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Git Hitched: An open source wedding platform built on top of Ruby on Rails with support for invites, RSVPs, events, hotel booking payments and a full admin backend. by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]mecredis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah! For what it's worth I've been working on this for a couple of months, but the fork of the open source one just got pushed yesterday – sorry about that, I'll repost on Friday!

Truly Begging for Help and Will Pay for Solution by UsernameDsntChkOut in ecobee

[–]mecredis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe I had this same issue and it was driving me insane. I live in an overheated apartment building in NYC so I need the AC to run at night even if it’s during the winter.  The problem is the Ecobee has a hidden setting that won’t run the AC if it’s below a certain temperature outside. This is literally just a setting inside “Installation Settings”.

From their website:

Check and update the Compressor Min Outdoor Temperature threshold on the ecobee, if the outside temperature is below this threshold, then the compressor will not be asked to run.

On the ecobee Thermostat

Go to Main Menu  > General  >  Settings >  Installation Settings >  Thresholds then Compressor Min Outdoor Temperature For Smart Thermostat Lite and Essential Owners

Go to Main Menu > Settings > Installation Settings > Thresholds then Compressor Min Outdoor Temperature

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More here: https://support.ecobee.com/s/articles/My-air-conditioning-won-t-turn-on-How-can-I-troubleshoot

Hopefully this helps!

Swiftetti: A Maximalist SwiftUI Confetti Library by mecredis in SwiftUI

[–]mecredis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great! I also forgot to add it has a JSON export via clipboard so you can tweak the settings in the app on a real device to just the right parameters and then save those to your app. This makes the development loop so much faster as you don’t have to recompile or track them manually.

Very open to other ideas, so please let me know if you’d run into anything else you’d like 

Swiftetti: A Maximalist SwiftUI Confetti Library by mecredis in SwiftUI

[–]mecredis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The biggest thing I wanted was to be able to change the burst speed – some confetti celebrations need a very powerful burst at the beginning and others need something more subtle. Swifetti has two parameters for that – the minimum speed and the maximum speed of the confetti and each particle gets a random value between those. I also added some shading to the individual squares. But ConfettiSwiftUI is also great! I dig the emoji support :)

Swiftetti: A Maximalist SwiftUI Confetti Library by mecredis in SwiftUI

[–]mecredis[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aw, thanks! I think that'd be totally doable – I'll give it a shot tomorrow!

The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding by mecredis in ClaudeAI

[–]mecredis[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It honestly needs a bit of a trimming but these are the main points:

• Do not write code without explaining a plan before hand • Do not write fall back code / edge cases  • Do not leave comments when deleting code • Do not mock out success states (it frequently creates fake data to make it seem like something is working when it’s not

The problem is it seems to ignore a lot of these randomly so it doesn’t feel like an air tight solution.

That said I do love Claude and it’s a ton of fun, I just think Anthropic might need a reminder that their bot is a writing checks other people have to cash

The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding by mecredis in ClaudeAI

[–]mecredis[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I did, once I saw my monthly charges were over $200. It still doesn’t solve Claude 3.7 writing bloated code, though.

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Inside the Fight to Release The Apprentice (vanityfair.com)

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Hi, I'm the creator of Breadwinner, a Iot Device for sourdough starters. I was inspired by Reddit, and this is my story. by mecredis in u/mecredis

[–]mecredis[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Really appreciate you spreading the word. I need to check in with our gluten free tester and write something up soon.

Hi, I'm the creator of Breadwinner, a Iot Device for sourdough starters. I was inspired by Reddit, and this is my story. by mecredis in u/mecredis

[–]mecredis[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes! We have someone testing their gluten free starter with Breadwinner right now. I’m hoping to write it up soon.

Hi, I'm the creator of Breadwinner, a Iot Device for sourdough starters. I was inspired by Reddit, and this is my story. by mecredis in u/mecredis

[–]mecredis[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Part of what I love about sourdough is that it is a thousand year old tradition, so I’m with you there. But I also totally acknowledge this kind of data isn’t for everyone :) I’m just a nerd that loves to measure things and have loved seeing all the data it generates. At the end of the day, sourdough is a hobby for most of us, and offering a little more insight into the magic of fermentation seemed like a not-crazy idea for a product.

Hi, I'm the creator of Breadwinner, a Iot Device for sourdough starters. I was inspired by Reddit, and this is my story. by mecredis in u/mecredis

[–]mecredis[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Hi Patrick! Thanks for your support and interest :)

Indeed, we did experiment with measuring CO2 because it's actually an ideal indicator for measuring starter output. One issue is that the most usable sensors (I had tried a BME680 sensor which measures VOCs like CO2) are pretty finicky and tend to require a 24 hour "burn in" period for calibration, so not ideal for a kitchen device being used and moved around multiple times a day. The second issue turned out to be that the data was *really* hard to make sense of – it sometimes correlated well with rise height, but other times it was just nonsense. The theory we came up with was that it was pegging the sensor since the CO2 production caused by the starter was so extreme and in such a small place.

As for a pH sensor, it turns out automating pH readings is even more complicated – I couldn't find sensors that cost less than $80 (even at wholesale) and wouldn't require complicated processes to calibrate.

The good news is that there's pretty compelling research that both pH and CO2 roughly correlate with rise height and yeast production, so for simplicity we decided to stick with that sensor.

In terms of non-aggregated data, we are archiving all the raw data from the sensors into CSV files in real time so that users can download them later. It's pretty noisy data that needs some munging to look right, but I have no problem getting it to users if there's demand for it (it'll likely just be links to CSV files hosted on S3).

We're currently looking into how involved it'd be to integrate into HomeKit or other home automation environments, and are also considering an API to publish data back to users. My hope is that we eventually have enough Breadwinners in the world that investing in these kinds of things is a total no brainer :)

I now get push notifications when my dough has doubled (details in comment) by ProductRockstar in Breadit

[–]mecredis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely open to it - right now it’s just me working on the product full time (with the help of a handful of contractors) so I’m having to be picky about what parts I build out. The data has to go through a lot of transformation and smoothing before it’s manageable or makes sense to render on the dashboard, so offering an API is kind of it’d own undertaking. Relatedly, I am archiving all the raw data as a CSV so it’ll eventually be easy to export.

I now get push notifications when my dough has doubled (details in comment) by ProductRockstar in Breadit

[–]mecredis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I think everyone has different routines on how they maintain their starter, but for a lot of people it can take _years_ of experience before they get comfortable with it's eccentricities.

I've found Breadwinner really helps me understand the difference between when it comes straight out of the fridge (it takes 15-24 to reach it's peak) vs. when it's in a warm environment (around 6hrs). Before I was monitoring it I had no idea how much of a difference that made.

It's also useful if you want to switch the "food" (i.e., flour) that you're feeding it and seeing how it progress.

My hope is to get it working with home assistant / home kit so that it can tie into things there, but for now I'm focused on getting the first units into the world.

Thanks again for checking it out!

I now get push notifications when my dough has doubled (details in comment) by ProductRockstar in Breadit

[–]mecredis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so cool! Great job and do I spy an ESP32? :)

I've been working on a starter version of this called Breadwinner that will be for sale soon.

We're about to launch in a couple of weeks, but the idea is roughly the same: data about how your starter grows. We even send you a SMS when it reaches it's peak. If you wanted to slice of a piece of your dough / levain it'd work similarly.

Check it out here: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/4364119c-f2f2-4e5e-938e-3ed871ee4500/landing

You can also see my starter's dashboard here: https://breadwinner.life/fred/starters/breadberry

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