I've been playing through the games I haven't had time to, and also learning how to write apps for my Mac and by extension for the iPhone. I've had a bunch of ideas for things I thought would be great for the iPhone, so I made a class next semester with a friend of mine and we're going to start a business. (And before someone says it, we checked and we own the code ^_^)
Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?
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#32I'm gona finish http://www.bestdealaz.com soon, and then begin to expand portfolio at http://www.madetokill.com
Also, have a nice web app {secret} me and my friend have been working on :)
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#33Making a local politician tracker for Chicago. Basically a Chicago clone of this: http://prototype.nytimes.com/represent/
Also, we're hoping to open source it and release as a Django project for others to hack on. Should be cool. Type in your address. We figure out the coordinates. We place those coordinates in all their relevant political "zones" (neighborhood, district, ward etc.) and give you maps of what they look like, just like the Times. We show you everyone representing you in those zones with links to the homepage, wikipedia pa…
Very cool idea. Do you have a URL for it yet? I'd like to bookmark it to check back in the future... :)
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#341) I promised someone I'd build him a remote-controlled swivel for a pole mounted movie camera and I have yet to finish it, that's project #1. Gonna be spending a couple hours in the machine shop!
2) Hopefully finish up the software for my wireless temperature monitor, build a page for it and start getting some sales :-)
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#35Thinking of hacking together a twitter archiver, for those who want to keep a record of their tweets past the limit Twitter itself currently offers. Will allow export in csv etc., and possibly printing off your tweets as a diary-style book, if there's enough interest.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, we're hoping to open source it and release as a Django project for others to hack on. Should be cool. Type in your address. We figure out the coordinates. We place those coordinates in all their relevant political "zones" (neighborhood, district, ward etc.) and give you maps of what they look like, just like the Times. We show you everyone representing you in those zones with links to the homepage, wikipedia pa…
Very cool idea. Do you have a URL for it yet? I'd like to bookmark it to check back in the future... :)
Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/bflora I'll announce on there.
Looks like we're going to build it at the eventual live URL so I'd rather not give that out just yet. My buddy's doing all the heavy lifting on this one. I'm just tracking down shape files and representative listings and so forth.
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#37Clearing out some of my bug list.
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#38A compiler that takes Sed programs and produces Parrot interpreter code. It was a project in a college Compilers class that I didn't take seriously enough, so I'm revisiting it to see if I've actually grown better at this programming thing since I've graduated.
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#39Working on some super awesome blog software. Just like, uh, everyone else in the world.
Me too — I try to rewrite my own blogging platform/CMS every year or so, wrapping up all the design elements and programming quirks I've learnt over the past year, into a cool little package — fast, simple, and fun to use. :)
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#40Thinking of hacking together a twitter archiver, for those who want to keep a record of their tweets past the limit Twitter itself currently offers. Will allow export in csv etc., and possibly printing off your tweets as a diary-style book, if there's enough interest.
Interesting idea; Wasn't aware there was a limit...