Concurrent Z80 emulators running inside Unreal Engine:<p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/Q6307w3.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/Q6307w3.jpg</a><p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/K44GT1W.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/K44GT1W.png</a><p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/59RufvT.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/59RufvT.png</a><p>Already runs a lot of software including Wordstar, HiTech C compiler for Z80, Microsoft Basic etc.<p>Also have written a few applications for it including a telnet client with Zmodem support, some graphics utilities etc.
My wife is a dog breeder in Canada. She was starting to get worried about her dependence on Kijiji as the only site to advertise her puppy litters. Kijiji is a de facto monopoly due to network effects and they have slowly been increasing the fee they charge to post. In addition all other alternative sites are terrible - filled with pet scams.<p>I built CanadaPups.com as an alternative. Free to post. Started a couple of years ago. Growing slowly but consistently. I pretty much spend my nights afterwork fighting pet scams. I wanted to hire a web designer but she prefers the site to look "hand-made" for a softer feel… ok dog brown color it is then :). Any constructive feedback is welcome! Trying to grow it.<p><a href="https://canadapups.com" rel="nofollow">https://canadapups.com</a>
I had a second episode of extremely high blood pressure in 2017. It's a long story, but I ended up being hospitalized in a cardiac surveillance unit. A big part of my cardiac issue was that I had allowed my overall fitness to drop quite dramatically.<p>So, I'm working on a fitness goal app. Essentially, I track my blood pressure/heart rate along with my diet, exercise, etc. And, I'm working on finding correlations, with my end goal being that my app will help me optimize my workouts and diet to help me achieve whatever my particular fitness goal is. In this case, my goal is blood pressure related, but soon, it will be long distance running related.<p>Having allowed myself to get so far out of shape when I know hypertension is a problem causes me to seriously doubt whether I'm intelligent enough to pull this off.<p>However, my end goal isn't to build an amazing product, rather it's that if I build it, I'll be motivated to beta test it to hell. When I was being wheeled in for my angiogram, I promised myself that if I ever need another one, they'd wheel me in in marathon shape.
It's not quite as interesting as a lot of stuff here, nor is it something I can link to just yet, but I'm writing a book about interviewing for product management roles. I took a sabbatical recently and have just started interviewing, and already I've had very mixed experiences - some really well organized and thought out, and others that were clearly thrown together with no thought.<p>I started taking notes on what was good/bad, so I could ensure we have a good process wherever I end up. Then I started writing a book out of that. Then I realized there's not quite enough content for a book there, but I can still help improve the process by preparing interviewees. So that's what I'm doing now - about 20,000 words in so far!
<a href="https://passed.pw/" rel="nofollow">https://passed.pw/</a> - Mobile-friendly random password generator seeded based on your mouse or touch positions for better randomness.<p>Just wanted something simple to generate passwords/tokens and ended up building this two years ago.<p><a href="https://tempd.link/" rel="nofollow">https://tempd.link/</a> - Temporary file hosting with immediate automatic deletion when leaving the site.<p>This was just a weekend project to test out openresty and using redis as an in-memory storage location for uploaded data that will get destroyed without writing to disk. Would be very expensive to scale something like this though.
I've been working on a replacement for Apple's Reminders app: <a href="https://www.betterremindersapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.betterremindersapp.com</a>
<a href="https://github.com/ioddly/meditations" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ioddly/meditations</a> - Daily organizer based on habit formation.<p>It actually needs a little bit of TLC which I'm hoping to give it once I finish up my current gig.<p>I'm still the only user, as far as I know, but I use it daily so it's fun to work on.
<a href="https://sendnoodz.io" rel="nofollow">https://sendnoodz.io</a><p>Solving big picture problems ....<p>Send pictures of noodles via MMS when someone asks for nudes.<p>Built because I wanted an excuse to setup twilio/stripe and thought goat attack was great.
<a href="http://www.ternaryplot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ternaryplot.com</a><p>Some courses required me to make these kind of charts and the quickest options were Excel templates or drawing them by hand. There are some Python and R libraries that are pretty good but they were a little too cumbersome for most of my relatively simple charts. So I made this simple page with d3.js to quickly make pretty ternary plots.
