🦞🌯 Lobster Roll

Worked on this at $dayjob, and we open sourced it yesterday. Initial driving requirements were: * Use as part of proof-of-concept testing with a 3rd party memcache proxy that speaks only the binary protocol * Work well with darner/kestral queues and nosql datastores (via proxies like couchbas...

After seeing the sublime plugin (https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter) and getting a little jealous I decided to write my own version for vim. Still in beta status, and sadly not async - but that's on the roadmap to being fixed.

I've already posted a story about a Python news aggregator I've built with Django: https://lobste.rs/s/bjfuar/news_aggregator_for_python_community Now, after the story hit the front page of Hacker News and I got positive reactions from the mentions in the "What are you doing this weekend" threa...

I hacked this together last night after trying a number of time-tracking/Pomodoro apps and realizing I disliked all of them and could just make one that fits my style. The goals for the tool are: _simplicity_, a _command-line interface_, and an optional plaint-text logging format that lends itself s...

So I've been working on a Lobsters iPhone app over the past day or so and I think I'm going to turn it into a full blown app. I've been working with jcs to get a basic JSON API going that I can build this on top of and we've already got a basic version working that lets you browse links on the front...

Check out my side project [https://domainregret.com/]. This is a marketplace for when you have domains you've been sitting on for a while that totally sounded like a good idea at 2am and you were a tad bit drunk but now you're not so certain. I'm trying to work out the kinks and get some feedback!

I was [asked to link](https://lobste.rs/s/pu55v6/ask_lobsters_what_are_you_working_on/comments/s4457f) when I finished my book project; printing took a couple weeks longer than expected. I'll write up a more technical blog post and leave a link as a comment here in a few days, but the high-level ver...

So, I made this. It's a readable feed reader that promotes interesting content based on articles you vote for. This is not a finished product, I'm trying this "release early" thing hoping to get some opinions. The timing seems right with Google Reader disappearing. Readable.cc is open-source (...

Still very alpha... developed during a Startup Weekend event.

I built this in order to satisfy a personal need, i.e. to find the cheapest place where to buy books from. There are quite a few competitors out there already, but none of them quite lived up to what I wanted.

I wrote this to solve an internal need at our company and decided to open source it. Hope you like it!

I got really tired of Jenkins UI so I made some improvements. Hope you like this!

This is useful for me - hope it's also useful for you, and I hope to add to it soon.

I hope you don't mind the cross-post from HN, but it was suggested I share this here (and yay I finally got an invite over here ;)). So, I spent the weekend hacking out a Chrome extension (which will live at https://github.com/extensionwatch/chrome later tonight) that will hopefully help reduce the...

Hi Lobsters, I built a tool to help you find a domain for your next project. When I search for a domain, I end up sharing my top picks with a couple of friends, then they start searching too, and they share back, and I end up with this log full of domain candidates that I end up parsing through a...

After inadvertently discovering some other HN readers living locally to me, outside of a city, I thought I'd try something to help surface more people like that. So: Hackers in the Shires (Editable Google Map) It's easy to find fellow startup hackers in cities - less easy when you live out of ...

I discussed how I was working on this on a couple of "What are you working on?" threads on Lobste.rs. We have an initial release and we're actively developing it in the open now. Already making quite a lot of good progress.

My co-founder taught herself web development using online courses and resources. This “Learning Path” outlines the resources she found most helpful, and lays them out in a sequence that a beginner should be able to follow. We realize this is *a* curriculum, not *the best* curriculum. We'd love yo...