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logikblok

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Learning and making new things for people. www.surajr.com
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logikblok··on Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
© 2025 dock. your team's home base.

Should be 2026, happy new year!

logikblok··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://www.surajr.com/ Is me!

Also you and others interested perhaps might like to check out the XXIIVV webring: https://github.com/XXIIVV/webring

logikblok··on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
WhichYear 4/20/25 4361 pts (top 11%) 6⃣ avg. years off

4⃣ 6⃣ 8⃣ 7⃣ 4⃣

https://whichyr.com

logikblok··on It is as if you were on your phone
Related by the same creator https://pippinbarr.com/itisasifyouweredoingwork/

More accessible on desktop.

logikblok··on Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy
Any tips on what you'd suggest as alternatives please?
logikblok··on Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time
Additionally from the article > Semi-precious gems, which had probably fallen out of rings after the bathhouse steam loosen their glue settings, were recovered from drains at the site

To think about the frustration the original owner might have felt when those were lost and now they're found all these years later for us to study and learn from.

logikblok··on Pikimov — Web-based motion design and video editor
This looks great. Also notable similar tool: https://vidmix.app/
logikblok··on Any ideas for a computer vision project?
Hey couple of ideas you might want to explore with specific outcomes: - Could you build a project that generates alerts for when it's detected someone has fallen? - Could you explore a project that predicts weaknesses, diseases, faults in trees so that homeowners and others can take preventative action. - Could you explore a project that takes satellite imagery and predicts where the location of the image is?

Plus if you check out this list you might see some other ideas that are emerging from the industry: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1589644342746021890 or https://twitter.com/i/lists/1588109045902319616

All the best!

logikblok··on Show HN: Beatbot.fm – Make Songs with AI
"A nostalgic lo fi beats piece featuring a riff about fish" [0]

[0] https://beatbot.fm/song/07daa81591454fedbd0a5e7d55babf22

logikblok··on Jazz.Computer
Love it. Was the thumbs up / thumbs down intentional? I'm guessing so scrolled to make it a thumbs up.
logikblok··on Piou Piou (2021)
Notes from the creator: https://twitter.com/williamapan/status/1353712779736330240?s...
logikblok··on Ask HN: What Is a COO?
Reminded me of some of the excellent lore videos.

"What the king dreams, the hand of the king builds...or so say the kings the hands and the lords who wish to be hands."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59F_ntoGHDI

logikblok··on Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc
+1 on this, looks good would appreciate a live/mock example
logikblok··on Show HN: Can devs do something? – The stupidest website I ever built
HODL?
logikblok··on Launch HN: Govly (YC S21) – Making it easier to sell to the U.S. government
Also perhaps of interest is https://openopps.com/ and the team at https://spendnetwork.com/.
logikblok··on Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
Congratulations on the raise and keep up the good work!
logikblok··on Bookmarks Worth Bookmarking
Nice one, I've also been building a big old list of bookmarks too. You might like too: https://airtable.com/shrl4vxOG1KNlAhiu
logikblok··on Show HN: I made a site to share creative writing
This is super. Nice clean interface, fast loading, fonts work really well for the style.

Perhaps you may want to add a seperation between the button / tag sets for categories? So you have all the tags and then a line that says "Discover by" [Popular] [New] just allows for an easier exploration maybe.

logikblok··on Ask HN:Which is the simplest CMS to Integrate?
Just in case your client has straightforward needs for straightforward UI on websites perhaps these could work well? Both offer straightforward (and somewhat fun) interfaces to make and launch quickly. https://carrd.co/ or https://build.mmm.page/

Other than that I've had previous good experiences with: https://forestry.io/

logikblok··on Dancing robots you can fling
The music is excellent too.
logikblok··on Show HN: Remake – Build web apps with HTML
Hi there, looks like something I could use. However just a heads up I clicked through on the main CTA and then I landed here got an email but I was expecting a follow through and or next steps. You my want to direct users to look at the documentation or something to follow on. https://imgur.com/ieP6Trh

All the best

logikblok··on Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?
I'm in the UK and there are quite a few services now that invest your money into property and infrastructure loans as peer to peer loans. I've invested in quite a few and see ~£50 a month as gains across the total set. I usually either reinvest or I pay out and buy into other investments. I could increase my exposure here but I think I'm at a comfortable level for my risk appetite.

For me this is investing in property but without the hassle of long term maintenance. You don't own the property but it's much more hassle free and fairly passive as long as you pick which things you'd like to invest into.

