Been experimenting a lot with Mobile development recently and learned Flutter. I am currently trying to build a collectibles app for games like Pokemon Go. Was curious to see what you guys are up to these days!
It turns out someone wrote a tutorial on how to automate COVID-19 appointment slot bookings and used KVdb to store SMS OTP codes. Never expected it, but a great surprise. Long tail of SaaS is just wonderful :)
Now, it's working on https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything and picking it up again.
Every Friday, I send out a list of 50+ articles. I'm a typical HN reader so the interest profile ends up similar to HN. But I try to omit product/press releases and big corp stuff.
SInce I curate from the 'newest' section of HN, my newsletter has little overlap with other HN-based newsletter and digests. They cover 'top' stories. I cover stories that you probably missed.
Also, I wrote a big intro to it at this Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27343897). You can read more about it there.
If you'd like to read interesting stuff that went unnoticed by Hacker News, please have a look at my newsletter. It's at https://bengtan.com/interesting-things.
So I'm putting together a really simple "Strava for diving" app in react native to suit my needs and then at the same time having a reason to learn a bit about go for the server.
Also @op one of my coworkers told me she built something to track some Disney collectibles game, and she gets thousands of users which is really cool, but you won't believe the entitlement from people asking for bug fixes on a free web app lol
And you can definitely tell linus made it. The UI is very... engineer-y and not simple at all
Would you consider making visited links a different color? That would vastly improve the experience for me, since I could see at a glance which content I have not viewed yet, if any.
Of course there's no plans to compete with other existing languages, but if I get far enough I'll use this language to work on some personal projects. I've learned a ton about programming language design so far so the project has already been a success.
Most recently I created a book written and illustrated entirely by AI (GPT-3) - https://grimtalesbook.com
I've almost finished a prototype of a physical product for people with a specific desktop PC case which I'm looking forward to launching (nothing technical, more for the DIY builder crowd).
There are a few more ideas that are queued up for the coming months. It's exciting knowing that there's a timeline for each project. There's no need to slog away losing motivation on a single project!
Also working on a Sticker Mule clone to teach myself Blazor.
Building a twitter community around Adverts from old technology magazines like Byte, Compute!, Crash and ZZap64. Mostly around 8bit computers and the retro computing scene, but also retro stereo decks, cameras and electronics. Most from 80s, 70s and older.
Discovering strange and wonderful creation that are lost in time. :-)
Critic, feedback, improvements to the idea are most welcome.
Looking for co-developers to work on the project.
It's very much in the Alpha stage and I'm currently working on a demo video that shows the basic functionality of the platform.
I don't use social media much these days and prefer newsletters or RSS. I got tired of not going to art galleries or museums during the pandemic and thought others might like their inboxes being a bit brighter each morning.
I hate these threads, by the way. I always want to have something cool finished by the time one pops up. "Writing vector and animation modules for SDL's float API that will eventually appear in a roguelike, or shooter, I haven't decided which" doesn't have punch.
I'm also working on and off on a HN client for Godot. It basically works.
Also working on the Anarki forum very, very slowly.
Unfortunately I'm a magpie and I'm distracted by shiny new toys, which right now is the fact that I can write C in Lua much more easily than I could write Lua in C.
Thank God none of this my job...
Oh, and I started a blog with Lektor that still has nothing on it.
-Researching for an article on Google and Facebook's collusion in the ad industry, specifically w/r/t Europe.
-Working on a pair of podcast projects, one related to the first item and another getting stories recorded from older family members.
-At the research stage on an article about the future for GPT-3 in the tax realm.
It's kinda crazy that a few companies already hold this much data about you. Building this made me rethink of how I interact with those companies.
It's a backend-less SPA, inspired by draw.io.
Product perspective: I was using MyFitnessPal previously and got tired of all the bloat in the app. Weight Logger does exactly one thing and keeps you in charge of your data. I plan to add integrations with Dropbox, OwnCloud, Google Drive and Office 365.
