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I am working on this mobile app that is a cross between karaoke and musical instrument practice. Through playing music for a long time, I realize that playing with a band or with t…

25 years ago I needed an app that would transliterate my writing in English to my native language (Nepali), as I did not know how to type in my native language (which I still don't…

Coolest thing I learned is to clone trees. Roughest thing I learned is that most people who talk about climate, don't really want to plant trees. They just want to talk about it.

If you checked out all others maybe you want to check this one too. Its in Nepal and pioneers of various tech in cataract surgery -- https://tilganga.org/ Their number of treatment…

I wrote and made collection of stuff, but literally nobody read in last few years. Realized blogging (or making anything on the web) comes with a lot of marketing. Hence found text…

Thank you... Will do.

I am looking to work on open source pakcages or tools that are required, but do not have people working on them. Small tools that make life easy for all. I would like to take up on…

I have started planting local fruit trees with an aim to plant 120,000 local fruit trees in the next 3-5 years. Currently I have reached 3000 in the last 5 months, with another 100…

My daugther(18) and I(47) create a comic series at https://www.instagram.com/arghhhcomics/ . We use Inkscape and Gimp for them. Now we have animated series coming up, called Misund…

Having mentored quite a few gifted science students, the best thing that I have found is to give them a problem, give them a bunch of things and tools that they can break and tell …

Here is a list of things I have been doing from the time I left programming 2 years ago, roughly having worked for around 24 years. I was left with lots of time and didn't want to …

I have programmed for over 20 years (mainly Python) and after turning 40 (43 to be precise) started learning music with little or no background to playing. I heard that it is good …

Starting 1998, every couple of years I have taken up one or other side projects, which have all ended up not making a penny or even had much visits. My misadventures have been docu…

Not only language barrier, many pieces of great music and dance, specially from oral cultures like mine, go unnoticed most of the time. Few songs to listen for the added variety an…

I left Facebook 6 years ago. Never really closed my account, just walked away from it one day and didn't go to it anymore. I felt missing out for sometime (like a year). Sometimes …

Listening and trying to understand a lot of folk music I found out that it is not only language barrier, but a lot of music is unwritten and undocumented. So I started working on a…

Started learning music (Madal, Nepali drum and Clarinet) at age 43. 4 years now and getting allright at both with no previous skills. Hope to make a set of Youtube videos for learn…

I made a listing and links to sample videos of over 60 different varieties of Nepali music at http://prjoshi.com/music-list/ This is a whirlwind tour of Nepal through its music and…

I have been looking at newer tools that people have posted in Hacker news to use them in creation of online courses. I hope to create an online course in Music using these newer to…

Thanks. Looks good, will definitely check it out.

how about building a social platform and further learning site for serial entrepreneurs?? Serial entrepreneurs get together to test ideas, projects, etc... They learn mainly by see…

We, meaning 3 of us, have automated a greenhouse using Python code running on a raspberry pi -- this includes getting data from sensors within the greenhouse (temperature, humidity…