Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1152277

by dzlobin • 16 years ago

75 234 16 years ago

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What's everybody working on right now? I'll start:

I'm putting together a quick custom todo list app to organize my main project, because I'm not happy with the vanilla one in Basecamp.

What about you?

pg3• 16 years ago

Improving HN's performance. Voting is horribly expensive. That wasn't a problem originally but it's starting to become one now that there are so many users.

dzlobin4• 16 years ago

how many users are we up to?

pg3• 16 years ago

11492 accounts, many of them inactive of course. There are more users than that, because many users lurk for a while before creating accounts. We now get around 45k unique visitors on weekdays.

Timothee• 16 years ago

I feel like upvoting your comment because that sounds interesting and concerning everyone here, but I don't want to be part of the problem!

cubicle672• 16 years ago

You're not. You're helping him test his improvements

DanielBMarkham3• 16 years ago

Got an email from Microsoft -- I discovered a new bug in their F# compiler that breaks my startup app. I'm the first to find this fairly significant bug. I should be so proud.

So now I'm deciding how best to hack up my code to get around the bug.

Can't say I'm very happy about where I am, but I'll get it fixed soon enough.

It's very cool being on the cutting edge, as long as you don't bleed too much!

kolosy4• 16 years ago

ooh... what bug? and are you doing f# for web or just f#?

DanielBMarkham3• 16 years ago

I was going to blog about it tomorrow (never ruin a good chance to blog)

Basically for some reason F# barfs on large types, say types with 500 fields in them. I think the breaking point is 300 or so. There's also another bug that I'll save for the blog entry.

Microsoft was responsive as hell -- I had an email response within minutes and the engineer and I were emailing back and forth all afternoon. I was very impressed. The F# dev guys rock, even though I'm not happy at all with having a broken app.

tdupree• 16 years ago

Working on a new website for a client to help pay for the bootstrapping of my own startup. Getting to mess around with a custom mootools carousel with some nice UX stuff goin on.

jsonscripter• 16 years ago

I'm working on a Flash game using Flixel for a contest on Newgrounds. There haven't been many submissions so I'm basically just trying to get it done by the deadline :)

plinkplonk• 16 years ago

Reviewing the more esoteric Category Theory bits of Haskell.

A (commercial) Haskell + C project kicks off on March 4th.

I am looking forward to my first major project in Haskell but it will be hectic once it starts and I won't have too much time for lazing around or reading :-(.

Enjoying the last few days of peace :-)

ohwaitnvm• 16 years ago

I finished up a lexical analyzer I was writing in Ruby for a pascal variant we're using throughout the semester in my Compilers class. Now it's done and submitted, so time to relax and have a cup of tea before I start considering writing the parser.

amackera2• 16 years ago

This sounds like real fun! My compilers class was a joke, we made it as far as generating ASTs, then the semester ended. Laughable.

kbob• 16 years ago

Me too. Writing code to minimize DFAs. Personal project, though. Not a student any more.

chrisa• 16 years ago

Creating marketing brochures with html, so that I can use css to create a consistent feel across all of them. There's probably a much better way to do this, but I need them for next week.

To do it, I'm using webkit2png to make a png from the html page, and prawn to automatically put the png into a pdf. The whole thing is 6 lines of ruby (which uses python, then prawn), and it's working well so far, but I've had to fuss with the scaling so that it prints without pixelating.

awt2• 16 years ago

Adobe Fireworks might be a good tool for you.

sailormoon• 16 years ago

If we're going to be using Adobe apps, I would have thought InDesign would be more suitable.

mrfish• 16 years ago

Trying to catch up on way too much Elance work while watching the Olympics... oh and watching Lost that I missed the other day.

boyter• 16 years ago

Right now... adding some features to an internal application at work in C# (im at work).

Later tonight though, I should be preparing for my hiking trip tomorrow, and possibly working on some RSS indexing that someone I know wants for their website.

shib712• 16 years ago

A website for people to post latin texts, collaboratively annotate them with grammer information, and read both.

waterlesscloud2• 16 years ago

What's the site? I have a couple of latin grad student friends that would probably enjoy that.

shib712• 16 years ago

It's not in any state for public use yet. The UI is very buggy, and the annotation system doesn't support more than the latin equivalent of "See Spot Run".

