JJarrard
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Posted by
JJarrard on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:14PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=speakhelp.com
TLDR backstory: Both my late grandfathers had strokes and lived a significant portion of their lives without advanced speech. I wanted to make it easy for them to communicate with their loved ones. Since they passed it’s essential become my charity project.It’s built using Expo, TTS using expo-speech. I think it’s been feature complete for over a year, but I’ve had no engagement since I stopped...
I quit a job of 2 months with nothing lined up this Monday, the company was full of red flags but I won’t go into it because it only raises my blood pressure.
I’ve decided to take a few weeks out to forget about them so I’m not bringing a bad vibe to an interview/new job.
I was told by friends and family not to quit until I had something lined up, but just couldn’t take it anymore, sometimes you get to your limit I guess.
Deleted BBC News, Facebook, and Reddit (unfortunately), just skimming HN for cool tech content every now and again.
I'm feeling a lot better. Leaving my apartment, looking at the blue sky and the bustling people on their way to work. Life feels much better, I'm also not checking my phone as often.
Not that my imagination is lacking, but this article sure would've been better if it included at least one image of the home.
wake up, grab some comfy clothes, go outside into the cold and smoke a roll up, get back in and make a coffee, get into bed and check notifications and read stuff on my phone for an hour then go to work
I started using Google Keep until I was up to around 200 project ideas. I then moved it all to Trello, fleshed out each idea, prioritised, and labelled every idea. Ever since I've just been adding ideas directly to the Trello board via the app.
Posted by
JJarrard on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:02PM
from the youtube.com dept.
I don't know if it's related.. but Twitter removes www. from tweets. Seeing as I don't have a wildcard SSL cert, I can't post my website URL on twitter as it leads to
http://website.x
Better Finance skills, meal planning, creating good habits for completing side projects
Recently I've been bouncing from hobby to hobby trying to free my creativity. I bought some nice pencils and a sketch pad and started drawing, I took out a unity learning subscription and started programming VR games, I bought a guitalele to practice guitar without hauling a full size guitar about. And I've been experimenting with live looping in FLStudio with my Akai Mini midi.
What's ruining me though is the amount of time I spend resting, drinking, smoking, or on Reddit. I'm trying to get a fun routine, or switch out the bad habits for good ones, setting myself evening goals.
Aside from the fact all of my side projects are currently abandoned (in search of wellness).
I use Trello, and have found organising ideas by value and difficulty has eased the burden of having 100+ side projects.
So.. I have multiple columns identifying which projects I will work on: "backlog", "will do", "won't do", "in progress", and "finished".
The "tickets" are also colour coded by difficulty: green - easy, orange - few days/week, red - few weeks/months.
Depending on how much time I think I will have free in the next few weeks, I pick a difficulty, and will only work on ONE project at a time (This is the only rule that stops me picking things up then abandoning it half way through).
I haven't been doing red projects in the past few months as they require more energy than I currently have, the green ones are the most fun, usually done in a night or a weekend, then I will not start another project until the next week to give myself a rest.
Just the daily use of a keyboard has given me the muscle memory to touch type. I lose my hand placement frequently as my work keyboard doesn't have the bumps on the home row, so the start of every sentence I take a glimpse at the first key I'm going to press.
I find with programming I make an incredible amount of mistakes as I'm typing and thinking ahead at the same time, leading to me to spamming the backspace every few words (maybe I should pay more attention).
To get good at touch typing, I believe it's just practice without getting lazy, as in, pay attention to the fact you're touch typing, maintain good habits, and prevent bad habits.
The only feature I'd like on my oven, is if an electric hob doesn't have a pan on it for 5-10 minutes.. turn itself off.. On my oven there is no indicator on the hob, I've left it on once and almost injured myself, and my other half has left it on for about 5 hours while we watched films in the other room, I only noticed it because of the heat radiating from it
Anyone else have a problem with phys.org? The website fails to load, chrome, UK.
Posted by
JJarrard on Sunday June 17, 2018 @02:09PM
from the show-hn dept.
Google is your friend
1. Council/Local government websites sometimes include a comment thread.
2. Probably not, usually it's done via social media, e.g. Twitter mention.
3. Doubt it, that would be a personal arrangement.
Betting predictions, Data analysis, Twitter bots.. etc. If you can automate it, chances are you can make money from it whether it's hosting it on a website or providing a service
Install adblock. Right click on overlay > adblock > block this ad until it goes away. (you'll notice the scrollbar has disappeared (B). Run this in inspect scripts - element.style {overflow: scroll;height: 100%;}.
Alternatively: buy all the subscriptions
Been using this app for SSH and it's been amazing.
Side note (not the most optimized way), but want to run something in the background?
$tmux
$[run command]
$shift (volume down) + B, then d (detach virtual term)
command is running in tmux in background
$tmux attach (to get back into the virtual term)
See their docs obviously.. but using a mobile terminal I've been using this primarily for my tasks
For possible financial gain:
Web applications. Lots of them, most will fail as with mobile apps, but say I could do one every month or two, that's 12-24x the amount of chance of success than building one substantial well thought through, maybe unsellable thing.
None financial:
I'd like to build robot
or a virtual personal assistant (see film 'Her')
From what you've described, I'm going through the same thing and I understand it's completely down to my lifestyle choice and work.
I'll be trying lots of these comments (thanks everyone) to see if I can improve / lift my brain fog. I can say sleeping around 10 after half an hour of no technology is bliss, have a shower, prepare your clothes for the next day so you have nothing but me time in the morning. It feels good to wake up, grab a coffee and read a book.