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Side Project Sunday! Share your progress.

Ben Halpern on June 05, 2022

Give a quick description of what you're up to and what some recent challenges have been.

Anyone who posted last week is more than welcome to share an update.

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jzombie • Edited

speaker.app/ - 48K audio / video streaming. Love this stuff. Making a new view that looks at the audio frequencies of audio and moves speaker cones on a screen (different frequencies will shape the cones a bit different than other frequencies).

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jzombie

Challenges have been in developing several core libraries which handle various aspects, making them work together in harmony, clean up after themselves, some memory leak protections, and a bunch of other nerdy details.

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jzombie

And discovering that the firewall wasn't accepting TURN / STUN connections.... That should be fixed now.

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Yester Mauer

Working on a search engine for comic books — plenty of data sets out there, but have an idea for making it a bit easier to search. Even if I end up being the only user, I'm enjoying the process.

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Brian Todd

I made something similar to this, it was really fun ! Basically a Marvel Database that list some stats about the character and also some top comics.

bttodd11.github.io/marvelDatabase/

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Brian Todd • Edited

Could definitely use some rework since I just noticed spiderman wasnt even found lol

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Valentine Sean Chanengeta

great, may you please share data source

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Valentine Sean Chanengeta • Edited

please share once you are done.
also may you please share links of datasets sources

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Ben Halpern
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Thomas Bnt ☕

Thanks @ben for mentioned this post 😄☕

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Trying to make pixel manipulation on the canvas element easier/more powerful...

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Creating a Design system for my personal brand using Figma, React and Storybook.

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Imam Ali Mustofa

Try to create GUI Dashboard for NoSQL database based on Flat File using JSON called SleekwareDB on the top of SleekDB.

Help Wanted for Contribution:

GitHub logo SleekwareDB / sleekwaredb

SleekwareDB is a NoSQL database storage service. A database storage service that can be used for various platforms and is easy to integrate.

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NoSQL API with SleekDB. This project was created as an alternative to the existing NoSQL database services on the Internet. SleekDB is an API for File-based NoSQL database management built on top of the SleekDB.

About

What is SleekwareDB? SleekwareDB is a NoSQL database storage service. A database storage service that can be used for various platforms and is easy to integrate.

SleekwareDB is an Open Source project, anyone can contribute to build a better SleekwareDB for the future.



Features

🗃️ Flat File Database
Easy to manage flat file JSON as database

🌐 REST API Operation
CRUD Stores and Collections with Easy REST API

Cross Platform
Integrate with any Platform

🖥️ Self-Hosted
Install on your server with easy installation process

☁️ Web UI Dashboard

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Maria Campbell

I started migrating my business site from Gatsby.js to Next.js this past week, so that is what I am working on right now. I'm glad I encountered issues with GatsbyJS in the end, because I am really loving Next.js. There definitely is a bit of a learning curve coming from Gatsby, but it is fun to learn a new framework that is purer React, and provides me with the opportunity to use functional React and hooks! Way better than class component based React. Am also going to go with Vercel for hosting, and trying to figure out which headless CMS would work best for me, both budget wise and UX wise. Any ideas?

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Maria Campbell

oh, and I use Jira for professional projects. And will start using it for everything again. Highly recommend it.

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Rajesh Joshi

Day 2 of waiting for the extension to get approved.

Post -> Talk to people who are on the same site 🌎 | Chrome Extension

Follow to get notified, once it goes live.

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tiff • Edited

Too many to list but for software projects I am rewriting my portfolio in vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. A new resume as a terminal. A component library using Storybook.js and React. But my favorite projects aren't necessarily software, though I need to write some code for these.

Home automation is really my jam lately as I've moved into a whole home now so I'm tinkering with Shelly relay switches, ESP32 dev boards, and all the ways Home Assistant makes me love electronics and tech.

The HA community has several interesting setups and repos on GitHub and I am currently working on documentation of my Home Assistant setup using Python's mkdocs with mkdocs material theme. You can find my docs, which are heavily inspired by MacBury Smart House here: Suburban Smarts

I am currently running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4+ but have just bought an Intel NUC for more processing power, especially when running object and person detection using an open source library called Frigate.

GitHub logo blakeblackshear / frigate

NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

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Frigate - NVR With Realtime Object Detection for IP Cameras

A complete and local NVR designed for Home Assistant with AI object detection. Uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection locally for IP cameras.

