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#51
Mostly doing client work but put up a personal site to summarise my side-projects and also built this one afternoon the other week:

http://languagesplit.com/

Had never built a bookmarklet before and not sure if it's too embarrassingly basic to try and promote, or worth doing more with. Would appreciate any suggestions/feedback.

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

#53
Currently working on a Super Nintendo Emulator in Java for my senior project in college.

The intent is to make it easy to embed the emulator as an applet and link it to a ROM, save states, etc. so visitors to your site can play an SNES game at a point of your choosing (IE a blog post talking about the atmosphere of Zeal in Chrono Trigger with accompanying demo).

We're also hoping to allow Javascript to receive information about what is happening inside of the game, and possibly to interact with the emulator or respond to certain events (IE someone makes a monitor for a specific game that triggers events on, say, the player beating a level).

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

#59
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that sounds like a bummer. I'm really sorry to hear that. May the future hold better luck for you.

Well, it would totally suck if we were carrying any unsecured debt. Luckily we live below our means so we have (some) money banked. So I'm considering taking the family for a 6 month world tour (while I'm still young enough to handle it)... if we're frugal we might be able to stretch it out to a full year. Guess I better put "get homeschool materials" on my todo list eh?

You are awesome.

Truly and emphatically awesome. What a great way to make the most of a bad situation. I think it'll be great for your kids – they'll learn so much in the process.

I really wish you the best of luck.

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

#60
I am working on learning Ruby/Rails to build a couple of projects I'm imagining.

I'm coming from C, Objective-C and iOS work. It's a little tough, since the framework is doing so much for me. It takes detective work and vigilance to keep track of what's happening.

Getting through it, though!

Day job is consumed with UI prototyping and other product-centric adventures at Aurora Feint.

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