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

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I'm building an attendance management app - https://tendee.co I had a few itches to scratch: - one off events now that fewer people are on facebook; - planning in advance for subs in team sports; - some work events have max capacity, so building out a wait-list It's been a good way to play around and learn some tech I've been meaning to get around to, like NextJS and PrismaDB, but I kinda regret not giving Remix a sh…

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This long weekend (4 nights, 3 days) I built Ben Eater's 6502 computer kit (along with the clock module as a pre-requisite). Just got to the point where it prints "Hello, World!" on the LCD. The most time-consuming part is that I'm making the wires nice and neat like he does, so there's a lot of measuring, cutting, bending, and stripping wires. One of the funniest parts was the first few programs run off of ROM. When you first add subroutines, it doesn't actually work because there's no actual RAM yet; it needs RAM in order for the jump to subroutine to push the return address on a stack in RAM. So hooking up a RAM chip is another 30 or so wires that you have to make. I suppose at some point I will make a Forth for it. I had been wanting to get the kit for years, but finally got around to it by asking for the kit for Christmas.

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My old video game from 2004 [1] is now older than I was when I wrote it, and I recently found the C++ source and sprites in one of my archives, so I'm rewriting it in TypeScript as a personal challenge. The C++ code no longer builds (it's missing proprietary dependencies), and I no longer have the binaries or even the hardware needed to run them (it's a PocketPC game). If I manage to finish the rewrite, I'll get in t…

The sprites look gorgeous. This could probably make money as a mobile app! Did you consider it?

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

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You should check out pricehipster.com. It was really good until companies started making it difficult to maintain a data feed.

Looks interesting and almost the exact same idea, just a different industry. I am worried about the data feed aspects, the stores aren't exactly going to enjoy this, since they are the ones making the majority of the profit in this situation (my brother works at a manufacturer on the other side of this, so I know roughly the margins involved). I understand it though, who would enjoy something like this coming out whe…

If you end up having problems with the data feeds I suppose scraping might always be an option. If your system can show price drops that dramatic, it’d definitely be worth it, even if it’d be more of a maintenance commitment.

Good luck, I hope it all works out!

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In 1997 I played my first online multiplayer game. It was QuakeWorld Team Fortress. It was incredible, janky, fast, ugly, complicated and absorbing. I found a community of other players through IRC and devoted 8 hours a day to playing this treasure. By 2005 (a very decent shelf life), the game was all but dead. This was a significant part of my life gone. In 2018 I found the source, forked it and began FortressOne, a…

i played a lot of TF in my life. i took a long hiatus from the HL2/Source based TF2 and decided to play again a few years after they added hats. i joined a game and quit after a few minutes, just before the barrage of crap ruined my LAN party memories.

i hope no one remakes Tribes.

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

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Adding to the list of note taking apps, I’m working on an open source local note taking app that works in a browser called bangle.io [1]. It provides a rich WYSIWYG interface, allows syncing with GitHub without any backend and I love working on it .

[1] https://bangle.io

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

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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 exp…

Big change! Congratulations on the realization, all the best on the next phase and I wish you find it to be meaningful.

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

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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…

Really cool. I have with git-bug[0] similar properties (offline first, identities, generic "crdt like" base data structure... ). Maybe you'd like to have a look and improve each other's design.

[0]: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

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