Ask HN: What did you build this week?

I didn't exactly build anything in terms of creating anything new. I'm in a phase right now where I'm doing a lot of reading and background research. So I just finished reading Laird's SOAR book[1], and the second volume of Goertzel's Engineering General Intelligence[2]. Now I'm working on finishing Pinker's Words and Rules[3].

On the more hands-on front, all I really did was download the source for the various components of OpenCog[4], build them, and get all of that stuff installed. The plan for the next little while is to start playing around with building simple systems with OpenCog and SOAR[5] and gain a deeper understanding of both.

So yeah, wish I had something more exciting to talk about, but that's just where things are for me right now.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262122960/

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-General-Intelligence-Part...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Words-Rules-Ingredients-Language-Scie...

[4]: https://opencog.org/

[5]: https://soar.eecs.umich.edu/

Spent the last few nights hacking together a fuzzy parser for a superset of CSS that expands nested rules like SCSS does. First time trying a fuzzy parser; it doesn't know any details of CSS selectors or property values. But it does know about comments and strings so it seems fairly safe. It's working out surprisingly well so far and is around 200 LoC.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/cssplus

I'm building a monorepo, trying to set it up to be as productive as I can:

https://medium.com/@amir_h/what-would-an-optimal-monorepo-lo...

I personally just released https://get.mymfa.io. A platform allowing you to share Multi-Factor Authentication codes safely and easily for Quality Assurance and App Store review processes :)

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Working on https://bruzu.com

It's an API to generate images on the fly.