I've been working on mine on and off, tweaking and breaking it for years. I feed mine into a static HTML home page that's roughly based on the original index pages (e.g. Yahoo!)
My general categories are:
Libraries
Sounds
News
Health
Radar
Shopping
Movies
School
Tools
Money
Somehow, these seem to work for me. The automated side is fun to work on, but ultimately, I end up manually updating once in a while as changes are needed. I just added a page linked from the home page - Libraries - that leads to categorized "reading list" of articles, sites, things to follow / explore. That's where the real potential for automation is for me, and where I keep failing to deliver it just right.
I'm going to comb through Linkding for clews to my failure and my ultimate success.
As anyone who is a phan of the bryphyte knows, looking and watching these plants up close it's fascinating to see how they are really forests in miniature. From the tall trees of their sporophytes, to the low protonema that collect debris and spore.
Any other services down for anyone? I've had a credit service portal fail for hours today with a notice of server issues. As well as a credit union login with a similar message. These are all first times for me. Some big black cape / hat pressure testing?
We've got a free art exchange box on main street in town. Always fun to see what's in there. Never empty and always different. Maybe it's from reading Capitalism by Beckert, but libraries, art exchanges, fix it parties, and other GNP lowering activity really feels awesome.
We had a science teacher in 7th grade whose teaching style was all overhead notes. She'd give us time to copy them into our spiral bounds or 3-rings and when we were all done, she'd swap for the next slide.
She didn't lecture but she did tell stories about her farm, hunting, and occasionally some science. We could ask questions and tell stories if we finished copying the notes before everyone else was done. So, one of the takeaways from her class was getting very efficient and neat with my writing. I tried to write in a clean all caps and eventually learned which strokes were best for speed and spacing. I still use that hand-font and I always think of her sitting on the wall radiator laughing through some story of trying to fix a bad situation.
* Remote viewing stock market trading programs - One version is with a buddy who shows me a colored board depending on the outcome for the week. The other is a solo version using a Swift app on Mac. We're just out of buggy beta (the analog version was laughably more difficult to get clean. We'll see if either works and which one wins.
* Telephone handset for my mobile phone with side talk.
* First draft of a book / workbook on Work Flow. Outcrop of the work flow consulting I do, stuff I've learned, and so on.
* Short film script - trying to convince a local actor to play the lead before we lose the rainy season here - otherwise we'll need special effects or just wait until the fall.
* Polishing firmware, OSX, and iOS suite for a wearable neuromodulator unit. Deadline in a week!
* Nmemonic community and app - been poking at this for years and finally had a breakthrough on the UI. My first app to release in the wild, so pretty exciting.
You're inspiring me to attempt a rescue of my last BBS (MajorBBS system) from 1991-1993. It had some great ANSI room and section screens. It was run from a single 1GB(!!) drive that cost us $1000. We had email, a couple stores (one of the first online book stores) and store-n-forward mail systems, maybe finger and telnet(?). Unfortunately, a neighbor got stoned, had a cigarette in bed and burned up his house and ours. Nobody hurt, but the BBS wasn't backed up offsite.
In the BBS days persistent storage was expensive. Backups were at best saving something to two different floppy disks. If you got lucky you could rebuild most stuff from files you had shared with friends.
It was a weird time frame. My partner was living in the house, and I was moving to Seattle. The backup was pretty much inches from the system itself. Not the last time I learned that lesson. But, the original SCSI drive did survive, even if the machines and desk and couches, etc. were all ruined. With HTML coming along we didn't rebuild. It's still seems like such a huge loss not having entities like BBSs on the internet. Just like the loss of IRC and other basic systems / plumbing of the capital I Internet. Yeah, they needed upgrades, but that's what IETF, RFC, and scrappy hackers are for. <sigh> Loving on the ANSI!
There were telnet BBSes on the internet in the 1990s. I even used some in 2005. Haven't gone looking, but I'm sure if you look, you'll find one. (But it might be better to use ssh today.)
Just checked out MoveOMeter.com Great idea - and I get how pitching to "an old coot" like my parents would get a laugh out of them before an insulting hurtful pass. Very clever positioning - I'd lean in on that. Your audience is there and waiting - which is tricky since your customer is actually the sales person and you need to give them the training up front to close the deal with their elder. Nice work!
My general categories are:
Libraries Sounds News Health Radar Shopping Movies School Tools Money
Somehow, these seem to work for me. The automated side is fun to work on, but ultimately, I end up manually updating once in a while as changes are needed. I just added a page linked from the home page - Libraries - that leads to categorized "reading list" of articles, sites, things to follow / explore. That's where the real potential for automation is for me, and where I keep failing to deliver it just right.
I'm going to comb through Linkding for clews to my failure and my ultimate success.
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