Amazing! I love a good cheesy app that lets me show my appreciation. Let me know when it's on Android.
I threw together my own thing called Heart for the Android app store a while ago which sends a notification of a little heart to whomever you've paired with. :)
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Technologies: C, C++, Python, CUDA, Embedded, CI/CD, Computer Vision, SLAM,
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Senior leader, staff-level generalist, ~10YoE, between startups, scaleups, and big tech. I build with a strong sense of ownership, product and business value, not just code. I seek out collaboration with non-engineering teams to understand the broader context, and I’m not fazed by legacy systems. I'll make them work, make them fast, and make them stable without defaulting to rewrites. Over the years, I’ve worked at companies of various sizes and stages, learning what scales and when to apply the right tools and patterns. I'm someone who can move an MVP from early traction to real scale, untangle and upgrade your legacy codebase, or help a team grow through better processes and technical guidance, without needing detailed instructions to get started. Looking for a senior/staff role. Especially interested in roles related to computer vision and SLAM, but always happy at a keyboard.
I built https://www.deadmansswitch.net 17 years ago, and it's still running. It's for people, though, not machines. For machines I use healthchecks.io, and there's also Dead Man's Snitch.
I use https://healthchecks.io [1] to track backup tasks and alert if they haven't run in X days. With one cURL command at the start and one at the end, I also get alerts immediately if it fails, and can track duration.
I wrote a system that allows that kinda thing, you'd fire a message saying "Hey alert me if you don't hear again in the next five minutes". This kinda heartbeat can be submitted via cron from servers, etc.
Alerts can then be fired if deadlines are missed, and you can submit your own id/title/timeout period. If you wanted it to route alerts you'd just say "raise the alert now" rather than "+5m", or whatever.
Development kinda stopped, but the system worked and had a flexible notification system - so you could email, use pushover, etc, etc - as well as a HTTP user interface so you can view pending/raised alerts.
Related, and linked in my repo, is the similar tool Nanny which has more native integrations but the same basic idea:
Thank you for this feature request! Will implement and get back to you -- if you want to send me an email I'll tell you directly, or I'll just make another response on this comment!
I threw together my own thing called Heart for the Android app store a while ago which sends a notification of a little heart to whomever you've paired with. :)