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

#821
I've been self-isolating for like three months now so I've been busy...

Rendering Engine Built In C++ (https://opengl.bassi.li/)

ML Models Trained To Predict Interest In Rental Units (https://classifier.bassi.li/)

Interpreted Programming Language Built With Python (https://simplescript.bassi.li/)

On a completely unrelated note: I'm aggressively unemployed and would very much welcome a remote development job. Cheers!

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

#822
I started taking a few bites out of a job shop scheduling solution that's been in the back of my mind for ages.

I tend to end up doing general geek stuff for small manufacturing businesses. At a certain point they always ask about scheduling automation because their one person who runs the shop can't keep track of everything any more. The existing scheduling solutions are either too far down the rabbit hole of job-shop-scheduling yak shaving to fit or attached to an ERP that's out of their price range for a while.

In this case scheduling automation doesn't have to be perfect. It shouldn't be, it's a waste of time. These users haven't grown into habits that fit an optimized solution; their manufacturing data has been treated as an arcane nuisance because it hasn't provided benefits yet. All they need is something basic to get them started on the way to better habits and improving their data while improving scheduling. I don't know how far I'll get, but it's cathartic and educational to work on for now.

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

#823
Raspi 4 "Desktop" with encrypted SSD for root and tiered swap (zram at high priority plus compressed swap on SSD) plus write up. Debian 10 NUC samba file server for my home dir on Mac. Case bound book from scratch. Finish long running migration from Apple Photos to Darktable. Already done: Blurb book of pics of our dog drop-shipped to my aunt.

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

#824
https://inspired-ideas.web.app shares the one-idea that changes your life.

I often see an idea that help solve a problem that I was stuck. A few days ago, people start to shares those ideas that helped them, so I created Inspired Ideas that you can learn from other experiences

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

#826
https://remottecoffee.com a tool to make easier how we keep connections online. Several weekends of confinement have helped one friend and me to shape and implement one of those projects we had in our personal backlog.

Because of the distance we are from each other, our friendship has relied heavily on phone calls and video calls. Some time ago, we started calling them, "remote coffees", "- Hey man, when are we having our next remote coffee?"

We met at the University, we spent about two years working for the same company and we have kept in touch during these years thanks to our "remotte coffees" and also due to the many concerns about technology and productivity we have in common. "This conversation should have been recorded!". We are sure this same thought came to you after some either formal or informal conversation you had. The challenge was simply to place a product live with as much free time as this quarantine allows, and here it is. We are not launching a super business, nor did we intend to, we both are fully dedicated to something else. We just wanted to launch this MPV and share it with friends and contacts.

We do have a lot more functionalities and ideas to put on it but, if you want to try it, those ideas will be much better by taking into account your honest feedback.

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

#827
Finally biting bullet and learning react (I've had run ins in the past) by converting a vanilla js handcoded-web (super complicated) app to react. Probably not the best app to learn on as it requires a Mapbox map which means you have to interface with the map api in a very untraditional way.

Was a little new to npm as well, but got rolling after a while. Not done yet, still little issues with flow state, for example, if I have a dual range slider in react with clearly styled and labeled beg and ending sliders values, how do I drag one slider over the other and force swapping the two but continue the UI motion. Currently I'm just overriding the event target.

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

#828
As I mentioned in a thread earlier today, and at the urging of some friends, I am working on the 0.1 release of my personal programming language.

It is a language based on explicit parallel and sequential composition of expressions (very similar to the concatenative languages family) with an underlying categorical semantic/type theory based on Adjoint Logic (work by Pfenning, Reed,Pruiksma et al and work by Licata, Shulman, et al with the Simple Intutionisitic fragment replaced by a Dependently typed fragment (ala Krishnaswami) and all based on work in the ‘90s by Nick Benton).

I set myself a goal since I’m in lockdown of having a landing page with minimal compiler and hopefully a small web based playgraound published before July 1. I have really been enjoying the work I’m doing on this and hope everyone else is having a good time working on their stuff amidst all the external upheaval.

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

#830
I was working on a side project before the quarantine. It's now my main project after I lost my job. The goal of my project is to provide an easy and fast way to create dashboards. The tool turns a JSON spec file into a dashboard. We're using React and Redwoodjs. They're fun tech stacks.

https://github.com/vidalab/vida

I made some dashboard examples from live data:

COVID Trend in the United States

https://vida.io/dashboards/ck9thqbxl00000umrd0u2pmdj

We're looking for collaborators. We want to turn this into a commercial product.

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