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I'm hacking on https://bankhooks.com The premise is simple - define arbitrary conditions on transactions or balances, and get webhooks or emails when those conditions fire on any of your bank accounts. I have >10 bank accounts and was having trouble monitoring them. I use this to alert me of any activity, on any of my accounts, that is unexpected. I no longer need to log into banks. I also use it to alert me if my ba…
I'm working on a morse code iOS app that can optionally use Force (3D) Touch. My dad had a stroke recently and is quarantined in a care facility. He can't talk but remembers morse code like a boss. He can't lift his finger off the screen to "tap" and there were no other morse apps out there for people with physical impairment. With this he's able to communicate... I've been coding for 15 years but this was life chang…
Its based on a (heavily modified) Chrome codebase, and the application sdk its in Swift and later also one for C++.
Apart from the application process use to remote render the UI, i have a "instance" process that run for the "apps" that works for handling the RPC messages (which is in gRPC).
The instance process, will expose the RPC interfaces as in a background service, where the RPC is designed by the app developer accordingly to its needs. (For instance it can even control when to launch the app window).
The RPC can be exposed to the outside or only internal, and im using the bittorrent DHT as an update service with a constant address that the app developer can share so others can install and update the apps.
The application is container like, where you can have key-value databases and files already there. So when you launch the instance process (aka. the service process) it can use this persistent layer as its state. Files, databases, assets, applications and the shared module to be loaded by the instance process will be all there already (as in zip, git or docker).
On top of that there will be the common window, the same as browsers, only that its shared by installed applications that was synced through torrent.
The cool thing is that giving theres a instance/daemon process for each app, they can run and handle RPC' s or network in the background and notify you about events, where you can optionally launch the app UI to see them.
(Eg. a messenger can receive messages via RPC, handle them in the instance process, and persist them without any UI, than let you know about it through the common window, where you can launch the new UI)
(Im also planning to let install in "standalone mode" where it will install and be exposed as a ordinary app in the native OS)
The SDK will have direct access to the web layer, and it will be easy to develop a web browser for instance. The rendering layer is the same used by chrome and blink.
The biggest motivations to this, was not only something i've always wanted to have, but also political, as in civil rigts, giving it will give us more control of our digital lives.
Imagine a search index like Google only being able to index your contents if you allow them, and only what you want. Or the capacity to have your personal list of friends and the social networks will have access to the list if you want and not own them like they do now.
Im about to launch it in about a month, but giving i was already in a bad financial shape (because i have dived all the way for this project), now with the pandemic, i dont know if i can launch something really stable and finale, be it for health or the world economy nosediving (i hope it wont affect me that much and i can do at least this).
http://sciugo.com/ gives biomedical researchers a repository to store and share their research.
The research is formatted in a way that emphasizes reproducibility and reusability by other researchers.
The site is being built for general biomedical research and its especially important during the current outbreak!
I'm switching gears now to working on a roguelike engine, as the term is supposed to be used. Meaning, games like Rogue itself, but also Nethack, ADOM, Angband, etc, rather than games like Spelunky. I'm excited about this because roguelikes make up for their extremely simple graphics by tending to have extraordinarily complicated systems. Of particular interest to me are procedural map generation (tons of interesting algorithmic possibilities here) and monster AI.
Besides, building a 3D renderer is not something that particularly interests me currently, so skipping that and just using sprite sheets made to look like ASCII chars is perfect.
I'm working on a morse code iOS app that can optionally use Force (3D) Touch. My dad had a stroke recently and is quarantined in a care facility. He can't talk but remembers morse code like a boss. He can't lift his finger off the screen to "tap" and there were no other morse apps out there for people with physical impairment. With this he's able to communicate... I've been coding for 15 years but this was life chang…
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Right now I am trying to make an archlinux IPFS mirror. There are existing projects like this but I wanted to save more history to avoid the issue where you get a 404 when installing a dependency if you haven't synced in a while. https://gitlab.com/kevincox/archlinux-ipfs-mirror/-/blob/mas...
I've also been updating a first-player-picker app that I made a long time ago. It's very lightweight, delivering the main functionality in https://gitlab.com/kevincox/playerone/-/blob/master/README.m...