Marks 🎁 ideas

README.md

@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ for each of them. (GMail notifications might open your mail client if you click
 
 Keep it pluggable, otherwise its of no use.
 
-## Telegram To RSS
+## Telegram To RSS :gift:
 
 There are quite a lot of Telegram channels that are popping up these days that I really like using.
 Except there are lots of issues with telegram channels:
@@ -262,12 +262,14 @@ _Update 2_: The mods are not very happy with the [abstract being posted](https:/
 
 For Bonus Points: Include a link to the fermat library URL of the paper (if available).
 
-# Slack Dialer
+# Slack Dialer :gift:
 
 All of our company has contact numbers added on Slack, but it is cumbersome to find someone's profile on Slack. A simple dialer application that does OAuth-verification on your Slack profile to get a list of the entire organization, and present a simple dialer for all the people who have contact details added.
 
 Interface would be a simple grid of faces, click to dial, sorted by frequency. A simple search-as-you-type box at the top. Can also be done as a PWA to easily make it cross-platform.
 
+Note that this requires a Slack team with a paid account. I'll help you get a trial so you can build this.
+
 # Database Conversion Toolkit using an ORM
 
 Something that lets you switch your database between SQLite/MySQL/Postgres/... by using
@@ -280,7 +282,7 @@ switching your ORM to use an existing database as the source of truth. Even a sp
 Thought of this after spending a lot of time trying to migrate my Grafana/Gitea setups from
 sqlite to mysql and trying every solution in [this SO question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18671/quick-easy-way-to-migrate-sqlite3-to-mysql).
 
-# Tachiyomi Headless
+# Tachiyomi Headless :gift:
 
 [Tachiyomi](https://github.com/inorichi/tachiyomi/) is a Android application written in Kotlin that
 scrapes comics from various web sources. A headless version of it would be great to have, replacing
@@ -337,7 +339,7 @@ I made a initial working demo recently for the first one, and you can check it a
 
 Related: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
 
-# Bangalore Events List
+# Bangalore Events List :gift:
 
 Similar in scope to http://webuild.sg/ or http://engineers.sg/ but for Bangalore.
 

communities-browser-extension.md

@@ -1,18 +1,24 @@
+# communities browser extension :gift:
+
 Every community that I meet these days wants to use its own different app to manage things, or alternatively create its own special forum and so on.
 
 For instance:
 
-- The dev-s community runs its own Slack channel (which is great) but wants its own discussion forum.
-- ReRoll Bangalore has its own WhatsApp/Telegram group (which is great again) but lacks a discussion forum.
+-   The dev-s community runs its own Slack channel (which is great) but wants its own discussion forum.
+-   ReRoll Bangalore has its own WhatsApp/Telegram group (which is great again) but lacks a discussion forum.
 
 The idea is to make a Chrome/Firefox extension that:
 
-1. lets you create a community (you get a unique id + social links you can give out)
-2. lets others submit their identity to the community tracker via the extension.
+1.  lets you create a community (you get a unique id + social links you can give out)
+2.  lets others submit their identity to the community tracker via the extension.
 
 The extension has the following features:
 
-1. Allows you to add "communities" you belong to
-2. Allows you to add your identity handles that you own. So you can specify multiple twitter/reddit/facebook/HN/... accounts that you own
-3. Link communities with your identities. So you can share your reddit handle by joining a community.
-4. Highlight a community member while browsing the site. So if you are browsing hacker news and have added yourselves to the community listing, you can see other discussions highlighted from other members.
+1.  Allows you to add "communities" you belong to
+2.  Allows you to add your identity handles that you own. So you can specify multiple twitter/reddit/facebook/HN/... accounts that you own
+3.  Link communities with your identities. So you can share your reddit handle by joining a community.
+4.  Highlight a community member while browsing the site. So if you are browsing hacker news and have added yourselves to the community listing, you can see other discussions highlighted from other members.
+
+The entire extension lives in browser space and localstorage. The backend just maintains a mapping of community id to profile IDs, which is synced once in a while. A community code might be required to add yourselves to the community.
+
+This is like Reddit flairs, but flairs only work on a single subreddit, this is intended to work across various discussion forums.

mars.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Mars: Terraform Remote HTTP Backend with End-to-End encryption
+# Mars: Terraform Remote HTTP Backend with End-to-End encryption :gift:
 
 A fork of <https://www.terraform.io/docs/backends/types/http.html>, which changes the configuration format to:
 
