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Ask HN: What are you hacking on this weekend?

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Do you have any side projects you are working on or something you are hacking on this weekend?

I've been working on my next side project. I am hoping to get a beta out for it. Basically, I have a number of clients who need hosted database solutions. So I have made an automated relational database as a service solution with backup, restore, and high availability on multiple relational database engines.

Now that I have a few clients and it's working well, I would love to be able to market and sell it more widely.

Which database engines do you plan to support?

We currently support MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. I have the ability technically to support MS SQL Server as well but I am still working on making it a cost effective solution. Microsoft's license model makes it rather expensive.

What engine would you be looking to use?

Bouldering. I have a project just down the hill from this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBockTKBV4w

Gotta step away from the machine for a few days every week to make sure the rest of your life gets lived. I find it actually makes me more productive when Monday rolls around.

Random probably fruitless game development endeavors.

Still working on a game project I started in January. It's terrible, and could have been finished in a month if I knew what I was doing, and stopped shaving all these yaks.

Also I've decided I want to go through the noobtuts[0] Unity tutorials and implement them in C++, since they're really basic and I want to learn Unity and actually have some finished games.

[0]https://noobtuts.com/unity

Last weekend and week I spent 20+ hours on a coding assessment for an interview. They said they liked me as a candidate, liked my work, but whereas I was always going to be a remote candidate, that just wasn't going to work for them right now. Sigh.

This weekend I'll hopefully get a chance to work on my Deck lights LED strip project.

https://youtu.be/ww1q248jc7Q

I have been wanting to make a LED strip design for Christmas ever since I saw the Johnson Family Christmas 2015 video. What does the hardware look like on your setup?

The hardware setup is based on what I had on-hand:

- Raspberry Pi with WiFi dongle

- Arduino Uno connected to rpi via USB

- NeoPixel (ws2812b) LED strip connected to arduino https://www.aliexpress.com/item/individually-addressable-1m-...

- Adafruit Power Supply https://www.adafruit.com/products/658

All that is in a Tupperware box below the deck with an extension cord for power running to it.

I'm running PlatformIO on the rpi to program the arduino from the command line (love it), and still moving between FastLED and the NeoPixel libraries to drive the LED strips. I've installed Homebridge on the rpi to eventually be able to control the setup with Siri from an iDevice.

I'll eventually properly document the project, but for now, here are my brain-dump notes:

https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNote...

A custom emulator for Ultima Online. (actually a fork of runuo)

For production or just for the fun of it?

Both!

Hopefully will have time to work on the book version of https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/. And maybe a talk proposal for PyCon.

That course looks really interesting. How many hours a week are required for the 5 week course?

It's very high level (there's a reason I'm working on a book). So parts of it are conceptual, so thinking about what you want, another part is "go practice negotiating at work, and here's some ideas" and that can take as long as you want.

So you can just read the email and that's it, and that'll take very little time. Or you could go full bore and spend a lot of time on, say, building savings to improve your negotiating position.

Need to fix my express server and webpack build for the first production version of a website im working on

OT: any expert in react, webpack, express !! please tweet me at @nicofetter or email hi@nicofetter.com

I was asked if I could chime in to automate repetitive, inhumane, tasks in a HR process (a large number of people). It's mainly monitoring records matching a set of sentinels and triggering stuff.

I don't want to impose Python because the tools they're using offer scripting capabilities, so I'll just learn their stuff and point them towards scripting.

Also working on a few projects and learning as I go (JavaScript, XMPP, Google App Engine..) and will buy a couple of things for a hydroponics experiment.

I'm working on a browser extension (just chrome for now) so I don't miss any amazon goldbox deal, check it out, feedback is very welcome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-deals/oglf...

Hopefully a turkey and a TCP server written in C

Improving performance of latent space visualisation tools for spaces generated with Deep Learning Autoencoders

Packaging winds for sandstorm.io

https://github.com/GetStream/Winds

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm

Have some problems using a Meitracker for tracking trucks ( and temperature of the fridges), their gprs protocol is really bad.

Looking to get through it, have no choice.

On top of that, my webshop ( more languages), some websites ( clients) and other webshops ( clients) + erp integration with ErpNext or OpenErp

The programming game http://halite.io/

I'd recommend it - really fun.

At the moment I'm ranked #23 with a really stupid bot. I'm now doing hammock driven development on a better concept.

Backup 20+ very old hard disks with very old stuff on a new hard disk, trying to de-duplicate files. They are from windows 95/98 era. When copied, smash them with an hammer and dispose of them.

Writing widgets with Algolia and Github API for a HN meetup page: https://hn.silexlabs.org/index.html

Trying my hand on a small elixir-based livestreaming video broadcast server using WebRTC. Broadcasters and Audience would be in react-native. Dunno if it would work though.

Trying to create another Hacker News client on iOS with RubyMotion. Since I'm new to iOS development, this might be a toy project.

More gamedev with UE4 http://paddlevspaddle.com/

Going to a local Startup Weekend the next one and preparing for an apps recommender prototype combining security and popularity rankings.

Finish the Machine Learning for Trading course on Udacity. I'm already halfway through.

Gonna read a book.

any particular book?

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