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rbalsdon | 5 years ago | on: Tabletop Audio – Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games

I use this site a lot for background noise during the day when I could really use some new scenery. Some of the more subtle ones like the airship are really good for working and coding from horseback is a pretty unique experience.

myNoise.net is another good one. More tailored to workday background noise but a bit less interesting.

rbalsdon | 7 years ago | on: Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

I was just told that Illustrator assumes 96 dpi and Glowforge assumes 76 dpi. If you change the Illustrator doc settings to the lower dpi, dimensions will work right. Same problem with Sketch. I haven’t tried the solution out yet to confirm.

rbalsdon | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does anyone want to pair program with me?

This sounds a lot like discovery learning! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_learning

If there was a way to sign up for regular sessions like a MOOC, I would be at the top of that list. There’s a problem with formalizing an extremely informal way of learning though...

rbalsdon | 7 years ago | on: Parsing JSON is a Minefield

Im happy to say that my own JSON parser (https://github.com/ryanbalsdon/cerial) passed a lot more of these tests than I expected! It isn’t a general parser though (requires a pre-defined schema) so is probably cheating.

rbalsdon | 8 years ago | on: Three-Valued Logic

Weak drive means there’s a pull-up resistor and the port will drain itself. Strong drive means you’re going direct and the port won’t.

Drive levels aside, this is called tri-state in electronics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-state_logic

rbalsdon | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I've lost the ability to concentrate. How can I fix this?

I find the one thing that kills my mood quickest is just not drinking enough water. A lot can be learned from tracking your diet: https://cronometer.com/

rbalsdon | 9 years ago | on: Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems

I can't find a good solution for the problem and that's a bit depressing... This feels a bit more accurate to me though: http://bit.ly/2nsIOXc

rbalsdon | 9 years ago | on: SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core

My first thought was to check the source for how they're handling credit card data, payments, and gateways. I can't find any of it... Skipping those bits makes ecommerce _a lot_ easier to build!

I second parent's suggestion here though, Stripe API is a great place to start.

rbalsdon | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

C. Why the hell does everything have to be a web app?

rbalsdon | 10 years ago | on: Object-oriented techniques in C

I've found that, in the embedded world at least, the overhead this adds (in terms of flash/rom and ram) can be fatal. That said, there are some more implementations of this here if anyone is curious: https://github.com/ryanbalsdon/libr