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

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Post by RyJones »

TannerLD wrote: post #169
RyJones wrote: post #164

I documented how to do some things on my Honda, and am learning how to make postcards the exact way I want them https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/05/17/MY16ADA https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/05/26/MY16ADA

What do you mean “learning how to make postcards the exact way I want them”?

I want to be able to put the images I want in the exact place that I want with cut lines and the like; I also want mail merge to work correctly.

I also want duplex color printing. I'm fairly close; Microsoft Publisher almost does what I want. I may end up writing a PDF generator or something.

I'm using A4 cardstock (for now) and the postcards need to be 6" wide and 4.25" tall. I print the image larger than that, so that I get full edge-to-edge printing.

I bought a paper cutter[0] to get the clean edges I want. Getting the mail merge to work how I want is a struggle.

Do you have suggestions? Any PDF generator I could feed images and restraints to and generate a printable PDF from zsh on my Mac, or WSL2 on a Windows machine, would be awesome.

[0]: https://hardwarefactorystore.com/products/17-heavy-duty-guil...

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

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Post by mark_l_watson »

I wrote new editions (free updates) to two eBooks I have written, one a Common Lisp book and one about using Hy language "Lisp on Python":

[1] https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp

[2] https://leanpub.com/hy-lisp-python

I have also been working on physical fitness: bought some weights and also usually go on a brisk 45 minute hike near my house from about 5:30am to 6:15am every morning. I live in the mountains in Central Arizona and early morning is an interesting time to be in nature, predators [3] like coyotes and mountain lions are still out, and the birds are just starting to make their morning sounds.

[3] I usually spot a mountain lion every 2 or 3 years (not too often) and rattlesnakes about one or two a year. Lots of coyotes.

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

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Post by lefstathiou »

Our company sells SAAS and we are taking our first step into selling services.

A lot of our customers came to us to help them address a growing problem they had coordinating operator assisted conference calls (we offer high touch 24x7 support, that industry does not). We had already put a lot of time into designing a solution but COVID cleared our plate to focus entirely on it. We are ready to go and aim to launch our pilot imminently.

We’ll see how things go. Still amazes me how easy it is start a business (In our case a completely new business line) in America.

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

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Post by 10-1-100 »

zladuric wrote: post #194
10-1-100 wrote: post #187

I created a simple manual budgeting app with flutter called Go Budget, which is primarily optimized for entering purchases as easily as possible, but also provides income and bill tracking/reminders and a savings goal tracker. It is currently in beta but I hope to launch in the next two weeks. https://gobudget.io Edit: iOS beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/4IMtFylH Android: closed beta - email support@gobudget.…

A closed beta? No way to see it now?

Here's a public beta link for iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/4IMtFylH

Android is closed, but if interested you can email at support@gobudget.io

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

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Post by sputr »

Was going to finish some things but got hospitalised for optic neuritis (temporary, almost total loss of vision in one eye) three consequitive times (3 days each, over 3 months) before they (hopefully) stopped it. Its not MS luckily, its 'just' NMO. It's rare as hell. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket :).

Saying I'm greatfull to the medical staff and the people who stayed home so that the hospital was not flooded and could actually deal with me is an understatement. Also, let's not forget everyone working on the new drugs for MS over the past few decades which is the reason they can even help me today.

So can't wait to get back to coding, but I have to wait for my eye to stabilisea a bit more first.

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

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Post by celicaraptor »

jstanley wrote: post #147

I made an automatic chess board that allows you to play with another person over the Internet (using lichess), but with a physical board. It has been described as "very lockdown chic". Each chess piece has a magnet in the bottom. The board senses your moves by looking at where magnets disappear and appear, and it plays your opponent's moves by dragging them with an electromagnet underneath the board moved by a pair o…

Brilliant!

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

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Post by dekervin »

I worked on a website that aims to foster data-backed debates online. It builds a feed out of hacker news comments backed by data. [0]

The reasoning behind it is twofold: - They are people who (due to their through their startups, side-projects, thesis, hobbies,...) are familiar with interesting datasets. - With a tool that allow them to spot places on Hacker news where data are discussed, they will be incentivized to contribute and experience less friction.

I hope it increases the frequency of arguments linked to data and give more visibility to projects working with interesting datasets.

I am also looking for people who have projects, however small, where they see interesting data. It is for an ongoing interview serie.[1]

[0] http://datapeek.org/

[1] http://datapeek.org/interview/alfadata

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