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• Ask HN: Anyone using or working on a life dashboard?
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jul 2023

  I wrote some notes about this of what I want in my "life engine":

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#5-life-engine

  I never got into the quantified self but I did want a portal (such as similar to the Yahoo! and Excite.com days) in the early 2000s. of personal details that I can take actions on.

  Then a few years later I wrote about "life situational awareness apps"

  I want my phone and desktop computer system try to have widgets for "accommodation", "travel", "food".

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3#59-life-indicators---sit...

  I did write a question generator feed dashboard written in Electron that let you snap in data collectors that would let you save records of stock purchases and facts about yourself such as your salary. The idea is that you could get advice based on what you answer.

  https://github.com/samsquire/living-documents

  https://github.com/samsquire/living-documents-library (the app repository)

  Unfortunately it's probably not buildable and I forgot to take screenshots or videos.

• It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2023

  My blogging/journalling setup is simple.

  I just use GitHub. I just rely on the default repository view on GitHub.com

  I create a README.md and add markdown headings to the bottom or to the top (bottom if its a journal, top if it's a blog) and then when I get to 100-800 I create a new repository and repeat.

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas (2013)

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

• Ask HN: Could you show your personal blog here?
  55 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023

  Thanks for posting this Ask HN question.

  I journal ideas and thoughts about computers and software. I am interested in software architecture, parallelism, async, coroutines, database internals, programming language implementation, software design and the web.

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas (2013)

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4 <-- this is recent but needs editing

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas5 <-- this is what I'm working on now

  https://github.com/samsquire/startups

  https://github.com/samsquire/blog <-- thoughts I want to write about, but incomplete

  I use README.md on GitHub and create a heading at the bottom for each entry. I use Typora on Windows or the GitHub web interface to edit.

• Why it is time to start thinking of games as databases
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2023

  In 2013 I wrote about "game interfaces for work" where work interfaces should act like games. Real time strategy games make you feel empowered, if you could queue up real work in a units runqueue. Of course you'll have actions besides "build" and "attack" to map to the richness of the world.

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#71-gaming-interfaces-for-...

  Even the mouse is a database

• Universal Install Script
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2023

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#12-the-package-manager-pa...

• On Nexuses: An underrecognised utility in computing
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022

  I call these branching libraries.

  Definition: Use one kind of thing as another kind of thing.

  Given X do Y

  Generics gets us some of the way to what we want.

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#48-branching-libraries

  Using a database as a spreadsheet or a spreadsheet as a database, using a spreadsheet as a functional programming language or bash pipeline editor with each cell being the output of that pipeline step. Or reactive programming with spreadsheets.

  I am trying to solve the expression problem. To introduce a new thing into an old thing you typically need to implement hundreds of functions on an interface.

• Dealing with Your Ideas
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2022

  Remember that all science, mathematics, theology comes from understanding an idea. So ideas are valuable to society. If you think they're worthless, then I don't want your ideas, I want people in academia and industry to have good ideas and push society forward. Science, mathematics, theories, research, theology all are built on the shoulders of giants, with ideas that provide foundations of truth to push society forward.

  The more ideas you have and the more you work on them the more you grow as a person. I also work on building software to put my ideas to the test.

  I journal/blog all my computer and technology related ideas on GitHub out in the open.

  I have published 700+ ideas on GitHub. I create a repository called "ideas" then I journal 100-400 ideas using markdown and then create a new repository and repeat. They're all in markdown and written as simple numbered markdown headings and a few one paragraph to a page of notes. They should be enough to understand the idea and do something with it. I reread my ideas repeatedly and I uncover new ideas from my existing ideas. Ideas should be built on and improved precept by precept.

  For reference, they're about software design, software architecture, parallelism, multithreading, efficiency, growth, futurism, progress.

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas <- 2013

• A fully open-source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote
  21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Sep 2022

  I am more likely to journal and blog if the friction to creating a post is as simple as opening a document and writing. The important part of journalling or note software is that you actually create notes. I did use Hetzner to run a Wordpress blog but it had an overhead of server expenses and keeping Wordpress up-to-date.

  I don't want my data trapped in a proprietary system where it is difficult to export, so I use plaintext. I looked into Publii [1] but I prefer my current plaintext setup. Today I journal software ideas, computer ideas, startup ideas and community ideas on GitHub in the open, as README.md files. My journal is all public on GitHub at the following links. There are over 550+ journal entries, I am sure you shall enjoy them.

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

  https://github.com/samsquire/startups

  https://getpublii.com/

• Ask HN: More “experimental“ UIs for editing/writing code?
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2022

  I wrote a living document interface. Nowadays it's probably similar to notion.

  The idea was you could write code into it and see all the data structures of the code you wrote. There's a screencast and the code is available but broken. It's written in Angular 1. There was a cool feature where you could select different things on the screen for searching for an operation for them to merge them together.

  https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3064a94d00812c1373c4eb3b2...

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#4-living-documents

• Show HN: My Side Project Rocks – Share and discover side projects
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2022
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