I started building an instant messaging system based on Tor's anonymity model while taking advantage of NaCL and Rust for type safety, speed, and modern crypto. Have gotten most of the crypto functional, now I just have to figure out my DHT implementation so you can find the person you want to chat with :-)
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#143I finished up the first round of my side project: PeerGym
http://www.peergym.com let's you search for quality gyms in your area by membership price and amenities - the kinds of things services like Google Maps and Yelp don't do. Most people do a particular kind of workout (running, weights), and need special equipment (treadmill, barbells), and you can't always guarantee you'll know what you're getting just by the name and a few pictures.
It was mostly an excuse for me to learn Elixir and Phoenix. I've tackled auth, uploads, geolocation/geospatial DBs, SSL and more, so it's been a lot of fun and hopefully I can turn this into some sort of tutorial series on building out a real-world app.
For the future I want to add reviews, community edits, and advanced filters to make them easier to search and populate. And hopefully, accept payments if people want to buy passes to their gyms online (or automatically renew their memberships.
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#144An interpreter for metabolic like computing to produce cell like structures as a mechanism to create machine consciousness.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Awesome. What fail safes do you have?
The only real failsafes I have are overcurrent detection on the blade motor (when you hit something bad, current will spike) which triggers immediate shut-off, as well as a big red emergency stop button that will be on top of a pedestal at between knee and waist height. Otherwise I intend to implement naive obstruction avoidance to start where I detect proximity to an obstruction and simply steer away from it when I'…
Are you looking at ROS?
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#146http://dbheroapp.com - a GUI database app for PostgreSQL & MySQL, for Mac and Windows. Very early days (been actively working on for about a month).
Interesting. What technologies did you use here?
Go, React, es6. Swift for the mac app. .NET, Winforms and CefSharp for Windows app.
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#147I am currently building a new nodejs+go/polyglot framework (known as ArchieJS - work in progress and on github https://github.com/archiejs/) which makes it specially easy to build web APIs that can scale using microservices in the backend.
I was quick to build the Nodejs part of the framework. I have been taking a longer time building the Go part. Mostly because I am new to Go and am trying to figure out whats the best way to go about it.
These days I am reading a bit into Dagger, and trying to figure out if I can put some learnings from Dagger into Archiejs (or particularly the Go part of ArchieJS).
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Big and bold challenges. Does the "no difference between creating and using software" not cover much/most of your considerations? I'm curious where you've taken to the idea of things like graphs over trees, should a new system be so opinionated? or is there a way to develop something flexible enough that when the next thing after graphs comes along, your system will be able to adapt.
I have lost all motivation for lesser challenges. I can't be excited about a very specific project with a doman-specific purpose. One could probably summarize my mission as to bridge the gap between consuming and creating software. Sometimes, I tell people that I'm creating a new language (which I am). A tree is just a unidirectional graph. Most file systems use the tree structure which is crippling. I'd like to know…
I think we can build the trust system using a hypergraph. There's also a couple special kinds of nodes that will shorten the walk between seemingly disconnected items. I've been thinking about this for a while too.
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#149I'm building micro - a microservices toolkit https://github.com/micro/micro . I was part of the platform team at Hailo which built a global microservices platform and before then spent some time at Google. I think with the shift to cloud and docker, being able to build distributed systems is becoming ever more important but the tooling hasn't caught up yet. The goal of micro is to simplify building and managing distr…
hello ... i am building archiejs (a mircorservices framework - please do a CTRL+F on this page) ... it would be good to connect.
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#1501.An application that helps healthcare workers make better decisions.
2.An app for salespeople. It helps track prospects, keep sight of targets and communicate with home office staff and other members of the team. You could say I'm a SalesForce competitor.