bmaeser
Galton Board
Optimized Python
On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint
both in python, but beautiful code, well structured and you would not need any docs, just read the code
Hans Scholl's last words shouted from the guillotine were, ”Long live freedom!”
they are not: apps, saas, products (books, courses,..), fixed bids on custom projekts or anything you bill by the hour.
a productized service is:
something you do very well, has a very narrow and fixed scope, you normally would bill this by the hour. think of it like writing a custom proposal but sell it to anyone at the same price.
some examples:
- i change the car oil for x usd.
- checking a website for responsiveness and show you the biggest mistakes and how to fix them for x usd. (website teardown)
- a/b testing an online shop to increase conversion by 5%
i myself am in the middle of turning my freelance sysadmin/devops business into a productized service, so i am eager to hear what ppl on hn had success with - and what did not work out for them.
a great ressource on this topic is pretty much anything Jonathan Stark is publishing: https://expensiveproblem.com/ and http://www.ditchinghourly.com/
Entrepreneur Raised $2M with a Five-Slide Presentation – About Nothing (2014)
dead simple, easy to configure and very reliable
Rafs: Reddit-as-file-storage
WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links
Orthographic Pedant – Correcting Common Typos in GitHub
Matrioshka brain
Librivox – free public domain audiobooks
A personalized documentary series about privacy and the web economy
recommended read: http://zeromq.org/topics:omq-is-just-sockets
hn-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739231
there is a writeup in the docs how nanomsg differ from zmq: http://nanomsg.org/documentation-zeromq.html
i tried NEO and DVORAK but somehow the english layout worked best.i still need to type umlauts (äöü) and ß, so i made a custom layout.
you can find it on github: https://github.com/bmaeser/coDE (osx only, sorry)
on my workstation/notebook (both apple computers) i use time machine with different external harddrives i rotate weekly.
all setups run automated, but sometimes i trigger them manually (usually right before and/or after some major change in configuration, or when lots of new data are on the drives (eg: i copy all the holliday photos onto my laptop)
i run regular checks on server backups, e.g. check if they "are there" and if i could restore them properly if needed.