A place to connect the books you want to read with friends who already own them, and vice-versa. Imagine a distributed library composed of your friends’ books.
Encouraging sharing with friends and starting conversations about topics you might never have considered having not known they were into the same books as you.
Very rough draft but it has the core functionality, even if it’s a bit cumbersome.
As an adult, many of the books one buys is to keep them. There's even that saying "He who lends a book is an ..."; working against you. In contrast, most of your children books you get rid of them, garage sale, give them away, whatever. Save for a few of them that become special, most are pretty much disposable.
As an adult, buying books is not a pressing situation, sure there's a lot of those you'd want to buy but you can easily put that for later, even forget about it. Take a kid into a bookstore and they want all the books, and they want them at that moment. So, it is more of a pressing issue to keep your kids busy with new books all the time.
PS: If you need a partner on this, I'd be up for it! My daughter is past the stage of kid books now but I wouldn't mind building it for the benefit of other kids.
love the idea! I would have registered if it weren't using passkey. is there a reason you chose this for user verification? I've never used it and am hesitant to adopt technologies that give chrome more control over the browser market
Many password managers have passkey support, I'm using the free version of Bitwarden and can recommend it. Windows Hello can also be used, and afaik Apple Keychain too.
I chose it because I wanted to learn more about passkeys and I liked the idea that I wouldn’t have to deal with private credentials themselves; just save a public key to my database. I use both KeePassXC and Bitwarden and they’re slowly getting support for passkeys (currently only on desktop).
I briefly had the ability to add a new passkey to the same account but wanted to keep it simple for my friends and not confuse them more. If that’s something that could help I’d be open to adding it in again.
I’ve been wondering this too. My biggest hesitation is that I don’t want to compromise the security of my local network; especially because it’s not just me using it.
Do you know of any resources that cover how to do the security necessary for hosting at home?
This video[1] gives a good perspective on where carbon capture solution fits from an economic standpoint. The summary is that it’s highly infeasible now but if we got to a point where putting a price of $250/ton CO2 was possible then it could make sense.
Right now there’s a lot of other things we can do to make the biggest impact for a lot less cost but we need to be in the research phase for these kinds of things so that once they’re necessary/useful we’ll have the tech to do it.
Earlier this year I went to the Australian F1 GP. Between qualifying on Saturday and the race on Sunday I built an integration between a live timing API and Telegram to send me position updates every minute with lap times.
This was because anywhere near a screen was packed with crowds and my mobile network couldn’t keep up using the official app.
I was job searching and wrote it up and posted to LinkedIn. My now manager saw it and was trying to hire for a role building integrations. My project was enough for him to reach out and set up a chat. Without the project we wouldn’t have connected.
This rings true for me anecdotally. The last time I was looking for a job I struggled to land even a phone screening. But then I posted about a small project on my blog and LinkedIn and I had a hiring manager call me the next day with a gig that worked well for both of us.
I work for an organisation that did this; except we owned most of videos. There were a few external pieces that we had written permission to use and ended up being some of our most popular. Asking for permission from the content owners would never hurt.
I really like this basic list of all your projects and links to them. You've got quite the repertoire. It's inspired me to do something similar, thanks for sharing.
Torquay/Ocean Grove may be more your style. The weather isn't as consistent as QLD but beats Warrnambool by being a couple of degrees warmer. It's near Geelong but you still get the ocean. And it's only about 1.5hrs to Melbourne if you avoid peak hour.
I get your point about Queensland. Maroochydore might be slowly modernising. They're building a new city centre from scratch on what used to be the golf course. They've recently connected to the Japan-Guam-Australia South submarine fibre cable and the council are marketing that pretty hard. Saying that, it's still largely seen as a place to retire; evidenced by one of the largest contributors to the local economy being healthcare (which includes nursing homes).
How exactly does the submarine cable connection affect things realistically? I’d have thought the point of contention for most people in Australia would be either the last mile with the boondoggle that is FttN or the distance to other countries. Does skipping a bit of terrestrial fibre backbone really make that much difference?
Brisbane is a 10ms ping away, Sydney is 20ms and 90% of the sites people use have a least a Sydney based CDN; but we can't let facts get in the way of real estate sales.
Yeah, not much difference to the end user but I think the council are trying to attract businesses. That could be the good mix up the economy needs. The future will tell whether it works or not.
The old growth forest parts are amazing and you used to be able to camp some places in there and even take along the dog. I live within walking distance of a comparable waterfall but can't take the dog due to its park classification.
Encouraging sharing with friends and starting conversations about topics you might never have considered having not known they were into the same books as you.
Very rough draft but it has the core functionality, even if it’s a bit cumbersome.
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