I'm working on Android app that is as a reader of the old John Carmack . plan files. Probably going to release it in January on Google Play.
Ok, it is now available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitoralmei...
Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have been working with something for 3 months and you think you are proficient enough to warrant writing a book about it?
Yes, I have shipped a production ready application that uses Vue.js extensively. Also, this book is an attempt to cement my own understanding of Vue. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
Well, if you are making clear that you are just a little bit less unexperienced as the target audience, there is nothing wrong... But if you are going to charge money...
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#113Simple, good looking website w/ quizzes to help me learn and be less ignorant about the world around me (country names, religions, languages, current events, history, etc.)
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#114This 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…
This sounds interesting but the use case seems very specific to your internal infratstruture and tooling. Can you elaborate a bit on use cases?
> This sounds interesting but the use case seems very specific to your internal infratstruture and tooling.
This is actually also part of the openSUSE project[1], and it's all free software. The Open Build Service[2] supports several package formats and distributions (Arch Linux's PKGBUILD, Fedora/RedHat's RPMs, openSUSE/SUSE's RPMs, Debian/Ubuntu's debs).
> Can you elaborate a bit on use cases?
Currently at SUSE we're working on a new product for running Kubernetes on top of our distribution. One of the important pieces is building and distributing official SUSE images (as well as customers distributing images). But this code will be a part of the public Open Build Service instance, so everyone will be able to use it. And SUSE customers will also be able to use to to create their own images.
Effectively the "cool thing" is that you can create OCI images without needing to use something like Docker -- it's all just modifying a root filesystem and umoci will generate the diff layers for you.
I'm also working on distributing OCI images through RPMs, which may end up being a really cool way of distributing images (because all of SUSE's tooling is built to work with RPMs).
[1]: http://openbuildservice.org/ [2]: https://build.opensuse.org/
Re: Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?
#115A Retron-5-like game console for playing physical Atari 2600, Colecovision and Intellivision cartridges based on a ROM-dumper I wrote: https://github.com/drzaiusx11/WiringVCS
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#116Simple "email this link to me" service. If I find something interesting, I want to be able to click a button (chrome extension/bookmarklet) that will extract the text from that page, format it nicely and email it to me (preferably to a separate Gmail label). I can then read it from my email client (iOS/Android email app) during my commute. I don't want the overhead of a complete app like Evernote or Pocket.
Loved this idea - started building such a service as my first side-project for 2017.
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#117I 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.
Have you seen MAAS (Metal as a Service) from Canonical? Paired with Juju, it's fairly easy to deploy OpenStack on metal servers...
Yes i have, and i'm running MAAS on a colocated box as well to install ubuntu on virtual machines. But when you pair it with Juju the licensing becomes a bit expensive as far as i remember, So that's the layer I’m working on to replace first.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! I've been thinking of ways to do this, and the idea on top of my list is a live usb image that asks for stuff like network parameters, then configures the live image as a 90% functional node from which the first real host can be pxe booted. After the first host(s) have been installed the admin should be able to reboot the live host and add it to the cluster for real. Right now i have a running Openstack cluster…
Yes I think your idea sounds very convenient, I basically just want to type the IPs of my machines in somewhere and the rest should be explained to me on screen. If SSH cant be established, tell me why. If i didnt set up ipxbe properly or at all, tell me why (heck, even tell me how you got that information ala 'we tried establishing an ssh connection with ssh@184.4882.1 -v but it resulted in this error log: '. Any ot…
Personally i don't even want to care about the IPs of the physical machines, just put together a box, plug power and network in (given a properly configured switch) and boot it up from the rest of the cluster.
in the "boot up first box" scenario you should be able to enter all subnets you allocate to the cloud like "my wan range is 15.26.37.0/24, router at .1" And "for the host management network i want you to use 10.67.0.0/16 with router at 10.67.0.1" from there on you should be able to plug in and boot up machines. Just be careful to not plug in a laptop that boots from the network :P
Basically my philosophy is sane defaults, some magic where i know i wouldn't want to care, and introspection everywhere.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a lot more neutral these days, you're not wrong but context is an important part of it. I'm not a radical feminist or anything, I just think in tech it's quite important to be inclusionary at every given opportunity and every level. The male-only culture we've fostered in the tech industry is becoming poisonous. And nowadays it only takes one person outside of your laser-focused demographic to write the right […
Wasn't the context "guys who are convinced it will take them months to reach proficiency"? I could easily see a different person upset if it were "gals who are convinced it will take them months to reach proficiency", which indicates ambiguity in the context. My point was that from a standpoint of odds of success, you're much better off with focused marketing and getting a strong response from a small group than by g…
I don't think I've accused anyone of being anything. I've pointed out some context to someone who's not fluent and may not have been aware of that context.
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#120https://bolagslistan.nu - Delivers a list each month of all the recently registered companies in Sweden. You get information on what they do, where they are located, and so on, and I'm building a tool around this information to make it easy for people to search by industry, region, etc. And yes, I have customers! :)
Out of curiosity, how do you get the data?