Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by greenie_beans » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:54 PM UTC

greenie_beans wrote: post #84

Covid tracker for my home state + an API to get data for other states. https://mississippicovid.com Cranked it out in a couple weeks and the code made me sad so I haven’t touched it since...ugly UI, bugs, etc Also started back on an IoT soil sensor project. Need to finish editing a book but tech provides an excusable distraction !

WOOF! Sometimes it doesn’t load the MS data because the website I’m scraping changes their tables. I get the data per request...never got around to scraping it and saving it from a DB, which would be more reliable even if they changed their HTML markup

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by was_boring » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

A kid

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by martinrue » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

searchableguy wrote: post #79

martinrue wrote: post #58

I created a YouTube series teaching entry-level programming in JS, in Esperanto. Because why the hell not.

Can you link it? :3

Sure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLcWlBThjQPyrDDy3UIW8...

I work on a few other Esperanto projects in my spare time. If anyone's curious: https://martinrue.com/projects/

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by resume384 » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

Many good projects listed here.

Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by egypturnash » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

I lost all energy to work on my ongoing Big Projects and ended up doing a lot of furry porn commissions.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by jcims » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

Making hand sanitizer from raw ingredients. Added some raspberry pi/nodered and esp8266/tasmota for process control. Has been a ton of fun.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by kwelijana » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

Managed to push more videos on my tech youtube channel that are better quality. Wrote 3 movies scripts hoping I can get 3k funding in some way to at least shoot one. Lost all contracts of freelance jobs I used to do. stressed, anxious and depressed and in financial ruin am 20days late in house rent with only 5 bucks and am completely out. Weirdly enough I still smile and laugh at memes and hopeful something will come through even though I dont know what it will be. Mixed feelings and reinventing. End of rant.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by iamflimflam1 » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

Got round to updating my YouTube channel more regularly and finally finished off a project that has been on the back burner forever. Managed to actually ship on time for my wife’s birthday.

It’s all powered by an ESP32 on a custom PCB that I designed and built with a web based UI that is hosted on the device.

https://youtu.be/3wEAKVvzJyA

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by geophile » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

A new shell: https://github.com/geophile/marcel.

- Based on Python -- filter, transform, etc. using Python functions.

- Pipe Python values, not strings.

- Database operations from the command line.

- Run commands remotely and combine results.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by victorthehuman » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC

Finished Metalens v1.0, Hacker News iOS client with some extra bells and whistles.

https://www.3am.engineering/2020/05/metalens-for-hacker-news...

Got into woodworking, it really helps with anxiety. Built some outdoor/patio furniture, got a few more tools and started doing some more advanced indoor stuff.