Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I've been working on a kind of strategy game called Fall of an Empire (https://fallofanempiregame.com), it's a bit like a mix between Crusader Kings, Total War, Mount and Blade type games (just the overworld, not the battles), but rather than expanding you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing.

It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems - you've got combat, resource management, settlement development, food managment, espionage, diplomacy etc - these all need to play together well. And then you've got to add in the storyline, graphics, marketing -but I think I'm making pretty good progress.

I'm still using Unreal Engine 4 because I started work on that version and I haven't needed to upgrade to 5 since it's been released. I've got a free prologue that I'm releasing on October 1, so now until then is a lot of polishing to make it work well.

Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill!

It works with 90% of the bikes/motor brands on the market, so I assumed that some people here might be interested, if they got a non-functional batteries but they still want to use their e-bike?

We believe that everybody should have control about stuff they own, and we should fight against planned obsolescence!

Here are a few videos about our founder on the battery itself, why we built it, and how to assemble it:

- What is the Gouach Battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsuW1NPkvNk

- Presentation of the pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLoCihE0eIA

- Presentation of the fireproof and waterproof casing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDJpt7RDbRM

Here are the juicy bits: https://docs.gouach.com

We'd love some feedback from the e-bike DIY builder community

Oh, and it's launching as a Kickstarter in September and there is an offer for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com/1 for a 25% discount on the battery!

You can follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gouach.batteries to get the latest news!

I am working alone on https://tree-of-knowledge.org

This is a hierarchical representation of any given piece of knowledge.

It starts with a tree root node that you specify (let's say Kung fu), then it branches out into multiples subcategories (techniques, styles, philosophy, weaponry, ect...) and then you can click on these subcategories to branch out even more into the graphical tree.

This is all generated on-the-fly with Claude 3.5. There is no limit to what knowledge you might explore.

The killer feature is that it is totally free and does not require to login. Just click the link and have fun. I'll keep it free like that, as long as I can.

I hope you like it guys because it is the best project that I have up my sleeve.

Enjoy!,

Pierre

I'm working on a web app that helps you discover books, movies, TV shows, video games, and songs that you'll like. The app makes it super easy to describe what you're looking for and then gives you a unique set of 10 suggestions on each run.

It's the first solo project I've done in many years and I'm having a great time learning. I've also been able to get some great recommendations for myself and it's fun to use!

https://www.yogurrt.com/

I’m working on a collaborative ebook reading app. The idea is that you can create a reading group, invite people and then share comments and highlights and see each other’s reading progress.

It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while, for example to read a book with a group of friends or with a work team, but there’s lots of other possibilities including author reading parties, proofing and education. Got the basics of it working now, need to polish the UI and add the commenting and highlighting features.

I’m using Next.js and Supabase, neither of which I’ve used before so it’s been a fun but often frustrating process. Claude has been an amazing assistance, fixing my mistakes and countless type errors.

https://bauble.studio/ is a lisp-based procedural 3D art playground that I hacked together a while ago. It's fun to play with, but it's a very limiting tool: you can do a lot to compose signed distance functions, but there's no way to control the rendering or do anything "custom" that the tool doesn't explicitly allow.

So lately I've been working on a "v2" that exposes a full superset of GLSL, so you can write arbitrary shaders -- even foregoing SDFs altogether -- in a high-level lisp language. The core "default" raymarcher is still there, but you can choose to ignore it and implement, say, volumetric rendering, while still using the provided SDF combinators if you want.

The new implementation is much more general and flexible, and it now supports things like 2D extrusions, mesh export for 3D printing, user-defined procedural noise functions... anything you can do in Shadertoy, you can now do in Bauble. One upcoming feature that I'm very excited about is custom uniforms and embedding in other webpages -- so you can write a blog post with interactive 3D visualizations, for example.

(Also as a fun coincidence: my first cast bronze Bauble arrived today! https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1827461714524434883)

The recent relicensing of Redis to a non-open-source license bothered many in the community. But the groundwork for the relicensing was laid much earlier. I've been working on relicensing monitor to track various projects attributes that can affect the ease of relicensing a project.

https://alexsci.com/relicensing-monitor/

Making fingerboards. Little skateboards you can do tricks with. I'm always fingerboarding at work when I take a break from programming.

It's a ton of fun, especially writing Fusion 360 scripts to do all the parametric modeling of decks and molds. Then 3D printing molds with different parameters, pressing decks with veneer, making art for the decks, packaging, etc. It's an incredibly niche hobby but I've always found fingerboarding and making fingerboards to be infinitely creative.

Officially retired. Managing the money I saved to retire on, which is more time-consuming and stressful than expected. Working on yet another static site generator but stymied by my terrible Git/GitHub skills. Studying historical Western secular music. Jazz guitar too.

Working on:

- Analyzing grocery pricing patterns for 7 Canadian grocers. I took care of the data acquisition. Now it is time to speak with economists / data analysts who can make sense of it. Are you interested? Please get in touch!

- Gathering and archiving all graphical material from the "Printers International Specimen Exchange". The gathering is done, now working on a writeup.

- ... various side quests from the above. Incl. a tutorial on making mobile-friendly imagemaps

I'm writing a book. A novel. By hand (this is, no AI involved, just me and vim).

Sometimes I feel I'm loosing the time, because nowadays there is a lot of AI generated content and even more competence in self-published books.

After a long walk against myself, of about 10 months, it's nearly finished (in my native language, Spanish). It still needs a few more reviews and retouching.

I got recently unemployed after +20 years as Linux sysadmin, and my wife is now unemployed too (after +20 years in HHRR), fortunately we have still a few savings.

I dream that it will (economically) work, but most of the time I intuit there will be less than a few sales from family and friends.

Depending on how it goes, I've already the script for the second and third parts.

In parallel I'm researching different ways to generate cash flow without working for another person. I would like to avoid going to search for a job in the current market of cloud, docker and kubernetes, as I'm more a hardware/colocation guy, and 99,9% of job offers request for docker/kubernetes.

I have this creative writing website where writing friends can write branching fiction novels together. Sorta like choose-your-own-adventure, but more literary - third person past tense, actual characters and narrative arcs. Configurable number of choices at the bottom of every chapter, and as you're reading, if the choice label doesn't link to a chapter yet, you can write it. It's been floating around since 1996 or so, so my big project lately has been upgrading it. v1 was perl and gdmb files. v2 was php and codeigniter, and it's been limping along there for several years. When ChatGPT came out, I rewrote the whole thing for scala/play and that was super fun. Moved from ubuntu14 to ubuntu20, mysql5.5 to 8.0, etc. I'm done with the rewrite now but am still messing around with launching it, upgrading to ubuntu22 (done today), figuring out if I want to update jvm/scala/play before launching, etc. All this for only a group of six writers (so far)! But collectively we've written more than 425 chapters across a handful of stories, 450,000 words, and had a lot of laughs. I even wrote a snazzy graph visualization thing that animates the structure of the story maps. After I finish launching the thing on hardware/software that actually isn't EOL, I might open up membership to others.

Working on a convoluted app devoted choosing a baby name for your new child... but the underlying library is open source, based on public domain data:

https://github.com/jonroig/usBabyNames.js

We're engineers, we want to make data-driven decisions about what we name our children. My app won't necessarily help you choose a name, per se, but it can assist in eliminating a lot of possible names, giving you a much smaller set of choose from, each of which you can research more. So... like filter by name origin, length, popularity, etc..

I am building an Excel extension that lets me use LLMs in formulas. For example, I can write =PROMPT(A1:E1, "Extract keywords") in a cell to extract keywords from a row and drag the cell to apply the prompt to many other rows. I find this useful when I want to use AI for repetitive tasks that would normally require copy-pasting data in and out of a chat window many times.

I actually built it for my girlfriend who was writing a systematic review paper. She had to compare 7.500 papers against inclusion and exclusion criterias. She obviously did this manually because she cares about scientific integrity, but it sparked the idea to make an AI tool to automate repetitive tasks for people like her who would rather avoid programming. Now I just find it useful myself for a lot of ad-hoc analysis tasks like prompt engineering, rag tuning, and comparing model outputs from anthropic, openai, and google.

Still slacking before I decide to work on that character controller for my minimalist, low-poly counter strike clone, with Godot.

I properly animated a model with blender, and am able to move the parts I want accordingly. It was not easy but I made it.

I also managed to implement the recoil algorithm I want.

I modeled guns.

I will probably struggle to implement server reconciliation to mitigate lag, I found 2 modules that does it, one in C++, one in gdscript.

Obviously the gdscript one is slower, but it's hard to know how much slower, since obviously a game like counter strike is very fast paced.

I also want to implement a panini/wide angle camera, also found a module for it.

Moving slow with bad mental health and anxiety, but having fun.

I’ve been working on Don’t Double Book Me (https://dontdoublebookme.com) the past few weeks out of frustration with keeping my personal and work Google Calendars in sync.

Previously used Reclaim but found $10 a month to keep 2 calendars in sync was excessive and the software was increasingly becoming more team oriented, no longer for individuals. Felt like I was paying for a product and also the product. I just needed to keep 2 calendars in sync, not smart meetings, analytics, integrations, etc. ideally I set it up and forget about it.

I really needed a way to sync my calendars privately, without all the extras. Now that Dropbox has purchased Reclaim, it's even more important I feel like my calendars are not spied on. I knew I could provide a similar service.

Here’s what makes me excited about it as a user:

Affordable: Just $20/year with a 7-day free trial. Cancel at any time for a pro-rated refund.

Privacy First: No need to store events on a servers enabling unlimited calendar syncs.

Working Hours: Adaptive feature that adjusts if an event falls outside your specified working hours.

Round Event Times: Opt to round event start and end times to the nearest 15 or 30 minutes for cleaner scheduling.

Invitations: Block time between calendars when you receive a meeting invitation that you haven't responded to yet. Decline it? The time block on your other calendar is removed.

My plan is to keep it small and focused, while also listening to user feedback for how you'd like to manage your personal and work calendars more efficiently.

Thanks for checking out my new project.

I noticed my 2.5 year old niece likes zooming into photos of bugs on her mom's phone. I'm making her a little "game" where she can flip over rocks and find different bugs and other weird surprises.

I am working on a git merge conflict resolution tool. If this is a problem you have, feel free to shot me an email. Still very early stages.

I'm working on FreeInChicago, a site for finding all the free activities to do in the city.

I love Chicago and the incredible wealth of free festivals, museums, public art, music, parks, workshops, and so many more activities available to appreciate. I've found there isn't a good way to discover them though so I'm building the tool that I've always wanted. Right now I have a landing page up, have done some work on sourcing data, and I'm working towards defining a discovery interface.

https://freeinchicago.com/

We are building a hybrid aircraft to connect cities with high speed door-to-door transportation, without train/airport infrastructure.

It’s a powered 55-seater auto gyro - an electric helicopter during take-off and landing and a conventional turboprop regional “plane” during flight. We are at a “works on paper, let’s start prototyping” phase: basic assumptions are verified by people from industry, a development plan is in place.

My co-founder is an experienced high-power electric propulsion engineer and he’s currently developing our power train. I am in charge of the business/operations/relationships side. We are currently looking for a third co-founder to lead aircraft design.

I'm a Flutter developer starting to be a bit disappointed in the tech (and the community) and sceptical if it can really produce great apps, so I'm thinking about switching to something new in the coming years.

I decided to build a multiplatform app with SwiftUI to test out the waters. So far, learning SwiftUI and building an app is somehow both easier and harder than expected, but I'm glad to see something new.

I'm planning to write a series of apps in the next 6 months, so that I build confidence shipping apps with SwiftUI and maybe find a smaller contract with it.

Working on a game that parents of young gamers can play together without the child being frustrated or the parent being bored :)

https://langcss.com/demo, recent show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41318284

This is essentially an IDE with LLM support to help design CSS and HTML. Currently Tailwind only but I may add other frameworks and Vanilla support.

I'm scratching an itch. I'm a huge fan of system monitoring and alerting when they go down. It allows the engineers in charge of the production systems to sleep well knowing that things are working.

