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ekglimmer

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ekglimmer··on All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
This is cool - I tried automating different recipe formats/visualizations at https://www.gobsmacked.io. I was thinking of trying to do something similar to this next.
ekglimmer··on This website is for humans
Maybe not the most pertinent place for me to share my recipe site project (as it uses a model for reformatting recipe structures), but by rehashing recipes into recipe cards it incidentally but effectively removes the fluff: https://gobsmacked.io
ekglimmer··on Show HN: Generate 'Cooking For Engineers' style recipe cards
I agree wholeheartedly - in fact the css class I actually use for the 'notes' column is MEP, for mise en place. That was the original intent for that column but it has become something of a catch all over time. I wonder if a mise en place component at the top of the recipe, in a separate grid, would be useful?
ekglimmer··on Show HN: Generate 'Cooking For Engineers' style recipe cards
Would be happy to discuss! Shoot me an email so I can understand a bit more, email can be found on my site in my bio or on gobsmacked!
ekglimmer··on Show HN: I made a tool to convert recipes to an easy reading graphical notation
Thank you for the note! I appreciate the feedback and will test out some bigger sizing, as well as check out the recipe saving.
ekglimmer··on Show HN: Generate 'Cooking For Engineers' style recipe cards
Thank you! I agree completely. Right now it just uses the units in the original recipe, but being able to toggle between the two is definitely something I would like to do.
ekglimmer··on Show HN: I made a tool to convert recipes to an easy reading graphical notation
RE other similar notations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42066358
ekglimmer··on Show HN: Whenish – Plan Group Events in iMessages
I like this execution! I created something similar, www.pigeon.ooo, with the intent of eventually adding some scheduling functionality but alas, my own schedule has filled up so have not had a chance yet.
ekglimmer··on A UK college student explaining congressional procedure to Washington
I wonder how many layers of irony we can get here.
ekglimmer··on A UK college student explaining congressional procedure to Washington
For a second I missed the irony here, genuinely thought to myself 'wow that would be awesome'. Just joined my first fantasy league so I am gung-ho on fantasy now, apologies.
ekglimmer··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Thank you! I would do if it wasn’t just the place holder page. I just like the domain name we chose, I have clarified in the original comment.
ekglimmer··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Nope! Nothing there yet, I just get a kick out of the domain and wanted to share it, even if a bit premature.
ekglimmer··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Ah I love this ask HN!

I'm building an iMessage app (www.pigeon.ooo - nothing here yet, I just get a hoot out of the name) that brings note taking into iMessage. I built it because I wanted to be able to save/pin messages so that I wouldn't have scroll up to find important pieces of info. You can also share the lists directly through iMessage so that the others in the conversation can update the notes, which has been particularly useful for grocery shopping lists and weekly planners with my S/O.

Currently working on a companion app so that I can view all notes not segregated by conversation, or ordered by due date etc.

It hasn't been publicly released yet but it will definitely be net negative. Doesn't matter though because it's useful to my friends and I plus has been fun to build.

ekglimmer··on Ask HN: Book Recommendations on Western Civilizations
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari. If you have not given this a read yet it gives a good overview of how humanity (and civilization as a whole) developed.
ekglimmer··on Ask HN: Is now only a GER-language site for fitness gear ok for US market?
On a hunch, probably not. I would assume equivalents of any of these products can be bought on an English language site (Amazon etc.) and in my experience the US & Canadian market will go for the most friction-less purchasing experience. Trying to figure out a German language site (plus trying to figure out currency conversion) makes me think why bother when I could purchase something similar in 30 seconds. Perhaps if these were unique products that couldn't be bought anywhere else I would consider it.
ekglimmer··on Ask HN: What's the Next Buzzword?
Oh that's a good call.
ekglimmer··on Show HN: Note Kitchen – Learn piano chords and scales
This is really neat. Would love to see a version for guitar as well, but would be a little more difficult to display I imagine.
ekglimmer··on The case for ending Amazon’s dominance
Not sure if it was intentional or not but I enjoyed the irony of putting two Amazon links to the book "The Box" directly in the article.
ekglimmer··on The Sokal Hoax
These publishing stings have occurred across many fields. I believe this is just the most famous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...
ekglimmer··on The Sokal Hoax
That's what I found interesting about this too, there is a whole rabbit-hole of similar 'experiments' or what have you that people did after learning about Sokal. Another wikipedia page is devoted entirely to scholarly publishing stings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...). They took place across all of academia, and like you say, end up proving that even the scientific journals are not as rigorous as we may like or think.
ekglimmer··on Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From Running Out of Water
So this is occurring in a non drought situation! Amazing. The shortsightedness of humanity never fails to impress me. I presume then if an actual drought occurs, there is no contingency plan in place?
ekglimmer··on Creating SVG animations with Snap.svg
Broken link methinks
ekglimmer··on Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape
Because it is 'deeply interesting'
ekglimmer··on Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing
Neat. I assume it would be possible to do the same thing in reverse then? As in, use image editing effects on audio clips?