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Ask HN: What are you currently working on?

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Always interesting to hear what projects people are working on!

I'm working on my kanban-style email client, Kanmail (https://github.com/Fizzadar/Kanmail).

this is very cool

I'm working on a live dashboard for our school Baja SAE team. They design and build an off-road buggy and it'll have a bunch of sensors on it. The dashboard shows a live view of what's happening to the car using websockets. Currently it's got fake data streaming from the server when you press play!

https://Adam.teaches.engineering

I'm finishing up my rust project convenient-skiplist [0] so I can finally achieve sorted set time-complexity parity between redis-oxide [1] and actual redis [2].

It's been quite challenging to get indexing working in a coherent and performant way. My sorted set implementation is "pure" in the sense you can only travel right and down, so you have to dance carefully to make the arithmetic work.

And the fact it's in rust adds the additional headaches of borrow checker / etc. Very fun though.

[0] https://github.com/dpbriggs/convenient-skiplist

[1] https://github.com/dpbriggs/redis-oxide

[2] https://redis.io/commands/zpopmax

I am working on a cheap light-field videocamera and automatic software for processing the videos.

https://starrecognizer.com/ . Shazam for movie stars. To finally stop arguing with my GF in what other movies did this actor play.

Not ready for live, but more of a sneak peak

Elm, PWA, Netlify

That's a great great idea. Will follow this

Thanks!

I'm working on Muon, a modern low-level programming language: https://github.com/nickmqb/muon

I'm working on parsing our data files (hopefully quickly) and extracting things like instance type data for upload to a central reporting tool. This will help us get useful information about which types different teams on our central tech are using in their data, without having to give us full access to the entire dataset itself. This will then give us a better overview of which types we can change or deprecate without impacting the teams, or which teams we need to coordinate with before modification.

https://www.checkbot.io - a website SEO, speed and security checker implemented as a Chrome extension.

I wrote a 10K word guide for it that explains all the best practices it automatically checks for here https://www.checkbot.io/guide. I'm reworking the guide to break it up into individual articles that expand on the how and why for each best practice.

I'm currently working on two side projects:

https://vinyldeals.club/ - an aggregator for deals and new releases on vinyl records. It is in its early stages though.

https://flxn.de/qrcode2stl/ - an online tool to create your own 3d printable qr codes. It directly spits out STL files for slicing.

Right now I am working to reduce costs in one of my employer projects currently using GCP.

If I am successful I hope to save 60% in storage costs and another 70% in CPU costs.

Then I hope I will be free to NOT DO the CiC (check-in-chats). (hate to have to copy over the tickets from ZD to another system because because)

The savings will pay for my salary and 2 coworkers.

And If I get a good teammate we can slash all servers things to 1/8 and still do auto-scale. I need someone on the Java team to help.

I'm working on DOME, a game development framework for making games with Wren: https://domeengine.com

It was featured on HN last weekend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200739

We've even got a game jam and discord server set up now :)

I'm working on cataloging and indexing the table of contents for all the cookbooks my wife and I have acquired over the years. It'll make it much easier to search by recipe name across all our cookbooks when there's a dish we want to cook.

https://www.hellocookbook.com/

https://www.tenproblems.com - short, text-only Kindle booklets democratizing the latest trends and the open questions for 30 subjects, as put forward by leading academicians and practitioners in 2019, hopefully aimed at debunking fake news, sensationalism and outright biased agendas.

Persisting your OS state as a "context" - saving and loading your open applications, their windows, tabs, open files/documents and so on.

Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources.

Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates.

https://cleave.app

This is awesome. Any chance for an Ubuntu release?

Thanks!

I've got a couple of thoughts and strategies for trying to implement the same functionality on other platforms, but I honestly haven't had the time to prototype or even look more into it yet...

I'm working on a mindfulness calendar that will automatically plan your perfect work-life balance. [0] I always struggled with finding a healthy work-life balance and none of the apps worked for me. So I'm scratching my own itch with this.

[0] https://ritualin.com

I am working on conceptualizing an API security tool for developers and testers. The developers can use this to automatically find code vulnerabilities. Testers can use this to run standard OWASP tests against the API. Integrations with Atlassian, Postman and Azure DevOps is on the roadmap.

I am making a virtual keyboard widget in for Qt projects that will be dynamically built and initialized by just a json.

It will have different layouts and they will be set by the json, so basically the user only needs to supply a well structured json and boom! you have a virtual keyboard for any app.

I'm working on pomodoro-timer.app. My next step is to publish it as a PWA to the google play store :)

I am working on making screencasts about Vue.js, inspired by destroy all software. https://vuejs-course.com/screencasts.html

https://happy-bose-4eb009.netlify.com

Shopping search engine probably, not sure where im going with this. Just a quick demo, don't mind the ugly makeshift looks

Current side project is an API for holding event/venue data.

My own use case is a ticketmaster-style service for small venues and free gigs, but I'm trying to keep it flexible enough for the same API to be used across multiple services.

That's interesting. What stack are using for this?

Very early days yet, but I'm currently using Django for the API, and React to knock up a basic sample front end.

"Reddit/HN" for best local food based on dishes. Just a side project. https://TasteJury.com

I'm working on one side project:

https://thestrife.co/ - Events and uprisings around you, Explained.

Currently building a disk-persisted key-value store in Javascript. It has been a very cool project involving lots of different things to learn about.

Is it open source? Mind sharing a link?

Not yet, still a work in progress. But I can upload it to github, wanted to do that anyways.

playing with coronavirus sequencing data and writing medium paper about it https://medium.com/@vladimirnowmoove/data-analysis-of-corona...

Getting a mesh flattening algorithm to work for real-world triangulations of optical surfaces, based on curvature flow.

Godot tutorials, a basic roguelike in C/Lua.

Bought an Oculus Go to play around with Godot's VR capabilities

Also breaking Anarki.

Working on a unique ticketing system where your id is your entrance ticket.

Is it open source? Mind sharing a link?

Its not open source, building a poc for a company.

trying to finish up the 2019 Advent of Code problems. Sorry, Santa...

same thing, a community for remote companies & workers: https://reworkin.com/

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