I'm f-unemployed which means I can spend time doing interesting stuff meanwhile I drawn my savings. I'm doing mostly two projects:<p># 1: A game boy advance emulator in Rust - just for fun to learn the language and to implement a virtual machine.<p># 2: A cold storage secret manager with a James Bond feeling.<p>In the case I die <everyone is gonna die anyways> I need to let people instructions, documents, bank ids, passwords and other stuff. So I designed a secret sharing mechanism which allows me split secrets and generate tokens for specific people. Once enough people gather and join their keys, they can unlock their specific secrets. If you want to understand a bit just go through the 1password design docs and Shamir secret sharing mechanism, although I had to improve the later to improve security.<p>Once I gave some friends a piece of paper with a QR code with says "in case I die access this website", most of then got interested in having a service like this. I registered a domain but I'm still not confident enough to make it public.<p>If you want to invest or discuss drop me a line on hn@eternity.is :P
Been throwing around ideas for a personal database for a few months now. The idea now is a sort of personal wiki system where ideas can be collected in markdown formatted pages with internal and external links, as well as all of the other features you would expect from a wiki.<p>This wiki acts as a backend for the larger project, which will be a personal assistant type service that will be able to read and write from this "database" of personal knowledge and organize deadlines, events, notes, documentation, and references.<p>Im thinking of making this functionality happen through a MycroftAI plugin, so that you can query the database by voice, and give Mycroft the ability to make agendas and such on the fly based on your personal database.<p>It's still in the early stages though, as Im still trying to figure out what kind of backend I want to use. I need something cross platform (at least Linux, windows, Android) to edit the database, as to be able to update it as I do research or take notes. Im currently leaning towards DokuWiki due to it's variety of formatting and the fact that it has an API built in, but I have a feeling it's going to get hacky.
I'm building a 2d game engine in pure Javascript.<p><a href="http://moonbench.xyz/projects/workshop/axiom/stable/" rel="nofollow">http://moonbench.xyz/projects/workshop/axiom/stable/</a><p>WASD to move, click to shoot, mouse to aim.<p>It has parallaxing backgrounds, sprites, collision detection and resolution, guns and pickups.<p>It also supports game controllers in browser.<p>It is a work in progress, but you're obviously welcome to explore it and the source code.<p>I have a few other recent projects on that same domain, such as a raspberry pi camera network [1] and a p2p image sharing tool [2].<p>All just for fun and education (so far).<p>[1] <a href="http://moonbench.xyz/projects/pi-camera-network" rel="nofollow">http://moonbench.xyz/projects/pi-camera-network</a><p>[2] <a href="http://moonbench.xyz/projects/shutterbit" rel="nofollow">http://moonbench.xyz/projects/shutterbit</a>
I have just completed <a href="https://www.camerasforpros.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.camerasforpros.com</a> a stackexchange and reddit reviews aggregator for photogear. I am so far happy with the progress as it surfaces the most useful books for learning photography, and even thrifty items that you not even consider photogear that can improve your photography game.<p>I am now working on a browser extension to help avoid procastination. Most extensions are after the fact feedback based. Like they tell you the usage patterns for last day, last week etc. I want to supplement that with an addon that works on the philosophy that prevention is better than cure. It is basically to scratch my own itch because I spend a significant amount of time reading. I have not posted it yet. Once it's done, I would be happy to have your feedback.
<a href="https://dndemail.com" rel="nofollow">https://dndemail.com</a> - DNDEmail - do not disturb for Gmail. It works by pausing your inbox so your inbox stays empty. Your emails get delivered on a schedule you specify.<p>The idea is to keep your inbox clean so you can focus on the important productive tasks. That means you can search your email or even reply to an old email without having to see any new emails.
I'm working on a few things.<p>1.) a web analytics tool written in Elixir. I'm not sure if it will be used by anybody or if it will even make money if it is used but it is something that is helping me learn the OTP more as this is mostly backend service work and not a phoenix app. This will include status monitoring of links and resources to alert to any 404's as well as will include site analytics such as traffic but in a way that will prevent the need for putting up the cookie warning on your site.<p>2.) Job site for COBOL jobs. I'm waiting on approval from Indeed to gain access to their API to help monetize the site as well as provide much better information regarding the jobs.<p>3.) A self-published e-book on design patterns in C#
Smart fridge device, tracks what's in your fridge.<p>Just some hardware prototypes that I'm working on, using OpenCV and TensorFlow for food recognition. The fact that Amazon doesn't have an official product purchasing API is irritating, but makes complete sense.
Been working on my project <a href="https://www.docsapp.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.docsapp.io/</a> for more then one year and now growing slowly.<p>Initially I work on this project to learn Scala + Play! Framework and now I turn it into real project with real customers.<p>What I learnt from working on this project:
1. Time to market - Push your product to market and find customers ASAP to get real feedback.
2. Hosting - Build on cheap hosting provider with self setup that support HA. Machine fail all the time even you use expensive hosting (Cloud)
Writing up some mathematics I did while (currently) funemployed. It's about the Wobbly Table problem. I have two parts out of three up already, and am finishing up the third: <a href="https://haggainuchi.com/wobblytable.html" rel="nofollow">https://haggainuchi.com/wobblytable.html</a><p>Probably I won't try to publish it in traditional journals because I don't intend to get back into academia and anyway it's probably not novel enough. (It's a new proof — as far as I know — of an old result.)
