Occasionally I post some utility for devs working in Linux/MacOS terminals. Here's my recent one:
https://github.com/da-x/foldity
A utility for folding terminal output to fit the screen.
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#322I maintain a set of libraries in Go for XMPP (Jabber) and related technologies, https://mellium.im/.
While XMPP is still probably the most widely used federated instant messaging network (Matrix is the Internet's darling, but the sheer number of XMPP clients and servers is significantly higher, and even though Google and Facebook may have ditched it it's still widely used commercially and is pretty much the defacto standard in video game chat) so I believe it's an important piece of infrastructure that needs to exist in the Go ecosystem. Also I just wanna chat with my buddies and didn't like any of the TUI clients I've used very much.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#323A video course on Natural Language Processing. Very likely it's going to be free.
Any of it ready to share?
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#324A browser based single player word game! See what score you can get and what level you can reach. :) https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid It's a remake of a game I made for Android years ago that I still get messages about for being really addictive. It was fun remaking it using only HTML5, while polishing the presentation and rules. I also work on a freeium Chrome extension that crawls multiple pages at once to check…
This is nice. Reminds me a lot of SpellTower, which was quite big a few years back. Would like a mode without the time pressure.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#325naive idea: this should have a place to make a curated list.. or maybe not maybe these projects shouldn't be too popular, but I find them much more exciting than 'yet another variant'
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#326A little nervous sharing this, since it is a work-in-progress, but here goes nothing :) I'm currently learning about sales and marketing and think I can share my modest knowledge on the topic in a way that is fairly systematic. One of the draws of programming for me—and I believe this is true for a lot of developers—is that software development is fairly a systematic discipline to get into, unlike sales or marketing,…
I've seen a couple marketing guides pitched at engineers, and I think there's more potential in this space for sure. The value prop is intriguing to me. Quick feedback: if you want more early reviewers, perhaps put up an example post. That would answer a few things for someone like me: is the writing good, what level is the material (beginner or intermediate), can I walk about with at least one non-obvious insight.
Thanks for the feedback.
I’ll put something up.
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#327Social bookmarking with tags. I'm dogfooding it mostly, a lot of functionality under the hood ( perhaps a bit too much)
https://handlr.sapico.me/Home/Newest
There was a Show HN of https://www.cloudnews.dev/ ( changed a bit now) and I duplicated the sources within 10 minutes with http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/Newest
Eg. here's all news related to Cloudflare's blog: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=cloudflare
Resources i could find with Azure: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops
I'll be using it for e-commerce clients, who want to feed the news of anything related to their business. Currently it's kinda slow ( not optimized for 1 million items with tags on my slow VPS, where i host a lot of test things )
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Dutch are apparently the second largest vegetable exporter in the world (!) using these kinds of techniques. Lots of interesting research happening at Wageningen University and Research. A greenhouse that keeps getting mentioned is Duijvestijn Tomatoes. Further reading here if you're interested: 1. https://www.dw.com/en/could-high-tech-netherlands-style-farm... 2. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/…
Ah yes, the Dutch and Belgian tomatoes: they're atrocious. I'm from Eastern Europe, and our local variety of tomatoes is way tastier. Or any other variety for that matter.
From the first article:
> they grow almost 70 kilograms (154 pounds) of tomatoes per square meter. That's at least 10 times the average yield from an open field in Spain or Morocco, but with eight times less water and practically no chemical pesticides.
A promising method with a yield like this shouldn't be abandoned just because the taste isn't as good. This is just something the market will force them to improve, if customers don't continue to buy them. Personally, I've never tasted a tomato that I would label as atrocious so I'm now intrigued to try them :)
Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Dutch are apparently the second largest vegetable exporter in the world (!) using these kinds of techniques. Lots of interesting research happening at Wageningen University and Research. A greenhouse that keeps getting mentioned is Duijvestijn Tomatoes. Further reading here if you're interested: 1. https://www.dw.com/en/could-high-tech-netherlands-style-farm... 2. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/…
Ah yes, the Dutch and Belgian tomatoes: they're atrocious. I'm from Eastern Europe, and our local variety of tomatoes is way tastier. Or any other variety for that matter.
I agree about the taste, but I don't think it's caused by variety taste difference. Problem is that when tomatoes are imported from further away, they are picked and transported (more) unripe and later exposed to ethylene gas to ripen closer to consumer. Being grown using hydroponics or bags of mineral wool certainly doesn't help with the taste either.
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#330Almost every side project of mine :D