szafranek's comments

szafranek · on May 5, 2019

I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://www.libib.com/. It comes with a mobile app that has a barcode scanner with an option for manual entry.

Yes, some older books, especially in languages other than English, are not in its database, leaving you with the manual option, but it will let you index the books that are there in no time.

szafranek · on April 17, 2019

All I see is: "Error establishing a database connection".

Is it some terribly ironic post?

lpill · on April 17, 2019

Try the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z-c0s5-...

bostonpete · on April 17, 2019

Title should be updated to "Does a relational database work?". ;-)

szafranek · on Feb 24, 2019

You may find the details of how this works in the original paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245

szafranek · on Dec 29, 2017

Probably another typo: "planet our side" -> "planet our size"?

Also, this is a beautiful piece of writing! I love it.

braythwayt · on Dec 29, 2017

https://github.com/raganwald/braythwayt.com/commit/981362fad...

Thank you or sharing your appreciation. I will treasure that.

szafranek · on Jan 5, 2017

Cool idea!

At the moment I can't see how old are the items – I really miss dates.

Also, pagination with Next/Prev buttons is ambiguous. Replacing the labels with Older/Newer would make it clear, in which direction in the timeline I'm moving.

I very much like the summaries. It would be great if they had unique URLs. This way I could share the URL of the story summary.

salmaanp · on Jan 6, 2017

Doing unique URL's will be hard, i am running only on a single instance right now.

I will add dates soon, and change the button labels.