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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#501
post #27

http://www.luminusweb.net/ and all my GitHub projects https://github.com/yogthos

Well, even if it doesn't make you money, I hope you know how much you're appreciated in the Clojure community. Thanks for all the hard work!

Thanks, it's great to hear. :)

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#502

I just saw this thread, and honestly it is probably too late to get noticed by many, but I'm attempting to 'unsuck the web' with my project[0] by pinning "sticky" website elements where they belong - i.e. the website header shouldn't steal your screen real estate and scroll down the page with you. My project/uBO filter list removes the "annoying" elements noted above as well as other "features" of websites (e.g. soci…

I had a very similar idea but to make a bookmarklet for use on mobile safari. Sometimes reader mode goes too far and I really just want to nuke all the sticky floating junk.

Check out http://staticding.com - same idea you have but I've found it doesn't always work when I've tested it.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#505

I just saw this thread, and honestly it is probably too late to get noticed by many, but I'm attempting to 'unsuck the web' with my project[0] by pinning "sticky" website elements where they belong - i.e. the website header shouldn't steal your screen real estate and scroll down the page with you. My project/uBO filter list removes the "annoying" elements noted above as well as other "features" of websites (e.g. soci…

Thank You! This is amazing and I love it.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#506
post #221

130 Story - a daily microfiction challenge. https://www.130story.com/ I started this as a Twitter game a few years ago; it felt like a compact idea with a good hook. Earlier this year I automated it- so it picks its own words and collates the stories on the website itself (mostly successfully). It doesn't have a big following, but the people who play are passionate about it. Some people play every day, and the most p…

This is really cool. Some awesome little stories in there. I'm sure you're aware of "The Red Wheelbarrow" - such imagery in fewer than 100 characters.

Thanks! I've had a few people trying to submit the classic six word story over the years.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#507
I work on https://pisc.junglecoder.com as an exercise in building a stack based language that is a little less arcane than most that exist at the moment. It was inspired by Factor, Lua and Javascript, and is built in Go. I like using it for little tasks of generating bits of boilerplate code, and have some long term ideas around IRC bots, shells, and the like.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#509
A web radio / bluetooth speaker for the ESP32:

https://github.com/MrBuddyCasino/ESP32_MP3_Decoder

An Alexa smart speaker implementation, also for the ESP32:

https://github.com/MrBuddyCasino/ESP32_Alexa

Made them to learn C and embedded stuff. Exhausting, but rewarding.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#510

I made Plain Email [0] just because I couldn't find any email client with clean work flow without distractions. I use it pretty much every day. Thinking about open sourcing it - just can't find the time to refractor it nicely. I also built news aggregator 10HN [1] with throttling (ten best articles every morning and every evening). I use it daily and it helped to fight my procrastination a lot. It's also interesting…

Is anything beyond professional embarrassment stopping you from open-sourcing Plain Email as-is? It looks really nice.

I'm not on a Mac currently so I can't test it. What does 'defer' do?

I also do 'inbox zero' but I don't really find Gmail to be too distracting. The one thing I keep wishing for tho (in any email client) is a default ordering/sorting of unread emails by date-time received, but in a descending order. I'd love to see how hard that would be to implement with your project!

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