I have decided to shut down all my projects and start looking for a new host. I need a break from this place. Here is my new place: http://hw-by-design.blogspot.com/
Only started. Slowly moving my projects there.
Trying to learn new editor and reformatting things on the fly. Editor: major improvement and white background finally.
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Been playing around a few days, I think I am getting the hang of things. The editor is a major improvement. Gone are the usual complain/bugs. If I accidentally quit the browser while editing, it saved the copy as draft and I can go back in without missing a thing! Wow. No missing first character or pictures that get deleted when you only meant to delete some text. I guess when a company is specialized on blog hosting, they tend to do that well enough. How long do they take to "try" to fix bugs here again?
I have a lot of control on how I can theme my own web page. Everything is about freedom of my choice/preference. If I don't like the colouring scheme, fonts etc. I can change all that as I am the admin of my own site.
Let's say I have not regret the move so far.
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Didn't you just post something new?
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Totally been feeling this lately as I've been trying to de-"social network" my life (oh crap, I'm doing it again...). Added your RSS feed to my reader!
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ack, sorry to see you go. will add your blog to my list of 'regularly checked websites'. thanks for all your helpful advice over the years.
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Just discovered you are not here anymore... arghhh! Hope to keep in contact with you. Yours suggestions and ideas miss me a lot... :(
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Just getting myself out of the rat race.
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Totally understand the desire for "freedom", but don't leave us out -- those of us who follow along with your projects would love to keep doing so!
For instance, you could just start up a project called "stuff I'm doing on my other site" and the toss in a project log with links. That way, folks here would get notified when you do something new. Best of both worlds?
(Or just submit to tips@hackaday.com -- we'll take care of the rest...)
Thank _you_ for all the fish!
Best!
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RSS is great.
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Don't leave me alone :-(
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Join me, and together, we can rule the galaxy... :p
Also "I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me."
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Post your sonar work on that other site soon; I have been referring to it periodically :-)
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okay. probably going to a few days.
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Working on it all day today. This is a rather big project. Slowly converting the 30+ project logs and reorganizing them into a more organized manner. Can't believe of the stuff I have done. I feel too old now to pull that off again.
DONE!
Project page: https://hw-by-design.blogspot.com/2018/07/project-swiftlet-sonar-for-visually.html
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Thanks!
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I don't want to know what you do with that if it is NSFW. :P Let me know if things are missing as I have done quite a bit copy/paste between different sites, reformatting and scatter-gather the episodic project logs into topic related blogs pages.
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I bought a modest house on a lake, so every morning I stare at a mile of water over my morning coffee and wonder what's underneath. I could buy a sidescan sonar, but where's the fun in that :-)
I found some 60W 40kHz transducers on ebay meant for ultrasonic cleaners, and have been (slowly) experimenting with them. The cheap 40kHz modules you explored allow easy low-power experiments in air before I scale up.
Thanks again for all your work on this and other projects. I get that you need to move, now I'll just have to read your stuff somewhere else :-)
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bye Felicia
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Oh man :(
Good luck. You (along with Ted Yapo) do the coolest things.
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Thanks. I'll still be doing those those things just at a different place with different rules.
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A new host, eh? Try out Instructables, it's similar to this, but instead of logs and descriptions and all of that, it's just step-by-step projects. Hackster.io is also pretty good, and it's similar to Hackaday, but more IoT oriented.
All the best, happy hacking, best wishes, and good luck!
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Definitely not instructable. Can't stand their webpages.
A lot of my project don't necessarily have a list of instructions - they are heavy on theory, formal design, ideas and half the time incomplete projects. There are times I want to write other than projects. I might move towards blogging instead of project oriented.
Thanks.
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Edited, bceause I got something wrong. Sorry ;)
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Sad to hear that, you always had some good advice for my projects :(
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So? You're free to do whatever you want. Have a nice break, everyone needs one once in a while.
Cheers, Jan
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