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Looks great! My website has a /life page (https://anandchowdhary.com/life) where I track all my life & health data, including:

  - yearly themes and quarterly personal OKRs
  - my live location (yes, really)
  - books I read, music I listen to
  - biomarkers, health and fitness data, sleep records
They are all tracked on GitHub as open source JSON APIs: https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/life and built using GitHub Actions.


Cool page! Maybe you can ask some data brokers what interoperability standards they use so you can provide the correct file to them, perhaps even negotiate a good price for the data ;)


Haha indeed... if it helps, I built https://stethoscope.js.org where I used official & unofficial APIs and takeout exports to compile everything in one place.


This looks cool! I'll have to look into it :)


> quarterly personal OKRs

Good grief, what happens when you don't meet them? Do you put yourself on a PIP?


This is really cool! I hope to get to something that looks like this one day. Love how your 'Move in to new house' KPI is at 119%

You've got a pretty awesome website! Is this made using NextJS?



Indeed! I redesign my personal website every few years (https://anandchowdhary.com/about/versions) and use a different stack every time.


Haha the OKR progress is also dependent on how far we are in the quarter, so if I do something too quickly, it has the tendency to go above 100%.


For location, I don’t see a pin but see a window centered on an area in Utrecht. Is the centerpoint supposed to be cords of your location?

Cool idea!


I only store the geolocation up to 2 decimal places so it's rounded a little to not expose my precise-precise location, but more of a city-level location (source: https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/location/blob/d82432169621...).


This data is super dangerous to reveal. Unless you provide fake data to fool strangers deliberately.


Which parts are dangerous to the average chum with no enemies?


Live location


I don't think knowing what city he's in is particularly dangerous.


He got a new house (likely with new furniture and appliances). Best time to rob the house is when he is in a different city.


Haha that's true. I do only store the geolocation up to 2 decimal places so it's rounded a little, but people do find out when I leave town. Luckily I have camera/alarm systems/etc. but maybe my insurance will tell me I brought this on myself. I even had https://x.com/anandstalker live-tweeting it before Twitter made their API too expensive.


The overwhelming majority of burglars are not doing online reconnaissance to establish where one person might be, when you can just drive by and see if there are cars parked there, or just kick in the door and see if anyone yells.


maybe I do... we'd never know!


You have an eye for beautiful design


Thank you, kind stranger. :)


I love this! Nice work!


Yes and no. It’s indeed a playground to test out various models and gives you an endpoint to play with it, but it’s not that developers can upload their own custom models. Instead, it’s currently only a curated library of certain popular models like those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta.

(I don’t work at GitHub but was quoted in the article).


Growing up in India, we learned that the four pillars of democracy are the Legislature, the Executive, the Judiciary and the Media. The nonprofit presumably is saying that they/nonprofits are the fifth pillar.



https://anandchowdhary.com has 10+ years of my words and work.


Maker here. When you have an open-source project (i.e., public repository), you get unlimited minutes for free. The free edition's 2,000 minutes per month only count if it's a private repository.


I wonder how long github will allow unlimited free minutes, when more and more such non-CI projects are popping up.


Thanks Intel!


Maker here. Yes, this became a common-enough problem for me to write a small post: https://upptime.js.org/blog/2021/01/22/github-actions-schedu.... Some people tried with self-hosted runners on Actions [1], but that turned out not to be much better.

[1] https://github.com/upptime/upptime/issues/42


Maker here. AMA!

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553445 (301 points, 82 comments)


I’ve tried it probably a year ago for a couple of weeks. It was very unreliable and slow for me. Change in uptime status were not picked up very fast and sometimes not at all. Should I give it another try?


In that case, I would say no. Not much has changed in the past few weeks, and GitHub Actions has become increasingly less reliable (i.e., wait times are higher than when we launched Upptime a year ago).

We're exploring a new CLI approach [1] which has the benefit of still running on GitHub Actions scheduled workflows and all bells and whistles like Slack notifications and opening issues, but it can be fully self-hosted with just a CLI command, and will always run in the background. Plus, it'll support GitLab and really any git repository and more status website features. When that's ready, perhaps that would be a better fit.

[1] https://github.com/upptime/cli


Do you have any plan to port this to gitlab in case github ban these kind of use?


Maker here. From another comment:

> We're exploring a new CLI approach [1] which has the benefit of still running on GitHub Actions scheduled workflows and all bells and whistles like Slack notifications and opening issues, but it can be fully self-hosted with just a CLI command, and will always run in the background. Plus, it'll support GitLab and really any git repository and more status website features. When that's ready, perhaps that would be a better fit.

[1] https://github.com/upptime/cli


He wasn’t one of the original founders, he was an early investor.


This repository seems to be a clone of the actual repository: https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world

dang, maybe we can update the link?


This should be emailed in, since a repo clone would essentially be content farming.


Thanks, I see many contributions dangeling on the wrong repo now, which is sad :(


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