With significant help from Claude Code, I had it transform a CLI tool I had made into a web app to generate printable maths worksheets for kids aged 5-6. It creates A4 PDFs with customisable questions with themes.
It seems there are many solutions for social media these days, but only one LinkedIn. Why are we still putting up with it? I’m surprised there’s not been a contender yet, or maybe I am not aware and perhaps that could be the rub; the challenge of acquiring enough traffic for the network effect to take hold.
https://github.com/antfie/FoxBot
I've been running this for a while now and decided to make it public because I find it quite handy. It runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero and enables me to not have to check the news all the time. I get these aggregated hourly bursts of notifications for things I care about. There is a bunch of other code I need to bring over from when it was a private project, such as web page scraping etc, but as it...
A couple years ago, in response to my frustrations with a popular note-taking solution, I set about to find a privacy-focussed solution my family could use. One that would just work reliably, without loosing or corrupting data, and one which has a focus on privacy and security whilst being easy to use. I couldn’t find anything so I set about to build a fun app for a non-techie-first...
Has anyone successfully signed a Windows executable with a Sectigo issued OV code signing certificate using a YubiKey 5 FIPS device? I’m having a hell of a time trying to overcome a “No signature was present in the subject.” error when I look at the signature info, yet the signing process was successful. Research points to a faulty certificate issued by the issuer and I want to know how...
Over time as it collects more data I will be able to identify trends, identify repeat postings, etc. And it should be able to identify various companies based off keywords. So for example some companies have foosball tables as a popular benefit listed in the ads, that would narrow down the companies, coupled with location and social help, this should be effective.
http://frecruiter.herokuapp.com/This is very much work in progress but every submission contributes to the DB which will be used to help improve the algorithm and thus make matching better.The idea being that this will over time develop a community of people who will help tag various job descriptions to companies, helping people find the real companies behind the various jobs masked by...
The idea was simple: scheduling meetings is a pain, shouldn't this be simple by now. E.g. I don't care when or where I just want to meet with Susan tomorrow for 15 mins. You're my Corporate calendar and you know both our availability. Go figure, I'm busy. It was a search engine of sorts for meetings: "Susan tomorrow 15 mins".
Whilst this solution never intended to replace existing calendering or email, etc and just serve as a front-end, I came to the conclusion that companies already have solutions to booking meetings. The existing system works so why pay more. My USP was in time savings made => less cost. I gotta say in writing this it's making me think perhaps there is still something here I should pursue.. and I later found out another company was doing something similar after I shelved this.
I knew from day 1 I should have been validating my idea but it was so much easier to build stuff. I learnt a lot from failing this way: 1) You may have solved a problem, but it could be insignificant to the target market. 2) You have to listen to people and build meaningful human relationships in order to be successful. 3) Find someone else's problem to solve and you're likely to be on to something. 4) Fail fast, learn more
I just launched https://conciergeapp.uk on the August 5th, after a month of development and then spent a week feeling miserable because nobody will sign up or reply to emails. It's a simple tool for facilities to take utility meter readings in private residential apartment blocks. This tool notifies the residents of their readings, as they cannot get to the meters themselves in order to tell their energy suppliers. As a resident it's certainly useful for me.
This is potentially another failed product because it's not important for facilities management. it's a great tool but it doesn't solve any of their main problems. This all came about because of a conversation in which I got excited about something and then engineered a solution for a non-existent problem. I should have prodded some more to find the real pains.
In the space of 1 month and a week I find myself failing again, but this time I failed much faster and have learnt the following: 1) Find the right problem to solve and validate it before you write a single line of code. 2) Listen more. 3) Get up-front financial commitment prior to writing a single line of code
I find Postman is great for API testing during development, but is there any tool for automating API integration testing as part of a CI setup?Of course such a tool would probably need to work within the corporate firewall in order to access dev endpoints, perhaps also be able to interrogate internal DBs to verify data correctness. And of course automatically running tests and reporting/failing...