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Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#811
Wow lots of interesting projects in this thread.

I'm currently working on a blogging engine I call bittyblog

https://github.com/cluoma/bittyblog

I'm not a professional coder so it's mostly a toy project to get me programming and learn new things but I also use it for a couple of my blogs and add features as I want them.

It's CGI/fastCGI based with SQLite3 for storage. It integrates well with lighttpd because of its fastCGI process manager.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#812
I'm working on basketball manager game with fully fledged game simulation engine, similar to Football Manager. I'm developing it in Kotlin, with TornadoFX.

I've spent a lot of time on optimizing the engine. Fortunately with correct techniques JVM is surprisingly efficient, so it is able to simulate single game (30 frames per second, around 110k frames in total, each with collisions, path finding & decision making) in ~900ms on single 2,4GHz core.

I'm far away from having anything usable (or fun to play), right now I'm working on team defense behavior, little GIF representing current state: https://gfycat.com/jampackedsparseindianglassfish

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#813

I am working on a file archive tool, written in go, to add random file access to .tar.gz of arbitrary size while maintaining compatibility as a valid .tar.gz. The idea is to embed in gzip metadata the tar file index, and compress the gzip using small chunks of 1MB, whose offsets are also indexed in the metadata. Since the indexes are written in metadata fields, it is invisible for normal linear decompression.

Neat idea. Would this make it possible to use a tar gz as a squashfs archive, basically?

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#814
I'm building a side project around launch SaaS products as quickly as possible on a JVM stack right now. As a dev who cut their teeth at a bank then a FAANG, I found it really tough to move from working on a small complex part of a big thing to working on broad problems where I felt like I was implementing the same things (password reset, user management etc) over and over.

I know that Laravel for PHP and Rails in Ruby land have this kind of thing locked down, but I would have loved to have something like Laravel Spark on a standard JVM tech stack.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#815
"A Beautiful Remind" - HTML renderer for Dianne Skoll's "Remind" program. This is a side project of mine to learn the Rust programming language while under lockdown.

Teaser: https://klostermaier.de/abremind_demo/index.html#today

(hint: you can switch themes if your browser supports alternative stylesheets. In Firefox that is View > Use Style)

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#816
I'm writing a Telegram bot in Python for my own and my family's entertainment. It includes an interpreter so I can write for instance:

   /interpreter save "'https:'+REGEX('((?
and then write just:

  /dilbert
which shows the strip of the day on our channel

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#818

I'm building a side project around launch SaaS products as quickly as possible on a JVM stack right now. As a dev who cut their teeth at a bank then a FAANG, I found it really tough to move from working on a small complex part of a big thing to working on broad problems where I felt like I was implementing the same things (password reset, user management etc) over and over. I know that Laravel for PHP and Rails in Ru…

Interesting idea. I’m from a similar background (tech startup then bank and now startup trying to sell to banks).

Would love to learn more about your project.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#819

I've just finished off (within the last hour) my version of Asteroids, which I started with enthusiasm two or three years back, then did very little after getting the basics of the game working: https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/ Now I've finally added all the stuff I wanted to (black holes, satellites, power-ups) so it's time to pick up another project I started a long time ago and haven't really done much on: my ve…

Really like what you did with little red enemy ships starting as 1 whole and then splitting, very cool.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

#820
I'm currently working on https://seeme.ai, the AI marketplace: easily create, use and share AI models.

After talking to a lot of companies and engineers, it was crazy to see how long it takes them to create and deploy AI solutions.

I initially added it as an extension to my computer vision training, but am working on sharing it with everyone: https://www.seeme.ai/blog/seeme-ai-marketplace/

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