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Ask HN: What are you hacking on this weekend?

15 points by tmaly 10y ago

Do you have any side projects you are working on or something you are hacking on this weekend?

itamarst 10y ago
Hopefully will have time to work on the book version of https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/ https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/. And maybe a talk proposal for PyCon.
- tmaly 10y ago
  That course looks really interesting. How many hours a week are required for the 5 week course?
  - itamarst 10y ago
    It's very high level (there's a reason I'm working on a book). So parts of it are conceptual, so thinking about what you want, another part is "go practice negotiating at work, and here's some ideas" and that can take as long as you want. So you can just read the email and that's it, and that'll take very little time. Or you could go full bore and spend a lot of time on, say, building savings to improve your negotiating position.
danielvf 10y ago
The programming game http://halite.io/ http://halite.io/ I'd recommend it - really fun. At the moment I'm ranked #23 with a really stupid bot. I'm now doing hammock driven development on a better concept.
na85 10y ago
A custom emulator for Ultima Online. (actually a fork of runuo)
- penetrarthur 10y ago
  For production or just for the fun of it?
  - na85 10y ago
    Both!
NicoJuicy 10y ago
Have some problems using a Meitracker for tracking trucks ( and temperature of the fridges), their gprs protocol is really bad. Looking to get through it, have no choice. On top of that, my webshop ( more languages), some websites ( clients) and other webshops ( clients) + erp integration with ErpNext or OpenErp
DrNuke 10y ago
Going to a local Startup Weekend the next one and preparing for an apps recommender prototype combining security and popularity rankings.
malux85 10y ago
Improving performance of latent space visualisation tools for spaces generated with Deep Learning Autoencoders
banterfoil 10y ago
Hopefully a turkey and a TCP server written in C
nicomfe 10y ago
Need to fix my express server and webpack build for the first production version of a website im working on OT: any expert in react, webpack, express !! please tweet me at @nicofetter or email hi@nicofetter.com
brnoenfield 10y ago
Gonna read a book.
- tmaly 10y ago
  any particular book?
kejaed 10y ago
Last weekend and week I spent 20+ hours on a coding assessment for an interview. They said they liked me as a candidate, liked my work, but whereas I was always going to be a remote candidate, that just wasn't going to work for them right now. Sigh. This weekend I'll hopefully get a chance to work on my Deck lights LED strip project. https://youtu.be/ww1q248jc7Q https://youtu.be/ww1q248jc7Q
- tmaly 10y ago
  I have been wanting to make a LED strip design for Christmas ever since I saw the Johnson Family Christmas 2015 video. What does the hardware look like on your setup?
  - kejaed 10y ago
    The hardware setup is based on what I had on-hand: - Raspberry Pi with WiFi dongle - Arduino Uno connected to rpi via USB - NeoPixel (ws2812b) LED strip connected to arduino https://www.aliexpress.com/item/individually-addressable-1m-2m-4m-5m-waterproof-ip65-ip67-5050-rgb-30-60-74-96-144/32243894576.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/individually-addressable-1m-... - Adafruit Power Supply https://www.adafruit.com/products/658 https://www.adafruit.com/products/658 All that is in a Tupperware box below the deck with an extension cord for power running to it. I'm running PlatformIO on the rpi to program the arduino from the command line (love it), and still moving between FastLED and the NeoPixel libraries to drive the LED strips. I've installed Homebridge on the rpi to eventually be able to control the setup with Siri from an iDevice. I'll eventually properly document the project, but for now, here are my brain-dump notes: https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNotes.md https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNote...
krapp 10y ago
Random probably fruitless game development endeavors. Still working on a game project I started in January. It's terrible, and could have been finished in a month if I knew what I was doing, and stopped shaving all these yaks. Also I've decided I want to go through the noobtuts[0] Unity tutorials and implement them in C++, since they're really basic and I want to learn Unity and actually have some finished games. [0]https://noobtuts.com/unity https://noobtuts.com/unity
ashleypt 10y ago
Packaging winds for sandstorm.io https://github.com/GetStream/Winds https://github.com/GetStream/Winds https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm
trcollinson 10y ago
I've been working on my next side project. I am hoping to get a beta out for it. Basically, I have a number of clients who need hosted database solutions. So I have made an automated relational database as a service solution with backup, restore, and high availability on multiple relational database engines. Now that I have a few clients and it's working well, I would love to be able to market and sell it more widely.
- marcc 10y ago
  Which database engines do you plan to support?
  - trcollinson 10y ago
    We currently support MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. I have the ability technically to support MS SQL Server as well but I am still working on making it a cost effective solution. Microsoft's license model makes it rather expensive. What engine would you be looking to use?
Jugurtha 10y ago
I was asked if I could chime in to automate repetitive, inhumane, tasks in a HR process (a large number of people). It's mainly monitoring records matching a set of sentinels and triggering stuff. I don't want to impose Python because the tools they're using offer scripting capabilities, so I'll just learn their stuff and point them towards scripting. Also working on a few projects and learning as I go (JavaScript, XMPP, Google App Engine..) and will buy a couple of things for a hydroponics experiment.
keyle 10y ago
More gamedev with UE4 http://paddlevspaddle.com/ http://paddlevspaddle.com/
nanospeck 10y ago
Finish the Machine Learning for Trading course on Udacity. I'm already halfway through.
stvnbn 10y ago
I'm working on a browser extension (just chrome for now) so I don't miss any amazon goldbox deal, check it out, feedback is very welcome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-deals/oglfkgdljllkdohgdjkcpklknblllmfb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-deals/oglf...
acesubido 10y ago
Trying my hand on a small elixir-based livestreaming video broadcast server using WebRTC. Broadcasters and Audience would be in react-native. Dunno if it would work though.
jasonkester 10y ago
Bouldering. I have a project just down the hill from this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBockTKBV4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBockTKBV4w Gotta step away from the machine for a few days every week to make sure the rest of your life gets lived. I find it actually makes me more productive when Monday rolls around.
vmorgulis 10y ago
Writing widgets with Algolia and Github API for a HN meetup page: https://hn.silexlabs.org/index.html https://hn.silexlabs.org/index.html
mercurialuser 10y ago
Backup 20+ very old hard disks with very old stuff on a new hard disk, trying to de-duplicate files. They are from windows 95/98 era. When copied, smash them with an hammer and dispose of them.
liulantao 10y ago
Trying to create another Hacker News client on iOS with RubyMotion. Since I'm new to iOS development, this might be a toy project.