MikeMacMan• 16 years ago

Drinking...

midnightmonster2• 16 years ago

...water.

hajrice• 16 years ago

lipton green tea

tcarnell4• 16 years ago

Spanish beer

marvin• 16 years ago

I'm trying to get laid, actually. And failing thus far :/

amackera2• 16 years ago

Studying for a Computer Architecture mid-term on Tuesday. I got to program a little bit of a RESTful API for a big school project earlier today though, so the day isn't a total loss.

jdminhbg• 16 years ago

Using CouchDB to set up various payment methods for a personal project. The schemaless stuff is great.

hikari17• 16 years ago

Trying to get the video done for our YC app. We're seriously bad at saying anything cool or interesting on camera... all we can do so far is laugh at each other. :)

icey2• 16 years ago

Give yourself a 15 minute deadline. Take whatever video is the best when 15 minutes are up.

nfnaaron2• 16 years ago

I'm working on initialization scripts for my VPS: automatically taking it from newborn to installed infrastructure and security settings.

And a glass of bourbon.

techiferous2• 16 years ago

Linode StackScripts?

nfnaaron2• 16 years ago

simpler, just # do this # do this # do this. On slice. May do something like StackScripts later.

njl• 16 years ago

Putting the finishing touches on the app I wrote this week, a co-founder finder.

I also got a Droid this afternoon, so I've been having a hard time avoiding the distracting shiny, shiny new toy.

tcarnell4• 16 years ago

cool - I bought the domain 'FounderStar.com' with the intention of building a site like this. but at the moment I'm too busy with other sites. If you're interested in the domain let me know - either way, I'd be happy to give input or try out anything you deploy...

vsync• 16 years ago

Make sure you test the voice quality when you speak into the microphone: https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/16215?start=630...

lotharbot• 16 years ago

Playing Starcraft with my wife, exploring a new tactic, inspired by the discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150669

And taking care of my 2-month-old.

lawrencegs3• 16 years ago

aw that's awesome. your baby must be asleep now :)

alanthonyc• 16 years ago

Deploying a tiny, tiny app onto a public server...

lawrencegs3• 16 years ago

not a virus, I hope

kolosy4• 16 years ago

the same thing we do every night, pinky... plotting to take over the world... this time with a shivaplug.

pasbesoin• 16 years ago

Maybe the upcoming revision will tip the balance. ;-)

oomkiller• 16 years ago

Trying to figure out how to query the UMLS metathesaurus's WebService (Soap 1.2) API using Ruby. Not having much luck :(

thaumaturgy• 16 years ago

Sleeping, I hope. I haven't slept a full night for a while.

G'night.

icey2• 16 years ago

Alternately learning twisted and writing software

awt2• 16 years ago

ZumoDrive.

lawrencegs3• 16 years ago

working on my future...

patio11• 16 years ago

Tonight? Nothing aside from routine email. I need a mental health day.

Saturday? Nothing aside from routine email. 10 hours of day job followed by going out with friends to karaoke.

Sunday: Church, gym, minimum viable achievement system in Rails (was supposed to happen last Sunday but I broke site -- scratch one work day), A/B tests incorporating it, deploy live, blog post about solo founderhood.

brandon• 16 years ago

Playing with bottle.py and Twilio

ConceptDog• 16 years ago

Finishing up a presentation for code show and tell at work tomorrow.

zackham• 16 years ago

Working on a JSON stream parser in AS3, reading data with flash.net.URLStream, for loading up GPS data progressively. The JSON for a ride like this (http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2000) is about 300k, and I think it will look much cooler if it draws as it downloads.

windsurfer• 16 years ago

This sounds very interesting. Will it be open source?

midnightmonster2• 16 years ago

Documentation. Or if my eyeballs start falling out from that, a mass mailing engine in PHP for use on commodity-type PHP hosting. (For non-evil purposes, I promise.)

brianr• 16 years ago

bug fixin'

zweinz• 16 years ago

Writing an iPhone app / webapp for givingturtle.org to release before SXSW. For that matter, for anyone looking for something worthwhile to spend a few hours on, let me know...

houseabsolute• 16 years ago

Trying to find a vt100 emulator for lisp . . . not working out so great. Or is it? I just remembered emacs had one . . . reading the source code now . . . god help me.

