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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.

I also contribute to Sandstorm.io in various mostly non-code ways when I have a little time lying around.

https://github.com/ioddly/meditations - Daily organizer based on habit formation.

It actually needs a little bit of TLC which I'm hoping to give it once I finish up my current gig.

I'm still the only user, as far as I know, but I use it daily so it's fun to work on.

I found a while back and gave it a whirl. I thought it was awesome. I am happy to see you have continued to put time into it. Thanks!

I'm trying to centralize the 2-3 todo/misc apps I use daily by using a bujo/bullet journal. The other day, I was telling my bujo using coworker that I was going to commit to using your app if I didn't dig the bujo.

Thanks again for making meditations. I think the UX flows well for habit tracking.

Well shucks, this comment made my day :)

Feel free to use the GH issues or email me (in profile) if you run into any issues.

Blu-ray interactive graphics stream editor, because paying thousands of dollars to change an image is kinda dumb
Scheme R5RS implementation in Kotlin: https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin

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.

But overall, really love this hobby project, very enlightening.

https://www.finbuckle.com/MultiTenant

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 The previous popular solutions all went out of date with the release of .NET Core 2.0.

Which 'popular solutions' did you review? We used aspnetboilerplate.com for our multi tenancy SaaS app
Mainly Saaskit. aspnetboilerplate.com looks awesome but it is an entire application framework built on asp.net.

Finbuckle.MultiTenant is just focused on supporting multitenant scenarios in asp.net core and integrates into a standard asp.net core project.

Looks like we both support data isolation via automatic filtering in Entity Framework Code (I almost have this documentation ready to post).

I also support tenant-scoped options which allows you to have different authentication options (any option really) per tenant. aspnetbiolerplate.com looked like it had its own auth system--I didn't see anything on the site about how multi-tenancy applied to its auth system.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I recorded hundreds of runs with a garmin forerunner and HRM. Aside from occasionally plotting avg pace vs avg hr over time and saying, "oh that's nice", I didn't find much value in recording.

Focus on what you'll do with the data once you get it and work back from there.

Good luck with lowering your blood pressure the natural way. Stay away from blood pressure meds as long as you can.

Quite impressive. So, have you launched the app yet?

Best wishes :)

Thanks for saying that! I'm not quite ready for public consumption, but when I am, I'll do a show HN.
A c99 library that implements various exotic binary based number systems and I'm calling it Hanoi
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.
Wow! Great idea! So, how are you panning to overcome the problem of adaption?
Everything should be on git.captnemo.in (on phone, can't give links)

- Writing code to manage my home server using Docker, Terraform and some glue (nebula)

- reviving the Hindustan Time hatetracker, which was a newspaper project tracking hate crimes, but was shut down after some government pressure.

- zomato tracker that keeps track of restaurants that open or close in Bangalore every week. Plan is to make a twitter it

- 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

- board game implementations for 2 player games with special consideration on making them scriptable. Starting with MCTS but want to make a generic framework

> Hindustan Time hatetracker

I am curious why this was shut down. If you need any volunteers, sign me up.

> zomato tracker

I was working on something similar to that for San Francisco using SF's OpenData APIs for new businesses :)

> Hindustan Time hatetracker Why they shut it down? And when you expect to launch this?

> hn classics ebook Really excited about this!

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.
https://sendnoodz.io

Solving big picture problems ....

Send pictures of noodles via MMS when someone asks for nudes.

Built because I wanted an excuse to setup twilio/stripe and thought goat attack was great.

I like the text comments on your sample screenshot.
a utility to automatically turn my email threads into a todo list of emails I need to follow up on.
Concurrent Z80 emulators running inside Unreal Engine:

https://i.imgur.com/Q6307w3.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/K44GT1W.png

https://i.imgur.com/59RufvT.png

Already runs a lot of software including Wordstar, HiTech C compiler for Z80, Microsoft Basic etc.

Also have written a few applications for it including a telnet client with Zmodem support, some graphics utilities etc.

Please make a game with this. I would pay money for such a thing. There was a rather large hype over a game called 0x10c with mechanics like this that ended up being vaporware.
Yes, that's actually where this all started. I had a parody of 0x10c in mind and I originally started posting about this on the 0x10c subreddit.

It's on the backburner at the moment due to work/personal commitments but I hope to get back to it before too long.

https://passed.pw/ - Mobile-friendly random password generator seeded based on your mouse or touch positions for better randomness.

Just wanted something simple to generate passwords/tokens and ended up building this two years ago.

https://tempd.link/ - Temporary file hosting with immediate automatic deletion when leaving the site.

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.

Clean design. Impressive! Liked the idea behind passed.pw :) Looking for more. so, I am literary going to use tempd.link to host files of my college projects in order to allow my batch mates to download them!
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..

If selection of the project were democratic, would you participate?

probably not much. Just on coordination you would spend a huge amount of time. Only one day commitment is too short. Maybe a week distributed in a month might be better. Or even better a 2 week sprint distributed in a month (10 "work days").
The weekend would be over and we would still be arguing about what language to use.
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.

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.

https://canadapups.com

https://www.teamcalapp.com - to do employee scheduling/planning directly on existing Google Calendar data.

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.

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.

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.

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!

What a fantastic idea! Given the value this could provide for interviewees I hope you're planning on charging appropriately. Where can I sign up?