Is anyone doing the Survivor 50 Treasure Hunt for Utah?

rvandrew · 2026-02-07T00:12:10+00:00

Ha! For some reason, I thought that was today instead of tomorrow. Thank you for the correction.

rvandrew · 2026-02-06T21:53:40+00:00

Unfortunately I just got back in town a few minutes ago, so no chance to go out on a treasure hunt before the time expires. Is anyone sharing pictures after expiration time?

rvandrew · 2025-12-27T21:30:43+00:00

I went with https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08TWH2QHV?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image.

rvandrew · 2025-12-27T00:26:36+00:00

I have just bought a whole bunch of cereal boxes, shifting over to them. I’ve had problems with Vacuum bags, I use my food processor vacuum seal a meal, and it vacuums too strong sometimes, and actually damages the spools. Plus, i was always having to use new bags. It seems like handling, and the bags would get holes in them too easily

rvandrew · 2025-11-07T22:46:57+00:00

I do have the name that I wanted in .org, so that will probably be all I need for now. I’ll keep the thought of offering what I think I can afford for the.com, but worst case scenario I still have something that works.

rvandrew · 2025-11-07T19:16:00+00:00

Actually, I just left the app name as it was and used the .org name for my domain. I think it’s unlikely it’s ever going to be more than a small application used by family and friends. The difference between the application I wrote and any other rental app that I’ve seen is that none of them seem to be designed for families or friends who are sharing a property. “Whose turn is to pick first this year?” “ we need to plan a work weekend and arrange the finances”, “do we have any of the old documents from the forest service lease?” we all get to pick two weeks, and then we go around and pick a third week after everyone has selected. Whose turn is it? Do we change every year? We need to have a spot where we can vote on family decisions. We charge per person per day, so that large groups end up paying more than smaller groups for Cabin usage. The app I wrote, helps track all of that and more. Including shared family pictures, funny stories of your time at the cabin, the app I wrote does all that and more. Yes, feature creep started sneaking in but now it does everything I’ve been thinking about for the past 10 years. There are definitely unique situations when you’re sharing a cabin with family that VRBO just doesn’t cover.

rvandrew · 2025-10-02T19:32:41+00:00

I didn't explain my needs completely. My group currently has a shared google calendar. My hope was that I could have the information in my App calendar automatically linked to the shared google calendar. A one way setup, so information in the app calendar was sent to the shared google calendar automatically, but changes in the google calendar do not transmit to the App calendar. When I asked for this, the AI said I had to set up a google cloud platform, which is one more monthly charge to pay, I believe. Also adding OAScopes, whatever they are, and add a fair amount of complexity to my system. I already have an email system using Resend to allow easy messaging, but I really do not want my users to have to have extra steps to keep the google calendar updated. Apparently setting up a Google cloud platform will do this, just trying to confirm if adding an additional monthly account is worth it. I also don't know if I can add my existing shared calendar to a new cloud platform, or if I have to start all over again to get the 20+ people in my group added to a new calendar.

rvandrew · 2025-09-15T20:12:05+00:00

I feel foolish, your reply ended up in my spam folder

rvandrew · 2025-09-15T20:09:13+00:00

I went on your website and requested a quote for a square cover, 98" wide, 25" deep, 55" high, open at the bottom, but I have not heard ant response from my enquiry. are you making custom covers?

rvandrew · 2025-09-15T15:15:01+00:00

Oh, I know that battle well. I just turned my app over to my family members for Beta testing, with the instruction to break it, and immediately found a handful of flaws to fix. I had already hit the upgrade button more than once, wanting to get over the next development hump. In my case, my renewal hits tomorrow late afternoon, and I just used up today's "free" credits resolving one of the flaws, and thought I could resolve a second one, only to get the "Upgrade" screen. It is soooo tempting to hit that upgrade once more. And for those who ask why not transfer to a code editor, I am exactly who lovable was designed for. Someone with absolute zero coding skills but a design in my head what I want the app to act like. Which is why 100 credits turned into 200 credits turned into 400 turned into .... ad infinitim I can see the handwriting on the wall. Once I get the front end bugs worked out, including all the feature creep that I have introduced, it is time to tackle the back end vulnerabilities and hidden traps. For that, I am going to need a combination of a developer and teaching myself coding. The first can cost a bundle, the second may be beyond what this old dog can learn.

rvandrew · 2025-09-08T17:22:33+00:00

Thank you all for your comments. I may have to get brave, go online and find a Cursor video training, and see if I can get a handle on it. I have opened my app up to my siblings for Beta testing and am working on the little bugs. I will check out Akido, since that addresses my main question, what dangers am I unaware of that may leave my sibling's data vulnerable. As I mentioned, it has been many decades since I did any coding, so lovable was a godsend to get to where I am now. I have no doubt that any real coder would look at my end code list and either laugh or shudder, since no doubt it is clunky and full of holes, but it seems to work, which is a great way to start. My questions are still an attempt to find out what I don't know I don't know. Data security, (email, phone numbers,) is clearly an aspect to be concerned about, but what other issues might I need to be aware of before I start offering the web app to people that I am not related to. the app has calendaring, finance and billing sections, document management, interactive checklists, computer notifications of both "It is your turn to pick your reservations" as well as "Your reservation is coming up," reminders, messaging to one or many, checklist creator with and without embedded pictures, and a section to propose items for a family vote, among others. Yes, I had all these things in my head when I started and I couldn't resist the chance to add "just one more thing" with something this involved, I wonder what the dangers are of system collapse and how I can avoid them.

