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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#121
https://fixtheops.dev a platform to train on docker/kubernetes/devops/sre topics. Kind of like hackthebox or rootme :)

Still need to add a bunch of challenges, find a way of monetise it, and remove the waiting list (need some more guard lines first). I really enjoyed working on it with NextJS, nodeJS with fastify, and vclusters to create sandboxed playgrounds.

I started coding it early 2023, but took a break from it in the last 3,4 months because... well summer.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#122
https://crates.io/crates/cargo-quickinstall is something that I hacked up in a week because `cargo install sqlx-cli` was taking so long in our CI whenever we got a cache miss. I ended up donating it to the cargo-bins team, and they're doing a great job of maintaining it.

I tried to extend the idea to cargo build (see http://alsuren.github.io/2022/07/30/why-cargo-quickbuild.htm...) but I never got it to work with proc macro packages so I gave up. If anyone wants to have a go at getting it working, I'm happy to mentor.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#125
Just released today: https://github.com/47ng/next-cache-explorer

It's a plugin for Next.js 13.4+ (app router) to visualise (and later act upon) the fetch cache.

I built in for my personal website and it already helped me find and fix over-fetching issues, so I shipped it into an NPM package.

Feedback welcome!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#126
I don't have a hardware background but would like to work in one eventually (probably not though no degree so do it on my own time).

These are my hardware/robotic/vision/navigation related projects. They are pretty noobish but fun to work on.

Unfortunately lately I haven't had as much time as I'd like to work on this stuff.

If anyone is interested in looking as far as providing architecture/code review type thoughts, I'd be open to them.

[1] autofocus camera with speech intent intended later for tracking [2] visual depth probe slam from crude panorama/"color segmentation" [3] single point slam insect-style quad

[1] https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/ml-hat-cam [2] https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/pi-zero-2-robot-navigation... [3] https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/twerk-lidar-robot/tree/dev

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#127
post #80

Abound: https://abound.art It's a generative art platform/marketplace. You write an algo that generates art according to some number of parameters, upload it as a Docker image, and let other people tinker and generate things they like the aesthetics of. Basically remote code execution as a service, but I spent a lot of time on the sandboxing side of things and feel pretty good about it. The infra is tuned for "saving…

This is really cool! How did you solve the sandboxing?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#128
https://github.com/endpointservices/mps3

An open source offline-first browser DB that uses any S3 API as the cloud storage. Backblaze, minio, S3, R2 in the test harness. Randomised causal consistency testing behind toxiproxy. 30kb but still hardening the offline-first stuff and only GET and SET KV operation implmented so far (but multiplayer), next step will be conditional SET as a step toward transaction support. All over vanilla S3!

Designed to make adding multiplayer persistence to websites operationally simple and with lightweight page loads and instant access to previously read data.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#129
This is a thread I've been desperately needing. I've been working on a command line tool project for MacOS that I've been hesitant to post. I've been waiting until the project is 1.0 before posting on HN. Here it is currently!

https://github.com/demyinn00/BootMe

BootMe is a workflow manager app. There are 6 buttons that can be configured. 4 of the 6 buttons can be configured to open tabs and links, launch apps, and start a spotify playlist. This app is almost ready, but I'm looking for feedback. Specifically, bugs and potential enhancements.

Please do not roast my UI, I'm sure there are improvements that can be made. Offer suggestions and constructive criticism. For the record, I'm a new grad -- go easy.

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#130
Hah I never have a thing to show off.... yay unemployment?

I made a little thing to count and track how many people are surfing on surfline's webcams to learn a bit about ml/ai, computer vision and deploying these things. I think its neat, and the data is fun in a nerdy way. Not sure what to do with it now. Its been cool, I had to get my own dataset together for it to work.

Check it out at and click around dp52hy5y2zsyt.cloudfront.net

I haven't committed enough to it to buy a domain.

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