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Post by augustusseizure »

rank0 wrote: post #328
augustusseizure wrote: post #307

I just started working on a cli tool to easily create, manage, and spin up dev environments in docker containers. The initial impetus for starting the project was to try out Doom Emacs without messing with my current Emacs setup, so an example session could be: dv new emacs dev-img-emacs:latest dv start emacs dv conn emacs The first line creates a new "development environment" named emacs, based on the docker image d…

Have you considered using LXD instead of docker? LXD container instances are much better suited for portable dev environments. They are persistent by default and are intended to run multiple processes within a container instance. They can also be copied/migrated between lxd agents. In contrast, docker was created to run a single ephemeral process per container. It's nice in production environments, but its also a hug…

Thanks for the suggestion, this looks great! At a glance LXD seems to be a much more robust version of what I've built. Time to learn something new I guess lol.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by naikrovek »

nja wrote: post #345
superfamicom wrote: post #325

I made a website to listen to Super Nintendo / Super Famicom music emulated in the browser. It was a great way to learn about Emscripten. Not sure what it would succeed at other than being popular, and I can assure you it is not. https://sfc.fm/

I love this! Wonder if it would be possible to make something similar for other consoles (I'm thinking Game Boy?)

https://mmontag.github.io/chip-player-js/

try that one.

edit: oof no game boy, but I'll leave this in case anyone doesn't know about it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by brentroose »

I've made a Dutch podcast about my first five years being a professional programmer at a web agency: clients were blatantly lied to, colleagues were pressured into doing all kinds of unethical stuff, I considered quitting programming altogether after a couple of years — it was a wild ride

I made it into a podcast because I wanted to practice my editing skills, but it was also kind of therapeutic being able to talk about all this. So I don't care whether there's a huge audience. Creating the podcast was a goal in itself, which I achieved :)

If you're Dutch and want to give it a listen, here you go: https://stitcher.io/de-job

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by folli »

myhikesorg wrote: post #94

https://myhikes.org It's my own personal hiking journal that I've made public so that other folks can document their own adventures too. It'll always be there as a way to explore something new or challenge myself - either to hike more miles, more vertical feet, adding new trails, or by building new features and working with contributors. There will always be new trails to explore, map, and write about over the course…

Hug of death? I just get a "forbidden" error message.

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Post by trutannus »

melony wrote: post #357
jvanderbot wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN hug of death. And well deserved, I had a great time with this one.

Isn't elixir supposed to scale better than this?

Elixir probably isn't the bottleneck. The VPS instance itself, and whatever server they're using there, probably bit the dust.

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Post by magarnicle »

A watch face for Fitbits that is themed based on the current season of the Western church calendar.

https://gallery.fitbit.com/details/2187c817-4a13-409a-bf6c-8...

At some point I might separately publish the JS library that does all the calculations if I can get the code to a less embarrassing state.

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Post by jacobriis »

byecancer21 wrote: post #236

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

If your strategy makes as much sense as your writing, you're definitely going to prison.

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Post by disqard »

For the past ~6 years, I've been building and maintaining a website for a text-free visual programming language called BlockStudio at:

https://www.blockstud.io

The site has [Edited to add an example]

Here's one of the regulars:

https://blockstud.io/profile/15572

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by mfi »

Here are three hobby projects I've worked on during the last 2 years. I've written extensive guides for all of them:

https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-CNC-machine A CNC-machine I built using 40x 3d-printed parts.

https://github.com/maxvfischer/Arthur An AI art installation using a GAN network, Samsung The Frame, a button and a PIR-sensor.

https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-arcade A full-size Arcade Machine.

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Post by trutannus »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #306
Rumudiez wrote: post #78

My day job. Personal projects get a little more heart, but "success" to me is usually intrinsic, not extrinsic. I'm probably a little weird when it comes to motivating factors, but not alone.

Have you considered using "will the skills I hone here help me with my side projects?" as a way to decide which job to apply for? I don't have enough data to say it's a good idea, but so far I'm liking it.

For me at least, its not the work tasks itself, its the dealing with the company and the amount of inefficiency that gets in the way of being able to do my tasks. When I do them, I enjoy them. Waiting a week for information and not being allowed to work on other tasks in the mean time will make anyone a little demotivated.
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