Todd• 16 years ago

Working on photo upload in a new web app I'm working on. It spawns ImageMagick to do the conversion into multiple photos of different sizes. I had doubts about this until I read that it's the technique Flickr uses.

wendroid2• 16 years ago

Here's something you might find interesting Gamma error in picture scaling http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

noodle• 16 years ago

getting over some kind of sickness (generic cold, perhaps, but it hit hard) and working on setting up my new 55g saltwater reef aquarium.

hooray hobbies

JeffJenkins• 16 years ago

Making my current project -- a hierarchical outliner -- support multiple documents and user accounts

oscardelben• 16 years ago

It's 6.16 am now, and yesterday night I went to bed early so I could work on my projects this morning. So far I've written a guest post for my blog (since 5 am) and I'll now work on the backend of a bog engine I wrote myself in rails. I'll probably do many other things before 9 am where I'll start my day-work.

pplante2• 16 years ago

I scratched an itch today while collecting research materials. I had trouble keeping track of all the pages I was referencing, quotes I liked, etc.

So I made an app and then open sourced it: http://github.com/pplante/yourcached.info

Not totally finished yet. Waiting on DNS to resolve so I can add FBConnect to it and spread the word.

I only spent 4 hours on this so far. So it wasn't a complete distraction from what I needed to do...not yet at least!

pplante2• 16 years ago

Oooops, forgot the screenshot: http://grab.by/2GVy

jonah• 16 years ago

Merging the code I wrote on the road last week with the main tree on the dev box.

sumeeta• 16 years ago

Beer.

dazzla• 16 years ago

Debating adding the deals from my iDealyzer iPhone/Android apps to the supporting website hoping it will help SEO.

benologist2• 16 years ago

I'm localising the latest Flash game I sold, I was fortunate enough to get a good price and a great buyer on it. It's a ton of work setting up their multilingual and branding requirements but I have to get it done tonight, I got bogged down on my little startup (http://www.swfstats.com/) all week and next week I'm off to San Francisco for the Flash Gaming Summit so that really only leaves today and worst case scenario some of tomorrow to get this sorted out. : )

This is my game: http://www.flashgamelicense.com/screenshots/ss_8ih6r76u9701....

11:23pm

benologist2• 16 years ago

2:30am and dare I say it .... progress!

_neil• 16 years ago

Just had dinner with my girlfriend. Now finishing up this months pro-bono work to clear my plate for next month.

abi3• 16 years ago

Working on my awesome blogging software. Here's the gorgeous coming soon page: http://www.heyreverie.com. Email me if you're frustrated with Wordpress, Tumblr, Posterous, etc. and I'd love to have you test my site before I make it public.

dannytatom• 16 years ago

I thought you were being sarcastic, but that is indeed gorgeous.

abi3• 16 years ago

Thank you! Took a lot of time and work. And the landing page is pure art, serves no purpose whatsoever. Still a lot of fun.

nitrogen• 16 years ago

Nice artwork on the landing page!

kylebragger2• 16 years ago

email you where? i'm interested in testing it out.

abi3• 16 years ago

abii @ stanford.edu

bmelton• 16 years ago

I have absolutely no idea what the app will look like, but that landing page is absolutely drop dead gorgeous.

Pistos22• 16 years ago

If for some reason you need a theme song: http://blog.purepistos.net/index.php/2009/03/18/debussy-reve... :)

yatrik• 16 years ago

Thanks for all the comments on the artwork :]

marltod• 16 years ago

MW2

paraschopra• 16 years ago

Working to get one step closer to nirvana :)

chadaustin• 16 years ago

Gutting ADODB from the IMVU website to eliminate pointless data conversions and several hundred microseconds from each cached query.

I love being able to refactor the database layer, relying on automated tests to prevent me from taking down the site.

samratjp• 16 years ago

writing a SGML parser for a search engine :-P

gipsygipsy• 16 years ago

Deployed a small app to appengine , to send voice messages via IM using twilio. Mainly to send my wife important messages without having to dial from work phone.

dangoldin• 16 years ago

Trying to learn Django by coding up a new project and working on an existing PHP site.

lambdom• 16 years ago

Studying IA for my exam tomorrow. Fortunately, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)" is a great book. (I said fortunately because I need to read half of it tonight - I`m half done).

dwwoelfel• 16 years ago

Drawing Feynman diagrams for my Modern Physics class. Here's the link to the assignment if you want to join in the fun: http://phys309.physics.tamu.edu/PA5.pdf

Thanks HN for the great timing on this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150224

devink• 16 years ago

I'm writing a Bit Error Rate simulator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_error_rate

dca• 16 years ago

TronBot

cullenking• 16 years ago

Finishing up final negotiations on a licensing deal for some of the mapping functionality on ridewithgps.com -- original lawyerspeak in the agreement had too stiff of a non-compete.