There's a gap for email monitoring. How many times did you have to awkwardly explain why the notification emails in your app stopped sending a month ago? Or that time when the weekly summary report did no go out on Friday, and on Monday you were chewed out by the boss? Or when Jerry went on vacation and neglected to send the weekly marketing campaign email.With

[I'm building https://wasitsent.com - you get an alert when your emails *stop* sending. It's like an uptime monitor for email sending. If something breaks your email sending process, we'll let you know.

If you would like to see such a service, or have feedback (positive AND negative) about it, please let me know. If you heard of other companies offering something like this, I'd love to know as well.

I just (like today) started working on an open-source, self-hosted, e2e encrypted, and free password manager.

I’m writing the backend in Go, with a standard API layer to allow custom frontends. I will also be building “official” frontends for mobile apps, desktop apps, and browser extensions.

The main reason I’m doing this is because I don’t like the UI of other self-hosted password managers, and I hate relying on the security of cloud options.

Seeing as I just started work on it today, I don’t have much (not even a real name). If you want to follow along, heres the Github, https://github.com/dickeyy/passwords

My goal for this project is to provide teams and individuals with the ability to secure their passwords while also providing a clean and elegant experience.

LMK what you think!

Unsurprisingly, I don’t see many hardware projects here.

If anyone’s looking to share their story, I’d recommend IndieHackers, but for hardware-focused startups/projects, check out howtoware.co. (I’m not affiliated with the site’s owner in any way, but I really like the concept and want to help spread the word to my fellow hardwarers).

I haven't been working on much at all lately, struggling from bore-out at work. 8 hours of boredom a day is surprisingly exhausting, and it's spilling over into the rest of my life. Starting a new gig next month, hopefully things will pick up again.

I've been taking a (mental) break from programming and doing a lot more climbing, getting back into my body. After twenty years of boulder/sport/trad/big wall I've drifted into the dark art of rope solo. It's an wild way to climb that really appeals to my engineering brain - lots of deep knowledge about gear and the mountain intertwined with various logistical puzzles. Very rewarding when it works. The latest mission has been optimising my system a lot to start tackling bigger stuff.

I'm working on a paid Ruby gem for bespoke Stripe subscription integrations. It cuts down integration time from +6 months to less than a day, and handles many Stripe API pitfalls.

Stripe has a "developer friendly" and "easy to use" reputation. But, since 2019 the EU regulation has stepped in and made things more complex with 2nd factor authentication for payments (3DS/SCA). This made payment integrations way more complex. Integrating Stripe subscriptions now easily takes 6 man-months (I'm being very optimistic here).

Also, there are some basic scenarios that are hard to get right:

- Creating a paid subscription and ensure a customer always has a card on file (this one is almost impossible). - Upgrading a free ($0) plan to a paid one. - Upgrading paid plans, eg $10 to $100/month and ensuring immediate payment. - Guarantee customer Tax location, keep the flow simple.

I made a video analyzing Stripe integration of a successful SaaS company (+$100M valuation). I first paid $30, then upgraded to their highest $2000/month plan - for free!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXp7V4nanU

The gem I'm working on is intended to be used with Ruby on Rails apps. It covers all the above mentioned hard cases, and irons out many more Stripe API kinks. And yes, it handles the basic-but-impossible "ensure customer always has card on file if they start paid subscription".

After buying the gem you can hand-off the task to the junior developer (it's that simple). They follow the integration tutorial: follow the steps for Stripe dashboard config, do the local env config, done.

The product (Ruby gem itself) is ready. I'm now working on the web app, tutorials etc. If anyone wants an early, guided access, please email me - contact is in the profile.

We’re building an off the shelf software and ECU that allows you to convert anything to EV (classics and low volume OEMs) with enough tweakable knobs to suit every application.

There are some players in this space already, but we have repurposed some OEM grade hardware that we usually reserve for the big players and so we can offer differentiating features such as DC fast charging, bidirectional/V2X, and things like this to the retrofit market.

B2B to start with.

I've mentioned my project a few times around HN, but might as well reiterate :)

I took some time off from work to teach myself Rust and to build a WASM colony simulation game. You've got a colony of ants, they're in a cold, foggy crater, and you help them grow and survive. The simulation runs 24/7, like a Tamagotchi, but a bit more complex, like a simplified RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. I am hoping to design game play systems which focus on mental health, self-care, addiction, motivation, and personal growth and to use the gameplay as a means of encouraging awareness in the player.

https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants

I haven't added any features in a while, unfortunately, but it's on my mind. For a while I was just adding whatever popped into my head, as a means of learning Rust, and I naively thought the full idea would crystallize with time, but it hasn't. So, I'm trying to take a step back and figure out how to actually make a coherent game that does justice to the mechanics I want to see in my simulation. I've spent a lot of time thinking rather than coding, but I'm optimistic that I'll get through this phase sooner or later. I will admit, though, that trying to take a novel approach with game design is overwhelming at times. That's okay, though! I'm enjoying the process of tinkering with the project and will likely continue tinkering on it for many years to come as a creative outlet for self-actualization.

I have been working on porting concepts of the Windows 10/11 taskbar, tray, and window management, to macos. With emphasis on simplicity, speed, and function inspired by Linux Mint MATE.

It has been a wild ride. Often frustrating but rewarding. Some days I may spend 10 hours solving an API for which app is frontmost at a given second. Sure, there's a system API for that, but it doesn't even remotely cover edge cases that exist. And many times with no answers out there on how to do something, it feels like I'm the first, so finally solving it is a great endorphin rush.

Part of the complexity is I wanted the app to be completely pluggable, kind of like Obsidian. The app communicates events to a local socket server in full duplex, which enables cross-plugin communication (but also cross-app!). Plugins access the app's JavaScript system bridge API for pubsub and system calls through a Webkit interface. Edits are hot reloaded and instant, no compile time necessary. The first time I could change my "Start" menu in real time through JavaScript/CSS was quite a feeling.

Sadly, I couldn't leverage existing tools like Tauri or Electron. They don't have adequate system bridge APIs available, and would be more work to leverage instead of less. They are too general, whereas this project only builds to macos. Therefore it can be much more complicated (and useful) by design.

I originally set out to be more productive in macos. But I've also spent time making prototypes for fun. A desktop widget system, real-time system color theme set from Spotify album art, live video desktop backgrounds from Twitch/YT, a Destiny 2 macos system theme, etc.

I plan to open source it and build a community around it one day.

I am creating custom hardware for my own SaaS. So far I've designed a custom 3D printed case and wrote early version of firmware.

It feels great to create something physical after over 10 years of working on CRUD web apps.

My work is open source and available at https://github.com/ziolko/eink-calendar-display.

I made this bookmarklet, which will speak highlighted text in the browser regardless of platform. It also makes the initial letters of each word bold. This is the code:

javascript:void function(){ javascript:(function(){ var selection = window.getSelection().toString(); if (!selection) { alert("Please select some text on the page."); return; } var encodedSelection = document.createElement("div"); encodedSelection.textContent = selection; var processedContent = encodedSelection.innerHTML.replace(/\n/g, " <br></br> "); var words = processedContent.split(" "); var formattedText = ""; var speechContent = ""; for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { var word = words[i]; var chunkSize = Math.floor(word.length / 3) + 1; var boldPart = "<span style='font-weight:bolder'>" + word.substring(0, chunkSize) + "</span>"; var lightPart = "<span style='font-weight:lighter'>" + word.substring(chunkSize, word.length) + "</span>"; var formattedWord = boldPart + lightPart; if (word.endsWith(".")) { formattedWord += "<span style='color:red'> *</span>"; } formattedText += formattedWord + " "; speechContent += word + " "; } var newWindow = window.open("", "_blank"); newWindow.document.write("<html><head><title>Spoken Content</title></head><body><input type='range' min='0.1' max='10' value='1' step='0.1' id='rate-slider'><p id='content' style='background-color:#EDD1B0;font-size:40;line-height:200%25;font-family:Arial'>"%20+%20formattedText%20+%20"</p></body></html>");%20var%20rateSlider%20=%20newWindow.document.getElementById("rate-slider");%20var%20utterance%20=%20new%20SpeechSynthesisUtterance(speechContent);%20rateSlider.addEventListener("input",%20function()%20{%20utterance.rate%20=%20rateSlider.value;%20window.speechSynthesis.cancel();%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%20});%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%20})();}();

Also: https://pastebin.com/zuRVpiVh

I am still working on https://textsniper.app

I am building what I like to call PAI. Personal AI that ingests all your online information into a knowledge graph and is connected to your tools, all running locally. Will eventually build an off the shelf consumer device capable of running all this locally.

You can talk to it over a e2e encrypted reverse proxy (using Signals double ratchet protocol) so you can access it on the go safely and privately.

Just last week I started hacking on a k8s operator for managing postgres roles, grants and databases. I really like the continuous reconciliation for this scenario, especially having previously worked at places that managed this with shell scripts or terraform.

I'm a tech exec who misses their physics roots. In my spare time I'm interviewing "materials manufacturers" to come up with a viable startup idea. I'm hoping to build a company that leverages simulation and ML to accelerate material discovery.

Keeping key bits of the idea to myself. If this admittedly vague idea excites you let's find some time to talk.

I’m working on a test integration tool. You write your tests declaratively using YAML (ie. setup the environment, databases, etc., load fixtures, make api calls or db calls, and check assertions), so it’s completely language agnostic, which makes it perfect for grey-box/black-box testing. This way of testing also ensures you’re testing functional, business cases, and gives great stability on an exposed interface, because everything runs with real dbs, real queues and so on. From experience, this way of testing hits the perfect balance between reliability, usefulness, maintainability (when done right), and verbosity (at a previous company we replaced the tests on all of our layers with this kind of integration tests and it ended up being the most stable code base and test harness we ever worked on).

I’m currently polishing the logs and reports as much as possible, and then I’ll add support for more tools (Kafka, Rabbit, Nats, etc.). I have tons of features in mind to improve UX, speed, and bring more value to the tests.

Down the line, I want to find a business model for this tool and sell it, but I need to do a lot of thinking on this side since I’ve never done this before.

I’ve been building a personal finance app that runs fully in the browser (using the automerge crdt and sqlite) for over a year now at https://tender.run.

Recently I’ve been taking more of being able to flexibly run sql against this data, and this past week I’ve been working with d3 to make fancy sankey graphs to show income/expense flows. Quick preview here: https://demo.tender.run/reports/sankey

I quit my job in the spring to work on UI design software where designers visually build real component and design system implementations, and engineers can collaborate by editing the code.

The goal is to eliminate the massive chasm that exists in design-to-engineering hand-off by having a single source of truth.

Building a language learning app. https://langturbo.com

Currently focusing on building native apps using React Native. Finding limitations with the platform and considering dropping the whole thing and start building with Swift and Kotlin instead.

Only have a screenshot to show at the moment, but I'm working on an accessible color palette creator tool for web/UI design:

https://x.com/seanw_org/status/1815442179361317022

There's lots of tools in this space, but the key features of this is it lets you easily check the contrast of any color pair (not just against white, so you can check e.g. your text colors will contrast on off-white shades), it's for creating a full palette of colors vs a handful of brand colors (you always end up needing lighter/darker variants for things like borders and backgrounds), and you can alter how the hue/saturation/lightness varies across a whole swatch of colors with a few clicks (being able to visualise these curves also makes picking new colors really easy).

Feel free to reach out if you think this might be useful to you!

I'm working on a small website for finding restaurants and breweries when you're traveling. It currently has 4 year of Great American Beer Fest winners and 3 years of James Beard nominees and winners.

It's very alpha at this point with no styling. I'm also working on getting addresses, websites, and instagram links gathered and added. Plus collapsing down the entries, so a place with multiple awards only shows up once, with all of its awards. Right now it's just 1 results per award.

I'm currently road-tripping through New England and it helped find the amazing bakery Norimoto.

https://nomnominees.com/

I'm experimenting to figure out the simplest setup possible that allows me to expose an internal web service (eg localhost:3000) to the public Internet (eg app.example.com).

A million ways to do this, of course, but I'm focused on using wireguard so that eg only my wireguard peers can get access to my local service, and for internal traffic (ie vpn).

