Simple "email this link to me" service.<p>If I find something interesting, I want to be able to click a button (chrome extension/bookmarklet) that will extract the text from that page, format it nicely and email it to me (preferably to a separate Gmail label).<p>I can then read it from my email client (iOS/Android email app) during my commute.<p>I don't want the overhead of a complete app like Evernote or Pocket.
I want to make party/board games using smartphones as the game controller (similar to fibbage) and use this as motivation to learn elixir and phoenix together with a frontend framework (maybe elm). I tried to do this with python but I have problems with thinking in objects so I will go with functional programming.
I believe that people want help finding "smart home" devices that will work well with the existing equipment in their home, and that they would pay good money for that because buying the wrong equipment is a frustrating (and expensive) mistake.<p>I'm building a way to help you pick the connected equipment that will work best for your home, based on what you want to control, how you want to control it, and the equipment that already exists in your house.<p>For example, I've got an Ecobee3 thermostat, Lutron Caseta lights, a SmartThings hub and an Echo Dot. My system will tell you the best connected door lock for your home that will work with that setup.
What I hope to do :<p>build a ESP8266 opened door detector (or try it with rust with a RTL8710
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5lfpnk/rust_on_rtl8710_running_freertos/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5lfpnk/rust_on_rtl871...</a> )<p>build a ROS robot with SLAM using a 3D cam : <a href="http://www.ros.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ros.org/</a><p>build a multicopter : <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Multicopter" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Multicopter</a>
I am still plugging away on my snail simulation. Motivation comes and goes, but if I try to work on anything else I just go back to wanting to work on snails.
I am branching out from full-stack web design & development to some deeper backend topics especially Machine Learning. There is a steep learning curve that will keep me busy for a while.<p>The <i>specific</i> project I'll be applying these skills toward is a bit more nebulous, but I'm particularly interested in generative systems for text and images.
"Auto Table of Content" userscript/addons[0].<p>I believe any article longer than 3 pages should have a table of contents. If readers feel bored, they can look into the TOC, jump to other section to find something fun. But most of they don't have one. So I make it my self. This's inspired by this Firefox addon[1] (no longer maintained).<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/letientai299/userscript-auto-toc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/letientai299/userscript-auto-toc</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/table-of-contents/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/table-of-cont...</a><p>Edit: Add newline between links.
I want to build a set of tools to build a full private cloud on bare metal with zero single points of failure. Essentially a full replacement of Fuel and Openstack.<p>I've already started on a full multi master dhcp server to assign ip adresses to hosts and instances.
My life.<p>Making better bread, cider, and delete all my open source projects.<p>Creating the first post-luddites anti computer guerilla movement.<p>Oh, and since I am bored of all the terrorism laws that results in our countries converging to soviet unions mood, I will also make pirate parties spike water with recreational harmless drugs so people stop look like scared zombies and give them a smile back on their face.<p>Then in 2018 we make a fun revolution with no casualties, and we all live happily ever after.<p>I become a dictator edicts every one have the responsibility of leading their life make the country a democracy and retire after a day in Corsica because this place is amazing and life to short to take yourself seriously.
I probably shouldn't share these because they're nowhere near worth sharing yet but...whatever. I can come back in a year and see whether or not I actually finished this time.<p>- A HN-like forum written in Hack[0], mostly for self education and to teach myself how to work with Vagrant.<p>- Actually finish a game in the pseudoframework[1] I (mostly finished) in C++.<p>[0]<a href="https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/basedforum" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/basedforum</a><p>[1]<a href="https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/sdl_framework" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/sdl_framework</a>
This isn't a "side project" (I'm not going to make money from it, and it's also something that I work on at my job), but I've been working on umoci[1] which is a way to create and manipulate OCI container images. At (open)SUSE we're planning on using it to create container images inside the Open Build Service. I've also got a few ideas about RPM distribution of OCI images that I'm quite excited about, and hopefully I'll have some code that works soon.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/cyphar/umoci" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cyphar/umoci</a>
Re-write history a fair bit.<p>By this I mean that much of history is amazingly cool and interesting, yet no-one really reads about it or learns it. Yet I can talk to pretty much any hipster on the street and they'll know all about the Ents and Elves of Tolkein or the Andals and First Men of GRR. History should be more like that then, I figure.<p>So, lets put some Griffon-mounted Calvary into the Bleeding Kansas era, some dragons into Waterloo, and some brain-slugs into the Mongols. Maybe that'll spice up the history lessons a bit and make then more worth reading by the average citizen.
