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

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Post by personjerry »

DAllison wrote: post #117
ciarannolan wrote: post #32

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I rely heavily on Anki for work and study. Thank you! The android version already seems to work great. Is there a roadmap somewhere? I'm curious what's being worked on.

Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden. * Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a nightmare to deal with: https://deve…

Why don't you put up an official roadmap? Why is "Open Source" stopping you from doing that?

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

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Post by gzajac »

j-rom wrote: post #466
gzajac wrote: post #260

Thanks to the lockdown, I've finally wrapped up the long work on a Slack plugin that helps you find the location of coworkers and meeting rooms: https://www.slashmap.com/ . I used Go on the backend (rewritten from Node) and Vue on the frontend. How it works: first, you upload a picture of your office layout using the web UI and mark everyone's locations. Then if you send "/map @JohnDoe", the plugin will return a map…

This is super cool! Just out of curiosity, have you thought about automating the on boarding process at all? Something to streamline the process so that you don't need to manually mark each location? Or maybe even supporting multiple buildings?

Thanks for the feedback! The app already supports multiple floors and multiple buildings. Regarding the streamlining of the process, I was thinking of something like adding an option to automatically send out invitations to everybody in the company to add their own location. What do you have in mind?

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

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Post by jstanley »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #503
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…

This is so cool! Can it be set up to track both players in an lichess game as a spectator? I think that'd be pretty cool, having a self playing chess board as a display piece.

The only reason it can't is that the Lichess Boards API makes you authenticate as a user and doesn't give you access to a game that you're not playing, which is a shame. I think the reason is to prevent people from surreptitiously setting up a separate program that will anonymously observe their game, run it through Stockfish, and tell them what to play.

If the player you want to spectate will set you up an API key, then yes it can do that.

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

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Post by DAllison »

misiti3780 wrote: post #528
rckoepke wrote: post #526

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I would love to contribute to Anki, especially learning that it's Rust. I know Anki's time-based space repetition is highly effective for long-term learning, but I've found it frustrating when I or my friends really just needed to cram the night before an exam. When I am strongly constrained in the time-domain, I've found the older Leitner method to be the most efficient. I also have a lot of difficulty performing th…

i thought anki was written in python - was it re-written in rust?

It's in the process of being migrated to a Python/Rust hybrid. Most of the backend is now rust-based: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/master/rslib

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

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Post by DAllison »

personjerry wrote: post #531
DAllison wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of the platform, and remove most of our backend code and maintenance burden. * Android 11 has made significant changes to how applications store files on the device (Scoped Storage). I expect this will be a nightmare to deal with: https://deve…

Why don't you put up an official roadmap? Why is "Open Source" stopping you from doing that?

No good reason. It's A combination of time allocation, the fact that it's a collaborative process and I'm still learning the ropes, and the fact that nobody's asked for one until now.

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

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Post by grogenaut »

DoubleGlazing wrote: post #515
jmpman wrote: post #284

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I find oxy/acetylene welding super meditative. The sound blocks everything out, putting you in a pink noise cocoon.

I have a fairly basic stick welder which I have used on a few occasions to do a few basic repairs and and make some metal supports for storage boxes. I don't have a particular need for a TIG welder, but I bought it so I suppose I should find something useful to do with it. Problem is, I'm more of a woodworker.

The main reason for tig is small stuff, exotic stuff, and stuff where you just want the welds to be gorgeous, eg if you're going for that nasa look.

The goal for mig is to hot glue some metal together. My friend does woodworking and loves making legs out of rebar/etc with the mig welder.

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

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Post by DoubleGlazing »

grogenaut wrote: post #538
DoubleGlazing wrote: post #515

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I have a fairly basic stick welder which I have used on a few occasions to do a few basic repairs and and make some metal supports for storage boxes. I don't have a particular need for a TIG welder, but I bought it so I suppose I should find something useful to do with it. Problem is, I'm more of a woodworker.

The main reason for tig is small stuff, exotic stuff, and stuff where you just want the welds to be gorgeous, eg if you're going for that nasa look. The goal for mig is to hot glue some metal together. My friend does woodworking and loves making legs out of rebar/etc with the mig welder.

I should have got MIG then. A nice weld is beautiful to look at, but my needs are more practical.

Still, I'll give it a go. My son wants to build a "mecha arm" with all sorts of spy features. This might be a good excuse to learn how to use it.

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

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Post by DoubleGlazing »

maxsun wrote: post #281
DoubleGlazing wrote: post #74

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…

One of my favorite after school activities as a kid was playing with Lego’s Mindstorm robot kits — if your kids have any interest, it could be a fun (and productive imo) way to have your interests meet in the middle :).

My son is a Lego obsessive, but he doesn't really go in for the more technical stuff like Mindstorms or Technic - he thinks it is overpriced and prefers to use Scratch and an Arduion to make machines and the like.

The irony is that he owns about €1000 of Lego bricks. He spent half his first communion money on Lego (€300), we made him put the rest in to the credit union. Since them he has told us he has become atheist as science makes more sense, but he'll still do his confirmation to get more money to buy Lego. Hmm....

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