At the moment I'm settling on having a simple script that I can run on a host alongside wireguard. The script will function like `wg-quick`, parsing a wireguard config file and handilng the routing stuff behind the scenes, and returning a cleaned up config to be passed to `wg`.

Ideally, the wireguard configs could be generated by some other tool or service, like https://wirehub.org, and automatically fetched and applied to the running wg interface.

So, a one liner on a server with a public IP and the services exposed by your wireguard peers can be accessed via a custom domain name while still respecting internal wireguard routing rules (based on AllowedIPs).

If anyone finds this interesting and wants to chat about it, I would love to! My contact info is in my profile.

I'm one of the people working on Prodigy Reloaded (https://prodigyreloaded.com), recreating the Prodigy server to work with the client software in DOS and Mac. The new server software is written in Elixir.

My part has been to generate news headlines and weather maps using current news and weather information. The most interesting part for me has been deciphering the 1980's era graphics format, NAPLPS, which Prodigy uses and making a library to write files in the format. I treat the file format as a data transformation, taking the NAPLPS file generated so far and appending more commands to the end of it. The commands naturally pipe into each other in an idiomatic way in Elixir.

Though I am not actually _working_ on anything concrete(facing analysis paralysis. Also, as a coder, I have no idea how to deal with the sales site) this should turn to a monthly post

I'm working on a podcast and audio media monitoring and research platform. Easily the most complex thing I've built. But still so much more to do to make it truly useful. Testing PR and public affairs use cases at the moment.

https://listenalert.com

I used to work for a media monitoring company but was instantly struck by how old fashion everything was. And the total reliance on boolean searches meant only experts could find relevant information. This still appears to be the case for most players in the industry.

So I'm building a platform that finds what is important before you look for it. Novel entity linking, and sentiment analysis plus speaker tracking. It has come a long way from the proof of concept. Focused on audio media at the moment as it is the hardest to index compared to news articles in my opinion. And the hypothesis is audio media such as podcasts can contain so many juicy insights.

Next steps are converting pilot customers to paying customers, testing more markets (based in a tiny market now), raise a small pre-seed (bootstrapped at the moment), and quickly evolve the product based on feedback.

I'm working on a workout API and native apps (iOS/Android) for Strength Level [1] as another interface for my.strengthlevel.com [2]. Strength Level helps you understand your relative strength - how strong you are for your bodyweight.

Using PHP Slim Framework, MySQL, and vanilla Swift/Java. Prioritizing reliability and efficient sync between local storage and server. Currently finalizing API endpoints and feature matching the web app. Next up is adding a subscription model.

It's challenging as:

- Users want to use the app offline which means we need to sync

- We have to match our existing features on [2] in the first version and evolve the API and database to support reliable sync

- Users want to also track their cardio too e.g. Running Level [3] and Rowing Level [4] but that will have to come out in a future version

[1] https://strengthlevel.com/

[2] https://my.strengthlevel.com/

[3] https://runninglevel.com/

[4] https://rowinglevel.com/

I'm building a service that helps event DJs engage with partygoers and take song requests over text message. It is SMS based as guests won't want to download an app just to send a request in. https://requestnow.io/

Try the demo and let me know what you think!

I'd like to work on my writing skills. Some mix of nerdiness and personal Journaling. https://dynomight.net/ is a website that I'm quite inspired by, as it's a interesting mix of personal commentary (https://dynomight.net/advice/) and deep data dives into e.g. homelessness and seed oils.

My main barriers are 1) writing discipline and 2) some obsessive need to link/cite every claim I make. This results in me taking months to write an article, be it due to laziness or constant rabbitholes/google scholar searches about an idea.

Any clue on dedicated disciplined writing time or even considering "reducing" the rigor of writing?

Working on a SaaS that associates a person/company and their tech stack with psychology profiles. The intent is to better connect job seekers with companies.

In short, if you want a person with Language A experience, but Language B is close enough, my software will provide the signal that the candidate is good enough for a closer look.

Example: PHP and Go devs are likely to have similar approaches to how software should be built. Ruby and Go, perhaps not so much.

There’s more nuance to it, but this is the idea.

I have some side projects that I work on alongside my regular job.

- TheFile.Ninja, which is a file manager with the Everything indexer built-in for extremely fast information retrieval. This allows you to quickly run file queries, and these queries can then be saved or even added as folders in the file system. When you open the folder, it automatically fills with the contents from the query. I have also created a service with LLM/AI that translates plain text into Everything's query language. This enables you to build very complex queries directly from plain text. For example, you can ask if any directories contain a certain file, and if this file is found and contains specific text, it will be displayed. You can learn more about the project at: https://thefile.ninja or watch https://youtu.be/JREufgkf5pk. This summer, I also built three smaller games (not fully finished but almost):

- ThrustMe!, a space/underwater cave exploration game (https://youtu.be/M0d7CSpEJ1E). It works on Android, Web, Windows, and possibly soon on iOS.

- MergeQuanta, a Tetris-like game where you merge matching blocks (color + shape) to make them disappear, taking surrounding blocks with the same shape along with them. There are also cement blocks and bombs. The game works well with touch and stylus but also on regular computers (https://youtu.be/VXvpzhi8ySE).

- Flip the Maze, a simple multi-dimensional maze game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVRB0uAPIE).

What do you think about them?

Working on Kviklet: http://github.com/kviklet/kviklet

My first job was in a FinTech and the way production access was managed scared me. This is my approach at streamlining the process. Basically a PR review flow for SQL queries, enforcing the 4-eyes principle so you never accidentally can do a Delete * form users, forgetting the where clause.

A LLM based bot for information literacy. The idea is that it can analyze text and images to help folks understand if they should believe stuff they find on the internet. And what they need to know to understand the subject.

https://info-sleuth.com/

I’ve been thinking/slowly building a service that hosts Kubernetes control planes. Bring your own worker nodes. Users can get a fully managed control plane (upgrades, HA, etc.) in their region of choice and can use whatever workers they want—be it cloud VMs, bare metal or your laptop too.

I’ll eventually open source the single binary agent that’ll bootstrap a host into a K8s node. Just run it rootless with a join URL and voilà!

Also in the pipeline is a global load balancer service (for your clusters).

What do y’all reckon? Interesting? Yay/nay?

I'm working on a little mobile game which surrounds locating and collecting VW beetles 'spots'.

I've been spending a lot of time in México over the last year and have been working on a photography project surrounding the VW Beetles (Vochos as they call them) you'll find all over the country. I'm inspired by the range of character of the Vochos and how they've become ingrained in the country's cultural landscape.

I realized I had a sort of hyper-niche problem where I was locating Vochos I'd like to shoot when I wasn't carrying my camera. I was getting annoyed with using Google Maps to list locations I'd like to return and shoot so I spent a weekend putting the app together and turning it into a game.

After using the app for a few weeks I've realized the spotting or hunting of the cars is the part I enjoy the most about my project and when I have the time I'd like to publicize it so others who find themselves in Vocho dense area can check it out if they'd like!

My friends and I have been working on building our website — https://bigbeans.ai It's leetcode for ML/AI space. We believe that a lot of software engineers are interested in learning about GenAI and like us learn by solving problems. :)

I'm finally frustrated enough by the state of coding that I'm developing my own coding environment and language. The leading question is: What if UI was first-class while programming?

Happy to elaborate if anyone is interested, I will also write about it on my blog (https://watwa.re) at some point

Working on building the world’s largest database of LEGO minifigure user ratings at https://brickelo.com/

Essentially paying down (with time and money) maintenance debt on house and property after semi-retiring. I'll get back into doing some "real" work in the fall. Seems to be a pretty common pattern.

I got lazy during COVID but stuff seemed hard to get done and I wasn't really in the mood to try harder.

Making swim baits. I started carving and paints fishing lures during Covid. It’s easy to knock out something that looks like a lure, but it’s surprisingly nuanced to make something that behaves in the water as you want it to. Mass production is absolutely the correct way to go about this, but - you know - it keeps my hands busy in the evening and I’m improving my carving, airbrushing, weighting/buoyancy, etc with each one.

My truck. It has sentimental value as my first car. I just gone done with the water pump and I just solved my steering "pop" issue. Next up is a new steering wheel as the old one is gross and sticky. While I'm at it I'm going to install a new turn signal/wiper control lever and fix the turn signal auto-off spring.

When the hype was focused on chatbots, I joined a startup that built one focused on ecommerce. It turned into a useful product that actually help real customers.

Looking back, there wasn't any material to actually build a useful chat agent that resolved real-world problems. So I'm writing the guide that I wish I had when getting started.

I'll publish it on github and post here as more progress is made. I've created three parts. Part One is a non dev focused which explains how each of the moving parts work, what is Ai and what isn't. Part two gets technical and explains the tech stack. Part three is a bonus section that looks at how Ai assistants like google and Siri work and can be improved.

The working title is Automated Agents.

Edit: adding a link for those who want to follow along.

https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book

I'm working on a command line billing/invoicing system. I couldn't deal with the ones I've tried (too heavy on UI, too difficult to automate stuff with).

So far I just use it for my company billing, but it's quite delightful for me: My process is to save the services we provided in CSV files (exported from time tracking in org-mode, but you could use any tool that supports exporting), then I run this over it and it creates PDF invoices, and stores all the data (which I query occasionally, e.g. for quarterly VAT payments).

Technologically it's weird, the invoice templates are written in LaTEX, and the code is in Common Lisp.

I don't think about turning it into a business, but I think I'll open source it once it's a bit less messy. For now, I just focus on implementing the features I need (about 1-2 per quarter now).

I kinda doubt it, but if anyone is interested in command line billing tools, I'd be excited to talk about it. Contact info is in my profile.

I have been working on a little price tracker for the Hetzner Dedicated Server auction (https://radar.iodev.org/). Using Sveltekit for the first time, and decided to go frontend only with duckdb-wasm.

I pull the data every hour with a GitHub action and redeploy the site nightly. The duckdb is regenerated every time and I can flexibly change its structure as required. So far I didn’t change much (eg. no normalization) since it’s not really needed. It also turns out to be surprisingly small, with compression a few megabytes. I haven’t written much SQL in some time and duckdb is very powerful.

Most of the texts are AI generated as I’m usually very bad coming up with this. I really gotta learn that one day. Webdesign is the other weakness, but with all these UI libraries these days it’s less of a problem.

I guess it’s pretty niche, but maybe interesting for some.

It’s a fun little project.

So back in 2021 I built a loyalty platform for a chain of gas stations in the Caribbean. Thought it would be a quick deliverable, then hands off.

It's turning into a full time side gig that's paid off in handful of batches (~$25K and running)

I'm trying to become a loyalty vendor API.

Would really like to work on my own interconnected systems of blogging tools and social media. Kinda a blend between having your own site and myspace? Not really targeting a market or anything like that, just think it would be cool to do for personal use and sharing with family and friends

I've been passionate about superforecasting and AI for a long time, so decided to try and use LLMs to structure data about the world -- commodities, politics, etc. It's now a startup we're trying to get off the ground: https://emergingtrajectories.com/

Most of my days are spent reading the news and working on LLMs, which has been a blast. As an example, here's a dashboard that tracks major supply and demand shocks to various commodities around the world: https://emergingtrajectories.com/c/commodities

Experiments with speech compression/processing. The modern approach to this (and pretty much everything else) is to transform the input data into a high-dimensional space, throw it into a neural net and cross your fingers. (the 'Whisper' STT runs in 512-dimensional space!). It works, but it's hardly elegant or compute-efficient. There's a certain art in doing things the 'old way', even if a million years of evolution decided neural-nets were the one true path.

I'm a software engineer with a passion for pencil portraits (https://bpsagar.github.io/sketch). As an artist, I've often thought that a companion sketching app could help beginners and intermediate artists improve their process.

I'm currently working on an app that provides a step-by-step guide to drawing from a reference photo. My goal is to make the sketching process more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.

For the past year, I've been working on a CSS Masterclass: https://cssmasterclass.io/

It's going to have online text courses with interactive examples and coding exercises, but I'm also in the process of adding video tutorials. These videos will be of 2 types: ones where I teach you the theory, and ones where we actually build a project from scratch.

