I grew 30 heirloom tomato plants to give away to friends and family. They're world-class seed varieties that aren't available through nurseries/retail[1]. I grew them indoors under grow lights[2].
After giving most away, I had 4 left, so I walked around my neighborhood, knocked on front doors, and offered them to neighbors (none of whom I knew). The first 4 who answered were all eager to have one. Also, they're all now acquaintances - we've either texted or emailed.
Excellent work! Such a nice complement to HN. Show HN is my favorite part of the site.
Would be cool if the headline was a link to the project :)
Thanks for sharing, just signed up!
Edit: Nvm it parses links in the title. Only thing is if it's in parenthesis it parses that e.g. "I am making the next big thing (https://example.com)" it will attempt to navigate to https://example.com) <-- with the paren
I'm back working on my lighting desk [0]. Got the new boards manufactured and each has basic code on. Now looking at swapping out the i2c communications the main controller was using for CAN-bus that the new boards use. Hoping to get the system turning lights on and off in a month or so.
I realised most of my motivation problems were depression-related, and getting treatment for that made it possible for me to get back to work on this project
(I found my posts on there from 2000 to 2001. Looks like you could also tag other users in your updates. Apparently I became the "official documenter" of ClanLib and completely forgot about it. Sorry.)
Edit: WHOOSH I totally missed your link! I think your idea is awesome if you couldn't tell by my participation :)
TOO MUCH!
I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year. The past two or three months things have been improving a lot thanks to meds.
Three projects I'm working on are starting to really start to buzz:
1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.
2. Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING! s/o to the Duet folks their support forum is second to none.
3. Electric motor for my kayak. Some very cool people on the internet are selling ESCs designed for brushed / brushless motors and it just so happens they perfectly overlap with the small / lightweight motor I'm using on my kayak. You can spend $$$$ on an electric setup but I'm making it work with a $130 motor, $200 battery and maybe $60 of electronics? Suck it torqueedo.
Honestly if you'd have told me all this would be going on at once six months ago I might have got in a fight with you for blowing smoke up my ass. It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.
I wish I could go back in time and tell my depressed / stressed self to have some hope and hang in there.
> I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year.
You'n'me both.
> 1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.
Link here at the end of the day?
> Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING!
Video of it running? I'd love to see what you've built. YouTube channels that talk about this stuff are by far my favorite channels.
> It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.
Yes! I'm excited for you! Keep moving! Keep seeking joy in your work!
In the midst of searching for what my particular contribution might be in the synthesis of Fediverse / IndieWeb / $other_such_efforts. Personal web page with some experiments is surely first, but if anyone else is like-minded, I'd love to know what you're doing.
Discovery, search, UX, advocacy, are all angles I think about. Protocols seem to be in a good place, so that's less likely to need new work.
I like the fact that there's no comments section, so it's just about the people building projects rather than biased by what random unrelated discussions other people decide to have.
But feedback is still a thing, so I'm not really sure how to balance that.
Finding people that vibe on the same things you are passionate about is really, really difficult. Feedback and just being around people doing stuff I think is super, super important.
One way I'm considering doing this is running a local HN style invite only message board. There are lots of FB groups for my target activity (fishing) but people are notoriously guarded about their fishing spots so I'm thinking maybe a small $5 a month membership will keep the tire kickers out and reduce the riffraf.
Put it this way, if someone was doing this around here already I'd sign up right now. It's not just finding a community, it's finding a CURATED community where the things / people you need are available for you to interact with.
Trying to put the finishing touches on a Python package [1] for epidemic modeling using Compartmental models. This grew out of a series of blog posts I started writing during the pandemic [2] based on my professional experience in epidemic modeling in a previous life where I was the lead developer for a state of the art global epidemic model [3].
I'm learning Polish with an experimental method called the Bimodal Blitz. It involves reading an entire book in your target language in a day, or even a sitting, while simultaneously listening to the audiobook. Since March 13, I've "blitzed" 60 Polish books in 60 days. I'm aiming to reach 100 in 100 days.
you can guess what it's written in, don't use it yet, although it works but I store data in plaintext for now, looking for cross-platform solutions to encrypt it but so far no luck. will be adding lots of features soon.
Have tons of unfinished articles waiting to be published and a few other things to create.
I'm also working on jitsujournal.com, which is something I'd like to have for myself, primarily. I also launched a chess club in my area, which gained massive interest which quickly died down, sadly.
With a full-time job, it's hard to maintain everything. :/
Ah, I didn't realize it was a site. Interesting!
Are these worthy of being put on the site? I'm not so sure.
I'm working on a full time job that leaves me almost with no time for personal projects. I've created some miner projects that address personal issues, and I do miss sharing fun stuff here. So I'm glad to say that this weekend i got a new raycaster engine going, using DDA algorithm. By the way this raycasting is related to the Wolfenstein game, not this modern stuff. Right now i got the basic stuff out of the way and as soon as i have more stuff I'll share it here.
I am working on an app called Lime Reader. It's an app where you can read multiple "forum" like websites such as Hacker News, Lobsters, Tildes, Lemmy etc. from a single app with a familiar UI/UX. Screenshots:
The origin of the idea came from my other app called HACK which has been an iOS and Android app for Hacker News for many years. I figured that I really wanted a similar app where I could read other forum like sites too. I have been working on this for a few months now and hoping to go live in the next few weeks. Starting with iOS, iPad and MacOS. Then Android too.
Don't have much to show yet, but I am working on a programmatic way to create visuals and animations. Think lambda calculus but with graphical transformations.
Have you seen any work that Parker Ziegler has worked on? He has a couple of projects for automatic wrangling of visuals when it comes to charting data.
