Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

I'm currently working on a script to measure the rotation speed of a record player turntable from videos.

A SaaS starter kit built with Nodejs/Express and Vue, called Nodewood.

https://nodewood.com

Hopefully I can get it rolled out in time to help other folks with their quarantine side projects!

After falling in love with the Destroy All Software style of genuinely advanced, all-encompassing programming screencasts, I started a YouTube channel with my own twist on the theme: Screencasts situated inside a decade-old, profitable, production web app, ones that emphasize actual workflow.

I've been an indie-hacker for 10 years so have seen the effects of my programming decisions over the same period. I've seen how fads come and go, sometimes wreaking havoc. I've also seen how coding decisions affect business (such as strategies to transform data into seo at scales of 10k+ items). I've seen how to keep something running day-and-night as if your livelihood depended on it - since it very much does.

That's the game plan anyway. I'm five episodes in: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC17mJJnvzAa_e9qQqLIfIeQ

For fun I took up the tenor ukulele. Compared to any other instrument I've tried, it's got a much kinder learning curve. You can sound alright playing four-chord rock and pop songs in easier keys like C major after a month.

A mix of playing Piano, working on an set of XMPP related libraries and tools in Go, and trying to get a handful of internet drafts accepted by various IETF working groups.

Digital piano lessons over meet.jit.si aren't as great as in person, but at least I'm able to keep up with it. Currently working on Liebesträume and Handel's Sarabande on the classical side of things and In The Mood on the jazz side.

The XMPP library is going well and I'm hopefully about to start rewriting the authentication bits: https://mellium.im/xmpp/

And finally, I've got some I-Ds submitted and in discussion in the IETF's TLS and KITTEN working groups. One that documents best practices for authentication and password hashing and storage: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-whited-kitten-passwor... and one that defines a channel binding mechanism for making tokens and secrets only valid over a specific TLS session (right now it's specific to SCRAM based auth, but that will likely change soon): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-whited-tls-channel-bi...

Parenting.

A full time work from home setup with children at-home is already draining energies