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I'm working on Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ It's been out for about 1.2 years now and we're really starting to nail some important features. JUST about to post a new release now. COVID19 is having us pivot a bit in that we're going to experiment with collaborative group reading in the hopes that students can work more efficiently with their colleagues without having to leave home. The core idea is to have a fully-…
A Minecraft server in Rust [1]. The hope is to make it obscenely parallel with actor-like design (Minecraft chunks are nearly perfect for this). The real challenge so far has been the complete and utter mess that is the MC protocol; there's two different forms of UTF8 in the damn thing and there's NBT and JSON (which achieve the same thing). NBT itself has 2 ways to encode i32 and i64 arrays. So I haven't reached the…
I would guess one part where parallelism might help is interleaving of packet parsing and (de)compression if they exceed the compression threshold.
Made a collaborative "corona stock" spreadsheet[1]. Now feel like a great opportunity to buy some "cheaper" stocks that could make great returns in the future. Also helps to have better perspective of my "limited" vision of the market. [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bBsJnUIWg8BbET-h3oKN...
Also, seeing people add and edit each other's comments and insights in this doc gave me an idea for a fintech app: basically a social app that would let people put forward their personal cases for why you should buy or sell a particular stock at any given point.
I am developing a modern wikipedia interface - a Vuejs powered modern, single page, progressive, offline capable web application for Wikipedia. I have been working on this for last several months and have working version available at https://wikipedia.thottingal.in Source code and more details available at https://github.com/santhoshtr/wikivue It is a fully client side PWA application using wikipedia web apis, instal…
clicking Political Career on tree view raises exception from querySelector. probably parentheses breaking it.
There are still a few issues there I'd like to address before I publish it. Feel free to follow me on twitter (@yrashk) if you're interested, I'll announce it there.
I'm also considering making an experiment and publishing it under Prosperity license (https://licensezero.com/licenses/prosperity)
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…
This is what I replied with last time this was asked. I had big plans for April to August, including going to trade shows, and ramping up pop up shop locations. Obviously things changed quite a bit, but it comes to show just how out of control ones business can be at times: Skincare for men ( https://www.mendskin.co ). I commented in a similar thread 6 months or so ago, and it’s been solid. First started as D2C, but…
1. wu -- written in Go some years ago, and actually pretty successful (as these things go). Picked up by a couple of distros, etc. It used the Weather Underground API, which was truly fantastic. But alas, they closed off free access to the API, and I had to shut down the project.
2. dsw -- wrote this one in C++. Uses the Dark Sky Weather API. The API is great -- maybe even better that WU -- but not quite as feature-rich as Weather Underground. Then I discovered that they don't want you to distribute your program and ask people to get an API key. So I shuttered that one too.
3. wwo -- another, fairly recent C++ effort that uses WeatherAPI.com. I like the way I designed this one, and the API itself is easy to work with, but honestly? The data just sucks. It's often wrong, too far behind, not enough of it, etc. So . . .
I am now working on a yet-to-be-named thing written in straight C that uses the NOAA API. I've stayed away from this API, but honestly, it's the one to use. JSON linked data all over the place, sort of cumbersome in some ways, but the data is awesome, and barring government shutdowns, the API is pretty much always on. Not sure what to call it. Sort of afraid to cloud the namespace with "noaa" (noah is also taken). But as you can see, I am a Serious Expert on cli weather apps, so maybe I'll just take one of those.
And that is what I am doing with my quarantine. Thanks for listening!