Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – June
What projects (hobby projects, side projects, startups) are you working on right now? Would love to hear what HN'ers are working on!
(ME : I'm working on currently to combine all the things that I've liked, bookmarked and up-voted - it's called "Marvelogs" - http://www.marvelogs.com)
How about you?
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But even so no one seems to believe I really know python. I like python, I really do but even so I've completely given up on applying to python jobs.
- A remake of my personal website with AngularJS and a Java Spring backend, primarily for testing Spring and adding a few larger features
- Some kind of colors game on Android, using libgdx - primarily because I didn't know what to code
Marvelogs looks great. I'll keep an eye on it.
Personal website is a bit of a wrong term, maybe. I work as a freelancer, so I'll manage customers, code, invoices and all that stuff on the site. There are other tools for doing that, so it's really more about testing out Spring. :)
Been a surprisingly pleasurable experience so far.
No real technical reason for switching, more a need to scratch my nerdy itch.
Python seems like a super-clean language so far.
- Creating a sports site that will generate odds based on crowd sourced content (as a hobby)
- Developing a tool to manage data warehousing environments (as a side business)
It's not yet really "global" by any means however I do have some decent coverage of Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz and New York City.
I've stopped posting new companies while I work on some tools to automate the process. For example I keep new listings in a bunch of LibreOffice spreadsheets. Last week I learned the hard way that the number of tabs is limited to 95.
It is my hope that by doing this there will no longer be a need to find jobs through staffing agencies. When I was just starting out I just looked up "Computer Programming" in the Yellow Pages.
One of my little "Trade Secrets" is what I suppose one could call breadth-first job hunting: rather than look for companies in Austin, I look for companies just about anywhere, however quite commonly companies will have more than one location. Just in the last few years it has become common for mid-sized companies to open small development shops - I particularly see lots of SFO/Portland/Seattle companies.
let me check... I have seven Austin companies however I know very well that there are quite a lot more.
I'll post what I have shortly, then dig up some more tomorrow evening or so.
Here's the progress so far http://imgur.com/rNHzfj4
Motivation: I pretty much use Youtube as my music player. Great selection and I like watching the videos every now and then. The problem is that it doesn't really have the UI of a music player e.g. easy access to all of my 200+ playlists.
Why: Because It sucks to be spending a lot time taking your car to the repair shop then either waiting there while its getting fixed or going back and forth to pick it up later. The experience is just frustrating!
Feedback: Would love HN'ers to give some feedback! (email: chaudhary.fsl@gmail.com)
It is objectively terrible but there it is: https://bitbucket.org/kennethrapp/spaceinvaders
I need to spend a few weeks on Unity tutorials now so maybe I can learn to make something people will actually want to play.
I'm also working on a Corona app and a Facebook API think for a startup i'm interning/working at.
I'm working on 3 short films - one is literally hours away from completion, one I've just shot, and one I'm shooting in two weeks.
All of them are at least moderately interesting from a technical standpoint: the first is a two-hander between a live actor and a CGI motion-captured character. The second uses practical effects including the quite marvelous "el wire", but was made with a crew that goes beyond "tiny" and into "that shouldn't be possible", largely by utilising the latest film tech (Rode's new frequency-hopping wireless mic really saved our collective ass). And the third I'm using as a chance to really stretch the Sony a7s's legs and get close to Hollywood lighting without the Hollywood power bill, by using complex but very low light at an ISO that would normally be unusable.
I'm also continuing to poke at VR - most recently experimenting with stereo cubemaps, which are amazing. Here are my initial experiments with that: http://www.strangecompany.org/3-new-virtual-reality-stereo-p...
kollekkt seems to focus more on the discover part from how the site looks.
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