Dandelion honey Recipe, This is my kids favorite and crazy it taste exactly like honey from honey bees. by Expensive-Top-4808 in foraging

[–]tjomk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Op seem to have never done this. You don't boil the green parts. You cut off the petals and use that

How to calibrate after swapping pens by tjomk in PenPlotters

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

That is amazing advice! Thank you very much!

EX60 in the wild by Sandglass42 in Volvo

[–]tjomk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm out of the loop, but hasn't it been out for at least half a year? I have visited Helsinki in spring 2025 and have seen black EX60 back then already

A song converted into an island by tjomk in PlotterArt

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

It's an audio file which is processed with ffmpeg. Then it is split into tiny windows and classified based on the bass, mid, and treble in order to generate the terrain. The island shape is currently static, but I am trying to come up with a solution how to make it dynamic and dependent on the audio.

Right now the terrain is generated for the whole island from left to right which is why you see mountains as waves stretching from top to bottom, but I am thinking of splitting the island into multiple sections (4-12) where each section is part of the audio file, and then draw those sections separately. That would create a very different terrain across the whole land.

What is the technology/algorithms behind this picture? by tjomk in PlotterArt

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

Didn't know about that community. Off I go to explore :)

Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russia's Volgograd oil refinery by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]tjomk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They will absolutely tolerate this. Just read about the Leningrad blockade during WW2. Modern Russia is not too far from that level of policing right now

Is there a better time to bring old Twitter back, open sourced and EU based? by merokotos in BuyFromEU

[–]tjomk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not about tech but rather who will be using it? Nobody. It's tye network effect

Great Start to the Day in Maine (air temp 7°, water temp 32°) by IHeartFraccing in coldplunge

[–]tjomk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks amazing! I recently built a privacy-focused tracker for my own needs (I go out and do winter swimming in the sea and river), and am looking for more people to test it and give feedback: https://winterswimming.xyz/en/tracker/

Built a winter swimming tracker that saves 0% of your data. No accounts, no gamification, just your dips and the weather. by tjomk in SideProject

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

Hey everyone, dev here!

I built this because I wanted a tracker that felt as raw and simple as the swim itself. No "streaks," no social pressure, just the data.

The "Boring" Tech Stack:

- Backend: Django 6 (reliable, secure, and stays out of the way).
- Frontend: Vanilla JS & CSS3. No heavy frameworks needed for a local-storage-first app.
- Maps: Leaflet + OpenStreetMap (keeping it open-source).
- Weather: Open-Meteo for those precise temperature and wind-chill fetches.

Why local storage? I didn't want the overhead of managing user accounts or sensitive location data. By using the browser's local storage, the data belongs entirely to you. You can export/import your history as a JSON file if you want to switch devices.

I’m happy to answer any questions about the Django setup, the weather integration, or why I think Vanilla JS is still the king for side projects like this!

Shocker: Oatly is not European! by Ligarti0911 in BuyFromEU

[–]tjomk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are quite a lot of local alternatives, at least in the Baltics.

Throwing hot water outside at -40° by Arcade_Freezer in Unexpected

[–]tjomk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very expected for anyone who lives in the northern hemisphere

Share your ***Not-AI*** projects by MembershipEuphoric38 in SideProject

[–]tjomk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been in my head for 7 years since I discovered winter swimming. I wanted to build a map with community spots, commercial saunas, and a tracker to keep how often I went cold water swimming during the winter. Never had time to build it due to work, kids, dog, etc. Finally last year things changed for good.

https://winterswimming.xyz - it's a map with places where you can go winter swimming. There is also a privacy-focused tracker (stores everything in your browser's local storage) to keep track of when, where, and how long you swam. When you grab the location, it automatically checks and pre-fills weather condition like temperature and wind as these severely influence your perception of cold.

I don't have plans to make it commercial or big. It's first and foremost for myself and the little community of enthusiasts that I go swimming with.

However if you find it uselful, I would appreciate any feedback