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Author: geekodour

assets/pages/engineering_blogposts.org

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 - [[https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/monitoring-with-victoriametrics/][How Grammarly Improved Monitoring with VictoriaMetrics | Grammarly]]
 - [[https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-network-analytics-v2/][How we built Network Analytics v2]]
 * SysAdmin
+- [[https://www.gitpod.io/blog/we-are-leaving-kubernetes][We’re leaving Kubernetes - Blog]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38908427][How meta built the infrastructure for Threads | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://clementc.github.io/blog/2018/01/25/moving_cli/][Moving efficiently in the CLI]]
 - [[https://monzo.com/blog/how-we-run-migrations-across-2800-microservices][How we run migrations across 2,800 microservices]]

assets/pages/project_ideas.org

@@ -946,6 +946,8 @@ Basically just automate what I did with my twitter following with some AI or may
 - https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ci70ZgHoQig/
 - [[https://www.schrodie.com/][Schrödie - A Hidden Guestbook]] (by siliconjungle)
 - [[https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/gps-spoofing/][GPS spoofing]]
+* SEED Physical Mail
+[[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767690][Show HN: PostalAgent – Send Postcards online by circling areas on a Google Map | Hacker News]]
 * SEED GetPolledBy :fun:social:webdev:experiment:
 ** Description
 - get a twitter poll done by a popular twitter account in your niche
@@ -1006,6 +1008,7 @@ Make everything fresh, port old stories for Ahilapaati etyadi. get someone prope
 - pay whatever you like once complete. 100 copies will be printed and no more/ threesixfive.shop/human
 - once photo is submitted, conferreti + make a really nice frame and everything so that they can share the proof on social media
 ** Reference
+- https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/
 - [[https://humancalendar.com/about][the human calendar®: about]]
 * SEED Currency conversion WP plugin
 ** Reference
@@ -1235,6 +1238,8 @@ Basically once activated, all keyboard strokes will be jumbled and when you tr t
 - This does not need you to install any extension or anything and will persist so you can share.
 - Ref. storing state data in URL: [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34312546][How to store your app's entire state in the url | Hacker News]]
   - Others: https://goshify.tny.im/, https://github.com/alcor/itty-bitty, [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408150][Show HN: Host a Website in the URL | Hacker News]]
+  - https://64.surf/
+- Modifications ref: https://www.getperhaps.com/?s=35
 ** SEED TOC for any webpage
 - Something like SmartTOC web extension but free.
 - Add dark mode, resizable
@@ -1425,13 +1430,15 @@ Ashrish's idea of building a simple declarative api for data about each state
 * SEED Movie get time-screen grabs
 - i.e https://humanclock.com/ but for movie screengrabs where
 - Taxi Driver 29th July scene but for all dates
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42056923][Title drops in movies | Hacker News]]
 * SEED Wikipedia Place History Coverage Report
 - Data analysis of how much of history of each place is covered  by wikipedia. history coverage
 * SEED Character emails
 - Make a email service where we give fictional characters email address. You can email them anything and they'll reply back.
 - Eg. email address of goku. email address of spiderman etc.
 - See character.ai hype. Can cc multiple ppl from different universe.
 - Ref
+  - https://howie.ai/
   - [[https://www.xomedia.io/a-deep-dive-into-email-deliverability/][A Deep Dive into Email Deliverability in 2024]]
 * SEED Create animations w Manim for math/sci concepts
 - [[https://blog.matthen.com/][blog.matthen.com]]
@@ -1492,13 +1499,14 @@ safety equipment supplier ngo for local labours and
 * SEED Archival format but format is Docker image
 - like https://nixery.dev/ but you could run docker pull against any website and it'll archive the website as a OCI image
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632533][Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the website from the zip | Hacker News]]
-* SEED Instagram account & saved posts classifier
+* SEED Instagram following account & saved posts classifier
 - I have too many interesting accounts that I follow but then all of them are clubbed together in the following list.
   - I want to see all the electronics ppl i follow
   - I want to see all the woodworking ppl i follow etc
 - Same for saved reels/ other posts
   - Now for the reels/media part, if we allow chonky to get the media we're sorted. So for the media we'd want this shit to be part of chonky as of the moment.
-- We can get the whole following list using download my data thing.
+- We can get the whole following list using download my data thing. or as a video.
+- See [[https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/][Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture for less than 1/10th of a cent]]
 * SEED Build a fucking decent podcast player
 - https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/16qodbp/now_that_snipd_is_no_longer_free_has_anyone_found/
 - I just don't understand why there is no decent oss podcast playerr with automatic transcript generation and follow up on words as the podcast plays. This is super annoying.
@@ -1524,3 +1532,18 @@ convert any image in the body of the website into ascii form of the image, do it
 * SEED Local Typography
 - I think design school students do type walk or something i saw in ophilia game's story
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41344245][All text in Brooklyn | Hacker News]]
+* SEED simple blog links archival
+archival of your links in your blog. just dump your links it'll crawl your domain and save all external links.
+
+useful if you maintain a personal wiki.
+
+you can download that data offline if you want, simple service like pinboard
+* SEED event photos app
+https://www.guestsnap.com/?s=35
+https://megalodon.jp/2024-1130-1701-39/https://www.guestsnap.com:443/?s=35
+* SEED Make it real easy for non-tech person to archival
+- ez ArchiveBox hosted offering etc
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41876750][Using static websites for tiny archives | Hacker News]]
+* SEED Curated short video clips (media-garden for your children!)
+- Rather than have kids watch tiktoks all day, parents set the types of content that kids would watch, the servers would clip/filter summarize the content and deliver.
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41902407][Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos | Hacker News]]