15 points by tmaly 10y ago

Do you have any side projects you are working on or something you are hacking on this weekend?

Hopefully will have time to work on the book version of https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/ https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/. And maybe a talk proposal for PyCon.

tmaly 10y ago
That course looks really interesting. How many hours a week are required for the 5 week course?
- itamarst 10y ago
  It's very high level (there's a reason I'm working on a book). So parts of it are conceptual, so thinking about what you want, another part is "go practice negotiating at work, and here's some ideas" and that can take as long as you want. So you can just read the email and that's it, and that'll take very little time. Or you could go full bore and spend a lot of time on, say, building savings to improve your negotiating position.

danielvf 10y ago

The programming game http://halite.io/ http://halite.io/ I'd recommend it - really fun. At the moment I'm ranked #23 with a really stupid bot. I'm now doing hammock driven development on a better concept.

na85 10y ago

A custom emulator for Ultima Online. (actually a fork of runuo)

penetrarthur 10y ago
For production or just for the fun of it?
- na85 10y ago
  Both!

NicoJuicy 10y ago

Have some problems using a Meitracker for tracking trucks ( and temperature of the fridges), their gprs protocol is really bad. Looking to get through it, have no choice. On top of that, my webshop ( more languages), some websites ( clients) and other webshops ( clients) + erp integration with ErpNext or OpenErp

DrNuke 10y ago

Going to a local Startup Weekend the next one and preparing for an apps recommender prototype combining security and popularity rankings.

malux85 10y ago

Improving performance of latent space visualisation tools for spaces generated with Deep Learning Autoencoders

banterfoil 10y ago

Hopefully a turkey and a TCP server written in C

nicomfe 10y ago

Need to fix my express server and webpack build for the first production version of a website im working on OT: any expert in react, webpack, express !! please tweet me at @nicofetter or email hi@nicofetter.com

brnoenfield 10y ago

Gonna read a book.

tmaly 10y ago
any particular book?

