egbert's comments

Thanks! As of now, no, but I'm thinking about adding such functionality with a chrome extension maybe, not sure yet if that really works out or if I get round to it though. But its currently my biggest bottleneck in my own workflow so it may just get there ;).

My ambition is to plan out for 3 months or so and then to be able to split up the groceries and order all the non-expiry stuff once from a grocery delivery shop and have a weekly grocery list to take to a bio shop.

I made a tool I used to create weekly menus publicly available: https://www.weekmaal.nl

Example menu: https://www.weekmaal.nl/public/4fc17e55-cc39-4a4e-b6cf-79c1c...

Warning: Only available in dutch!

I was doing weekly groceries since last summer and had partially automated the process of aggregating the ingredients into one grocery list already.

When the social distancing started I figured maybe others would find this tool useful, so I spent a couple of days building a usable interface and account creation features and told some friends on Facebook. Nobody, besides me and my girlfriend, ended up really using it, but it was a nice exercise nonetheless ;).

Last weekend I actually built a self deploying website with Github Pages, Travis CI and Middleman.

The owner has access to the github repo and can edit everything whenever she feels like it.

No need for a non functional cms, a wysiwyg editor or me for simple text updates!

https://github.com/Egbert/vonb-tv

I did this recently and it helped me somewhat: I created a little tool in which I enter what I'm currently doing, the time I started it and at what time I think I'll finish. Another script I wrote checks every minute if I'm doing something at that very moment. If not then it turns my desktop background a solid red. So its keeps bugging me (especially with the OSX translucent menu bar). I enter a new activity or expand the old one, my desktop background turns to a nice grey and I continue my work. Rinse repeat.

This for me was step one.

Another thing thats supposed to be good for you is exercise. So I recently started doing what this guy does: http://youtu.be/ok6VLDFerMw?t=4m54s I can do this in my living room so the hurdle of going to a gym or something isn't there. And there isn't a large group of pro's here to see I still suck at it. I've been doing almost every day for the last two weeks and I'm already getting stronger.

Hope this helps!

Programming is a challenge for me (and I presume for you). Try to see life as such a challenge. You can hack at it. You can improve on it. You probably try to be better in programming than the people around you. Try to be better in life than the people around you, thats a real challenge!

Thanks!

Artists' email addresses aren't shared right now (bc then it would be easy to pollute with wrong addresses). So this also answers your second question (Unless someone listens to two bands with the same name). It remembers for your own account though, so you don't have to fill out the same address twice.

Nice! Let me know what you think!

Good points!

'the way gittip does this': I naively assumed Gittip was sitting on the money until it was claimed, but charging the moment its claimed is probably better. I'll have to look into it!

'transfer fees with paypal': Yes and yes. I'm currently spending about 8-10 dollars a week divided over 5 artists. So the slice Paypal gets is significant but bearable. This of course isn't ideal and I've been thinking about other ways of doing this. Bitcoin maybe?

'receive money (...) without being informed': I've got this covered! When an artist receives money they also receive an email explaining why they receive it and how many times the listener played their songs.

Thanks! Would be great if you'd try the app for a while. Let me know what you think!

Thanks!

I know. But I couldn't think of another way to start small.

If usage grows hopefully artists will actively promote their desired 'fund receiving' email address.

The next step would of course be that artists can signup and the whole email address finding step would be dropped

I created something like that: http://musiclove.rs

You hook up your last.fm profile and each week you get to divide an x amount of money between the artists you listened to. I've been using it myself for about a year now.

The only catch is that you need to find the email addresses of artists you want to pay to yourself, so they can be paid with PayPal.

This 'catch' allowed me to use it as single user for a year though so its very usable for me in this stage. Feel free to try it! Let me know what you think!