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2026-05-06 Nerd Show and Tell

Hoop Exchange | NBA Stock Market

  • By: Alistair Moss
  • Type: Side Project
  • Description:
    • Fantasy basketball where you use fake play money to out compete your friends
  • Next Steps:
    • Get feedback from people actually using the thing
    • Add more features

Website to Markdown + IPLD

  • By: Paul Mullins from mememaps.net
  • Type: Side Project
  • Code: Memex-Working-Group/website-to-markdown-scraper
  • Description: Scrape websites using a fully copy of a chromium browser through the
  • Notes:
    • Goal is to develop an app like Raindrop.io or Pinboard.in but also archive all the sites that get bookmarked
    • Also showed off drawSQL.app when talking about developing a data model to manage scraped websites
  • Next Steps:
    • Failed to properly scrape, save, hash, and replace the images in the markdown file, I gotta add that functionality in or document it in the README
    • Research SQL Schema's for various media and Content Management Systems for next Nerd Show and Tell

Memex Use Case Brainstorm

  • By: Ryan Kenmire from mememaps.net
  • Type: Side Project
  • Description:
    • A custom written sense making harness with custom written extensions like reflection
    • Can be accessed via Matrix Protocol similar to how Open Claw is accessed via Telegram
  • Next Steps:
    • Document that reflection feature so other people can try it out

JSON Normalizer

  • By: Emilien Breton
  • Code: https://github.com/Bricktech2000/JSONW

The GitHub repo is for the parser library. the normalizer I showed off is an example of how one might use the library. I haven't pushed it to GitHub yet.

  • Ridiculed RFC 8259 for being an unhelpful specification with a blurry boundary
  • Demoed a program that cleans up JSON texts by letting the user specify behavior for edge cases not covered in the standard

Web Command Content Modeling Standard

  • By: Mitch Bechtel
  • Type: Startup
  • Description:
    • Content Management Systems contain need to support all sorts of structured data, this modelling standard is a way to manage and query extensible types