Slowly but surely adding things to https://plaintextwaittimes.com/
I have really enjoyed going back to a text first information dense design. I'll likely build more tiny sites like this in the future.
Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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#782Good timing, as I just put the finishing touches on this month's devlog: https://www.patreon.com/posts/september-2024-113011369?utm_m... Basically, my rhythm-based roguelike on original NES now has a proper economy, with gold gain and shops to spend the gold in. It also now supports PAL and Dendy systems, which is especially wonky due to the different framerate, but helped a bit by this being a rhythm game. As long a…
What made you decide to build for the NES specifically at opposed to building for a fantasy console with similar restrictions but more usability like the Pico-8?
For this particular project, I was initially inspired by the way Gauntlet II draws huge fields of enemies, using the trick of placing them on the background layer. I wondered if CotN's mechanics could be imitated using that technique, and then I realized that the nature of the rhythm tracking meant I'd have more than a single hardware frame to process updates. That made the project possible at all.
Separately, I enjoy the process of writing 6502 assembly and working with hardware restrictions. It's nice that I can hand someone a real cartridge, to plug into their almost 40-year old game console, and it just works. There's a certain nostalgic magic there that's thrilling in its own unique way, that a modern fantasy console just doesn't deliver on. (The Pico-8 is delightful in its own way, of course. It's a great little toolkit.)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#783I work on Chellow, an open source Web app for checking and reporting on UK electricity and gas bills for large organisations https://github.com/WessexWater/chellow . It's a mature project that's used by two organisations. Please get in touch if this is something you're interested in.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#784Slowly but surely adding things to https://plaintextwaittimes.com/ I have really enjoyed going back to a text first information dense design. I'll likely build more tiny sites like this in the future.
Very nice! Do you plan on adding arrival/departure information, too? (Maybe also airports outside the US?)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#785Slowly but surely adding things to https://plaintextwaittimes.com/ I have really enjoyed going back to a text first information dense design. I'll likely build more tiny sites like this in the future.
Very nice! Do you plan on adding arrival/departure information, too? (Maybe also airports outside the US?)
I'm debating adding 3 things next: arrival/departures, general airport delays and ground stops, and yes airports outside the US. Less clean TSA like information from those sadly.
Right now the only special airport is DEN where I've started to gather the real time data. https://plaintextwaittimes.com/airport/den
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#786I'm working on PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com), a web app to predict salaries from Linkedin CVs and job opportunities.
There are also adjacent services, like AI career coach that can roast your CV and give advice on how to raise your salary, and crowdsourced salaries data.
I'm working on other features like creating interview questions based on CVs, and so on.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#787Maintaining a database of Canadian grocery prices. (Reach out to me if you're passionate about rising food prices and/or have economic analysis skills!)
Writing articles about & archiving Victorian-era "Artistic Printing" - like the examples at [2]. (Reach out if you're knowledgeable about letterpress printing, brass rule art etc. and want to share your insights)
[1] https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer [2] https://www.sheaff-ephemera.com/list/artistic_printing_album...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#788I'm working on a CI system with DSL instead of yaml configs.
The general premise is that most sufficiently advanced yaml configs begin to look like code - e.g. in Github Actions one could look at external Actions and shared workflows as dynamic libraries; workflows as public functions; jobs and steps as internal ones.
We have better languages than yaml-structure-as-a-code, and tools to help us write and test them quicker.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#789I built an English-speaking website that helps immigrants settle in Berlin.[0] It has been my full time job for a while. Most English speakers know about it, but it's nearly invisible to Germans, who would also benefit from the content and tools I have worked on. I'm currently adding an automated AI translation feature to my custom static site generator, so that I can translate the website to multiple languages and r…
This is great! You mentioned this is your full time project. How do you make a living off it? I see mention of affiliate links and a call for donations. Is that how you monetize the site?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#790Working on https://shepherd.com/ and trying to help readers find books they will LOVE (not just like). In a few days, launching user accounts + our first user feature using our new Book DNA review system that is trying to help narrow in on the type of books you love and why. The goal is to serve better recommendations going forward and get more people excited about reading. It is fun :)
I enjoyed your site. Queries seem to be sluggish, but that's likely because you're getting a lot of traffic on HN. Well done!
Thanks :)
Ya working on it, Alibaba and Amazon's AI is stuck on our website, having to block them as just destroying us for no reason. Really frustrating.