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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by elseleigh »

Not coding, but my daughter Aelyth and I are a musical duo. Our first album (https://sidesister.bandcamp.com) took four years to complete thanks to COVID lockdowns and living in different cities.

On Thursday evening we rendezvoused at an equidistant AirBnB to sketch out our second album. It's now Sunday morning, Aelyth's just caught the train home because she's working today, but we have a concept, a title and ten songs for the new album!

There are admittedly another seven song ideas we've not had time to explore, but we've accomplished much more, much more quickly, than either of us thought possible. We've also committed to an overall musical style, plus boundaries on arrangements and instruments with the intention of keeping the production phase as concise as possible.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by coumbaya »

thiht wrote: post #29

I wanted to know the most used Go dependencies (not most starred or most downloaded, but most depended upon), so I made a scraper to get the go.mod from a few hundreds open source project on GitHub, and got the go.mod of each of their dependencies recursively. I stored this in a neo4j (first time I had the opportunity to use a graph database!) and got my answer (stretchr/testify is the most used dependency in the ope…

Interesting, but I do wonder what the result would be if you excluded _test.go ?

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by thiht »

coumbaya wrote: post #32
thiht wrote: post #29

I wanted to know the most used Go dependencies (not most starred or most downloaded, but most depended upon), so I made a scraper to get the go.mod from a few hundreds open source project on GitHub, and got the go.mod of each of their dependencies recursively. I stored this in a neo4j (first time I had the opportunity to use a graph database!) and got my answer (stretchr/testify is the most used dependency in the ope…

Interesting, but I do wonder what the result would be if you excluded _test.go ?

The second most used was google/go-cmp but I also think it’s used mostly in tests. It’s a bit annoying that test dependencies are not listed separately in go.mod files. After that there was a bunch of dependencies related to AWS SDK, GCP SDK and Kubernetes.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by kkfx »

Not really a project, just a template of paper letter following french and italian typographic conventions with a qr for automatically import a vcard of the sender and another + a short URL to download a pdf copy of the same paper letter from a URL.

Ideally it's just a way to tell people "ok, we still use paper sometimes, but paper should been able to work with bits as well, so for instance any printed document should be offered with a way to retrieve and original one like a pdf, and if the document itself is signed the digital original should be digitally signed as well".

So far many countries in the world have started norms and some conventions to bridge the gap but no system is really widespread. Qr are widespread, URLs are well known stuff, vcard as well, so it's just a thing I've made because I have had to write a paper letter, I do like LaTeX and automation and I do dislike wasting time scanning things. Marginally since I bough a set of double windows envelopes well, the template much the envelope to print it quickly, new WE I'll made an envelope template since where I live (France) I discovered that beside send a pdf to local post service to get it printed and mailed I can also send something myself buying a pdf stamp to be printed on paper... As I said not really a project but, might count as a project I think :-)

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by joelhaasnoot »

Created the first version of an app that took large long PDFs of train driver/conductor schedules in my country and presented them in an nice way in an app. The previous sources were all hard to navigate and had ads. I spent a weekend parsing PDFs into SQLite, and shipped the app with a preloaded database. Then kept updating and tweaking and added some fun intersections of the data ("who else is operating this train").

8 years later my source of data stopped providing data because of data protection concerns and the company introduced their own app/functionality for the same. Never earned me a dime directly but did get me my next job - it was a great sample for the interview

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by alessandra140 »

My parter and I made a fun erotic story generator called Smitten (https://smittenstories.com ) during the valentine's day weekend. It's a simple nextjs app that utilizes Mixtral to create kinky/erotic short stories based on your inputs on characters/setting/action, and you can be as explicit as you want to be.

It started as me joking about how something like this would make a cool nerdy valentine gift, which then got both of us excited to work on it together. We posted on reddit during V day, and so far 170k+ stories generated! We haven't monetized it - so far it has been supported by small donation from a few users who use it regularly.

Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Post by ggrelet »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #3

I installed a vpn on my AppleTV and couldn’t tell if it was actually working/secure. So I created my first ever swift app, for TVOS (AppleTV). The app checks if your vpn is active, and tells you your public ip and geo location on a map (also deployed a small service on fly.io to ping/detect this). Using copilot/chatgtp it was a doddle. Of course Apple refused to put it in the App Store because it doesn’t have enough…

How did you use copilot given that tvOS uses Xcode?
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