Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?
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I'm working on my mental health this weekend - I've been putting it off for a while now, so I'm focusing on writing and staying away from work and competitive games. Might finally crack open a book, which isn't something I've been able to do a whole lot recently. Recommendations are welcome :)
In Watermelon Sugar - Brautigan (just a random recommendation, short enough for a weekend, surrealistic, rather relaxing)
I am inches away from completing a library that automatically deploys a new SaaS platform, with most of the bells and whistles (more to be added each week). Once it is complete, I will be able to make a new company which I intend to use for other new SaaS companies. Essentially automating consulting / onboarding / services that all start ups need to have
This sounds so cool! What stack have are you building it with? Have you been dogfooding your own project?
I'm not sure I can give away the sauce yet for the actual ibrary, but the stack it creates is multiple React frontends with a Django API only backend that are all deployed to AWS. The AWS stack consists of RDS, Lambda functions for backend, S3 for media and React applications. The deployments are automated at literally every step; from AWS creation, GitHub configs to repo creation, TravisCI deployments. And yes! It is intended for dogfooding. The problem came about when I kept having to write very similar infrastructure over and over for new start ups
That sounds super impressive and useful. Do you ever plan to open source the code? Or keep it your competitive advantage? :)
I'm working two projects as of now. Both solves my own problem
1. https://github.com/mohitmun/howienduphere/
Problem: When browsing internet, I often come across really great blog/project/website etc. Its always good go back to origin of where I found it(let it be HN/reddit thread or some obscure blog). Most of the time I don't remember original source where did I find it mostly because its either in my pocket list or lost in dozens of tabs. this chrome extension will keep of all links i visited and their referrer(full urls not domain).
2. https://github.com/mohitmun/punter
Problem: Being rails developer, I love ORM(debatable). its very useful to quickly inspect data or run some manipulation. recently I was manipulating some CSV files, as well as sqlite db. I hate writing raw SQL for simple queries. so wanted to create a command-line tool where i can run simple queries (table.count, table.where(id > 3)) and get results. this should also work with CSV or any other db
1. https://github.com/mohitmun/howienduphere/
Problem: When browsing internet, I often come across really great blog/project/website etc. Its always good go back to origin of where I found it(let it be HN/reddit thread or some obscure blog). Most of the time I don't remember original source where did I find it mostly because its either in my pocket list or lost in dozens of tabs. this chrome extension will keep of all links i visited and their referrer(full urls not domain).
2. https://github.com/mohitmun/punter
Problem: Being rails developer, I love ORM(debatable). its very useful to quickly inspect data or run some manipulation. recently I was manipulating some CSV files, as well as sqlite db. I hate writing raw SQL for simple queries. so wanted to create a command-line tool where i can run simple queries (table.count, table.where(id > 3)) and get results. this should also work with CSV or any other db
Problem 1 is something I'm super into. One place where I think I would use this is in parallel to a web annotation system. Two years ago I had to take a stats course at school and I often found the dry mathematical explanations in the textbook challenging to comprehend. I would go online and search for better answers and often find them. For example a math overflow page or youtube video which makes the problem click in my brain. Now two months go by, and I forget the same theorem. In the back of my mind, I'll remember reading that one mathoverflow page or following a series of links, but now those links are lost in my history.
What I would like to do is annotate the web with data similar to what you are capturing and create 'context chains' as little sidenotes in the margins of the web. Then when I come back to the theorem I'm failing to understand I see a little margin note of the pages I visited when I first read the chapter, and I can immediately regain the context I found in my original study session.
What I would like to do is annotate the web with data similar to what you are capturing and create 'context chains' as little sidenotes in the margins of the web. Then when I come back to the theorem I'm failing to understand I see a little margin note of the pages I visited when I first read the chapter, and I can immediately regain the context I found in my original study session.
For the latter I started writing a tool myself before I tried sqlite's import. For my purposes it was actually pretty damned good.
Continuing the amazing course on https://www.nand2tetris.org/. I also received an HP microserver gen8 a few days ago and will be setting up a plex server with sonarr/radarr/ombi/etc...
A raspberry pi system to monitor my 3d printer during long prints. I'm writing the video streaming part myself for fun. Tomorrow I'll design and print the pi/camera mount.
Sounds cool. Wat tech do you use for the streaming part?
I'm working on the mobile version of Omnicube, which is a really hard puzzle game set on a talking cube in space.
I released the game a couple of months ago for Windows and Mac. I've had lots of requests to bring the game to mobile -- the mechanics are a great fit for touch devices, but it's hard to fit the entire interface onto a smaller screen. I'm working on some tricks and optimizations to improve the experience on mobile devices.
