appropriate. Spent some time googling to gave up with idea of building such app. I thought nobody use kindle to read web this days. Solve my problem with push-to-kindle browser extension and manual file copying.
jekie2675 commented on Show HN: Amazing Hunt – The coolest products you can actually buy   amazing-hunt.com/... · Posted by u/whollacsek
jekie2675 · 9 years ago
Looks neat! But won't this feed just be similar to "sorted by" or featured/hot deals amazon feed itself?

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