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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by apankrat »

A networking IO abstraction library in C - https://github.com/apankrat/tcp-striper

Based around an idea of IO pipes with minimal semantics (duplex, reliable, ordered) that they can then extend to implement other traits like IO buffering, atomic send, packetization, compression, encryption, etc. [1]

This then allows merging together pipes of different types (by attaching the output of one to the input of another), which combines their traits and yields, for example, a reliable datagram carrier with in-flight compression.

With this it also becomes possible to write a simple IO bridge [2] that relays both data _and_ operational state between two pipes. The bridge in turn can be used to implement all sorts of interesting things, e.g. proper TCP relay, SSL tunneling proxy, TCP trunking proxy, etc.

[1] https://github.com/apankrat/tcp-striper/blob/master/src/io/i...

[2] https://github.com/apankrat/tcp-striper/blob/master/src/io/i...

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by makapuf »

I created the bitbox console, a DIY console for which I and a few others develop random games, which is starting to get some traction. The console is based on baremetal ARM cortex m micro. And then I ported a few 8bit emulators. Edit: added url http://github.com/makapuf/bitbox

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by tejas1mehta »

1. imse.co - internet movie search engine. Its google for movies. Allows for search queries like:

- johnny depp fantasy movies on netflix

- english scifi movies on netflix

- english movies about lawyers on netflix or hulu

- movies similar to the pursuit of happyness

2. activify.org - search engine for movies, shows & music.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by davchana »

pgsandstrom wrote: post #7

I like to create small tools that are optimized for me and my families use case. For example we used Google Keep for shopping lists, but I found it too bloaty and slow. So I created bös.se (it got SSR and websockets, wohooo!) http://xn--bs-fka.se/test-note It's fun to just care about your own needs when developing. For me it becomes work when I get feature requests that I don't like myself, but I implement them to ap…

Do you really use those 2700 lines of CSS code? Just asking, as I usually trim all the extra code, and use the one I actually need, in all my single page apps.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by devdad »

overcast wrote: post #120
jansho wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great! My smaller siblings say the wittiest things (often without realising) that brighten my day, I often wonder if there's a platform to 'record' them. I hope that your project will eventually turn into that!

Thanks, that was the intent :) Kids say a lot of great stuff, and it's often just forgotten. I'll add a json export so users can save off at some point.

A week after my son found out Michael Jackson had died. He loves Michael Jackson.

- Dad. Is Michael Jackson dead? - Yes... (Unsure if this will cause a meltdown) - That's OK. - It is? - Yep. There's two. Which one is dead? - How do you mean? - The white or the brown one?

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by davchana »

geuis wrote: post #118

https://jsonip.com Been running it for years and supports millions of requests a day. Started off as a simple experiment with node.js years ago but turned into a utility thousands of people use every day. * Ignore jsonip.org. Some Trump troll set that up in June. I made the mistake of not registering all of my domains. Oh well.

You can't and don't need to register all the domains, as now there are literally 100sof extensions.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by billforsternz »

I've been working on my chess GUI for over seven years now http://triplehappy.com. I've made a few hundred dollars in donations, but maybe 10 cents an hour is not why you work on something like this, it has to be a labour of love. I do wonder if I am going to be working on this for the rest of my life, there's always more to do....

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by azdle »

stavros wrote: post #12

Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…

Thank you for pastery. Best pastebin I've ever found, use it more than any other.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by uncled1023 »

I make a bunch of different little services for others to use. Started for just friends, but has grown a bit.

I use it a lot to test out new ideas, and learn from it.

https://www.teknik.io/

Also, I work on a lot of little projects: https://git.teknik.io/Uncled1023

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Post by khedoros1 »

That's...everything that I program that isn't part of my job. A near-universal trait of my hobby projects is that they're basically things that I don't think I could sell. The two that I've put the most time into over the years are an NES emulator and an attempted reimplementation of the Ultima Underworld game engine.

There are also things like a C++ port of some Python code to control a PWM-generating chip (inside the skeletal codebase that will eventually control a quadrupedal robot), and a collection of utilities that mostly have to do with things related to DOS-era games.

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