Ask HN: What are you working on? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by namuorg » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 3:16 PM UTC

person_of_color wrote: post #351

namuorg wrote: post #175

I'm teaching myself music (guitar and singing)! After casually dabbling for many years and not really getting better, I decided to devote at least 30 minute a day to practice to see how far I can get in a year. I'm making videos to track my progress ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ytq5cTCDE ) and creating tools to accelerate the learning process. Some examples: - Chord Bunny (to learn chord transitions): https://…

Why guitar and not synths?

Because John Mayer. :)

I do intend to learn synths but not now since I don't want to spread myself too thin (the trap I usually fall into).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by cdaringe » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 3:19 PM UTC

https://informedcitizen.me/

Automatically analyze online content for credibility.

Barebones alpha launch last night, 4 July 2019 :)

Improve credibility in social networks. Long term plan is to detect when social shares are trending upwards, analyze the shared articles' contents, and submit an automated reports into threads.

Currently the heavy lifting of the system is done via fakebox, supported by a small suite of services you can see in the docker compose configurations. https://github.com/dino-dna/informed-citizen

I'd love for others to get involved and help out!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by cdaringe » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

cdaringe wrote: post #492

https://informedcitizen.me/ Automatically analyze online content for credibility. Barebones alpha launch last night, 4 July 2019 :) Improve credibility in social networks. Long term plan is to detect when social shares are trending upwards, analyze the shared articles' contents, and submit an automated reports into threads. Currently the heavy lifting of the system is done via fakebox, supported by a small suite of s…

Looks like my analysis-card's min-width a tad too big on mobile :). Will patch soon!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by miccah » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 3:26 PM UTC

screaminghawk wrote: post #264

miccah wrote: post #238

An Android client to control mpv (media player) remotely. It is actually both the server (written in python) and client. I started it because I didn't want to get up to control the movie playing on my laptop, and it has turned into a fun experiment in UX and network security. https://github.com/mcastorina/mpv-remote-app

I did a similar thing to control VLC remotely but using Node and React. Not as comprehensive as yours but does everything the kids need to watch a show without touching the PC. https://github.com/screaminghawk/web-vlc

That's awesome! I love the images and synopsis. One thing I have in the works is a seekbar that stays in sync with the server, but it's actually a lot more challenging than it sounds.

I like how you include the episode and season info. Do you search for that online or have it locally?

Really cool project, thanks for sharing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Arun2009 » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 3:33 PM UTC

My list keeps changing, but I have three main "projects" these days.

- I will complete the final level of a beginner's Sanskrit course this August. This has been an intermittently executed project for me. I can follow uncomplicated spoken and written Sanskrit now, and can mostly understand Sanskrit at the level of Gita or the Indian epics. My long term aim is to be able to read Indian philosophical works in their original.

- I am teaching a few neighborhood kids Mathematics, Physics, and occasionally, Computer Science. This is immense fun!

- I am trying to learn at a deeper level some of the topics that I learned during my undergraduate studies. On this front, right now I am working on understanding operating systems and compilers a bit better.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by yjhoney » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 4:05 PM UTC

dlhavema wrote: post #402

yjhoney wrote: post #181

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

That's really good success! Weve had a few people come out of a bootcamp and try to apply for jobs, but none were even close to getting hired. I think their bootcamp was only a 2 or 3 months though

2-3 months is really aggressive and the ones who do well are usually incredibly motivated and smart. Bootcamps that are 3 months long usually will involve an interview to make sure the student is motivated enough.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jamesponddotco » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

Working on a few projects right now as I recently left my job, but the one I am working today is "Allons-ip!", a free and open source IP address API that uses pure NGINX to work.

Right now there is one dedicated server in Germany (AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper 2950X with Hetzner) and all it does is display your IPv4 address, but once I am done it should work with both IPv4 and IPv6, and have servers around the globe to decrease latency as much as possible.

The API returns all data in plain text — or JSON/JSONP —, without any advertisements or extra data. Server has full disk encryption enabled and a no logging policy.

Usage is quite simple. There are no secrets here, just call the URL for the API and it should return the IP address of the machine you used to make the call.

Clear Text: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/

JSON: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/json/

JSONP: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/jsonp/

There are a few reasons for this, but it boils down to the need to improve my resume, as most of the work I done in previous companies are their propriety now. I also needed to get the public IP address of servers I deploy programmatically, and wanted to have control over how that was done, so I decided to turn it into a public project.

Since I did not want to reinvent the wheel and NGINX is so damn powerful, there was no need for anything other than pure NGINX.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by halfjoking » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 4:17 PM UTC

ernsheong wrote: post #309

I'm building a kanban workflow tool. Think of it as Trello + Google Forms + Process Street. Check it out at https://kanrails.com/ Would appreciate your feedback!

Some screenshots or muted video of using the product on the homepage might demonstrate why using this workflow tool is superior.

There are a lot of kanban tools out there and I'm not sure people will sign up if there isn't some screenshot that looks compelling. (and not just generic images)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by yjhoney » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 4:22 PM UTC

taneq wrote: post #473

andreigheorghe wrote: post #459

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Without these numbers it's hard to support your premise. His premise is that "anybody could learn coding if they tried", whereby "tried" I assumed applies to only the people who passed those two rounds of self-selection you describe.

That's kind of like saying "anyone can run a marathon" and then qualifying it to "if they enter an organized event and complete the appropriate training for it".

> That's kind of like saying "anyone can run a marathon" and then qualifying it to "if they enter an organized event and complete the appropriate training for it".

Yes. That was what I was trying to figure out is, if there was an organized event could anybody (who are motivated to complete the training) get a coding job?

I would like to think so, but I work with many people in the industry who will say, 'nah they need the brains for it'.

I try my best to motivate those who lose motivation but ultimately I don't have the bandwidth to inspire everyone who loses motivation.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by yjhoney » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 4:30 PM UTC

fhbdukfrh wrote: post #236

yjhoney wrote: post #181

I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…

Is 130k realistic for someone with less than 2 years of not just experience but total exposure? I'm not aware of any market supporting that sort of value proposition; that's one hell of a book...

YMMV. I don't expect everyone to get 130k TC, but that has been the case so far.

A few things that helps:

1. Content must be lean. Learn foundations.

2. Really drill down those foundations.

3. Work experience: most of a student's journey is actually working together as a team to build / launch products. I role play as a project manager and run weekly sprints.

4. Relevant Technologies: I work as an engineering lead during the day, I make sure student's work experience covers all of industry trends (currently: GraphQL, React, Apollo Client)