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Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
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#462Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie... But I'm a believer in asking for…
If you could dive into this:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
and how Alan Greenspan went from writing 'Gold and Economic Freedom'[0] to pushing low interest rates that would be rad.
I'm not actually a gold-standard supporter, but given the huge shift what average people can expect economically it would be nice to have this addressed by someone other than the conspiracy crowd.
[0]https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
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#463Get good at rapidly prototyping games and software in general. Last year I learned Rust deeply in the hope that it would be my “everything” language to build games, web servers, and CLI/TUI apps. I like Rust but using it for personal projects taught me that I value higher-level tools as well as very fast prototyping and feedback loops much more than I realised, particularly for games. So I'm planning to go back to Go…
Do you write in GDScript for Godot? And do you have any resources you used to learn Godot? I’ve dabbled with it, but I’d like to get better at it.
I was interested in learning Rust for similar reasons as you but I think your conclusion is solid.
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#464I want to disrupt the toaster industry. For way too long I've been getting inconsistently toasted toast out of my toaster. My idea is to introduce cameras into the toaster that are used to recognize when the perfect amount of toasting has been applied. It is a way better approach than just using a timer. I have a few problems to solve...
Hey, I'm interested in toaster industry disruption, but more from the angle of making something that is just well built and will last. This is currently below the threshold of "I'm going to do something about it", but if you need someone to bounce ideas off, hit me up!
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#465I’m working on growing my YouTube channel and learning more about how to become better at producing content.
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#466I’m building a hostingplatform for fully managed Wordpress sites. By managed I mean both the WP install, but also plugins, themes and other customizations. I have a customer who does marketing, SoMe, SEO and all that (as a small business for other small to medium businesses) but it turns out she spends a lot of time dealing with tech issues from WP sites (plugin update errors, other tech issues the hosting provider d…
I've been wanting to pull the ripcord on a marketplace platform, think a shopify for WP Maintenance services and freelancers, or an unbundling of fiverr's WP gigs marketplace. Basically some sort of service that merges tools like MainWP with dashboards, issues, kanban boards, feedback for managing clients, logins, hosting issues, etc. It just always seems to broad and scope to get started, and I personally kinda hate WP and would probably do it all in Laravel. I'd love to figure out how to do something like WP Maintenance but for legacy Laravel Apps, but I'm not sure there's a market fit for that.
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#467Earlier quoted context omitted.
i have been beating around this bush for eons and so far my best release strategy is custom build wordpress container where plugins and themes are built in. The problem i was facing was mostly that almost all of the plugins used in "general", do not come with a testing architecture in any way. How are you going to handle a "rouge" plugin not closing its tag correctly? I used to have "hidden" control pages where i wou…
Great question! Its one of the things where Im very curious to see if my plans hold up when they meet reality. I plan to solve it my a mix of process and multiple environments: 0) Base assumption is that Im starting from a working site and everything that may break it is going to be a change to the working site. 1) Every live/prod site will have a test environment. Like test.example.com 2) (process) The customer that…
Have you checked out caprover? It's sort of an all-in-one app platform, self-hosted app installer w/ one click docker installs for WP, Analytics, etc.
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#468I'm working on a free and opensource Rails 7 starter kit currently that comes with - User authentication & authorization - Background worker & scheduler - Roles & permissions management - Pre built UI layouts and themes https://github.com/tarunvelli/rails-tabler-starter
You should look at https://github.com/filamentphp/filament - if anything could be a good starting point.
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#469I'm continuing with my domain parking tool Newsy https://newsy.co It's a modern take on domain parking (I know I know) that I'm using for my own ~50 domains. I will most likely also be re-working on SideProjectors - a marketplace for buying and selling side projects. https://www.sideprojectors.com I am also about to launch HN+ (Create your own HN!) https://hn.plus
I've been using Newsy, but its on my chop block of subscriptions to cut, as I'm trying to scale back my monthly spending to buy a home, though I do think something like this would be cool if it could take topics and auto-churn out chatgpt inspired articles related to topics. Like you could ask chatGPT for 20 blog titles, and then just autocreate new posts based off those titles and things. For domain sitting, it'd probably get some traffic enough to maybe cover the $5/fee at least per month.
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#470I'm playing with some ideas around making IVF more accessible in the U.S. and Europe, making home (or apartment) ownership more accessible in Sub-Saharan Africa, community based emergency services in Sub-Saharan Africa, and mining automation... trying to go through and weed things down to one particular area over the next ~6 months with the intention of trying to start really building something in Q2/Q3. If anyone is…
Kinda tangentially related, I want to start a software co-op or consulting biz (to pay for) intentional communities built around cheaper alternative homing solutions. E.g. Tiny homes, dome homes, earth ship, earth bag, cob, etc. There's a youtube channel of a family that built free-standing studio-like homes for each of their kids for under 10k each. Lots of work, but looks fun and worthwhile. Housing is horrendous but if you bought 40 acres, and planned it well, you could house like 500 people, and maybe charge per room/person in household a small housing fee, with waivers for volunteering/service around the neighborhood. We could have some common areas and shared major purchases like tools, recreational vehicles, etc so there's less consumerism but not less enjoyment of the nice things in life.