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Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Right now, I am primarily a front end web developer.

I always have a lot of different projects running around in my head. I have two big ones right now. The first is a React Native app integrating with a Buddypress site. The second that I am working on is a plugin that integrates a popular API with Buddypress that I am going to post on CodeCanyon.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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I'm a product manager. Side project is building a genome data ingestion pipeline with my dad. We're both really passionate about giving people a faster and cheaper solution to processing genome data. Current project is to allow researchers to send fully sequenced genomes to our server, align the sequenced genome to a referenced genome, then store the data in a performant way that can be queried against. Right now, it…

Out of curiosity, what genome assembler are you using for your project? (I'm having to build a genome assembly pipeline with a reference assembly as well for a bioinformatics class I'm auditing at a local college, not a professional in this field either). The papers I am reading and trying to replicate uses SMALT.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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I'm an OS/embedded programmer contracting to companies across the USA. Currently porting android to a panel controller for some industrial equipment (I honestly don't know what; it hardly matters).

My side projects are gaming-related.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

#36
Great question. I'm excited to see the other responses.

I'm a visiting scientist at a nuclear physics institute, but my degree was in mechanical engineering. Currently working on creating highly charged isotopes to be used for cancer research.

Last year I built a single seat off-roading buggy with some friends, which was a really rewarding, and fun project.

Current side project is learning to work with some RPI's to make a mesh network that I could use for my sound system. Also, since we can't be on computers all of the time, learning to play guitar and training for a triathlon.

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In my day job, I'm a full-stack developer at an ad agency. Side Projects: Early next week, I'm going to be releasing an Android word game. Revenue-producing side-projects: https://SendToMyCloud.com & https://PrivateForms.com Other side projects: http://artpacks.org , http://aboutbrowser.com & http://norefer.link

What stack do you use for your projects?

It varies a bit from project to project, but I usually start with a custom PHP MVC framework: GluePHP for routing, Savant3 for templates, and PHP-ActiveRecord as an ORM. I'm definitely someone who prefers to work with small, understandable modules with very limited scopes/responsibilities.

I've recently considered polishing up the most-used bits and packaging it as a proper framework, but I probably need a kick in the ass (or even just a hint of interest) to do so. :)

Artpacks.org strays from the framework a bit by using Backbone.js for the front-end. So does the game that I'm working on.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Great question. I'm excited to see the other responses. I'm a visiting scientist at a nuclear physics institute, but my degree was in mechanical engineering. Currently working on creating highly charged isotopes to be used for cancer research. Last year I built a single seat off-roading buggy with some friends, which was a really rewarding, and fun project. Current side project is learning to work with some RPI's to…

Do you have a picture of the buggy you built? Spending a lot of time in front of a computer makes me want to build physical things. I have no experience welding, and I'm always impressed with what people can build out of metal.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

#40
job: bootstrapped product business

projects: Building a Single Page App. Backend API development in Laravel framework, Angular on the front end. Learning devops, deployments. Using Digitalocean API to auto create environments and setup new client accounts.

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