What are you building over the holidays?

34 points by lowglow ↗ HN
The holidays are here, and it's the perfect time to dive into a project. So spill it. What are you building?

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I'm working on extension services for http://techendo.co/
What's it going to entail?
Working on extending tribes into a service people can use around the world to help entrepreneurs and projects in their area.
Been playing with iBeacons today: https://github.com/younata/Apartment

Other than that, more work on my flight simulator: http://younata.com/

How have you been finding iBeacons?
what do you mean?

It's built in to corelocation in iOS 7... You can even use an iOS device as an iBeacon...

assuming by "finding" you mean liking.

The api makes it very easy to use. I would like to get a generic beacon I can just slap on my door and forget about for 6 months or so, rather my current hack of using another one of my idevices to play with this.

As it is, I'll probably just get a raspi with a bluetooth le dongle, and use that (when my phone gets really close to the door, it unlocks the door, is the thought).

Using the extra time to finish up an initial version of http://www.flatdoc.com/.

Other than that, working on an a bitcoin price comparison site for bitcoin to track your different coin balances and at which prices you bought and sold (pure for fun)

I just signed up for flatdoc! Interested in the arbitrage opportunities your bitcoin site might be able to provide. :)
I'm continuing to work on http://introtopython.org, an open resource for people interested in teaching and learning Python.

I unwrapped my first good set of headphones in years this morning, so spending some time coding is even more enjoyable.

can I link to this on techendo? We're going to start building out our learning services and links.
Certainly! If you have any questions I'm happy to answer them, and email is in my profile.
I'm taking it easy and just rebuilding by Linode with 64-bit Ubuntu (instead of the 32-bit Ubuntu I picked years ago) so I can try out HHVM. HHVM seems interesting, but there's no 32-bit build, so I need to document and migrate to a new server instance.
I'm building my trophy collection on AC4
I'm going to work on a college grade tracker web app because I'm a student and spreadsheets are annoying.
Up until today, Christmas dinner for 9. Now I'm planning on working on some Turkey sandwiches.
Yesterday I released Ruby Docs - Fast and searchable Ruby and Rails docs http://ruby-docs.org/
Why not split this into sub modules? Like letting Rails have its own portion so that you can add in this like Sinatra, Nokogiri and the likes?
I don't fully understand... are you talking about Git submodules? Or just allowing to generate the docs for any Ruby project? The latter is already high up on the feature list... :) (feel free to reply in the Disqus comments on ruby-docs.org, I don't check the comments on HN very often)
Writing a book about tech and innovation in East Africa. Just got back from a month-long research trip to Kenya and Uganda.
Building a website that can help manage/organise/monitor private link networks, or be a dashboard/admin for multiple websites hosted on a variety of web hosts.
Building resistance to a flu variant. :(
Working on two chrome extensions! I've been putting some polish on one that enables you to mute people on Twitter (https://github.com/jeffreyiacono/penalty-blox). The other is not yet published (soon though) and lets you send tabs from your comp to your friend's comp. It's been pretty neat to be browsing around and have a new tab pop up that was sent from my friend who is using the extension too.
Framer 3 with cleaner code and rewritten animation backend so we can play around with more physics effects in ui prototypes.

http://www.framerjs.com

Finishing up a MVP at 4:30 AM EST. No biggie.
Rebuilding www.friendsvite.com with AngularJS instead of crappy Jquery. But I'll only work on it in the plane though, without a web connection. Makes it spicy.