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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?
#692https://github.com/gnull/kalina
I'm working on a console-based RSS client in Haskell. The original plan was to implement the basic functionality of Newsboat (which currently is being rewritten from C++ to Rust).
It's still raw, but I already started using it as my primary RSS client. Right now it can fetch feeds, display them in a nice menu, maintain read status, open urls in a browser. The next features I'm going to add are support for configuration files (everything's hardcoded now) and tags + filtering.
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Newsboat had a few problems inherent to C++ (like occasional segfaults) and the TUI library it used. Knowing about these, I started googling for alternatives written in a higher-level language. And spotted the announcement [1] of the Newsboat author, saying that he's going to rewrite Newsboat in Rust. When I read that, the rewrite was already going on for months with still no end in sight. I thought, "Heck! I can implement this in Haskell in a few days!" By now I spent about a week of full-time work on the project (spread over months), and got a bare working prototype.
My estimate was too optimistic, of course, I didn't foresee all the difficulties I encountered later and all the things I had to learn. But still, I think if I spend one more week on this, I can get a fully-featured and polished RSS client — Haskell makes programming a lot cheaper.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#693http://saasinspire.com/ it's a list of saas inspiration. Right now there are only design listings of successful saas companies, however I plan to make this project as a great resource for developers and designers to create saas products. It will include various interesting articles, design ideas, tools, case studies, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#694Made an app that lets me create a grocery list that can check supply at Target. Also sorts the stuff by location. Saves me time knowing they are out of stuff and where stuff is. Want to create background notification for when something is in stock.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#695I've been writing a 3D engine from scratch, which has been really interesting since it's well outside of my normal professional software experience. My goal is to make a game with it for the upcoming Playdate console.
You can follow along with my progress here: https://twitter.com/zackmichener
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#696I run a hackerspace in Fresno, CA called Root Access. My side project is that we're making PPE and other things to help with various efforts -- face masks, face shields, scrub caps, ear savers, no-contact accessories, etc.
https://rootaccess.org/covid-19/
We're working with other local maker-y spaces on these efforts; we've picked up a few Ender 3's to help with the 3D printing and we have a small team of volunteers helping with sewing. So far we've distributed over 1,500 face masks to folks and healthcare workers in Fresno, San Diego, Idaho, and soon to a school in Uganda.
This is all on top of trying to keep our community engaged and hosting meetups and happy hours on Zoom. Also on top of my day job. I've never been so busy in my life, and I'm looking forward to a time when we can safely re-open and get back to building the community face-to-face.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#697I'm following the second part of: https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#698Working on "Grow a Story". It's based on the old drill/game "advance and expand" where someone starts a story and hands it off to someone else. As a user, you have three actions: start a new story, expand an existing story, or refine.
Refine is the most interesting part, you are essentially editing the transition between two story nodes. The goal is to not add much, but make the transition smoother. Was thinking of capping the allowed delta in some way and requiring the original authors to approve the story "PR".
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#6991) starting upon the road to being a luthier... i want to make flamenco guitars
2) welding my staircase railings and adding random bits like wheels, gears, old wrenches, a chicken-grill...
3) finishing the workspace area off for #1
4) sundry home repairs et al.
5) alcoholic beverage consumption in amounts previously considered immoderate. (not sure if this a hobby)
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#700I'm building https://choremate.co with a working tagline of 'The Best Chore Chart in the World.' Living with other people tends to suck and I know it can be better.
I'm also working on Crisp https://github.com/huumn/crisp which is a cryptocurrency written is Lisp. It's currently a toy meant for exploring, but what I want to do is have the transaction language be designed around spawning subchains. A blockchain for creating blockchains.