I feel like CSS has always been something that was made to look harder than it actually is. In its essence, the syntax is very simple, and the vocabulary is quite basic. There are only a few things you need to know to be able to code an attractive and flexible responsive web page. For comparison, I find programming backends much more difficult.

Even though I've been working on this project for almost a year, I decided that next month will be the day I finally launch it.

Working on generating zsh tab autocompletion for my CLI framework. I'm finding it difficult because zsh makes completion surprisingly complicated and the zsh docs have a lot more descriptions than examples. Other CLI frameworks all seem to approach this differently.

I'm trying up standup comedy this summer -- open mics for now.

I thought it would be absolutely terrifying to be in front of a bunch of strangers and try to make them laugh, but it turns out if you're prepared, it's not that hard. Open mic crowds are benevolent and don't expect you to be the next Richard Pryor or George Carlin anyway, and I don't "engage" the public at all; I just tell my jokes.

I try to come up with new material each time so there's some work to do, but it's fun.

Last month I built a node based web server that can proxy and redirect anything where the blueprint is a tiny config file in json format.

I am going to expand it to provide a health dashboard of connected sockets, supported domains, and traffic analytics as a web service.

Trying to find a solution for my inability to digest plants https://github.com/cutestuff/FoodDepressionConundrum/blob/ma...

latest success seems to be probiotic for oxolate-digestion, which now helps me digest green salad. For a test I tried green onions, but got anxiety back. Being able to digest onions and garlic would enrich my food choices a lot.

I doubt there's money to be made from all this material, except I could offer some coaching, but pretty much everything I know is in this little repo

I'm looking for new ideas for my witch.inc comic strips, it's like IT-Crowd, but for witches and wizards. I kinda ran out of them after I quit my tech-support job. Doing database administration now but it's not as rich in corporate slip-ups

https://ko-fi.com/album/New-Album-J3J512CD1A

I build a computer app to make it easier to do projector sewing. This allows you to take a PDF sewing pattern and use a projector (often mounted on a ceiling, shining down on a cutting mat) to see that pattern at life size. You can then easily cut it out and sew it together.

My app is called Project&Cut and can be found at https://projectandcut.com.

I'm working on Minders [1], a journaling/notes app. I've been using it for a little over a year for daily journaling and keeping track of interesting links or ideas. It works like a Twitter feed of just your thoughts.

It's been fun to work on as I can throw in whatever neat ideas I want since I'm not trying to fit it into a neat category. For instance, I was experimenting with a multi-column browsing experience after I saw a post here [2] for inspiration. The UI could work like TweetDeck but for your notes. Not 100% sure yet if it works, but I'll be doing more prototyping.

Right now I'm revamping the sync system and other runtime parts as I'm realizing that once you start amassing lots of posts, it gets bogged down a bit. I probably could've architected some of it a bit better at the start, but I tend to try to release stuff as early as I can to force myself to ship and to see what people think.

1. https://minders.ussherpress.com/ 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263203

I am working on turning my theory into a code. I have a theory on how the brain works. Do not criticize me, even i know how it sounds.

I have been recently thinking about the NP-complete class of problems particularly the knapsack problem (it is easy to understand and attack). And I think it is really solvable in polynomial time. I actually tried and posted my solution here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341608 a bit of feedback would be really helpful.

Hi there! We published our book(https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/) in May 2024, but getting visibility has been a challenge. We've posted on HN before and are currently using Amazon ads, but the results have been underwhelming so far. Any advice or strategies for improving our reach would be greatly appreciated!

I'm working on a new design for a site I run just for fun.

It's a simple site for streaming local radios from my city, Mendoza (Argentina): https://www.radiosdemendoza.com.ar

It was built with WordPress, and the new theme is using Tailwind and AlpineJS. I hadn’t used AlpineJS before, so this project was a great way to experiment with it.

I don't have any monetization on it, and I'm not sure if I'll pursue that for this site.

Next up, I plan to build a Chrome extension. I have limited experience with that, so it should be a fun challenge.

https://www.qrgrid.dev/

Qr Grid: The Ultimate Customizable QR Code JavaScript Library

Making an OpenSource Library for developers to easily generate and customize QR codes across multiple platforms.

Right now I'm working on withdrawing money from cs.money and Steam balance.

It's been sitting there for years, and I finally found health, time, and dedication to withdraw it.

On cs.money I had $35k and on Steam balance I had $12k.

The only way to get money from cs.money trade mode is to buy skins and sell them somewhere else.

On Steam, on the other hand, I buy Steam Decks via Steam balance and sell them locally.

I have sold 3 in the last 2 days.

Last 2 days I've been taking a short break from coding a bot for cs.money to recover some health back (I have RSI).

Talk Shop.

Think Omegle, but only text, and based around common interests.

https://talkkshopp.com

I’m working on a new game. I’ve been trying to get back to the basics of the adventure genre. A fun and engaging story, choices, strategic combat and a simple, straightforward approach.

No microtransactions, no advertisements. No networking! The game is meant to function completely off line. The game will start with a mobile release in probably October and should be available on Steam shortly after.

I’ve been using Flame, Flutter’s game engine to develop my app. My artists are amazing and have been providing fully animated sprites using Spine. I’ve used Flutter before but this is my first time getting into Flame.

If you’re curious how it’s going, hop on the mailing list at https://danger.world to learn more. I’ll be looking for my initial playtesters here in the next few weeks.

Helping others with their mental health (after my own struggles).

Worked as a software dev/manager for a decade, went through workaholism, burnout, then alcoholism, depression, all that. Doing a ton better now, and taking some time off to write about what I went through and hopefully help out others going through the same thing some: https://depthsofrepair.com/

I just started working full time on my mortgage loan officer SaaS tool again. I had started building it when I worked for a mortgage company in 2017 because I was annoyed at having to enter the same data on 6 websites 20-30 times a week. Ended up getting some paying customers but somewhat unconsciously avoiding selling too many, a personality defect I have since seen.

If you know a mortgage loan officer, tell them to email tyler at lightningestimates dot com and mention HN. I'm just trying to fix an industry problem at a reasonable price.

We are working on https://aide.dev/ an editor forked from VSCode which allows you to utilize LLMs to speed up coding.

Our approach is a bit different since unlike making a better copilot or a chat experience we are building workflows which encourage engineers to work alongside AI and not just offload tasks to AI.

https://defguard.net/ - open-source SSO service built with rust on top of wireguard & OIDC. It's been a lot of work but we're slowly gaining traction and nearing the 1.0 release.

Some of the features:

  * OpenID Connect based Identity Provider
  * OpenLDAP synchronization - currently supporting users and groups synchronization
  * MFA with TOTP, email, WebAuthn / FIDO2, crypto wallets
  * wireguard client GUI integrated with OIDC, supporting multiple locations (https://defguard.net/client)
  * secure enrollment & onboarding
  * yubikey provisioning

Our github: https://github.com/DefGuard

(edit: formatting, github link)

I've been working on a Hacker News TUI reader written in Rust [0].

I'm very proud of the way the architecture turned out - with most notably a components-driven architecture [1].

There's just a major performance roadblock in posts with many comments that I should be able to clear with some more multithreading. Then I just need to make it available in brew and other distribution solutions.

[0]: https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli [1]: https://www.newstackwhodis.com/blog/hncli-2-architecture

Myself! I ended up with an incredibly severe health issue due to repeated mismanagement/misdiagnosis by doctors over the last 5+ years, and now that I finally know what's wrong I can treat it effectively and maybe even recover.

I started working on my opensource water meter again (https://y-drip.com/). Hardware is basically done so I'm working on the backend website for those that don't want to setup their own server. More technical details here: https://hackaday.io/project/191398-ydrip

I’ve been realizing that while I’ve found an incredibly effective solution to a problem I keep having, it does not automatically lend itself to becoming a wildly thriving business. If the problem that is being solved is a somewhat infrequent one (once a year or less), and not applicable to a super-wide audience (think Facebook), then it simply won’t result in enough business to commit to fully.

I built a domain hunter (with availability checks) for .com domains based on idea prompts and while I see people purchase domains all the time through it, they won’t even shell out $3 to get any extras or a list of more than three domain ideas or so. Zero willingness to pay anything, but high success rates on search and result conversion.

I'm working on an invite-only, personalized medical education platform called MedAngle, particularly for emerging economies. I started it in my third year of medical school, and we're now at 90,000 doctors/medical students, along with over 100 million questions solved and billions of minutes spent studying and excelling.

I get to lead a team of 175 doctors and students across premed, medical, and dental education. I am the first doctor + full stack technologist in the country. It's super rewarding. No funding, just off our immensely low price point that things are still growing quickly. All software written in house.

Working on adding better phrase matching for Marginalia Search.

The way position used to be stored in the search engine was approximate, using something like a bloom filter. With this change, they'll be stored in an exact fashion using a gamma coded positions list instead.

In the phase of dotting t:s and dashing i:s at this point. Hope to have it in production in September.

I'm learning the course about SEO. I have never heard of this term until now.

Although some people say the SEO is dead and does not work anymore, I am still spending effort on it and building BMW VIN Decoder https://bmwvindecode.com/ to learn by doing.

We just had a kid... trying to make his entrance into the world pleasant.

Still working on https://exist.io, a platform for quantifying and tracking data about your life. We've been around for about a decade now and seen many competitors come and go — this niche is definitely not at the peak of the hype cycle any more. On the other hand, Apple Watches have normalised tracking body stats like activity (and sleep to a degree), and yet we think there's still so much more that can be done with that data. We're still (always) working on improving our insights and correlations to find better ways to use the data to optimise your health, mood, productivity, and so on. But not with "AI" :)

Pre-Web Hypermedia

I'm working on a server driven UI framework for mobile apps.

Designers can push changes in Figma similar to a merge request, which can then be approved by product managers / developers and the apps UI updates on every device.

Devs don't have to touch UI anymore but can focus on pure logic.

Any app developed with this doesn't have to go through the usual release cycle for UI changes anymore.

This will decrease the time lag of mobile to web and makes it easier for us to implement and distribute campaigns.

We're in Alpha and two mobile apps with our technology are going to go live next months. A credit card app and a competitive player versus player mental arithmetic game.

I'm working on converting a jukebox to use a raspberry pi. I want to keep using the numberpad to pick the tracks and none of the existing solutions that i've found seem to do that. I don't have any experience with python and very little with linux so it has been an experience.

I am working on a zero trust proposal for location permission on mobile platforms: https://github.com/itissid/privyloci

It's a demo of an idea. It could be an app too, but I'd much rather it be a CoreOS service that is user controlled.

Looking for organizational and privacy first support soon.

I've been learning how to use Blender. For a long time I've thought that working with things in 3D could be made simpler by having an app where your phone is a sort of 3D cursor, and e.g. for modeling you could use your phone as a sculpting knife by moving it around in the air.

So I spent some time trying to make an app that allows you to do that, but can't shake the thought that such an app would work better as a Blender addon/plugin rather a standalone app. And I also am trying to figure out how people work with 3D currently, to see if such a tool would even be an improvement over existing tools.

I've been working on an iOS app called snapmail: lets you take any photo on your phone, filter / sticker it, and send it as a 4x6 postcard anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99. Fun way to stay in touch with friends & fam. One of a few no-account-needed, single use iOS apps I've been working on.

TestFlight for now - try it out here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/wKY4eYV8

Recently after working as a frontend engineer for more than 2 years, I started doing full-stack, so I am going through the language that my new org uses (they are using GoLang) and trying to understand backend concepts as well.

I am documenting my learning here - https://github.com/hsnice16/golang_learning

My first task was to write a GitHub action to build and push the docker image on AWS ECR. While working on it, I went through a good number of blogs, and also used ChatGPT, and finally raised a PR. So I thought to write a blog on that, you can read it here - https://hsnice16.medium.com/build-and-push-the-docker-image-...

I'm building a free library of website components and templates: https://uisual.com/. People can simply copy-and-paste the Tailwind CSS, Figma, and Framer into their own projects. No attribution, no sign up required.

