Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution, the crazier, the better, no 0815 solutions! - eviltoast

I don’t want to hear about your Plex, your NPM, your notes application or science forbid, your budgeting application. I want to hear the most exotic thing you setup to selfhost, that probably only you and a hand full of people around the world actually use or even need. A problem that you solved in a way, that makes people go WTF. Go!

I’ll start: I live in the mountains, and there is snow, lots of snow. I often tell people “We had 3m of snow last year”, but is that really true? So, I thought to myself: Can you measure snowfall? It seems you can, so I setup a USH-9 ultra sound measuring device, connected it via IC2 to my Home Assistant and now I can tell people with confidence, that we had a total of 3.45m of snowfall last season, with max snow height of 60cm on January 5th.

Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome.

  • terAREya@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The industry I work in has many many companies. For whatever reason they all seem to use a very similar website template. Job openings are almost always listed on their webpage. Almost always its a plugin from workday or whatever their HR software is. Years ago I noticed that job listings were almost always published to their websites before they appeared on major job sites like linkedin.

    I used a business to business website that lists every single company in this industry by location and has a link for each to generate a list of companys and URLS. I monitor this for changes with changedetection.io

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    Then changedetection.io + company list and their job posting URLS that look like this company.com/careers/join-us/?_sft_job_posting_category=technical

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    So I now have about 800 companies that I am able to monitor for job leads and get notified via NTFY with company, job title and job description.

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    Its turned off currently cause I am actively employed, but when I was looking about a year ago I had it running hourly and if I look again I will indeed use it