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Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#351
I'm working on an open source chat bot for Helm. https://github.com/larderdev/kubewise

It posts a message in your team chat when someone installs, upgrades or uninstalls a Helm chart from your Kubernetes cluster.

It's the first code I've written in a long time and I'm really enjoying it.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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I'm working on RISC-V based SoC on a Lattice ECP5 FPGA. The end project is a low cost combination signal generator / oscilloscope for aligning antique radios that I eventually want to sell. But the firmware will be RISC-V based and I think this will be a great example design for others to use for their own projects. I show one way to make an SoC purely in Verilog (no external system-builder tools needed).

Right now the FPGA boots the PicoRV32 SoC example code out of the configuration SPI-flash memory of Lattice's ECP5 evaluation board (I started with the firmware in block-RAM, but now it runs right out of the SPI-flash). I also have interrupts working, and have the gcc header file macros for enabling/disabling interrupts and controlling the PicoRV32 timer. I will soon have much more (SDRAM controller, cache, many other peripherals..).

https://github.com/jhallen/radioanalyzer

Also I will port it to this very nice ULX3S board as soon as I get one:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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I’m working on a tool that allows developers to record and playback interactive, guided walkthroughs of a codebase, directly from their editor. It’s called CodeTour, and it’s currently available as a VS Code extension: https://aka.ms/codetour.

I built it because I frequently find myself looking to onboard (or “reboard”) to a project, and not knowing exactly where to start. After speaking to a bunch of other developers, I didn’t seem to be alone, so it felt like this problem was deserving of some attention.

While documentation can help mitigate this problem, I wanted to explore ways that the codebase itself could become more explainable, without requiring unnecessary context switches. Almost like if every repo had a table of contents. To make it easier to produce these “code tours” I built a tour recorder, that tries to be as simple, and dare I say, fun to use as possible.

I’ve since found that this experience has value in a number of other use cases (e.g. simplifying PR reviews, doing feature hand offs, facilitating team brown bags, etc.), and I’m excited to keep getting feedback from folks as they try it out. It’s also fully OSS, so I’d love any and all contributions: https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#358
I'm working on https://www.fastorslow.com/ - provides website performance from 13 locations globally through browser simulation.

Soft launched this week. Already getting some exciting results. Working through an issue with the South African based server this weekend because we think the ISP we're using has a crappy network and may have underspecced their servers severely which is causing results to drift way out of the mean. But could also be an overloaded internet over there. We'll probably take ZA offline until Monday. Everything else working great!

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#359

I'm working on CallStop, which is Superhuman for your phone number. Here's the app store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id145589... The problem: spam calls. Most current solutions use blacklisting, which doesn't work well. CallStop uses whitelisting, and allows you to accept whitelist requests, pause filtering, or let groups use secret PIN "extensions" to reach you. You can revoke or edit t…

Do you have an android version? My company uses pager duty and it would be nice to filter out the spam. I hate leaving my ringer on.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#360
I’m building an open source accounting system with rpc endpoints being the primary method for inputting data and a SQL database that can be queried easily.

GoDBLedger: https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger

For the most part that backend of the system is working how I want. I now need to build more front end ways to communicate to it.

One of the front end methods I’m working on is programmable journal entries. So you write your journal entries in a JavaScript file which gets executed in the context of the accounting system so you will have full access to the account balances. However this is still early stages:

Yurnell:

https://github.com/darcys22/yurnell

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