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Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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

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Post by StillBored »

Well i've got a few, but finishing a number of "digitization" projects I've had on the back burner for years. As I type this, i'm flipping 3.5" floppies from the early 1990's I've had stashed away in a closet for the past 25 years. Its mostly automated. I'm using a high speed floppy drive (with laser tracking) to image the disks. Then I mount them and copy the files off to the NAS. The drive also has a soft eject (like all the old mac drives). So it just sits there buzzing away until its done then it ejects the floppy. About every 40 seconds or so I pick it up, and stick the next one in the pile in.

Working from home puts this within arms reach all day long. So while sometimes I get really busy and ignore it, when I become aware of it I start flipping floppies again. Once every few dozen floppies when a label read fails/etc then I type in a new disk series and let it rip.

I did all the music CD's a few years ago, most of my 8x10 photos last year (the fastfoto 640 is awesome, it needs a bigger feeder though).

Next up are the 5.25"s, and a bunch of QIC80 tapes I used like floppies in the mid 1990's. I've also got a stack of harddrives from the past ~30 years I need to capture.

Of course I've got the usual set of small projects as well, but I have to be careful about doing those because I can accidentally lose a day that I should be doing actual work i'm getting paid for. The flipping floppies/etc is a good background no brain activity.

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

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Post by rjusher »

My project for this quarantine has been https://iober.com/ .

Yet Another Focus Music generator to solve many of my problems using other services throughout the years.

What works best for me to focus is a combination of many services that exists on the market, so at the end I had to tune into many web apps on my browser which hogged my memory and I had to pay for many subscriptions making it a really expensive solution.

So I created this service, is still a work in progress, but I have been running to polish everything during this quarantine, right now I feel it is at a 90%.

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

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Post by metta2uall »

https://foodview.app - a photo food diary that aims to be super-simple, quick, privacy-respecting and free - made with Flutter

https://github.com/eug48/cmd-frontend - a framework for creating customisable web-based GUIs for command-line tools, e.g. for administering Kubernetes

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

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Post by sentinel »

An app called Mick Tagger – I listen to a lot of music, and this app, which is like a specialized Alfred, helps me more easily manage my Spotify playlists.

It's free on the App Store in case you care to check it out: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mick-tagger/id1490366427?mt=12

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

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Post by deepitapai »

https://endorse.fyi/ * It’s been disheartening to see our colleagues affected by COVID-19 layoffs and so my friend and I built Endorse.

The idea is simple - sign up if you need assistance or volunteer to help out colleagues with resume review, mock interviews, or referral.

If you’ve lost your job recently, tell us what you need help with most. We’ll match you with an amazing volunteer who can provide you with the assistance needed to find your next professional position. * This week, we launched Endorse on a couple of Facebook groups, Slack channels, and LinkedIn and have received ~80 sign-ups so far. We're two engineers who've greatly benefited from the Tech community and have built this as a way to give back. While the # of sign-ups helps validate the idea, we desperately need more volunteers who can help with resume review, mock interviews, and mentorship.

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