Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by WildGreenLeave » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

As a full-time Asana[0] user with Bitbucket[1] (and Github[2]) I am missing so many features with regards to connecting these two services. Meet Astogi.com[3] which essentially does the following:

1) Automatically generate unique task IDs for all created tasks. (e.g. TA-12)

2) On push in Bitbucket/Github, post a notification in the Asana task that is mention in the commit message. (e.g. Changed login form to fix TA-12)

If anyone is interested hit me up! I'm in dire need of some good feedback. :)

[0] https://asana.com

[1] https://bitbucket.org

[2] https://github.com

[3] https://astogi.com

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

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Post by jjice » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

In the back of the Dragon Book, they recommend a Pascal compiler because of it being a very structured language. I've been building it out, and I'm working on codegen right now.

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

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Post by schnevets » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

Working on an online version of a party game I designed in college. I figured it could be a nice way for friends to reconnect and get their minds off the anxiety and tedium of lockdown. I want to use the Facebook Instant Games platform, but their documentation has been difficult so far.

Professionally, two different clients have postponed their projects until October, which is getting a bit worrisome. Some members of my team have been advised to propose summer projects that will help automate our engagements, because Q3 will be light, but then Q4 will be a deluge of chaos and demand.

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

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Post by andrew-nguyen » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

I have 2:

- [1]: I took a Coin Pusher arcade game and put together some electronics and software to make it playable through a Twitch stream. I thought it'd be fun to make and an interesting idea (especially with people being stuck at home), but it hasn't really gained much traction. It's currently a functional "MVP", but I haven't gotten any players so I can't figure out how to iterate and improve it. I built it using NodeJS, C++, a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino, a 3D printer, and an assortment of electronic components.

- [2]: Rebuilt my personal website. I've been hoping to write more (mostly for my own sake). One of the things that was mentally impeding me from writing was being afraid of being incorrect. I like to learn, but I think I'm a slow learner and don't always get things right the first time around. However, I tend to usually figure it out. I think writing could help me through that process (and potentially other people that are learning as well), so I think it'll be easier if I approach my writing with that perspective. I built it using GatsbyJS and its hosted with Netlify.

[1]: https://www.twitch.tv/coinarcadelive [2]: https://www.andrew-nguyen.com

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

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Post by ViolentSnugglez » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

Been trying to complete a project I started back in college: codeexplainer.org . It's nothing fancy, built with a MERN stack and currently trying to get it deployed on AWS.

My hope is that I can integrate multiple languages (only supports vanilla.js at the moment) and eventually allow highlighting to explain "sentences" instead of just keywords.

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

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Post by alecthomas » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

I've been experimenting with a programming language[1] on and off. The goal is to target the Go runtime, though I'm mostly still playing around with concurrency options.

[1] https://github.com/alecthomas/langx

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

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Post by logicprog » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:26 PM UTC

I've been working on my novel, and learning a new RPG system. I worked on my novel before quarantine too, but I'm trying to speed up my progress. I wrote 2099 words yesterday.

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

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Post by gavreh » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:27 PM UTC

1. GitHub CSV Tools (https://github.com/gavinr/github-csv-tools) - import/export issues from GitHub

2. split-polygon-demo (https://gavinr.github.io/split-polygon-demo/) - demonstrates the ~4 geographical operations you can perform to split a polygon into n roughly equal area polygons.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:28 PM UTC

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

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Post by softwarerero » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

Quarantine (https://quarantine.softwarerero.com/) models a worst case scenario for getting herd immunity.

Duobiblo (https://app.duobiblo.com/) allows to practice a language showing chapters of the bible side-by-side with a language you already know. I learn Portuguese currently on Duolingo, which inspired the name. If a browser supports the Web Speech API for the given language it is also possible to let the browser read the text.