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

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+# 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:
@@ -16,3 +18,7 @@ The extension has the following features:
 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

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-# 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:
 

yellow-pages.md

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-# Green/Yellow Pages
+# Green/Yellow Pages :gift:
 
 A distributed directory for spam reports.
 
@@ -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
@@ -196,10 +196,11 @@ 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)