Turns out working on many, many projects at the same time is actually a way to cope with a quarantine. I've built a flight planning tool for complex itineraries https://flightnotebook.com/ (bad timing, I know) Historical job vacancy tracking website https://careerspulse.com/ And topping it off with releasing a full-text search query builder for Postgres + Rails to github ( https://github.com/wyozi/pg-searchable )
I love career pulse.
I’ll give it the ultimate compliment: can’t believe no one thought of it before.
A few color palette based PWAs:
https://colorpalette.app/ is a tool I'm building to quickly generate color palettes and https://accessiblecolors.app/ is the second stage of the process that systematically ensures color palettes follow an accessibility standard loosely based upon tailwindcss default colors.
I'm making a new tool for writers. With it, you'll be able to write your essays on "layers" The problem? Tweets are easier to read than long-form essays, as they require less time commitment. If the content is not good on a long-form article, you'll find out way too late. With this tool I'm developing: Layer 1 is the shortest version of your essay, the 1 min read — like a tweet. The idea boiled down to the shortest v…
This sounds fantastic and is something I've broadly thought about for a little while. A little while back someone else linked a concept of what they had done with the idea -- initially a paragraph was visible, and some of the words had a coloured box around them which could be clicked to expand on that term, all the while maintaining a flowing prose. So, I think a slightly different goal to what you describe (it was technical writing I think?), but similar enough. Unfortunately I didn't save it and have previously (frustratingly) spent at least an hour looking for it to no avail, so I'm curious to see what you come up with!
Mostly working on the same thing I’ve been working on: a YA SF comic. “Parallax” is about culture clash, adults acting in the cold interests of what they think is the greater good, growing into adults facing those same kinds of hard decisions, and lots of cute cartoon animals. I draw it, my SO writes it.
It’s free online at http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/, if you have piles of money from your software job and you like what we’re doing then there’s a Patreon.
While that's cool and all. I didn't really like how it turned out so I started rewriting it. Right now I have an api, separate scrapers, and a discord bot. It all works independently so if one of them dies the rest keeps chugging along.
Now it's time to rewrite the twitter bot and I'm all good :-).
I'm studying reactor-netty[1], micronaut[2] and armeria[3] - to learn how to write production-grade servers with Netty from the pros. I have a couple of protocol ideas I know will be useful for some use-cases.
Also working on adding Java 14 support to zerocell[4] for mapping Excel rows to Java Records, efficiently!
I'm developing a low power wi-fi edge node that does low power beam forming and speech verification. really pushing the limits of this Cortex M4. Did i mention low power? Trying to get 10hrs of battery life on a few 2032s is not easy with 802.11b.
All I've done these past few weeks is build cloud-based call centers on Amazon Connect for customers who need to move their workforce to WFH due to COVID. It's been pretty surreal.
I am building a platform to enable anyone choose a real star in the universe and have it named it after them forever, it all started when I dreamt of having a ceremony to name a star after me, I got a big bang out of that dream and promised myself to have the coolest star named after me and have it stick forever. My intention is to somehow make it into kind of a galactic social network where you can explore stars and their owners and socialize. I have now data of about 500 million stars (sourced from ESA's GAIA space data) to start with, and more will be added later, I am hoping to be less busy in order to finish and launch it.