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HackADay mentions (53)

• Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

  HN hasn't focused on those topics in a long time, they rarely are on the front page. Skip the top 20 articles and you'll start to see some interesting content instead of all the VC & AI drivel. Hackaday is a content aggregator site that usually has more content on these topics - https://hackaday.com Or there are still some good old blogs out there with RSS feeds. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• CM0 – a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

  Jean-Louis Gassée's Monday Notes about tech and Apple. He's been in the business since the 60's, worked at Apple in the 80's, founded BeOS: https://mondaynote.com/ Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing. He's an engineer at Microsoft that has been blogging about maintaining legacy systems, Windows and MS-DOS for over 2 decades. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ Hackaday is a good blog too, there's many authors... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• I hacked my washing machine

  If you like these kind of posts, maybe you should go to https://hackaday.com/ it is all articles like this every day, though usually more on the hardware side. Here is one in the same vein: https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/displaying_my_washing_machines_remaining_time_with_curl_jq_pizauth.html. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Cara – High Precision Robot Dog Using Rope

  Https://hackaday.com/ - cool projects and interesting stuff. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Wells Fargo Fires over a Dozen for 'Simulation of Keyboard Activity'

  It seems like most of these devices (example: https://hackaday.com/?p=683252) have a fixed and unusual USB vendor+product ID that will surely come up in the system log. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

ifttt mentions (179)

• Todoist + Google Calendar + IFTTT: How I created a GTD "tickler" for recurring events

  What I've done instead is, for any recurring event that isn't really due on that date, like "book a haircut" or "fertilize roses", I add an event on a Google Calendar called "Tickler" with the desired recurrence. I then have an IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/explore) integration that creates a Todoist event in my inbox whenever that event shows up on my calendar. It doesn't show up with a due date so I can schedule it... Source: about 3 years ago

• what are your recommendations

  Or head to the Explore page and see if anything grabs your attention. Source: over 3 years ago

• Messages after death

  Slack has a feature to schedule messages, also a bunch of bots that do various scheduling tasks… Also you could use a email marketing tool like Mailchimp that could allow you scheduling Mails far a head. But any service you choose should be around somewhat longterm right? It will probably require some money and a bit of luck for the service or app of choice to stay around for a while. So ideally something relying... Source: over 3 years ago

• They air tagged nana because she kept running the streets.

  I don’t know about the air tag nativity, which it probably does. But you can do that with any smartphone they has gps; with an app / website called ifttt. Source: over 3 years ago

• Trying to create Alexa routine to automate thermostat changes when both my and my wife's phones are gone

  There's also some automation that you can do with something like https://ifttt.com/explore. Source: over 3 years ago