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Re: Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?

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Post by jstarry »

My wife is incredibly good at MineSweeper so I made her a clone for Valentine's a few years ago: http://valenmines.herokuapp.com/

I used the project as an opportunity to learn ReactJS. I thought she would enjoy the twist of the layout being heart shaped instead of rectangular but I think she's a purist ;)

Re: Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?

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Post by jraph »

I haven't really coded for love, but (partly) by love.

At different points in time:

- I have developed things that I imagined them using

- I have developed things they would see (but were not the only target. e.g. a website, or a tool that would be used by the team we were both part of)

- I have developed things as part of an activity they were also part of (e.g. a tool used in the same association)

Each time, it provides very powerful motivation to make things right, easy to use, beautiful, or straight up keep on working on things.

In any case, the code was not specifically targeted for these people.

This also can works for friends, family and other people you love, even if it's not Love. For instance, my last project was meant to watch series with my sister while we were at a different location [1]. I don't recommend using it though, I've since discovered [2], which probably does a better job for this and works in the same way.

Try to imagine people you love using your stuff while you are building them. It helps motivate getting things right and to keep going, at least for me. But it worked and allowed us to have good laughs.

- [1] https://framagit.org/raphj/mpris-sync

- [2] https://syncplay.pl/

Re: Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?

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Post by MrDresden »

When my gf and I met she had recently started her Phd in environmental sustainability science and was specifically looking into the fishing quota system in Iceland with mathematical modeling in mind.

The catch, haul and other related data is available on the relevant government agency's webpage down to ship granularity level through a rather nice web interface. It however contains vast amounts of data, and there is no way to get the data in bulk form (even asking the agency resulted in a 'No this is sensitive data that we can't share in bulk form' answer).

So I was rather shocked when I heard her say that she had started copying the data by hand. Knowing that it would take her ages, and would probably never be possible for her to do, I wrote a small python scraper & data transforming tool and set about scraping couple of GiBs of data into a normalized sqlite database, which I then gave her to use with her R code.

We have been together ever since (4+ years).

Re: Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?

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Post by freedomben »

citeguised wrote: post #14

I made a game for our wedding-website. The player has to control her and me simultaneously. It's pretty short, though. I did everything myself, graphics, music, gameplay. https://10-5.de/game/ A funny anecdote: Some years ago, a person asked me if it would be ok to modify the game for the wedding for his friend. They wanted to play it at their wedding as a joke. At first I didn't know what to say, but then he told me…

That game is really good! I'm not a gamer but I really enjoyed it. Took me a minute to figure it out but then I had fun.

Is the source open?

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