I managed to plant vegetables and keep them alive and growing well in to June. I make the same attempt every year, so this is a record for me. On a more serious note, I had plans when the lockdown began. I wanted to build some kind of a "robot" as an educational venture. Do some redecorating, learn Unity and figure out how to use the TIG welder I bough one night when I was drunk. In reality what has happened is that…
TIG is fun. I've been learning to weld aluminum recently, with no prior welding experience. Mostly from watching YouTube, but I've gotten a bit of advice from random people I know who know how to weld.
I've been contributing to the Andorid port of Anki (HTML based flashcards + spaced repetition) for the past few months. https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android https://github.com/david-allison-1 Knowing that I've actively been impacting students (particularly medical students) from around the world has been really good for the soul.
I use it to learn Japanese and it's very useful. Thank you for your contributions.
I finally started my blog, after putting it off for so long. It's still pretty raw and needs a lot of practice before my writing is really worth sharing, but it's a start. https://www.unpublished.xyz
I enjoyed reading your translation of the excerpt from Nachtzug nach Lissabon. It got me interested in the book.
I created a new open chat web app called sqwok: https://sqwok.im The goal is to enable everyone to have their own high-quality, accessible, and shareable chat page on the internet, with features we expect in enterprise chat apps like slack, but geared towards general discussion. As an example I just created a post with this HN url and we can all talk in live right now, discussing this thread, by joining at the link:…
Speedy and nice minimal design. Are you considering categorizing initial posts?
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…
William Gibson would be proud.
(Before anybody takes any offence on this, I really hope y'all read Johnny Mnemonic).
I built a habit app called SnapHabit [1] that helps you build habits with your friends/family through group habits and through social accountability. I wanted to learn React Native/mobile development while trying to address the fact that for many of us, social distancing and lockdown have isolated us and destroyed our everyday habits. The most interesting thing I've seen is that people really enjoy writing about and…
I've tried a couple habit apps and surprised at how complex they are (it's a binary track). You kept it pretty simple, nice work.
Are you using React Native Firestore, or the JS SDK?
I made a small app for firefighters.
The goal is to get to know your local engine while sitting on the toilet.
I released the app on the google and apple store for free.
To get my investment back (time and running costs) i choosed to bill the fire-stations per vehicle. My goal here was to go as little as possible with the pricing.
The app is written in Flutter, backend a mix of spring and vaadin.
Current market are german fire stations (Most of the fire stations in germany are volunteer based)
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
I resuscitated a 20-year-old-website that was somewhat popular back in the day called storysprawl.com. It's private now, but I have friends join me on Sunday nights to write chapters together - we join Zoom, we write, we read them to each other. It's kind of like choose-your-own-adventure combined with round-robin fiction: Read chapter one, there are choices at the bottom, make a choice. If the next chapter is writte…
neat project! the collective writing process seems intimidating to me, although i've always secretly wanted to dabble in fiction writing. > "I'm keeping the site private for now because I can't be bothered to see a lawyer and get my legal policies/checkboxes in place..." not to belittle what you've built, but i really lament how much legal considerations overhang our collective psyches, especially on the internet, an…
I agree... 20 years ago I had no qualms about putting the site out. But now even aside from IP policy, there's privacy policies, child policies, GDPR... and I'm not sure if there are shelves below which I don't have to worry about that stuff. At some point soon I'll find a lawyer that can help me figure that out, because I would definitely like to just have the site out there for people to visit even if I'm not going to market the heck out of it.