Use of a Google Coral Accelerator is optional, but highly recommended. The Coral will outperform even the best CPUs and can process 100+ FPS with very little overhead.

  • Tight integration with Home Assistant via a custom component
  • Designed to minimize resource use and maximize performance by only looking for objects when and where it is necessary
  • Leverages multiprocessing heavily with an emphasis on realtime over processing every frame
  • Uses a very low overhead motion detection to determine where to run object detection
  • Object detection with TensorFlow runs in separate processes for maximum FPS
  • Communicates over MQTT for easy integration into other systems
  • Records video with retention settings based on detected objects
  • 24/7 recording
  • Re-streaming…




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armandino

Working on a library for populating objects. Did a first "multi-release jar" that supports new language features (records and sealed classes) yet is still compatible with Java 8.

instancio.org

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GroupSafe

This side project as been going on for many years. It is a messaging platform based, from the ground up, on Groups. Its called GroupSafe. Join a Group and your email (or phone) is aliased and used as your default 'Delivery Method'. Then, any Group you join allows you to be messaged or send a message to one or more Group Members. No one ever sees your email or phone# as its aliased. You can and multilple Delivery Methods and then decide, by Group, how (and when) to receive messages. You maintain your Delivery Method details so the Group members don't have to. You can turn off any Delivery Methods by Group or leave a Group at any time. You can create a Group and let your friends know about it, or, if you do have their email or phone, you can invite them but never again have to maintain their email or phone. A Group QR code can be placed on your website (or other media) inlieu of a newsletter that requires the user to provide their email...as an example. Just a start of the possibilities. Mobile apps being worked on ...for now, a mobile web site begroupsafe.com

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz • Edited

Released 1.0 beta version of Gaiman programing language and added example dropdown so you can test some apps (e.g. guess the number game). The project aim is to simplify creating web-terminal based applications. Also I was battle-testing my language by creating first app for paid support to my jQuery Terminal and found that the compiler was broken and needed to publish beta.2 version.

GitHub logo jcubic / gaiman

Gaiman: Text based game engine and programming language

Gaiman Engine and Programming Language

Gaiman: Text based advanture games engine and programming language

npm Build and test Coverage Status LICENSE GPLv3

Gaiman: Storytelling Text Based Game Engine and Programming Language

Main part of Gaiman is a minimalist programming language and main purpose is to help create Text Adventure Games. But it can also be used to create any interactive CLI applications (Web Based Terminal applications) It support browser based CLI applications and in the future also native command line.

Installation

npm install -g gaiman@beta

Usage

gaiman -o directory input.gs

This will compile your source file and generate dir/index.html and dir/index.js files And you can open generated html file in browser and run the game.

Documentation

See Reference Manual on Wiki.

Examples

This is Hello world Gaiman DSL example:

echo* "Hi, What is your name?", 50 # Typing animation with 50ms delay
let name = ask "name? "
echo "Hello $name, nice to meet you."
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def ask_details(msg)
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Álex Martín • Edited

mdapi.dev - A service for creating an API REST syncing markdown files with Dropbox.

It's a very first version, now I'm adding pagination in JSON API format

Testing API with my other side project javascript.com.es, a blog with recipes and tricks about JavaScript for all levels in Spanish

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Thomas Step

I'm working on a serverless and privacy focused site analytics service. I started it as a response to the GDPR violations that Google Analytics broke. I'm streaming all the work that I'm doing and just recently finished the API, so the front end is up next.

github.com/thomasstep/site-analytics

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

I am currently studying for the IAAP certification (a11y). I'm doing research on frequently asked questions about a11y, preparing for my first Q&A about who is responsible for a11y from the frontend developers perspective, ... very exciting weeks :) In some aspects I am much more confident when it comes to talking about different aspects of a11y than I was a week ago.

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Ben Sinclair • Edited

A couple of weeks ago I made a site in Gatsby as a way to learn React (plus I wanted the site, I guess).

Since then I've converted it to Next (which I like), and made it use first ChakraUI and now MaterialUI (which are so-so, to be honest) and on Sunday I made a branch where I'm going to convert it to Typescript.

These are all learning experiences more than anything else. I've learnt that Gatsby has a lot of things going for it but if you want to step ourside their ecosystem you need to change a lot.

