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

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Post by juriansluiman »

I started groceri.es (https://groceri.es), a recipe manager and smart shopping list in one. Its goal is a combination of paprika (https://paprikaapp.com) and Listonic (https://listonic.com).

I was continuously fighting my recipe planning. I did it for a long time in Google Keep. I can't manage recipes there, I have to add items to the shopping list manually. Changes in menu planning don't keep up with the shopping list, I forget to check the pantry. Etc. This time looked right to create something to mitigate the frustrations.

The technology is quite simple, it is a CRUD app in Flask with SQL backend. Everything is a docker container with data in a volume. UX is now quite limited, based on Fomantic UI. There is no goal to make it Saas, for friends I will just spin up a second instance.

I have been a software engineer for over a decade, but haven't been programming the last 5 years. Besides I am a fanatic home cook. So this looked like the perfect opportunity to have some fun again.

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Post by deallocator »

I've been diving into Elixir and Erlang, writing a library to build Discord bots with. I've been toying with bots for a while, but building the library myself gave me some interesting insights in Discord all while learning Elixir myself.

I'm trying to make it so that if you spin up multiple nodes it automatically balances the sharding over all nodes, monitors traffic and attempts to balance the work evenly.

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Post by anonymoushn »

I noticed that the syntax and semantics of Lox and Monkey mostly don't conflict with each other, so I am making an interpreter that does both.

I also made a fully incremental static site generator, but this will probably never be something I can show off because it isn't cleanly divided into "library code" and "configuration for he specific sites it generates." It has no non-incremental mode. You might say "Performance is a non-issue for static site generators!", but incremental builds means you can make expensive operations like pngcrush part of your build without having to wait forever.

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Post by o0void0o »

I was so angry at MS for taking away WunderList that I started to write a clone that looks 1:1 the same instead of using TODO. This time around the tech stack is React js as the UI with Springboot and MongoDB in the backend. Making great progress can do lists/task crud but lacking sync etc..

When you are accustomed to how things work and then forced to change its not fun. Current covid19 circumstances brought enough unwanted changes. This project started out as a fuck you to MS but it really turned into a fun project to keep my productively on track and also keep my mind busy.

The only shame is that I can't really "release" this cause it really looks like the original and the copyright vultures will waste no time coming for me. My best bet would be to change the UI design. BUT that would void the original purpose of the project.

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Post by FailMore »

I made https://taaalk.co - it is quite like debubble (also in this thread). It's a platform for online discussions. It's not focused on debating, but on exploring topics and sharing knowledge.

You can create a Taaalk and invite any number of people to join it using an invite link and code. If you don't have anyone to Taaalk with you can leave your details on the Start a Conversation page.

Some friends and I started it a few years ago and then stopped, so I thought I'd rebuild it during quarantine.

Some of the old Taaalks are on there, e.g.: https://taaalk.co/t/how-to-think-about-chess

It's the first app I've ever deployed to production so it's been great to learn about servers and hosting.

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Post by pinopinopino »

Studying: differential geometry, poetic edda.

Doing: lifting myself to hell and back and jump rope.

Building: Making maze generators in minetest (before moving them to minecraft)

And trying to figure out if I can find a function that takes two finite consecutive sequences with length N and M of natural numbers, which start by 1 (E.g [1,2,3], but not [1,2,4,5]) and give back a sequence which contain all the numbers starting from 1 up to the NxM, but not necessarily sorted without using the size of the sequences. So I want to number the cross product of the two sequences.

This crap is related to some programming problem I hit.

   t = {1,2,3...} --
Well the answer is I think no, but I found some functions that work up to a certain number or that work within certain bounds, so how far we can stretch that? And of course it works for the whole set of natural numbers.

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Post by 3dprintscanner »

Been working with a group building a mobile COVID testing laboratory and have written a Rails app for managing the test data & laboratory flow.

https://github.com/UK-CoVid19/opencell-testing https://arcane-island-35232.herokuapp.com/

Also a set of mini-sites built on eleventy / netlify for local community COVID voluntary groups in London.

https://islington.coronacorps.com/ https://github.com/3dprintscanner/coronacorps

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