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by josecastillo 2y ago
Relevant short story from Ted Chiang, exploring some possibilities around this idea: https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freed...
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by josecastillo 3y ago
I just use a bookmarklet that nukes any position:fixed elements on the page. Works on toolbars, cookie banners, full page interstitials — really shockingly useful on the hostile web. javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%2
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by josecastillo 3y ago
There's a Sensor Watch simulator that demonstrates the features of the various firmware images; this one[1] is running the firmware that shipped with the first boards, and includes a clock, world clock (UTC by default, but customizable
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by josecastillo 3y ago
The Movement framework for developing watch faces tries to steer folks toward low power consumption by default; the watch spends most of its time in standby, and a custom watch face only runs code once per loop (which is once a second by de
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by josecastillo 3y ago
Not zero money; it turned a profit of about $16,000, but it was hard fought. I wrote a detailed post about the economics of the gadget here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/closing-and-on-78683968
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by josecastillo 4y ago
My personal favorite: https://yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com/post/15243208646/chipot...
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by josecastillo 4y ago
oh hey, this is my project! Sensor Watch definitely has different goals — less smart, more watch — but I love this, and I love how the F-91W represents such a blank canvas for folks to project their vision onto. It's small and so very
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Show HN: We Got to Blinky. A Tour of Our Circuit Board(crowdsupply.com)
2 points by josecastillo 5y ago|0 comments
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by josecastillo 5y ago
I made an Apple Watch app and complication a few years ago that averages $800 a month. I don't put any money into marketing or search ads, and it's been feature-complete since 2019: https://www.betterday.app/ The
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Rhythm 0(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by josecastillo 5y ago|0 comments
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iPad Camera Multitasking Entitlement(blog.thinktapwork.com)
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Designing Winterbloom's Castor and Pollux(blog.thea.codes)
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Quest for the Whistler Button(newscrewdriver.com)
79 points by josecastillo 6y ago|21 comments
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Getting the most out of the SAM D21's ADC(blog.thea.codes)
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Disney's New Lion King Is the VR-Fueled Future of Cinema(wired.com)
1 points by josecastillo 7y ago|0 comments
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by josecastillo 7y ago
I'd been planning to use it with the Feather M0 Bluefruit, but for now I'm testing with an M0 Express with one of these LED displays next to it [1] on a board doubler. Good to know that this is more temperature rise than you'
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by josecastillo 7y ago
Weirdly coincidental timing on this! I've been working on a PCB design (FeatherWing form factor) to track weather data on my hikes, making use of a BME280 and a GPS module. First revision of the board[1], I discovered that the sensors
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by josecastillo 7y ago
This reminds me of a short story by Paul Ford from a few years back[1]: We had gone to a baseball game at the beginning of the season. They had played a song on the public address system, and she sang along without permission. They used to
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by josecastillo 7y ago
You can avoid airlines that have the 737 MAX in their fleet (domestically, the biggest are United, Southwest and American). Whenever I fly I fly Delta, and I’ll never fly on a MAX because Delta doesn’t have any.
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Latest lost satellite is now space junk that could put other spacecraft at risk(theverge.com)
4 points by josecastillo 7y ago|0 comments
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by josecastillo 8y ago
I half want to make a Kickstarter called "Let's Kill Facebook" that promises to give people $50 of the total proceeds to delete their Facebook account. I'd venture a surprising number of people who really care about kill
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by josecastillo 8y ago
The thing to keep in mind is that before the sighting, the months are pre-calculated for when the first crescent moon should rise over Mecca. So a change only affects the single month where the observation differed. For example, if you&#x27
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by josecastillo 8y ago
I've encountered just about every item on this list working on my Apple Watch complication, Better Day[1], which supports 11 calendar systems in 21 languages. The funny thing is, the last item on this list — always use ICU through the
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Twitter is banning users who created their accounts while underage(theverge.com)
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by josecastillo 8y ago
This is actually one of the reasons I posted this, because I'm not sure, I'm not a lawyer and while I'm hopeful I got it right, I'd love guidance if I got it wrong. Can you elaborate? What am I missing / what would
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by josecastillo 8y ago
Background: I decided to write my own privacy policy for a personal side project of mine. It ended up being an interesting exercise for me, and I thought I'd share the final text. It's a simple, static website put together with Je
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Privacy Policy at the Outset(theoutset.net)
1 points by josecastillo 8y ago|3 comments
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by josecastillo 8y ago
I'm not sure the title is click-baiting; the reality sounds exactly as dire as the headline. > The agency, which investigates deadly transit accidents, said Uber’s self-driving system determined the need to emergency-brake the car 1
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by josecastillo 8y ago
Since there seem to be a lot of knowledgable folks in these threads, I have a question about GDPR's impact on decentralized or federated social networks like Diaspora[1]. On these networks, users can create a profile on any server, and
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by josecastillo 8y ago
This is going to sound crazy, but I spun up an instance of a simple open-source comments system[1] for a blog that I write, and I chickened out of deploying it because I wasn't sure if it complied with GDPR. I distrust Disqus over thei

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