kejaed 10y ago

Last weekend and week I spent 20+ hours on a coding assessment for an interview. They said they liked me as a candidate, liked my work, but whereas I was always going to be a remote candidate, that just wasn't going to work for them right now. Sigh. This weekend I'll hopefully get a chance to work on my Deck lights LED strip project. https://youtu.be/ww1q248jc7Q https://youtu.be/ww1q248jc7Q

tmaly 10y ago
I have been wanting to make a LED strip design for Christmas ever since I saw the Johnson Family Christmas 2015 video. What does the hardware look like on your setup?
- kejaed 10y ago
  The hardware setup is based on what I had on-hand: - Raspberry Pi with WiFi dongle - Arduino Uno connected to rpi via USB - NeoPixel (ws2812b) LED strip connected to arduino https://www.aliexpress.com/item/individually-addressable-1m-2m-4m-5m-waterproof-ip65-ip67-5050-rgb-30-60-74-96-144/32243894576.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/individually-addressable-1m-... - Adafruit Power Supply https://www.adafruit.com/products/658 https://www.adafruit.com/products/658 All that is in a Tupperware box below the deck with an extension cord for power running to it. I'm running PlatformIO on the rpi to program the arduino from the command line (love it), and still moving between FastLED and the NeoPixel libraries to drive the LED strips. I've installed Homebridge on the rpi to eventually be able to control the setup with Siri from an iDevice. I'll eventually properly document the project, but for now, here are my brain-dump notes: https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNotes.md https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNote...

krapp 10y ago

Random probably fruitless game development endeavors. Still working on a game project I started in January. It's terrible, and could have been finished in a month if I knew what I was doing, and stopped shaving all these yaks. Also I've decided I want to go through the noobtuts[0] Unity tutorials and implement them in C++, since they're really basic and I want to learn Unity and actually have some finished games. [0]https://noobtuts.com/unity https://noobtuts.com/unity

ashleypt 10y ago

Packaging winds for sandstorm.io https://github.com/GetStream/Winds https://github.com/GetStream/Winds https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm

trcollinson 10y ago

I've been working on my next side project. I am hoping to get a beta out for it. Basically, I have a number of clients who need hosted database solutions. So I have made an automated relational database as a service solution with backup, restore, and high availability on multiple relational database engines. Now that I have a few clients and it's working well, I would love to be able to market and sell it more widely.

marcc 10y ago
Which database engines do you plan to support?
- trcollinson 10y ago
  We currently support MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. I have the ability technically to support MS SQL Server as well but I am still working on making it a cost effective solution. Microsoft's license model makes it rather expensive. What engine would you be looking to use?

Jugurtha 10y ago

I was asked if I could chime in to automate repetitive, inhumane, tasks in a HR process (a large number of people). It's mainly monitoring records matching a set of sentinels and triggering stuff. I don't want to impose Python because the tools they're using offer scripting capabilities, so I'll just learn their stuff and point them towards scripting. Also working on a few projects and learning as I go (JavaScript, XMPP, Google App Engine..) and will buy a couple of things for a hydroponics experiment.

keyle 10y ago

More gamedev with UE4 http://paddlevspaddle.com/ http://paddlevspaddle.com/

nanospeck 10y ago

Finish the Machine Learning for Trading course on Udacity. I'm already halfway through.

stvnbn 10y ago

I'm working on a browser extension (just chrome for now) so I don't miss any amazon goldbox deal, check it out, feedback is very welcome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-deals/oglfkgdljllkdohgdjkcpklknblllmfb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-deals/oglf...

acesubido 10y ago

Trying my hand on a small elixir-based livestreaming video broadcast server using WebRTC. Broadcasters and Audience would be in react-native. Dunno if it would work though.

jasonkester 10y ago

Bouldering. I have a project just down the hill from this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBockTKBV4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBockTKBV4w Gotta step away from the machine for a few days every week to make sure the rest of your life gets lived. I find it actually makes me more productive when Monday rolls around.

vmorgulis 10y ago

Writing widgets with Algolia and Github API for a HN meetup page: https://hn.silexlabs.org/index.html https://hn.silexlabs.org/index.html

mercurialuser 10y ago

Backup 20+ very old hard disks with very old stuff on a new hard disk, trying to de-duplicate files. They are from windows 95/98 era. When copied, smash them with an hammer and dispose of them.

liulantao 10y ago

Trying to create another Hacker News client on iOS with RubyMotion. Since I'm new to iOS development, this might be a toy project.