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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://wheelcarnival.com/ has been on my TODO list for almost a year.

I created it to learn Vue, initially I used Gridsome but then I decide to use Nuxt. I also moved it from Netlify to Firebase to add storing+auth, so people can create custom wheels.

It's getting a decent amount of visits so it will be wise to finish it, but it's not fun anymore and my day job takes a lot of energy.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://github.com/francoisp/rosettable

Bringing postgres triggers and notifies to mysql.

I'm half-backing a linked mautic and davical service based on this, to automate analytics, marketing and messaging to your self-hosted contacts. end goal is de-googlify mail contacts and analytics.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#363

My game to teach my kids programming: https://game.stackybird.com

would you like some help with translation (into french)? let me know

Wow, thanks! Mostly looking for feedback/first impressions now. Texts will still change a lot for the next couple of weeks.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #324

Lastcast.fm ( https://lastcast.fm/ ) is a half baked project that‘s supposed to be the Last.fm for podcasts helping you with discovery. You can automatically „scrobble“ (track) your podcasts and get statistics about your listening habits. You can also track things manually and put them into lists / follow friends and see what they are listening to and discover new shows.

My be wise to rename to avoid trademark disputes. Otherwise a great idea!

I use gpodder.net for now but would prefer something more reliable and easier to use.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #338

https://subscrippedoff.com/ I'm fed up with the widespread adoption of subscription models by consumer companies - I think they tend to pray on people who don't track their usage or forget they signed up. This was one idea for helping people understand exactly how much they're really spending on subscriptions. Unfortunately I think it's a little long-winded, but part of that is just because so many services now use a…

What about watching a persons bank account via Openbanking etc then you can easily (!) determine which ones are subscriptions ?

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #323

I probably shouldn't show this because it's still kind of hot garbage but here is the Hacker News client I'm working on in the C# version of Godot[0]. Maybe the embarrassment of exposure will spur me on to actually finish it... [0] https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/godothnreader/src/master/

Why Godot? (I've only ever used it for game prototypes.)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#369

Static SMS microblog, https://phasedust.com Been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, fast and snappy, doesn’t demand or abuse attention. Some things I’m still thinking about: image scaling and optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).

This is really great. Would love to be able to host it as a section on my own site. Re: images, what have you tried so far? I’ve been using guetzli to get them nice and small.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#370
I'm trying to learn FPGA by making a really tiny CPU: https://github.com/jes/jescpu

> An 8-bit CPU, and 8-bit address space. This means there are only 256 bytes of memory available.

> There are no register operands, no immediate mode operands, and no indirect addressing. All operands are direct addresses. In particular this means that to use pointers you need self-modifying code (i.e. rewrite the address of the instruction to match the address that your pointer points to).

It works right now, but only if I run the CPU at 1/8th of the clock speed of the memory (see slowclock.v). I understand that it takes an extra cycle for reads from memory to get the signals back to the CPU, but don't yet understand why it takes 8 cycles.

Eventually I would like to expand it to support 16 bit addresses, put it in a fancy box with some actual IO devices, and possibly even implement it with logic gates instead of an FPGA.

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