<a href="https://bolagslistan.nu" rel="nofollow">https://bolagslistan.nu</a> - Delivers a list each month of all the recently registered companies in Sweden. You get information on what they do, where they are located, and so on, and I'm building a tool around this information to make it easy for people to search by industry, region, etc. And yes, I have customers! :)
Write a book on Vue.js.<p>I have been working with Vue for the last 3 months and it has been a very pleasant and rewarding experience. While Vue's official guide is a wonderful resource, I feel that it doesn't delve into topics like Vuex, VueRouter, interacting with an existing API, integrating Vue into your existing project (Rails, Node.js etc) etc.<p>I have started writing a small book that starts off with a gentle introduction to Vue.js and then walks the readers through building a complete SPA (Single Page Application) similar to Reddit/Twitter.<p>This year, I want to spend the first couple of months finishing this book.<p>For those interested, I have created a small subscription form - <a href="http://eepurl.com/cvUk5D" rel="nofollow">http://eepurl.com/cvUk5D</a>. You can add your email here to get notified when I launch this book and also get access to the early release.
A framework which makes it easy to manage- scraping, crawling, job orchestration.
It build on top of a special "data as code" declarative language.
Have been working on it for years as a side project, now taking time off from consulting to make it usable for my other side project ideas.
<a href="http://laptophits.com" rel="nofollow">http://laptophits.com</a> - it had great response here on HN, unfortunately few days later I got an email from Amazon, that they reject my associates application, as my site lacks unique content :(. Now I'm working on more specification based filtering options, then will try to add keyword filters (to quickly find for example most recommended'linux laptops') and figure out what should I add to pass Amazon Associates review.<p>I also started my personal blog today at <a href="http://mdoliwa.com" rel="nofollow">http://mdoliwa.com</a> with 30 days blogging challange :).
<a href="https://wishy.gift/" rel="nofollow">https://wishy.gift/</a> - a wishlist web app that we launched a bit too close to Christmas to be of use to anyone. We got just about 90 users at the moment, and have gotten lots of good feedback and feature requests.<p>Friends and family I've talked to found it really useful for the Christmas shopping, and my SO showed me the wishlist of a friend of hers - which had loads of items added to it - and almost every single item was checked off.<p>There's some stuff we're going to add, but our main issue is finding out how to market it, and explain the service in a good way.
1. Last year I built a sports' klub listing website [1] which shows where you can train different sports on a map in Slovenia. The most challenging part is keeping the data up to date. This year, it's going to be about automating it fully, such that it can operate with almost no supervision, by means for crawling and automatic emailing klub owners to confirm the validity of the data.<p>2. Something based on hardware -- still thinking what to do with my Raspeberry 3.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.zatresi.si/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zatresi.si/</a>
Setting up a QA outsourcing business on the side with a few friends. Software is everywhere and performing more critical functions as years go by. QA where I work (large US software company) is an afterthought, the developers and business guys provide quality assurance cover but of course things do slip through the net occasionally and cost of those events can be high. We looked at outsourcing QA years back and will probably again. I can see more organisations doing this. Challenge will be running this as a side project.
Multiple things...<p>Blogging, in the hope I have stuff to say people are interested in.<p>Maybe going to more meetups, but I don't know about this yet, most meetups are boring.<p>Doing more cardio in hopes of better endurance.<p>Getting rid of the fat-part of my 13kg gains I got last year. hopefully it will be more muscle than I fear, haha.<p>Software wise, I don't know. My girlfriends sometimes have nice app ideas, which I then build for them as a sideproject, but this often just takes 2-4 days.
I am hoping to finish up a new version of my food dishes by location project <a href="https://bestfoodnearme.com" rel="nofollow">https://bestfoodnearme.com</a> I decided to teach myself Go while I wrote it. The original database was a combination of redis and boltdb. I am moving things to postgresql and for the frontend bourbon.io<p>It has been a slow process, but I am keeping at it little by little.
