I got tired of building side projects that never get used by anyone, so I'm taking a market first approach.
If anyone is interested in reading about Nutritional density to find out what foods have the highest nutrient count per calorie, check out: https://kale.world
I read it top to bottom and found it super interesting. I appreciate the normalization factor!
I'm chuckling a bit though. "Nutrients per calorie" is a fantastic metric, but then I got to wondering... "How much spinach is necessary to reach 200 cal?" http://www.caloriegallery.com/foods/calories-in-spinach.htm suggests that it'd be 870g! Almost 2lb! That's a lot of spinach to eat.
So is the ultimate goal to be able to put together daily meal plans that ensure you hit all your micro requirements?
Yup, that's exactly right. I'd like to build a tool that puts together meal plans that help people meet their nutrition goals. But, I thought I'd build up an audience first, to see if there's interest.
Yes 2 LBS of spinach is a lot. At costco they sell those 2.5 lb bags and their pretty big. But, keep in mind, if you boil it down in a big pot, 1 lb of spinach isn't so insurmountable, as the spinach becomes really small: best of all it only takes a minute of cooking.
While it's very difficult at the moment to work on the app itself, I decided to just extract the search component to be reused elsewhere so I've started building Omnibar (https://github.com/vutran/omnibar).
Even though I know I should focus on my simple projects, what I can't wait to get back to is this on demand/ peer to peer "micro consulting" marketplace. I want to be able to get help in home maintenance, car repair, or any other real world query and get someone to show up and guide me through it via a video call. Even though we now have great diy websites and YouTube videos about just about everything, it's one directional. If you have a specific question or if your situation is slightly different, then you're in for hours of digging around, or giving up.
It's also fun to make use of new technologies I don't get to play with at work like webrtc,react native, node etc
I've been thinking about prototyping a Firebase clone that uses a relational database and SQL syntax. Instead of subscribing to "nodes" you would subscribe to queries. Anyone know if this exists already?
On the initial subscription, 'callback' would be called once for each row in 'tableA', then again when a row is inserted or updated. It would be the same as Firebase in this respect.
Not sure if it counts. I'm working on making public several hundreds (if not thousands) of photos of cell sites from around the world (but mostly in my home country of New Zealand). Using Caddy as a webserver. Pages will be in plain Markdown (which Caddy will render into HTML along with a reference to my homegrown CSS). Not sure yet where I'll host it but perhaps in a Hyper.io container or in a VPS I already have running for other sites. Photos will be hosted on Backblaze B2. Nice simple project that I've been putting off for years.
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I'm a professional software engineer, I do it enough day to day.
If anyone is interested in reading about Nutritional density to find out what foods have the highest nutrient count per calorie, check out: https://kale.world
I'm chuckling a bit though. "Nutrients per calorie" is a fantastic metric, but then I got to wondering... "How much spinach is necessary to reach 200 cal?" http://www.caloriegallery.com/foods/calories-in-spinach.htm suggests that it'd be 870g! Almost 2lb! That's a lot of spinach to eat.
So is the ultimate goal to be able to put together daily meal plans that ensure you hit all your micro requirements?
Yes 2 LBS of spinach is a lot. At costco they sell those 2.5 lb bags and their pretty big. But, keep in mind, if you boil it down in a big pot, 1 lb of spinach isn't so insurmountable, as the spinach becomes really small: best of all it only takes a minute of cooking.
For those interested, this is a JS/React project.
The app is an open-source version of Alfred built on top of Electron/React -- https://github.com/vutran/dext
While it's very difficult at the moment to work on the app itself, I decided to just extract the search component to be reused elsewhere so I've started building Omnibar (https://github.com/vutran/omnibar).
It's also fun to make use of new technologies I don't get to play with at work like webrtc,react native, node etc
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adone...
Then there's this write-up of someone replacing rethinkdb with postgres for live queries - (including a link to some code)
http://blog.sagemath.com/2017/02/09/rethinkdb-vs-postgres.ht...
Have you any plans already of how you will go about this?