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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

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This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?

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  1. andre
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    I'm working on an app that takes a Twitter handle and then creates a private list on your account whose members are the people the given handle are following. Effectively, this lets you browse...

    I'm working on an app that takes a Twitter handle and then creates a private list on your account whose members are the people the given handle are following. Effectively, this lets you browse Twitter from the perspective of another user.

    I find it useful for general discovery (e.g. who is John Carmack following?) and also to get political opinions from the other side - I don't directly follow many conservative pundits, but I do want to read opposing viewpoints.

    This is not a new idea - there's an open source library (twitter goggles) and there used to be a site (otherside.site) that provided this service, but I don't know of a current app that does this.

    7 votes
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    archwizard
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    Inspired by some of the posts I've seen on here in the last few days, I set up a Gemini capsule on my VPS. It took a little bit of effort to get the software built on my puny server, but I learned...

    Inspired by some of the posts I've seen on here in the last few days, I set up a Gemini capsule on my VPS.

    It took a little bit of effort to get the software built on my puny server, but I learned a lot about the proper way to build Docker images.

    I also did a little bit of writing for the site. It actually was nice writing without all the features and questions of a website, like "Should I use a site generator? What theme should I use?" I guess I might just be a sucker for the KISS philosophy.

    6 votes
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      jgb
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      Nice one! I think I had to build a cross-compiler on my PC so I could build the Gemini server for my Raspberry Pi :-) Care to share the URL?

      Nice one! I think I had to build a cross-compiler on my PC so I could build the Gemini server for my Raspberry Pi :-)

      Care to share the URL?

      3 votes
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        archwizard
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        That's super cool! ARM can be a little annoying to deal with. I'm at gemini://gemini.archwizard.xyz And if you have your server up and running, I'd appreciate your URL as well. :)

        That's super cool! ARM can be a little annoying to deal with.

        I'm at gemini://gemini.archwizard.xyz

        And if you have your server up and running, I'd appreciate your URL as well. :)

        3 votes
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          jgb
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          Looking good! My gemini page is at gemini://tokeniser.uk. Not much there at the moment but I keep meaning to put some more stuff up :-)

          Looking good!

          My gemini page is at gemini://tokeniser.uk. Not much there at the moment but I keep meaning to put some more stuff up :-)

          1 vote
          1. archwizard
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            Yours still looks pretty swell :) I'm also hosting with Agate, and it's been working pretty well so far.

            Yours still looks pretty swell :)

            I'm also hosting with Agate, and it's been working pretty well so far.

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  3. bonbon
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    I did a version 2 for gmcts! Biggest change is an api change to reduce garbage collection. For example, this package can now search through a game of chess twice as fast due to gc reductions!

    I did a version 2 for gmcts! Biggest change is an api change to reduce garbage collection. For example, this package can now search through a game of chess twice as fast due to gc reductions!

    1 vote