<a href="https://communiroo.com" rel="nofollow">https://communiroo.com</a> - I created a mobile app and wanted a single, easy-to-set-up site to direct users to for bug reports, feature requests, forums, and support, but I couldn't find one.<p>I built Communiroo to provide a community site for apps and services that can be set up in just a few clicks.
I want to learn C and I have two projects on my mind that I will use for experimenting with the language:<p>1. a cli spotify controller (control spotify through mpris and consuming the REST api for search/playlist related commands)<p>2. a cli GTD tool. I have some experience porting OmniFocus to Android (in Java) and I want to use what I learned from that to build my own GTD tool.
A Retron-5-like game console for playing physical Atari 2600, Colecovision and Intellivision cartridges based on a ROM-dumper I wrote: <a href="https://github.com/drzaiusx11/WiringVCS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/drzaiusx11/WiringVCS</a>
You get three designs for the same website - one for mobile, one for tablet, and one for desktop. Now you have to combine all that into a single set of HTML and CSS using Flexbox and media queries. My project for 2017 is to automate all that. My product is in this space, so it might turn out to be a full-time project as well!
I kind of side project fulltime now, so i plan to create a few actually. In the next days i may finish a travel destination site (boring i know, buts its super useful to me :) and there is a flight suggestion thingy that does not get out of my mind i may start next. Scratching my own itches there as well.
I am writing a book on Vim [1] for a while now, so it's going to be my main side project in the first months of 2017.<p>[1] A crappy page about the book: <a href="http://jovicailic.org/mastering-vim-quickly/" rel="nofollow">http://jovicailic.org/mastering-vim-quickly/</a>
rediSQL[1] which is a module that embed SQLite into Redis.<p>It is a fun way to go back to low level C code, I started to kinda miss it after years of high level languages...<p>Right now it only use redis as connectivity layer but I want to make it way more integrated into redis, I want to replicate keys on both redis and inside sqlite in order to have the best of both world (and make some interesting tradeoff between speed and memory), here[2] the proposal if you would like to contribute.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL/issues/12" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/RedBeardLab/rediSQL/issues/12</a>
Continuing to work on <a href="http://asoftmurmur.com" rel="nofollow">http://asoftmurmur.com</a><p>I've been working on an iOS app for a while that is due to launch in the next couple of weeks, after a long period of having no time to work on the project
I plan to add support for styles, more export formats and 'save as audiobook' to: <a href="https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook</a>
Still working on some minor issues before launching, but Iridium is a tool to help for vocal artists to practice.<p><a href="https://github.com/geuis/iridium-vocal" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/geuis/iridium-vocal</a>
As I'm in the process of learning java:
1. A cli podcatcher daemon for linux
2. An infinite runner game for mobile
3. A recipe app for mobile<p>Possibly not in that order. None of these will set the world on fire, but I think they'll be good practice.
An automatic time tracker. I've tried it a few times over the years but it's always been too complicated... I think I've finally found a way to make it simple enough to get a few people to use regularly.
I want to learn more about 1. machine learning / AI
and/or 2. how to make basic video games (not using software like unity etc. but actually writing code)<p>If anyone has good resources/books for either, please share :)
Continue to work on apostello - "sms for your church" - <a href="https://github.com/monty5811/apostello" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/monty5811/apostello</a>
Looking to add a few more features and update the design on <a href="https://tomato-timer.com" rel="nofollow">https://tomato-timer.com</a> - shoot me an email if anyone would like to help!
Simple, good looking website w/ quizzes to help me learn and be less ignorant about the world around me (country names, religions, languages, current events, history, etc.)
A youtube channel focused on teaching distributed programming in a simple way<p>I have already sketched some videos explaining consensus algorithms and the byzantine generals problem (yeah, I'm a Lamport fanboy)
Current toy: Voice input for personal statistics. "Alexa, set pullups to 20." Then Alexa or Siri or Google update the named statistic with a time stamp and optionally trigger a webhook.
Progressing from Intermediate to Serious Python and planning to build some side project to reflect the skills learned. Looking into MongoDB, AWS, ML, Bots.
I'll be doing a lot of work on my registry for open hardware electronics projects.<p><a href="https://kitnic.it" rel="nofollow">https://kitnic.it</a>
I would like to build a learning platform to cover the basic features of moodle using Phoenix, to learn both web development and functional programming.