Ask HN: What is your current side-project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by eivarv » Sat, Mar 06, 2021, 11:19 PM UTC

Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

Started because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by kureikain » Sun, Mar 07, 2021, 6:45 AM UTC

https://hanami.run an email forwarding service built with Ruby on Rails and Stimulus

It enables you to have unlimited email address on your own domain and forward to a personal email address. You can reply through our SMTP server as well.

I have learn a lot about Postfix, email, DKIM, SPF, DMARC the past few months.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by msantos » Sun, Mar 07, 2021, 7:38 AM UTC

seymon wrote: post #17

I am building a CLI tool for OAuth and OpenID Connect based access control. It allows performing auth flows with and without browser redirects, decodes JWTs, inspect OIDC issuers, etc. It is written in the go language and has multi Platform support. The next steps are about adding login profiles as config values. Also adding impersonation support with the OAuth Token Exchange protocol. https://git.schuerg.net/simon/a…

the fact that your tool is browser-less makes it quite interesting. Do you have plans to build support for AWS "assume role"?

I've used this Okta tool for a while but it requires a browser. https://github.com/oktadeveloper/okta-aws-cli-assume-role

PS: out of curiosity, why do you host your own instance of GitLab? What's the overhead like?

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by person_of_color » Sun, Mar 07, 2021, 11:14 AM UTC

wdfx wrote: post #51

I've spent 2 months on https://connoise.lon.dev an audio synthesiser. Mostly to brush up on my c++ knowledge and modern standards. It's working but not perfect, I've got a few interesting problems to solve yet.

What are some other good C++ project ideas?

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by astralwebb » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 12:01 AM UTC

making youtube tutorials about ecommerce and the web. crazy addicting and getting lots of great feedback

https://www.youtube.com/c/Astralwebincloves/videos

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by m_j_g » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 4:41 AM UTC

https://raw.githack.com/marcinjangrzybowski/cubeViz/master/m...'

Visual editor for cubical-agda code, currently I am rewriting it in haskell and integrating with emacs. New version will allow to edit code in 3 and 4 dimensions :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by iandinwoodie » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 5:07 AM UTC

firedating wrote: post #38

I've been very busy lately with my hobby project - https://firedating.me/ . It is a community of people interested in FIRE (Financial Independence / Early Retirement), who are looking for friends and a romantic partner. The stats are public: https://firedating.me/open .

The sudden drop of RAM and disk usage from 2020-12 to 2021-01 stood out to me. Any reason behind that? (e.g., deployed new release which contained optimizations)

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by tiddles » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 6:49 AM UTC

A Dwarf Fortress-like game (and engine) in Rust: https://github.com/DomWilliams0/name-needed

Ambitious to be sure, but after a year and a half I'm still consistently working on it, and still enjoying it!

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by Senwerks » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 11:17 AM UTC

zachm0 wrote: post #43

I've really enjoyed my Pi-hole so far, so I decided to make an open-source version on the ESP32. It's not quiet finished yet, but it is very close. There are only a few small things that need to be done before I can call it stable, but the last 10% of a project is somehow always the hardest. Pictures can be seen here: https://imgur.com/a/uwwA54Y And the repository: https://github.com/zachmorr/esper

That's really cool. I wouldn't have thought the ESP32 could handle something like this.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Post by vocabboost » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 8:06 AM UTC

carmen_sandiego wrote: post #70

vocabboost wrote: post #37

I am developing a browser extension to make a fill-in-the-blank language test out of any webpage. I personally used this to improve my German vocabulary. This way one can learn new words from materials they naturally enjoy (vs boring text books). The extension is available for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vocabboost/obgbcam... ? Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vocabboost/…

Maybe you already know, but ‘cloze’ is another keyword for this that you might want to pepper around to get more people finding you.

Thank you! I wasn't aware of this keyword! Yeah, discoverability is a problem.