Also, put up an issues page for users to publicly register feature requests and bugs, and then comment and vote on them. The idea is that we get alot of duplicate feature requests and reports of errata that take alot of time to personally respond to. By letting users see something is already registered, they can just upvote it and we have one less person to directly contact.

pantsd• 16 years ago

I'm working on my "day" job. Ask this again on the weekend :p

jcmarquezh• 16 years ago

I am fixing JMathPlot exception so that we can use it for my graduation project (brazos.cs.tcu.edu) Those 3D graphics will look really good !!!

jbyers• 16 years ago

Aggregating http log data (request timing, custom fields) in redis. To be open-sourced.

robdor• 16 years ago

Hacking on a GitHub client for Palm's webOS.

http://robmerrell.github.com/gitopotamus/

frisco• 16 years ago

Working on a Clojure client for Facebook:

http://www.github.com/myfit/clj-facebook/

sulistyo• 16 years ago

starring at my phone

techiferous2• 16 years ago

Helping a friend start a business.

jashmenn• 16 years ago

Listening to jazz, hacking on an iPhone game.

mahmud• 16 years ago

SOAP, WS-BPEL, and supply-chain modeling in Common Lisp :-/

jcrocholl2• 16 years ago

My interactive search engine for short available domains: http://www.nxdom.com/

I'm working to bring the advanced weighted sort order back, but optional so that new users can play with the simple sort order until they understand what it does. Work in progress is here, and full source code: http://master.latest.scoretool.appspot.com/ http://github.com/jcrocholl/nxdom

My 2-year-old son doesn't want to go to sleep yet, so he's climbing around on me while I write this.

dzlobin4• 16 years ago

FWIW, On Ubuntu/Chrome, the 'find available domains, starts with and ends with' lines are all on top of each other.

jcrocholl2• 16 years ago

Thank you, I see what you mean. The headline wraps because the font is too wide on Ubuntu (in Firefox too), hope to fix it soon.

AlecM• 16 years ago

Very, very cool app. Nice job.

tcarnell4• 16 years ago

nxdom - awesome!

rozim• 16 years ago

MVP on GAE. Minimum Viable Product on Google App Engine.

ThinkWriteMute5• 16 years ago

That's so GAE.

megaduck• 16 years ago

I know you meant it as a joke, and it is indeed clever. However, usage of 'gay' as a pejorative is kind of offensive to some of us. Please be careful with your puns.

Edit: Seriously, guys, I'm trying to be as civil as possible here. What's with the downvotes?

jasongullickson• 16 years ago

Submitting our latest film to IMDB: http://2soc.net/americancafe

aboodman• 16 years ago

chrome extensions.... still.

Derferman4• 16 years ago

A Python compiler using Flex, Bison and C++.

meastham2• 16 years ago

Is this for CS164 at Berkeley? It sounds like the 164 project.

Derferman4• 16 years ago

Yep, Hilfinger is teaching the class this semester.

david9273• 16 years ago

Email me (or better yet, put some sort of contact in your profile). I'd like to talk to you about something.

Derferman4• 16 years ago

Contact info is now in my profile (via my website)

clusterfu_k• 16 years ago

are you gonna post the code on the web at any point?

Derferman4• 16 years ago

Probably not, simply because it is a project for a class.

waterlesscloud2• 16 years ago

Packing to drive from Los Angeles to San Jose tomorrow. Spending the weekend watching friends' movies at Cinequest film festival.

Also meeting with a friend in SJ about a facebook app idea we've been kicking around forever.

trevorturk• 16 years ago

Working on my web based jukebox project: http://github.com/trevorturk/kzak

I'm dropping Bundler support right now because it's still broken in so many ways ;(

ax0n• 16 years ago

I'm actually poring over the list of projects that I'd like to get done one of these days, seeing if there's anything I can get some traction on with just an hour or two of work. I should be sleeping. I have a job interview in 8 hours. Well, by "job interview" I mean I'm talking to yet another headhunter. Mostly to satisfy the unemployment benefit requirement that I meet with at least 3 companies per week. I really don't feel like doing mid-term contract work without benefits.

spoonyg• 16 years ago

trying to make my way to Brussels, stuck overnight in Chicago due to a maintenance issue followed by a domestic dispute followed by over the maximum time for the crew.

patrickgzill• 16 years ago

Starting an artisan-bread "sponge" which is a starter for the bread I hope to bake tomorrow (have started trying to teach myself to cook/bake). With cooking, you can pretty much cover yourself if you don't do something right; baking is much more of a "discipline"...

