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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#842I was laid off about a month ago. Last week I purchased the domain covid-story.com (theres nothing deployed yet).
I want a a basic crud application that allows users to log events in their life by date, journal, or more blog in longer form the day to day experiences they've had during the pandemic.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#843I build something where i can store my image collections into different categories (lots of art atm + some dwarf fortress maps + plans). Drag drop images (or whole folders) into collections. Its not 100% done yet and I am looking for feedback. Sadly normal work has crept up on me and I feel the motivation slowly leaving my body.. :)
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#844https://github.com/evzaboun/garage-door
Raspberry pi garage door opener build with React+NodeJS.
Admin panel | User roles | Signup/Login flows | responsive | Progressive web app
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#845I'm building a freely available data set from a 50000 student survey of attitudes towards experimental physics. Typically this kind of data is never available without working at the institution where it's gathered. We figured that's BS and really against NSF guidelines for data collection anyways.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#846I've been trying to learn LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) and write a widget framework in it. I've never really dabbled in Lisp, but I'm also reading On Lisp, and it is fun to just stretch the mind a bit and wrap my head around FP. My wife thought I was reading a math paper from how Lisp looks :)
Also trying to clean up https://geo-yak.com and https://yak-mu.com, which are IP Geolocation charts for visitors, and SQL analytics for Stripe. I made both to scratch my own itch, but trying to market them a bit too.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#847On the side I run my project https://fitnessmodern.de/ about showing people what you can do with modern wearables. When the corona crisis started in Germany I thought: ok, this could be the end for the project. Who is going to leave his apartment now to keep fit or to buy a new gadget.
But exactly the opposite happened. After a sharp collapse in visitor numbers in the first days of the crisis, they shot up again. More than I knew from before. That was astonishing but in retrospect logical: because here in Germany there was no real curfew, only a ban on contact with other people. So people probably thought: before I lounge around at home, I'll do something for my health and fitness. You can also tell from other comments here that fitness projects have worked. That motivated me to do my project even more intensively, because I realized that it is important to people.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#848Fixing data access for C# :-)
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bbsimonb...
This, I humbly submit, is superior to _all_ the existing approaches, in terms of developer speed and comfort, runtime perf, and testability.
Compared to EF, you author your projections in a sandbox where you can get familiar with your data as you build up your projection. Compared to stored procs, your queries are versioned and distributed with the app. Compared to Dapper and ADO, your SQL lives in a real environment and you have zero mappings to maintain. This ought to change the world, no?
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#849I've been writing a sql parser + memory backend in rust called rustsql[1]
I've been following this[2] go tutorial and converting code into rust.
[1] https://github.com/madushan1000/rustsql
[2] https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics.html
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#850I have been making things with masa flour. Tamales, bocoles, tortillas, and pupusas. So far the pupusas are my favorite, and very easy to make. From scratch, I can prep, cook, and eat in less than a hour, so it's ideal for a lunch break.