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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#502released a simple RSS search engine called DatoRSS https://datorss.com.
There is also the associated API https://feedirss.com also created by me.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#503Been working on a CLI tool for stock trading since I tried to look for one and it doesn't seem to exist. Was also a fun excuse to get more experience with Go and try out the Cobra library.
Besides that, lots of more involved cooking and baking projects to fill the time. I'll come out of this ready to be a stay at home dad!
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#504I'm making a web emulation of the Metal Gear Solid V emblem creator. Felt it would be a good way to learn about web components and Typescript.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#505My partner and i were laughing about making a retro community website, free of adverts, trying to recapture the spirit of the old Geocities era web. It got a bit out of hand and we came up with https://www.vistaserv.net.
I apologise if folks have already seen it, since it actually (surprisingly) got a bunch of traction here on HN over the weekend, but that has been our quarantine project, for what it's worth!
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#506Something I made to keep me productive. I've to say, this is the most I've stuck to a todo list (definitely some bias) :)
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#507A private invite-only social site for friends and family to keep in touch and share stuff (not everyone is on Facebook, and we're geographically dispersed). Demo version is available [1]. It includes things like photos, calendar, simple direct messages etc. Yes of course there are ready-made solutions for self-hosting like Mastodon, but this has been a good learning/portfolio exercise.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#508I'm working on a project that will allow my wife (who's an iPhone user) and me (stubborn Android user) to have our photos sync together in a shared place without changing our own personal workflows. Tried using Synology software for our NAS but there were some gaps when it comes to the Catalina update and Synology Drive's ability to access the Apple Photos' internal directory.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#509I am working on a Linux program that will show you the files opened/read/written by another process (and its child processes/threads). I wanted to be able to run an installer and see exactly what files it creates. Or when LibreOffice magically loads a font that seems to not be on my system, I want to know where it got it from. Basically a stripped-down version of strace that only tracks certain syscalls and aims to be more user-friendly.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#510Home improvement projects!
Currently I'm working on a) replacing a badly-cracked concrete walkway in my front yard with 2" flagstone which is native to the period in which my home was built and b) installing a 300 ft^2 brick patio in my back yard using a herringbone pattern while setting the pavers.
It feels good to get AFK, feel some sun on my face and improve the value (aesthetically and monetarily) of my home.