It's extremely silly and inefficient but I love making random disco gifs: https://github.com/egeozcan/gifDisco
Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
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Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#72I wrote the British Placename Mapper ( https://placenames.rtwilson.com/ ) last weekend, and it got a bit of traction on Twitter here in Britain over the last week. It lets you search for parts of British place names, and will plot the places that match on an interactive map, so you can search for places that start with 'great' or end with 'burgh' or contain 'sea' (or you can use regexes for more complex stuff). Peopl…
Wow, this is a great idea and really fun to look at.
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#73sensless but cool
rise of the rotars
a "life" simulation that always ends in monoculture
but nice to look at
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#74I wrote a D&D game in Plang language. https://github.com/PLangHQ/apps/tree/main/DnD
I noticed there are a lot of D&D game in the chatgpt store, so I wanted to bring it to my local machine instead of using the chatgpt website
Took about 4 hours from idea to finish. Source code is in the .goal files
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#75September 22 - September 23, 2021: puppetromium - "World's simplest browser" - a single file, "remote browser", using MJPEG streamed viewport, CSS breakpoint sizing hack, image-button form control to capture click coordinates to server, and NO client-side JavaScript.^0
I wanted to see if I could make a JavaScript-less "remote browser" that essentially worked. Mainly because there was so much JavaScript in the client for my actual, working, remote browser.
I found out: it is possible. But it ain't pretty! Hahaha. Some pretty cool hacks in there tho. I'm especially proud of the CSS code for probing the viewport size, and how is synthesizes a bunch of cool, slightly fringe / retro web platform techniques like: , Motion JPEG, pinging a sizing URL based on CSS @media query.
I also wanted to use puppeteer, as I didn't even use it 1 bit for my actual remote browser, and puppeteer was such a big thing, I wanted to use it! Haha :)
[0]: https://github.com/dosyago/puppetromium/commits/main/src/ind...
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#76Not coding, but my daughter Aelyth and I are a musical duo. Our first album ( https://sidesister.bandcamp.com ) took four years to complete thanks to COVID lockdowns and living in different cities. On Thursday evening we rendezvoused at an equidistant AirBnB to sketch out our second album. It's now Sunday morning, Aelyth's just caught the train home because she's working today, but we have a concept, a title and ten…
This is beautiful! Wow, my dearest congratulations and admiration :)
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#77I used to have a raspberry pi that was running on a schedule to play rain noise while I was sleeping. When I moved I took it down and didn't put it back up, but never liked how excessive it felt.
So I built a simpler version that doesn't have a schedule but runs on an RP2040 and generates brown noise:
https://github.com/bschwind/sleep-machine
Will eventually add some key switches to it so I can start/stop it more easily (currently just plug it into USB when I want sound) adjust volume, low-pass filter params, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#78Not that impressive but I personally liked it. Since Telegram isn't accessible without VPN or Proxy in my country, i made a flutter app that connects to an API. The API itself uses Telegram API to get and send messages. So i made a Telegram that doesn't need VPN. But it was so simple (Only for one group and only text messages). Anyway I enjoyed the progress and the result.
Oh and a question if you can help me. I used streaming FastAPI for the API and used dart:io in flutter to listen for the new messages and put them in the app. Do you suggest any better way to fetch new messages? Like WebSocket or idk anything.
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#79A 15-minute-city analyser using OSM data. You gave it a list of everything you wanted to be close to (ie a school, restaurant, doctors office, food store etc.) and it would show you which parts of a given city had all those things with an N minute walk.
Re: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
#80I am just starting out trying to learn iOS development and last weekend I made a small tally/counter app. All it does is adds or subtracts 1, but dammit if I'm not excited about it.