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

#161
I built a powerful programmable recipe website. (WIP)

You write recipes in markdown, you can template in variables from javascript using handlebars.

Here is a recipe with a slider, it updates all the amounts in both the ingredients table and inline in the instructions themselves as you move the slider.

https://programmablerecipes.com/recipes/richardgill/bread-ah...

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

#162
I have been working on a lot of side projects actually. The first is a Corona app that I built to dump all my research and frustration when the lockdown first happened. When I realized I could not publish it to the app store I reached out to the CDC in West Africa and they are picking up the app. That was exciting.

The second project is a custom deck of cards, but instead of the Typical King, Queen and Jack it is royalty from Nigeria and has had an amazing response on Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ifeanyichu/natives-play...

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

#164
I've finished my Bullet Journal iOS app. I've never really found an iOS app that allowed me to managed tasks like my paper Bullet Journal (which is to heavy to carry around all the time). https://bulletweek.app

Also I'm using a lot the timer with my Apple Watch and I needed something faster than the built in timer and I can't every time use Siri. So I made one fast is more fun & faster as well with multiple mode: https://primetimer.app

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

#165
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgRepT4AO6mGsJaWsS_mHbA

Started a YouTube channel, where I show how I work on AWS. Completely unstructured, the video are just a memory dumps in a hope to give some frame of reference to new AWS people, or to give some ideas to those that already know a bit of AWS.

ps. Bread, I remember the days I eat it :D

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

#168
A book named "The Common Lisp Condition System", to be published later this year.

Abstract: This book is intended to be a tutorial that teaches the functioning and example uses of the Common Lisp condition system. It is aimed at beginning and intermediate Lisp programmers, as well as intermediate programmers of other programming languages. It is intended to supplement already existing material for studying Common Lisp as a language by providing detailed information about the Lisp condition system and its control flow mechanisms, as well as description of an example ANSI-conforming implementation of the condition system.

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

#170
A movie recommender (item-item) that recommends movies similar to a proposed movie. The similarity is based on tags, specifically the tag genome created by GroupLens.

This is mostly because I have a personal need for this and I would like alternatives to existing movie recommendation services, but I may make it available online if time permits.

A second step would be to introduce an example critiquing aspect, allowing for interactions like "show me movies similar to 'Crimson Peak' but with less horror".

All of this is based on the MovieLens 25M dataset and an accompanying article (http://files.grouplens.org/papers/tag_genome.pdf) describing a recommender called 'Movie Tuner' that is no longer available.

It will be fun to tune the recommendations based on my own preferences. For example I don't need an algorithm to suggest movies that have the same actor/director.

Initial results are encouraging.

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