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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by digitalsanctum »

As a hobby, I'm working on a project that allows you to run a subset of the AWS infrastructure on your local machine. Yes, there are related projects such as Serverless and more recently LocalStack from Atlassian but my intent is to focus solely on Lambdas written in Java and I'm learning a lot about the AWS APIs and orchestration semantics along the way. I try to leverage existing open source projects (DynamoDBLocal, Kinesalite, etc.) running in Docker containers and provide the glue to do things like spin up an entire system locally while being able to debug Lambdas, etc. I'm working on it in the open here: https://github.com/digitalsanctum/lambda

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by stove »

joshuaheard wrote: post #308

Scuba diving computers have become a necessary part of diving. Current models have indecipherable interfaces that hang from dongles or are worn as bulky wristwatches. I have developed a scuba diving computer HUD with a simple graphical interface placed in the diver's mask and is easy to learn and use. Also, scuba divers must maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive. The current method is manual, making it a difficul…

This sounds amazing. Is there anywhere I can learn about your wetsuit technology? I'm interested in the crossover to surfing.

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Post by liquidise »

3 ongoing projects:

1: Write 1 blog post a week on blog.benroux.me

2: Continue to improve automatic spam moderation with detextion.io

3: Write an iOS dictionary app that tracks every word you look up and sends you words every week from that list to help you remember them moving forward

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lappet »

tmaly wrote: post #429
lappet wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi, I am working on something similar with https://samosasnearme.com . I am unable to sign in to your website using FB.

Thanks for the heads up, it appears something has changed in the social login code since I put it up in 2015. I am working on version 2, so I hope to have this fixed soon. I am doing a complete redesign and moving from a custom database engine I build over to a well know open source db. It has been slow going.

Ok. May I ask what your source of data is? I am using Yelp's API currently.

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Post by godot »

My brother runs a movie web site in Chinese, that has some traffic. He's a writer, not a developer, but he learned some basic HTML some 15 years ago and has been publishing articles in raw HTML files since then.

The site is as web 1.0 as it can get, and he wants to modernize it. I'm a developer.

My side project currently is to help with this. It's actually fun to work on.

There's no breakthroughs or interesting science/engineering problems being solved. It's just a mix of things that make it fun. Everything from picking a proper CMS with a list of interesting requirements (easy to use, as attack-proof as possible [i.e. not Wordpress], as few moving pieces as possible but easy content authoring), converting old pages from HTML to some markdown format for future-proofing, making sure old URLs work and redirect to new URLs with better SEO formats, converting old Chinese encoding (Big5!) to Unicode, responsive design of pages/mobile focus, adding AMP and FB Instant Articles features, and so on. It's a mixture of building a CMS in 2017 and rethinking how a modern content site should be.

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Post by rtb »

Datenstrom wrote: post #321

Project: In early prototyping a IMSI-Catcher Detector. Why another IMSI-Catcher Detector? Mainly trying to address the problems with the current open source solutions which is that they are tied to phones, the phones must be rooted. Given that there is no such thing as a secure phone something that runs on other devices using software defined radio would be better, it is also unreasonable to expect everyone that woul…

Sounds interesting. Do you have a website or blog where I can look for updates?

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Post by cheapwx »

godot wrote: post #435
cheapwx wrote: post #430

I created an API (that is still a WIP) to provide forecast data pretty cheaply. Last fall I was working on another side project(that got shelved) that needed weather data, and I was blown away by how expensive most of the other APIs are if you need quite a lot of data. Shoot me a message if you'd like a trial token to do some tire kicking. www.cheapweather.com

Just curious, what's your data source? I'm not a potential consumer or competitor, just wanted to know where one would go about getting something like weather forecast data to provide as an API. If you feel that information is part of business secret, you don't have to answer.

No secrets here. I pull the data raw data from the NWS and put a prettier interface in front of it. I had high hopes to pull from other public data sources... but you know, priorities.
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