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by abeisgreat 9mo ago
Hey all - I recently finished my mini PC build which uses custom SD card based cartridges. It's all open-source[1] and should be relatively used to recreate if you're interested! [1] https://github.com/abeisgoat&#x
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I built a retro mini PC which uses game cartridges [video](youtube.com)
4 points by abeisgreat 9mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices(github.com)
154 points by abeisgreat 2y ago|7 comments
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Mr. Dice – A dice rolling gadget(abe.today)
2 points by abeisgreat 2y ago|0 comments
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
Great write up, will be curious to see if Astro sticks around. It seems like all the static site gens last a few years then fade away - Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
This feels right, I can’t think of any consumer product where AI is providing value today. I assume, like me, most consumers have been saturated with AI, tried it a few times, and found it doesn’t deliver on simplifying/improving anyth
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
It actually never jammed I was just afraid that it would! It's just a generic micro servo, I think from Adafruit probably.
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
Haha yes, I'm still not used to people knowing so much about my projects, thank you for watching!
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
It was the AMOLEN Color Change PLA. Sadly I just took a quick look and don’t see it available anymore, but I might be missing it.
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
Oh hey that’s my Floppy8! Never woken up to find my stuff on HN before! So cool! I actually just released a video earlier this week about the progression of my SD card based cartridges[0] which started with the floppy cartridges for this. I
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
Bit of self promotion, but I do a lot of these types of tinkery projects (slightly less technical, but adjacent) on my channel "abe's projects"[1] [1] https://youtube.com/@abetoday
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
Fun fact about Hanafuda - you can still buy Hanafuda cards from a specific Japanese manufacturer who has been printing them for over 100 years and the more fun part is that that manufacturer is Nintendo! They still print traditional decks a
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
There definitely are but, perhaps by definition, items soft enough to dampen sound are often easily damaged so they aren’t great fits for most commercial locations. They are also out of vogue as was mentioned, unless you’re a coffee shop th
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
This is a really good discussion of density in different forms. I’ve always thought mobile UIs could have a density renaissance, would love to see folks questioning some assumptions of these devices - especially when the trend with LLMs is
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
This is the unspoken secret of all these mods. They’re built to be built, not played, so if there are subtle instabilities introduced which may impact practical gameplay they will likely never be discovered because the final creation just s
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
To the same end, when you hire human beings anticipate them standing up for what they believe in and occasionally inconveniencing your immoral business practices. Humans on both sides, opinions and your right to voice them on both sides.
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
The thing with masterpieces is that they don’t hold that status because they can’t be replicated, they hold it because they were novel, innovative, and unrivaled at the time of their creation.
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by abeisgreat 2y ago
I never understand why people consume content like this accelerated. For me, I feel like if I felt the need to rush through something then it’s not worth consuming at all.
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by abeisgreat 3y ago
Firebase does that, the problem is "warning them" isn't as simple as it sounds. Developers ignore automated emails and they rarely if ever open the dashboard. Figuring out how to contact the developers using the platform (and
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by abeisgreat 3y ago
Writing directly to Firebase is rarely done past the MVP stage. Normally it's the reading which is done directly from the client. Generally writes are bounced through Cloud Functions or a traditional server of some form. Some also &quo
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by abeisgreat 3y ago
Generally agreed on improved audit logs of some formed helping. Re training materials, this is one of the mitigations we launched to attempt to pull security to front of mind. I do not really think this is a Firebase problem, I think averag
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by abeisgreat 3y ago
One of the things we fought for, for years after acquisition was to maintain a qualified staff of fulltime, highly paid support people who are capable of identifying and escalating issues like this with common sense. This is a battle we slo
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by abeisgreat 3y ago
I worked at Firebase for many years and the concerns with security rules have always plagued the product. We tried a lot of approaches (self expiring default rules, more education, etc) but at the end of the day we still see a lot of insecu
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by abeisgreat 3y ago
I've done a handful of fun hardware + LLM projects... * I built a real life Pokedex to recognize Pokemon [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcerPofkE0 * I used ChatGPT to filter nice comments and print them in my
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by abeisgreat 3y ago
I recently did my own case build around a framework motherboard in a retro style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOAE5c7YXs it worked pretty well and I actually met up with the Framework CEO, Nirav, when I was recently in
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Floppy8 – A Tiny Computer, in a Floppy Drive(abe.today)
4 points by abeisgreat 4y ago|1 comments
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“Always take their Email”(abe.today)
1 points by abeisgreat 4y ago|0 comments
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by abeisgreat 4y ago
Yes! I’ve used them dozens and dozens of times. Not the cheapest if you want quick turnaround, but I did use to cut down cost by walking over to their Oakland warehouse for pickup. Was a nice small operation, smelled like burnt acrylic from
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by abeisgreat 4y ago
It's not mind-reading if you look at someone's actions and words then speculate about what their motivations and future decisions will look like - that's just deductive reasoning.
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by abeisgreat 4y ago
Personally, I turned my opinion on him when he tweeted about having approvals from major cities for Hyperloop tracks and then the mayor of one of those cities tweeted that they had never spoken to him. It's clear he's willing to l

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