I've learnt that ChakraUI is not for me, and that MaterialUI is ok, but it still produces a lot of rough HTML and it's inconsistent in its API and it's not as accessible as it seems to think out the box.

I've learnt that I like Next.

I've learnt that I like Typescript, for the most part, but that the error messages it gives are more misleading than most other build systems'.

EDIT: The page, on a free Vercel account: talkers.moopet.net

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John P. Rouillard • Edited

Working with pygal to add drilldown charts to my sysadmin tracker based on the Roundup issue tracker.

A multicolored bar chart showing the number of tickets of each priority. Legend at top left maps the colors to various priorities, critical, urgent, high ... minimum. One bar has a hover panel showing the number, priority and a link to drill down.

Example chart displaying the count of tickets of each priority. Clicking on a bar opens a list of issues that have the corresponding priority in a new window. Also the 'Link >' on the hover panel for the 'low' priority bar provides an affordance that acts the same as clicking on a bar. Clicking on the colored swatch label in the legend hides the corresponding bar from the chart.
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Volodymyr Yepishev

I am continuing working on my magic 8 ball app, finally found a 3d model I could use for it. Finally will be able to switch from HTML div-ball to proper 3d.

I'll probably do some cleaning in the repo this week, swap tslint for eslint, add prettier, etc.

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Marinsborg.com

marinsborg.github.io/who-is-that-p...
Recreating "Who's that Pokemon?" with 70 lines of JS code. Play the game for the sake of nostalgia :)

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Patrick Wendo • Edited

github.com/W3NDO/Kadi
I just started working on this overnight. It's the Kenyan version of Poker. Made a post about it here

First challenge was that since I want it to be built on rails I was trying to figure out where specific things like state management go. There is a lot that goes into games that you never really consider. So this is definitely a fun challenge.

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Bryan Huffstutler

Oh man, which side project? I have that ooohhh shiny complex. To explain, I currently have 7 side projects lol. ElectronJS for a desktop app, a NextJS web app, 3 React websites going up, I saw PyScript the other day so I'm trying that out this weekend, and I have a project using Love2D going on with my son. 'Ooohhh shiny complex.'

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Christian Kozalla

Since I accepted my first full-time job as a junior frontend developer in march, plus family life on top, I did not find the time to work on my side-project anymore. I miss it though. But I can squeeze in some time occasionally to learn Go 😄

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Javel Rowe

I'm working on a site that teaches cybersecurity through games. I want to cover the essentials that will help persons in different professions be more cyber secure.

So far, figuring out how to structure the game creation process so it's easy to reuse components has been a challenge but I'm getting there.
Any feedback is welcome!

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Jeremy Friesen

I'm working on a tabletop RPG character generator... generator. In other words a generator that generates the (narrow) procedures/setting for generating a character. I have the framing for both parts but need to spend a bit of time "merging" the two conceptual components of the process.

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ecyrbe

I made zodios, an HTTP client with runtime and compile time type checks.

I made it opensource in the hope that it will be helpfull to the typescript community.
I struggle to advertise it, so thank you to give us the opportunnity to do so.

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Tawhid

Tinkering with horror elements and stuff to put psychological horror vibes in a game.

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jzombie

Are these graphical assets? I'm curious about this one.

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Tawhid

Nah not just graphical assets but also story, surreal stuff,implementation etc

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ZigRazor

GitHub logo ZigRazor / CXXGraph

Header-Only C++ Library for Graph Representation and Algorithms

CXXGraph

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Introduction

CXXGraph is a small library, header only, that manages the Graph and it's algorithms in C++. In other words a "Comprehensive C++ Graph Library" An alternative to Boost Graph Library (BGL).

We are Looking for...

We are looking for:

  • Site Developer for the development of the CXXGraph site ( for the moment on GitHub Page );
  • Developers and Committers, also at first experience, we will guide you step by step to the open-source world!

If you are interested, please contact us at zigrazor@gmail.com or contribute to this project. We are waiting for you!

Roadmap

Completed Description Date of Completition
✔️ First Optimization Apr 4, 2022
📝 Add Benchmark for all algorithms TBD
📝 Code Optimization TBD
📝 Release 0.4.0 TBD
📝 "Const" Code Review #155 TBD
📝 Release 0.5.0 TBD
📝 Official Site Release TBD
📝 Reduction of Code Issue of Static

GitHub logo ZigRazor / CXXMicroService

A C++ Library that give microservice framework ( Server / Client ) upon 0mq framework

CXXMicroService

A C++ Library that give microservice framework ( Server / Client )

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Introduction

CXXMicroService is a C++ library, that manages MicroServices, upon different Framework ( actually only 0mq is implemented).

