Frustrated by the problem of information overload, I've been working on Sivv - https://www.sivv.io/ - a forum for sharing summaries of the most useful / actionable ideas from books, long-form articles and research. The idea is to boost the 'signal-to-noise' ratio of the information that people consume, helping them to both reduce the amount of time they spend reading while also learning more.
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
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#852Https://tunesource.net
A searchable library of folk & traditional Irish music, displaying the abc notation as sheet music and allowing midi playback.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#853Spending some time trying to write a native Go API for UEFI. Currently trying to go the PKCS7 signing to work.
https://github.com/Foxboron/goefi
The end goal is to provide better secure boot tooling for people. This is exemplified by my sbctl project which aims to make it silly easy to create keys, and sign stuff. Currently it shells out to sbsigntools, but this feels awkward and I'd enjoy some better integration without having to call out to C-code.
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#854Have been busy building a basic working prototype for http://boxi.chat : a live shared whiteboard + chat, with markdown and latex support.
some examples : http://blog.boxi.chat
Also.. doing some paintings of internet people : http://art.tiyuti.com
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#855I'm writing a javscript chess board rendering library similar to chessboard.js but with some new ideas thrown in.
I also made this to play with SvelteJS for fun (UK government alert message generator): https://adamjaggard.github.io/stay-alert/public/index.html
I was working on a tongue-in-cheek web game called Political Campaign Simulator but it's parked at the moment.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#856https://newworldfans.com
It's a website for Amazon's New World MMO that I started before the quarantine, but I have been able to work on it a lot during this time. So far the project enabled me to use and/or learn: Kubernetes, Discord.js, Twitch API, Nuxt.js (not the main site but an upcoming tool), and a whole bunch of non-coding tasks.
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#857Work in progress, but a couple of friends and me are making an online chat for small groups of people - just a quick place to have a random conversation, although if you come back we try to put you back with the same people if available
Online but still under development: https://dotdot.im :)
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#858I started an Agora: https://anagora.org.
The Agora is an enhanced social contract for the internet: https://anagora.org/wiki/Agora
The site itself is just based on MediaWiki, no ad-hoc code for now. In the future I hope to be able to port it to AthensResearch: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens.
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#859Music together: https://boomroom.co
Yoga music: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/beat-yoga/id1505203964
Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
#860https://currentevents.email
Because I wanted to know what was going on in the world without too much COVID noise. It is a daily email from Wikipedia’s Current Events portal. Someone mentioned that i could have just used RSS, but it was quite fun to build something so small and have a fully completed project in a day