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Share Expenses with your friends

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend FairShare — Making Shared Living Simpler 🤝💰 What I Built FairShare is a shared-living expense management application built for friends, roommates, and people living together in hostels, PGs, apartments, or shared rooms. The idea came from a simple problem: when multiple people share expenses, it becomes annoying to…

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I got tired of copying jobs off career pages, so I built a CSV exporter for Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby

Disclosure first: I built the tool in this post. It's called Vee Jobs, it's pay-per-use, and I'll try to make the article useful even if you end up picking something else.

  • Developer creates Vee Jobs tool to export job listings from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable
  • Users input company info, keywords to filter job listings into single CSV table
  • CSV file can be imported to Google Sheets for filtering by department, location, criteria

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Pre-Deployment SEO Checks: 14 Tasks with HTML Examples

Your website builds successfully, the design looks good, and the deployment is ready. Before you ship, check the details that affect how visitors and search engines access your content.

  • Conduct 14-step pre-deployment SEO checklist
  • Assign clear purpose to each page with matching content
  • Create concise URLs reflecting page hierarchy

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Codex for Visual Studio v0.4.0 / v0.4.1 Released

Translation note: The original Japanese article was written by me. This English version was translated with the help of AI.

  • v0.4.0 release enhances Goal/Plan mode with pause functionality
  • v0.4.1 focuses on dependency updates and security improvements
  • Remote Codex App Server connection feature marked experimental

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An escape game on the TV, played with phones: keeping 5 screens in sync

Since early October I've had Nocturne au musée online: an escape game you play together in front of the TV. The TV (or a computer) shows the museum, each player joins by scanning a QR code with their…

  • Players interacted via phones while watching shared video on TV
  • Up to five screens needed to display synchronized game
  • Server referee managed game state to prevent cheating

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