Robin Jakobsson https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog Public Journal of Thoughts and Adventures Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:35:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 I Heart Memrise http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobinJakobsson/~3/sx-ZCH65mzU/ https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/2012/04/02/i-heart-memrise/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:25:47 +0000 Robin https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/?p=1248 Continue reading →]]>

Memrise.com is one of the best web experiences I’ve ever had.
It’s a learning community where you can learn words and things from a vast spectrum of topics.

The idea is that when you meet a new word, a small seed is planted in your green house. As you spend more time with it, the seed sprout and grows (and is now housing in your short-time memory).

Memrise is full of clever things, and when you’re (according to their science) about to forget the memories, they send you a nice email with a direct link to the specific words or things, that you are about to forget.
Great service, love it!

]]> https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/2012/04/02/i-heart-memrise/feed/ 0 https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/2012/04/02/i-heart-memrise/ Serving web services to friends http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobinJakobsson/~3/ImPL5D9Y58o/ https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/2012/03/19/serving-friends-with-web-servicesfriends-services/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:30:11 +0000 Robin https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/?p=1240 Continue reading →]]> I’ve got a Excitio B3 (personal server) that I use for different computer tasks.
It serves my ownCloud, an instance of Ampache, a Tor bridge, a video/music/photos streamer, a anonymous dropbox (FTP) and thinkUp – a web app that backs up your social media interactions. I also use it as my router, and as a backup for my photo masters. So far, it’s been a very pleasant experience. I am looking to use it even more! I would like to be able to serve my friends with small and useful web apps.

With great power, comes great responsibility
Because of this, I won’t try to help with their e-mail, or any other service that requires uptime. After all, the server is run from my living room :) and I’m always trying out new stuff on it. So the services need to be quick and dirty, the jack and use kind of apps.

Why I’m doing this
I have this vision/ideal of direct communication – without middle hands.
That means no government, no corporations in between.
And after all: I have both the CPU and bandwidth to do this.
Besides the B3, I also have an account with WebFaction that supports both node.js and a few other cool technologies. Might just go ahead and try

Today:

Tommorrow:

Things that can improve the experience
It would be awesome if we (who have servers) could help each other with redundancy, when my service goes offline, then yours could take over.

During my search I found a great list of apps that you can try on your server: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud

What apps would you serve to your friends?

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Vinicius Vacanti is the co-founder and CEO of Yipit, and shares his sniffs of wisdom over at his blog. This article promotes the “Ready Fire! Aim”-approach. I remember reading an article by Steve Pavlina on the same subject. I agree with the approach. Just get it out there and do it now!

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Check out Crypto.cat and install it on your server as well!

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]]> https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/2012/03/10/party-for-everybody/feed/ 0 https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/2012/03/10/party-for-everybody/ Dared to Sing – A follow up http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobinJakobsson/~3/gFOdUpEdZ2M/ https://www.robinjakobsson.se/blog/2012/02/15/dared-to-sing-a-follow-up/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:18:03 +0000 Robin http://robinjakobsson.se/blog/?p=1218 Continue reading →]]> As I previously wrote, singing in public is one of my greatest fears. Now, 9 months later, it doesn’t feel as scary any more. The previously mentioned ebook was a great help. My daughter Kima is an even bigger one! I’ve also been practicing with the help of an iPhone app called Voice Tutor. The best part of it is that it contains a pitch meter, that takes input from the microphone! I’ll write more when I’ve spent more time with it, but so far, it’s been great for me. My current “routine” consist of me practicing while taking long walks during my lunch break. Besides practicing using tools, I try to participate and sing as much as possible on social occasions that involves music. How do you face your fears?

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HumbleFinance is an HTML5 data visualization tool written as a demonstration of interactive graphing in HTML5. It is similar to the Flash tool on http://finance.google.com/

Very impressive html/javascript widget!

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