@@ -15,23 +15,23 @@ The lock/unlock address can be inferred. The service can be made public as well,
 
 ## Why
 
-- For casual projects, Terraform Enterprise is too much
-- Separate Infrastructure for Terraform State store makes sense
-- Not everyone has S3 available
-- Just share your UUID and the encryption key with your teammates
+-   For casual projects, Terraform Enterprise is too much
+-   Separate Infrastructure for Terraform State store makes sense
+-   Not everyone has S3 available
+-   Just share your UUID and the encryption key with your teammates
 
 ## Backend
 
 Needs to be a public good with restrictions:
 
-1. Reasonable Rate limits
-2. File size limits
-3. Restrict by terraform-user-agent, because why not
-4. Block unencrypted data from being stored
+1.  Reasonable Rate limits
+2.  File size limits
+3.  Restrict by terraform-user-agent, because why not
+4.  Block unencrypted data from being stored
 
 ## Extras
 
-- This needs to be Highly Available if folks are gonna use it
-- Use NaCl for crypto
-- Support a breakdown into `read_encryption_key` and `write_encryption_key` for key rotation
-- The encryption parts can perhaps be merged to upstream
+-   This needs to be Highly Available if folks are gonna use it
+-   Use NaCl for crypto
+-   Support a breakdown into `read_encryption_key` and `write_encryption_key` for key rotation
+-   The encryption parts can perhaps be merged to upstream

yellow-pages.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Green/Yellow Pages
+# Green/Yellow Pages :gift:
 
 A distributed directory for spam reports.
 
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ it is a reverse-yellow-pages directory to avoid spam calls.
 
 To solve this:
 
-1. You need a way to check a number against a known spam list.
-2. You need the check to be as fast as possible.
+1.  You need a way to check a number against a known spam list.
+2.  You need the check to be as fast as possible.
 
 If you want to beat TrueCaller, this check should be completely offline,
 to present a significant advantage.
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ to present a significant advantage.
 
 The API has 2 endpoints:
 
-1. Register a number as spam.
-2. Check a number and get a YES/NO spam response.
+1.  Register a number as spam.
+2.  Check a number and get a YES/NO spam response.
 
 ## Spam registration
 
-To prevent abuse, you want the client to do some 
+To prevent abuse, you want the client to do some
 proof of work before _each_ submission. Publish
 a hash of the input number in a ledger.
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The above-mentioned ledger is an easy way of
 ensuring verified sync with any other party
 that wants to maintain the same data store.
 
-This is not a very robust solution, and an 
+This is not a very robust solution, and an
 ideal solution would be to let the client
 publish on the ledger, and everyone
 can just pick up from the ledger.
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ but that doesn't sound like a good idea.
 
 However, the mere fact that a phone
 number is in the ledger isn't
-as important as *when* it was added.
+as important as _when_ it was added.
 
 A client should ideally add a random
 delay (to the tune of hours) and batch
@@ -180,9 +180,9 @@ done in a distributed manner though.
 
 # Cost of Computation
 
-- Verification should be fast
-- Insertions should be slow
-- Client registrations should be costly
+-   Verification should be fast
+-   Insertions should be slow
+-   Client registrations should be costly
 
 By costly, I mean the compute price, not monetary.
 A nice way to equalize this would be to make
@@ -196,14 +196,15 @@ there are better ideas, though.
 
 # Terms
 
-*Directory*: The actual data store holding a "Yes/No" filter of whether a number is spammy or not.
-*Ledger*: A blockchain or ditributed log that maintains any reports.
+_Directory_: The actual data store holding a "Yes/No" filter of whether a number is spammy or not.
+_Ledger_: A blockchain or ditributed log that maintains any reports.
 
 ## References
-- You should totally read [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md)
-- [bitly/dablooms](https://github.com/bitly/dablooms) - an attempt by bitly to solve spam problems with a layered bloom filter which is countable as well
-- [scalable bloom filters](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020019006003127)
-- [A multi-layer bloom filter for duplicated URL detection](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5578947/?reload=true)
+
+-   You should totally read [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers](https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md)
+-   [bitly/dablooms](https://github.com/bitly/dablooms) - an attempt by bitly to solve spam problems with a layered bloom filter which is countable as well
+-   [scalable bloom filters](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020019006003127)
+-   [A multi-layer bloom filter for duplicated URL detection](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5578947/?reload=true)
 
 [solomon]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_Solomon_Islands
 [res]: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5578947/?reload=true