You can check out the desktop version of the game on Steam, itch.io, or the Windows Store. I also keep a development log on TIGSource.
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/800860/Omnicube
itch.io: https://trykon.itch.io/omnicube
Windows Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/omnicube/9njcwkrx4mm...
TIGSource devlog: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=63388.0
I released the game a couple of months ago for Windows and Mac. I've had lots of requests to bring the game to mobile -- the mechanics are a great fit for touch devices, but it's hard to fit the entire interface onto a smaller screen. I'm working on some tricks and optimizations to improve the experience on mobile devices.
You can check out the desktop version of the game on Steam, itch.io, or the Windows Store. I also keep a development log on TIGSource.
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/800860/Omnicube
itch.io: https://trykon.itch.io/omnicube
Windows Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/omnicube/9njcwkrx4mm...
TIGSource devlog: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=63388.0
I’ll be spending some time with friends, but also rebuilding the gearboxes in my open source 3D printed four wheel drive robot. Specifically I am adding some metal pins to the gearbox which should alleviate one of the failure modes discovered in this video:
https://youtu.be/DXPmqCd0r04
https://youtu.be/DXPmqCd0r04
I like how strangers were asking and were very enthusiastic.
I'm working on an app that matches up new contributors to open source projects who need various grunt work / simple programming done (https://issuehaven.com). All criticism is welcome :)
You can sort by code which is nice. I would like to suggest sort by “Difficulty” or “effort” as it seems most issues there also have those tags. Will look into it more. Looks good so far
I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, sorry- the issues are crawled based on a preconfigured list of beginner-friendly tags (see https://github.com/MattAlp/IssueHaven/blob/master/config.py#...).
They're currently sorted based on repository popularity (in stars), issue age, and total comments (I'm working on implementing a better ranking system).
How would you propose that I gauge difficulty/effort across board for the aggregated issues?
They're currently sorted based on repository popularity (in stars), issue age, and total comments (I'm working on implementing a better ranking system).
How would you propose that I gauge difficulty/effort across board for the aggregated issues?
I didn't realize the issues presented are already the 'easier' ones... unless I am misinterpreting your website again?
For example:
1. https://github.com/coala/coala/issues/5674
On the right hand side it has the label difficulty low, importance high
2. https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/4377
has the label good first issue
So labels are not consistent in each of the repositories. And it would be sort of difficult to display a label on each of the issues on your website. But maybe you could display and use the labels the repository is using for your own website (maybe with a toggle). By copying the labels you might not have to gauge difficulty?
For example:
1. https://github.com/coala/coala/issues/5674
On the right hand side it has the label difficulty low, importance high
2. https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/4377
has the label good first issue
So labels are not consistent in each of the repositories. And it would be sort of difficult to display a label on each of the issues on your website. But maybe you could display and use the labels the repository is using for your own website (maybe with a toggle). By copying the labels you might not have to gauge difficulty?
A Bash script for installing ArchLinux automatically. Right now I'm finishing a "system" for setting up the partitioning scheme (with MBR). You just store partition data in each row of a matrix (type, size, label, mount point, etc), with each row representing a partition. It takes row order as partition order (so row 0 is the first partition, row 1 is the second, and so on). This is the hardest thing to automate in pre-installation and is not difficult to do. It's fun because you have to catch errors like defining logical partitions after primary non-extended ones, partition sizes exceeding disk size and simple stuff like that, it's relaxing.
Nothing, British Chess Championship is in my hometown so I'm having a computer free week.
If you're participating as a player, good luck! What openings are you playing?
Also...go Mickey Adams!
Also...go Mickey Adams!
Not participating this year as I have to go out of town for a couple of days (off to see Iron Maiden) and I only started playing at Christmas (last played back when I was a teenager like 20 years ago).
Will likely enter next year in the under 120 baring some radical progression between now and then (I'm currently 104 after 9 league games).
Will likely enter next year in the under 120 baring some radical progression between now and then (I'm currently 104 after 9 league games).
I'm working on the beta version of https://followalong.co, which lets you follow specific people on HN.
Currently onboarding alpha testers if anyone's interested.
Currently onboarding alpha testers if anyone's interested.
Looks interesting, I'm down!
I'm working on a simple GUI for AWS's KMS[0]. KMS is great but it's very confusing for new people and it's not easy to organize the keys (and other information) that you want to store. My thought is that a simple Electron app would make this more approachable by humans and still make the keys usable by automated systems on the back-end.
[0]https://aws.amazon.com/kms
[0]https://aws.amazon.com/kms
I'm working on a simple web app to share ideas for side project.
