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Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by bradgessler »

https://www.thingybase.com/

It’s a home inventory app!

I’ve been working on this and using it for almost two years now in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and raising 2 kids.

I’ve embraced the “half-baked” aspect of shipping a project like this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations. It’s just been so much fun building and using it.

If you use it, don’t worry about me abandoning it. It’s improved my life so much that I’m going to be constantly improving it and keeping it around. Working in an iOS turbo app for it next, and I’d like to build lending and expirations into it too. It’s going to be awesome.

Share your feedback with me if you use it!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by enraged_camel »

ctrager wrote: post #299

A birdfeeder, a security camera, and this python script: https://github.com/ctrager/opencv_py/blob/master/red_yellow_... I want to record visits to my birdfeeder but not all the visits. 99% of the visitors are sparrows, which, no offense to any sparrows reading this, are dull colored. I want to capture the cardinals, bright red birds. The python script monitors the video stream and starts recording when the image get…

Someone actually linked me a Kickstarter of this very concept the other day:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mybirdbuddy/bird-buddy-...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by jimnotgym »

I have started a blog about gardening! It is something I was writing for myself.

https://watchingplantsgrow.com/

I never get to code at work any more so I decided to write a static site generator in Python using Jinja2 templates and markdown. Front end is Bootstrap. Hosted on Netlify. It really fits in this thread since I have probably spent a day on it and have not even rendered all of the blogs I have written, or added images yet.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by secfirstmd »

frequentnapper wrote: post #566
secfirstmd wrote: post #562

Umbrella - a free open source app to help people learn about digital and physical security. From how to use Signal for safe communication to how to deal with a kidnapping. Multiple languages and widely used by journalists, activists, aid workers, traveling business people and those any one living in high risk countries. More info: https://www.secfirst.org iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715…

how is this half-baked, not ready for prime-time?

Well we've built the tech but need a lot more work pushing it out. Also to make it easier for people to build their own custom versions. It mentioned in the piece about looking for help and we always are! :)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by ithkuil »

https://knot8.io

Alternative approach to yaml templating for k8s manifests.

It includes a structural 3-way merge algorithm that allows you to temporarily "fork" the manifests by just exiting some fields in-place, knowing that synchronizing upstream is way more predictable than what you could achieve with a general purpose textual merge like git.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by pmx »

bradgessler wrote: post #611

https://www.thingybase.com/ It’s a home inventory app! I’ve been working on this and using it for almost two years now in tiny little scraps of time I have between my day job and raising 2 kids. I’ve embraced the “half-baked” aspect of shipping a project like this by drawing silly stick figures for all the illustrations. It’s just been so much fun building and using it. If you use it, don’t worry about me abandoning…

I actually really love the illustrations!

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by mjac »

jschulenklopper wrote: post #588
mjac wrote: post #554

I built Running Level https://runninglevel.com/ recently along the same lines as my other site Strength Level https://strengthlevel.com/ but have only done a soft launch. Gyms are closed here in the UK so a lot of us are out running instead. Running Level has running standards for your age/gender over many distances like 10k/marathon/mile. The calculator on the homepage helps you rate your running performance against…

Very nice; I like the simplicity of Running Level (with less options than Strength Level). Where do you get the reference level data from (for running)?

Thank you for the encouragement! Did you find any areas to improve?

The seed standards reference data is mainly from publicly available race data in CSV form and common running formulas used in the industry (e.g. Effective VO2 Max / VDOT). There are plenty of online calculators and literature (mostly based on Jack Daniels' Formula). However this is just a baseline and it'll be based on its own data set in the future (e.g. survey input).

Some links: Brian Mac - https://www.brianmac.co.uk/vo2max.htm Age grade tables - https://github.com/AlanLyttonJones/Age-Grade-Tables Jack Daniels' Running Formula - https://runsmartproject.com/calculator/ (and related book)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by brendan0powers »

I've been fiddling around with building UI's that use hand tracking in VR. Given the lack of physical feedback and the low fidelity of today's tracking methods, it turns out to be quite challenging. It feels really good when it works though.

VR Keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiva93bf_0

VR Whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-hECpf-BY

Re: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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Post by hawski »

Half-baked as in eating it can cause gastric problems, not as in 50% done?

https://github.com/hadrianw/werf a graphical mouse driven text editor inspired by Plan 9's acme. It can open quite big files, you can WIMP around a bit, but README is just wishful thinking, it can't even save files. Written in C with cairo and fontconfig. Currently for a few years I'm in process of rewriting text buffer, I have something nice, but did not test it enough and did not integrate it. Now I'm thinking of a rewrite in Zig to learn it and also make it easier to test. But that's my wishful thinking again.

https://github.com/hadrianw/tomatoaster a ChromeOS like Linux distribution based on Void Linux build system, AB partition scheme, building squashfs image without root privileges. Currently I did a nice and almost proper script to handle it and do not need to patch as match to build an image, that runs, but is not entirely useful. Need to clean-up the script and commit. Mostly bash, bunch of patches and config files and a bit of C.

https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra a search engine, that will not index pages with ads (all results would be uBlock-Origin clean), that is not yet even a proper pipeline to check whether a page does contain ads or not, no crawler yet at all. I want to go through Common Crawl archives first. I did something in Go first (https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra-legacy), but now I'm rewriting it in Rust, because of awesome lol_html crate, that will make filtering fast and easy. Currently writing code to filter URLs with Rabin-Karp and a bit of loops. It created an e-mail thread years ago with people wanting to help, but I've been too slow.

I don't want much help to code things, I would appreciate however a bit of pointers on a couple of things regarding Rust and watchdogs (to recognize a partition as unbootable and reset the system to the previous partition).

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