I've made contributions* to the OEIS, but since they require real names over there, and I like my anonymity here, I won't say which entries have my mark on them. Bow ties Number sequences are cool.
You're better off visiting the whole thing anyway.
* Mathematical, not financial, though I'd do the latter too if I had much to spare.
I've made an android app for splitting expenses. I was so frustrated when I was in charge of the excel sheet with my friends geoup New Year"s trip expenses, that I started working on it and I pushed it in production in the end of July. Which is especially great because I have a sizeable graveyard of things that I was burning for and then completely abandoned. It's called WEREVEN, it's free, has no ads (maybe I will monetize it in the future, but I don't want to annoy 20 people who use it), and I don't collect your personal data.
I made a batch of really good salsa over the weekend. It took me hours (I'm disabled atm), but it was a really good batch with incredibly fresh local tomatoes, peppers and onions.
I have a scifi novel. It's circling right now in the first revision stage, but the story itself is complete and I feel good about it. Even filed for copyright. Now if I can just get back to work on it (rewriting sucks).
I’ve recorded a few audiobooks for Librivox, a group that releases free recordings of public domain books. I use my government name for them, so I won’t say which ones, but you might have heard my voice if you picked the right one from ![email protected]
made some baby toys for my friends a while ago, those were pretty cool
took some hardwoods, printed a template, rough cut on the band saw, route the profile with a guided bit, make some neat wheels out of laminated hardwoods and a hole saw and sanding. they came out quite well
I made ice cream a few times. Nothing else I've ever made has been as cool.
I made music under the name "The Cool Side of the Pillow" in high school, but the site I submitted everything to died in like 2009 and I never kept any backups.
I have a bunch of mods for Skyrim, New Vegas and Arma 2 and 3 on the nexus and Steam workshop. One of my New Vegas mods was extremely popular when the game was new; I added and moved all the fast travel points to limit load times. Like putting one for each segment of the strip so you didn't have to go to Freeside and load 2 or 3 times just to get to the NCR HQ. Tho I only had the base game for the longest time, and never updated it for any of the DLC.
I do ham radio. Probably the coolest thing I've "made" is a setup where I can send email without the need for an internet connection on my end. I use a small laptop connected to a transceiver to send out high-frequency sounds (VARA) on very low power (5-10 watts) to towers around the world that will decode the signals, convert it to a regular email, and send it to the recipient ([email protected]). Then reverse the process when I check for a reply. The whole setup fits in a small backpack and I can use a piece of speaker wire for the antenna. It's about as fast as dial-up used to be, but it works!
I released a couple of albums, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you're looking at it, the great myspace purge of whenever the fuck that happened deleted their existence off of the face of the planet.
I've made a bunch of completely custom mechanical keyboards with my 3D prinnter and laser engraver, a few with PCBs that hold a Microcontroller dev board like a Pi Pico or Arduino, but for more of them, I hand-wired the switches directly to the microcontroller. My biggest and smallest.
Many years ago I wrote a program that accepted DECWriter print jobs, parsed the escape sequences, and output them as PostScript.
We had an application that ran on an OpenVMS system. The application could only support DEC printers, so we couldn't use any modern devices. The DEC printers were no longer made so all our printers were either purchased refurbished, or Frankenstein printers one of our guys assembled from the carcasses of dead printers.
My program could be used as a print filter in a Linux LPT queue. This allowed us to replace DEC printers with any printer that could natively support PostScript and any printer that had ghostscript support.
When I first started in the job, my predecessor told me about the issue with the printers and it seemed like an interesting project.
First test was to ensure I could convert barcodes in the print jobs. The print jobs for the DEC printers sent the barcodes as SIXEL graphics. SIXEL graphics were bitmaps sent as rows of six vertical pixels.
Once I verified that could work, it was just a matter of writing the parser for all the rest of the escape sequences that controlled the formatting. That and learning how to produce the PostScript.
At the time I asked my boss if he wanted me to implement it, but he said we were going to migrate to a new system very soon, so it wasn't worth the effort.
I still thought it was an interesting project, so I kept working on it on my own.
Several years passed, and we were still using the old system. The man who maintained our printers died, which led to a problem. Without him to maintain the printers, they started failing faster than we could replace them. In a meeting to discuss how we would respond printer issue, I mentioned that I had continued working on my filter at home and I only needed a a few weeks of focused effort to get a functional print filter. This time my boss told me to proceed.
We very quickly replaced all our old DEC impact printers with modern laser printers.
We had some forms on tractor feed paper, so I converted the forms to PostScript and added that to the filter. I was also able to get it working with Zebra label printers.
I had a problem with the barcodes. My script generated perfect barcodes, but our barcode pens couldn't scan them. After looking at the barcodes that the DEC printers made and comparing them to what my filter produced, the only difference I could see was that the DEC barcodes looked like crap. Jittery dots instead of perfect, straight lines. So I modified my script to make the graphics produced look just a little bit worse, and they started working.
That print filter continued working flawlessly in production for several more years until we finally managed to migrate to the new system.
A fractal calculator where each non-operation buttons are calculator themselves once you zoom in, and the result in that calculator becomes the number it puts as a button, in C.
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I've made contributions* to the OEIS, but since they require real names over there, and I like my anonymity here, I won't say which entries have my mark on them.
Bow tiesNumber sequences are cool.You're better off visiting the whole thing anyway.
* Mathematical, not financial, though I'd do the latter too if I had much to spare.
I've made an android app for splitting expenses. I was so frustrated when I was in charge of the excel sheet with my friends geoup New Year"s trip expenses, that I started working on it and I pushed it in production in the end of July. Which is especially great because I have a sizeable graveyard of things that I was burning for and then completely abandoned.
