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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by lowlander »

I'm working on changing careers. After 10 years of struggling to find the right role/company/environment in software dev or product management, I realized that I just don't like making software. Period. Made some good friends, enjoyed some of the work, learned a lot, got pretty decent at the whole SaaS thing, but I just don't like it.

That realization over the last couple weeks has been a huge relief. I'd like to explore some things I'm naturally curious about such as agricultural waste management.

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Post by stephendause »

I'm working on upgrading Pyalgoviz [1] to use Python 3 and run using Pyodide so it doesn't depend on the server. It's been kind of slow going since I'm unfamiliar with some of the technologies involved, but I am really looking forward to releasing it and seeing what people think. Repo (still very much a WIP): https://github.com/stephen-h-d/pyalgoviz

1. https://pyalgoviz.appspot.com/

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Post by navanchauhan »

mylons wrote: post #198
wriggles wrote: post #190

Systematically archiving, transcribing, making searchable the Russian state TV propaganda that’s in a large part responsible for creating and sustaining the war in Ukraine. Tools like Whisper now make it possible to do this on a massive scale. Hoping this will be useful for investigators when the war is over.

this is fascinating. are you putting it online anywhere? also how can I find out more about whisper?

Whisper is a Speech to Text model released by OpenAI: https://github.com/openai/whisper

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Post by giraffe_lady »

mylons wrote: post #201
jimnotgym wrote: post #126

I'm working on a website to track the progress of bonsai trees. I like the bonsai sub reddit, the way people share their trees, but there is no good way to see the trees over time. I don't do a lot of coding any more, so it is nice to keep my hand in. I was feeling pretty rusty. I also suck at front end dev so pushing my comfort zone. I don't know where I'm headed with it, but I am hoping I will find it useful, and s…

aha, I feel your pain on sucking at front end dev. my site looks pretty similar to yours, bootstrap, etc. and I have no idea how to get away from it.

This is an uncommon suggestion but what broke me loose from this was reading "the elements of typographic style" a few years back. The back half is minutely detailed font stuff. But the first half is largely about how to identify meaningful differences in the purpose of different groupings of text, and guidelines on how to visually differentiate them with typographical decisions like weight, letter- and line-spacing, small caps, italics etc.

Design is such a huge discipline with so many considerations and tools that it's hard to see where to get started or even how to evaluate your shit beyond "doesn't look good." Most sites are mostly text so getting concrete guidance on how to make text look nice and read easily was immediately applicable for me.

My stuff won't win any design awards or anything, all my layouts are simple and even book-like and I use the basic web fonts. But just carefully using a couple weights, small caps, and literally ONE accent color and I frequently get compliments from other professionals on it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by Archelaos »

feiss wrote: post #195
modeless wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you considered a TI-89? They are basically like early microcomputers, frozen in time. They boot to BASIC and can also be programmed in C and assembly with no operating system to speak of. They're handheld and battery powered and durable, they come with useful math software for school, and there's a hobbyist programming scene and a big library of software and games written by kids for kids. That's how I learned t…

Nice, gorgeous machine. But I was looking for something more generalist than maths and programming. Although you say there's a plethora of hobbyist software too.. I'll take a look, thanks!

What about buying an old C64 for her? I don't think that it is a problem, that it is old, if you make it interesting enough. I remember how proud I was at that age to own some old big radios to show to my friends.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by AlexErrant »

paulclinger wrote: post #191
josephg wrote: post #102

I'm sick of having to decide between using cloud software and using local software. Cloud software so often needs subscriptions, and if the company dies I lose access to my data. Local software isn't collaborative. I don't want to email files around to myself, or think about versions. So I'm building a software platform for local first applications on top of CRDTs. Its called Replica, though we haven't talked much ab…

My goal is similar to Joseph's (a platform for local first applications using CRDTs), but the approach is slightly different, as I'm building it based on SQLite synchronization using its session extension ( https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html ) as the encoding mechanism. I plan to incorporate this sync functionality into my web framework ( https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon ) to allow any application built w…

cr-sqlite is a similar project on SQLite, but it's a standalone extension without a web framework.

https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by BetterGeiger »

The first version of my radiation detector is being sent to people all over the world and I've gotten very good feedback. Now I need to make a second version with Bluetooth and gamma spectroscopy. And a longer battery life. And higher max range. And higher sensitivity. And a bigger screen, probably. https://www.bettergeiger.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by eedeleon »

I am taking the year to learn French and build a companion product that helps me along the way. Making sure to have sane export functionality for Anki and Quizlet.

I am currently using Music and TV shows as learning materials. Testing out the process on me and validating the NLP components on English and Spanish. I have some books as well to avoid pronouncing things horrendously wrong.

Starting something from scratch is terrifying but exciting.

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