assets/pages/syllabus.org

@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ Some meta ideas about learning:
 - [[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/][Legacies of British Slavery]]
 ** Case Studies
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38786069][A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41619833][Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40937325][Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK? (2023) | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41507563][How economical is your local Taco Bell? | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://tech.marksblogg.com/heavyiq-faa-ai-llm-gpu-database.html][HeavyIQ: Understanding 220M Flights with AI]]
@@ -384,6 +385,7 @@ Some meta ideas about learning:
 ** Inspirations
 *** Case studies/experiments
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788322][Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276155][US house prices in 1950 vs. 2024, accounting for inflation | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://zeihan.com/end-of-the-world-maps/][The End of the World is Just The Beginning Maps - Zeihan on Geopolitics]]
 - [[https://www.tolkienestate.com/painting/maps/][Maps - The Tolkien Estate]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36692450][TimeMaps (2017) | Hacker News]]
@@ -425,11 +427,14 @@ Some meta ideas about learning:
 - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/nma9oi/network_diagram_of_north_indian_extended_families/][Indian family names]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32274077][Map with the most famous people from every city]]
 *** Interesting interactive maps
+- https://blryesterday.com/?s=35 🌟
 - [[https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/7slv3s/ysk_that_there_is_an_opensource_alternative_to/][Big list of maps made w OSM]]
 - subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads by Sasha 🌟
   - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597216][Roman Roads (2017) | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044464][Histomap: Visualizing the 4000 year history of global power (2021) | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://map.4coffshore.com/offshorewind/][Global Offshore Renewable Map | 4C Offshore]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42265533][A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022) | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41688469][Map with public fruit trees | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980793][A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's | Hacker News]]
 - https://github.com/mapzy/mapzy/
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110434][Waterway Map | Hacker News]]
@@ -650,6 +655,7 @@ Some meta ideas about learning:
 - [[https://easyperf.net/blog/2024/02/12/Memory-Profiling-Part1][Memory Profiling Part 1. Introduction | Easyperf]]
 - [[https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/][Algorithms for Modern Hardware - Algorithmica]] (Performance / HPC ⭐)
 - [[https://book.sciml.ai/][Parallel Computing and Scientific Machine Learning (SciML): Methods and Applications - MIT Parallel Computing and Scientific Machine Learning (SciML)]]
+  - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42237938][Understanding SIMD: Infinite complexity of trivial problems | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://book.easyperf.net/perf_book][Book: "Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs"]]
 ** Others
 - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvKAT7SZIQ][Parsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned - YouTube]]
@@ -871,6 +877,7 @@ Take LangChain w big grain of salt. It's okay for pro-typing and introductory st
 ** Tools
 - [[https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/p/list-of-innovative-literature-mapping.html][Literature mapping tools]]
 - [[https://fermatslibrary.com/][Fermat's Library | Home]]
+- https://www.openread.academy/?s=35
 - https://github.com/ResearchKit/ResearchKit
 - https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/about
 - [[https://github.com/ReScience/ReScience][GitHub - ReScience/ReScience: The ReScience journal. Reproducible Science is ...]]
@@ -987,12 +994,14 @@ Take LangChain w big grain of salt. It's okay for pro-typing and introductory st
 - [ ] [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37862317][Show HN: OpenBLE, Swagger for Bluetooth | Hacker News]]
 - [ ] [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36336112][ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf] | Hacker News]]
 - [ ] [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403971][To Nerves from Elixir | Hacker News]]
+- [ ] [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41852821][CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3 | Hacker News]]
 ** Radio
 - [[https://www.indianhams.com/][Indian Institute of Hams]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052577][FCC wants to bolster amateur radio | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://www.dmrfordummies.com/library/][Library | DMR For Dummies]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40997020][Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio? | Hacker News]]
 ** FPGA
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42152341][Getting Started with FPGAs | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://rhye.org/post/fpgas-for-software-engineers-0-basics/][FPGAs for Software Engineers 0: The Basics · rhye.org]]
 - [[https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-does-an-fpga-work/all][How Does an FPGA Work? - SparkFun Learn]]
 - [[https://nandland.com/][Nandland: FPGA, VHDL, Verilog Examples & Tutorials]]

