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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by PedroCandeias »

As a solution architect visiting clients in Europe and North America, I struggled to capture names and roles of people in meetings and workshops. That led to lots of awkwardness and missed opportunities.

All meeting management apps I found assume participants always get calendar invites, which I found to just not be the case.

So I wrote a small web app that uses qr codes to allow participants in meetings and workshops to introduce themselves, using their phones, on the spot and in a way that persists: https://quickintro.app

I thought I’d be laughed out of the room first time I asked a room full of people to “check in” by scanning a qr code and filling out a form, but no. It worked. So now I’m releasing it for others who might need it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by opticfluorine »

jessehorne wrote: post #100
opticfluorine wrote: post #95

In my free time I've been working on a 2D MMORPG engine in C#. I'm working on the networking code right now, working toward being able to connect and move around the game world. I'm enjoying the network code, but I'm really looking forward to getting back to shader code and implementing dynamic lighting at some point down the road. Wanting to build an MMORPG was the main thing that got me interested in software devel…

Building a MMO was my dream for a long time and it's what kept me learning for several years. I haven't accomplished the goal but I will, one day.

I've been telling myself that I'll finish one day too, and now on my eighth attempt, I think I can pull it off. Learning to manage long-term projects has definitely helped me with that.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jessehorne »

thrifter wrote: post #9

Going from zero musical ability and knowledge of music theory to composing and playing jazz, classical and hymn. I've given myself a year to do it and documenting my progress every day: https://write.as/poseur-to-composer/about

I bought a guitar the day I found Justin Johnson on youtube playing some killer blues on a 3 string shovel-guitar.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by peteforde »

ltr_ wrote: post #20

working on my crippling depression / ADHD, unemployed (i don't want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.

Hang in there. You're definitely not alone, and it does get better. I'm happy to listen if you ever need someone to talk to who has been there, and in important ways is still there.

As others have said, don't be so hard on yourself: that you're teaching yourself useful stuff is the opposite of zero productivity. In fact, you're probably learning faster than if you were doing it while employed.

My best suggestion is that your local library will likely allow you to download an app such as Libby that will allow you to listen to audiobooks for free. During my downtime, nothing has brought me more respite from my depression than listening to - no joke - about 200 books. I alternate between sci-fi and non-fiction. I never would have imagined myself a listener, but I was very wrong.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Ingon »

Since most of my side projects don’t end up seeing light, so somebody could do it before me:

A photo app that lets me view (and make galleries to share) of my photos uploaded to s3, that is self/locally hosted.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by acutesoftware »

mrieck wrote: post #46

Working on a desktop version of my webdev tool SnipCSS: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma... The current version is a Chrome Extension that extracts every CSS rule needed to rebuild the DOM subtree of a selected element. Unlike other tools it never uses computed styles and uses the actual DevTools protocol to get the CSS. The current extension doesn't handle CSS specificity or inheritance c…

What made you decide to go with a desktop version of your software?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by pvinis »

opticfluorine wrote: post #95

In my free time I've been working on a 2D MMORPG engine in C#. I'm working on the networking code right now, working toward being able to connect and move around the game world. I'm enjoying the network code, but I'm really looking forward to getting back to shader code and implementing dynamic lighting at some point down the road. Wanting to build an MMORPG was the main thing that got me interested in software devel…

That must be so fulfilling and a huge thing to be proud of. Good luck :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by nsainsbury »

I'm working on a new chapter for my course Mastery with SQL (https://www.masterywithsql.com) covering query performance and indexing with PostgreSQL.

I want to really allow everyone to see first-hand the impact of re-writing queries to be more performant and adding the right indexes so I've been spending a lot of time to create great exercises where you get to optimise poorly performing queries over some very large and interesting data sets.

I launched the course on HN a bit over a week ago and had a really great response (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260292) so has been great motivation to continue working hard! Really enjoying myself at the moment.

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