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leovanderon Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

TIL Kytch[0] is a packaged up Raspiberry Pi "Built with Raspberry Pi inside.". And I was waiting to hear the words right-to-repair in the video [1].

[0]https://kytch.com

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl34nW9c4wo

leovanderon Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard

Was that a precursor to let's say the Elgato Streamdeck[0]? Or did displays in keys already exist before the Maximus?

[0] https://www.elgato.com/themes/custom/smalcode/image/products...

leovanderon New GitHub themes for VS Code

You should pitch that to Zeno Rocha. He already made the variants in Dracula Pro, he could rename the current Blade them to something else and call the light theme, Daywalker.

leovanderon CS50 for Lawyers

Again we stopped taking the course because it just didn’t seem relevant enough for her line of work, but another lawyer friend of ours could definitely use a legal oriented “what is version control/source code/package/importing/forking/branching” course.

leovanderon CS50 for Lawyers

It's unclear how this course applies or is customized specifically for lawyers

My wife (lawyer) did the first three classes and the first two assignments. I watched along and was waiting for the same thing. She had some fun doing binary and playing around in scratch, and quickly lost interest as we didn't see where the legal part came in. We assumed it was the same course all the other CS50 variants were following and maybe there would be a legal bit at the end.

leovanderon Simple Bank Is Closing

I ran into this for alliant. Reach out to YNAB support, they adjust your account supposedly to not use Plaid for instances like MFA being enabled. It wasn't clear if its an all or nothing deal though for all your accounts to use Plaid or not.

leovanderon Show HN: System for Private Data Management

Other than passwords, you could ham-fist most of this into Notion.[0] You can find a lot of landing page/workflow examples on the subreddit [1] and there's a handful of youtube videos on people going through their workflows.

[0] https://www.notion.so/product

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/

leovanderon Gmail Is Down

Nest is down. Well the app booted me out and I can't sign in, but I still get notifications.

leovanderon How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant

> If they failed to pay, my plan was to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and reach out to other affiliates suggesting they do the same.

Where do people get their info from to just go with a "time to contact the FTC"? If feels like the equivalent of people threatening they will contact the BBB.

Depending on the amount (that was $88 per the screenshot?), that is something you take to small claims court, you don't even need a lawyer for that.

leovanderon Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

Can someone build An's SpaceHey Editor to match?

leovanderon The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

https://feross.org/npm-install-funding/

leovanderon Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (2011)

Some mods for it from 4 months ago[0].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975012

leovanderon Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

A little late with the reply, but here[0] was one of our resources for our computer graphics class when we were learning flash.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080726043830/http://www.heathe...

leovanderon 4x4 Macro Pad Kit

Most group buys/keyboard shops sell the Elite C as an alternative[0].

[0] https://docs.splitkb.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011510839-Why-...

leovanderon Show HN: O'Doyle Rules – a new rules engine for Clojure

He does have drawing of O'Doyle at the top of the readme.

leovanderon Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email

If you like physical copies, check out Mouse Book Club[0].

[0] https://mousebookclub.com

leovanderon A visual chronicle of Tokyo’s disappearing jazz bars (2016)

Oh, spoons. Where the whole family can come in to hang out with the town drunks all day.

Experienced this outside of York, more country side.

leovanderon Boston Dynamics shop: Spot Explorer

Not as a horse, but a rickshaw.

"Adam Savage's Spot Robot Rickshaw Carriage!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyaocKS3sfg

leovanderon The Dactyl-ManuForm Keyboard

We've been joking around about getting long trrs cables, wrapping around the back side of our office chairs and attaching the keyboards to the arm rests, go all Picard.

QMK supports mouse/trackball support, I think gboard and a few others support adding a blackberry track ball and we'd be aces.

leovanderon The Dactyl-ManuForm Keyboard

More split keyboards:

- Corne: You usually have to solder it yourself, and source the switches/caps. A few sites will build it for you. [0][1[[2]

- LilyPro: Same as above. [3][4]

- Georgo/GeorgoPlex: [7]

Trackball: Someone mentioned a vertical mouse, those are really great, but I have been pushing trackballs on a few colleagues. A good in between is the newer logitech, that has a tilt mechanism, but its a thumbball. [5] You can find more options in at r/trackballs [6]. I can recommend the "Kensington Expert Wireless Trackball Mouse" and "CST L-Trac Blue Trackball", although the latter, the original company shutdown and are being manufactured by xkeys. There's also an open source trackball, ploopy [8].

P.s. buying keyboards and soldering them are great for a quick fix, but this hobby gets expensive quick. I am waiting on a few group buys; another 65% keyboard, another split keyboard and a few more key cap sets.

P.s.s. group buys can be a hit or miss (mostly hit), treat them like kickstarters, and maybe you'll get your parts in a year or so. At least in r/mechanicalkeyboards, a few users have recently been complaining a tad more about not seeing the final product v.s. renders.

[0] https://github.com/foostan/crkbd

[1] https://keyhive.xyz/shop/hotswap-corne-helidox

[2] https://www.littlekeyboards.com/products/corne-mx-hotswap-ki...

[3] https://keyhive.xyz/shop/lily58

[4] https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58

[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/

[7] https://www.gboards.ca/

[8] https://www.ploopy.co/

leovanderon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

"Illusion, Michael..."

leovanderon What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?

We use it in healthcare, at least in NextGen Connect, formerly Mirth Connect[0]. It uses Rhino[1] as its scripting engine which still supports E4X.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextGen_Connect

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Rh...

leovanderon Repository for Open Source Mouse Firmware and Hardware

Most likely 3d printed.

leovanderon Repository for Open Source Mouse Firmware and Hardware

See my separate comment about QMK and the ploopy.

leovanderon Repository for Open Source Mouse Firmware and Hardware

You can order a ploopy[0] kit or modify their source[1]. I think a few users on r/trackballs[2] might have gotten QMK to work with it.

[0] https://www.ploopy.co/

[1] https://github.com/ploopyco/mouse

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/comments/dk4ha7/ploopy_v...

leovanderon Ask HN: What are you learning?

Reading Land of Lisp[0].

[0] http://landoflisp.com/

leovanderon Jon Rubinstein on the development of the iPod [video]

I loved the back and forth when Jon Rubinstein was at Palm, when every other update for the Palm Pre would have the phone identify as an iPod in iTunes.

https://www.wired.com/2009/10/palm-pre-itunes/

leovanderon Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research

Most of the stories on How I Built This [0] say they got a lucky break, but they worked their butts off. More so "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.", therefore increasing their "luck"?

[0] https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this

leovanderon Rete: JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor

Does that mean the Dark in Action on the homepage is outdated? Or is the UI something that carried over from the original design? I know there are "code-y" elements in that video and all the auto-complete features that are demoed are fantastic.

leovanderon Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?

I just wish it wasn't next to the 5 entrance on the 55. Maybe that is a good thing, if not I would make my way there more often. Reporting from Costa Mesa as well.