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Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by stevekemp »

Funnily enough when I was enjoying my own paternity leave I figured I'd take up something new, and ultimately chose between:

* hardware stuff.

* mobile stuff.

I figured I could start playing with hardware, or I could look at mobile application development. I realized quite quickly that app-development was too close to coding so I chose "harware".

I bought a bunch of arduinos, and later switched to esp8266s, along with sensors and stuff. I had fun building a few projects - such as an LCD to show tram departure times outside my door, and wireless temperature/humidity sensors to let me know when my sauna was hot enough to be useful.

These days I've gone back to coding for fun, and I'm doing what everybody else _here_ does; experimenting with a toy lisp!

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by zekenie »

https://webreducer.dev - an event-sourced firebase alternative. You get an endpoint that let's you keep state through a reducer function. Change your reducer function and replay all requests to get a new state. Websockets and http endpoints for clients to connect with

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by guilherme-puida »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #59

You asked for it: https://htmx.org https://hyperscript.org I hated angular when it first came out and couldn't believe what insanity people were willing to put up with, so long as it came from google. (e.g. GWT) I created https://intercoolerjs.org out of frustration with that, and the lack of progress in HTML/hypermedia in general, so I could build a web application I was working on ( https://leaddyno.com , since sol…

Thank you. HTMX is a breath of fresh air.

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Post by johnsock »

My wife wanted some different ways to track stats for her runs/walks. Stuff that was not available or tedious to pull up in the default apps. I wanted to learn SwiftUI. Made an app to implement the things she wanted. Some of her friends made feature requests, so I added them. More people asked for it, so I put it on the App Store. It is on track to make 10s of dollars this year, hehe!

https://807software.com/runalyzer/index.html

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Post by mubashariqbal »

Currently learning more about programmatic seo, and found that there wasn't a good way to share that resources I found, so I'm building a tool that will anyone to build sites like:

https://pseo.ai/

I'm interested in the rise of learning communities and sharing resources the community finds is central part of that.

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Post by daneel_w »

I'm about to start a small microcontroller/radio project using low-cost low-power LoRa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa - radio devices, to settle my curiosity on LoRa and how well it performs (i.e. its reach) in a city environment. Nothing advanced, just a few LoRa transceivers bridged to computer using a USB-capable microcontroller, hosted with me and some friends to send short text messages to one another.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by TacticalCoder »

I was tired of "backups inside backups inside directories with yet more backups" I accumulated over the ages.

Stuff as old as:

   /home/pub/oldbackups/hddConner800MB1998/olddos/...
Yet I like to try to keep everything personal. I've got nearly all my emails. Since the nineties. I still have my DOS source code files.

Same for the more recent stuff.

This is saved in many places.

Yet at times I like to organize some of that mess. There are files I definitely don't give a crap about anymore: files/directories from that old Windows driver for that long gone laptop.

So I wrote my own system which allows me to "tag" files and directories based on their cryptographic hash (I'm using Blake3 for it's very fast). I can, for example, tag a file "for deletion". No matter what, when file with blake3 hash 0c340c79... is found, it can be deleted.

I'm also not happy with hash-based content addressing systems I found so far, so every file that's never ever going to be modified again got part of its hash appended to its filename. So I can also verify that the file isn't corrupted.

And it works as a file deduplication system too.

It's not a big "scratch my own itch" as I'm reusing lots of stuff that already exists but it's lots of fun and works fine.

It's very satisfying.

No more: "but I already deleted that, why do I need to delete it again!?".

Instead I launch my berzerker (that's how I named it) and it goes berzerk.

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