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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I’ve been working on a visual programming language to explore red black trees (actually just using RB trees to explore a new way of programming, but...).

RB tree insert:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArDMmfbOxi4

RB tree rebalance:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-8uEEtvso

I previously did the same thing for quicksort (see my YouTube channel for lots of videos), and am currently thinking of way to generalize this approach.

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#212

Loop Thesis ( https://loop-thesis.com ), a multiplayer time traveling puzzle/arena shooter that allows players to simultaneously travel to different points on the timeline. In co-op/multiplayer this allows you to do things like send someone back in time to open a door for another player in the future, or pull objects outside of time to effect someone in the past. There's a big focus on experimentation and discovery.…

This is friggin cool. Definitely gonna check this out.

By the way, I think there's a typo on the About page. Below the video, the game is called "Reset Hard". Guessing that's an earlier name?

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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 workshop…

Nice idea! Just tested it - so the guests have to auth with Google or Linkedin, correct?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#214

Been spending 4+ hours per day studying languages for the last year and a half. It started as a challenge to learn German, and now it's spiraled into going to polyglot conferences and doing "learning challenges". Right now, my main focus is on Swedish, but I've joined a 3-month language challenge, where I'm trying to learn as much of Inuktitut as I can. Since 2 weeks ago, I study most days on Twitch as personal motiv…

4 hours a day?

How do you manage all your life sustaining activities after work?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#215
Erudito Keyboard for iPhone (https://erudito.io) It's a mini game in an iPhone keyboard, you play from any App, just by writing.

Common words give you little or no points, infrequent words give you points. You get bonus points when you write a sequence of words with points.

There is a leaderboard where you can compare your "skills" against other users and friends. Still need to implement a feature to segregate each leaderboard: general and friends.

The keyboard has realtime notifications and bidirectional communication with websockets, so you can know what other users are doing, this will be useful to have "death matches".

As you can see It's an experimental App. Currently is available on the Appstore (since last week) but I didn't promote it yet, I'm looking for users to iterate it more :) and crush few bugs along the way.

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Whenever I have any breathing room after my thesis work, I'm working on an electric motorcycle build based on an the chassis of an old Honda H100-S2 as a challenge in hardware, software, fabrication, and well, everything really. Shooting for actual road certification, so doing everything by the book.

That's something I've wanted to do as well. Keep us up to date on how it goes!

Will try! It's slow going because everything tends to start with some variation of 1. Get/buy new tool. 2. Learn entirely new skill. 3. Make mistakes. 4. Goto 3.

The documentation lags quite far behind the actual build (really need to update these pages...) but can be found at https://johnvidler.co.uk/mechanical-engineering/electric-mot... if you're interested.

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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…

Hey, just so you know... I went to snipcss.com and attempted to sign up for a lifetime membership, only to be informed that the payment processing was in dev mode. I went back and entered the standard test numbers, and it worked. You might want to lock this down. Also: take my money, please.

Thanks for letting me know!

The homepage doesn't have a link to the pricing page so I didn't think anyone would find that. I'll let you know when it's ready!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#218

Loop Thesis ( https://loop-thesis.com ), a multiplayer time traveling puzzle/arena shooter that allows players to simultaneously travel to different points on the timeline. In co-op/multiplayer this allows you to do things like send someone back in time to open a door for another player in the future, or pull objects outside of time to effect someone in the past. There's a big focus on experimentation and discovery.…

This is friggin cool. Definitely gonna check this out. By the way, I think there's a typo on the About page. Below the video, the game is called "Reset Hard". Guessing that's an earlier name?

Yeah, recent name change, still trying to track down all of the old references. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#219
I’m working on Lightbus, a Python framework for RPCs and eventing. I’ve been working on it for a couple of years now, and I’ve been trying to get the API as clean as possible. It’s currently running in production with a couple of companies.

The project came about because I was using Celery to communicate between Django projects, but it felt like a kludge.

I’m getting close to an official release soon, but there are already extensive docs at https://lightbus.org

Code is in GitHub, linked to at the above address.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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post #213

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 workshop…

Nice idea! Just tested it - so the guests have to auth with Google or Linkedin, correct?

Hey, thanks! Yeah, that’s correct. I’m using auth0, so it’s trivial to add more authentication methods too. Is there a specific one you’d need?
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