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nosecreek
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Full stack developer in Calgary, AB, Canada.
https://dustin.lammiman.ca/
- nosecreek parentCan confirm it is called acetaminophen in Canada
- Shameless plug for my own project (https://grocerytracker.ca/) since you're in Canada. Eventually I'd love for it to do what you're suggesting, but for now the closest thing you can do is create a basket for each store with the same items and then check each week to see which is the cheapest.
- I’ve been scraping and tracking Canadian grocery prices for a few years, lots of ideas on how to do more with it if I had more time… http://grocerytracker.ca/
- I’d be curious to hear more from OP on this as well. I’ve got my own price tracking site for Canadian groceries (http://grocerytracker.ca/) but my primary goal has been to get information in the hands of average Canadians so they can make informed buying decisions.
- I’ve got a site with the price history aspect for Canadian groceries (http://grocerytracker.ca/), but the community groups/public lists idea is interesting. I definitely feel like there is a lot of potential in this space.
- In Canada I think they are legally required to, but sometimes it can be frustrating if they don’t always compare like units - one product will be price per gram or 100 grams, and another price per kg. I’ve found with online shopping, the unit prices don’t take into account discounts and sale prices, which makes it harder to shop sales (in store seems to be better for this).
- Very cool! I did something similar in Canada (https://grocerytracker.ca/)
- Interesting. I suspect I may have the same thing.
I also have poor vision without glasses, and I’ve always found that when I go swimming (and can’t wear my glasses) my hearing also gets significantly worse. Or at least the cocktail party problem gets worse, as my brain seems to get overwhelmed by every single background noise. I think some of this is explained by many indoor pools being big echoey spaces, but it still happens at outdoor pools as well. I suspect that when one sense (sight) is degraded, my brain tries to compensate by focusing on another sense (hearing), and the end result is even worse due to APD.
- My favorite YNAB alternative is Buckets - https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com/ although especially if you don’t need auto-sync
- No, but I’ll admit that is my biggest hesitation in promoting it beyond what I already do. Walmart has the most aggressive blocking (in general, I don’t think specifically directed at my site) and I haven’t been able to get new data from them since October I think. Otherwise haven’t had any issues.
- Not for Big Macs, but if you’re interested I’ve been collecting Canadian grocery price data over the past couple of years here: https://grocerytracker.ca/
- He was a Canadian citizen: https://globalnews.ca/news/9969537/who-is-hardeep-singh-nijj...
- Love it! I built a site to track grocery prices/inflation in Canada - http://grocerytracker.ca/
- Agreed that legal clarity is important - especially for smaller players. I've built a significant hobby site that relies fairly heavily on scraping (grocery price comparison site). I believe what I'm doing is morally okay, and also that big players wouldn't run into any issues, but when it's just me (or even if it was a small company) the legal 'grey area' makes it a much bigger risk.
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- https://dustin.lammiman.ca/
Probably the most interesting things are homemade ice cream recipes and a (not very detailed) build journal for the teardrop trailer we made during COVID.
- It seems to me a lot of subs also said they were closing for 2 days, but never re-opened. I understand that logic, but because the subreddits have stayed close there is no way for that community to indicate if they support the ongoing protest. There's a big difference between voting 'yes' to closing for 48 hours vs permanently.
- Lemmy definitely looks interesting and I should really give it a shot, but while the fediverse stuff adds a lot of value I think it also makes it a lot more complicated. I think the tech stack matters too - running old forums on a LAMP stack made them pretty easy for a lot of people to setup on cheap hosting. When I go the "Run a Server" section in the Lemmy docs it immediately starts talking about Docker, etc. which I think is a much bigger barrier to entry for those who want to host an instance.