I've had a long urge to start mixing music, so I scratched that itch over the weekend and now I'm waist deep into a new obsession.
Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
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#172I can't remember exactly why but I was frustrated with an inability to text my brother using iMessage on my computer. We were watching movies together and I had to use my phone which required looking at it, or something.
One weekend, I wrote a messaging app that used telnet and Twilio to make multi-user, terminal based, communication system with user management and other nice features. It was extremely cool.
He, being kind of a dick, would never use it so I lost it.
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#173I made https://gpupricecompare.com to compare GPU prices from eBay over the weekend and it was an interesting project because it seemed relatively simple upfront, but dealing with titles was a bit tricky. The only solution (I found at least) was to pull in some NLP packages to filter out and match GPUs, get the relevant models, etc. Was a great exercise for some non-LLM NLP.
Maybe add a filter for “no video” or “as is” since it usually means it’s got issues. But love the project.
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#174I've had a long urge to start mixing music, so I scratched that itch over the weekend and now I'm waist deep into a new obsession.
It’s a ton of fun. What software or hardware did you choose?
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#175I've never had the opportunity to write code for a compiler but it's something that's always been pretty interesting to me so I decided to write a little toy calculator: calc("1 + 3 / 5") It was a pretty fun project as you get to do some parsing/lexing, work out how to execute it (function ordering etc.) and then have lots of fun little avenues you can go down (brackets for specifying execution order, adding more fun…
This brings me back to my uni days, where in a Programming Languages class we had to develop a project that used any topic covered in the semester, and I chose lexical tokenization thinking to myself "it can't be that hard, right?" and oh boy.
15 years later I still have nightmares about coding in that project, running late and failing class, and dropping out of uni.
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#176I made an HTTP tunneling service based on WireGuard that doesn't require any custom software on the clients: https://tunnel.pyjam.as/.
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#177I learned the week before the project that the Raspberry Pi 1 I had initially found useless and kept in a drawer for years had a new streamlined OS called DietPi and a thriving community. I had also recently discovered Tail scale. In one weekend I installed DietPi, tail scale, and AdGuard and then had ad blocking on all my devices, including my phone when I was away from home.
The Pi 1 is now an integral part of my network and sent me down the rabbit hole of personal home servers. I have an Odroid running home assistant, a Pi4 now running services where the data doesn't matter, and a Synology running services where the data does matter.
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#178https://github.com/turol/valoserveri It's for controlling DMX colored lights over network. It takes UDP packets (and later Websocket messages) and turns them into DMX protocol packets which get sent over USB serial adapter to the DMX wire. It's a rewrite of a previous node.js version which had bitrotted. I think I made the MVP in about 7 hours during one saturday afternoon. Finishing it up took a few weeks more of ev…
This looks really interesting and I use DMX lighting.
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#179I implemented a Snapcast client[0] in Rust, with the goal of having synchronized speakers, using only an ESP32 per speaker. I didn't get to the ESP32 part that weekend though, probably it'll come on the next one.
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#180Making a fake AirPrint printer. I have a Brother printer that has two printer trays, one manual tray (that takes variable sized paper) and a A4 tray. However, when printing from iOS, it doesn't have the full print preset dialog and it is impossible to print from the manual tray, nor is there a way to tell it I want print A6. Of course I insist being able to print A6 whenever, wherever I want with AirPrint and accept…
This is some amazing yak shavings. Noted for future reference. I guess a github link is too much to ask? :-)