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MОMyroslav Оpadelsensation.hashnode.dev15h ago · 2 min read

Shipping a tiny physics tool: lessons from a padel racket calculator

Side projects don't need to be big to be useful. Mine is a single page: a padel racket weight and balance calculator. You enter the racket's weight and balance point, add overgrips, a frame protector,

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AAlelongtermemory.hashnode.devSep 9 · 4 min read

The Case for Boring Tech: Why Over-Engineering Kills 90% of Side Projects

We’ve all been there. You get a spark of an idea for a new SaaS or tool on a Friday evening. You open up your editor, fire up a blank repository, and then spent the next 48 hours configuring: A multi

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YLYan Luninyanlunin.hashnode.devSep 9 · 3 min read

Multitasking Broke My Focus, So I Built a Free Offline-First Dual N-Back Trainer

AI made it possible for me to run more tasks in parallel, but I became worse at focusing on any one of them. Here is why the existing trainers did not work for me and what I decided to build myself. I

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DWDev WorkDirdevworkdir.hashnode.devAug 22 · 7 min read

My Memory Can't Keep Up With AI-Generated Projects. Here's Why I Built Something Better.

Six months ago, if you asked me how I managed my side projects, I'd have said "Finder folders." Notion? Too heavy. GitHub? Great for code, bad for remembering what's what. VS Code recent files? Only s

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MDMirna De Jesus Camberocodelikeawoman.comJul 21 · 8 min read

Your Web Side Project Doesn't Need Enterprise Infrastructure

As software engineers, the technologies we use every day inevitably shape how we think software should be built. They certainly shaped mine. At work, I'm constantly thinking about scalability, reliabi

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MPMomcilo Popovmomcilo.hashnode.devJul 17 · 3 min read

I convert videos to printed flipbooks for a living: here's how the pipeline works (FFmpeg print bind)

I spent years shipping software. Now part of my week is printing, binding, and shipping small books. In 2018 we built a side project that turned short videos into flipbooks. It sat idle for years. In

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Tthomwinconveyor.hashnode.devJul 14 · 2 min read

WinConveyoR

Hey, For the past year, my teammate and I have been building WinConveyoR, a cross-platform package manager for Windows and Linux. We didn't wrap existing tools, we designed every layer ourselves, from

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ЭСЭрдем Сонмезlootquery.hashnode.devJul 12 · 3 min read

Three infrastructure decisions I made building a gaming Q&A site alone

Decision 1: Server-render everything, because search engines are the users For a Q&A site, organic search isn’t a marketing channel — it is the product’s distribution. Nobody wakes up wanting to visit

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杨杨云杰zebratools.hashnode.devJul 6 · 7 min read

My Personality Quiz's Scoring Engine Is Just a Counter — the Real Design Lives in the Tie-Breaks

I recently shipped a fantasy personality quiz as a weekend static-site project — 15 story questions, three archetypes (Prince, Bandit, Mage), one vanilla JS file, no framework, no build step, no serve

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AAlexeypersonalfeed.hashnode.devJun 29 · 4 min read

Personal feed that @durov should have built a long time ago

IntroductionHi everyone! This is my first post, so I’d like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Alexey. I work at an IT company, but my job is not really related to software development. A couple

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Shipping a tiny physics tool: lessons from a padel racket calculator

The Case for Boring Tech: Why Over-Engineering Kills 90% of Side Projects

Multitasking Broke My Focus, So I Built a Free Offline-First Dual N-Back Trainer

My Memory Can't Keep Up With AI-Generated Projects. Here's Why I Built Something Better.

Your Web Side Project Doesn't Need Enterprise Infrastructure

I convert videos to printed flipbooks for a living: here's how the pipeline works (FFmpeg print bind)

WinConveyoR

Three infrastructure decisions I made building a gaming Q&A site alone

My Personality Quiz's Scoring Engine Is Just a Counter — the Real Design Lives in the Tie-Breaks

Personal feed that @durov should have built a long time ago