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by nfriend 13d ago
Reminds me of the main plot line in The Dark Forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest
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by nfriend 1mo ago
Brings back memories of GORILLA.BAS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
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by nfriend 8mo ago
https://nathanfriend.com/
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by nfriend 2y ago
Love it! I'm fascinated by all things Spirograph and built my own digital version of the more traditional toy here: https://nathanfriend.com/inspiral-web
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by nfriend 2y ago
I use FreeCAD! https://www.freecad.org/ It's a bit rough around the edges but now that I know its quirks I'm pretty productive with it.
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Useful things I've 3D printed(nathanfriend.com)
13 points by nfriend 2y ago|9 comments
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by nfriend 2y ago
QBasic was my first language! I recently stumbled across all my old QBasic programs from my childhood and resurrected them with DOSBox: https://origins.nathanfriend.com/
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by nfriend 2y ago
I had this exact issue on my Pixel 6 Pro! I thought it was done for but it seems to have recovered over the last few months and I don't see it anymore.
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by nfriend 2y ago
> And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible. Unfortunately it seems like the audiobook has been pulled from Audible! (Unless I'm just searching for it incorrectly?) I saw this book recommended in another thread and have been che
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A light that glows when on a Zoom call(nathanfriend.io)
2 points by nfriend 2y ago|0 comments
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by nfriend 3y ago
ChatGPT makes a great regular-English-to-Death-Metal-English translator when prompted with the examples from this article: https://chat.openai.com/share/261034ff-f5d5-404c-b354-c9d58e...
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by nfriend 3y ago
https://nathanfriend.io/ Very infrequent updates on my latest side projects.
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I Built a Weird Keyboard(nathanfriend.io)
1 points by nfriend 3y ago|0 comments
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by nfriend 3y ago
Anecdotally, I gave Dvorak a try and became somewhat proficient, but ultimately reverted back to QWERTY for one reason: keyboard shortcuts! Control-C|V|Z are all transformed into either two-handed shortcuts or right-handed shortcuts. In eit
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by nfriend 4y ago
Think I found a bug! Left the tab (on Firefox mobile on Android) and then revisited it, and now it says: "Perfect landing, incredible, you can't get better than this" with a score of 102.3 (I'm assuming 100 is supposed t
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by nfriend 4y ago
Love it! It's like a cross between Flappy Bird and Asteroids. Nice tutorial at the beginning, too. Just managed to get a 98.5, which I think was mostly luck.
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by nfriend 4y ago
True, that's the ideal scenario! We've tried room temperature milk in the past, but our baby refuses it :(
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by nfriend 4y ago
As silly as it sounds, this water warmer for baby bottles: https://a.co/d/hhJzLBn Nothing's worse than trying to mix the perfect water temperature at 3 AM while the baby is screaming, waking up the rest of the fam
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by nfriend 4y ago
Done - upgraded to a t3.xlarge. Now it can process 4 images in parallel. Still not enough to keep up with HN demand, but it should chew through the queue a _bit_ faster.
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by nfriend 4y ago
Moving it to a larger AWS instance - will be down for a few minutes!
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by nfriend 4y ago
Fixed! Now abandoning the tab will remove the image from the queue.
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by nfriend 4y ago
Not a bad idea!
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by nfriend 4y ago
Unfortunately nothing at the moment! Currently working on removing images from the queue if the user has left the page (which I'm guessing is the case for about 99% of the current queue).
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by nfriend 4y ago
Currently running on a t3.medium AWS EC2 instance! (My max budget is currently $50/month since I get that much in AWS credits each month for building an Alexa skill a few years back.)
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by nfriend 4y ago
Very interesting, I will look into this! Thanks!
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by nfriend 4y ago
Sorry all for the long wait times! Was not expecting much interest. At the very least, I need to look into removing photos from the queue when people exit the page.
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by nfriend 4y ago
Thought it was some fun context, but I can see why it might come off as a strange detail to include. Edited to remove the distraction.
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Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator(brushify.art)
224 points by nfriend 4y ago|71 comments
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by nfriend 4y ago
Not C, but I did build a mobile app version that works offline: https://inspiral.nathanfriend.io/
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by nfriend 4y ago
Weird, what browser/OS are you using?

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