It's called WEREVEN, it's free, has no ads (maybe I will monetize it in the future, but I don't want to annoy 20 people who use it), and I don't collect your personal data.
I made a batch of really good salsa over the weekend. It took me hours (I'm disabled atm), but it was a really good batch with incredibly fresh local tomatoes, peppers and onions.
Home made salsa is the best!!!
I have a scifi novel. It's circling right now in the first revision stage, but the story itself is complete and I feel good about it. Even filed for copyright. Now if I can just get back to work on it (rewriting sucks).
First book? Got an agent or publisher?
Not yet. Know better than to try and do it myself. Also know you rarely get rich writing, it should be to tell the story first.
Finished this a few days ago. Kitbashed and custom painted.
I’ve recorded a few audiobooks for Librivox, a group that releases free recordings of public domain books. I use my government name for them, so I won’t say which ones, but you might have heard my voice if you picked the right one from ![email protected]
made some baby toys for my friends a while ago, those were pretty cool
took some hardwoods, printed a template, rough cut on the band saw, route the profile with a guided bit, make some neat wheels out of laminated hardwoods and a hole saw and sanding. they came out quite well
I made ice cream a few times. Nothing else I've ever made has been as cool.
I made music under the name "The Cool Side of the Pillow" in high school, but the site I submitted everything to died in like 2009 and I never kept any backups.
I have a bunch of mods for Skyrim, New Vegas and Arma 2 and 3 on the nexus and Steam workshop. One of my New Vegas mods was extremely popular when the game was new; I added and moved all the fast travel points to limit load times. Like putting one for each segment of the strip so you didn't have to go to Freeside and load 2 or 3 times just to get to the NCR HQ. Tho I only had the base game for the longest time, and never updated it for any of the DLC.
I have a podcast called Almost Plausible where a couple of friends and I take an ordinary object and create a movie plot based on that object.
I make songs. I’m not sure how to link to them or any of my artist profiles without doxxing myself but yeah. I make songs. It makes me happy.
We already know it's you, Mark Ronson.
I'm still working on it, but this is my first attempt at making something with clay. How cute it's supposed to be for reference.
Solid first go!
I do ham radio. Probably the coolest thing I've "made" is a setup where I can send email without the need for an internet connection on my end. I use a small laptop connected to a transceiver to send out high-frequency sounds (VARA) on very low power (5-10 watts) to towers around the world that will decode the signals, convert it to a regular email, and send it to the recipient ([email protected]). Then reverse the process when I check for a reply. The whole setup fits in a small backpack and I can use a piece of speaker wire for the antenna. It's about as fast as dial-up used to be, but it works!
Damn. That's cool.
Love to a woman.
I released a couple of albums, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you're looking at it, the great myspace purge of whenever the fuck that happened deleted their existence off of the face of the planet.
https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010 has a bunch of the myspace mp3 files. Your stuff might be in there.
Oh, oh god no, lol
I've made a few games.
Oh wait, something cool? Well darn...
I made a human once, turned out well
I've made a bunch of completely custom mechanical keyboards with my 3D prinnter and laser engraver, a few with PCBs that hold a Microcontroller dev board like a Pi Pico or Arduino, but for more of them, I hand-wired the switches directly to the microcontroller. My biggest and smallest.
Many years ago I wrote a program that accepted DECWriter print jobs, parsed the escape sequences, and output them as PostScript.
We had an application that ran on an OpenVMS system. The application could only support DEC printers, so we couldn't use any modern devices. The DEC printers were no longer made so all our printers were either purchased refurbished, or Frankenstein printers one of our guys assembled from the carcasses of dead printers.
My program could be used as a print filter in a Linux LPT queue. This allowed us to replace DEC printers with any printer that could natively support PostScript and any printer that had ghostscript support.
When I first started in the job, my predecessor told me about the issue with the printers and it seemed like an interesting project.
First test was to ensure I could convert barcodes in the print jobs. The print jobs for the DEC printers sent the barcodes as SIXEL graphics. SIXEL graphics were bitmaps sent as rows of six vertical pixels.
Once I verified that could work, it was just a matter of writing the parser for all the rest of the escape sequences that controlled the formatting. That and learning how to produce the PostScript.
At the time I asked my boss if he wanted me to implement it, but he said we were going to migrate to a new system very soon, so it wasn't worth the effort.
I still thought it was an interesting project, so I kept working on it on my own.
Several years passed, and we were still using the old system. The man who maintained our printers died, which led to a problem. Without him to maintain the printers, they started failing faster than we could replace them. In a meeting to discuss how we would respond printer issue, I mentioned that I had continued working on my filter at home and I only needed a a few weeks of focused effort to get a functional print filter. This time my boss told me to proceed.
We very quickly replaced all our old DEC impact printers with modern laser printers.
We had some forms on tractor feed paper, so I converted the forms to PostScript and added that to the filter. I was also able to get it working with Zebra label printers.
I had a problem with the barcodes. My script generated perfect barcodes, but our barcode pens couldn't scan them. After looking at the barcodes that the DEC printers made and comparing them to what my filter produced, the only difference I could see was that the DEC barcodes looked like crap. Jittery dots instead of perfect, straight lines. So I modified my script to make the graphics produced look just a little bit worse, and they started working.
That print filter continued working flawlessly in production for several more years until we finally managed to migrate to the new system.
Lots of things, but I think my strawberry shortcake soap is the last thing I made that I was truly proud of.
A fractal calculator where each non-operation buttons are calculator themselves once you zoom in, and the result in that calculator becomes the number it puts as a button, in C.