What are you working on?

13    19 Jun 2015 09:08 by u/VoatSimulator

I thought it would be interesting to find out what everybody here is working on, and whether there's anything particularly interesting about your project. Projects can be hobbies, work, contracts, whatever - as long as they require some code!

I have been working on an Android app for browsing Voat (the new API is awesome) so that has been taking up lots of my spare time. And at the day-job I have been making an app that detects power cuts in your area and lets you message the electricity supplier, which has been an interesting foray into the weird and wonderful world of web sockets.

28 comments

7 u/fluffingtonthefifth 19 Jun 2015 10:10

I've just started to learn how to code. I won't be able to get a job as a lawyer, so I had to make a plan. I have about two hours of "programming" under my belt... Ahem.

1 u/examors 19 Jun 2015 11:50

Awesome! What language are you learning?

2 u/fluffingtonthefifth 19 Jun 2015 14:33

I'm currently doing a JavaScript course. It's supposedly 800 hours of theory, and 800 hours of practice. I hope I can get it done more quickly, so I can move onto other stuff ASAP. I'm already through 15% 20%! of the theory in one day. :) I'm sure it'll be much more difficult once I get past the basics...

1 u/vornth 19 Jun 2015 13:02

Great! Head on over to /v/learnprogramming, we need more contributors there!

0 u/fluffingtonthefifth 19 Jun 2015 14:22

Subscribed! I also made a request to take over moderation there, seeing as the mod's been gone for 11 months. :)

3 u/pkrumins 19 Jun 2015 14:25

I'm working on my startup Browserling. It's a browser in your browser! Just recently I launched Live API that lets you embed browsers in your own apps. There are a ton of things you can do with browsers. Super excite.

2 u/SpaceMonkey 19 Jun 2015 12:20

Boats for Voat + money making stuff

0 u/RaptorSixFour 19 Jun 2015 12:42

Good luck with that. Would love to have an app, instead of just using my browser from my phone.

2 u/SpaceMonkey 19 Jun 2015 12:44

It's already available

2 u/LetaBot 19 Jun 2015 13:34

I am working on my StarCraft bot for my Master thesis. It involves programming a bot with the Brood War API ( https://code.google.com/p/bwapi/ ).

0 u/NotSurvivingLife 19 Jun 2015 23:11

What sort of bot? Elaborate, please!

0 u/choikwa 20 Jun 2015 00:03

dragoon programming

1 u/trebach 19 Jun 2015 13:29

I'm working on an API test harness at work and the Worst sorting for Voat at home.

0 u/myrrlyn 19 Jun 2015 09:50

Subverse themes and learning the voat codebase so I can start contributing. I want to do a Windows app for voat at some point, or at least a library so I can interact with the API from the command line like I do with CSS uploads to reddit.

0 u/DreamkeepersFan 19 Jun 2015 10:21

Hmm I'm working on a CPA and CPP certification from C++ Institute.

On side project, I am also working on creating a new GUI Framework for C# on Mono, because I can't reliably work with GTK without causing the display manager to crash every time I try to change the design. I just go for X11 by creating manual P/Invoke and try to create a Metro Style GUI Framework. It is going to be a long project, but it seems necessary since as it stands, C# have no reliable GUI on linux.

0 u/fbWright 19 Jun 2015 11:59

I have been interested in P2P applications for a long time, and so I'm (trying) to write a simple, simple, (anonymous and secure) P2P application. I am still at the protocol writing phase.

0 u/NotSurvivingLife 19 Jun 2015 23:11

Simple. Anonymous. Secure. Pick one.

I wish you the best of luck disproving that!

0 u/fbWright 20 Jun 2015 00:05

Eeeeh I know. It's likely that I won't come up with anything of worth.

But still I should learn something. Maybe. I hope.

1 u/NotSurvivingLife 20 Jun 2015 00:25

That's more than enough!

0 u/ziko 19 Jun 2015 15:12

Im working on API keys or "scraping" to display statistics on my site (whoisthebest.info - vote for the best football player) so I don't have to type them manually every week or month. Shit is not easy :)

0 u/AFloatationDevice 19 Jun 2015 21:15

Mostly identity management related projects. Automated provisioning of user accounts/access, that kind of stuff. Most is done in Java, with some javascript and the occasional python, perl, powershell and bash scripts thrown in the mix. Oh and writing reports...I hate reports...but they pay the bills I guess.

0 u/moister 21 Jun 2015 21:05

After discovering std::future is a thing in C++ 11 I now have a desire to bang out a rehash of freenet that uses gnunet's r5n kademlia dht and uses bittorrent wire protocol (same reasoning as Tor uses for using tls lookalike).

Sometimes I wonder if there will be a day where darknets aren't a niche...

0 u/jordanary 22 Jun 2015 20:28

At home, I'm working on a Windows 10 universal app for Voat. Also have a multiplayer network game on the back burner written C++ that I revisit every few weeks and binge develop for a day or two.

At work, I'm working on an integration project to relay http messages to different endpoints, transform messages and transfer flat files.

0 u/gigantor 24 Jun 2015 21:02

I'm creating an online, multiplayer, turn-based(somewhat) dungeon crawler. The biggest focus of this game is that you can create your own campaigns and dungeons, then play them together with your friends or just spectate others playing your levels. The main inspiration being the 1989 board game HeroQuest.