I'm a designer, and this is my first Vue project. Super happy and proud of it. This is a way for me to learn coding. I'm working on improving the project by adding a simple website builder where people can edit the components and templates directly.

https://gpt.franzai.com

AI over email.

Had some vacation. Now lots of new ideas. Think I will enable email forwarding (not yet possible)

Mailto:gpt@franzai.com

Hey, please send example@example.com a friendly email inviting them to a google meeting next Thursday. Keep me cc.

Will only implement minimal spam protection and a simple opt out and see what happens.

These days, I've been working on a small tool to run GUIX as an unprivileged user, so that you can use GUIX profiles as a dev environment builder. I didn’t do any market research, but AFAIK there are similar tools using Nix. Honestly, this is just a toy project for fun. I had GUIX on one hand and Zig on the other, so I figured, why not try something new using both?

Why not Nix? I just don’t like the Nix language. Plus, it seems like they ended up reinventing part of Lisp with their Flakes, which made me even more convinced in using GUIX. The GUIX folks didn't disappoint me, as they utilized the full power of Scheme to design a (internal) DSL that is clean and almost reads like JSON/YAML. I feel quite confident that it’s a better language for building devenvs for most people. The only downside is that it can get really verbose, but, hey, at least you have full control.

I and a friend are working on Elixir Emporium [0], a single-player crafting RPG that uses layers of generative AI to create and inject new game data as you play.

It started out as just a prototype asking what happens if you task an LLM with generating crafting recipes for every combination of items in a game (which was already super fun), but it's exploded into all kinds of crafting, harvesting, and item manipulation systems that literally weren't possible in games just 5-10 years ago.

Now we're working on NPC simulations based on last year's Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior [1] paper. Dialogue and persistent memory are obvious, but we're also using the ReAct pattern [2] to give NPCs an influenceable decision loop that dictates what actions they take throughout each game day. And there's some other fun stuff like quest generation and using LLMs as a decision engine to determine if certain player actions complete these dynamic quests.

There's still a lot of work to do to make it feel more like a polished game, but we've been focused on the underlying systems and getting them feeling great and I'm really excited to see the game come to life.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3039840/Elixir_Emporium/

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442

[2] https://react-lm.github.io/

I’m working on a tool called Together Gift It. Together Gift It makes managing group gift events like Christmas easier. I’m making it because my family was sending an insane amount of group texts during the holidays, and it was getting ridiculous. My favorite one was when someone included the gift recipient in the group text about what gift we were getting for the recipient.

Together Gift It solves the problem just the way you’d think: with AI.

Just kidding. It solves the problem by keeping everything in one place. No more group texts! You can have private or shared gift lists, and there are some AI features like gift idea collaboration and product search. But the AI stuff is still a work in progress.

I’m grateful for any constructive feedback.

https://www.togethergiftit.com/

Goodreads doesn't let you sort books by rating so making a tool that does:

book-filter.com

I’m working on a self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager: https://linkwarden.app

Github: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

I'm working on https://runs-on.com, a self-hosted solution to get 10x cheaper GitHub Actions runners with support for Linux x64 and arm64. This month I've been refining Windows support and hopefully this gets fully shipped before Aug 31st!

Super excited to share one of my side projects that’s finally ready for action! Meet PowerTiger—a powerful, open-source energy monitoring solution built around the RPi Pico W and a custom built PCB. It’s perfect for tracking power consumption in real-time across 16 power terminals. Installed it at home to collect power consumption metrics using Grafana and Prometheus running on RPi home server.

https://github.com/codetiger/PowerTiger

A couple years in, we’re still building Loops (loops.so), email for software companies.

I’ve been working on robotics for a few months now. I have built an arm, started receiving parts for my quadruped, and have learned enough RL to at least hold opinions on it (my background is ML/LLM training, so a bit different).

Eventual goal before I return to work next year is to have a robot I can take on walks with me that will pick up trash.

I am currently working on developing a procedural, interpreted language that is amenable to genetic (evolutionary) programming.

I have decided to shelve my work on architectures that are biologically inspired for now. I was getting reasonable results with spiking neural networks and evolutionary training, but there are so many hyper parameters to think about and how they behave over time is really hard to predict. I was also struggling deeply with how to manage topological concerns like network growth over time.

With interpreted evolutionary programs, the memory access patterns are so much more ideal with the program counter stepping through (mostly) contiguous bytes vs totally insane recurrent spiking neural access patterns. You get so many more generations & candidates evaluated per unit time that it can make previously apparent "dead ends" viable, simply because you don't need to have extreme patience to find out anymore. I am discovering that iteration speed is the most important thing in this arena. The faster you find out how bad a certain parameter adjustment is, the sooner you can get to the good ones.

I am also working on an unrelated contract to integrate some back office banking systems. Not much worth discussing there.

https://guestcast.xyz

A way to follow creators and not specific podcasts

Hey,

Working on the open source alternative to Heroku - https://ptah.sh (https://github.com/ptah-sh/ptah-server)

Already have some success: we use it for our other 3 projects, thus saving us some cash. :)

I have the 1-click apps marketplace, backups and, soon, monitoring.

I am working on a SaaS for real estate agents. Customers get their own tenanted database and web front-end with some fancy front-end tools like geospatial searching to keep customers attracted to said customer's portfolio. I have a paying customer who's been using a 1.0 version for more than a decade now. I don't know whether I got lucky or there's a legitimate market for v2.0 out there. I am building it with boring tech as it's a boring product. I guess I should get back to building it.

I'm trying to solve loneliness and improve civilisation.

I'm building a new kind of knowledge management app called https://saner.ai/ :0 Where you can connect all your knowledge sources, query them with AI and create new content based on them with many AI model

I'm working on a Firefox extension that analyses the user's browsing data. It tracks visit frequency and time spent for each website. I'd like the extension to generate a distraction score as well, depending on these two data values.

A few months back, I posted an essay here about how I think we are entering an age where the personal library will become an asset class unto itself [1]. This is due to a combination of the advent of semantic search and the revival of personal knowledge management in the deluge of our age.

As such, I’ve been working on the software to bring this vision to life, which is called Your Commonbase (a portmanteau of Commonplace Book and Vector Database).

In short, the purpose of the work is to create a data structure that works the way humans store, retrieve, and share information. By making these three elements as close to zero stress as possible, you catalyze creativity through remixing and augmentation of memories. My hypothesis is a lifetime building a Commonbase creates an idiosyncratic system, filled with the interpretations of an individual or a group. This individualized structure then creates demand that others want. I.e, a curation of all of the books you have read, organized by the marginalia you have added to them. This is a system people would pay for, and also a system that becomes more valuable over time.

I’ve been “working in public” by posting updates on my site [2], and am just beginning a small waitlist alpha testing phase (email me if you want in!)

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192359

[2] - https://www.bramadams.dev/

I am building the roots of an open source app for decentralized intelligence. Think git but for intelligence. Building it for myself since I'm becoming forgetful.

I’m working on a few things:

- Micro SaaS https://yasl.at, link shortening with custom meta data for link previews on messengers/social media, see my blog post for more details: https://yasl.at/dKpNnZ

- A web game called Wizencraft (https://wizencraft.com) which is a logic puzzle to guess the right order of items as quickly as possible which lets you compete with other players, solve daily challenges in groups and let’s you grind thousands of items, it's a very early alpha and I'm building it in public very iteratively and not polished at first, see more details here: https://yasl.at/XnoDtY

- And last but not least I started to build a not yet published simple dashboard for analytics where I can plugin my self-hosted database very easily. You can just write SQL queries for MongoDB, Clickhouse, Postgresql in a single YAML which defines the query and how a chart looks like on the dashboard.

The idea came from the fact that using other dashboard/analytic tools always is a hassle, existing analytics dashboards I used for products are not easy to copy, replicate or adjust and it's mostly doable solely via clicking in a complex frontend instead of defining it simply via a configuration and the available offerings are charging large.

I'm planning to have the chart definition editable via web interface and is stored locally as files which can be versioned and managed by git and can connected to the web interface with a simple docker container (this brings the analytics dashboard to the product source code itself and can be easily copied/adjusted again for new products). Happy to share more and once the first version of the dashboard is ready to use (in the coming weeks...).

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Would love your thoughts on all of this and especially the analytics dashboard. Did you you face similar issues/problems with existing solutions (or if i can stop and actually use an existing solution which does what I'd like to have).

Working on visualising sailing performance by scooping data out of the onboard network (basically the same as the one in cars) and uploading it to a web app. https://www.see-sailing.com/

My race yesterday: https://app.see-sailing.com/b/nmea/2024-8-24-11-34-21

1. I'm writing a book on Git. I did my research and was shocked to discover many otherwise tech savvy individuals still cannot manipulate Git from the command line, and resort to the use of desktop applications (yikes!)

2. An edtech app to learn coding efficiently. AI will certainly enable 100x developers, but we must first train 1x devs.

Features: structured learning, a curriculum designed by humans, AI assistance for when stdents get stuck, code samples and project based learning, covers different languages (we start with Ruby, Rust and JS, with more to be added), and technologies (CL, Nushell, SQL - again more to be added), numerous exercises. Think of it as an improved version of w3schools and the like.

One reason I am disclosing this online is to hold myself accountable.The other is in hope of finding an angel investor.

I just reprioritzed my remaining 300 or so tickets for my chess variant AI sandbox game https://www.chesscraft.ca

I recently released a major update involving presigned s3 urls, and typically after a big update I pick my favorite issues (always fun) for the next big update while I go bug hunting. Sometimes I feel like this project is code therapy where, unlike at work, I get to do everything the right way and/or my way.

I've also just started strength training at a gym for the first time which is already helping enormously with my neck and back pain.

Jobchef.io is a SaaS I've worked on for a little while and recently released.

I have a background in marketing and HR in large company, this is my first venture into programming after learning to code on my own (VBA -> Automate the boring stuff -> coursera -> React & a lot of help debugging from a very generous friend.)

Releasing a full working product was a great milestone, but so far market fit is still quite unclear.

Building transcription app that lets me dictate notes to notion.

Doint a lot of exploratory work for my day job and trying to establish practice of good documentation so i hope being able to ramble as i work will make this easier.

At this point it's simple macos flutter app that toggles recording on global keyboard shortcut.

I'm working on a platform for recording and managing user acceptance tests for software projects. I am trying to build it out slowly but in the open at https://github.com/golang-malawi/qatarina

Besides building the ideas I have in mind around how UAT could be improved for both devs and clients (users). My other goal is to encourage more Malawians to consider Go as a programming language for shipping solutions in, my Go evangelism has been working slowly but I think people need to see something they can appreciate to get more people onboard.

Also working on a personal finance app in Flutter for young Africans, but that's not public yet :)

I'm putting the finishing touches on the major engine pieces for my NES game Tactus. (https://zeta0134.itch.io/tactus) The level generation is all working, there's a new raster effect system that can do nifty screen-slides and distortions, the dynamic lighting is more performant, and I'm at the point where it's time to shift gears and start making a bunch of content.

The one zone that's in the game is looking more polished than ever, but it's not going to be much of a game if there are only 4 levels. Next month is all about stage art, enemy design, and items to flesh out the new economy systems. Hopefully it all comes together, we'll see. It's a ton of pixel art, and I'm still learning my way around that craft.

Currently working on game development in Godot. We're making Dice'n Goblins, a dungeon-crawler RPG inspired by classics like Etrian Odissey and Wizardry VII, with a cartoon aesthetic similar to Paper Mario. The twist is that you have to collect and use dice to beat the monsters that crawl inside the dungeon.

A demo should be available very soon, meanwhile you can wishlist it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2945950/Dice_n_Goblins/

I've been working on https://65words.com by myself for 6 months.

65 Words is an anonymous challenge to write 65+ words daily in the language you're learning.

The real focus isn't just on improving your writing but on having the opportunity to think about how you'd express something without the pressure of the moment.

There's no hidden science behind choosing 65 words. I found it’s achievable even on a very busy day.

The goal is to help learners practice daily and build confidence through consistent effort.

I'm building FitBee (https://apple.co/4aGUw5X) - a simple and user friendly alternative to MyFitnessPal. It's been really fun trying to figure out how to build the most frictionless food tracking app possible. I just launched a feature where you can get a calorie & macro estimate by taking a photo of your meal and am working on several improvements to it.

