Ask HN: Which personal projects got you hired?

• treebender

  1 28 0.6 Rust

  A HDPSG-inspired symbolic natural language parser written in Rust

• epanet-js

  4 74 5.6 TypeScript

  Model a water distribution network in JavaScript using the OWA-EPANET engine

  

  I created a handful of application around water engineering/modelling [1], plus an open source library to run the simulations in javascript [2].

  A water utility in Spain spun off a start up to create a similar web based water modelling application and they used my open source library.

  They approached me and I joined them and have been able to maintain the open source library as part of my role.

  [1] https://github.com/modelcreate/epanet-js#featured-apps

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• fast-sqlite3-inserts

  7 281 3.4 Rust

  Some bunch of test scripts to generate a SQLite DB with 1B rows in fastest possible way

• py-caskdb

  10 825 6.7 Python

  (educational) build your own disk based KV store

• gitarena

  4 39 9.4 Rust

  Software development platform with built-in vcs, issue tracking and code review

  GitArena - https://github.com/mellowagain/gitarena

  GitArena is a GitHub/Gitea/GitLab clone written in Async Rust using Tokio and Actix-Web on the backend and server-rendered HTML with htmx for interactivity.

  I commented on the "Who wants to be hired?" thread of this month with this being my main portfolio show-off project. It worked and I have gotten already 2 job offers now.

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