Hacker News: worldmerge

New comment by worldmerge in "Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran"

worldmerge — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:41:31 +0000

I’ve never seen fortran before. Wow, that looks more readable than a lot of modern languages.

New comment by worldmerge in "Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is"

worldmerge — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:16:59 +0000

That's cool thank you.

I hope they add the bi flag one day.

New comment by worldmerge in "Marble Fountain"

worldmerge — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:15:13 +0000

Will this is incredible! I’ve been learning openscad and making 3d models with it using python and this is such an inspiration. Check out the latest nightly version of openscad it’s significantly faster, like seconds vs multiple minutes on my exports.

New comment by worldmerge in "Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors"

worldmerge — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:10:32 +0000

Super cool! I'm going to try this out!

The new philips hue bulb bridge supposedly can turn them all into motion sensors. Do you think this could use what ever data they are pulling from the bulbs to do that as well?

New comment by worldmerge in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

worldmerge — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:39:26 +0000

I really hope they eventually support all the web APIs chrome does like web midi. Till then if you want to use those APIs you’re making Chrome apps.

New comment by worldmerge in "The Illustrated Guide to a PhD"

worldmerge — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:12:48 +0000

Is it possible to be a professor without a PhD? I would like to teach at a college level but the PhD path seems so risky to me to take a pay cut for years and you might not get the degree, and not a get a job.

New comment by worldmerge in "Ghostty 1.0"

worldmerge — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 02:37:54 +0000

Just downloaded it because of the animation on the site. How did you make that? it's cute.

The terminal is good. I don't have any issues with the stock mac os terminal app but I'll give yours a go for a bit. I can't tell exactly how, but it does feel faster - I'm not sure exactly how it is but it looks like it renders text faster.

New comment by worldmerge in "From where I left"

worldmerge — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:15:01 +0000

Good luck!

I like Redis, it was my first queue system and it worked great. I used it for this project https://edwarddeaver.me/portfolio/control-my-lights to pass messages from multiple inputs into a central funnel.

Looking forward to reading more of your posts.

New comment by worldmerge in "Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model"

worldmerge — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:33:51 +0000

This looks really cool. How can I use it? Like can I mix it with Unity/Unreal?

New comment by worldmerge in "For the 24 Election I scraped NY Times data displaying it on a flipdigit display"

worldmerge — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 04:15:25 +0000

Hi,

For the US 2024 Presidential election, I made a scraper that pulled the NY Times electoral college data and displayed it on my AlfaZeta flip-digit display. (Code [0])

It's very hard to get free electoral college data live, but at Syracuse's Open Data Day I learned the NY Times election data is just JSON files the whole site is powered by ~5 JSON files. So I got to work making a scraper for 2020's data and formatting for my display. I built a websocket serial server that runs on a Raspberry Pi so I could work on my laptop and test it. [1]

At 6 pm (eastern) the new data dropped and that resulted in a URL for the JSON and a new data structure. I spent the next 20 minutes parsing it out and then let it ran for the whole night. I took a timelapse of the night (linked in the website)[2] and added back the click-clack sounds I heard that night.

[0] - https://github.com/EdwardDeaver/2024_Presidential_Election_S...

[1] - https://github.com/EdwardDeaver/WeatherToMechanical

[2] - https://vimeo.com/1027074047

Show HN:Scraping NY Times election data and displaying it on a flipdigit display

worldmerge — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 04:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://edwarddeaver.me/portfolio/ny-times-election-on-flip-digit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42225890

Points: 2

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New comment by worldmerge in "Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify"

worldmerge — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:29:27 +0000

That’s incredible!!

Btw, how did you started making a creative tech studio? That’s something I want to do but I’m kinda lost on the selling part. How do you sell to a business that earned media is worth it?

New comment by worldmerge in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

worldmerge — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:06:46 +0000

So what would happen to Chromebooks?

New comment by worldmerge in "Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos"

worldmerge — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:48:53 +0000

This is awesome! I love that you don't need computer and deal with a DAW for it.

New comment by worldmerge in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

worldmerge — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:39:18 +0000

I’ve been putting my mechanical displays to work. Right now I have one displaying date, the current temp, the daily high temp and daily low temp. I created a web socket based serial server that gets messages and writes them to a rs232 usb device. The weather data is a node app that pulls Open Meteo data. Also learned how to make systemd service files to make it start on boot.

https://github.com/EdwardDeaver/WeatherToMechanical

New comment by worldmerge in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

worldmerge — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:22:46 +0000

Cool! I used Cribl in my last job it's a great tool!

New comment by worldmerge in "Batteryless OP-1"

worldmerge — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:21:56 +0000

What synths do you make?

New comment by worldmerge in "Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data"

worldmerge — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:28:27 +0000

This is incredibly cool!

Are you hiring? This is really exciting work.

New comment by worldmerge in "Show HN: I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments"

worldmerge — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:28:38 +0000

Have you used Polycam with an iPhone with a lidar sensor? They can scan your surroundings and export to a 3d model.

New comment by worldmerge in "Show HN: Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS"

worldmerge — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:42:28 +0000

Nice job on the website! That’s sick!