Hacker News: aidomi

New comment by aidomi in "Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?"

aidomi — Wed, 29 May 2024 04:19:31 +0000

Woodworking/Carpentry. As much as I like writing code and working in Product, it'd be nice to work on something tangible. It's so much easier to give someone a physical product that (for the most part) is 'done' when it's handed over, and there's also the knowledge base that remains mostly intact and isn't continuously iterated like it does in programming.

New comment by aidomi in "I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service"

aidomi — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 01:47:33 +0000

Does anyone know what happened to TinyProjects? I looked forwards to reading his updates and it looks like he stopped a while ago…

New comment by aidomi in "It's OK to abandon your side-project"

aidomi — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 08:59:10 +0000

Pretty sure he's using "Synthwave '84': https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobbOwen...

Making an osu keypad out of spite [video]

aidomi — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 11:51:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amLrU65DACw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234464

Points: 1

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New comment by aidomi in "Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker"

aidomi — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:59:25 +0000

It's cool watching someone I knew at uni build something that's useful for so many people, especially seeing him pop up on Hacker News from time to time!

New comment by aidomi in "Ask HN: Side Project Ideas that I can easily build using Python"

aidomi — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:15:06 +0000

Maybe start by looking at a small problem/time sink you're currently facing and build something around that? For example, I wrote a small script in Python to automatically scrape jobs in the past 24 hours when I was applying for a new role (It return the Company, Job Name, and Job Link).

New comment by aidomi in "Ask HN: How to come up with ideas for micro side projects?"

aidomi — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 08:24:27 +0000

I usually just pick a very small problem that I have and start building around that. For example, right now I spent too much time reading HN/Reddit and not enough time studying for an exam coming up, so I'm thinking about making a chrome extension that prompts me to answer a random question from a bank every few minutes otherwise it'll lock me out of whatever I'm reading.

Picking a simple stack (e.g Browser Extensions are underrated imo) also helps with building something small and quick.

Someone who I get a lot of inspiration from is https://tinyprojects.dev/. I've been reading his blog for quite a while and it's definitely kicked my brain into gear with small projects.

New comment by aidomi in "Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?"

aidomi — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:32:03 +0000

I'd rather not share it publicly just yet.

New comment by aidomi in "Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?"

aidomi — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:48:18 +0000

Happy to DM you the github repo if you'd like!

New comment by aidomi in "Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?"

aidomi — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:00:32 +0000

I created a simple browser extension to help me organise my links. It solves a problem I had where there was a middle ground between keeping a tab open to read later and saving something to my bookmarks.

It's under 200 lines of JS, not available on the Webstore and not complicated (or even well-written) at all, but it's a nice feeling to use a little piece of software I wrote that's purely customised to my specific use case(s).

New comment by aidomi in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"

aidomi — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:11:37 +0000

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I was a lurker for over ten years but recently made an account. I've always learnt something new from here, and not just related to computing. I owe a significant part of my career to some of the ideas that were sparked from reading links on HN over the years and I've grown fond of this site and the community that sustains it.

New comment by aidomi in "Ask HN: Why don't games allow you to automate some gameplay via programming?"

aidomi — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 03:48:31 +0000

Have you taken a look at https://leekwars.com/?

Still has a pretty active community, and the gameplay revolves around programming your 'Leek' to fight other leeks in a battle-bot type situation. The language you write the code in isn't python-like (it's called LeekScript), but it's easy to pick up.