Developer perspective: For work I mostly do web apps where every inch of the (desktop) screen is covered with numbers and buttons. We churn out features and try to squeeze as much information on the screen as we can. In contrast, Weight Logger is about simplicity and working well on mobile devices. It's also the first time in my career that I get to use my own app every morning. Surprisingly this gives me warm fuzzies about programming. I was at a point where I was starting many different hobbies (electronics, 3D printing, woodworking...) to escape somewhat emotionally dry world of software development. In day to day business we value pragmatism more than code we're really proud of. Feature requests come in before development is complete on the previous one. Weight Logger reminds me every day that it doesn't have to be that way and that I can still find positive experiences within software engineering.
As the guy who pays all the bills in the house I have like 7+ bills to pay in a single time. I hate to pay it 1 by 1 so I created the app to solve that problem.
This is the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bayaqapp.w... but it is only for Malaysia.
Like its all hidden
You don't know when the bills are paid
You don't get to review the bills
They're on different dates
Etc.
I'm also working on integrating this into a Telegram bot (https://github.com/joshbarrass/ArchiverBot) that will allow me to archive things to my NAS whilst on the go. UArchiver is provided with the URL and will just download the files without me needing to care how.
I've been too busy with other things to put major work into it recently, but both projects are in a functional state, just without tonnes of features or supported sites. Whilst it may not seem like much, I'm particularly pleased with the GitHub Actions pipeline I set up recently, which will automatically upload UArchiver releases to PyPi, and automatically build ArchiverBot Docker images and upload those DockerHub.
Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients.
It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before). [1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore
Thinking about calling it Gramcracker (ya know, for n-gram).
The idea is to store lots of data with little memory usage and have predictable performance, by having an on disk index similar to sqlite.
The goal being to get rid of the existing in memory search engine that fastcomments uses, since it's rarely queried but data size keeps growing.
- Fully features user mode ISDN stack for Linux. This was going to include some reference applications like a softphone, softswitch and H.320 multiplexer.
- Hackish kernel-mode X.25 driver for Windows built atop existing serial hardware
- Custom DOCSIS modem built on a limesdr. Was going to try to go further and create a Ethernet drive so that I could plug a PC directly into my CMTS and get a connection.
- Reverse engineering the file system for an old piece of ISDN test equipment I have and maybe building some sort of FUSE interface for it.
- Turning my HP-85 into a controller for some of my old equipment since I was able to snag the serial and GBIP cartridges for it. Was also thinking about making an X.25 stack for it as well.
- A RS-449 <-> V.35 or X.21 converter since the few people who make them don’t seem to want to sell them to me. I’m not much of a hardware guy though so converting to X.22 may be easier since I believe the signals are mostly compatible.
- Additionally there’s some technologies I’ve wanted to play with but haven’t really found a project for. I’ve been wanting to do some Smalltalk for a while. I wanted to do something with visible light communications (perhaps when 802.11bb is bit more developed) and for some reason I had the odd urge to do something crazy with OLE (yes, that OLE). I’ve also wanted to play with PLCs and maybe find something cursed to do with SmartNICs.
Some of these got a little more work done on them then others, but I just kinda lost interest in everything a while back for partially unexplainable reasons. I’m currently prepping to go back to school.
Iceberg Charts are an information format in which the most well-known/popular information is placed in the top tier, and each level down ever less known and finally obscure information is placed that only subject matter experts are aware of.
This makes it an interesting structure to explore and learn more about topics one isn't too familiar with.
This work was inspired by suricrasia's "Cursed Computer Iceberg": https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/
Traditionally, icebergs are only presented in an image format, like in https://www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/, but I wanted a site that made it possible to optionally add links and descriptions too
My goal is to learn SwiftUI and explore new technologies.
The app is now open source on GitHub as well, it's my way to give back to the community as I was learning it. [3]
Feedback welcome!
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[1] Download link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id15481...
[2] Landing page: https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site
[3] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/Clendar
Hope you all have a great weekends! :)
https://github.com/lgirma/boost-web/tree/master/boost-web-fo...
Simple mood/symptom tracker: https://howsyourblank.com
I have almost six months of data in it myself, and I am excited to see what my "year-n-pixels" looks like at the end of the year.
Leaderboard app: https://leaderboardhq.com
My family plays a card game that includes 9 rounds with a cumulative score. This app is tailored for that, but I made it generic enough with a few basic settings so that it can be pretty universally applicable.
Blog by sms/text: https://textpost.me
Saw another project like this, but built it out the way I wanted to see it work for me. Pretty much the only blogging/journaling practice that allows me to remain consistent.
