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Ask HN: What are you working on in lockdown?

13 points by ferros 7y ago

Hi all, Now that we’re in lockdown I’m planning to try and code/produce something every day to be productive. Curious to know what everyone else is working on outside of their normal work.

stevavoliajvar 7y ago
Finally setting up selfhosted stuff, have one rpi and one old laptop. Gonna setup some backup services on them and also will try out mycoft.ai. Also taking course on machine learning by andrew ng, so far so good :) And getting back to some old projects and ideas.
WalterSear 7y ago
A decentralized personal information manager, encrypted against your ethereum wallet, synched to all your devices and anonymously cloud hosted via ipfs.
- noman-land 7y ago
  Wow this is basically exactly what I've been wanting to work on. Got anything to share? Would love to contribute.
  - WalterSear 7y ago
    This is the culmination of about a decade of iteration by a single person, so that may be a sort of be-careful-what-you-wish-for question :) I'd love to talk more about it - let's set up a time to chat: jon@catchthinkdo.com
verdverm 7y ago
https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof A Polyglot Code Generation Framework for Cuelang https://cuelang.org https://cuelang.org
fastest963 7y ago
I've been working on rewriting our internal deployment system and plan to open source it once the rewrite is finished. Part of the rewrite is decoupling it from our internal libraries and from our internal architecture so it is more generic. It's been fun to work on in the spare time, but it's been months now and I can't wait to finish.
- stephenr 7y ago
  Nice. Can you give any high level details? Language? Methodology? Unique/rare features?
duxup 7y ago
Trying to be productive at all. Two kids at home and my wife and I both trying to work.
troydavis 7y ago
Learning the basics of hand-built ceramics. Bought 10# of clay and a few tools. YouTube has endless tutorials and demos.
sloaken 7y ago
First day of isolation - slept late. Working on goals so I do not waste the time. Reading hacker news. OMG this is going to take work.
facorreia 7y ago
I've been working on my regular job since I can commit code from home.
DrNuke 7y ago
April will be my time to put out some notes about materials informatics for nuclear and outer space metals.
2rsf 7y ago
I'm working as usual, but from home, so no time for outside gigs
- slipwalker 7y ago
  same here...
movedx 7y ago
I'm not self-isolating or locking down, per say, but I am working a lot more from my own office. As a result I've been able to apply a lot of works to my cyberpunk hacking simulator game. I'm hoping to have an alpha out there in a month or two.
akg_67 7y ago
I am not in lockdown. But a lot of public services and schools are closed. Also, no friends get together and parties, and significantly reduced hangout. I am making use of my local university library to study and research Text Mining. With the prevalence of discussions around Coronavirus online, we will have large corpus for text analysis, for example, hysteria, treatment, symptoms, timeline of public reaction etc.
sethammons 7y ago
My reef aquarium, novice banjo, getting the yard ready for spring, helping more with the kid's school work, and learning more about investing. Oh, and playing through a video game (very rarely done for me). I consider each of these as various levels of productive.
jvanveen 7y ago
Working on an open-source privacy-friendly video calling solution: https://github.com/garage11/ca11 https://github.com/garage11/ca11
harrisreynolds 7y ago
I am continuing to improve Webase [1] which is a no-code platform I've been working on. The next release coming out in April will have a new view editor that allows users to create custom views in their apps. The goal with Webase is to have a platform as good as Webflow for creating UIs and as good as Airtable for easily creating data models... in one single tool. [1] https://www.webase.com https://www.webase.com
stephenr 7y ago
I’ve worked from home for the vast majority of the last decade so this does not really change anything for me.
igolden 7y ago
I built a little greenhouse, and working on a chicken coop. Trying to spend more time outside in the garden. It's a good "social distance" escape
certera 7y ago
Continuing to improve Certera, PKI for Let's Encrypt. https://docs.certera.io https://docs.certera.io
davidajackson 7y ago
I'm continuing to improve CallStop. It's an app that takes 30 seconds to set up and blocks 100% of spam calls on your phone. Kind of like Superhuman for your phone number. Here's an app store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id1455892856 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id145589... Would love any feedback on it.
TaylorGood 7y ago
Personal care DTC; handsyhealth.com - wipes are next :) Beneath the surface, it was a personal challenge to conceptualize, create, launch a brand, configure Shopify, get sales all in under two weeks. So far so good.
- emperorCantCode 7y ago
  I'm not trying to be rude I'm just offering feedback. Brace yourself. I went to the site and couldn't instantly figure out what handsy is. I tried for about 10-15 seconds. ...something about alcohol. eh, I don't care. and then gave up. Still don't know. I think you should make it more clear what it is.

