I am in the process of wrapping up a static site generator I made. https://github.com/sachleen/Steady I used it as an opportunity to refresh my PHP skills and start using Composer. In the process, I also made and published my first package on packagist. https://packagist.org/packages/sachleen/twig-truncatep that allows you to truncate a block of HTML (say an article) to a fixed number of paragraphs in a Twig template.
Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#112Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…
I would pay for that pocket-to-kindle service
Have you tried https://p2k.co/?
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#1131. on-device speech recognition and command clasifier. V. Proprietary. 2. antigen target filtering system for a boolean logic platform for using CAR-T with AML. 3. Database and retrieval system for a series of experiments in gerbil and chinchilla cochlea to study wave propagation along the organ of corti. 4. a unity-based traveller RPG character management suite. 5. A system to measure whisker deflection in rats as a…
where are you doing this ?
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#114http://www.replayray.com/
A fun way to follow sports on your phone, when you can't watch the actual game. The game tracker always starts at the beginning and never 'spoils' the result.
I've put more work into NFL lately, but I'll likely improve NBA basketball next. There are a slew of other sports too - soccer, MLB, NHL - although the degree of upkeep has been varied.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#115Quitting my full-time job to pursue my side-projects was the best thing I could have done for my health and sanity this year. I am now working on a bunch of ideas that I hope will help some people around here: 1. A Pocket-to-Kindle service that syncs (almost) instantly to your Kindle whatever article you save, formats it like a professionally edited book, cleans up ads and takes advantage of the new typesetting engin…
I would pay for that pocket-to-kindle service
I would let you pay for it if it was ready
I can make you an (unofficial, free) beta tester if you want. I'll have most of the basic functionality by the end of January. If you're interested let me know here: alin.p32@gmail.com
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#116I built and launched two projects:
https://docsift.com, which was a tool for journalists and legal teams to help smooth fact discovery from large document dumps. I ultimately benched it because I'm not a lawyer or a journalist and couldn't find a motivated group of users to provide good feedback.
While I was building Docsift, I'd built a Slack integration to get nice-looking cryptocurrency quotes, and it was growing on its own after sharing it in a single team; I decided to switch gears and work on that. It turned into https://www.CoinAlerts.io, which is a quoting tool and alerting service for cryptocurrency hobbyists, investors, and speculators. It's been growing pretty strongly on its own, and I'm having a great time hacking away at it. I'm building another thing in that space right now, splitting some of my time off from CoinAlerts to work on it; ultimately they'll go together. No comment on whether or not I think BTC or crypto in general are a bubble, but I'm really enamored with the space.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#117I had a busy year. I converted a major auction site to fully responsive as the sole front-end developer and interface designer, learned Java and started doing full stack development at work, and then quit my job when they moved the offices too far away.
After quitting I decided to start my own company and began developing next generation assistive devices for the blind. I actually got pretty far along that path when I thought of an idea in a different realm that had much larger potential and required much less development. I can't talk about the specifics yet, but I'm getting very close to launching a new type of mapping service.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#118Potioneer, my VR gardening simulator/Animal Crossing/Stardew Valley game. I had to take a two month hiatus while I switched jobs but I'm back at it every moment I get. I'm hoping to launch the game fully by this time 2018.
If you're interested in this kind of thing, be sure to follow me on GNU Social: https://kwat.chat/focusonfungames
You can find the game on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/544410/Potioneer_The_VR_Ga...
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#119A new kind of UX tool. The first version uses text-commands to create and edit wireframes. These articles are about the progress of the prototype:
https://medium.com/proof-of-concept
In a week or two there will be an online sandbox version for people to play with.
Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?
#120Not as cool as a lot of these, but I built https://voyagefound.com as a react learning project. It's a filterable interface for viewing random pages on WikiVoyage.org.
It's one of those projects that I got 95% done in a few weekends early this year, then lost interest. I spent some holiday time last week wrapping it up and deploying it. Actually finishing projects (especially learning projects) is something I often struggle with, so it felt good to get over the finish line on this little project.