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Side Project Sunday! What do you have going on?

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

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Dr SU

Published a tool that demonstrates the difference between px, em, and rem beyond their simplicity.

Lesson: em is better than rem for 3rd party stylesheets as it gives clients the most flexibility.

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Auroiah Morgan

awesome, never really knew that myself , Thanks!

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Dr SU

You're welcome Auroiah!

Same as I. Until I made that demo for an article I'm writing on the misconceptions of the 62.5% trick.

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shammisharma

woww goog job Toheeb. Good tool to know the difference in one shot. Kudos 👍🏻

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Dr SU

I'm glad it was helpful

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Victorio Berra

This is cool! Could you also show CSS snippets which update when you adjust the sliders?

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Dr SU

Thanks!

May I ask, what would you like to see: the code or values?

I assumed Devs could inspect for both, but sure that takes extra step.

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Dustin Brett • Edited

As always working on my desktop environment in the browser (daedalOS).

This week I focused on animated wallpapers and adding some features to Webamp such as playlist support and Butterchurn.

Did an article/video on the results recently if anyone is interested.

Recent learning would be finding an awesome streaming service in somafm.com which supports CORS.

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jzombie

I'm inspired by your project and think it's cool.

Have you thought about creating your own stream proxy for somafm?

I've thought about building a general service for these types of things.

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Dustin Brett

Thanks! I haven't looked into a proxy, but as it is now it works and it's mostly just a proof of concept.

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Hady Eslam

That's great man

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Dustin Brett

Thanks!

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Marius Bekk • Edited

Working on a tool to allow firefighters to log their missions. As I am a firefighter myself I have noticed a lack in tools where we can keep track of where we have been and what we did there.
I am looking to expand the tool with easy ways of keeping track of what gear you used, if you were exposed to toxic smoke and so on.

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Jean-Michel Plourde

I have always been curious about tools aimed at people with critical jobs such as firefighters, paramedics, etc. In your project, do you deal with very sensitive and critical information? And if so, do you take extra measure to ensure reliability and data integrity?

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Marius Bekk • Edited

Hi,
This is a real challenge yes, but I am trying to create an application without as much sensitive information as possible. I am for example taking the address from a callout and are using BING API to create a GPS zone and toss away the address. This way I am not having the address of an incident in my database, but I am still able to create heatmaps etc.

Other information is not that sensitive, it's information that could have been in the local news paper with some twists to it.
A user can check how many calls his of hers department have had, and that information is saved. But at the same time the same information is available by searching the news.
There is currently no extra measure to ensure reliability or data integrity, but the application is still also in early development mostly living on my Mac.

Hope that answers you questions.

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Carter Bryden

Working on a self hosted version of approximated.app for some of the larger customers that have been asking for it. Making it super portable and easy to setup has been a lot of fun. Gives me a reason to try some new things out!

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HiJoe

Bookmarked. What an awesome app.

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Randall

I'm going to give another sort-of lame answer. I upgraded the version of some libraries used by my Discord bot: github.com/mistval/kotoba I'm not doing a ton of work on it recently, but it's stable and I'm happy that it has a devoted user base.

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Ankush Thakur

Is cool! Nothing is lame. :-)

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Auroiah Morgan

dont short yourself that is not lame ! Nice work so far!

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Bertil Muth

I released the first version of Act, a library that enables you to create flat or hierarchical state machines. Right now, it's in Java, but a friend suggested to port it to Python in the future.
If you've got some time to spend, have a look/try it out and give me feedback, I appreciate it.

github.com/bertilmuth/act

I learned a lot about statemachines in the process of creating it. Including the history, starting at Moore/Mealy machines in the 1950s, through Harels statecharts in the '80s, up to the latest version of the UML in the 2010s. I think what I've created overcomes some of the weaknesses of these approaches, while trying to preserve as much of the good aspects as I could. If you want to know more about that, let me know.

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Christopher Wray

A while back I built a website for landscapers and retail nurseries to find wholesale nurseries, nurserypeople.com and am now at over $150/month in adsense income. 😀 Kind of thinking through how to make it better to get that income up past a thousand a month. Love any tips!

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Bobby Iliev

Working on Tails v2!

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Dương Đỗ

Awesome! Bookmarked.

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Jimmy Lipham

Working on a PR to cert-manager to allow people to specify AWS access key IDs using secrets.

Hopefully wrapping that up, then moving on to diagramming out my home k8s cluster build.

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Louis Couture ❤️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇳⚜️

I jumped and made the switch from mac to windows.

I have an application that helps me take notes at specific timestamps.

There used to be a web version, but I chose to make a native application,

Now I dusted up the old version that works nicely on windows as a PWA and added cool functionnalities like data persistence even as you close the app,

I use localStorage but am trying to make it use indexedDb instead.

Next weekend I will port my not 100% finished swiftui app for timing debates to ionic and capacitor. It is tedious, but the app will be what it should have been : cross platform

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Alin Pisica • Edited

Finishing my final year project - a solution for aspect based sentiment analysis for online reviews. Never thought that I could become fluent in LaTeX, and now I am starting to question my whole life and if I should give up Word and other text processors for this...

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Tóth Béla

LaTeX is such a beast, sometimes I wish I'd continue learning it more and maybe even abandon Word and it's alternatives!

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Alin Pisica

Exactly! At first, it was horrible, adding bunch of tags for inputing a simple image made me wonder "Who thought putting HTML on steroids for writing text?"... But over time, and lots of pages later, I've came to the conclusion that once you've got it going and you have a basic idea of what's going on, you can be more efficient in structuring documents than you could think.

Just keep going and you'll get there! You got it!

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

Building a tool to extract information about your Rails app using static analysis. Think all models (and their properties), controllers (with their methods), linking routes to controllers to ultimately build an intelligent autocomplete

github.com/faraazahmad/trains

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Tobias Nickel

an html app with a single button. i called it blipCounter.
just hit the button to count what ever you want to count, then see a few stats about the timing.

With the app you can count rotations of a machine, beats per minute in music, repititions in sport (to indidate if the athlet is getting slowly). a small little app, with unlimited usecases.

it is so small, I am not going to share it, just build it yourself 😉

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Daniel Marques • Edited

I've been started my side project on April 2022, the idea was started for only product landing page. Currently I'm building an web application for e-learning, maybe inspired in Udemy and others, but it has been challenging!

You can check it in here! EzLearn Client EzLearn Server

I separate the frontend and backend in branches, I'm not sure that it is a good practice, so if you can help me about it.

I'm thinking how can be useful if I start a thread in dev.to about my journey in this project. What do you think?

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Tóth Béla

I published a whole new entry to my PicoShorts series, where I cover PICO-8 games I found exploring the database! For those who don't know, PICO-8 is a fantasy console, trying to emulate oldschools constraints of the NES era, and probably my main game dev engine.