What are you working on?
Subsect http://subsect.net . I am developing a web server running on Android 5.0+ using WebRTC for transport. A server in every pocket.
That's really interesting
I am following two projects one extremely technical and another more sale oriented.
The technical one is rediSQL[1] I am embedding SQLite into a redis module. Until few days ago I had performance issues that I wasn't able to figure out and I tracked everything in an issues. I finally figured out the problem, solve it, gain a lot of performance and I am about to write a blog post about. The next step is to get the exact same performance in the redis module compared with using SQLite embedded in a simple C program it is not going to be easy and I would probably defer this performance gain opportunity in favor of more features in the module.
The second project, the sale oriented one, is WalOfStickers.com[2] where I try to sell hexagonal stickers for laptop. I like to show the technology that I work with and make my laptop mine, but I don't like that the more sticker you put the messier everything became, so I made these hexagonal sticker that you can tile in your laptop and make neat, complex patterns.
Have you thought about selling stickers for tech conferences. Could be a nice way to get bulk orders.
Hummm, what you mean?
I thought about send some free sticker to the conference to make myself some marketing.
However I could also make the sticker with the logo of the conference and maybe send along also some related stickers...
That was your idea? It is actually quite interesting...
If there is an aws sponsored conference you talk to the organisers and see if they want to buy 1000 aws stickers for the goodie bags, for instance.
Are you sure you're allowed to print other company's logos on stickers and sell them?
It is actually a n area that I haven't completely understand.
Most trademarks are registered in order to avoid that an unrelated tech product "steal"/"take advantage" of another well know product name.
Other companies sell similar stickers so I didn't actually bothered too much asking, I will definitely make this straight if I will made something worthed out of this side business.
I completed my first app, a game, I can play it in the terminal. So its not totally complete, doesnt have a GUI, but until now I didnt call myself a programmer. But even now there are so many things I dont't know, Im not sure I can call myself a programmer. I dont dare to apply for jobs.
So I'll not do anything more about that game because I dont believe it could earn me anything but I do have so many other things I want to do.
You are a programmer.
Scraping Gwern's darknet market dataset (https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20archives) for my undergraduate thesis. Looking to see how police interventions affect costs of drugs on darknet markets and get a general sense of how the markets work (from an economic standpoint). I will publish a clean dataset along with my analysis once it is done.
> I will publish a clean dataset along with my analysis once it is done.
I would be happy to add it to the torrent once you're done. :) The more cleaned datasets the better.
Creating and selling a standardized set of API driven microservices to run in Docker containers. Do you need one for what you're working on? :)
Interesting, care to elaborate?
A news aggregation/dashboard that does not show you reposts. I love it so much I use it everyday.
I am working on a webVR project similar to super mario maker but in 3D
What did you use to actually agregate all the news?
A mix of site's public api's, rss feeds and webcrawling
http://www.averageweather.io - get average weather data, fast. Great for planning vacations, weddings, which marathon to pick etc.
I shared on r/weddingplanning and it shot to the top which was exciting. Made $20 in Adsense and had 2k visits in one day.
I've also had some tweets from people with 100k+ following, so for around a week now I am averaging like 300 uniques a day.
So, now I ask, how can I make some real side cash? All ears.
https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/5y8dwp/web...
Can you handle queries over a few months? It would be nice to handle the use case: I'm looking at planning a vacation to Place X in July, August, or September, and quickly discern whether the weather is better at any certain week in that period.
So you'd want to search like all of July at once, and so on? Is that right?
Yeah, something like being able to know when over the course of the summer, say perhaps 3 months, temperatures in Miami are warm but not excessively hot. I really like to travel at the tails of top season for this reason, but that's really just a proxy in place of knowing the above.
Lonely Planet offers something like this [1], but it would be nice if the data were more granular than one high/low for each month and data sources were more transparent.
[1]: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/miami/essential-information
Please ignore the footer bug, but something like this? http://www.averageweather.io/monthly/boston/ma/10/
Exactly. The chart is really nice.
At work, I'm using Consul's service discovery to stitch together an Akka cluster.
At home, I hack on a roguelike using Clojure. [1]
I'm working on a simple.interface to Riak in Node so that you can just say:
client.get(key)
client.put(key, value)
I am using that to build an ORM and a blog with GraphQL and React.
Recently finished http://hackerpixels.com/ - a side project to extract all video links from HN comments (and play with Docker). It's a huge time waster - the videos are very much in sync with the community, which is a good thing.
This is interesting. Is your overall goal something like Hacker Books or is there a different vision for the ropes of videos you include?
I wanted to see what kind of videos would come out and they turned out to be of good quality so I released it. Right now it has rather low traffic so I am not thinking too much about monetization, I might open source it and write a blog post if I find some time.
Whoops, autocorrect — *types not ropes
Are you filtering the videos or including everything?
I only include links to Vimeo and Youtube, otherwise no filtering on quality or topics.
https://attomon.com - Website monitoring
https://maitreinvestisseur.ca (French) - Why and how to invest using low-cost index funds.
For the past couple of years I’ve been researching ways to write software that make it easier for newcomers to understand rather than for insiders to maintain. (https://lobste.rs/c/rue8pf)
Currently as part of that larger project, I've been improving my zoomable UI for browsing program traces: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/9be4a67f42/100trace_brow.... I plan to turn this into a self-contained tool. All it requires is for logging frameworks to start each log line with a number indicating depth. When you open it on such a log file it shows just the highest-level information, allowing you to drill down into details in specific parts of the log.
I think such a UI can be a strong alternative to a debugger. Instead of running the program at interaction time you first collect a trace of the program's execution. You get time-travel debugging for a fraction of the infrastructural cost if you require manual program changes to add logging.
Currently researching China's Quantum Key Distribution network and feasible attacks and solutions. Currently checking out the possibility of using a quantum simulator programming language to demonstrate a man-in-middle-attack that utilizes quantum non-demolition observations.
I have been hacking on CLR Profiler (https://clrprofiler.codeplex.com/) so that it uses less memory, leaks fewer resources, and is faster.
I would love to pick up a programming side project at some point again. Right now I invest all my time to teach JavaScript + React on my website.
Currently writing a guide: How to find and hire your perfect UX Designer - its work in progress at the moment..
https://matchr.in : An App which lets you connect with people anonymously and then unlock each others profiles once the time is right :)
Rebuilding a site for a startup, thinking about a new product I want to start building soon, considering which JS framework to try next (likely VueJS), debating spending Saturday playing with TypeScript.
I am building a platform for people to share and discover the best attributes and abilities about the people they know with the help of stories (incidents) about them.
Virtues.me (under development)
http://webacademy.io - a website where you can discover the best web development learning resources.
I am working on a website monitoring service. I know there are already established players in this field. But I want to build something and launch it.
GraphQL & REST API for your database https://graphqlapi.com/
Working on a productivity startup, https://www.60secondseveryday.com
A phone audio to web app journaling service is a cool idea. Where do you see the app going in the future?
Developing a bicycle simulator (linux, windows.)
A WebRTC based app which solves certain problems which Google Hangouts or other similar tools is not solving.
Care to elaborate? I don't mind if you can't be super specific.
Setting up a multimaster Kubernetes cluster on Scaleway with Terraform and encryption