Hacker wise, thinking about ways to use Twitter and Facebook after listening to the recent Mixergy interview about it (Vanderchuyk? I think). I have a friend with a profitable site but it has stagnated and he has asked me to think about ways to improve it.

papa• 16 years ago

Filling out paperwork to commit to more bandwidth from our colocation facility as the monthly overages are getting high.

Guess you gotta spend money to make money :-|

cperciva• 16 years ago

Just spent 2 hours rehearsing the Verdi Requiem. Next up is probably looking at a FreeBSD Errata Notice.

aneesh• 16 years ago

Just got back from the YC meetup in Seattle!

dylanz• 16 years ago

Was running database migrations. I'm now rolling back.

farnsworth• 16 years ago

Writing a Python photomosaic generator, and an iPhone app for my university bus system (iPhone apps seem to be popular tonight).

jrockway• 16 years ago

I'm writing a local HTTP proxy that connects to a remote JAWs [1] server, so that users behind a proxy that blocks proxy requests can still get to an unfiltered Internet.

[1] http://github.com/jrockway/jaws

Entities that think they can censor the Internet amuse me.

damovisa• 16 years ago

Continuing to hack away at my Footy Tipping site... the start of the season is casting demonic shadows over my shoulder...

marcamillion• 16 years ago

Trying to deal with hotel issues that come up at the 11th hour of negotiations for my 'Rails 3 on the Beach' event I am hosting in Jamaica in August.

Things never go as planned...I know computers can be difficult to deal with some times, but people are even more unpredictable.

gradschool• 16 years ago

trying a programming puzzle on rosettacode http://rosettacode.org/wiki/24_game/Solve

stevoo• 16 years ago

Working on my online game. Hopefully it will be more in a playable condition soon enough !

andrewf• 16 years ago

I'm going to see if I can make zlib a little faster with some SSE intrinsics.

psawaya2• 16 years ago

Playing around with streaming video and Adobe Stratus, and contemplating making my own Chatroulette-like site.

Let me know how well it (doesn't) work: http://cam-mash.appspot.com/listen

minalecs• 16 years ago

working on a similar idea.. :) maybe we should collaborate

psawaya2• 16 years ago

Sounds interesting. Shoot me an e-mail with more about what you're working on?

dimarco• 16 years ago

I'm in the process of leaving my job to start my first company, so my time tonight is split between writing wiki articles for my soon-to-be-ex coworkers and creating a minimally viable product.

xnxn• 16 years ago

Hey, me too. It's my last day. It's way out of my comfort zone, but I realized if I don't take these risks now, I never will. I'm oscillating between excited and horrified.

Best of luck to you.

jkaljundi• 16 years ago

http://emp.ly/ - a job posting and sharing tool for hiring via social networks.

P.S. Don't forget: It's the last few days to apply 4 many startup incubators: http://shrt.st/cs7 (NYC Seedstart, Openfund, i/o ventures, Sproutbox, YC). Great chance to learn from best of the best. Also let me know if I have missed any from the list.

krikor• 16 years ago

Finishing up a few homework assignments then keep on teaching myself Lisp. I probably should learn a bit more LaTeX at the rate i'm inserting equations in Google docs though.

bch• 16 years ago

Just finished plugging memory leaks.

RevRal• 16 years ago

Learning to use Joomla.

ApolloRising• 16 years ago

Working on chapter two of a book I am writing on how to increase conversion

dangrossman• 16 years ago

Writing copy for webpages of a service that helps ecommerce sites with high chargeback rates reduce fraud.

akkartik2• 16 years ago

Copy for my current project: http://readwarp.com. I'm trying to come up with three short sentences for the front page to describe a) What it is, b) What it can do for you, c) What you should do next.

If you can figure out what it does, you tell me :)

snitko• 16 years ago

You should definitely make a <title> for the page

akkartik2• 16 years ago

Absolutely. I just added a title that updates with the stories. I've also added a (ugly) favicon so it's easy to distinguish from other tabs. Thanks for the suggestion.

char• 16 years ago

Tonight's projects included A/B testing, practicing piano, and making a delicious sausage pizza.

