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I enjoy reading the daily news fetched from calibre and synced to my kindle e-reader. Love the e-ink display, and the ux for reading and navigating sections is great.


Can you speak more about how the daily news is scraped and imported into calibre? Sounds like a fun process. Did you set it up yourself?


Calibre does it all for you: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html


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This reminds me of Berkeley's CS61A when it was taught with Scheme. One of the projects was writing a schema interpreter for scheme. It felt silly, but was a great small project to show case recursion, trees, and blurring the distinct between data and code.


I still remember Professor Brian Harvey rolling out his terminal on a cart in Berkeley's CS61A and typing out commands in a scheme repl. Learning what a y-combinator was with Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and building my own scheme compiler with scheme.


Oh wow, I didn't know that "Y-Combinator" was not just a fancy name but was an actual computer science concept. Thanks!


https://combinatorylogic.com/table.html it's hard to read, but there's a ton.


This reminds me of Perl's http://www.blosxom.com and also https://tiddlywiki.com. Self-contained sites with minimal requirements.


And the light-weight https://feather.wiki/ (which is not too different from tiddlywiki)


Email is one of the services I would like to self host for small projects, ran into issues immediately for spam. I like the idea of using public keys tied to a domain, but feel the email service providers have little incentive to adopt this because the complexity adds value to their service.


I wish I could find my Palm V. That device felt like quality in your hand. Metal back with satin finish, leather cover, the stylus was a snug fit.


I’m manually importing stock portfolio holdings for users in https://jch.app so they can export from their brokerage without conforming to a specific format.


It comes back for me. Super annoying


Would you be interested in selling this project? I love the concept, and it sounds like you have customers interested in it, but aren't interested in taking on the burden of support and figuring out a business for it.

I'm about a year in building an asset tracker (https://jch.app), but it's nowhere close in functionality or ux.

Incredible work, amazing dive into the journey, and excited to see what comes next in rewind.ai too ;)


Kudos for this.


https://jch.app

started as a mint / personal capital / spreadsheet replacement. Thought it would be neat to have a grafana-like way to build visualizations on aggregated accounts. I started with investments b/c it's easy to input/import without linking to bank accounts. I have Plaid development access and think a flexible playground will be more interesting for expenses.


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