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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#751
Just a personal website: https://dwayne.xyz

I rented a server from Digital Ocean, installed nginx and Go, and wrote a web server. No frameworks on the front or backend, just HTML, CSS, and a couple of small scripts. And I wrote my own authentication and admin pages to manage everything from the browser.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#752
Beginning work on solving the metadata problem in classical music. Specifically, for those of us who either buy CDs or download tracks from the Web--the metadata is generally badly formatted, partial, in the wrong language, inconsistent from track to track, etc.

The hoped-for result is that you can run the tool on a directory and it will identify the files correctly and insert the metadata so that it is all consistent and correct. You can then copy the files to your favorite devices, and easily find what you want, make playlists easily, etc.

My current stage is researching the current tools, which are all (so far) partial solutions and IMHO cumbersome to use.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#755
I created a library: http://github.com/SebastienBtr/vue-dashboard to easily create a dashboard app, my motivations for this library is that I didn't want to use a big dashboard template that you can find online, where you always have to do some refactor and remove all the things you don't need. Instead my library just give you a vue component to have a dashboard layout setup. Feedback would be appreciated, and of course, a star if you think it's great :)

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#759
I'm working on starting a Wireless ISP in rural Portugal:

https://gardunha.net

It's a nice mix of both online and offline work. Also, the community around here is mostly made up of various combinations of farmers, hippies, retirees, and permaculture folks. Everyone wants a decent internet connection, but no one really has the skills to do much about it. I've lived here a year now, so thought I'd give it a go.

It's a windy road. Actually, it all started out because I wanted to get fast internet for myself on my farm. Then I thought, "Hey, why not start a business?" Feature creep at its best.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

#760
I built Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/), a local Markdown file based knowledge base app. It supports internal linking and graph view, and recently added multi-pane capabilities too. It's looking more and more like an IDE for your knowledge by the day, and it's quite amazing at that.

I also wanted Obsidian to be very extensible, and the private beta community has already started extending it and it's so cool: https://github.com/kmaasrud/awesome-obsidian

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