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I'm working on https://topstonks.com - We're covering the speculative culture of investing coming from Reddit's WallstreetBets and 4chan. I'm also considering buying a sewing machine and making masks for my local community. Shoot me a message if you'd be interested in branded (cloth) masks for your startup. This would help subsidize the cost. Still feeling the idea out.

How will you know the masks work?

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I’m creating a QR Code Generator web application! I’m a CS student, but haven’t really done a lot of personal projects, so I saw this as a unique opportunity. I’m using it as a way to learn more about TS/JS, Firebase, the math behind error correcting codes, and the web in general.

I’m really excited about this even though I feel it’s a bit beyond my current abilities and may take awhile to complete. Seeing myself make small amounts of progress is exhilarating! :)

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Using the barometers inside phones to improve weather forecasting All Clear Weather: https://www.allclearweather.com/ I'm also hoping to use raw photos of the sky as weather data: after building a large training dataset of labelled photos, I think an ML classifier could begin to identify weather features in outdoor photos

Say I have a spare Android phone sitting around. Could I just plug it into a charger, aim it at the sky through a window, and let your software snap a pic whenever it feels the urge?

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I've been trying to start a movement to get quarantined folks to divest from fossil fuels, sign up to climate pressure groups, and register to vote.

The idea being we have all this time on our hands, time we can use to fight the other global catastrophe that's unfolding — the climate crisis.

https://greenquarantine.org/

If anyone wants to chip in and help, please let me know!

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Not specific to the quarantine, though I have been spending more time on it due to it: https://inko-lang.org/. It's a programming language I've been working on for the past few years.

In recent months I have been specifically working on making the compiler self-hosting. This has so far taken up more time than anticipated, as I had to rethink a lot of parts of the compiler (e.g. parts of the type system), and I didn't want to rush it.

With that said, progress is slowly improving as I'm making my way through implementing all the type checking rules. Hopefully in a few months the entire compiler is self-hosting.

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I'm building an web app that presents information of your pc, like temperature, memory and power usage and so on. The app will run in a raspberry, with a small screen attach to it, inside the pc cabinet. Right now the proccess to make it run is a little confusing, so i'm trying to make as simple as possible to run it.

I've been meaning to find out if I can attach an i2c OLED display to my existing SMBUS signals...
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