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Post by fergal »

biztos wrote: post #655

I just bought a tiny farm, together with a friend. 1300m2 of dirt. Right now we’re just brainstorming but I consider that “working on it.” Neither of us has time to become farmers, and I will only spend a couple months a year near the Minifarm, so our possibilities are slightly constrained. But this can be an advantage! Our basic vision is a combination of low-effort agriculture, camping, and art, but we might also t…

Blog/vlog the activities you do on this plot of land. Perhaps you can try doing things/implementing projects that your followers suggest on an ongoing basis. I bet you'd get a Patreon following for a project like that.

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Post by humbleMouse »

Gaessaki wrote: post #359

I’m working on a restaurant delivery cooperative: https://radish.coop . It’s basically like the other delivery platforms, except that it is owned by its users (so restaurants, employees and consumers) which vote on its direction and partake in its proceeds. I’m a restaurant owner/programmer who felt that things could be done more equitably and feared that the continued dominance of the current crop of platforms would…

Im working on a very similar idea.

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Post by maddynator »

I am working on creating an app for people with type2 diabetes.

They only need to take the picture of the food they are about to eat and the app will tell approximate range of how many points their blood sugar can rise. For example, if you take a picture of an apple, it can tell that eating a full apple will increase blood sugar by 5-15 points. Its a range because it depends on the quantity and the individual insulin resistance level. Its better than being blind to numbers and poking with needle every day.

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Post by TrueDuality »

I'm writing a open book / blog series. Working title is "Building an OS on an FPGA: First Gate to Self-Hosted Compiler". I'm very early in, but realized I had all this knowledge from these different architecture levels and haven't tied it altogether to see what I'm missing... So I started to try and find out by doing it.

Been documenting my process and the evolutions of complexity and considerations in a way to put together a book like http://craftinginterpreters.com/. Kinda hoping I can it to a point where you could implement the second section byte code machine entirely in a compiler you built... for the OS you built... for the CPU SoC you built... on a FPGA.

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Post by Atlas-Marbles »

xyzelement wrote: post #196

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

I had the same realizations as you and have been working on my productivity application for over a year. I've learned a lot about human motivation and decision making. Good luck.

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Post by doctoboggan »

I am working on Lulim Jewelry (https://lulimjewelry.com) which is my custom jewelry company.

You can customize your ring with any engraved image (inside or out) and then I use 3D printing on the backend to produce the ring in gold or silver. My most popular customization is a fingerprint ring. You can see some pictures of my website.

I spent a decent amount of time on the design software which uses fabric.js and three.js for design and visualization. The website is most a static site and uses google cloud run for the api.

Check it out, I’d love some feedback!

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Post by geocrasher »

albertzeyer wrote: post #327

Mouse scroll wheel acceleration, implemented in user space, for Linux, Mac, Windows: https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u... After asking for this feature for so long ( https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/7 ), I realized that it is easy to implement this in user space. I'm quite happy with the result. This was intended for Linux, but it actually also works on MacOSX.

You could probably do this with AutoHotKey as well- on Windows, anyway.

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Post by jasondigitized »

snake_case wrote: post #301

I'm working on a jigsaw puzzle website that started out as a fun side project last year. A few of my relatives are currently using it and enjoying it. Fun fact, the client is very lightweight and completely written in svelte, except for a tiny rust/wasm helper lib. The backend is 100% rust paired with postgres. I wrote my own tiny server framework on top of hyper which is much nicer to use than most of the heavier fr…

Would love to see what the user experience is.

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Post by strangelove026 »

It's quite related to work, but I'm making a release tool.

It's a serverless single page app that opens and merges pull requests, and then creates a release on github (takes parameters such as branch base, branch head, and release notes) which then would trigger release pipeline(s).

It's been a cool learning experience learning. Got better at golang, doing my first front end (vuejs), and seeing what a serverless app actually looks like with cognito and bearer auth, dynamodb, etc.

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