What side projects are you currently working on and how can others be of help? (Feb 15)
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So for my sins I am responsible for the lab environments at a Casino operator - numbers fluctuate but anything up to 14 labs, 700 virtual servers, 75 workstations and 40 slot machines - and all the infrastructure running Windows. Unfortunately our software vendor has no real clue wrt CI etc, all fixes are individual .dll's / config edits / SQL updates etc. So 6 months ago, myself, a server group guy and 2 dba's have taken it upon ourselves to automate ourselves out of the mess. Most of the heavy lifting being done in PowerShell running against vSphere / commvault. Using GIT to maintain dev / release and prod stable branches. Have managed to get from 70 days to build a new lab to 15 ;-)
Thankfully we have shown the value to management and they have made this process official now, I have been moved to the automation group and the plan for the next 6 months is to integrate all the pieces into Jenkins for CI into the labs.
Anyone working on automation Windows server builds from VMware templates, would love to compare notes!
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Currently working on:
1) JavascriptSnake.com - a simple snake game built with React Js. I'm a beginner at React so would love some feedback!
2) Wanderlust - this is still in the prototype stage. It's a tool to discover cheap flights. What differentiates this from other services like Google Flights, Kayak, etc, is that this is specifically made for people who don't have a destination in mind and want to go somewhere spontaneously. Therefore I try to include as much data as possible about the cities. This was originally using NomadList's API but they shut that down :( Feedback appreciated!
I'm working ricube.net, a personal search page which indexes only the url's you're interested in, based on your twitter or facebook activity. Also i've developed browser extensions(firefox&chrome) and a telegram bot for manual additions.
I'm working on a web app, when-to-reddit.herokuapp.com/
It helps redditors figure out the best time to post to a subreddit.
I'm thinking of expanding it to automatically post on a user's behalf.
Interesting project. Where are you pulling the data from?
Definitely add that auto post feature!
It's pretty basic, but I'm writing a simple React-based widget to easily allow people to search for and contact their Congressional representatives.
Check out the repo: GitHub link
Preview my current progress here: geoffdavis.info/react-find-rep
API may be fidgety for now, but planning on open-sourcing and packaging it up so it can be embedded easily.
I'm currently working on building a food API for my city that will allow all the local restaurants here to put their menus online instantly (for free) and also provide nutrition information to apps like MyFitnessPal.
I'm building the API 3 times: in WP-API, Rails, and Node. I'm then going to build a frontend with React, and then probably a content management tool with Angular. And then finally, a mobile app with React Native.
This is all for the sake of learning this year. That's why there are so many different technologies.
I will gladly take any advice!
I have a few things on the go but there are a couple that could do with a wider audience for testing.
The first one is erbmash; a standalone binary that takes an erb template and optionally a json / yaml file and parses / renders it. The primary motivation was for initializing container configuration but recently I found it helpful in reducing the boilerplate in creating an HTML slide deck with shower.js.
It could really do with some wider testing and feedback so if you like the sound of it, please have a look.
github.com/mikesimons/erbmash
The second one is a tool for folks stuck behind corporate proxies. They get in the way no end and are particularly problematic for laptops that get taken home / off site. Especially if you run VMs or docker on it (or even docker in VMs!). When you provision a VM inside the corporate network you need to set the proxies. Then, when you take the machine home the VM no longer has connectivity because it's trying to use the proxy.
Similarly, when you set HTTP(S)_PROXY env vars, cli tools always blindly use these. Rarely are the network rules so simple that ALL connections should go through the proxy so requests to some local machines fail.
I wrote a tool called pacyak that proxies proxies. I run it locally on my laptop and set all of my proxy settings to 127.0.0.1:8080. For VMs I use vagrant-proxyconf with VAGRANT_HTTP(S)_PROXY set to 10.0.2.2:8080. This allows VMs and docker to work inside or outside the corporate network without having to change their proxy settings.
When pacyak detects you're on the corporate network, it will use the PAC file provided by your company (most have one) to decide which proxy to use or not. This resolves the issue with CLI tools inappropriately using the proxy.
Again, it could really do with some wider testing and feedback so if this is a problem you have, please give it a shot and let me know how it works (or doesn't) for you.
github.com/mikesimons/pacyak
I'm mainly working on my own website, but I'm adding interesting features using latest browser stuff. I just added the experimental Web Share API to blog posts. I need to improve my service worker too.
I am working on a podcastmanager platform, all by myself backend in php e frontend in vuejs2, but no one seems to care (probably because I am terrible at marketing myself)
github.com/vikkio88/ascoota-web
github.com/vikkio88/ascoota-api
and the PoC: ascoota.surge.sh
Looks awesome so far! I personally use PocketCasts, so it'll be hard to get me away from that. But, keep going with it anyway.
oh thanks, I am not really a designer so I am basically working copying stuff around :D
I will take a look at that
Marketing is really the hard part. I feel like coding has almost become a commodity - but marketing requires some sort of secret sauce and there's no exact template you can duplicate for success.
to be honest with you I don't really mind, I am really enjoying to do that as one of my side project, and gave me a change to test on the field my new instruments that I coded, and new frameworks that I have been studying, like vuejs2.
Working on an open source lightweight eventing library using a MsSQL or MySQL database for storage. Reasons for using this library, instead of existing tools like RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc can be costs, simplicity (you only need a database) and support for so-called ordered delivery (per functional key) that relieves event consumers from handling ordering related issues themselves. You can find it here.
I'm also working on a rest-api that runs cross-platform and accompanying docker images.