I have a small amount of experience building iOS apps but have never done anything with a backend before. This project is fairly backend heavy, so it's been quite a journey learning how to do everything from setting up a database to deciphering elasticsearch.

Working on https://www.shareback.com , team of 2. Been working on it for a few years, trying different ideas. We are trying to build something that we'd be happy to use by ourselves so it's been an interesting journey of self-discovery, research and coding. Also my partner in crime is non-technical and sometimes I kind of forget that people might use software in very different way to how, for example, I would do.

Outside of that I am also building a gym up for myself which I could use without glasses (all apps I tried have tiny buttons or controls that I cant see in the gym)

Hi! I'm working on https://UpdateMaker.com. UpdateMaker is a super-simple widget for delivering in-app updates and notifications to users.

As a dev, I always want to tell users about our latest updates, but making front-end updates requires a whole production deploy, and a backend notification service is a lot to set up. UpdateMaker makes it easy to manage updates without an engineering cycle.

UpdateMaker lets you copy-paste our widget into your website, and then you can push update notifications to your users. You can customize the look and feel, schedule updates, track user engagement, and make it conditional on pages the user might visit. We manage all the cookie-handling so the user only sees updates they haven't seen before. It's been super useful for us!

From there, UpdateMaker also automatically exports all your updates as a changelog that you can publish for your users or SEO :)

Bungee is our audio stretching library. It can change music tempo and pitch effortlessly in real time on all common devices and browsers.

Bungee is unique in its quality, performance and controllability. Every media player, DAW, video editor should use something like Bungee for smooth scrubbing and audio slomo.

Try it with one click: https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/bungee-web-demo

So far we have several licensees of the Pro edition with more on the way.

A duckdb clone implemented in julia

A stock price analytics webapp. That gets data from various sources. And is able to bulk analyse historical data. Made for a friend. But now used by more peeps.

https://stonks.aeonax.com Only for India tho

I'm currently working on NewsNinja[0] in my spare time, a RSS reader app that groups articles talking about the same story and optimizes reading time.

I started it a couple of months ago, I was tired of reading the same story posted across different news outlets.

Over time I added new features like summarization, the ability to hide articles that have specific words in titles, etc.

Currently working on adding custom themes and fonts for the reader mode and various customization options.

It's a fun little side project, still much to do to improve it, I'll be busy for a while!

[0]https://newsninja.timelabs.io

I'm working on a trip planner for vegans. This is designed to solve my particular problem as a full time (vegan) nomad who likes to stay in walkable cities.

I noticed that sometimes, I book accommodations in a new city without realizing I'm very far from the nearest vegan restaurant, having to walk for a really long time to get food, and sometimes getting there after the kitchen is already closed.

The planner helps me find hotels/airbnbs that are within 15 minute walk of at least 3 different vegan restaurants - makes my life so much easier!

I'm actually creating a new web framework/library. I know. I know. Yet another one. I got sufficiently excited about the technology recently that I've dived head first into making one. Stay tuned.

still working on https://thegreatestbooks.org

been my main side project since like 2008. working on goodreads import right now. Always working on improving the algorithm. would love to collab with a data scientist on ways to improve my algorithm. https://github.com/ssherman/weighted_list_rank

I'm working on a web scraper to assist myself and a friend in booking courts for our sports activities. It helps book the courts when they are released at 12am. This means we can get back to sleeping at reasonable times. We have a long term booking, but don't always require two courts.

On other things, I've been playing with rustlang. Looking to build something with it.

I'm working on https://reciperium.com which is a website to host recipes, with the twist that uses a specialised language for recipes, and you can fork recipes from other users and adapt them to your liking.

I've been working on a Lisp interpreter in Zig. This my first attempt at a garbage collector.

https://wmedrano.github.io/fizz

I've been working on a site that helps you find in-person work in NYC that is actually convenient: https://walkablework.com

I recently left a startup I had cofounded after a few years because we were a remote team and I came to the conclusion that we weren't going to be successful without working together in person. I wanted to make this site to help people like me use location as an early filter to find good companies and teams to work with. Let me know if you have any feedback!

We’re working on our contract management system for dev and design agencies. Been in beta for a couple months, working as always on that elusive product-market fit.

Besides that our team is always working on cool stuff for our clients. Lots of interesting work these days “in” AI, plenty of cool stuff going on in health tech.

Got something cool you need devs for? Always happy to talk shop — wyatt at apsis dot io.

A VR game. Still in the concept phase though. It'll be free as it's only a hobby project. It might never materialise but it doesn't matter. Most of the reward is in the process and the learning opportunities.

For work I'm working on AI implementation. Because the vendor does all the technical goodness I'm kinda bored. It's also quite a crap solution IMO and we're kinda forced to be all positive about it because the vendor is closely watching and they have a lot of buyin from the top.

I set up a local LLM server too just to feel like I'm actually doing something.

Building some personal finance tools. I don't like how many personal finance sites seem to be built around hawking credit cards and insurance rather than focused on helping people build a budget and get out of debt.

https://freefinancialwellness.com/

Vertical tabs for firefox and lots of features. I use it myself in all my firefox profiles. It can be displayed as a sidebar or a popup. Which means you can use it in big windows and small windows.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...

Latest commit is on this little nim project to find text, similar to ripgrep

https://github.com/madprops/goldie

Last game is this thing where you get to see ants talk and react in different ways.

https://github.com/madprops/cromulant

Last big thing I made is this powerful python/tk client to chat with language models. Lots of features and my own markdown parser.

https://github.com/Merkoba/Meltdown

Hello! This year I've been working on building an integrated registration and live timing platform [0] for my local organizers in CA, but it is spreading. Very fun/rewarding project. I hope to launch my own cellular-based timing hardware this year which will integrate into the timing platform (right now I've reverse engineered and now support 5 different chronometers, I never knew cross platform serial port comms was such a PITA). Getting cellular based timers synchronized should be fun, although I'll probably opt for some super simple solution, we'll see...

Also continuing to build FastComments [1] and hoping to continue to grow that.

[0] https://sidewaysdata.com

[1] https://fastcomments.com

I'm currently working on an open-source project called checkd, which is a Cloudflare service worker designed to handle device authentication and state management using Apple's DeviceCheck API. The project includes an example iOS app and a worker implementation to demonstrate how the service can be integrated into a mobile app environment.

https://github.com/willswire/checkd

This project has been an exciting way to explore better securing my iOS apps. I'm looking forward to refining it further and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions from the community!

I’m working on a pretty cool private equity platform at Pactio.

It’s probably the most complicated product I've ever worked on. The team is incredible & I’m lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people. Our head of engineering is a fantastic person too, so it makes working here so easy!

In my spare time I’m working on an AI assistant. I thought I would try sell it first, but given the ramp uptake I’ll probably open source it.

Nice thread! A lot of interesting projects. Fingers crossed for all of them

On my side, I'm working on https://flatcal.com that aims at simplifying sharing multiple calendars from different sources as one ical link. Like combining work, freelance, and personal calendars to display my busy time for easier scheduling etc. I'm finishing handling time zones which are messy as each provider has its own approach, but manageable. Expect it soon :) A have a huge list of usages for it so not short on ideas right now. But first things first, I need to focus on releasing the basics now. I'm having way to much fun with this one

We have been working on AI agents for sales and marketing. Our focus is in deep customer research instead of at scale marketing or spray and pray motion of outbound emails.

Our purpose is modeled to give sales and marketing skills to non-sales people. Just like how Canva gave design powers to non-design people.

We believe everyone has to have the skill to sell and market themselves or their product. Yet the only trend that does not change is understanding your customer/prospect.

AI agents help with this.

Check us out: godmodehq.com

Learn Japanese by reading on iOS and macOS: Manabi Reader

Currently working on adding manga and YouTube support, and figuring out how to expand it to all languages

https://reader.manabi.io

A nocode web app builder, all included, frontend, backend.

Working on a web app to check various metrics on cloud servers (or virtual machines on-prem) and suggest optimizations to reduce cloud waste (and costs). I'm basically automating a good part of the infrastructure maintenance I was doing as a full-stack dev in my previous job.

There are already a lot of services to right-size servers, but I want to focus on small teams that might not have a full-time devops yet and lack the time to check every server manually.

The app will be simple with an educational part, it should be like having access to continuous audits on our infrastructure, just like the CI/CD tools we use on our codebase.

It already helped me at home to reduce the load on my oldest Raspberry Pi by shifting some services to a newer one that was mostly idle and right-sizing some VMs in the Proxmox cluster of the rack in my homelab. Having a green check next to each server name is a good motivation!

Another thing that is scratching my own itch is server discovery (especially in a multi-cloud environment) and integrations because it's just so easy to forget some servers in a cloud when you do a lot of experiments and keep paying for them for months.

The MVP is getting ready to launch, I'm making the landing page right now, and then I hope to find some early adopters to iterate on the app and make it useful to other devs. I'm also thinking about open-sourcing it.

I'm interested in having conversations to discover the pain points of other people in that space, so feel free to reach out to me!

https://cloudcheck.cc

I’ve been working on Style.ai, an app that helps you dress better.

You add a photo of your outfit and get some feedback along with ways to improve it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/style-ai-outfit-analysis/id647...

I am building my very first computer game, Tungsten Moon, a VR+desktop spaceflight simulator with realistic physics and engineering, inspired by Orbiter, Eagle Lander 3D, and a little bit of Subnautica: https://tungstenmoon.com/

I am using the Godot engine: https://godotengine.org/

The playable demo is already available today on Github: https://github.com/Eccentric-Anomalies/Tungsten-Moon-Demo-Re...

We're releasing the demo on Steam for the first time in a few days, followed by an early access version probably in October: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3104900/Tungsten_Moon/

I’m creating a series of video tutorials to get people started on neurotechnology and brain-computer interface design. You can check out the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVBm6iuVBaQ&list=PLJYQoZIKDl...

My ultimate goal is to bring brain signals to the browser and develop neuro-apps, all in public. I share updates weekly on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/mind-tether

Working mostly on https://www.ledsreact.com/ these days

We built a radar-based device for (gamified & fun) agility testing and training with accurate measurements, for top athletes. Works without wearables or expensive and complex/location-restricted setups like you have with timegates or LPS sytems.

If anyone here is into sports science & tech, feel free to get in touch! (laurens@ the domain above) We're looking for a sports scientist / product manager to strengthen the team, a marketeer with affinity for sportstech, resellers & partnerships, and of course, more customers :-)

I’m boxing up LunaKrons to get ahead of this year’s gifting rush, and I’m really pleased with how the packaging is turning out.

Working on Grizol: a syncthing compatible client that allows storing data on all backends supported by rclone and exposes the data through a fuse.

https://github.com/mseravalli/grizol

The idea was to leverage the syncthing ecosystem while expanding some of the capabilities.

It's till quote rough around the edges and needs some polish, but the core functionality should be there.

Working on a new game with some friends: CTHULOOT, a multiplayer coop game. Imagine Overcooked x Zelda 2D. We have a demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283410/CTHULOOT/

EdTech. Figure out what skills you possess to what extent based on how you answer individual questions. Hooks into any LMS.

I'm building www.unrepped.co - an AI-assisted home buying tool for buyers without agents.

I have been working on creating a hosting project where I can provide access to lots of private frontends (invidious, redlib, etc) and different services (vaultwarden, nextcloud, etc), etc. I have been setting up glusterFS (a distributed nfs) which I can use in Docker swarm to share the volumes for different nodes. I would wanna work on writing a distributed nfs once I am done with this small project

My personal site https://www.tyleo.com

After years of having the New Year’s resolution, “make a personal site.” I finally got past my procrastination and did it! It’s live and I’m filling it out with things I’ve done over the years.

