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Ask HN: I was made redundant yesterday, and I want some coding ideas

#1
I was made redundant yesterday, and I've found myself with some free time, and a woefully empty Github account.

I published my first npm module today, https://github.com/coughlanio/pocketcasts and I'd like to write a few more to help beef up my portfolio.

Any ideas or fun things you can think of?

Re: Ask HN: I was made redundant yesterday, and I want some coding ideas

#5
Fun.... ok...

Make an asmjs implementation of https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/projects/13-4-bit-processor/134-v...

Complete with an old skool disasambler to code up the typed array in.

Also think up some method to populate the webpage with text using canvas and some way to call the mothership using Victors amazing.

Re: Ask HN: I was made redundant yesterday, and I want some coding ideas

#7
Here's something that could be relatively easy (there may be a good library out there already, I haven't looked to hard for it though). Create a node.js module that takes as input the results of an SQL one-to-many join, along with a description of the key fields in each level, and outputs the results in a nested JSON object. So for an example, an output of a customer Would be nice if it was abstracted enough to work with any database driver, and also have bindings for the node Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL drivers.

Re: Ask HN: I was made redundant yesterday, and I want some coding ideas

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post #7

Here's something that could be relatively easy (there may be a good library out there already, I haven't looked to hard for it though). Create a node.js module that takes as input the results of an SQL one-to-many join, along with a description of the key fields in each level, and outputs the results in a nested JSON object. So for an example, an output of a customer Would be nice if it was abstracted enough to work…

I think you could do this very easily using the Pandas API in Python.
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