I'd love to "show hackernews" some day, but it's not ready yet.
- Code is at https://github.com/sne11ius/egghead.space
- Pre-alpha-ish version runs at https://egghead.space
Also: my tan, since the weather in germany is awesome this summer :D
- Code is at https://github.com/sne11ius/egghead.space
- Pre-alpha-ish version runs at https://egghead.space
Also: my tan, since the weather in germany is awesome this summer :D
Clearing land, removing poison ivy by the road, taking down yet more white pines and a few small-ish oaks. Generally getting it presentable in the front and also ready for sheep (eventually).
I bought 4.5 acres in March, so this will take many more weekends to come.
Stripping paint off an antique newel that I bought from an architectural salvage.
Working on a wood bench I've been carving, but moving forward with that is now pending a draw knife that I ordered from amazon.
I bought 4.5 acres in March, so this will take many more weekends to come.
Stripping paint off an antique newel that I bought from an architectural salvage.
Working on a wood bench I've been carving, but moving forward with that is now pending a draw knife that I ordered from amazon.
I'm working on making Flutter apps run on macOS: https://feather-apps.com
Oh, that's awesome. Can't wait to try it out when I finish my flutter stuff!
I'm working in a Django's Queryset port to Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/diegojromerolopez/babik
I really miss Django and its way of making queries and I think it could be a good add-on for Rails.
I really miss Django and its way of making queries and I think it could be a good add-on for Rails.
Working on imageboard software that I'm writing for fun. All its responses are JSON, so it'll be possible to write various frontends for it.
(Although I haven't actually implemented the "image" part of it yet, so I guess it's just a text board right now)
(Although I haven't actually implemented the "image" part of it yet, so I guess it's just a text board right now)
I am working on a utility macOS app which add page numbers / text watermark to your PDFs file ( https://pdfpagenumber.com ) , currently implementing the bulk processing function.
An app that shows the most demanded technologies for a lot of different IT careers: https://skills.technology/software-developer
A way for people to get anonymous feedback from friends: http://www.andbehonest.com/
Not sure how to deal with possible abuse or harassment though
Not sure how to deal with possible abuse or harassment though
Blacklisting certain words for starters.
A tinier, faster "react.js": https://github.com/dosyago-coder-0/brutal.js
My tan.
- Finishing a large cat tree
- Installing a door
- Building a little free library
- Setting up additional irrigation in my garden
- Dehydrating fruit for snacks
- Writing code for fun and profit
How is your dehydration setup?
Also interested in this; is it a freezing or heating setup?
I had no idea dehydrating fruit would provoke such interest. I've got the cheapest generic-brand dehydrator I could find - think I paid $40 a few years ago at the local *mart. Has maybe 8 trays (I bought extra), basic circular, central air design. It works very well and I've done about ten batches of apples, bananas, cherries, and apricots this summer. Have three pounds of cherries to do this week. Hoping to do huckleberries as soon as they are ripe, and next spring we might try dehydrating morels. It's really nothing special, but it meets the family snack needs. I've even done jerky and fruit leather in it, with good success.
Now on the other hand my home cheese making operation is significantly more complex...
Now on the other hand my home cheese making operation is significantly more complex...
Trying to add a referral program to an email list builder I already made: https://tuemilio.com
Preparing to ship a comission-free Algo trading Platform
https://KloudTrader.com/narwhal
https://KloudTrader.com/narwhal
Planning on having trial periods? To be straight I only have an idle interest. Not an active algo Trader
Currently 3 days trials, but drop me an email :) Email's in profile. Sign up for our mailing list too: https://KloudTrader.com
I've lfound an old Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 IMPACT (literally) on the street... If I find an SGI to VGA Adapter, I might explore Irix ....
A to-do list app to replace Wunderlist:
https://matterlist.com
Getpoe.com, my distraction free writing app for windows. Rewriting in vuejs and it's going beautifully
I am finally working again on an idea I have about pre-screening for software engineering interviews.
That sounds interesting.
A sonarqube replacement with a nice UI, simple setup and easy plugins.
Tidying house and looking after kids, esp. Soccer practice plus a it of Netflix.
creating golang introductory course for experienced c/python programmers.
Writing a pretty redundant Spotify playlist manager in reactjs as exercise.
I'm working on a self modifying simulation experiment written in Go.
I'll be diving into emulator101.com from yesterdays post.
VR space station game.
Im trying to make a torifier for windows.
Pear compote!
I've just started to really kick off my side design project so hoping to spruce up the website and increase it's overall quality since it's not really at the level I want yet: https://designgib.com/