Work in regulated manufacturing industry, deploying off-the-shelf operational technology systems (think Siemens, Emerson, Rockwell, Honeywell, Aveva, etc.). Been building a software stack to automate building the custom documentation / validation the businesses who buy and deploy that software. Excited about its potential to cut down and the least favorite part of the job that engineers and those businesses have, when trying to improve things by deploying software or making changes

I'm currently working on an Art Project stemming from the mixture of cellular automata and neural networks in Rust. The YouTuber Emergent garden has already implemented this idea but I wanted to go much deeper. With different coloring algorithms, neuron types, time travel values, arbitrarily connected networks, crazy activitation functions etc. I just uploaded a very short showcase of it here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-D2dOTHpzo

Watch my blog https://tunn3l.pro for the full project release!

Cheers!

I've been trying to fit Loader's number, winner of the BIGNUM BAKEOFF contest [1], into a tweet (280 bytes). Yesterday, I finally succeeded [2].

Btw, I just noticed that Bignum Bakeoff has the same acronym as Busy Beaver. How appropriate!

[1] https://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt

[2] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/176966/golf-a-n...

Have been working on a protocol library [1] meant to be a substitute for "JSON-RPC over HTTP/WebSocket". Part of the goal is to more natively support byte-oriented data structures and reduce overheads. It supports a bidirectional HTTP2-style "channel" concept, but without making any assumptions about how they're meant to be used. It also can be configured to require authentication of the client and/or server, but punts secrecy to a lower-level transport protocol. It uses Rust macros to generate traits and wrappers to make the ergonomics fairly easy.

Currently I've built a call/response RPC abstraction with it to use it for another project that I'm working on. Eventually I'd want to add a streaming message system beyond the basic call/response pattern. I also might like to ship some easy setup to bridge between these protocol abstractions and ZMQ, JSON-RPC, be able to behave like inetd, etc.

It's functional enough to use in non-production environments but not completely seriously yet. I'm working out the kinks and improving the DX by using it for that other project. There's still some easy improvements around the byte encoding that I still haven't gotten to yet.

[1] https://codeberg.org/treyd/ecksport

blockchain street racing sim game - https://enzo.gg/

Figuring out how to add game boxart and screenshots to my recently-relaunched MIDI and chiptune player: https://pixeltune.org/

It's a fun challenge, because I need to figure out how to reliably determine the matching game for files like /pub/johnny/midi/games/sc2kmenu.mid, and also to show them in a way that fits nicely in the UI.

I'm testing out generative cartoons and media. I want to see what is possible with AI and media and if the content can be engaging. Long term I want to create content that could be used in a holodeck. Here is what has been published so far: https://www.youtube.com/@distarkmedia Would love feedback :)

An online tool for product managers that helps them turn written app specifications into something more interesting and visual.

https://appflows.ai

It doesn't save anything to the cloud. It supports markdown. It currently doesn't using an LLM but I'm sure that will sneak in at some point. One day, I'd like to have it generate wireframes using AI.

Simple mermaid like tool to do animations visualizing algorithms etc. All enclosed in html web component player (no coding needed).

https://dot-and-box.github.io/dot-and-box/

Parallel streaming video ingestion of live events, chunking up the video, sending it to Gemini Pro to get get the context/narrative/transcription/sentiment, and alerting for various things.

I've been making an RGB LED version of the game 2048: https://hackaday.io/project/197115-tiny2048. It's only a little side project but I've been having fun doing it!

A concentric semi-sphere structure, made of the least sides, so as to farm a parking spot.

financialpanda.pl

Getting a date with your mom.

(ha ha) no really, an app that aims to help out older, lonely, but good people. It's a desperately underserved market. These people are often overlooked and we're trying to empathize with them via software.

Im working on a system/formula that rates and organises human expressions/ideas/insights finds and organises relevant data, solicits more expert reviews, forges presentation for limited attention spans, develops a plan of action and a cost/benefit analysis.

I'm working on a plasmid (vector) editor called PlasCAD, for molecular biology. I'm doing it mainly as a learning project, and trying to fill in the gaps where I found limitations in existing software. As of last week, it's in a state where the main features are there. I'm going to now focus on polish, and adding specialty features. Would appreciate any and all feedback!

It lets you view and edit plasmid sequences, features, and primers, and has some tools like automatic primer creation for cloning, primer QC, protein sequence viewing, and interop with common file formats.

https://github.com/David-OConnor/plascad

https://keenwrite.com/

Finished a feature to convert Markdown's fenced divs nested within blockquotes into the following XHTML:

    <blockquote>
    <div class="name"> ... </div>
    </blockquote>

    > ::: simul
    > Simultaneous section 1.
    > :::
    >
    > ::: simul
    > Simultaneous section 2.
    > :::

https://i.ibb.co/R90vZpD/simultaneous.png

I'm working on Xona AI (https://xona.ai). I want to democratize the generation of 3D visualizations for interior and exterior design. We will launch next week on ProductHunt :)

Very excited.

I’m building a travisher [1]. Both wooden body and iron.

I found it amazing the importance of the small details in old woodworking tools and how toolmakers solve problems and improve tools. Particularly in very simple tools.

[1] e.g https://travisher.com/product/travisher-wood/

Hi fellow hackers!

Yesterday, I've built a minimalist solution to let you host Markdown files, while rendering it as html in the browser.

No preprocessing needed (like Hugo, Jekyll, Astro...).

- You just write plain markdown

- Add a script import at the top

- Upload

Check it out > https://www.tducret.com/pure-markdown/

I'm trying to make it easier for Blind people to get into electronics as a hobby. There are many fascinating hardware, software, and UX challenges here that almost nobody is working on. Things like reading circuit diagrams, identifying pins on components, debugging circuits, laying out things on a breadboard, identifying wires, identifying resistors, testing components, and much more are largely unsolved Despite all the barriers, there are some Blind people who build electronics projects, sometimes including soldering, but they usually have to develop their own tools and workflows almost from scratch.

Since I'm just one guy with 100 ideas, I have to try to apply my skills where they can have the most impact. My current project is converting existing circuits from Fritzing format (which is usually displayed graphically) into a textual format. I wrote about it in these three blog posts:

1. Premise, ways to represent circuits: https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-1/

2. Why Fritzing? https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-2/

3. Actual output examples: https://blindmakers.net/posts/accessible-schematics-3/

I'm also working on a 3D printed single character Braille cell that can be added to any Arduino project, and has only 3 simple parts to assemble. Unfortunately I haven't posted about that yet.

One of my hobbies is trying to predict foreign exchange prices (usually EURUSD tbh, but others as well).

I enjoy finding out the actual best-case performance of various technical analysis indicators, and popular "systems", by optimising the indicator's parameters to find the best long term performance. I also design my own indicators and systems in the same way.

To this end I have a C++ ImGUI desktop app with charting capabilities, and optimisation using differential evolution. The app has its operation driven by a c++ class that controls all aspects of its running, by means of various callbacks.

This enables me to test lots of strategies quickly, exploring the parameter space with the optimisation functions.

I've considered open sourcing the app, though I'm not sure there would be any interest. The codebase would need cleaning up first anyway! :-)

Hi!

In the best case, the developers of e-commerce website create unit-, integration-, and functional tests to make sure, they do not break existing functionality.

But a website is not only code. Its also data and configuration.

Since these types of configuration (e.g. prices, legal texts, bonusses) can change quite often and can get quite complex from the business perspective, it does not make sense to have developers create automatically executable tests to make sure, the website is configured as it should be.

And its often not the developers who change the configuration. Maybe its a product manager, a marketeer or the ceo.

These people often do not know if they configured something correctly. In additiom, they often don't get any notification, if an process, that is important for them, breaks due to a misconfiguration or some bug in the code (not every code base has a test coverage of 100%).

So, I am creating a No-Code Black Box E2E Monitoring Tool, that the process owners/configurators can use to regularly check, if everything is working fine.

I am currently working on a htmx plugin for JetBrains IDEs [0].

[0]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/24844-htmx-pro

A no-code tool to create/maintain visual end-to-end UI tests.

Hey guys, I'm working on https://pages.any-stack.com/.

AnyStack Pages is aimed at making it easier and simpler to host static websites with free SSL protection and CDN. Websites can be hosted by uploading a zip file of the site contents or a single html file. It's currently in closed-beta for limited users every week.

Next Steps: Full launch with support for adding custom domains and premium features.

Happy to chat about this if you are interested in getting early access or for any questions and suggestions.

I've overlooked the importance of having a good virtual presence, I believe it's better to be noticed and be an average developer than being very great but working alone. The former is more impactful and not that I intend to be average but I'm starting and would love to have a long impactful journey. so focusing on having noticeable social handles.

I didn't like web dev very much but now I'm enjoying Django a little so I intend to swallow Django and pull off some products maybe as I don't intend to have a regular job for the rest of my life and build what interests me.

So yeah, I've been pushing some Django projects and getting better at it.

If you wanna follow along or learn Django, here lies my journey

https://github.com/JUSTSUJAY/Django_Projects

I work on three things currently.

Tube and Chill - https://tubeandchill.com

It's something like IMDB for YouTube with recommendations and browsability without algoritms.

Test Driving Rails - https://testdrivingrails.com

My new book on testing Rails with the default stack - Minitest and fixtures.

Business Class 2.0 - https://businessclasskit.com

A starter kit for Rails apps. I am now slowly working on 2.0.

If you have some comments, especially on Tube and Chill, I would appreciate them.

I'm working on a device that records surgery and uses AI models to analyze the procedure for things like surgical technique, efficiency, instrument usage, blood loss, etc. We're starting with using it for medical education because that doesn't need FDA approval, but eventually it'll be deployed in operating rooms. The goal is to enable every surgeon to perform like the greats (most aren't), improve patient outcomes and ultimately save lives. We just got into Techstars. Aside from that, dad life in suburbia

I’m writing a series on how to understand golang if you’re an experienced TypeScript developer.

I’ve worked with several teams now who wanted to adopt Go for the backend, but the team’s only extensive type system experience is in TypeScript. They tended to hit very similar pitfalls and want to coerce the type system to behave like what they’re familiar with, and inevitably they wound up with inflexible and error-prone architecture.

They also failed to accomplish any kind of holistic, 30,000ft view architecture because implementations were too often sent off the rails by not understanding the language deeply enough. That was often in part due to type system confusion inherent to how Go implements certain data structures (particularly slices), which leads to the sprawling repetitive Go code people dislike so much.

I did all of this too, so I feel like my insight and experience would be valuable to share. I actually wrote 90% of it last year and felt like a goof, like, ahhh what am I doing obviously everyone else figured out Go faster than I did and this writing is just telling people how incompetent I am. Haha. But then I worked on another project and the situation was exactly the same. I actually used my draft content to help the team understand how I see the problem, and how to get past the mental traps that they were in.

Fundamentally it comes down to “learn the type system/language properly”, but it’s not quite so blatant or unhelpful. One of the problems with TypeScript methodologies is that they’re so ridiculously flexible, but go is not at all in the same ways, yet they have just enough superficially in common to trick you into thinking otherwise.

So, my series essentially elucidates the similarities, differences, and what’s totally absent in Go from the bottom to the top. It’s interesting because they really are remarkably similar in some ways, which is precisely why it can trip newcomers up. Knowing why that’s a trap makes you a far, far better Go developer. Along the way it also reveals details about TypeScript that some people might not be fully aware of (at least several in the team I shared the drafts with said so), which could be helpful.

I mostly need to muster the courage to hit publish now. My confidence has taken a beating in the last year or so!

I got tired of all the pop-up’s, long stories and accounts needed on cooking sites so I’m building a web app that helps you organize all your favorite online recipes in one place.

It also helps you discover new recipes that other users have saved.

https://eatfeed.app

I'm trying a productized service model for devops (pylonops.com) and working on a community platform for moms with my wife (no URL yet, but soon!)

Working on an audio watermarking system.

I've got the API ready, which requires 2 main values: - The original file ( which can be sent as a file, or hosted internally and requested using an ID ) - The data that needs to be printed into the audio file.

The API will return a watermarked version of the audio file that you can use later to extract the same data you sent before.

It's currently being tested on a production website, will wait for feedback, improve, and create an actual service out of the API.

