It really does! It's massively inspired by that subreddit and /r/macsetups too. I wanted to create this to hopefully fill the gaps a little when talking about your setup in detail. It's a very early Alpha so it isn't very feature rich but planning to build on this more in the future.
Thanks! It started as a conversation between a friend mostly off the back off /r/battlestations and how I'd love to be able to see more of peoples setups.
Initial steps where just to throw something together to allow people to upload multiple setups and view others.
Next steps on the roadmap
- Multiple image upload support
- Like setups
- Build collections out of setups
- Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc)
- Tagging products on setups (like how Facebook does but you know, respect peoples data etc)
Later later steps would probably be allowing the user to build collections out of popular products that get uploaded.
As a computer hardware nerd, I'm always down for a good build sharing site. And for an alpha, you seem to have gotten the basics down.
I'm curious, though, what this will bring to the table that other sites like Builds GG[0] or PCPartPicker[1] don't currently offer. I would assume including information about the desk and lighting setup? I'd like to know what's on the roadmap for features and sucj.
Something's up with the retrieval of images. Getting errors (402 status code) from Firebase storage / Google. — EDIT: seems to be fixed!
Fun project though! What are your plans with it? Like to hear about your ideas.
Some – unsolicited – suggestions (feel free to ignore):
- describing (primary) usage(s) – e.g. workstation, gaming, web dev, music, audio, etc.
- describing setup components by selecting items from a parts list
- adding benchmark results
- filtering / searching setups by varying properties
- breaking down components even further.. there's a huge community around mechanical keyboards for example, these come in all kinds of shapes.. users may have desires along the lines of: "I'd like to see setups with wireless 60% keyboards"
- listing similar setups ("if you like this, you might like..")
These are great suggestions, thank you and it's exactly what I've posted it for tbh - It feels like this project could have endless possibilities but I also want to know what others care about too.
My next steps (I posted below but happy to post here too)
- Multiple image upload support
- Like setups
- Build collections out of setups
- Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc)
- Tagging products on setups (like how Facebook does but you know, respect peoples data etc)
I think after that or even during, I'll need to definitely come up with a more structured roadmap.
Kinda surprising, as many web-applications forget to add that meta-data after e.g. resizing photos. Still, not a good idea to upload pictures with GPS data to an online service (unintentionally).
It disappoints me that there apparently isn't an option on iOS to track photo location using some scheme other than EXIF. I really like being able to organize photos by location on my phone, but I dislike relying on image hosts and social networks to strip EXIF data when I post them to the web. Couldn't iOS store locations for photos it's taken out of band, in a sqlite db or something?
You can strip your own exif, there are many apps. Do not trust anyone else to do so, or not to keep that data for themselves even when they do. Cougfhaceboockough.
So iOS does it one way, Android does it another, and your old DSLR still stores data in EXIF? Sounds like a great way to be locked into a certain vendor.
I wish cameras wouldn't default to include location data. Most people don't even know pictures can include that type of info. It really should be an opt-in feature.
I'm not, I completely overlooked this :/ I'm adding this to the upload form now and I guess will have to go through and manually remove everyones exif data. Thanks for raising this.
Everyone willing to post their photo, at least. My hardware setup isn't that different than images, but I have 2 laptops KVMed to one monitor and the resulting pile of cables. I have no desire for the world to see my chaos, or my messy office, or my pile of diet mountain dew cans, because somehow admitting to such vices on HN is OK, but documenting them via a photo feels wrong.
You see the same principle behind people's Instagrams. People shoot, re-shoot and meticulously edit their uploads so they're as flawless as possible. I think Reddit has something called 'r/shittybattlestations' as a joke sub to counter the deluge of samey "minimal IKEA desk w/ hyper-expensive equipment" content on the main subs.
b) get folks to mention which chair, too. Some of us invest in ergonomic chairs, and those who don't would benefit from opinions on which chairs are good
For what it's worth, I got this chair recently (a Torch Iris Gold) in Hong Kong, and found it incredible value for money, at least compared to a Herman Miller Aeron, Mirra etc; : it has a bunch of adjustments that the Aeron and Mirra do not. Obviously, this advice isn't that useful if you're not in Hong Kong.
If anyone's really into "setups", I'd highly recommend checking out usesthis.com. There's some great discussion on why people like certain tools, and some high-profile people on there from all walks of tech life (writers, podcasters, musicians, mechanical engineers). Here's a few of my favorites:
The improvements section/conclusion in Aaron Schwartz article is actually very possible today.
>I wish all my hard drives were consolidated onto one big drive. I wish I had SoundSticks. I wish my G1 was much, much faster. I wish that Terminal would have built-in support for screen so that different screens would appear as tabs and it would auto-reconnect. I wish that there was decent todo management software that deeply integrated with my email. I wish that everyone had perfectionist levels of attention to detail.
Phones are much, much faster, NAS’s (synology for example) allow you to merge a whole bunch of drives on a network. And Iterm is integrated with tmux, which makes it feel supremely native.
Not sure about the todo or attention to detail though.
I think most “to do” / productivity software integrstes with email these days (ie Asana has plugins for both GMail and Outlook and I think lots do), and slightly related emails has also become more easily “actionable” when Mailbox created the whole “swipe to action” email gestures that Apple and google then learned from etc.
I avoid having a desk surface because it just gets overwhelmed with crap. This way I can't just set things down- they need to be put somewhere. Also I can move it out of the way for shooting YouTube videos, roll near the window when I want more daylight, roll near the printers when I am tweaking them etc.
