I'm rewriting Age of Empires II (multiplayer only) in C: github.com/glouw/openempires I just enjoy pain
Have you heard of OpenAge? Its an open source thing with a similar aim
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#612I'm working on an IoT rotating light (think like a real police light) that turns on with the sound of your choice whenever you receive a notification of your choice. It can be set up via Zapier/IFTTT or an API. New sale on your Shopify website? New star on a GitHub project? Website down? New mention from a specific person/word on Twitter? New subscriber on YouTube? Someone ringing your doorbell? Your fav sport team just scored? You get the idea. It just makes notifications a lot more fun and "real". I like to think it will help capture the same excitement as in Ghostbusters #1 when they get their very first client and set off the alarm.
Ghosbusters ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXMcbhn6Np0
More info on my YouTube channel (in French): https://youtu.be/pkoNW3ifuYE
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#613Im working on building a way to capture peer acknowledgements or 'shoutouts' for developers in pull requests. The problem was that any recognition by my peer or manager on my code was not captured or tracked for performance reviews and I wanted an easy way to capture recognition by others as well as a way to track my own progress.
It is meant to be a native Github app. Feedback greatly appreciated https://giveshoutout.com/ (Landing page still in work)
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#614I'm working on static analyzer for SQL: https://holistic.dev It's a useful tool for DBA to identify issues in SQL queries automatically. Only 50 rules for now, but more than 1000 described in backlog :) Funny, but initially this tool aimed at developers' needs. I've made a lot of microservices, which only started the database queries. I came up with the idea of making a tool that would automatically generate all the…
That looks really cool. Any chance you can share the code? Or share more about what you did? Like what does those micro services look like and what do they do?
Also what you say about type errors makes me think about static typing. Does it relate to that concept?
I too have been diving into writing raw SQL some while ago and I liked it.
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#615I'm working on a site where creative people can find others to collaborate and work together on creative projects. For creative I mean visual artists, musicians, developers, moviemakers, writers, designers, etc, etc... Example of projects I foresee: game developers searching for artists, moviemakers searching musicians for a film score, writers looking for designers, etc, etc: https://collabomate.org - Right now the site is very simple but my plan is to take the quarantine as an opportunity to add more collaboration features.
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#616A couple of days ago, I launched a major feature for my website monitoring service ( https://tryhexadecimal.com ), and that is status pages. I have been meaning to do it for a long time since some customers were asking for it, and it will help to differentiate from competition in a major way. I had to migrate my Rails app from Heroku to EC2 to accommodate this change (I need to obtain both a wildcard TLS certificate…
Currently rely on statuspage.io and it’s critical for me. I’m struggling to parse if there’s any unique offerings compared to statuspage.io. Is there anything I’m missing?
I’m especially focused on the UI for the posting of a status page update. As our business offers multiple services and some can go down while others stay up. It can be cumbersome to deal with multiple data centers and services.
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#617Working on Dipla, I mini social network for local communities, you can post things and comment anonymously, posts stays the area for some days.
We believe this could be used to warn about things around, or say some critics for shy people ...
Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.dipla.app iOS : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dipla/id1501533164
Enjoy !
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#618I'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…
That's so awesome. Is he a ham?
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#619Log storage and search system for structured logging data in Rust. i.e a database optimised for logs and log-like data and nothing else. Existing solutions are too inefficient for the use case of logs (TB+/day), suffer under high field cardinality, are based on costly and unnecessary full-text-search systems that aren't well optimised for logs data or just plain and simply can't handle structured data and degrade to…
Reinventing a log stack, something that no one should do. I don't see a reason why someone would want to work on that regarding all the existing solutions that cover 99% of all cases.
Once you have your feature that works, then you will add all the other needed that you didn't though about and you're going to be is in the same spot as other solutions on the market.
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#620Writing console applications with cool text UIs : https://asciinema.org/a/VUKWZM70PxRCHueyPFXy9smU8
I love everything about this. Now TBH I don’t think I’ll ever use it as I’m heading towards web UIs so my wife can use washy I’m creating. But it’s super cool!