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Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by powmonk »

300 wrote: post #13

I am writing a book on Vim [1] for a while now, so it's going to be my main side project in the first months of 2017. [1] A crappy page about the book: http://jovicailic.org/mastering-vim-quickly/

As a piece of constructive criticism (as it seems like maybe English isn't your first language) using gendered words like "guys" can seem a little bit sexist or at least exclusionary. You don't want to put women off reading your book just with the blurb :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by NumberCruncher »

I want to make party/board games using smartphones as the game controller (similar to fibbage) and use this as motivation to learn elixir and phoenix together with a frontend framework (maybe elm). I tried to do this with python but I have problems with thinking in objects so I will go with functional programming.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by cyphar »

This isn't a "side project" (I'm not going to make money from it, and it's also something that I work on at my job), but I've been working on umoci[1] which is a way to create and manipulate OCI container images. At (open)SUSE we're planning on using it to create container images inside the Open Build Service. I've also got a few ideas about RPM distribution of OCI images that I'm quite excited about, and hopefully I'll have some code that works soon.

[1]: https://github.com/cyphar/umoci

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by krapp »

I probably shouldn't share these because they're nowhere near worth sharing yet but...whatever. I can come back in a year and see whether or not I actually finished this time.

- A HN-like forum written in Hack[0], mostly for self education and to teach myself how to work with Vagrant.

- Actually finish a game in the pseudoframework[1] I (mostly finished) in C++.

[0]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/basedforum

[1]https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/sdl_framework

Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

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Post by bartvanH »

I want to build a set of tools to build a full private cloud on bare metal with zero single points of failure. Essentially a full replacement of Fuel and Openstack.

I've already started on a full multi master dhcp server to assign ip adresses to hosts and instances.

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