maxibenner

Working on a n extensible OSS tool to turn public Instagram accounts into rss feeds so I can quit Instagram for good https://rss.numbersoffice.com.

Not an email newsletter service but a contact form. I recently added the ability for LLMs to sign up to my service https://www.simplecontactform.org autonomously via API. Curious to hear your experience if you can ever make use of something like it.

Still working on my food sharing platform since the pandemic. However, acquiring more partner restaurants is a thankless job and food donations tend to be clustered in particular areas. Still hoping for a lucky news story that might make this interesting for partners without my relentless outreach.

This looks like a site I would like to use and trust. On the surface it presents itself as a reliable source, but there is no real information about who runs it, how they collect their data, or what their process is like. I can only assume that this is a vibe coded frontend with a vibe coded scraper behind it, made by a person who doesn't really understand the requirements of the domain.

  "MythosWatch exists because journalists, policymakers, and researchers need a citable record that distinguishes confirmed access from reported access from institutional response — without collapsing those distinctions into a single claim."

Thank you, great product, can only recommend it! I've been self-hosting it since last year to access my jellyfin home-server from the web. Set up was easy and I never had any issues.

I finally got to rework my html form forwarder[1]. I realized how cheap SES is and thought I might as well make the service free.

I hope open sourcing it could be a way for me to get some mentorship from more experienced devs as well. Unfortunately, my work doesn't really do code reviews so I feel like I am not improving much on that front.

[1] https://www.simplecontactform.org

What would the incentive be? I assume that just paying out the price for an apartment as salary would be easier for the employer and preferred by the employee. Also, apartments in HCOL areas are expensive and the company might not need any additional motivator for employees to join anyway.

Nice project, I'd totally set this up for myself as social media replacement. Please let me know once your MVP is ready. My main concern would be to overwhelm recipients if they'd ever get included in multiple people's newsletters.

I've been building on the opposite end of this. It's an open-source form submissions forwarder. I built it mostly because I wanted a service thats transparent, with usage based pricing that I could use economically for my low traffick sites.

Sometime this year I want to add docker-compose to make it easier to self host. Currently it's all manual. https://simplecontactform.org

Yes. For the past few years I've been feeling like something isn't quite right with my glasses. It feels like the focus never quite aligns, there is an oh so subtle yellow tint, and I generally feel somewhat restrained looking through a frame. Recently, assuming that it might just have to do with low quality lenses, I purchased a larger frame and the highest quality lenses my local optician offers. No improvement. I'm wondering if it might just be a mental thing that I get too caught up in.

That makes total sense. I set this up for our agency clients to be able to integrate email sending on a static site without having to manage a server or dive into spam filtering. For them the decreased complexity and time saved alone is usually worth the price.

That's what I did here: https://www.simplecontactform.org The presentation isn't fleshed out because we mostly use it for our agency clients but it is the most minimal version I could come up with.

That makes sense. Are you currently using something more involved, e.g. Form Spree?

Curious to hear if you generally prefer to manage client's forms and billing through your own account or have them create their own and share credentials with you?

I'd imagine that a lot of people who are interested in taking photographs might zone out once I start talking about content-based interpretation and the renewal of artistic language.

I did a similar thing a while back. https://github.com/maxibenner/cardboard

The goal was to have a platform that ingests the commonly enormous video files from old tapes, automatically cuts them, tags them based on content to make them easily searchable. My focus was on discoverability of scenes hidden in those long video files. The search bar would also randomly suggest tags to search for.

At some point I tried to work with a large video digitization provider and the video splitting ended up being too expensive to be viable for the proposed business model. Now it just auto generates thumbnails and lets you tag videos manually.

The project includes a business dahsboard that allows digitization businesses to send videos directly to customer accounts (deliveries need to be accepted).

Currently, I only use it for my own videos as well as for my MIL.

Yes, my machine does swap quite generously. I have never noticed any slowdowns except when working with large video projects. However, I'm coming from an entry level 2015 MacBook Pro, so maybe I just don't know what's fast anymore. I am a little concerned about the SSD lifespan but that's something I'm still looking into.

I've been using a Macbook Air M1 with 8gb of ram to run a bunch of Chrome tabs, multiple iOS simulators, docker, an external display, plus the obligatory slack and zoom apps simultaneously and never ran into any issues. I assume most linux distributions would handle this even better than MacOS but anyone correct me if I'm wrong.