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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by artiscode »

I did not get any extra time as both my and I wife work remotely and we're both employed in the tech sector. We got busier as daycare and school closed down(three kids). I invested all my spare time into gardening. I learned how to level ground, how to garden and take care of plants. Interestingly I did not learn anything tech related.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by vladvasiliu »

I'm building a small tool to automate authorizing and revoking AWS Security group rules.

I've been working from home on a sometimes unstable connection, so I've been using Mosh a lot. It was a bit tedious to update the security groups manually whenever my IP changed, and I'm also in the process of learning Rust, so this looked like a good project. It's not yet operational, though.

https://github.com/vladvasiliu/aws_ssh

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by spookyuser »

(1) Have recently started learning how to touch type, I figure if I leave the pandemic alive and with that extra skill it will be a huge win.

(2) In march I spent way to long on an extension that adds Hacker News Comments to Goodreads https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-reads-for-g...

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by code-faster »

I started a blog, https://codefaster.substack.com, to share a passion of mine: developer productivity. It's something I've done for myself for the past 9 years, reading countless books, trying enumerable tools, and even inventing a few originsl techniques. Now I want to help others who want to be more productive, especially now that corona has accelerated the need for automation.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by RBerenguel »

I've used the time to finish a few personal tools/projects I had only in my head or task manager (all in Python). I have actively tried to avoid more "work related" side projects, so I have avoided any Scala or data engineering related ideas I've had also for a while.

- A project templating system based on a single Markdown file: (https://github.com/rberenguel/motllo)

- Generating a graph visualisation of my notes in the app Bear, with Graphviz (https://github.com/rberenguel/bear-note-graph)

- A task-executiont tool, a bit like make (https://github.com/rberenguel/paque)

I have also brushed up on D3.js (for a project which hasn't appeared yet, but the result will also be used for the notes graph as an alternative to Graphviz) and generative coding (using p5js and threejs, the latter for fragment shader fractal stuff, https://github.com/rberenguel/sketches, most are still not up there, but only around my twitter feed). The generative coding path is also taking me towards tone.js and ORCΛ, but so far I have only dabbled in them.

I have also tried to spend a bit less time close to the computer per se (the generative "exploration" is done on my iPad mini in the sofa while watching something, for a start), and I have also tried to play some more music (ukulele, harmonica)

Edit: I always forget comments here are not written in Markdown

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