Seems related, but also different approach to this area.
This is pretty cool but what Im thinking about is more like a general purpose language which is primarily visual. Imagine for example a for loop has a visual representation which shows a visual transformation from
100000
010000
001000
000100
000010
000001
and this transformation can be applied abstractly to 1 = red circle, 0= black circle, which when run shows a red circle moving from the beginning position to its end position.
At the beginning I thought I'd find the same info as in a .plan file (discovered while reading Masters of Doom, where John Carmack explains what he's working on). It would have been super cool !
Unfortunately, your page looks more like a #buildinpublic twitter page which is not really insightful.
Good luck with this project.
After giving most away, I had 4 left, so I walked around my neighborhood, knocked on front doors, and offered them to neighbors (none of whom I knew). The first 4 who answered were all eager to have one. Also, they're all now acquaintances - we've either texted or emailed.
[1]: Go down the dwarf heirloom tomato breeding rabbit hole: https://www.dwarftomatoproject.net/ , https://joegardener.com/podcast/tomato-talk-big-gardening-an... . I grew purple/black varieties: Adelaide Festival, Fred's Tie Dye, and Metallica.
[2]: Photo of 30 tomato starts on a wire rack in my living room: https://mas.to/@troyd/112277832267619233
Would be cool if the headline was a link to the project :)
Thanks for sharing, just signed up!
Edit: Nvm it parses links in the title. Only thing is if it's in parenthesis it parses that e.g. "I am making the next big thing (https://example.com)" it will attempt to navigate to https://example.com) <-- with the paren
I realised most of my motivation problems were depression-related, and getting treatment for that made it possible for me to get back to work on this project
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737795
(I found my posts on there from 2000 to 2001. Looks like you could also tag other users in your updates. Apparently I became the "official documenter" of ClanLib and completely forgot about it. Sorry.)
TOO MUCH!
I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year. The past two or three months things have been improving a lot thanks to meds.
Three projects I'm working on are starting to really start to buzz:
1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.
2. Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING! s/o to the Duet folks their support forum is second to none.
3. Electric motor for my kayak. Some very cool people on the internet are selling ESCs designed for brushed / brushless motors and it just so happens they perfectly overlap with the small / lightweight motor I'm using on my kayak. You can spend $$$$ on an electric setup but I'm making it work with a $130 motor, $200 battery and maybe $60 of electronics? Suck it torqueedo.
Honestly if you'd have told me all this would be going on at once six months ago I might have got in a fight with you for blowing smoke up my ass. It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.
I wish I could go back in time and tell my depressed / stressed self to have some hope and hang in there.
You'n'me both.
> I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year.
You'n'me both.
> 1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.
Link here at the end of the day?
> Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING!
Video of it running? I'd love to see what you've built. YouTube channels that talk about this stuff are by far my favorite channels.
> It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.
Yes! I'm excited for you! Keep moving! Keep seeking joy in your work!
Discovery, search, UX, advocacy, are all angles I think about. Protocols seem to be in a good place, so that's less likely to need new work.
I like the fact that there's no comments section, so it's just about the people building projects rather than biased by what random unrelated discussions other people decide to have.
But feedback is still a thing, so I'm not really sure how to balance that.
One way I'm considering doing this is running a local HN style invite only message board. There are lots of FB groups for my target activity (fishing) but people are notoriously guarded about their fishing spots so I'm thinking maybe a small $5 a month membership will keep the tire kickers out and reduce the riffraf.
Put it this way, if someone was doing this around here already I'd sign up right now. It's not just finding a community, it's finding a CURATED community where the things / people you need are available for you to interact with.
[1] http://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik
[2] https://github.com/DataForScience/Epidemiology101
[3] https://www.gleamviz.org/explore.html
Recently, I've experienced language automaticity and blogged about it here: https://buttondown.email/bimodalblitz/archive/experiencing-a...
https://github.com/Sparkenstein/tautp
you can guess what it's written in, don't use it yet, although it works but I store data in plaintext for now, looking for cross-platform solutions to encrypt it but so far no luck. will be adding lots of features soon.
plus there's https://github.com/fosslife/devtools-x too
Have tons of unfinished articles waiting to be published and a few other things to create.
I'm also working on jitsujournal.com, which is something I'd like to have for myself, primarily. I also launched a chess club in my area, which gained massive interest which quickly died down, sadly.
With a full-time job, it's hard to maintain everything. :/
Ah, I didn't realize it was a site. Interesting! Are these worthy of being put on the site? I'm not so sure.
My CSS snippets for minimal theme: https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippe...
Life ops starter vault (including above snippets), with very basic cut down daily template: https://github.com/replete/life-ops-starter-obsidian-vault/
[1]: getmakerlog.com
[2]: WIP.co
[3]: buildinpublic.xyz
https://imgur.com/a/3Ip4KVN
The origin of the idea came from my other app called HACK which has been an iOS and Android app for Hacker News for many years. I figured that I really wanted a similar app where I could read other forum like sites too. I have been working on this for a few months now and hoping to go live in the next few weeks. Starting with iOS, iPad and MacOS. Then Android too.
Seems related, but also different approach to this area.
https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2023/supporting-data-journali...
This is pretty cool but what Im thinking about is more like a general purpose language which is primarily visual. Imagine for example a for loop has a visual representation which shows a visual transformation from 100000 010000 001000 000100 000010 000001
and this transformation can be applied abstractly to 1 = red circle, 0= black circle, which when run shows a red circle moving from the beginning position to its end position.
I really hope you are able to map it out.
If you ever need a tester, let me know.