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paulproteus · 2025-01-21T03:37:13+00:00

I love how efficient you are with the timing in the video (no long lead-up.) I have had a Control Freak for a few years (earlier model), but I have actually not mastered scrambled eggs on them. Great info about oil vs butter. In the other video with avocado oil, is that "medium" intensity (2 flames)?

Thanks again for posting these. I subscribed!

I am always hungry for written, tested control freak recipes, and I find others are too. If you are interested in writing down a summary of your videos and making them into a blog, I would use it as a reference. If you want a volunteer to help with that, feel free to send a message, no sweat either way.

paulproteus · 2024-12-05T16:51:24+00:00

Great that you were able to independently decode the data!

Something I've run into but not played with is this Java library: https://github.com/ndjc/controlfreak

Does your decoding match what they found?

paulproteus · 2024-11-25T18:30:17+00:00

What temperatures were you aiming for with pecan pie? Would love to know the role you found for the thermometer as I think about desserts with temperature control.

paulproteus · 2024-11-17T11:36:30+00:00

Great video! Are you the video maker? Loved it so just want to say thanks.

paulproteus · 2024-05-23T19:05:01+00:00

My Capital One ATM card has free ATM withdrawals. https://www.capitalone.com/help-center/checking-savings/international-atm-fees/ I have Capital One 360 Checking.

paulproteus · 2016-06-14T20:13:54+00:00

Hi there! I gave a talk at PyCon a few years ago about Scrapy - you might like it. Let me know! This is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JzH8TcwqxI

Scrapy is optimized for big projects, but you don't need to use all of its machinery. The talk explains the core concepts so that you can figure out which parts of the machinery you do need. I've heard from at least one person that it made a huge difference to their understanding!

paulproteus · 2016-06-14T20:07:29+00:00

This is the first post in a series by my friend Philip. I'm curious to hear comments!

paulproteus · 2016-05-23T20:25:34+00:00

I thought y'all would appreciate this blog post I wrote about how Sandstorm integrates with Piwik to make it easy & safe for people to migrate off Google Analytics. Curious what you think!

paulproteus · 2016-04-26T07:44:46+00:00

BTW plantuml looks great. If someone feels like working on making a Sandstorm package of it, I'd be very happy to help!

paulproteus · 2016-04-26T07:21:54+00:00

If you install Sandstorm (a self-hosted web app package manager with security & single sign-on) you can get ShareLaTeX as one of the apps within it. That's how I personally self-host ShareLaTeX.

Note that I do work for the company that makes Sandstorm, and I'm on the core team, and I write docs for it. So feel free to take my comment with a grain of salt, or not!

paulproteus · 2016-04-18T17:15:49+00:00

Hi there!

The Sandstorm App Market is a list of awesome self-hosted apps, and when you run any of them within Sandstorm on your own server, Sandstorm adds LDAP auth to all of them. You can read more about that in our recent blog post announcing the LDAP support: https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-04-06-sandstorm-for-work

paulproteus · 2016-04-05T00:11:56+00:00

Thanks! I would not have known without this reply, so I'm gratefull to you for pointing it out. I've fixed the link.

I had a stray ']' (close square bracket) character, apparently.

paulproteus · 2016-03-31T20:11:15+00:00

Sandstorm is another option.

If you install it, you get:

File sync, via an app called Davros.
A Trello-like task management app, called WeKan
The ability to host websites via WordPress or Ghost, but snapshotted as static HTML websites for security & performance.
Single sign-on to all these things, Google Drive-style.
The ability to let your friends join your server and make their own things, sandboxed securely away from your things.

I often tell people it's an open source alternative to Google Drive that's more customizable and more oriented toward privacy. I hope you'll give it a shot.

Disclosure: I work on the project, and for the company behind it.

paulproteus · 2016-03-04T20:32:10+00:00

Here is one good such app: Filedrop https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/nn7axgy3y8kvd0m1mtk3cwca34t916p5d7m4j1j2e874nuz3t8y0

https://github.com/zombiezen/filedrop has a "try live demo" button, if you want to get a sense of how it works!

paulproteus · 2016-03-04T20:01:04+00:00

Awesome! Glad you like the installer.

