Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by cynik_ » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

I started writing daily: exploring different things, but particularly asyncio and event loops. Also built a small library to visualize python code execution (to be open sourced soon).

https://explog.in/notes/100days.html#org0b7f5fd

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by user5994461 » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

I made an interactive map to show the progression of the virus day over day. https://coronaprogress.com/

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by tenaciousDaniel » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

I'm in Florida so lockdown is still a thing, or will be again soon.

I'm creating a coding language for UI designers. It's kind of like pseudo code in that it's not tied to any one implementation (platform). The basic idea is that designers will have a platform-agnostic language to describe the visual behavior of applications using the same terminology and mental models that they're familiar with.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by arpa » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #148

progre wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, kind of. I have also suffered from panic attacks and the problem with this is that I'm thinking that I'm about to have a heart attack. The mere thought of running makes it worse. Breathing exercises (this has to be practised in advance) helps for me.

> I'm about to have a heart attack. That's a real panic attack. Drinking cold water can help reset the loop causing it (worked for me maybe once). The only thing that really works for me is GABA (700mg daily for a year, then 250mg daily for life) - but it did come up short in my blood work.

Benzodiazepines are a real treat (as in "works a treat"). Highly addictive tho.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by wayne_skylar » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

yoz-y wrote: post #81

arpa wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels... guilty not to do something productive; like work. Or something showcase-worthy. I guess it also has something to do with "turning off" when working from home: it's like you have to give 120% every day until you can't and then the downward spiral starts. Home becomes office, and slowly, creepingly all becomes work and, well, I guess one just have to remind oneself that taking care of yourself and "turning…

I feel you. Had come into lockdown with a laundry list of stuff I though I could finish because of gained time. Very little has materialized. A thing that helped was bringing in another person to check on each other.

It's not strange that you weren't productive during one of the most disruptive periods of instability most of us will likely experience during our entire lives. Some people have made a positive out of this experience but you shouldn't feel like a failure if you couldn't.

You may badly want to be one of these people who emerges from lockdown in an amazing new body with all of these projects completed but you shouldn't feel like a failure if you couldn't. This was not a normal time and adding pressure to be productive is not the answer for everyone.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by UweSchmidt » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #147

I made an automatic chess board that allows you to play with another person over the Internet (using lichess), but with a physical board. It has been described as "very lockdown chic". Each chess piece has a magnet in the bottom. The board senses your moves by looking at where magnets disappear and appear, and it plays your opponent's moves by dragging them with an electromagnet underneath the board moved by a pair o…

That's amazing!

Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

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Post by jmstfv » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

I started writing HTTP status code guides for my SaaS business: https://tryhexadecimal.com/guides/http/

A lot of guides on the Internets concerning HTTP status codes are regurgitations or outright ripoffs of RFCs (2616 or 7231). Or light on details.

I want(ed) to go one step further and explain when each code is appropriate (from the website operator's perspective), how to work around some of the errors (mostly for 4xx and 5xx), and some context around HTTP headers/methods.