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Cake day: July 5th, 2023
  • 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What have you created that you really want to show off?
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    9 days ago

    So many things!

    We moved to a new house a couple of years ago and I mapped out the whole property, put it into LibreCAD, designed the space, and have been planting/building it since then. I now have thousands of plants, over 1000 unique types, and a vegetable garden in our 1/3 acre lot. I’m very proud of it, but don’t really know how to best share it with the world (or if anyone cares).

    I also have a web site that I’ve been building forever, lots of little programs, things like my irrigation system built from a Raspberry Pi, my homelab, all of the plants that I start from seed in the spring for the garden (thousands under grow lights with heated mats), the hydroponic system… I’m sure there’s more.

  • 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the longest running side project that you still work on?
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    25 days ago

    I started a created a company in 1995 to do web stuff for a very niche market – I guess now it would be called SaaS. It never really completed or became a money-maker, but it’s out there and I still work on it.

    First I had problems with IP theft – I had lots of original photos that people took. Then datasets and articles I had written were copied, so I focused on trying to stop that. Then I found myself spending too much time trying to deal with SEO, then x, then y… It was always a game of wackamole, trying to figure out how to keep ahead.

    Throw in the ebb and flow of life’s challenges and it always seems like time, money, health, or some combination thereof seemed to come up at just the wrong time (is there ever a good time?)

    I’m still plugging away. It’s thirty years later and I’ve retired from my 9-5, so hopefully I can make some real progress.