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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by darcys22 »

I’m building an open source accounting system with rpc endpoints being the primary method for inputting data and a SQL database that can be queried easily. GoDBLedger:

https://godbledger.com/

https://github.com/darcys22/godbledger For the most part that backend of the system is working how I want. I now need to build more front end ways to communicate to it. One of the front end methods I’m working on is programmable journal entries. So you write your journal entries in a JavaScript file which gets executed in the context of the accounting system so you will have full access to the account balances. However this is still early stages: Yurnell: https://github.com/darcys22/yurnell

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Post by anilgulecha »

A realtime collaborative writing suite. Documents, Novels, screenplays. Everything is validated by schemas, and there are hooks throughout.

I find the tech really cool - google docs like. Fine-tuning the end UX at the moment. If this is something you'd use or try out, pls ping me: anil.verve @ gmail.

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Post by ChicagoBoy11 »

Ended up watching some of the F1 guys play videogames and thought it was kinda funny but pretty stupid. Then I kept watching it... and became a little obsessed. Now it's turned into my time pit (outside of work hours) through a mixture of watching better drivers to learn from them, optimizing my rig and recording setup to allow me to be fully immersed in VR while still capturing video with all sorts of interesting overlays, and trying to mitigate a huge temptation to spend a lot more money on making my setup more elaborate.

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Post by realbarack »

I've been trying to become a better Clojure programmer, so have been attempting to use Clojure and Clojurescript almost exclusively for my side projects, especially since I don't use it at work. First I built a real-time version of the board game Gobblet, a pretty cool two-player board game I learned about recently (Kinda like Connect 4 with a surprisingly interesting twist). After getting it to the point where I could play with my friend over the internet I moved on. Now I'm working on a GIS project. I'm really slow at getting things done with Clojure but I can tell I'm getting faster.

I've also been enjoying lunchtime and evening walks. Something about going on walks seems to generate many project ideas for me. As a result, my list of projects to work on has been growing way faster than my ability to actually complete those projects.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by craig »

I've been working on https://github.com/hobochild/clementine, it's a self-hosted graphql anayltics platform. Basically a "free" replacement of Apollo manager.

Also starting to work on a slack alternative for small business. I've found alot of companies are using Whatsapp group chats for business and I think there maybe a market. You can read my initial thoughts here. https://hobochild.com/posts/chat

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Post by jacquesm »

Restore an old grand piano, play that grand piano, finally learning to read notes properly.

So far so good, it's pretty good to play now, still need more action regulation. The piano had been stored on its side for years, lots of transport, water and insect damage.

Current project: Intermezzo no. 6 by David Benoit: https://open.spotify.com/track/0MJ4ikwkXV4lJiRjklWhS9 (sorry, can't find a youtube link).

Total spent: $100 for the piano, $100 to transport it, $50 to buy string steel to replace the strings that had broken. There is still some worn felt in there as well that will need replacing, mostly on the hammer rest bar and the bottom of the jack support bar. Shaping the hammers was a tricky job (they'd worn down quite a bit, to the point where the original shape was hard to determine).

All in all very satisfying.

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Post by eropple »

I've streamed live events for my local fighting game community for years and run charity events here and there, but COVID left a gap for my favorite game (Tekken 7) and I've decided that what better time than now to become a tournament organizer? So now I run something of a madhouse stream, with four total PCs and two separate lobbies to keep things flowing (nobody runs games as fast as we do) and it's genuinely an absolute blast to do.

Our events are open to the entire East Coast and last week we had 26 players from the US northeast. It is a good time to learn this stuff because it also helps my local community and others get in touch and start finding new players to play for now--and hopefully hang out with/play in person once COVID is lifted.

https://twitch.tv/tracecomplete https://tracecomplete.challonge.com

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