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What are you working on this weekend?


Show us what you've been working on this weekend!


  👤 firedating Accepted Answer ✓
I've spent 9 hours coding firedating.me (my hobby project and community of people interested in FIRE (Financial Independence / Early Retirement) looking for friends and a partner).

Features: 1) Searching for multiple specific genders. Previously this was only 'one gender' or 'any'. However, often people want to search for 'one gender' + Non-Binary. Unfortunately, the code didn't support the new functionality well, so I had to refactor a lot (especially tests). Now it should be much easier to maintain though.

2) Searching by children preferences (whether their matches have and want children). This just reused logic from (1).

Overall, it is surprising how much complexity there can be in a dating site :)


👤 DataCrayon
I did some clean-up on Plotapi (https://plotapi.com) in preparation for the next data visualisation I introduce... it was mostly some improvements around caching and compression. REST Client plugin for VSCode has been useful for testing this!

Some users are making requests up to 20MB - so the next step will be to compress payloads on the sender side!


👤 sircastor
My Halloween haunt. We’re going to have singing pumpkins that light up according to syllables. We have 10 electric pumpkins that I still need to figure out how to waterproof (they’re plastic, but the shell isn’t water tight). I’m in the middle of sequencing “This is Halloween” from The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

👤 aaronchall
I have been trying to get emacs set up how I like it based on my prior experience with spacemacs, using the highest level config settings, with the goal of having the most powerful IDE and document generator I can get while writing as little elisp as possible (by using `M-x customize` and `M-x list-packages` only thus far).

I was very excited when, for the first time ever, late last night, I created a Haskell code block, did C-c, C-c, and got a hello world to show up!

I have never been able to get ob-haskell to work before, and I have been fighting it off and on for years, using the same tactics.


👤 mikewarot
Helping a friend troubleshoot a Rockwell-Collins KWM-2a SSB radio transceiver. High voltage, tubes, many, many factory revisions.

I've learned not to freak out when the magic smoke lets loose.

I've also learned how horrible Silver-Mica capacitors are. I invented a new troubleshooting technique to track them down. Any resistors in series with them and high voltage should have zero volts across them, if there's voltage across the resistor, there's current, and a leaky cap. You have to first pull out all the tubes, but leave B+ on.


👤 kirubakaran
Optimizing some SQL queries for https://histre.com/ Just managed to reduce the time taken by one query (run by a cron job for this feature: https://histre.com/features/share-hackernews-upvotes/) from 43s to less than 0.1s

👤 mrhichem
I've made minor GUI and perfs updates on my options screener tool. https://www.freeoptionscreener.com

next steps is adding some screener presets and then I will need to contact some options trading youtube gurus to try the tool looking for feedback.


👤 tmaly
Trying to get panels up for French style wall onlays.

Also trying to squeeze in time to write a script for my coding for kids series.


👤 margor
Writing article about and working on deploying k3s for my home server.

https://flicksfix.com/posts/k3s-for-home-server-the-easy-way...


👤 c_ris
I've been trying to find a good way of integrating a nice language selection dialogue for my website running Wordpress with WPML. Why? - Because if I let the website choose the default language, it doesn't seem to work for search engine crawlers.

👤 nassimsoftware
I just finished my Video Game Geoguesser : https://nassimsoftware.github.io/vggeoguesser

👤 DrNuke
Revising the 25th instalment (and the last one, finally!) of my booklet series, made of specialised literature reviews summaries for the general public. This one is about Fashion.

👤 akshaynathr
I am building a social network similar to linkedIn for artists as a hobby project. I don't have a demo yet. I hope to complete an MVP in couple of weeks.


👤 burntoutfire
Voxel engine for my voxel-based strategy game.

👤 visox
automention.com

Another side project of mine.

Can post comments on reddit in your name. Should bé better than Google Ads.


👤 _448
Reading about Object Algebra!