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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?

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Post by sharedmocha »

I am working on creating a product that performs 'Log Aggregator + Metrics Analysis + decentralized distributed tracking' for blockchain apps. Today's log analysis and metrics applications are focused on providing services to micro service or monolithic applications wheras blockchain apps are decentralized in nature and run across multiple parties or organizations. This creates a challenge when monitoring the system and performing log analysis or distributed tracing as systems span across multiple parties or organizations. I am trying to simplify this by creating decentralized logging apps which work like dApps (decentralized apps)

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

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Post by tsamtsam »

two main kinds - 1) one (more practical, i.e making sure that the side projects actually hone my existing skills - still deciding between building another CRUD app or just brushing up on my ds/a more -- any advice?) 2) exploratory (trying to build a scraper for entertainment venues and creating a map based visualization for public to use when the covid-19 measures are eased in my country)

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

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Post by tsamtsam »

I think I should do this: Build a fun resume parser - improving UX of resume parsing when applying for jobs - auto recommend keywords one can add in to resumes when uploading through an ATS - just for laughs (seriously though), a bot running through your resume and informing you of your chances at getting past first screen (through a chrome extension)

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

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Post by asood123 »

My wife's medical practice always struggles with coming up with a call schedule (weekday evenings, weekends, holidays, etc). So, I wrote a python script that takes in a csv with everyone's vacation/blocked dates, any other restrictions (like max dates they should be assigned) and outputs a schedule (with stats, because previous person doing it by hand raised questions about fairness). https://github.com/asood123/call-scheduler

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

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Post by smichel17 »

(Originally posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23172959)

Snowdrift.coop is a crowdfunding platform specifically for free/libre/open (FLO) public goods -- freely-licensed software, music, journalism, research, etc. It's based on a new funding mechanism we call Crowdmatching, where patrons pledge to support projects with a monthly donation proportional to the number of others making the same pledge ($1 per 1000 patrons).

We operate as a non-profit cooperative. The site itself is free software, written in Haskell (yesod) and we've also tried to stick with FLO tooling whenever possible, although we made an exception for hosting our source code, which is at https://gitlab.com/snowdrift/snowdrift

Of course, as a free software project, we suffer from the same funding issues we're trying to solve. The project is currently a 100% volunteer effort, and we're making slow (but nonzero!) progress towards our initial launch, when we start hosting our first outside projects.

One of our biggest bottlenecks right now is developer bandwidth. We have a handful of updated designs that address UX issues with the live site, and need to get them implemented -- if you know css, haskell, or both, we'd appreciate help!

In addition to replying here, you can also reach out on our discourse forum (https://community.snowdrift.coop), irc/matrix (#snowdrift on freenode, bridged with #snowdrift:matrix.org), or gitlab (above).

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