What personal projects, hacks, fun ideas are you working on this weekend?
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By andrewstuart 2021-10-092:29 I spent about a year and a half building a SAAS project - very sophisticated, lots of moving parts.
About 18 months ago I realised I was building a solution without a problem - I was building something technically cool that I could not work out a business model for. So I dropped it.
Recently I think I've worked out the business model. So now I'm trying to get the damn thing running again - it's got many interacting servers and bits and pieces so trying to get it all to work again is a challenge.
Fortunately I tend to write reasonably good notes that would be unintelligible to anyone else but make alot of sense to me, and these are helping me get it going.
Also I wrote ALOT of build and config scripts, without which the task would be impossible.
By whatsakandr 2021-10-090:02 Ben Eater's breadboard computer design, and an assembler for it, written in Rust. First program in Rust. It's nice.
By rssoconnor 2021-10-092:011 reply My https://frame.work/ laptop arrived today, so I will be doing the final assembly and installing nixos on it.
By rssoconnor 2021-10-092:56 My personal laptop has been an Acer-C710 Chromebook for some time now. I bought it because it was inexpensive, upgradable, clearly could run linux, had an Intel (specifically non-ARM) CPU which meant that I could use nixos's binary cache for programs (non-ARM is probably somewhat less problematic today than it was in 2013). I went through several layers of rooting my Chromebook, eventually replacing the BIOS. I upgraded the RAM and (this year) replaced the HD with an SSD.
But my laptop is getting old. The bezel is cracked and the screen cable seems ... ungrounded? Black isn't quite black. Still, I have been hesitant to upgrade to modern, non-upgradable laptops. But a few months ago Graham Christensen posted about running nixos on the frame.work <https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-framework>. And then this guy also seems pretty excited <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkTgPt3M4k>.
Unlike the Acer Chromebook, the frame.work laptop is not cheap. However, I'm no longer a post-doc and I am in a fortunate position that I can afford to splurge a little. So, ignoring the sunken cost of my recent SDD purchase, I decided to go ahead an place an order back at the beginning of August. The cheaper processor I ordered was shipping in October, and here we are in October.
