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the art of connecting real people in vitural places

Derek M. Powazek

ISBN 0-7357-1075-9

https://www.peachpit.com/store/design-for-community-9780735710757

Derek now farms and sells CBD products.

https://powazek.com/

https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Design-Community-Powazek-Derek-Pearson-Education/31169465120/bd

This book was written around 2000 and during the .com bubble burst. There are plenty of great interviews with community builders around Amazon, and Slashdot. It talks about email, forums, chat rooms, instant messaging and touches on Usenet, IRC, Arpanet and BBS’ origins.

It also talks about managing, hosting and ending online social communities. Things like anonymous users and tying in real world events are also covered. Using things like waiting periods before posting as a gate to avoid spam. It also goes into self policing communities and things like Karma, which give you more abilities.

Thrift store pick up, its a window in to the past but much of the advice is still true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OhGeezDiamonds/

https://devpost.com/software/kraplow

I have entered a Reddit hackathon to make a table top game.

I chose one similar to “Stock Ticker”

You buy and sell stocks, collect dividends.

Any feedback would be great.

Took a training for the laser cutter at the Midland, Ontario library.

I was the only one to show up and Tim showed me how to use it and went over some slides. Demoed inkscape a little.

There was a small multiple choice test at the end, mostly to make sure you are paying attention.

We cut and etched a piece of wood.

They had demos of glass, mirrors, metal, plastic and also a tool that lets you etch on cylindrical shaped objects.

There is a makerspace monthly meetup, and I have been to one before… Thursday evening, check the calendar.

There is another training for the 3D printer, which I will take another time.

I’m also excited about the embroidery machine.

https://www.meetup.com/kwjavascript/events/303474026

Took a trip to Waterloo to go to this event.

Good attendance, venue and food.

It was a group programming/brainstorming session on testing a refactored interfaces with one set of tests using interfaces.

https://aws.amazon.com/training/classroom/aws-technical-essentials

Overview of major AWS services.

One video did not work, and at one point it forgot my history of what sections I already covered.

Overall pretty good basic overview.

Not interactive at all but it did involve some multiple choice questions.

Covered things like EC2(Compute), S3(Object Storage), block storage and other databases as well as Lambda functions.

Also covered auto scaling and load balancing, and things like availability zones.

It mostly took an application of an employee directory and went through deploying it to various services.

http://snackpipe.com/

I would love any feedback. I made this with create react app.

I’ve installed and uninstalled the thing 5 times.

I think using PowerShell was important, and as admin was important.

The test page would not load after it was running.

The documentation said the firewall settings would be added automatically.

This turned out to be a lie or broken or something.

I eventually turned the firewall off and the page loaded.

Then I created firewall rules and turned it back on, and still loaded.

Now I’m download an app to test it… and more upgrades.

Earlier in the labs of phase 1 of this hackathon I got connected to an LLM AI… I think I chose the GPT4 model. I saw some good text responses, modified the input and saw it change. Cool.

Microsoft Developers AI Learning Hackathon

https://azurecosmosdb.devpost.com/

Going to take a try at this hackathon.

One part is making a chat bot… I think mostly tutorial. I’m going to go the node.js way. There is also a python option.

Part 2 is adding that chat bot to an exiting app, or new app.