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bitdestroyer | 3 years ago | on: Washing Machine Cycle Notifications (2020)

I’ve done essentially the same thing for several of our heavy load circuits around the house using an Iotawatt to relay data to InfluxDb. From there it’s pretty easy to write a script that will query the current load and toggle a switch in HomeBridge for automation. Pretty fun stuff.

bitdestroyer | 3 years ago | on: Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch

Same, and I have a Steam Deck arriving today…

Also, never play Dyson Sphere Project. It ruined me worse than Factorio. Jokes aside, it’s a fantastically beautiful and well done game.

bitdestroyer | 4 years ago | on: ‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’

I love both of those games but recently took on Dyson Sphere Program after it was gifted to me. I quickly put in twice as many hours as I had in Factorio. There is no combat, it's beautiful, and the blueprint system makes it less tedious. Most of the complaints I have about it are nit-picks and at $20 on Steam, it is absolutely worth the price of admission.

bitdestroyer | 4 years ago | on: Apple in 2021

Here's hoping. In the meantime, I've had a ton of fun making small ESP devices that integrate with Homebridge. It's really opened up so many possibilities, even beyond the things that Homebridge is typically praised for.

bitdestroyer | 4 years ago | on: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

You're right re: needing a backend server, but that was kind of the point of it. You'd have to be "in the know" enough to install it and then you'd see the styling. It relied on Firebase storage for the backend piece. In the end, it was mostly for a joke in regards to ongoing discussion from an old Mule podcast. As such, it was just for fun anyways and never really intended to be more than that.

bitdestroyer | 4 years ago | on: Why is LinkedIn so cringe?

Forever ago, I created a Chrome extension that allowed you to annotate skills that had been endorsed by others with a "Hell No" label if you felt it was not deserved. For obvious reasons, it never got traction but got a few laughs on the podcast that inspired it, which was enough for me.

bitdestroyer | 4 years ago | on: DOOM Captcha

People think they can't figure out which images have stop lights, crosswalks, or bicycles in them now, wait until they introduce the Marauder Captcha.

bitdestroyer | 6 years ago | on: Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft

I had to remove Roblox from our devices because all of the levels my daughter would load were either not age appropriate or would put IAP purchase buttons under the controls so you couldn’t avoid hitting them accidentally. It was incredibly scummy. My kids are young so maybe they just don’t know how/where to find decent levels but it felt gross and wasn’t something we wanted to encourage. IAPs were absolutely everywhere in the levels I saw her playing before we made the call.

bitdestroyer | 7 years ago | on: 2018 Mac Mini Review

There's a running joke on ATP that Marco buys just tons of mics. Not to mention he made Overcast, so he knows audio pretty well.

bitdestroyer | 11 years ago | on: GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report

> 0-249 National Security Orders Received

> 0-249 Affected Accounts

So, I would assume it's fairly safe to say they got 249 NSLs or am I missing something about how people are using ranges to go about skirting this ridiculous law? Obviously it could be within that range, but that's an oddly specific number.

bitdestroyer | 11 years ago | on: L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum

Hence the push for differentiated instruction within classrooms, which I'm sure you're intimately aware of being a teacher. My understanding from my wife, who is also a teacher, is that it can be a pain for a lot of teachers but seems to offer some promise if an instructor can successfully integrate it into the learning process. There's obviously a lot of debate around this subject since teachers are asked to do so much already, but figured it's worth mentioning.

bitdestroyer | 11 years ago | on: How I Got to the App Store Top with a Simple Currency App

It's probably not eating into your user-base too much, but there is at least one somewhat well known competitor in that space that my wife and I use called You Need a Budget. I say it's probably not eating into your user-base too much because while it's somewhat popular in personal finance circles, I've never met a person on the street that's known about it. I definitely feel like there's room to grow in that area. Anything that helps people meet their financial goals is great so good luck!
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