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I've been working on https://yakondi.com which helps people around the globe get more out of their travel experience. Noone really want to travel right now - so COVID19 means we are focusing less on marketing and more on development and clearing our feature backlog. The technology stack is pretty simple (MySQL, Java REST & Angular) but I've also been experimenting with Jupyter and Dataiku for analytics of usage behavior. If you are not already familiar with our service, yakondi.com is a free network of locals and experienced travelers who will help you organize your next trip. It already connects 1000s of travelers across the globe and provides users with unique and tailored travel advice.

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I'm making a new tool for writers. With it, you'll be able to write your essays on "layers" The problem? Tweets are easier to read than long-form essays, as they require less time commitment. If the content is not good on a long-form article, you'll find out way too late. With this tool I'm developing: Layer 1 is the shortest version of your essay, the 1 min read — like a tweet. The idea boiled down to the shortest v…

Works for books? Tolkien too long a read.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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I've been working on a little set of charts to plot coronavirus growth globally, based on data from John Hopkins. Rather than putting them on a map I find it more useful to have graphs per country/region.

For example here is the US:

https://coronavirus.projectpage.app/us

https://github.com/kennygrant/coronavirus

The data is based on the nightly time series from John Hopkins, based in turn on collated data from WHO and governments, which they have plotted here on a world map:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

I'd quite like to do a bar chart of cumulative deaths/cases per country as well. Unfortunately deaths is probably the most reliable measure when looking at growth. There are a few irregularities in the data I'd like to fix too - for example the UK has no regional breakdown.

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I bought an old trench coat from a thrift store and outfitted it with 350 programmable LEDs , an Arduino to control them, and a 24 AA battery bank for a music festival last year, it was a hit. I'm currently working on adding another 150 LEDs, fixing the power system (I burnt out the Arduino after a couple hours), and looking into adding a microphone and learning some sound programming to make the suit change colours…

This is super cool. If you haven't seen it already this session on wearables from Strangeloop is definitely worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwnt2NFvBhQ

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We are working on a pfsense/opnsense firewall traffic visualization tool based on ELK stack. It is a highly customizable solution that let’s you have extensive insight into your network traffic.

Key points:

* pfsense/opnsense support

* openvpn event parsing

* suricata/snort dashboards with interactive Maps support (MaxMind GeoIp fields, src -> dest locations, heatmap, etc.)

* deploy with ansible playbook, docker or script.

https://github.com/3ilson/pfelk

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I’m working on a tool that allows developers to record and playback interactive, guided walkthroughs of a codebase, directly from their editor. It’s called CodeTour, and it’s currently available as a VS Code extension: https://aka.ms/codetour . I built it because I frequently find myself looking to onboard (or “reboard”) to a project, and not knowing exactly where to start. After speaking to a bunch of other develope…

For somebody who has to do "company" or "engineering team rescue", this is awesome and hugely important to me.

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The last few weeks have been spent on a pretty obscure project, that's finally kinda sorta ready to show to the world.

We were making silly games in Visual Basic 6, because that struck us as a cool thing to do. However, it's hard to show them to your friends, when they all use macOS or Linux. Plus, we didn't want them to miss out on the nostalgic feeling of booting up Windows 98. So, after a lot of blood/sweat/tears and a physical copy of the MS Windows 95 Resource Kit book, we finally can ±roughly automatically install a Windows 98SE machine in QEMU, load it with our games and some settings, and then upload it to S3 to be "played" with copy.sh's v86 engine.

Without further ado: https://paschke-images-test.s3.amazonaws.com/welcome.html

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

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I've been working on https://yakondi.com which helps people around the globe get more out of their travel experience. Noone really want to travel right now - so COVID19 means we are focusing less on marketing and more on development and clearing our feature backlog. The technology stack is pretty simple (MySQL, Java REST & Angular) but I've also been experimenting with Jupyter and Dataiku for analytics of usage behav…

Cool idea! I guess it's kinda like Uber for travel industry. This could be big in a few months...
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