I have had a chronic health issue, and I was needing to "rank" my daily symptoms. Most solutions I found were overly complex for my needs and without much of a focus on privacy. So I have taken those two tracks.
I would like to build it out more, while maintaining the simplicity, but want to wait on some feedback. So please do let me know what you think.
How's Your Blank is a javascript app with https://userbase.com serving as the backend to keep the user data encrypted and out of my hands.
Also it makes sense to have work-related tasks and personal tasks split into two.
* LIPS: https://lips.js.org/ Powerful Scheme-based Lisp interpreter in JavaScript
* jQuery Terminal: https://terminal.jcubic.pl/ for building CLI applications in Browser
* Sysend.js: https://github.com/jcubic/sysend.js for sending messages to other tabs/windows in same browser
* Favloader: https://github.com/jcubic/favloader Favicon animation library
Also some parts of this book https://www.amazon.com/Database-Internals-Deep-Distributed-S... were very useful when working on the file structure.
I also just recently saw this project https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/ which builds a database in C. I have not gone through it but it seems like quite a good resource.
For the overall design the CMU playlist is the most helpful.
I'm writing a book about career advice for programmers titled "Junior to Senior" that will be published later this year by Holloway[0]. It's been years in the making and there's still some work left, but it's been encouraging to hear the positive feedback since I announced it publicly.
It's a sister product to my existing creative writing Add-In but with a different focus and feature set.
Only a sign-up form exists at this time, but the creative writing Add-In gives a good indication of how it will work.
It runs of a Raspberry Pi Zero and all parts will be 3d-printable or off-the-shelf.
Here's the current status of it: https://imgur.com/a/jmnR5Tk
Also writing updates and progress here: https://www.reddit.com/r/shibusa/
Initially I was marketing the platform to end-users that have just a few websites, but it receives more interest from web agencies that want to get userTrack for their own clients. Although my goal is to promote self-hosting and decentralization, I think enabling agencies to use a self-hosted solution instead of popular SaaS alternatives is a good start.
SOCKS5-Proxifier-DLL for anti-censorship tunnel solutions (https://github.com/nefarius/socksifier)
And many more :) , currently working on a bot for a Discord Community with dotnet core and RavenDB.
https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems
I am thinking about adding screen capture/video sharing and file system synchronization
This application has already done wonders for automation across my home network, but it seems there is no interest in the idea.
We have a free tier with no time limit or credit card required, if you want to check it out.
https://github.com/shmooth/ideatracker
I'm also trying to figure out a web stack I like for side projects going forward.
This one is not it.
And neither is any other one.
Built 100% on JavaScript, using node, express, prisma, tailwind and unpoly.
Just invested a weekend and a couple more hours after work this week, so not many features and not well tested yet, but works.
https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios
Next I need to make the Android version. I’m hearing a lot of good things about Flutter.
I believe E-commerce do need metasearch engine. I launched it in couple of subreddits and got good feedback. Currently, I am working on following features
1. Compare multiple products
2. show shipping cost
3. show product detail
It's a clean music player with cloud storage and sharing, geared toward musicians and producers (i.e., me).
After years of native SDK development, I've switched to React Native and not looking back!
It is private browser for Mac and Windows. Paid for Mac users and Free for Win (Win version still has some bugs)
Think of the Hacker Newsletter, but for games.
A library for tracking video games. Written in Vue and Go. Looking to add TV, movies, and podcasts in the coming months.
Made it so I could stream multiple streamer's perspectives in a tournament.
I like watching tournaments on VOD so I can skip the long setup times and the tool allows me to compensate for players with different delays set on their streams.
Another problem I have with both live streams and vods is loading all of them into some sort of playlist for a particular competition/event. Obviously requires quite a fair amount of community driven work, and not necessarily limited to Twitch.
On second thought, maybe the onus is on competition producers/organizers to do this, plus I guess not that many people want to analyze multiple streams at once. But it's still annoying having to repeat looking up streams/channels/vods to watch for every tournament.
Each day a different message/tweet/video to encourage you to own your day.
Has been my primary side project for the past 5 years. Looking for collaborators btw.
https://github.com/haael/white-box-fapkc
Looking for contributors!