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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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It's a kids activities website for parents and caregivers.

https://goodplans.app

I would say I'm close to shutting it down after not getting any real traction over the break. I think I've had about 3-400 unique users, all parents, and I've got a low bounce rate, but no real repeat users.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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https://www.colecornford.com/flashcards/

I wrote this because I felt a lot of the online content for studying security content doesnt have great assessment options or an okay UX. Often they are awesome lists or too far into a specific niche. So wanted make a more general one thats quick and easy.

The reason it is halfbaked is because I need to spend a lot more time on writing more questions AND refining/streamlining ones I have written already. My feedback I've receives so far has been that more focus should go into ensuring the questions are well written.

Happy to hear feedback and hope you like my little piece.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #450

Tuna programming language: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang The intended use case is rapid development of microservices. I’m excited about it because you can describe reliable and secure apps concisely: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang/tree/main/demos/... Tuna presents a single system image abstraction so developers don’t need to concern themselves with scalability. It’s all open source and I we…

> Tuna's global state is persisted in a database, rather than held in memory. Very interesting. In addition to micro-services, this could drastically ease the pain of developing workflow orchestration systems. How do you plan to handle code updates in the context of global state?

You're right there are other use cases besides microservices. For me, the other exciting application is to use Tuna in an analytics tool. The beauty would be that you don't have to use any query language to analyze large datasets.

With regards to orchestration, I hope to add primitives for events, batch processing, and things like that.

Make sure I understand your question correctly: You're asking how updates will work so: -old deployments don't see the next version's types coming out of global state -new deployments only see valid types.

I believe the compiler can do a lot of heavy lifting for updates while still remaining flexible. The compiler could take in two tuna files and type check across versions. For example, imagine two version of the same application. In v0 we store Foo. In v1 we store Bar.

A couple options open up: - We can deploy v1 but a transformation from Foo to Bar must be executed across all stored data. This would need to be performed while v0 is down. - We can deploy a type safe version of v0 and v1 that handle the union Foo or Bar. Then, we can teardown the type safe version of v0. v1 should be the only deployment that migrates foos to bars. The benefits of this approach is that you have non disruptive upgrades.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #668

I'm porting LLVM/Clang to the 6502. Notoriously difficult project, attempted dozens of times by as many folks. https://github.com/mysterymath/clang6502 My take generates pretty darn good assembly for the cases it handles, but it's absurdly incomplete. Still, a huge amount of risk factors have already been addressed, and there's only a few big known unknowns left. Example input: void print_int(char x) { if (x Example…

OMF:2097 profile picture spotted! Loved the game as a child. Will the compiler support 65C02 instructions?

Shouldn't be too hard to add later, since they're mostly just swizzles onto the existing instructions, and LLVM already has good support for registering slightly different versions of a target (subtargeting).

For now, I'm targeting the plain-jane MOS chip, since it's the buggiest and least capable, and thus the most difficult.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

#679
Hi! I have a public Trello board [0] with a list of projects I'm working on, or ideas I have, which from time to time people comment on!

Currently I'm doing a version of Conway's Game of Life in Solidity for the Ethereum network. Spoiler: it's not going to be affordable to actually use it on the network!

0: https://trello.com/b/v4dV9CQS/1-dans-side-project-ideas

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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post #554

I built Running Level https://runninglevel.com/ recently along the same lines as my other site Strength Level https://strengthlevel.com/ but have only done a soft launch. Gyms are closed here in the UK so a lot of us are out running instead. Running Level has running standards for your age/gender over many distances like 10k/marathon/mile. The calculator on the homepage helps you rate your running performance against…

Like it, nice and simple and useful too :-)
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