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timpark··on Show HN: Time tracking with plain text files
The method I chose was a clock-in/clock-out type of system where you can use the tool to start and stop tasks. Of course, you can type in and edit entries if you want, but the formatting is much more strict than your system.

https://github.com/timpark/tasktimes (although I made the repo in 2013, I can't remember how many years earlier I started working on it)

timpark··on Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land
If you didn't notice the link in the game credits, it says the game is based on code from some tutorials if you want to learn more about how it's done. https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=35767
timpark··on The Cole-Bar Hammer, a 7-year old Kickstarter that is still going
Another long-running one (though not as much of a money-sink) is Spaceventure, by the creators of Space Quest. Star Citizen appears to have an estimated delivery of Nov.2014, but the estimated delivery of Spaceventure was Feb.2013. The game entered beta almost half a year ago.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-s...

timpark··on Evaluating the State of Accessibility Design in Video Games
Oops yes, my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
timpark··on Evaluating the State of Accessibility Design in Video Games
I remember in the original God of War on PS1, I kept dying over and over, and the game offered to make the enemies weaker to help me out.

I appreciated the thought, but the problem was a jump I had trouble making.

timpark··on A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival
Long ago, I worked for a company that had to convert its entire accounting system from QUEL to SQL. Fortunately, I was able to write a parser to find the queries and rewrite them, at least for whatever subset of the language they used. It's been a while, but I think there was an issue with multi-query transactions, so the program warned that you'd have to convert and/or verify some parts yourself, but fortunately there weren't too many of those.
timpark··on The Treachery of Image Files
Many years ago, I made a music video called "Rhapsody in Bluescreen", which is exactly what it sounds like. I don't think it's online anywhere, but you can just listen to "Rhapsody in Blue" (now in the public domain this year) and imagine. I only used a small portion of it though, since it was just a short joke.
timpark··on Git-Based Wiki
Check out organice. https://organice.200ok.ch/
timpark··on Paul Rand's NeXT Logo (2010)
I came across this restaurant's logo not too long ago... https://nextfood.ca/

It's like someone said, "Hmm, NeXT Computer isn't using that logo any more... let's just tweak it a little so it's not identical."

timpark··on A Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History
I can't speak to the censoring of Cardcaptor Sakura... I watched the unedited subtitled DVDs. The edited dubbed version that some people are referring to had the slightly different title "Cardcaptors".

But another example of censorship is how the relationship between Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus was changed from being lesbians to being cousins. If you search for "sailor moon cousins", you can read about how that turned out for them. (eg: "they certainly didn’t act like any cousins I knew" -- Sara Roncero-Menendez)

timpark··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
This was back around 2005, so I imagine the software has improved since then, but... Sonic Scenarist for DVD authoring.

The thing we hated most about it apart from the slowness (computers were slower back then too, but anyway) was that it auto-saved after every action and had no undo. If there was an option to turn this off, we couldn't find it.

It was all too easy to select a bunch of items and accidentally drag them to the wrong place, and so we ended up just making a backup copy of the project file from time to time, and before attempting any type of operation that might mess up.

timpark··on Learn to Create and Flex Flexagons
I made some tetra-tetra-flexagons for my wedding, and in the process made an ImageMagick script to take four images and turn them into two, one for each side of the sheet of paper.

https://www.timpark.org/making-a-tetratetraflexagon/ (unfortunately some of the external links are broken, I should do some editing)

timpark··on Emacs Org Files in a Browser
If you look at the bottom of the Readme in the repo, you can see that this is a fork of that one. https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice

I'm glad to see this, since I was wondering how to search in org-web. (can't use in-browser search to find items that aren't currently displayed)

timpark··on Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
Just to note... I've been lazy and haven't jailbroken mine yet, and tested out this weather display: https://github.com/matopeto/kindle-weather-dashboard

Now, although the concept of "screensaver" seems silly for a device where the display takes no power to update, I noticed that when I left the web browser up (disabling the screensaver as mentioned in the repo) it chewed through the battery very quickly, in about 24 hours. With the screensaver back on, it's holding a charge much longer. I'm going to have to jailbreak at some point.

timpark··on Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion
Shout Factory released the series on DVD. It's not available on Blu-ray or streaming that I'm aware of.

https://www.shoutfactory.com/product/max-headroom-the-comple...

timpark··on A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension
The amount of space that messages take up can be configured in Settings > Display density. The screenshots look like they're using "Comfortable". I use "Compact".
timpark··on Ask HN: What's a programmable display which is not a screen?
Does e-paper fit your description? (nice because it only takes power to change, not display) There are LED light arrays. I don't think this is what you want, but it came to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display
timpark··on iOS Menu
Another thing about bottom support... It seems like one reason the menu usage is divided into two taps is that your finger would be partially obscuring the items. If it's on the bottom, you can tap the title, hold, then drag to the menuitem with a clear view of the items.
timpark··on So Good They Can’t Ignore You Book Notes
You linked to a thumbnail preview. If you remove the dimensions, you get an image that's readable: https://alexvermeer.com/wp-content/uploads/So-Good-They-Cant...

Though it might be better to link to the whole post: https://alexvermeer.com/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you-by-cal-...

timpark··on Developers Are Already Making Great AR Experiences Using Apple's ARKit
Obligatory link to Black Mirror-inspired hackathon project "Brand Killer": http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/
timpark··on Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages
Neat. I saw something like this recently in game form: Codeshapes http://teropa.info/codeshapes/
timpark··on Where New Slang Comes From
This reminded me of an article a couple of years back showing how deaf people would come up with signs for internet slang. It'd be neat to see it updated.

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/internet/168477-inter...

timpark··on Ask HN: What is your most impressive hackathon project?
Sounds like a job for Lyrebird! https://lyrebird.ai/demo
timpark··on Ask HN: How can I do social good through programming?
UN Volunteers ( http://www.unv.org/ ) has a Technology development section. ( https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/opportunities?f[]=fiel... ) A lot of it is web work, but there's sometimes app development.
timpark··on Emojipedia.org
> (don't care which)

> I don't want to express "a black man smiling"

Which is it?

timpark··on Ask HN: How has volunteering helped you grow?
The most fulfillment would be where it actually gets results. The first hackathon I went to, I made a simple app according to specifications. I was willing to polish up some features after the event and put it into production, but multiple emails to the organization's contact went unanswered.

I almost didn't attend the event again, but the second time, my project went into production and is still going. The organization was manually copying data from their donation site into SalesForce, and I wrote a small script to do it daily. (The donation site has a "connector" for SalesForce, but apparently it didn't work for them)

I'm currently doing something longer term with an organization I found on UN Volunteers. I was expecting to add features according to specifications, but they wanted ideas for how to improve the app. How about more content? "We don't want to add more content." How about multilanguage support? I was thinking I'd be adding one or two languages, and suddenly he has 19 translators lined up. sigh

timpark··on Index cards are pretty cool (2009)
Try a PocketMod? Perhaps printed on heavier paper? http://pocketmod.com/ http://repocketmod.com/
timpark··on TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki
Sorry about that. Someone seems to have put it on GitHub with some fixes:

https://github.com/makefu/tiddly_store

https://github.com/makefu/tw-upload-plugin

timpark··on TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki
Instead of saving to local, there's a PHP script that lets you save your edits to a file on a server. http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Saving%2520on%2520a%2520PHP%252...
timpark··on Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
It looks like you have to pay "to have more than 250 entries [I don't know what's typical], to sign up for web page creation options, and to receive technical support".

And here they ask for credit card details over http...

http://www.douglassassociates.com/online_registration.htm

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