https://boards.kenforthewin.com
A sort of live reddit-like app with RSS syncing support. In its very early stages (I don't even have a name yet)
Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
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Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#32I've been contributing to the Andorid port of Anki (HTML based flashcards + spaced repetition) for the past few months. https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android https://github.com/david-allison-1 Knowing that I've actively been impacting students (particularly medical students) from around the world has been really good for the soul.
I rely heavily on Anki for work and study. Thank you!
The android version already seems to work great. Is there a roadmap somewhere? I'm curious what's being worked on.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#33A Go SQL Query Builder (and struct mapper).
https://github.com/bokwoon95/go-structured-query
It was created to solve one of my pain points about scanning columns into deeply nested structs. You have full control over what columns gets mapped to what struct field, no annotation-based reflection needed. The type safe query building part was inspired by jOOQ (https://www.jooq.org/doc/latest/manual/getting-started/use-c...)
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#34Tool to annotate audio files in real time. Built this because I'm taking remote saxophone lessons, but could be more broadly applicable no doubt. https://audioremarks.com/
Tool to delete items from gmail en masse per sender: https://github.com/poundifdef/gmail-deleter
Open-source website to turn recipe websites into plain-text and printable versions: https://plainoldrecipe.com/
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#35Nothing of any importance. Managed to screw myself up to the point of having constant generalized anxiety, so yeah, things are really working out here.
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#37Started a crowdsourced website helping people that just moved in a new city/country to "get started" [1]. Anyone can edit a spreadsheet [2] and the infos will be directly reflected on the city page.
I've lived in several countries, and I wish there was experienced expats telling me the best carrier/area to live/gym/etc... instead of trying too many things and wasting a lot of time
[1] https://travelhustlers.co/cityfaq/
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Lut4zmeDw9z-ikRJPH1...
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#38I created an online academy where I publish growth marketing resources to help startups grow from 1K to 1M - https://academy.pallav.io/ I've been meaning to do this for the longest time but couldn't keep my blog super active. In this regard, the lockdown was a blessing for me.
Very interesting, defo interested in this space
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#39I've been working on some VHDL for an FPGA to control a little PCB I made to drive WS2812B lighting strips - https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/lightdriver/
It took me a while to get it working as there is a bug with Xilinx Vivado when synthesising my VHDL, where the synthesizer crashes, unless I use a work around which I was told about recently.
I understand you can use MCUs to drive these lighting strips, but was a good excuse to learn more VHDL.
I need to work on an SPI driver now for the FPGA, as I plan to shovel pixel data to it, from a Pi via SPI.
Re: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
#40BrandBook - a Mac app that makes it easy to share the brand identity of a company with all employees.