Utility that lets you select the best plot for your data. Simple website at <a href="http://plotfor.me/picker.html" rel="nofollow">http://plotfor.me/picker.html</a>
The side project I'm currently working on is trying to get my sleep schedule under control. I'm finding that worrying about the "competition" at all hours is preventing me from getting enough sleep at night. So I put a hold on a lot of my programming problems in order to get my real world problems squared away first.
<a href="https://oneminutefax.com" rel="nofollow">https://oneminutefax.com</a> - Send free faxes online without having to create an account.
hey there,<p>Show HN will come soon (the next days).<p>I have finished my side project (SaaS/PaaS) called triggerFS.<p>triggerFS is a distributed, realtime message passing and trigger system. triggerFS enables you to build distributed systems and do high-speed realtime messaging in a service-oriented fashion. What really powers triggerFS is the gigantic amount of plugins you can use to do any kind of task.<p>Check out <a href="https://github.com/triggerfsio/packages" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/triggerfsio/packages</a> for an overview, features, use cases and more.<p>I am about to launch the next days after I have finished writing the documentation. I am super excited and hopefully will get the attention of the HN folks when doing my Show HN.
I’ve just started selling art-piece wordclocks:<p><a href="https://www.finewordclocks.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.finewordclocks.com</a><p>Making wordclocks has been a hobby of mine. For a few years I’ve been developing various designs, fabricating them at a local hacker space, and giving them as gifts.<p>People keep asking if I would sell them. So I finally made a high end design and put together a simple web store.<p>My first production design is a limited run of 100. I recently sold my first one.<p>I just bought my own cnc router (still in the crate). The plan is to set up low run production in my basement rather than the time-sink of a hacker space. Plus a good excuse to get the kids interested in creating stuff when we have cool tools in the basement.
Just finished a long article[1] on a fascinating new breed of CRDTs. Already implemented a proof-of-concept demo featuring real-time text collaboration over iCloud as well as arbitrary simulated network topologies[2]. Now I'm working on a Swift framework to help me create CRDT-ified document formats for my next iOS app.<p>[1]: <a href="http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/" rel="nofollow">http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/archagon/crdt-playground" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/archagon/crdt-playground</a>
Everything should be on git.captnemo.in (on phone, can't give links)<p>- Writing code to manage my home server using Docker, Terraform and some glue (nebula)<p>- reviving the Hindustan Time hatetracker, which was a newspaper project tracking hate crimes, but was shut down after some government pressure.<p>- zomato tracker that keeps track of restaurants that open or close in Bangalore every week. Plan is to make a twitter it<p>- hn classics ebook. I scraped and converted a lot of the articles from the HN Classics post into a Jekyll website. Plan to get a PDF/EPUB<p>- board game implementations for 2 player games with special consideration on making them scriptable. Starting with MCTS but want to make a generic framework
<a href="https://theaccidentalengineer.com/" rel="nofollow">https://theaccidentalengineer.com/</a><p>Interviewing my friends (and strangers) about their jobs in software engineering
emojicrypt.com – encrypt messages into emoji using scrypt and aes-gcm!<p><a href="https://aurorabbit.github.io/emojicrypt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://aurorabbit.github.io/emojicrypt.com/</a><p>Unfortunately hackernews doesn't seem to support emoji properly, so I've put my message here:<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/aurorabbit/fdab58373cb7a57bfc621c2f484416ba" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/aurorabbit/fdab58373cb7a57bfc621c2f4...</a><p>The passphrase is the Ask HN submission id :)
<a href="https://atlas.patmurray.co" rel="nofollow">https://atlas.patmurray.co</a><p>A small app to create pretty wallpapers for iPhone and iPad out of various map designs. Has become quite popular in Germany.<p>It started after I tweeted a screenshot of my iPhone home screen and people wanted me to make them a similar wallpaper of their city, so I built an app for it. Took exactly one week from tweet idea to App Store!
