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All of my side-projects from 2012

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Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by chrisjack »

typpo wrote: post #12
johnpolacek wrote: post #2

Jeez, I thought I had a lot of side projects, but I think you have me beat. You've inspired me to make my own list: Scrollorama http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama/ What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck.js/decks/responsive... Scrolldeck http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck.js Scrollorama2:SuperScrollorama http://johnpolacek.github.com/superscrollorama/ Are You A Bro…

Neat projects! A lot of useful things for developers in there. My projects for this year are less developer oriented, just random things I thought were interesting at the time: Six Degrees of Bowie - http://www.sixdegreesofbowie.com/ - simple musical influencers graph web-workers-fallback - https://github.com/typpo/web-workers-fallback - webworker compatibility layer Github Participation Graph - https://github.com/ty…

Your Asterank and Asterank 3d is pretty cool. How did you get the value of the asteroids ?

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by jazzychad »

chime wrote: post #15

I would pay for a site/newsletter that sent me side projects like these (and the others mentioned on this thread) on a daily basis. These are fantastic!

interesting... sort of like a http://builtwithbootstrap.com/ style site or newsletter? perhaps also a featured section for people to promote their projects... ?

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by nathanpc »

All my projects from 2012.

Applications:

- CherryNotes: https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/19964625

- RubyGems Browser for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nathan.rub...

- build.prop Editor: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nathan.jf....

Awesomeness:

- stream.json: https://github.com/nathanpc/stream.json

- tinymd: https://github.com/nathanpc/tinymd

- ascii-image: https://github.com/nathanpc/ascii-image

APIs:

- build-webworks: https://github.com/nathanpc/build-webworks

- pinboard.js: https://github.com/nathanpc/pinboard-js

- hn-api: https://github.com/nathanpc/hn-api

Unfinished stuff:

- bonsai: https://github.com/nathanpc/bonsai

- rain: https://github.com/nathanpc/rain

- hn-cli: https://github.com/nathanpc/hn-cli

- showcase: https://github.com/nathanpc/showcase

- A lot more if you check my GitHub

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by typpo »

chrisjack wrote: post #21
typpo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neat projects! A lot of useful things for developers in there. My projects for this year are less developer oriented, just random things I thought were interesting at the time: Six Degrees of Bowie - http://www.sixdegreesofbowie.com/ - simple musical influencers graph web-workers-fallback - https://github.com/typpo/web-workers-fallback - webworker compatibility layer Github Participation Graph - https://github.com/ty…

Your Asterank and Asterank 3d is pretty cool. How did you get the value of the asteroids ?

Thanks. I estimated the value based on spectral class, which gives us an idea of composition based on how they reflect light. I combined this with current prices for materials mostly from the London Metal Exchange. Other costs such as getting to the asteroid and mining overhead are factored in.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by jazzychad »

PStamatiou wrote: post #26

I'm on the complete other end of the spectrum. No sideprojects. Doing anything other than working on the startup always made me feel guilty. Just my blog that I just rebuilt/designed in December: http://paulstamatiou.com Hoping to write more in 2013

There should be a healthy life/work balance. Doing nothing but work is unhealthy. Side-projects offer a nice break from the norm and the ability to be creative and learn new things. Usually my side-projects wind up helping me in my normal work later on. But, you don't have to do side-projects. Just make sure to not burn yourself out with work. Do you feel guilty eating, sleeping, exercising, travelling, meeting with friends? Hopefully not.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by ww520 »

That's a very impressive list. One thing great about programming is the path from idea to product is fairly smooth if you can do it all by yourself. Great list.

Mine is much shorter. Didn't have time to do more.

- Jsoda, https://github.com/williamw520/jsoda, API unifying SimpleDB and DynamoDB.

- BoxupText, https://boxuptext.com/, pure browser side encryption.

- Daily Badge, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhillsyste..., app for tracking daily goal.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

#29

Post by laktek »

Here are mine. All of them are open source:

- Punch - http://github.com/laktek/punch (my most popular open source project)

- Punch Blog Boilerplate - https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog

- Extract Values (JS) - https://github.com/laktek/extract-values

- Distraction Free Writing for Vim - https://github.com/laktek/distraction-free-writing-vim

- Go wrapper for Stack Exchange API - https://github.com/laktek/Stack-on-Go

More than that, I enjoyed blogging a lot in last year - http://laktek.com/2012

8 out of those 24 posts, got featured in HN homepage. Those discussion threads helped me to learn more and raise my bar. Also, I made lot of new friends thanks to HN.

Thanks for all the inspiration HN. Looking forward for a great 2013!

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by freework »

I don't mean to be negative, but I've never been impressed with people who have dozens of side projects. Instead of writing 10 crappy side projects, who not make 1 great side project?

My side project, at the time is called Giotto: https://github.com/priestc/giotto. It's a python web framework. I started it in April, and still commit to it almost every day.

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