13 points by ferros 7y ago

Hi all, Now that we’re in lockdown I’m planning to try and code/produce something every day to be productive. Curious to know what everyone else is working on outside of their normal work.

stevavoliajvar 7y ago

Finally setting up selfhosted stuff, have one rpi and one old laptop. Gonna setup some backup services on them and also will try out mycoft.ai. Also taking course on machine learning by andrew ng, so far so good :) And getting back to some old projects and ideas.

WalterSear 7y ago

A decentralized personal information manager, encrypted against your ethereum wallet, synched to all your devices and anonymously cloud hosted via ipfs.

noman-land 7y ago
Wow this is basically exactly what I've been wanting to work on. Got anything to share? Would love to contribute.
- WalterSear 7y ago
  This is the culmination of about a decade of iteration by a single person, so that may be a sort of be-careful-what-you-wish-for question :) I'd love to talk more about it - let's set up a time to chat: jon@catchthinkdo.com

verdverm 7y ago

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof A Polyglot Code Generation Framework for Cuelang https://cuelang.org https://cuelang.org

fastest963 7y ago

I've been working on rewriting our internal deployment system and plan to open source it once the rewrite is finished. Part of the rewrite is decoupling it from our internal libraries and from our internal architecture so it is more generic. It's been fun to work on in the spare time, but it's been months now and I can't wait to finish.

stephenr 7y ago
Nice. Can you give any high level details? Language? Methodology? Unique/rare features?

duxup 7y ago

Trying to be productive at all. Two kids at home and my wife and I both trying to work.

troydavis 7y ago

Learning the basics of hand-built ceramics. Bought 10# of clay and a few tools. YouTube has endless tutorials and demos.

sloaken 7y ago

First day of isolation - slept late. Working on goals so I do not waste the time. Reading hacker news. OMG this is going to take work.

facorreia 7y ago

I've been working on my regular job since I can commit code from home.

DrNuke 7y ago

April will be my time to put out some notes about materials informatics for nuclear and outer space metals.

2rsf 7y ago

I'm working as usual, but from home, so no time for outside gigs

slipwalker 7y ago
same here...

movedx 7y ago

I'm not self-isolating or locking down, per say, but I am working a lot more from my own office. As a result I've been able to apply a lot of works to my cyberpunk hacking simulator game. I'm hoping to have an alpha out there in a month or two.

akg_67 7y ago

I am not in lockdown. But a lot of public services and schools are closed. Also, no friends get together and parties, and significantly reduced hangout. I am making use of my local university library to study and research Text Mining. With the prevalence of discussions around Coronavirus online, we will have large corpus for text analysis, for example, hysteria, treatment, symptoms, timeline of public reaction etc.

sethammons 7y ago

My reef aquarium, novice banjo, getting the yard ready for spring, helping more with the kid's school work, and learning more about investing. Oh, and playing through a video game (very rarely done for me). I consider each of these as various levels of productive.

jvanveen 7y ago

Working on an open-source privacy-friendly video calling solution: https://github.com/garage11/ca11 https://github.com/garage11/ca11

harrisreynolds 7y ago

I am continuing to improve Webase [1] which is a no-code platform I've been working on. The next release coming out in April will have a new view editor that allows users to create custom views in their apps. The goal with Webase is to have a platform as good as Webflow for creating UIs and as good as Airtable for easily creating data models... in one single tool. [1] https://www.webase.com https://www.webase.com

stephenr 7y ago

I’ve worked from home for the vast majority of the last decade so this does not really change anything for me.

igolden 7y ago

I built a little greenhouse, and working on a chicken coop. Trying to spend more time outside in the garden. It's a good "social distance" escape

certera 7y ago

Continuing to improve Certera, PKI for Let's Encrypt. https://docs.certera.io https://docs.certera.io

davidajackson 7y ago

I'm continuing to improve CallStop. It's an app that takes 30 seconds to set up and blocks 100% of spam calls on your phone. Kind of like Superhuman for your phone number. Here's an app store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id1455892856 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id145589... Would love any feedback on it.

TaylorGood 7y ago

Personal care DTC; handsyhealth.com - wipes are next :) Beneath the surface, it was a personal challenge to conceptualize, create, launch a brand, configure Shopify, get sales all in under two weeks. So far so good.

emperorCantCode 7y ago
I'm not trying to be rude I'm just offering feedback. Brace yourself. I went to the site and couldn't instantly figure out what handsy is. I tried for about 10-15 seconds. ...something about alcohol. eh, I don't care. and then gave up. Still don't know. I think you should make it more clear what it is.