We are Looking for...

We are looking for:

  • Site Developer for the development of the CXXMicroService site ( for the moment on GitHub Page );
  • Developers and Committers, also at first experience, we will guide you step by step to the open-source world!

If you are interested, please contact us at zigrazor@gmail.com or contribute to this project. We are waiting for you!

Roadmap

Completed Description Date of Completition
✔️ First Commit May 2, 2022
✔️ Introduce the basic Framework May 24, 2022
📝 Introduction of more complete Examples TBD
📝 Introduction of Orchestrator TBD
📝 Introduction of Unit Test Framework TBD
📝 Introduction of basic CI/CD TBD
📝 Advanced CI/CD TBD
📝 First Beta Release 0.0.1 TBD

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Multi Thread Library

MTL (Multi Threading Library)

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Multi Threading Library is a set of utilities, easy and ready to use for common task in multi threading environment and development.

Roadmap

  • Thread Class
  • Thread Manager
  • Thread Pool
  • Task Class
  • Ordered Task
  • Task Flow
  • Complete Documentation
  • Doxygen Integration
  • First Beta Release
  • Test Framework
  • CI/CD Pipeline
  • First Stable Release
  • Thread Monitoring
  • ...

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

Getting Started

This is an example of how you may give instructions on setting up your project locally To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

The following are required to get the project up and running.

Google Test

GoogleTest

git clone https://github.com/google/googletest.git  # Dowload the Google Test repository
cd googletest                                       # Main directory of the cloned repository.
mkdir -p build                                      # Create a directory to hold the build output.
cd build                                            # Move
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Python State Machine

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Introduction

PyStateMachine is a Framework that support state machines in Python

Requirements

  • Python3

How to Run

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Example

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Test Suite

Work in Progress

How to contribute GitHub contributors

Read the CONTRIBUTING GUIDE

Hacktoberfest

We are pleased to inform you that this repository is participating in the #Hacktoberfest!

Happy Coding!

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E-Mail : zigrazor@gmail.com

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Zain Ahmed

Starting a Micro-services backend using Node.js for learning purpose. so far i have done auth module.

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Eduard Pochtar 👨‍💻

Working on browser extension for devobserver.com

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poetaman • Edited

arttime: text art meets functionality of clock/timer on terminal. dev.to/reportaman/arttime-beauty-o...

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Sameer Charles

Thanks for creating this discussion!
I created a simple in-browser domain name lookup and name generator
idearamen.com/

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Vincent Lam

I have been doing a lot.

  1. Building a SaaS in public
  2. Doing a podcast
  3. A Monthly newsletter
  4. Building native groups on social media

You can check out my work on my website
heavyjab dot com

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Diretnan Domnan

GitHub logo deven96 / whatsticker

Converting from image/gif/videos on whatsapp to a sticker by using a caption in a chat where the bot is present

Whatsticker

whatsticker

A Whatsapp bot that turns pictures, small videos and gifs into stickers with the caption stickerize deven96

Chat with Whatsticker

Usage

Simple Requirements

If you are not interested in running a copy of the project then feel free to use the whatsticker number provided. You can also add it to group chats and it will work the exact same way. There might be occasional downtime but except it gets blocked it should be pretty reliable

Technical Requirements

Generating Credentials

  • Download Go modules

    # Downloads go modules
    go mod tidy
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  • Run go run main.go to show qr code for login on terminal

    Example QR Code

  • Link device as explained on WhatsApp FAQ

A folder db/ will be automatically created containing sqlite db with credentials. No need to login over and over except logged out on main device. You can copy this folder to target machine and it still works






Had a lot of fun playing with this over the last few weeks
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Dmytro Krasun • Edited

Hey, I am working on fast and reliable Screenshot API. The current challenge is to attract the first paying customer.

What are you up to, @ben?

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Kaushik Varanasi
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Bobby Iliev

Working on Tails v2!

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Matias D

I'm fixing some stuff on my side project:
devportfolios.net/

A platform where developers can upload their portfolio and get inspired by the others

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sitefast

sitefast.live/: Create websites without coding from Google Sheets data.