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

#151
Mamba (https://mamba.black), the Pythonic blockchain development framework. It's like Truffle framework (https://trufflesuite.com). If Truffle is Solidity+web3.js, Mamba is Vyper+web3.py.

Prior to Covid-19, I barely got a time to work on it. Now I have plenty of time to work on it.

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

#152
Non tech-related, but I have been building a touring bicycle. Very satisfying to get to learn the standards, choose the parts, assemble. Even builded my own wheels! And now I am fixing my friends bike with the tools I have accumulated.

Getting a little off the computer was nice, plus this summer local bike touring will propably be the only option. Can't wait!

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

#153
https://www.newsy.co

I launched it a month ago. It's a tool that converts your un-used domains into something useful.

By something useful, I mean a self-running automated content aggregator with lots of bells and whistles to keep it running (e.g. membership, newsletters, ads).

I had way too many domain names that are not being used. I wanted to make some use of them without having to maintain them and spending time on it. Now I have all of my 25 un-used domains.

:)

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

#154
I've been working on a coronavirus simulator in rust/wasm.

https://coronavirus.simrnd.com/about/ is a draft of the intentions of the project, and the source code is at https://github.com/jinpan/covid-simulations.

https://imgur.com/a/wFTq7lD is a screen recording of a shopping scenario.

I'm aiming to publish a blog post with some initial simulation results by the end of the week.

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

#157
I've been working on a little tool for freelancers/consultants (maybe sales people too!).

It's designed to make it easier for their clients to book a call/meeting with them, saving them the email ping pong to find a time slot that works for both of them.

Here it is - https://timeslot.co

Would love to chat with anyone who might find this useful!

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

#158
Working on my own toy linux distribution and writing a (very) barebones package manager for it[0].

Also a simple music streaming server which caters exactly to my needs without taking care of others (now writing a client for it)[1].

Plus learning godot to write a small 2D game with my brother's band :D

And learning Georgian letters (they are beautiful).

[0]: https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/tsa [1]: https://code.vanwa.ch/sebastian/stray

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

#159
I'm writing a career advice book for early career developers.

https://gumroad.com/l/bAZJq

It's my first book, and I have to fight a lot of impostor syndrome to give nontechnical advice (because its context dependent and who am I to give it). But the feedback for my prior writing indicates there's some sort of demand for this, and I do believe that the "soft skills" side of early dev careers aren't talked about enough.

There's a lot of "break into tech" and then "go from engineer to engineering manager" content out there. I'm trying to fill the space in between. We'll see how it goes... aiming to launch June 1st.

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