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gregsadetsky
9,927karma·1,664submissions·November 7, 2010
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hi@greg.technology
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Cofounder of a web mapping startup acquired by Apple.
Received awards from the US Coast Guard and the Governor General of Canada for creating a map that helped rescue 1,700 people during Hurricane Harvey.
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Currently refurbishing laptops with robots! https://www.reviserobotics.com/ (YC W25).
Also worked on Disco, an open source self-hosting software: https://disco.cloud/
See my talk about it at the Recurse Center: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M
And this (slightly less chaotic) Devtools FM episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3JJpbCRP0
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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
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correct! it's a sqlite database which ends up being automatically gzip'd by the github cdn aka fastly - this ends up being ~4mb over the wire obviously this solution doesn't scale (vers…
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Reminds me of this metafilter thread [0] where people asked/shared less usual work locations. Hotel lobbies are a great one, as have laundromats sometimes been in the past. An intercity train wit…
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Also see this great video showing the internals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frx9q7rIiJg
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I realized that the old QuickTime movie wouldn't load for most (it does load natively on iPhones!). If you follow the following link, you should be able to watch the movie with VLC and/or co…
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do you want to reach out (email in profile)? I'm happy to spend 30 minutes on a call about this
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Have you tried mock interviews with an AI agent, and specifically asking the AI to ask you the same questions you were asked, and doing your best to answer as you did? Have you already tried this and …
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If you dig a tiny bit in the devtools, you’ll see the sqlite file that’s loaded in the frontend with all of the data :) A word cloud or some stats is a great idea!
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Disgusting!
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it's a bit tongue in cheek :-) and I agree, searching for ... "sounds" in descriptive/onomatopoeia-like language would be great!
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Super fun, congrats! Works really well My only feedback is just that the homepage had a lot of elements that distracted me initially - I wasn't sure if I had to type something (the input examples…
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The repo is astoundingly clear and well maintained too: https://github.com/HHS/simpler-grants-gov Stellar work!…
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The idea for this project came from sitting in public places like airports. My laptop's back is covered in stickers, so you'd think it would be a great icebreaker, but I still feel like I wa…