Someone turned old analog gauges into real-time PC monitors using an ESP32
Some excellent retro vibes made from discarded gauges.
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I Built a Date Picker, Got 1,000+ npm Downloads, and Then Discovered the Hard Part
Building an open-source project is one thing. Getting people to actually discover it is a completely different problem. A few weeks ago, I started working on RollDate , a dependency-free JavaScript…
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