It is crazy that we have some trade war and xenophobia going on at the moment, I think your channel and comments here are helpful in challenging assumptions commonly held in the West.
I have a rig like yours with a hospital style adjustable height table that has wheels and can be used in a bed (if need be) to pile the junk on. The lip around the edge of the table top stops small things rolling off, plus it has a cup holder, unlike most tables.
I will be subscribing even though your content is not my normal fayre and I commend you for making the world that bit more interesting and surprising!
Derek Sivers' interview (founder of CDBaby) was the one thing that got me into Linux for the first time years ago (and Arch Linux even). Since then it's been my primary OS.
Or to use some web service to detect nudity in images.
I was getting my college degree during peak goatse and have gotten good at tuning out goatse, so it hasn't hurt my impression of the site. It's a great idea to bring usesthis to the masses, and I wish success for OP. I'd consider excluding things that are primarily gaming because there are already places for people to show off their gaming rigs (such as battlestations on reddit).
IIRC Google Cloud, Azure, and (least certain of this one) AWS have machine learning driven adult image detection (among other things, like recognizing famous people's faces) as a service.
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Initial steps where just to throw something together to allow people to upload multiple setups and view others.
Next steps on the roadmap
- Multiple image upload support
- Like setups
- Build collections out of setups
- Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc)
- Tagging products on setups (like how Facebook does but you know, respect peoples data etc)
Later later steps would probably be allowing the user to build collections out of popular products that get uploaded.
I'm curious, though, what this will bring to the table that other sites like Builds GG[0] or PCPartPicker[1] don't currently offer. I would assume including information about the desk and lighting setup? I'd like to know what's on the roadmap for features and sucj.
Best of luck!
[0] https://builds.gg/
[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/
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[1] https://i.imgur.com/WWuN4Tw.png
Edit: Fixed!
Fun project though! What are your plans with it? Like to hear about your ideas.
Some – unsolicited – suggestions (feel free to ignore):
- describing (primary) usage(s) – e.g. workstation, gaming, web dev, music, audio, etc.
- describing setup components by selecting items from a parts list
- adding benchmark results
- filtering / searching setups by varying properties
- breaking down components even further.. there's a huge community around mechanical keyboards for example, these come in all kinds of shapes.. users may have desires along the lines of: "I'd like to see setups with wireless 60% keyboards"
- listing similar setups ("if you like this, you might like..")
- capturing setup updates (and displaying VCS-style diffs :-))
- recently updated systems
- in the same vein: build logs
- image annotations
- up- / downvoting
- comments
Fun stuff to come up with.
My next steps (I posted below but happy to post here too)
- Multiple image upload support
- Like setups
- Build collections out of setups
- Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc)
- Tagging products on setups (like how Facebook does but you know, respect peoples data etc)
I think after that or even during, I'll need to definitely come up with a more structured roadmap.
Again, thank you for the suggestions!
exiftool -all= "$@"
It's in most *nix repos.
a) let the user add their commentary and
b) get folks to mention which chair, too. Some of us invest in ergonomic chairs, and those who don't would benefit from opinions on which chairs are good
For what it's worth, I got this chair recently (a Torch Iris Gold) in Hong Kong, and found it incredible value for money, at least compared to a Herman Miller Aeron, Mirra etc; : it has a bunch of adjustments that the Aeron and Mirra do not. Obviously, this advice isn't that useful if you're not in Hong Kong.
https://shop.freemax.com.hk/eng/product/%E9%9B%BB%E8%85%A6%E...
Also please fix scrolling in the submission form on mobile (iOS) with the -webkit-overflow-scrolling CSS property.
Aaron Schwartz: https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/
Mike Hoye (Mozilla): https://usesthis.com/interviews/mhoye/
Drew DeVault: https://usesthis.com/interviews/drew.devault/
Naomi Wu: https://usesthis.com/interviews/naomi.wu/
>I wish all my hard drives were consolidated onto one big drive. I wish I had SoundSticks. I wish my G1 was much, much faster. I wish that Terminal would have built-in support for screen so that different screens would appear as tabs and it would auto-reconnect. I wish that there was decent todo management software that deeply integrated with my email. I wish that everyone had perfectionist levels of attention to detail.
Phones are much, much faster, NAS’s (synology for example) allow you to merge a whole bunch of drives on a network. And Iterm is integrated with tmux, which makes it feel supremely native.
Not sure about the todo or attention to detail though.
https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/
An interesting juxtaposition of working on technology in a decidedly austere living arrangement.
Better look: https://i.imgur.com/ydgpMus.jpg
I avoid having a desk surface because it just gets overwhelmed with crap. This way I can't just set things down- they need to be put somewhere. Also I can move it out of the way for shooting YouTube videos, roll near the window when I want more daylight, roll near the printers when I am tweaking them etc.
I have a rig like yours with a hospital style adjustable height table that has wheels and can be used in a bed (if need be) to pile the junk on. The lip around the edge of the table top stops small things rolling off, plus it has a cup holder, unlike most tables.
I will be subscribing even though your content is not my normal fayre and I commend you for making the world that bit more interesting and surprising!
https://usesthis.com/interviews/derek.sivers/
I was getting my college degree during peak goatse and have gotten good at tuning out goatse, so it hasn't hurt my impression of the site. It's a great idea to bring usesthis to the masses, and I wish success for OP. I'd consider excluding things that are primarily gaming because there are already places for people to show off their gaming rigs (such as battlestations on reddit).