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gregsadetsky
9,926karma·1,663submissions·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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
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Very fun! I submitted this more 'nonfiction-y' entry: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/gregsadetsky/08b6cdd56902... It looks like it's only one entry per person,…
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Getting a Spectrum cable modem internet connection in NYC in 2026 is so deeply humiliating. Dealing with the ridiculously limited upload speed, the outages, the locked router. The 40 minutes it takes …
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I remember - or maybe am mis-remembering - that years ago, SD cards used to exist with wifi access. I'm not sure whether you could read the card remotely? Or the card presented itself as a card, …
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I'd say yes - it seems like an interesting / worthwhile project, even if only for you to explore new areas/learn..? Just curious, have you looked at https://browser.engineeri…
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To the larger point, do you know if Rovio did support/pay Eric in any other way than that hoodie? Angry Birds generated $500M [0], supposedly. I would also not be surprised if the Rovio developer…
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Whenever I see Box2D mentioned (the library by the same author as Box3D, obviously), I think back to this story from many years ago https://kotaku.com/this-guy-created-angry-birds-phys…
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Could you talk about your setup? I'd love to learn more. Are you using Cubase or something else? Are input/output/backups complicated / do you commit to a floppy disk process? Do y…
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More information is also available here - https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/hengefinder/ A beautiful project by fellow Recurse Center alums Victoria Ritvo and John Pribyl!…
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Also see this interview with Quinn from 2000 in MacTech: http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.16/16.06/Ju... …
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Conversation happening at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672506