relm
normandy
relm | normandy | |
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44 | 6 | |
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7.0 | 0.0 | |
15 days ago | over 8 years ago | |
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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | - |
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relm
- Relm: A spatial platform for meeting, playing, and working
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
I built a spatial platform similar to gather.town called relm.us in 2021 (now MIT-licensed open source [1]) and was hired by an edtech company in 2023 because of the expertise I'd gained in overlaying audio/video for participants in the game world.
[1] https://github.com/relm-us/relm
normandy
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
Some years ago I was on a shitty job - not technically, but the company turned out to be inhumane - at a Ruby shop, and on the side I was toying with mini_racer and I just upgraded to some macOS beta where it failed to build. A shitty +1-1 hack† for a compiler flag later and it was back flying.
A month later I received a cold email from a CTO to chat a bit about that PR, turns out they were using mini_racer heavily and forked it for their own purpose, and also created PyMiniRacer for the Python side of things. Next thing I know I got hired. Two years later the company got acquired.
Of course conditionally adding a compiler flag wasn't what got me hired per se, it only got my profile noticed. Probably side projects such as porting go by example to Ruby by implementing a ~1:1 CSP channel API[1], an Electron desktop client for Mattermost basically on a dare[2], ex mode for the Atom editor so that I could have that frackin' `:w`[3], leveraging Blocks to bolt on object-oriented-ness onto C because "closures are a poor man's object"[4], or reverse-engineering the Xbox One USB gamepad and writing a kext to turn it into a HID device on macOS from scratch on a lonely 7+h train ride with passengers judgementally staring at me sideways[4] probably contributed to it a bit.
My takeaway: luck is when preparation meets opportunity; but don't to side projects to get hired, because if you don't get hired then that time is lost. Rather, of all things, scratch your itch, have fun, embrace whatever quirkiness you fancy; no one can take that away from you.
[0]: https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/commit/2086db1bbf2b5de4...
[1]: https://github.com/lloeki/normandy
[2]: https://github.com/lloeki/matterfront
[3]: https://github.com/lloeki/ex-mode
[4]: https://github.com/lloeki/cblocks-clobj/blob/master/main.c
[5]: https://github.com/lloeki/xbox_one_controller
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Ruby 3.0.0 Released
Do learn Ruby. You seem to answer your own question! You’re curious about it, worst case you’ll have opened your mind to something else which is only a good thing.
But do not be fooled by Rails, Ruby is quite something else, of which Rails is a very small, opinionated part.
Tips: look at MiniTest source code, Sinatra and Rack source code are quite interesting too.
Shameless plug, a couple of idiomatic Ruby repos of mine:
https://github.com/lloeki/normandy
https://github.com/lloeki/rebel
What are some alternatives?
frugally-deep - A lightweight header-only library for using Keras (TensorFlow) models in C++.
are-we-fast-yet - Are We Fast Yet? Comparing Language Implementations with Objects, Closures, and Arrays
debug - Debugging functionality for Ruby
mongo_orm - Mongo ORM: A simple ORM for using MongoDB with the crystal programming language, designed for use with Amber. Based loosely on Granite ORM. Supports Rails-esque models, associations and embedded documents.
PyCall.jl - Package to call Python functions from the Julia language
csharplang - The official repo for the design of the C# programming language
fast-ruby - :dash: Writing Fast Ruby :heart_eyes: -- Collect Common Ruby idioms.
Async Ruby - An awesome asynchronous event-driven reactor for Ruby.
gleam - ⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
slay
wintermoon - Wintermoon Framework
crystal - The Crystal Programming Language