I'm currently considering jumping on the Feynman diagrams posted by dwwoelfel, because I kind of miss doing them.

gabea• 16 years ago

I am working on a fantasy sports business. To be specific, this evening of work had to do not with building features but with actually mending relationships busted up by good ole email miscommunication. My advice is to say what you have to say on the phone or in person. Leave emotional discussions off of paper/email.

Huppie• 16 years ago

I hope to finish the Rails Tutorial (http://www.railstutorial.org/) and then begin reading (and experimenting with) Agile Web Developing with Rails (http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-Rails-Programmer...).

DCoder• 16 years ago

Reverse engineering a C++ game and patching it. The usual thing fans do to fix their favourite broken games :)

nose• 16 years ago

Watching some cloudera videos. http://www.cloudera.com/videos

rms4• 16 years ago

Live jazz hip-hop at a local bar, no cover

jbm• 16 years ago

Building a hotel site. Fixing some irritating join statements when searching by station name (it's for Tokyo).

rdj• 16 years ago

My project: a "Foursquare meets Mafia Wars" game. You claim a real location, name it and defend it. Generate virtual currency over time and spend it on weapons. The code is complete and the family will be running some tests this weekend. Next, we will invite a few friends, get some feedback and figure out the next steps.

Mc_Big_G3• 16 years ago

Interesting. I had a flash of real violence breaking out over the game.

meastham2• 16 years ago

The serial interface for the MIPS microprocessor that I am going to be spending the rest of the semester implementing on an FPGA.

phaedrus• 16 years ago

Writing a distributed control system in Io for my robot I'll take to the Sparkfun UAV competition.

marze• 16 years ago

Patent office action response.

harisenbon• 16 years ago

Not yet night here, but I'm just finishing writing up a heat-mapping multi-user system for work.

I should also be working on 10 other programming projects that are due by april 1st, and 2 other personal projects as well, but don't seem to have the time nor inclination.

I think I want to go with MikeMacMan's suggestion and drink. =)

sketerpot3• 16 years ago

Winning National Novel Writing Month. I know that NaNoWriMo is in November, but I reserve the right to change February into another November in my personal timeline. I just have 618 words left. I've never written anything longer than about twenty pages before, and no fiction, so this was really a new and exciting experience for me. To my surprise, the book is actually pretty fun to read; I was expecting it to suck. I didn't know that any of this was even possible for me. This really has been an amazing month, and I look forward to doing it again when the official November comes around.

(On a more nerdy note, none of the existing word processors really felt right to me, so I'm using a text format of my own devising, a python script to convert it into TeX with the memoir document class, and emacs. And org-mode to handle the story notes. It's remarkably pleasant, and it was a fun way of procrastinating. Much like writing this post.)

sshumaker• 16 years ago

Try Scrivener. http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

sketerpot3• 16 years ago

I hear that Scrivener is good, but I don't always use a mac, and I'm a starving college student. I like having something free that I can use over SSH in a pinch.

recurser• 16 years ago

Good for you :) please post it when it's done. I got a chuckle out of the python/Tex thing - I was chatting with a friend recently about how we both want to start writing, but none of the writing apps feel right, if only there was a markdown-simple native mac app that would spit out latex, etc etc. We ended up agreeing we'd probably spend more time on the app than actually writing - kudos on doing both.

sketerpot3• 16 years ago

I think you're overestimating how long it would take to get something usable put together, if you're only trying to make it usable by you. It took me about one hour to write the python scripts, and another hour to learn the appropriate LaTeX document class, and then I just opened up Aquamacs and started typing.

(A nice advantage of this is that I programmed it to tell me how far I've gotten on my daily word goals. I don't know any word processor that does exactly this, and it's really handy.)

acl• 16 years ago

Creating fixture data for an old project with no test coverage.

savant• 16 years ago

Fixing stupidity, tagging plugins for the cakephp framework.

dzlobin4• 16 years ago

Seriosuly using cakephp? .......why?!

odajay• 16 years ago

Working on the new financial reporting requirements and preparing my financial courses startup.

lindelof• 16 years ago

A building thermal performance model written in Octave/MATLAB.

s3b• 16 years ago

playing around with android

natep• 16 years ago

This thread looks pretty crowded already, but I'll throw this in anyways.