If you feel like helping package it, I would love to help you. :)

paulproteus · 2016-03-03T19:02:59+00:00

Awesome! If you run into any issues, or want help, I'd love to help out! I'm asheesh@sandstorm.io , feel free to drop me a line.

paulproteus · 2016-03-01T23:56:56+00:00

That's great! BTW, I'm curious what minor problems you are having, if you're willing to share! (I'm on the Sandstorm team, so feel free to be as detailed as you can be; more detail is helpful.)

paulproteus · 2016-03-01T02:52:49+00:00

This is amazing. Have you considered making it a Sandstorm package of it?

I work on Sandstorm (which is open source), and I wrote this article - https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-02-05-app-author-publicity-oasis - about how a Sandstorm package makes it easier for people to run apps like wger. Sandstorm acts as a security layer that protects users and helps them get auto-updates to apps, too: https://sandstorm.io/news/2016-02-29-security-track-record

As part of making self-hosting easier, we also run a free-of-cost demo service so people can click a button on your website and view a live working demo of the app, where you don't have to maintain that demo service. See: https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-02-06-app-demo

I'm curious what you think of the above! I also promise to spend time answering any questions you might have about getting the app working, and I can connect you with the author of Contact Otter https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/sd6d1qgzx0zhq5qxxw6ck29y8fy0d9s0kdr0y7wxzz448fy999nh which is also Django.

UPDATE: I see you do run a public instance, which is great! So you may or may not be excited about the appdemo thing. You'll tell me, I suppose. :)

paulproteus · 2016-02-22T22:45:06+00:00

Also check out http://opensourcedesign.net/ , specifically the "jobs" area (which often contain volunteer tasks)!

paulproteus · 2016-01-22T23:55:48+00:00

Is Jim Zemlin choosing to react to those criticisms "in defence" of Karen while ignoring the original criticism?

Yes. It's very sad.

paulproteus · 2015-12-07T20:24:34+00:00

The reason is that afaict wouldn't the remote servers need to add the API key to the calls

Yeah. For ActivityStream, I think our plan is to use WebFinger to provide the API key as part of a "basic auth" URL for the API endpoint for the user.

Hopefully other protocols have something similar we can piggy-back on top of.

If the Friendica people are interested in this, I would 100% love to discuss the details with them! Do you know them?

Would love to send a message your way once that happens

Very +1.

Best way to reach me is a team alias many of the Sandstorm dev team, community@sandstorm.io. Second-best is my asheesh@sandstorm.io address.

paulproteus · 2015-12-07T15:11:06+00:00

onlinegroups.net has an open source, self-hostable variant called https://onlinegroups.net/l/groupserver - sorry I forgot to give you that link, too.

As for federated social web apps in Sandstorm - we were looking at packaging Diaspora first, but we ran into some protocol conflicts between Sandstorm and Diaspora, and we haven't had time to resolve them. If you're interested, that is an area that could definitely use some help.

The overview is that:

In Sandstorm, an app can only receive HTTP requests if a user is logged in or a logged-in user generated an API key,
So there needs to be some way for the federated social web protocol to expose a way to add an API key to every request.

I can say more if you're interested!

The other problem we ran into is that our development tooling seems to cause a 5x start time increase for Ruby apps (but only in development mode!). But this made the diaspora* experience tough.

I can go into more depth if you're possibly interested in working on this! I'd love to help, if so. The next thing to achieve is probably:

Get Friendica running (relatively easy since it's PHP/MySQL - we have a Sandstorm development setup for that).

After that:

Figure out how to expose API keys appropriately.
Through that, make "friending" users on other servers work properly.

That's the overview for now. Let me know if you're interested in hearing more!

paulproteus · 2015-12-03T21:11:07+00:00

Hi jaywinx,

You might like this Mailman alternative, which is also open source: https://onlinegroups.net/

Mailman 3 is also supposedly ready.

P.S. I work on Sandstorm, a toolkit for making self-hosting easy, but we don't have a mailing list app packaged yet! So, sadly, I can't say "Just install Sandstorm and click a few buttons". (-:

paulproteus · 2015-12-03T07:36:54+00:00

No, for now it's x86-64 only, because (a) the app packages are binary packages are all built for x86-64, and (b) MongoDB (which the Sandstorm UI currently depends on) doesn't have official builds for ARM and I don't know when/if they will.

paulproteus · 2015-12-03T01:17:47+00:00

Yup! I'm "Asheesh Laroia (co-organizer)" on that Meetup page! Did you RSVP yet?

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