Services I've personally invested in and would vouch for: - https://www.kuflink.com/ - https://www.loanpad.com/ - https://www.lendingworks.co.uk/ - https://www.abundanceinvestment.com/

You might like to try out some peer to peer loan based investments if you're after some fairly passive gains.

logikblok··on Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
Great work. I was surprised to see it UK based but it was good. I think it'll help reinforce ideas of saving, pensions and forward thinking. Things you may want to consider:

- Gain graph? Some type of means to show how the gains have earned. Understand you're opting for a simulation of reality but it might help with understanding what is going on.

- Economic changes / opportunities? New stock, new financial products or travel opportunities. The email inbox is quite neat and it allows perhaps for these events to be introduced.

You may also like some of the mechanics from: https://thefounder.biz/play/ https://graebor.itch.io/sort-the-court

logikblok··on Show HN: Wiggleface, a silly game engine for my students
Lovely! You / your students may also like: http://molleindustria.github.io/p5.play/
logikblok··on Show HN: Workspaces – Bringing you inside the workspaces of inspiring creatives
Thought this was neat. Couple of ideas: 1 - A grid style image would be quite cool to explore similarities and general spaces. 2 - You may like to share it with the folks here who might like to collab with on a feature for it: https://www.itsnicethat.com/contact https://ello.co/wtf/artists/contact/
logikblok··on Show HN: Just launched my online learning startup (3 years solo indie hacking)
Hey vfc1 great work. Couple of thoughts just on the landing page / proposal: 1 - It's an extensive landing page with a lot of scroll, I guess this might be because you're trying to talk about all the things you can do / will do which is extensive and great but I wonder if you can shrink the page to make the core points and drive to the call to action as a pose to scroll and depart.

2 - I suspect you'll have fairly long sales cycles right? It takes time for people to build their materials, gather resources, polish their words. I wonder if you can make them start with an initial step that builds ownership, e.g. upload a logo or something along that line that get's users along the way.

3 - It maybe apparent to users that you are new. Being new comes with advantages but people may feel the risk of you disappearing and or going bust. Is there a way you can communicate trust / long term support? Sometimes people do this with testimonials or perhaps some kind of of guarantee, maybe a lower priority one for consideration.

logikblok··on Ask HN: How do you run better meetings?
Hi there, product person here. Due to the nature of the role I have to create meetings to agree on approaches, align on directions and communicate often. Very very, keen not to waste anyones time, so I try my best to email first and be present when facilitating meetings.

Two quick frameworks that you might find helpful:

1) The POST method, to give clarity at the beginning of a meeting: Purpose: What is the purpose of the meeting? Objective: What are you trying to achieve in the meeting, and what does success look like? Structure: What is the structure of the meeting we are having? Timing: How much time is allocated to the meeting?

https://gist.github.com/aaronbuchanan/2dcf936daceab925da61

I like this because it helps give quick context, also the mnemonic is quite handy.

2) Try to structure your meeting around other people's questions: - Going from basic what questions working up to why we need to make a decision, how they might be impacted etc. - I wrote a short post about it here: https://www.logikblok.com/supporting-asking-questions

I like this because it focuses your communication around your audience/user needs.

Aside from that and keeping everyone on the same track of discussion / time / documenting agreements all help out. Hope that helps.

logikblok··on Show HN: The game where you test your offside decision-making skills against VAR
Hey nice one.

Couple of ideas: - Add a time limit for decisions? Count down clock perhaps, forces users to make a choice quick and adds an element of pressure? - Illustrations, my go to is always: https://www.manypixels.co/gallery you'll see there are lots of football ones under the sports category.

logikblok··on In Defense of Signal
Have you explored https://element.io/?
logikblok··on Show HN: Spotify for Generative Art
Hey Matt, great work and excellent effort boot strapping the concept with the video and web app.

Couple of thoughts (Feel free to ignore): 1 - "Novari is Spotify for generative art" could work harder for you probably. Ref https://www.demandcurve.com/playbooks/above-the-fold#i3q8kwg...

2 - I wonder if use cases might be better to highlight on the home page, e.g. mock ups of the art being displayed in your home on digital frames or screensavers, whilst there's a part going on projected etc.

3 - The art is the wow factor right? So once in the app once you've signed up maybe it's a good idea to present users a big play button that shows them art immediately, reducing time to figure out what's on there etc.

4 - If you are viewing art on the full screen it might be good to be able to scroll through it without pressing esc and the next piece?

I'm contactable via my profile if you ever wanted to bounce anything off.

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