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

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Post by zzo38computer »

I am working mainly on TeXnicard [0]. While not yet complete, I have made a lot of progress in writing it (and I have mentioned it on here before, I think, but I implemented more since then).

I also read some books, too.

Also, I have a comment about the pagination on Hacker News. I will want to know how many pages there are in order to quickly skip to the last page. (Really, just implementing NNTP would help. It has a high water and low water number, to easily find the oldest and newest messages. It has a lot of other benefits too, including user-defined sorting, offline mode, etc.)

[0] http://zzo38computer.org/fossil/texnicard.ui

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Post by rkapsoro »

I've been working on a language learning app for the last year and a half, and quarantine time has definitely given me even more bandwidth to work on it. Been a source of real pleasure these last couple of months, actually.

The app itself is a bit of a different take on the problem space than many of the other well-known offerings in the market. iOS only for now, SwiftUI, and built around enabling "Compelling & Comprehensible Input"-based language acquisition using video, audio, and text you've supplied yourself.

Interestingly - when I started the project I reckoned it would be about 2 years to shipping something useful, which would mean about Q3/Q4 2020. I'm starting to think that estimate was, shockingly, about right.

Cheers to everyone and their projects!

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Post by pappnase12 »

I've been working on an web page to generate math exercises for my son as I was tired of coming up myself with new exercises every day during the home schooling period. I also wanted to learn more about frontend development. It uses Vue.js and requires no backend.

https://matheplus.ninja

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Post by knasmai »

I'm working on website that aggregates Twitter feeds of your political representatives based on your location, starting from your city council, mayor through the president. This is helpful to see what they're saying and for any local updates regarding COVID or otherwise.

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Post by ropeladder »

I've been learning the web extensions API and trying to make some improvements to an existing extension that exports a webpage directly to a markdown file (markdown-clipper). I haven't touched JavaScript in a while so it's been great getting back into that, and somehow extensions feel more like 'real software' than SPAs or python scripts, so that's kind of exciting also.

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

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Post by anderspitman »

* Built a table from a home depot butcher block and steel pipe. Felt great to work with my hands.

* stealthcheck[0] - Service health monitoring with email alerts and automated restarts in * quarantest[1] - Most CI testing tools focus on automated tests, but sometimes the changes are very visual and you just want to give your team a demo of your pull request to play with. quarantest runs a build for each GitHub PR, generates a URL for the build, then posts a comment on the PR with a link to the build. You can see an example of it in action here[2]. Still in a pretty hacky state. Probably would be better to use the GH status API with a link that goes to a page listing all the past builds from the PR instead of spamming comments, but it's getting the job done.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/stealthcheck

[1]: https://github.com/anderspitman/quarantest

[2]: https://github.com/iobio/gene.iobio.vue/pull/497

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