Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by leobg » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 3:41 PM UTC

Witoso wrote: post #35

My scratch was actually kid related. I couldn’t find a simple, quick and ad-free tool for my daughter to learn reading. Hence, I created https://czytanko.org/ to practice with her a few minutes per day (Polish lang only).

Cool. I built something similar. For reading letters. And later syllables. Helped my kid read and write two years before school.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by bluelightning2k » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 3:43 PM UTC

When selling software I found myself manually editing a demo recording into a "highlight reel" to use as follow up.

This led to me building https://DemoTime.com to automatically turn every demo into a highlight reel follow up video.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by tejasmg » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

Hi I am new to programing and was thinking of writing a P2P messaging app, i know java and php and have written a website's backend of a project we made in our college. What all technologies do I need to learn to make something like that. Thank you for reading.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by leaveyou » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 3:48 PM UTC

In time (20 years) I have accumulated huge amounts of duplicate files, old projects, (sometimes multiple zipped copies and git repositories of the same projects), photos, downloads i should have deleted long ago (like Ubuntu 12.04 ISO, VS installers) mixed with lots of garbage.. I need an app that would hash all this content (>2TB) and index it by hash and help me sort it out and delete the junk. I'm building the hashing and the indexing with golang+SQLite. Then maybe a small .net windows forms app with a treeview

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by neilfrndes » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

recursivedoubts wrote: post #59

You asked for it: https://htmx.org https://hyperscript.org I hated angular when it first came out and couldn't believe what insanity people were willing to put up with, so long as it came from google. (e.g. GWT) I created https://intercoolerjs.org out of frustration with that, and the lack of progress in HTML/hypermedia in general, so I could build a web application I was working on ( https://leaddyno.com , since sol…

I love HTMX! It allows me to build interactive SSR websites without knowing JavaScript. Very well designed, thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by gunnarmorling » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 3:53 PM UTC

Right now: kcctl [1], a command-line client for Kafka Connect. Using the REST API just became to unwieldy when demoing Debezium. Quite a while ago, MapStruct [2], a code generator for type-safe mapper classes for converting POJOs (Java object) between object hierarchies which are similar but not quite the same. It was born after realizing that significant time in an enterprise application I was working on back in the day was spent executing reflection-based mapping code.

[1] https://github.com/kcctl/kcctl [2] https://mapstruct.org/

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by JSDevOps » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 3:57 PM UTC

I am at a loss of things to do at the moment, The most recent for me is Indexing PoC CVE's posted to Github.

https://github.com/tg12/PoC_CVEs

I want to build a TrueNAS box at home and migrate to that as test.

I really want to write lots more Python code though! I love writing trading algorithms and Data science, data analyst projects.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by cc101 » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC

My ADHD has a massive impact on my ability to organize and sustain a directed academic project. So, I wrote a program to integrate the various tasks involved and to keep a complete record my progress. Having any part of the project available with a few clicks, I am now able to follow inspirations and to easily return to the current task at a later time. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epiphany-workflow-ii/id1508000...

As it was a huge job, it was going to take years to write, and there was no pressure to get the job finished immediately. I could just work on it as much as was convenient.

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by cookiengineer » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 4:11 PM UTC

tejasmg wrote: post #83

cookiengineer wrote: post #60

After my servers and projects have been raided by some fellow Russian cyberthreats and some idiots from 4/8 chan that were persuaded to "the cause", I've come to realize that the state of cyber security and automated cyber defense solutions is basically a charade and utterly useless. All major players in the field oversell their own solutions, and nothing of them works. It's always forensics, and too late to actually…

What is a peer to peer Browser network?

A Browser that is able to share its resources, downloaded websites and offline cached assets, and to efficiently use local peers to save bandwidth.

In case you're interested: https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

Re: Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?

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Post by aizyuval » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

cloogshicer wrote: post #67

I'm writing my own app for practicing the piano. The goal is to make practicing fun, while also making steady progress. I'm not a good player at all, and I've struggled with practice for years. But I have no problems playing (practicing) difficult video games, that require a lot of repetition (think Celeste). I think I've identified two major reasons why I never enjoyed it: 1. Classical music notation (sheet music) i…

I'm a beginner, learning with a teacher and practicing for 1 hour a day. Although I find myself pretty comfortable with discipline, I find what you’re saying (if true) refreshing.

I’d be happy to help/or provide feedback if that can be helpful! Yuvalaizenman@gmail.com