It’s getting a lot of use by college students and coders. Pretty fascinating to see what everyone is working on or learning. The social accountability and leaderboard are proving to be strong motivators.
Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
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#372I upgraded my 3D printer's X and Z axes to MGN12 linear rails in order to stiffen up the extruder significantly. I also switched the hot bed from glass to a magnetic pad. I finished a PID toaster oven project from a few years ago. I've been using it to dry out filament. I also made a nice filament dry box to battle oozing. I thought I was having anxiety over the last couple months, but it just turned out to be all th…
Hope you're feeling better; I know how scary heart stuff can be.
After my own scare (luckily a false positive) I also learned that weird anxiety problems can be heart related. Since then I've started mentioning to people that they should discuss things like that with their doctor. I know many people don't like talking about anxiety with their doctors, thinking it's more a therapist thing, but yeah it can be a heart issue and good doctors can smell a heart problem from a mile away. EKGs are quick and easy.
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#373I tested it with a few different communities and realized people aren't interested. It was a good experiment.
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#374It automatically generates checksums in various formats. It keeps an audit trail of who uploads/downloads what. Enforces a couple of company specific rules. Scheduled expiration of uploads. Nothing too fancy, but it's been a fun distraction.
I'll be trying to open source it once I take out all the company specific stuff.
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#375It's an educational application to teach the basics of coding syntax to beginners. I'm not quite finished with all the parsed explanations, but I try to get a little bit done every day.
Hopefully in the future I can add more languages and explain 'sentences' instead of just 'words'.
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#377I always felt it was missing and I also wanted to learn a bit again about frontend/backend dev.
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#380Nothing of any importance. Managed to screw myself up to the point of having constant generalized anxiety, so yeah, things are really working out here.