I made a little dungeon crawler game that I needed to make to prove to myself I could actually ship a complete game, which has been a struggle for me.
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
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#322I've written about it elsewhere, but I've made what I call a "newsbetting" site where users get an article stripped of defining details (author, news source, etc) and must bet whether the content comes from a right leaning or left leaning news source. I've been a good way for me to learn the basics of web development and I hope to introduce little side projects to improve it, like a toy blockchain or some NLP machine…
SNL did a sketch like this. It's hilarious.
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#323https://bytebucket.co I'm the kind of person that always buys electronics used on eBay, where you can get really powerful but 2-3 years old devices for a few hundred $. And, I find shopping for used electronics elsewhere is still terrible (how good is a 1yo i5 vs a 3yo i7?). So, I made this site to help me in that -- I started scraping eBay listings for laptops, picked out the specs and cross-referenced them to bench…
Scraping projects looking for relative deals is fun. Did that way back in the day with Craigslist motorcycles.
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#324I have a podcast where me and a guest talk about technical interviewing then they give me a live technical interview. Video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/TaylorDorsett/ It's fun because I get talk with smart people about a topic with no real solution, then sometimes I do well or sometimes I get destroyed in the interviews. I'd love to have more subscribers but I don't think its ever going to make me any money.
Do you have an audio version? I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for walks.
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#325I made a website to listen to Super Nintendo / Super Famicom music emulated in the browser. It was a great way to learn about Emscripten. Not sure what it would succeed at other than being popular, and I can assure you it is not.
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#326I'm building an app to host one debate every day. https://getdebatable.com/ It may never get traction, but it feels good to build something from scratch.
heh, this was next on my side projects list - i was going to do debate a stack - rails or node js type
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#327I made a little dungeon crawler game that I needed to make to prove to myself I could actually ship a complete game, which has been a struggle for me. https://smoldungeon.com
This is really great, good job! Google did a good job with auto-creating your preview text, but you should definitely add a meta description to that landing page :) https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fsmoldun...
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#328I just started working on a cli tool to easily create, manage, and spin up dev environments in docker containers. The initial impetus for starting the project was to try out Doom Emacs without messing with my current Emacs setup, so an example session could be: dv new emacs dev-img-emacs:latest dv start emacs dv conn emacs The first line creates a new "development environment" named emacs, based on the docker image d…
Have you considered using LXD instead of docker?
LXD container instances are much better suited for portable dev environments. They are persistent by default and are intended to run multiple processes within a container instance. They can also be copied/migrated between lxd agents.
In contrast, docker was created to run a single ephemeral process per container. It's nice in production environments, but its also a huge pain for some tasks. That's why were seeing folks create things like docker s6-overlay.
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#329I just started building a "terraform simulator" to teach fundamental concepts of terraform with no overhead of real services.
Learn the tool behavior in a safe way very quickly. Thats my goal. I'll at least force it on my teammates for a small workshop.
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#330I built a little toy that watches for node changes in k8s and adds them to haproxy load balancer. Mostly because I wanted ipv6 and digital ocean didn't have a load balancer that supported it.
https://github.com/The-Next-Bug/k8s-node-watcher
It's really crappy go code, but it seems to work well enough for what I needed, which is basically a toy.