Scheme R5RS implementation in Kotlin: <a href="https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin</a><p>But the development has stalled recently: can't figure out (read as 'too lazy') how to implement macros and how to fix some issues with lazy sequences.<p>But overall, really love this hobby project, very enlightening.
<a href="https://github.com/kwiwk/lru-cached-getter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kwiwk/lru-cached-getter</a> - Building out some utilities with first-tier TypeScript support. Nothing big.<p>Been working more with Arduinos and lower level stuff to offset the high level work I do during normal work hours.
Personal assistant/home automation system/car software. Which is to say it started as the second of those, added the first, and then the third. And I should just call it a personal assistant at this point.<p>I also contribute to Sandstorm.io in various mostly non-code ways when I have a little time lying around.
<a href="https://www.finbuckle.com/MultiTenant" rel="nofollow">https://www.finbuckle.com/MultiTenant</a><p>Multitenant support for ASP.NET Core 2.0. The previous popular solutions all went out of date with the release of .NET Core 2.0.
<a href="https://github.com/paulknysh/blackbox" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/paulknysh/blackbox</a> - a tool for optimization of expensive black-box functions (numerical simulations etc)
<a href="https://www.teamcalapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.teamcalapp.com</a> - to do employee scheduling/planning directly on existing Google Calendar data.<p>This time i only used “old” technologies so that I can spend the least amount of time on actual development work. Uses Python/Django/Postgres under the hood and all is running on Heroku. Frontend built with Angular 1.<p>The biggest issue for me is always to find enough time next to work/family. What worked well is to split tasks into tiny work units (e.g 15min) and making sure to finish one each day.
Developing low-cost wireless soil moisture sensors for agriculture. It's old technology but the proven benefit is huge, and adoption has been really poor (mostly) because of the cost.
<a href="https://getdevour.com" rel="nofollow">https://getdevour.com</a> (marketing site and old app)<p><a href="https://app.getdevour.com" rel="nofollow">https://app.getdevour.com</a> (new app I'm slowly migrating users over to)<p>This is incredibly niche at the moment, but people who follow Renaissance Periodization nutrition templates can upload their template and turn a complex spreadsheet/PDF into a simple, filterable app experience. Soon expanding to more nutrition plans.
iPerf but for Ethernet/MPLS/layer 2. This is at the more serious end of the scale and something I've been working on for a while now. I use it to test a link or device speed at different frame sizes, check that different Ether-types are parsed correctly, CoS values match into the correct QoS queue etc:<p><a href="https://github.com/jwbensley/Etherate" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jwbensley/Etherate</a><p>At the less serious end of the scale an Arduino powered, life sized cardboard cut out of me with an SD-CARD full of my daily sayings, and a GPS battery backed clock. Like most people here, I like to tinker with hardware/electronics as a change from coding. My friend on the other side of the world is turning 30 soon, I can't be there, so I'm making and posting him a life size me which plays recordings of me (that are time of day relevant!) when you walk past. Not much on the GH page yet, I'll try and get some more up-to-date code and designs uploaded at the weekend:<p><a href="https://github.com/jwbensley/Life-Sized-James" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jwbensley/Life-Sized-James</a>
<a href="https://www.superteam.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.superteam.io/</a><p>I've been working on it for a while, gaining momentum with customer and freelancer base. We're at ramen profitability at the moment, still trying to grow.<p>If anyone has a project or wants to work on other people's projects for money, let us know!
1. Meli, a docker-compose alternative.<p>2. kshaka, a Go implementation of the CASPaxos consensus protocol.<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/komuw/meli" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/komuw/meli</a>.<p>2. <a href="https://github.com/komuw/kshaka" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/komuw/kshaka</a>
If every programmer working on a side project were to collaborate on a single project together, just for a full day one weekend, I wonder what could be achieved..<p>If selection of the project were democratic, would you participate?
<a href="https://github.com/aaronduino/jay" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aaronduino/jay</a> -- an encrypted replacement for jrnl.sh