I had a couple of old Meta Portals sitting around the house.

I always liked the hardware, but after Meta moved away from Portal, they mostly became devices collecting dust. So I turned them into a routine board for our kids.

It helps our kids stay on track without us having to repeat the same reminders over and over. And they are both pretty competitive, so nobody wants to finish their tasks second

https://github.com/davidedicillo/PortalKids

Nice, that's a great use of it.

What does it do that a paper version with magnets can't though? Does it track time? Rank? Something else?

They accrue points over time and it tracks daily, weekly, and all time progress. There's also a way to use points to "purchase" stuff like extra tv time, different desserts, small toys (e.g. tech decks), or other bigger things they desire (e.g. a new tennis racket)

Lol, literally launched on Monday https://agenttester.com

Nice, I got a better score with your website than cloudflare's. We've just been adding those AI discoverability into our site as part of the suite of audits so it's good to get some outside verification.

It's only a tarpit idea when you don't know it's a tarpit idea. I'm building a bookmarking service. I have no illusions that this will become anything more than a hobby project. Still, I love solving specific problems for myself (specifically, making consumption easier to deal with content overload).

this is neat. i think digg should come back.

I love this concept. I live by a popular head trail, and when I do work in the garage (on my bikes or other projects), I usually keep the door open. That simple thing led to meeting many people from around the neighborhood.

I tried to add a product (https://platformchecker.com), and initially, the process wasn't clear. The icon isn't marked as mandatory (it is) and the discount code is (it is not).

FWIW, as a hobbyist developer who never had a chance to learn React, I found HTMX really helpful to make my Flask projects more reactive without adding much complexity.

I’ve used if for some internal pages and it’s fine. I’m not sure I would want to use it to make the next Facebook though. Maybe the next Amazon?

Yeah, I'm the same. HTMX may not be great for non-trivial work frontend devs are doing, but for hackers piecing together web interactivity, it's pretty nice!

Another story worth looking at was the one of Olivetti: https://designwanted.com/brand-story-olivetti/

Olivetti's design was a thing of beauty. The current company has nothing but the name. Even their logo was bastartised by the new owners.

Snow Crash was the first thought that came to mind when I saw the title of this post

I wonder if there are any recent examples.

Good point - I'll research and create a more recent list.

Binance can't operate in the US like Coinbase, that's why they have Binance US which is pretty small. FTX was setup similarly. https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/