Ask HN: What is your side project for 2018?

I'll try adding few more feature to my static blog generator https://github.com/geekodour/gitpushblog

Last few months I've been building digital musical instruments for Android [0], I guess I'll continue working on that. So far I've built a few 'instruments' that emulate traditional instruments (guitar, organ, choir...) that you can play in real time on your phone. During next year I would like to take advantage of interactive platform, to make the instrument actually respond to your playing (and then to augment it).

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.castlewrat...

Same as last year. New publishing platform for independent journalists https://www.demotico.com.

Looking for beta testers to give feedback at the moment.

Mainly I'm devoting my free time to a native REST client in the vain of Postman or Insomnia. It's also been an excuse to learn the Qt framework and brush up on my C++ skills. So far, I've found C++ to be insane, but I quite like Qt.

https://github.com/tmstieff/Woke

I'd like to port the entire authorization module from my open source Python project, Yosai, to Rust and use it as a shared library from Python. I PoC'd this work last January, resulting in the release of my first crate and Rust tutorial. I haven't touched Rust since, though, but intend to push on further.

A complete Rust implementation has the benefit that it can be adapted to myriad other languages and thus has a much wider audience appeal. It's also about 10x faster than cpython, but pypy may eliminate that gap entirely. Of course there are the usual other benefits, as well.

Since Rust is in its infancy for application development, such an authorization library would address a growing need by the Rust ecosystem.

If any programmers want in, email me.

References:

Yosai: https://github.com/YosaiProject

Python-Rust adapter: https://github.com/YosaiProject/yosai_libauthz

authz.rs: https://github.com/Dowwie/rust-authz

blog post: http://daringordon.com/rust_tutorials/