Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360815

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So far, I think it is in fact worth it, but only in specific use cases, like very rarely accessed items with no obvious place, and making sure your AV gear you bring to events comes back with you.

* Every item is a container, unlimited nesting

* Everything stored in the browser with YJS, very clunky peer.js or manual file sync available

* Select an object, click add items, scan QR codes to add those items

* There's also NFC support on Chrome mobile

* Generate random printable QR sheets(Still need to fix sticker alignment issues)

* Tracks where an item was last scanned with GPS

* Save container contents as a loadout, check contents against loadout

* Can mark a container as needing re-inventory, contents that haven't been re-added after that show a warning

https://eternityforest.github.io/Stuffer/

Now I use Kopia, no real complaints there. I used to use Borg but until recently it needed some fussy extra community package to work on Synology.

Something future proof for new chemistries, consumer friendly and self protected, able to be series-es and paralleled if needed, etc.

Maybe even designed to be an external part of the case like 2 way radio and tool batteries, with the option of a retaining screw for toys and tamper resistance.

A few different sizes, from keychain up to power tool, and paralleling adapters to go bigger.

The electronics would probably cost pennies in volume, just like the tech that goes into those lithium AAs with built-in chargers and buck converters that are almost really awesome.

I used to do the FHS style organizing things by category, but now I'm pretty strongly against non-isolated project environments.

Obviously that's not good enough, but I'd much rather have AI tests than poor test coverage.

A lot of apps seem like they could literally all use the same exact backend, if there was a service that just gave you the 20 or so features these kinds of things need.

Pocketbase is pretty close, but not all the way there yet, you still have to handle billing and security yourself, you're not just creating a client that has access to whatever resources the end user paid for and assigned to the app via the host's UI.

Right now, I'm experimenting with adding the ability to create DMX lighting effects plugins in WebAssembly, which I'm excited about.

https://github.com/EternityForest/KaithemAutomation/tree/mas...

Some of the substitutions wound up being a step down in features, or required rethinking parts of workflows, but the time savings is such a benefit.

Custom notetaking tool with p2p sync-> Google keep

Custom batteries included Linux distro for SD protection, Kiosk browsers, offline docs, creative commons content packs -> a few scripts built into my control server on vanilla RasPi OS

Rsync-> Borg -> Kopia(to avoid fussing with Borg's community NAS package)

I got rid of almost all the customized software in my life, and the few projects I decided to keep, I aggressively modernized, getting rid of thousands of lines of original code and adding many times more tests than I'd ever had before.

It very significantly improved my life and career to not have a second part time job maintaining a note taking app.

Could you take an AI 3D scan of someone's face, virtually lay a heavy cloth over it, then add whatever you wanted to make a mask?

Could you make the deformed cloth surface into one side of a cube, where the other side was flat for easily working with it, and use that to make custom pseudo-vacumformed cases for things?

Or just stack up boxes and simple shapes, and use the cloth simulation to build organic looking industrial design within a more traditional CAD workflow?

A mempool seems very much like a DIY implementation of malloc, unless you have fixed size allocations or something else that would make things different, not sure why I'd want that in the general case.

For "non hacker style" production code it just seems like a lot of extra steps.

I'm not sure how well it carries over to embedded platforms though, but I'm really interested in trying.