I'm adding a few screenshots to my part of my team's presentation. We have a program review tomorrow (today).

My project: http://cusat.cornell.edu/violet/

siculars• 16 years ago

building riak on a couple ubuntu 9.10 virtual servers. checking mem usage n 32bit vs 64bit for a new project. riak > node.js > jquery.

dawson• 16 years ago

Preparing for admissions interview.

dacort• 16 years ago

Backing out the latest changes we spent the week building because it "wasn't right".

ashleyw• 16 years ago

Building a barebones game framework for HTML5 Canvas. Or at least, decoupling the reusable pieces of code from a game I've been building.

jdoliner• 16 years ago

A raytracer as part of a class project.

NickPollard• 16 years ago

Raytracers are fun. Tonight I'm hopefully going to start threading my (slow) real-time raytracer. I've never done threading before, and I'm very interested in seeing how the performance plays out, what strategy I should use to optimize cache usage and generally getting stuck in with what has always been an interesting topic to me.

menomnon• 16 years ago

As part of writing my first Thunderbird addon, started in the way I usually do by doing a demo. Setting up the parallel dev profile was a little tedious and is not explained in the documentation. I wanted to get actual messages into the dev version (because I'll need them) and ended up flying blind (but correctly) by simply copying the right files from out of the default profile into dev.

The exercise itself was very fast - which was nice. There were a number of places where one could go subtly wrong and I managed to miss them all and at the first pass. Which was even more encouraging.

Now I have to grit my teeth a bit and dig into the Thunderbird API to accomplish my real goal. What I do now know is the landscape.

david9273• 16 years ago

A better database.

zefhous• 16 years ago

Just made a little jQuery plugin:

http://github.com/zef/jquery_form_toggle

It makes it easy to show and hide elements based on the state of a checkbox, radio button, or select menu.

Demo: http://madebykiwi.com/files/jquery_form_toggle/

I'd be surprised if there isn't something like this out there already, but I couldn't find one.

If you have a suggestion for a better name, I'd be happy to hear it.

cubicle672• 16 years ago

chide? It's a real word, but also mix of checkbox and hide.

snikolov• 16 years ago

Signals and Systems problem set http://mit.edu/6.003/S10/www/handouts/hw3.pdf

Lazlo_Nibble• 16 years ago

Coverscans, coverscans, coverscans.

iamwil• 16 years ago

Working on getting data to be more easily imported for http://graphbug.com

kogir• 16 years ago

Real C# support for Thrift, consisting of WCF metadata providers and channels.

X-Istence• 16 years ago

Working on my Google AppEngine based website. I hope to launch by the end of this month.

pmjordan• 16 years ago

I was sleeping when this was posted, but now I'm working on a consulting project (embedding an existing game into OpenSocial and Facebook apps). Once I finish with that for the week, I'll carry on building the prototype for our SSD-based I/O caching driver. I'm hoping we can finally make that do something useful over the weekend.

mcxx• 16 years ago

A web interface for MongoDB.

Gertm• 16 years ago

Trying to get the hang of the Furnace webframework.

jparicka2• 16 years ago

Looking into memcache http://bit.ly/ceIa49 Beepl's (django) eating up 400MB of mem/apache process. :-(

jparicka2• 16 years ago

Btw, it worked - beepl's now fast like a rocketship!

cosmok• 16 years ago

Adding more polls into my photo poll page @ http://i-am-bored.in/polls/

cookiecaper• 16 years ago

The baby my wife had on Tuesday, I guess. We just got home.

Pistos22• 16 years ago

Congratulations. :)

splat• 16 years ago

Writing a lab report for my lab class. I'm using electron diffraction to measure the Planck constant.

tcarnell4• 16 years ago

NOW: Working to pay rent

TONIGHT: Adding graphical reporting into Femtoo.com (to view graphs of change history of trackers)...and then getting drunk.

epi0Bauqu• 16 years ago

Editing a new interview I did earlier in the evening with Steve Welch on getting traction. Hoping to upload and post it today.

chronomex• 16 years ago

I'm setting up a development environment to work on writing a FTP search engine tomorrow afternoon. It's a new laptop (new to me, Thinkpad T30), so it's not all perl'd up yet.

egor83• 16 years ago

Working on my word-learning application. Partly to learn Dutch (though the program can be reused for any pair of languages, with some features (irregular verb forms) making it more suitable for Germanic languages - Dutch, English, German etc), partly to get experience with C#.

