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My fun but ridiculous project is reverse engineering as much of Wizardry VI as I can: https://github.com/martydill/Wizardry-6-reverse-engineering
This is the type of project that I never would have started in the first place if not for LLMs.
I'm having fun playing around with AI by building a coding agent with both a CLI mode and a web UI https://github.com/martydill/flexorama.
Building something is a nice break from the corporate world.
Location: BC, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Unlikely
Technologies: C#, .NET, F#, iOS, Python, C++
Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/marty
Github: http://github.com/martydill/
Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/184630/marty-dill
Email: martyATcode-ninjaDOTorg
10 years of experience, primarily in the .NET world. Desktop and server as well as web experience. Degree in Computer Science. Experience working with distributed teams as well as working remotely for a centralized team.
You are right on the money with regards to the changes, but the timeline is a bit off. All FB apps created after April 30 automatically get all the new stuff (whether they want it or not). Existing apps have April 2015 to switch to the new system. So, the outage is probably unrelated to to the new stuff.
Source: I'm a FB app developer who is seriously affected by the Login and Graph API 2.0 changes.
I'd work on my "brilliant but stupid and perhaps useless" idea - automatically generating web apps from desktop apps, in realtime (i.e. as you use the web app, it's really controlling the desktop app behind the scenes).
Yup, exactly this. My own startups are running on Azure thanks to BizSpark, and so is my full-time job. It's a pretty ridiculous amount of free stuff.
Yup, graduation is now completely free.
Heck, it's been a problem since 2002. My G3 800 iBook's power adapter literally went up in smoke.
This has been an issue as far back as a decade ago with G3 iBooks. I had my G3 800's logic board replaced twice under warranty, but it failed again after that. The 'hot coin on the gpu' trick solved the problem, albeit temporarily.
http://forums.macnn.com/69/mac-notebooks/210232/diy-ibook-du...
Sadly, no. Neither http://reminderhero.com or http://surveylitics.com are profitable. And that's not because of high costs - it's because of a lack of sales and customers :)
I think I need more appealing landing pages and better web design in general.
I started something along these lines a while ago. Haven't touched in quite some time though.
Unlike my previous side project attempts, I do use http://reminderhero.com a few times a week. It's handy for things or times I need to remember.
Heh, thanks! It's definitely a challenge, and a work in progress. But it's coming along!
http://reminderhero.com - an email and SMS reminder service. Currently in beta.
Unlike some of my previous projects (such as http://surveylitics.com), it's cool because it's actually useful. I've been using it for the past month or two for everything and anything I need to remember.
Well, for http://surveylitics.com, they haven't yet. ~50 people have registered for the free plan, or created a free survey, but no paid signups yet. The site's been up for a few months now.
I haven't done much marketing yet, though. Or reaching out to potential users or industries. Or really, any of the things that you're supposed to do... so it's nobody's fault but my own.
There are lots of great tips in this thread. I'll definitely be giving some of them a try.
Interestingly, many companies including mine are dependent on Facebook and their APIs. They do move fast and break things, and we feel the pain of it practically every day.
Hey, thanks for the feedback! That's a good idea, I'll switch it over to the full commands. Cheers!