Hacker News: clemesha

Plastic Free July Is Nonsense

clemesha — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:20:46 +0000

Article URL: https://bekopcho.substack.com/p/plastic-free-july-is-nonsense

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795969

Points: 4

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New comment by clemesha in "Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?"

clemesha — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:56:31 +0000

A game of connecting different topics on Wikipedia: https://thewikigame.com

The public game room has lots of general random topics, or you can create a private group and make your own challenges with any topics you like.

This is a personal/passion project of mine (and has gotten fairly popular these days). I'm actively working on improving the game, by adding category specific games, different game modes, etc.

A Django Async Roadmap

clemesha — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:35:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aeracode.org/2018/06/04/django-async-roadmap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241252

Points: 2

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New comment by clemesha in "Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?"

clemesha — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 16:18:07 +0000

I built an app based on that exact concept: http://thewikigame.com which has been running for many years, and is now quite popular.

The database of the site now contains a large record of millions of game plays of players trying to go from one Wikipedia link to another. See here for some interesting academic research that has been done on the site's dataset: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jSGFRZYrJnlDUBhGbQrO9e-n...

Richard Prince, Instagram, and Authorship in a Digital World

clemesha — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 04:12:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-17/richard-prince-instagram-and-authorship-in-a-digital-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9742975

Points: 9

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New comment by clemesha in "PunchClock: Fun With iBeacons"

clemesha — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 05:46:18 +0000

I'd say Gimbal: https://gimbal.com is a main competitor (see my comment to the parent), but I'd also be interested in hearing about others.

New comment by clemesha in "PunchClock: Fun With iBeacons"

clemesha — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 05:44:15 +0000

I'm currently developing an app based on Gimbal: https://gimbal.com (made by Qualcomm).

My experience so far has been pretty good using their SDK (which works on iOS and Android) and their admin web interface, and the Gimbal devices themselves are not that expensive.

I'd be interested to hear the experiences of others using Gimbal..

New comment by clemesha in "Django 1.7 RC1"

clemesha — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:48:49 +0000

This project is pretty great for using Flask on App Engine: https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init - I've been using it for a while now, and it's been smooth sailing. Also, it's actively maintained and continually improving.

New comment by clemesha in "Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?"

clemesha — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:06:21 +0000

I make ~$400 per month off of https://itunes.apple.com/app/the-wiki-game-a-wikipedia/id459... (and counterpart: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wiki-game-hd-wikipedia-game/...).

I started 'The Wiki Game' by building this web game: http://thewikigame.com - but all revenue comes from the iOS apps, not the site. Been meaning to potentially monetize the site some day. It gets ~30,000 players per month, with time-on-site ~9mins.

New comment by clemesha in "Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend"

clemesha — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:11:46 +0000

I definitely see this trend with a web app (game) of mine. Here's some screenshots of Google Analytics that show exactly this behavior: http://www.clemesha.org/blog/You-must-use-Internet-Explorer-...

New comment by clemesha in "Pineapple – Web tutorials, tools, and resources that don't suck"

clemesha — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:47:29 +0000

Are the tags user created? One thing I've learned through experience is user created tags are almost universally useless (this is especially true when the service gets popular, and people start adding completely false tags to content, in hopes of garnering more attention).

AppGratis Post-Apple Takedown: Nerfed but Fighting Back

clemesha — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:27:54 +0000

Article URL: http://www.jessechapo.com/posts/appgratis-post-apple-takedown-nerfed-but-fighting-back.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5902198

Points: 5

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New comment by clemesha in "The Glass Bicycle"

clemesha — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:38:02 +0000

If Google can avoid the "Segway curse" of extreme dorkiness, I can only then see Google Glass having a chance at being revolutionary.

New comment by clemesha in "Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop"

clemesha — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:26:55 +0000

I have a site: http://TheWikiGame.com that makes a game out of a related idea (finding the connection between Wikipedia articles).

Recently, I've been giving access to the game data to people (like university researchers, etc) to test different theories on path connections made by real people, etc.

The game has now been running for over 3 years, has about 1.19 million players, playing over 1.37 million games, with about 1.22 million won games (successful start/end article connection).

Got a really cool application for all the game data? I'd love to hear: alex@thewikigame.com

New comment by clemesha in "John Hunter [matplotlib.sourceforge.net] has died."

clemesha — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:17:12 +0000

I had the pleasure to work with John some a while ago when I was part of the Sage Math project.

Very saddened to hear this news :(

(Just donated. I'd urge anyone who has benefited from John's amazing Matplotlib project to considering donating to help his family).

Why Make Music? No Really, Why?

clemesha — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:05:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.kniteforcerevolution.com/posts/why-make-music-no-really-why/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4204963

Points: 2

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New comment by clemesha in "Chrome now the most popular browser"

clemesha — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:31:27 +0000

Yeah, exactly. Check this "visual proof that employees are still required to use Internet Explorer at work" post I did a while back:

http://clemesha.posterous.com/you-must-use-internet-explorer...

New comment by clemesha in "Ghost.py - a webkit web client written in python."

clemesha — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:48:21 +0000

Can this be used to suck in streaming Flash video?

There is this streaming camera of the ocean that I check often, but it's Flash and I'd love to check it from my iPhone. Could Ghost.py be used to get the Flash video? (then turn it into images by other means). Thanks.

New comment by clemesha in "500px Terms of Service"

clemesha — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:03:02 +0000

Breath of fresh air. I've never seen a ToS like this before.

New comment by clemesha in "Parse 1.0 is released"

clemesha — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:48:35 +0000

Parse is my most favorite company I've never used (but I'm actively searching for an excuse to become a user). Just watching them build out their impressive platform in mere months has been enough to make me a fan.

One thing that just seems inevitable is that they will be bought, and I wonder if (how?) things will change when they do...