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Splice a Fibre

25 pointsby matt-ptoday at 11:57 AM10 commentsview on HN

It's interactive, try and splice one!

Written in react, it's moderately heavy and not entirely mobile optimised.


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candiddevmiketoday at 1:54 PM

I was a fiber installer once upon a time in the 00s. A guy I worked with who was "the splicer" for our team and has years of experience using the little easy bake oven thing swore by going off the smell to know when it's "ready". Probably not the greatest thing for your health considering he did at least 10-12 of these a day.

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ndom91today at 12:52 PM

This would be a perfect plugin for Netbox! (https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox)

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maartenhtoday at 1:39 PM

Nice! You might want to fix your GitHub link in the footer though, it 404's for me right now :)

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zwnowtoday at 12:44 PM

We were splicing some fiberglass in job training a few years back and it was honestly pretty cool! The website is also really nice, I remember seeing the color codes on the splicing machine. Mesmerizing piece of technology.

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