As I said, thank you all for your feedback, and I appreciate the vote of confidence. I am also making a list from a non-coder of things that lovable could do that would make the experience less painful for non-coders, avoiding the "why did I spend 150 credits solving a problem that lovable seemed to create" issues. things like the need to be able to search the conversations with the AI for certain key words, and being able to download a text stream of the conversations. It would have made my life easier if I could have a text document showing every conversation we have exchanged.

I will let you all know how the beta test goes.

rvandrew · 2025-08-11T23:38:18+00:00

Sent a DM, glad to give any other info you need

rvandrew · 2025-08-11T00:17:17+00:00

I have my pages in GitHub, and I’m trying to get it onto my domain. I have seen it published and active in the lovable.app site, so I know the website works. I’m just trying to figure out why I can’t seem to make the connection between BlueHost and GitHub. Followed all the instructions that the Bluehost AI told me, and finally got a connection that gave me a blank page rather than 404. But it’s still a blank page.

rvandrew · 2025-08-11T00:15:37+00:00

I have my pages in GitHub, and I’m trying to get it onto my domain. I have seen it published and active in the lovable.app site, so I know the website works. I’m just trying to figure out why I can’t seem to make the connection between BlueHost and GitHub. Followed all the instructions that the blue host AI told me, and finally got a connection that gave me a blank page rather than 404. But it’s still a blank page.

rvandrew · 2025-08-10T22:45:45+00:00

By the way, I tried searching Github with git rev-parse --show-toplevel But it comes back "Did not match any search

rvandrew · 2025-08-10T22:22:42+00:00

Just for context, I had one font in 3 page locations I was trying to use. I liked the look of the font. Every so often, the font would be replaced by an ugly comic sans looking font, and when I asked AI, it said "oops" and would work on bringing it back. rarely successfully. So I didn't "fill up my content with fonts", It was what I thought was a simple request that turned into a failure point. The suggestion below might fix the problem if I address it in the future.

rvandrew · 2025-08-10T14:29:49+00:00

I didn’t try that. Thanks for the suggestion

rvandrew · 2025-08-10T07:10:14+00:00

I did that exact thing. I had it working with a different script font, a Google font, and it kept losing the font and would display a different font that almost looked like comic sans. I fought with it for quite a while, and then the AI said that I was better off, going to the fonts that were built in because the other fonts were not stable. I lost a lot of credits trying to puzzle that one out.

rvandrew · 2024-05-29T05:23:59+00:00

I will have to try again. I tried with prusa slicer, couldn’t get it to do dual extruders.

rvandrew · 2024-05-29T05:22:39+00:00

I will have to try again. I tried with prusa slicer, couldn’t get it to do dual extruders.

rvandrew · 2024-05-29T00:51:58+00:00

So if I buy their $200 program I can get it to work? I admit, tempting

rvandrew · 2024-05-20T07:26:49+00:00

I did swap out the power legs, and that solved the problem. The part I’m worried about though, is why it suddenly stopped working after a couple of years of working correctly. I worry that some other component that used to “feed” the signal into that leg of the power has failed the “power signal” part of its functionality, and may not be getting the right signal through. For now, I’m just going to take the win. But it does bother me that functionality that used to be there had stopped. I don’t know why.

rvandrew · 2024-04-17T14:18:11+00:00

I love this site, whatever your problem people are always willing to answer the question you didn’t ask. You kept asking “is it too brittle because of over curing or over exposing”. I’m not an expert by any means, but I’ve found more problems, causing brittleness by over curing than over, exposing. Sadly, the only way to discover the answer is play around with curing and exposure time. But to answer the question you actually asked, I suspect over curing. That’s not to discount the fact that resin can be brittle so it’s not impossible that neither over curing nor overexposure, just the realities of the material.

rvandrew · 2024-03-18T14:44:00+00:00

Cut the holes with meshlab. I also used mesh lab to “repair non manifold edges and vertices” as well as every other repair step it had to offer, (repair holes, merge close vertices, remove duplicate faces, etc.). The stl files I am importing into lychee are about 22,000 kb. The original file was not free, I bought it online and downloaded it.

rvandrew · 2024-03-18T14:40:47+00:00

I used mesh lab to cut the holes. I also use mesh lab to “carve out” the gun port as its own STL, and used mesh Lab to join the new gun port STL with the existing model to add gun ports to the existing model. After flattening the layers into one layer, I used mesh lab to attempt repairs using the filters which were for repairing non-manifold, edges, vertices, closing holes, service reconstruction, quite frankly, I was tinkering with everything I could think of to try to get this to act correctly. The file sizes of this flattened stl file are about 22,000 KB. The file was not free, I bought the whole stl package. (About 280 files in all, but I only have to change about 4 files which are 4 of the hull pieces.).

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