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

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I made a music discovery newsletter that personalizes the newsletter based on the Spotify playlists you follow (and uses a probabilistic model to surface content that you are most likely to enjoy based on those playlists).

Here is the link: https://whats-spinning.life Here are the most recent issues if you want to check it out: https://whats-spinning.life/recent/

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

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I tried to make a CLI using GO, that would act as bookmark for bash scripts. With the intention of having an online repo from where u can easily install other scripts.

https://github.com/bogdan-largeanu/zing

I kinda have become a bit discouraged now since most of my colleagues are not into GO so it is hard to find people to learn and talk about it.

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

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I made an LED simulator! I've been building an ESP32 LED framework for a couple of years, and thanks to some great advances in AVR emulation, we can now emulate an Arduino in the browser and preview the patterns. I also made it into a desktop app that can flash a new firmware to a real device over wifi. Super fun. https://editor.soulmatelights.com/

That is really cool! I haven't messed with it in a while, but I went through a phase of doing lots of LED projects for camping/festivals/burns/etc. when those were still a thing.

As a noob coder also using this as a way to learn some stuff, a simulator was high on my list of things I wanted. Sure, I could tweak a program, upload to some little Trinket or Arduino, fire it up and see what happened, but it would make things a lot easier on the "learning basic Arduino code" side if I didn't have to build the whole thing first.

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

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Nothing of any importance. Managed to screw myself up to the point of having constant generalized anxiety, so yeah, things are really working out here.

If you're having a panic attack, run up a flight of stairs, or hop on a bike and do a sprint around the block. Get your heart pumping. It sounds really counter intuitive but it works.

I don't suffer from panic attacks, but I wanted to mention that I have found that splashing cold water on my face seems to have a very "wake up / reset" effect.

I get a pool of cold water in my hands, lean over the sink, and kind of face-plant in the pool.

(A quick cold shower works even better, but is more involved.)

YMMV, HTH!

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

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I built NeumNotes - A Simple Neumorphic Styled Privacy First Notes App: https://neumnotes.com/ And GitRelevant - Search The Latest AND Greatest Github Repos by using multiple filters: https://gitrelevant.netlify.app/

Design for NeumNotes is really nice.

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

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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…

I really recommend to replace drivers with TMC2208 one! They are plug in replacement and silent. You won't hear anything at all.

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

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Having a monthly "Show HN-athon" would be nice (or is that already a thing and I always miss them?). - I did some woodworking at the start of lockdown. It was very therapeutic. Built a small table with a flip-top back where charging accessories can be stored: https://imgur.com/ea67ANO - And some more woodworking to build a shoe rack (never enough room for all our shoes): https://i.imgur.com/ihw12YT.jpg - A Raspberry…

> Forgive me, but when I program I know what the variables I am working with are doing, and what kind of data they are storing.

Someone posts a side project Ask/Show HN thread every once in a while, but I haven't noticed any regular Show HN threads, either.

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