Tichy• 16 years ago

Finishing touches on porting my chinese checkers game to Android. It is mostly an exercise in writing a HTML 5 app for Android, as I don't expect many people to be interested in chinese checkers. Then, start working on the next Android app.

Mc_Big_G3• 16 years ago

Working on a quickie startup using a domain name I've had since '03 which is foreverlist.com. It's a paid classified ads site where, for $5, you can list an ad with unlimited images that never expires and which you can change to anything at any time.

So, as an example, you have a classic car which just sits in your garage collecting dust. You're somewhat interested in selling it, but only for the right price, and definitely don't want to fuss with relisting the ad every 30 or 60 days like ebay, craigslist or kijiji. So, one day you sell the car and then want to sell your snowblower. Just change the listing.

Cheaper than ebay's fees by far, less hassle than CL or kijiji. The $5 keeps out the spammers and scammers. Yeah, I know, it's extremely saturated but like I said, it's a quickie.

Mc_Big_G3• 16 years ago

I'd love to hear the reasoning behind down-voting this. In a thread with 225 comments, only my post and one making a pun about gays is down-voted to 0. If you have something to say, say it. sheesh

catch404• 16 years ago

I was wondering the same thing

thenduks• 16 years ago

Been working on a new bug/ticket tracker for a while... Continuing to do so :)

kylebragger2• 16 years ago

I'm working on Forrst.

vault_• 16 years ago

Working on an experiment for my psychology class. It's fun because I made it a web application, and it's been a good chance to mess with Couchdb. (project is here(http://github.com/vault/Word-Superiority-Effect), it's pretty crappy currently)

abyssknight• 16 years ago

This Friday night, I'll be working on getting the Orlando Defcon Group together at Stardust Coffee and Video @ 7pm.

This will be the first time the group has convened since it was marked inactive in 2006.

wglb• 16 years ago

Working through pickaxe ruby, tinkering with lisp program to decode pcap files and explain packets/protocols, keeping an eye on the Cluster, figuring out xen.

rmanocha• 16 years ago

Learning Clojure (by reading Programming Clojure) - oh and trying to setup VimClojure and failing miserably (file detection is working, but everything else including syntax highlighting & indentation isn't).

gtani• 16 years ago

- ask on freenode #clojure, the guy who wrote vimClojure hangs out pretty frequently

- the suggested "least stress" alternatives are netBeans/enclojure or emacs via ELPA/swank-clojure

Semiapies2• 16 years ago

A designer friend and I will likely play with a redesign of some mutual friends' university club's website.

EDIT: And then I notice that this was posted yesterday. :)

headShrinker• 16 years ago

There is a merge lane right out my window in NY. Horns honk all day, due to narrowly missed disasters, and occationally theres some contact. Soooooo, I pointed a webcam out my window and created the http://WorstMergeLaneEver.com

ElllisD• 16 years ago

Searching my email / Paypal accounts for orphaned / unlogged receipts.

wendroid2• 16 years ago

Working on our backup path. I run some Limbo[1] code using Windows Scheduled Tasks. This copies the contents of My Documents and Desktop (or wherever) to a Venti[2] server running on Linux on the LAN. The storage arenas of that server are extracted in 500Mb chunks and encrypted, along with the scores for accessing them, using GPG[3]. These are then copied offsite, via the internet and bundled into DVD sized groups and burned to optical when appropriate. As Venti arenas are append only this is minimum transfer, secure backup. That's obviously just the Windows machiens that use Limbo. Unix likes have native clients. Our Venti store also contains data from other soruces such as the website and imap servers. Though it might make sense to separate them out, that's the decisions I'm working on as I go along.

I would also like to find an encryption method that uses fixed size chunks so I can upload only the appended data. That's something I need to look more into. I know they are around somewhere.

[1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ [2] http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/venti.html [3] http://www.gnupg.org/

jasonkester• 16 years ago

The Plan: Finish documenting the little i18n library for .NET that I built last week and release it open source.

The Reality: It's 95 degrees here in Cartagena and my fingers are sweating onto the keyboard. Cuba Libres sound like a much more viable option.

mgz• 16 years ago

Working on multiplayer Minesweeper, web-based: http://sweepminer.com

Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

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