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Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by indigochill »

As an amateur music dabbler, I've been more prolific musically in the lockdown period than I've ever been. Part of this is that I've also committed to improving, but the other is just getting sufficiently bored to put more time into it. The latest three tracks here were all made within the past couple months: https://soundcloud.com/vaguseques

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by dpq »

I live in a condo with a concierge service, and I need to order passes for delivery guys with a phone call. Naturally, this got very boring very quickly, so I made a Chrome extension which upon a click connects to a Voximplant app which calls the concierge, receives his voice input, forwards it to Dialogflow, and uses the intent recognized by DF to play back recorded audio tracks of my voice asking for a pass, answering questions or thanking the concierge.

I'm thinking about making the extension intercept the traffic to the website of my favorite delivery services and automatically place the call so the button click also won't be required.

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Post by trekhleb »

I'm experimenting with Machine Learning (CNN, RNN, MLP) and TensorFlow in particular:

https://github.com/trekhleb/machine-learning-experiments

In the repository there are several experiments, each consists of Jupyter/Colab notebook (to see how a model was trained) and demo page (to see a model in action right in the browser).

For now I've created only 10 experiments (i.e. Digits Recognition, Object Detection, Image Classification, "Write like a Shakespeare", etc.). But the plan is to do some more experimentations with GANs and RNNs.

Re: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

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Post by alexh1 »

https://encrypted-todos.com - End-to-end encrypted kanban

Operating under the codename Portobello for now but friends and family don't like the name. The landing page is atrocious, but the actual app functionality is nearing an MVP.

I guess the big question for me is do I make it realtime for the launch. The handshake for swapping keys and allowing access to a board/organisation currently happens via HTTP polling, but that's not such a nice experience. Currently the whole thing is hosted on Netlify so moving to websockets would require me to set up another service somewhere, not sure if it's worth it before I validate my idea.

I'm going to do an official launch on Hacker News within the next couple of weeks. Still a lot to do as you'll see.

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Post by bharani_m »

I have always wanted to learn DevOps. I use Heroku for almost all my apps, but I wanted to learn what is happening every time I do git push heroku master.

I started learning Ansible recently using the 'Ansible for Devops' book. I used the concepts mentioned in this book and used the author's Ansible roles as a starting point to create a playbook for deploying Rails 6 apps.

Here's the code - https://github.com/EmailThis/ansible-rails

It includes roles for performing the following tasks -

* Installation of common packages, basic SSH security

* Install NGINX, Certbot (for Letsencrypt SSL Certs)

* Ruby (via rbenv)

* Rails 6, Puma, Sidekiq

* Redis

* Nodejs/Webpack/yarn

* Postgresql + saving backups to S3

* Deploying using Ansistrano

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