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

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Post by karateka »

1) Built a crappy cordova clone of an Android app I used (ThingCounter) to better suit my needs. It helps me track my reps for kata [1] and set goals to meet by certain dates.

2) Built another cordova app which bundles a load of videos I use as reference for training (Okinawan weapons [2] kata), need to compress the videos better, the app came out at 800MB+.

3) Reading through Automate the Boring Stuff to relearn Python

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata#Karate [2] http://ryukyu-kobudo.com/

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

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Post by arata »

I am building a free Japanese learning website at https://xn--wgv71a119e.app . It serves as a creative medium to improve my design and development skills, as well as my Japanese.

My vision for the project is to give learners the basic foundation of vocabulary, kanji, and grammar and to expose them as early as possible to native content (something that I wish I did sooner). For that reason, I utilize various media such as tweets and YouTube videos to make the content more natural (i.e. not textbookish), relevant, and engaging.

The project is still far from completion. A few days ago, I shared the early version of kanji module (https://xn--wgv71a119e.app/漢字) to a reddit community. If you are interested in the details, please check the post below:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/gii8ww/looki...

Technology-wise, I am building the website with Next.js and wrote all sort of scripts such as asset generation, dictionary, and parser in Go. Aside from no support for utf-8 route in Next.js (I had to hack few things to make it work), the development has been smooth and pleasant.

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

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Post by zentiggr »

I was an active Palm user, Life Balance was my task tracker of choice, so much so that for a while i tried to run it on PHEM on my Android phones. (Don't ask. Ouch.)

I'm trying to reimplement it with personal mods, in C# to start, and likely do something in Xamarin.

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

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Post by pknerd »

1 - I am learning Go and already released two packages:

- GoCache - An LRU based cache server inspired by memcached.

- gKeeVee - file based key/value store

2- Working on an Indexing tool which will be based on Inverted Index.

3 - Reading books.

4 - Learning Rust.

5 - Trying to learn Farsi. Still looking for better resources.

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

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Post by taphangum »

I've spent a decent amount of time learning over the time that this quarantine has been going on.

A major issue that I've seen is that of most beginner-focused educational content not being fast enough to learn with for the more experienced developer. This along with the fact that time is often a big issue for us. I've had numerous times where I had to learn a new framework within a 1-2 week time span in order to plug some work gap or speed up a project, and found no legitimate resources that could allow an intermediate developer like me to learn faster.

This is why I am currently creating content targeted specifically at intermediate to advanced developers and teaching new languages and frameworks (using the 'constructivist' method) in a way that makes the process of learning them much more efficient. In short, faster.

It's a little rough around the edges but you can check out the blog where I share my current tutorials here: https://fromtoschool.com.

To gain a better understanding of why the method of teaching that I've described is more efficient than others for the intermediate developer, check out this post: https://fromtoschool.com/why-most-programming-tutorials-are-....

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