content-org/history.org

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 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899411][A brief history of liquid computers (2019) | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/07/social-computing-before-internet.html][netsettlement: Social Computing, before the Internet]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41400639][What we can learn from vintage computing | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102761][Nixie Tubes (2015) | Hacker News]]

content-org/homelab.org

@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ Anti-Goals
   - I can selfhost this but with that I cannot keep switching countries etc. So might be good idea to go with something like [[https://mullvad.net/en/][Mullvad VPN]]
 - *Tunnels*
   - Goal: Expose public only services quickly, give temporary access to something that I am running locally etc.
+- TODO: check [[https://lobste.rs/s/funtig/fixing_dns_leak_my_vpn_setup][dns leaks]]
 ** Proxy
 *** Forward Proxy
 I do not really feel the need of a forward proxy as such at the moment. But I can see one usecase: Censorship bypass. Setting up shadowsocks, vray and cloak along w tor proxy(whatever combination makes sense for the usecase) might be a good idea. Because you don't need them until you need them :)
@@ -317,6 +318,7 @@ This section will be incrementally populated with details about how I am doing t
 - [[https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/][I found the Holy Grail of backups - Stavros' Stuff]]
 - [[https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/how-i-store-my-files-and-why-you-should-not-rely-on-fancy-tools-for-backup.html][How I store my files and why you should not rely on fancy tools for backup]]
 - [[https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-power.html][This blog is now running on solar power]] and [[https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/][LOW←TECH MAGAZINE]]
+  - [[https://lobste.rs/s/injtfa/my_solar_powered_self_hosted_website][My solar-powered and self-hosted website | Lobsters]]
   - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40622384][We went solar and here are the real numbers (2021) | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35944315][This blog is hosted on my Android phone | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2018/01/off-grid-raspbian-repositories.html][Off-the-Grid Raspbian Repositories]]
@@ -360,6 +362,9 @@ This section will be incrementally populated with details about how I am doing t
 ** Products
 - [[https://www.zimaboard.com/][ZimaBoard - World's First Hackable Single Board Server]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142560][TinySA – small spectrum analyzer and signal generator | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41620955][Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185715][The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42179467][Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084137][Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://valetudo.cloud/][Valetudo | Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation]]
 - [[https://www.synology.com/en-global][Synology Inc.]]
@@ -370,6 +375,8 @@ This section will be incrementally populated with details about how I am doing t
 - [[https://www.nitrokey.com/][Nitrokey | Secure your digital life]]
 - [[https://www.amazon.com/UM250-Windows-Computer-Output-Graphics/dp/B08QZC6H8Q][MINISFORUM DeskMini UM350 Mini PC ]]
 - [[https://tinypilotkvm.com/][The Modern, Open-Source KVM over IP | TinyPilot]]
+- Machines
+  - https://makerpipe.com/
 - Pen Plotter
   - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114127][Bottle Plotter | Hacker News]]
   - [[https://github.com/bdring/midTbot_esp32][GitHub - bdring/midTbot_esp32: A Small and Simple Pen Plotter]]
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 ** Guides
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34567318][Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://github.com/help-14/mechanical-keyboard][GitHub - help-14/mechanical-keyboard: DIY mechanical keyboard and where to find them]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42200099][Show HN: We open-sourced our compost monitoring tech | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/][Home | Mothbox]]
+- Camera (cctv)
+  - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284412][Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) | Hacker News]]
+  - https://github.com/PsyChip/machina
+- WAN
+  - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42219890][OpenMPTCProuter: Aggregate and encrypt multiple internet connections using MPTCP | Hacker News]]
+- LAN
+  - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977][Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties | Hacker News]]
+  - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42025469][SpawELO – small free matchmaking system for LAN parties | Hacker News]]
+  - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42050862][Show HN: rallyup – Lightweight Wake-on-LAN Scheduler | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666032][The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://rmkit.dev/eink-is-so-retropunk/][E-ink is so Retropunk]]
 - [[https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/01/20/1800][The Orange Pi 5+ - Tao of Mac]]
@@ -424,5 +442,6 @@ This section will be incrementally populated with details about how I am doing t
 - https://github.com/r-c-f/waynergy (client, does not seem to work w barrier server on win)
   - Also check [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38780519][DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching | Hacker News]]
 - [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295390][HID Remapper | Hacker News]]
+- [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42125863][Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB | Hacker News]]
 ** Sleep
 - [[https://tookmund.com/2024/09/hibernation-preparation][Linux's Bedtime Routine – Tookmund – A place for my random thoughts about software]]