Building a silly web app:
<a href="https://github.com/patrickgordon/coothaback" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/patrickgordon/coothaback</a> -
<a href="https://whatsyacoothabacktime.com" rel="nofollow">https://whatsyacoothabacktime.com</a><p>Working on an open source lib:
<a href="https://github.com/JumboInteractiveLimited/redux-cache" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/JumboInteractiveLimited/redux-cache</a><p>and trying to think of something new to build.
I turned my investment property spreadsheet into an Angular 4 web app:<p><a href="https://gocashflowapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://gocashflowapp.com</a><p>It lets you run cashflow calculation on the go, and provides numeric keyboard since I hate typing in numbers on the full alphanumeric one.<p>Launched 2 weeks ago and tweaking adwords campaign. I plan on turning it into a Progressive Web App, then add persistence using AWS Lambda and RDS.
A new password manager.<p>The core idea [1] is that there are some passwords that you only want to remember, never write or store, and yet be able to access even in the worst possible situation.<p>I'm negating all these assumptions by creating an app. :)
Jokes apart, most of the time you do want the comfort of an app or browser extension.<p>[1] <a href="https://medium.com/@0x0ece/how-i-manage-my-passwords-technical-version-8549dc1bde1e" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@0x0ece/how-i-manage-my-passwords-technic...</a>
Since HARC ended, I’ve been working on raising my baby so my wife can get back to her UX design career (not ideal, but it’s gone by much better than I expected).<p>I’m also planning a pivot away from doing research in live programming and instead looking at dynamic mediums for thinking (a common HARC topic). The two topics are fairly related anyways (tight feedback loops, reduction in representational gulfs). I hope to grab some time from child rearing to work on a new demo soon.
A series of projects having to do with API communications, specifically emails, text messages, and phone calls. Specializing in memory, focus, security, and privacy.
Udemy tutorials for Unity, OpenGL and Corona SDK, as well as a ton of game development library code in C++ and Lua. I have a list of (very, stupid simple) games I want to MVP with it, starting with Pong and ending with something using OpenGL, which I'm just starting to teach myself.<p>So, likely, nothing anyone is likely to care about, or that will make money, or an interesting Show HN thread once I manage to actually finish something.
My first mobile app in react-native. Working on it for quite sometime. Lacking some courage to push it to play store/app store . Currently using it.
A community for tech people on sabbatical who are full-time exploring new ideas and figuring out what to do next.<p>Info on our beta batch up here: www.recesslabs.com
Supplement, Medication, Sleep, Habit Tracker that correlates to how you sleep and productivity. (With a gabillion other features I want to add soon).<p>Site - <a href="https://betterself.io" rel="nofollow">https://betterself.io</a>
Open sourced - <a href="https://github.com/jeffshek/betterself" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jeffshek/betterself</a>
I'm working on my habit formation/note-taking application: <a href="https://github.com/ioddly/meditations" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ioddly/meditations</a><p>Specifically I'm trying to work up the nerve to go implement a decent search which I've been putting off for a while. And maybe get it cleaned up for some kind of actual release.
Working on the next iteration of <a href="https://www.sketchdaily.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.sketchdaily.io</a> - a free educational sketching web app.<p>Also a mobile game for solving abbreviations (currently website is just a placeholder <a href="https://www.wtftag.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.wtftag.com</a>)
A WordPress theme aggregator:<p><a href="https://themeranch.com" rel="nofollow">https://themeranch.com</a><p>So far I've learned a bunch about WordPress and php, and overall I'm pretty happy with the results. However, I haven't worked on it for a while, and honestly I'm not sure what do to next. Any advice/suggestions appreciated.
Working on an update for Claire Budget[1] a personal budget tracking app for iPhones. Update is going to bring goals to plan for the future and option to schedule recurring transactions.<p>[1] <a href="https://budgetwithclaire.com" rel="nofollow">https://budgetwithclaire.com</a>
I'm working on a web-based workout, activity, and meal logger because I'm not satisfied with the performance of any of the current offerings. They all seem to be missing something I would like to have so I decided I'd just build what I want and maybe others would like it too.
Site to collect and share lists of resources around the internet like the ones on this page: <a href="https://github.com/ZuzooVn/machine-learning-for-software-engineers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ZuzooVn/machine-learning-for-software-eng...</a>
A multiplayer game of reading against your opponents.<p>Made it mainly to learn about sockets.io and Web Speech APIs.<p>Interested to extend this to a player vs bot mode, as well as supporting Mandarin Chinese in the future if I have time.<p><a href="http://funreading.io/" rel="nofollow">http://funreading.io/</a>
Product Hunt hackathon. We’re working on a project called Press Kite. Unified brand and press assets in one beautiful page.<p><a href="https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/press-kite" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/press-kite</a>
<p><pre><code> Mapping out chicago's parking tickets
Polling metrics over I2C for a distributed power stack
7 ongoing FOIA requests for email metadata.
A clojure web scraper
Building an caching server with an nvme raid
Building a large LAN party with some friends</code></pre>
1. Online sales course, bootcamp, and training
2. A way to consolidate sales content and communication onto a single page, eliminating the need for followup emails. [<a href="https://www.recapped.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.recapped.io</a>]
A comprehensive guide for employee equity decision making.<p>Even the best posts out there are B+ in my opinion and they often miss something.<p>AMT is always the stumbling block for my own analysis though so I might point on that part =\
An analytics dashboard and reporting tool for Mailgun transactional emails<p><a href="https://suet.co/" rel="nofollow">https://suet.co/</a>