I'm working on a pretty simple, chess-based strategy game. It's fun to work on it while I have time during summer vacation.

https://arx.wyczawski.dev

I'm cooking... Essentially a way to mock up any layout with design for any interface (web, mobile, desktop, whatever) and then save the layout in a portable format so anything can read it. The data is formatted so that you can re-create the layout natively.

https://youtu.be/P_4mhMB-0L8

-Uses WASM under the hood (blazingly fast) -Exportable into a simple format for desktop, mobile or web use - @htmx_org integration included -Pluggable into any existing front-end or back-end (React or Laravel, etc...)

For now, the work of re-creating the layout lies on programming but I will start building plugins so that it lessens or removes that need.

Website soon!

my webframework: https://github.com/spirobel/mininext

(my goal with mininext is to provide index.php like productivity but with all of npm and typescript at your fingertips)

currently busy using it to build things. will document everything in detail soon.

https://x.com/spirobel/status/1827231794934247674

Experimenting applying Meta's V-JEPA [0] architecture for representation learning to chess. One of the challenges is that validating if the model is learning useful dynamics of the game, so I'm using it as an excuse to learn some reinforcement learning by using the representations generated by the JEPA model to approximate useful Q-values [1]. This method currently has no search so I'm planning on comparing with this paper [2] which achieves GM level chess without any search. Honestly, Im unsure if the full pipeline is stable enough to even converge, but it's fun experimenting. I'm bad at chess so I really want to make a bot that challenges the best bots on lichess.

[0]: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/revisiting-feature... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494

I'm building an open source Federated Public Key Directory, so that I can then build end-to-end encryption for the Fediverse.

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...

Think: Encrypted DMs for Mastodon. I wrote several blog posts about the project and why it matters.

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/21/federated-key-transparency-pr...

https://soatok.blog/2024/06/06/towards-federated-key-transpa...

https://soatok.blog/2022/11/22/towards-end-to-end-encryption...

Eventually I plan on doing a "Show HN" post when it's built and close to feature-complete.

I've been working on 2 projects:

Insnare: https://www.insnare.net/

A head-hunting/recruitment application to search companies and people based on their skills and experience. Currently focused on Australian market.

It's also for people who are looking for jobs. The goal there is to help to find good companies which have high (or low) concentrations of people with certain skills/attributes.

Saasufy: https://saasufy.com/

A no-code/low-code platform for building apps without code. Insnare is built with and runs on Saasufy. This freed me up from having to write back end code for Insnare and made the front end code very small.

A video game.

www.papertalk.xyz

Made it to the front page of HN a few months ago with a less polished version. Still trying to build consistent traffic and engagement. Any feedback is much appreciated!

Bluetooth low engery "wall of sheep" toy app https://gist.github.com/skittleson/705624a8f6967187096091cbd...

I'm working on a tool directory that lets you run then directly without multiple subscriptions.

https://www.arible.co

Myself. Getting over a burnout and nervous breakdown.

I am working on a simple image-hosting service. Imagine Imgur, but you can backlink. Additionally, you can resize, crop, and optimize images on the fly. Here's a sample PNG being served as WEBP[1] reduced from 1.5MB to 75KB (no visible reduction in quality, original image [2])

Not a sexy idea, of course. However, I couldn't find any solution that fit my needs for my SSG blog. Services like Cloudinary, and Imagekit are too developer-focused, and popular image sharing websites like Imgur don't allow backlinking.

[1]: https://i.magecdn.com/d2b508/574114_cleanshot_2024_08_25_at_...

[2]: https://i.magecdn.com/d2b508/574114_cleanshot_2024_08_25_at_...

I recently deemed my last project - qtile-bonsai (https://github.com/aravinda0/qtile-bonsai) as 'complete software', with a final release.

It is a layer on top of the qtile window manager that allows for more advanced window arrangements - especially subtabs. It was an itch to scratch and I use it myself.

I am now diddling about with Rust and thinking of trying my hand at a PDF parser library. It's sort of nice when there's an established specs document - like all the requirements are clearly laid out and you don't have to spend time thinking about the scope and product design.

I can implement as much as I want to, have tests, and come back another time when I feel like it.

A game engine for coders.

It comes with a set of tool for your IDE (currently only VSCode) where you can draw sprites, compose music, make SFX right next to your code.

It's still not in v1, it's also my first "serious" C++ project, and life got in the way lately -- I haven't made significant progress in the last month or so

https://github.com/latebit/latebit-engine

Hi! This year I quit my corporate job to work full time on https://crucialexams.com/. This month I am working on expanding our new offerings at https://pmpready.com/ and https://vitalnursingexams.com/. Our platform provides a fun way for students to test their readiness for industry certification exams like the PMP, BCEN, CompTIA, AWS and more. Written in ASP.NET, MySQL as backend and good old Javascript/Bootstrap for the frontend. Nothing fancy, works great!

Working on distribution of that mf https://apps.apple.com/app/id6529520663

Compared to the majority of what I read below, I'm a rank amateur and have no right to post.

I'll do it anyway, as I need to learn to own where I'm at and have a backbone. :)

I'm learning the Zola static site generator and using to to build my blog at https://jeff-mitchell.dev. The focus is my mis-adventures learning the Rust language.

I've found it a challenge to get off my feet with Zola, but I'm slowly figuring things out. Little victory this evening, finally figured out how to get images linked in posts to render properly.

While owning a printer is still a curse (1), and software continues a cloudward spiral (2) I’ve made solid progress on a local-first indie barefoot app for designing and printing labels. I just shipped a new feature where you can use modern JS to build logic for each label, modifying variables, hiding and showing objects, formatting dates, etc. More at https://label.live/guides/add-logic-with-script-variables

[1] https://aftermath.site/printers-suck-so-bad

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41300888

I have a. suite of tolls for developers:

https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode and vice-versa conversion),

https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML and need to clean it up),

https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so well-formed HTML and need to fix it),

https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple tool to HTML encode (escape) a text),

https://www.urlenc.com/ (a simple tool to URL encode (escape) a text),

https://www.gguid.com/ (a customizable GUID generator),

https://www.64baser.com/ (a Base64 and vice-versa encoder),

https://www.hexator.com/ (a Hex and vice-versa encoder),

https://www.cescaper.com/ (a C and C++ string escaper and unescaper) https://www.htmlinstant.com/ (a simple HTML editor).

https://www.notationer.com/ (a tool to switch across (code) notations, like camelCase, PascalCase, snake-case).

Frontend is mostly in React/Next.js (Some older projects have frontend still in the old ASP.NET MVC and Ajax :-)). Where the backend is needed, it is written in .Net/C# and running on Azure.

I'm working on a little site called WGSL Toy, here: https://wgsltoy.com/

It's basically like ShaderToy but for WebGPU instead of WebGL. I started it as I have been doing some Rust + wgpu development for art projects and I need a easy way to play around with shaders.

It's very early in development - you can go and just use it right now. But soon I want to support creating an account, saving / sharing shaders, and eventually go beyond the featureset of ShaderToy by allowing for custom input images / textures.

Code is on github: https://github.com/sdedovic/wgsltoy

We are working on building a funding subscription for impact innovation called Marabou (https://marabou.pro/). Our plan is to allow people to subscribe starting from $50 per month and receive equity in innovative startups that benefit either human health (biotech, femtech, healthtech, longevity, drug repurposing) or environment(climate tech, adaptive tech, renewable energy, mobility, agriculture).

- Here is a short video explainer of WHAT we do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXwUpBp_Kc

- And here's WHY we do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-37CA6-m1Yk&list=PLVJfpLOJQj...

Our first campaign to fund Ethan Perlstein's research to find cures for rare diseases officially starts on Sep 9, but we already opened a pre-campaign. This one is a one-time commitment and it's heavily leaning on the charity side.

- Here's a landing page of campaign https://marabou.pro/perlara/

- And a video where we talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlO8IBQDMBY&t=9s

So my days are now filled with talks with rare disease foundations and influencers as well as usual people who may be willing to support us.

Happy to chat with anyone who is interested either in Marabou or the campaign itself!

I'm working on a Tournament Manager for Pickleball at http://pickleballtourneypro.pages.dev because the current incumbent is very difficult for non-technical people (aka volunteers) to use, and super expensive (10-15% of tournament revenue).

Lot of fun ideas, and hopefully will get used by a large variety of volunteers.

https://snaptail.dev - during the past few days I was exploring concept of single source file applications where you can hide the build system.

I've cobbled together this tool which hides nextjs build system and allows to work with just single file.

It works great for fast prototyping or building an internal/local apps.

edit: repo: https://github.com/rybarix/snaptail

Right now there is an enormous surge in applicant demand.

Talent teams face the challenging task of handling high-volume inbound channels, while maintaining an excellent candidate experience, and dedicating time to high-value recruiting activities.

So I'm working on Hirevire(https://hirevire.com/) to help automate the screening rounds so that talent teams can spend time interviewing only the best candidates.

Making android based TV consoles to play top Android games using key mapper mapping from touch to gamepad.

My wife and I are building Spruce, a Slack app that autocorrects typos in your messages: https://spruce.so/

The motivation behind this was twofold. Firstly, we're both the type of people who often edit our Slack messages (or any other messages like WhatsApp) to correct mistakes. Secondly, my wife is a PMM at a tech company, but she can't code. I've been telling her that anyone can create a decent product with the help of LLMs and tools like Replit, but she usually just rolls her eyes. So, on a flight from London to SF, I suggested we build Spruce. The idea was that she would take the lead and rely on LLMs (ChatGPT + Ollama for when the wonderful Delta internet wasn't working), and she could also treat me as a [more intelligent] LLM. After ~12 hours and a few small arguments, Spruce was born. :)

Some random learnings, top of mind:

1. A non-technical person, even with current LLMs (GPT 4.5), can't go from idea to shipped product without at least some help from a technical person.

2. I now make even more typos because my habit is to type as fast as possible, often without even pressing the space bar. Spruce autocorrects everything in Slack, but when I'm using other products, I feel incomplete.

3. Although I'm practically a native English speaker, it's still my second language. I've added a feature to Spruce, just for myself for now, that DMs me if I make really obvious grammar/English mistakes in my messages. I decided to do this after one of my colleagues, who is very English, said "for prosperity" instead of "for posterity" in several messages, and another said "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes." It's been a very cool development, at least for me! It's fun because a) it has a nice tone, and b) it's not verbose and only nudges you on major mistakes, and only up to twice a day. Anyway, feel free to give it a try: https://spruce.so/

P.S. This Slack app necessarily needs the permissions it has because it needs to be able to read and edit your messages everywhere (e.g., public channels, private channels, DMs, etc.). Don't install it if that freaks you out. However, it's easy to remove Slack apps, so there's no harm in giving it a try.

Aside from bog-standard machine learning for work purposes -- novels! (Because I apparently can't restrict myself to just one.)

You can see some of my world-noodling about aliens that don't need to breathe at: https://rznicolet.com

I've been plotting a series of hard sci-fi novels entirely from the point of view of very not-humanoid aliens. In this case, hard SF = all real physics except for FTL. First manuscript complete. Humans not included in the main series, except as passing footnotes. Let's just say that when I originally started, the pandemic had me feeling a touch misanthropic. We'll see when/how I actually publish these.

I write fantasy stuff, too, though since the blog is relatively new, I haven't started adding that in yet. I'm currently wrapping a sequel to a finished fantasy work (again, publication approach TBD) before switching back to relatively hard sci-fi.

I'm working on readjusting after getting married. It was a big wedding, and for a whole web of reasons I'd rather not post on a public forum, I was responsible for a lot of the cat-herding leading up to the big day. Best day of my life, and my wife and I are overwhelmed with joy. Yet, now it's been a week and I'm still sitting here thinking "...wait, what the hell was I doing 6 months ago?"

The RCL configuration language, https://rcl-lang.org / https://github.com/ruuda/rcl. Lately I'm working on support for floats to complete the json superset promise. Also I added a shorthand for "query --format=raw" to make it more useful as a jq replacement.

simple process manager for linux https://github.com/rprtr258/pm it is inspired by pm2, but much simpler without any js and js integrations

I've been working on OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) for the past 3.5 years - this year I've been focusing on "finishing" my MVPs.

In particular, I've been building functionality for status pages to make it more useful for software teams.

Building a GPU scientific 2D/3D visualization library scaling to millions of points www.datoviz.org -- have been pursuing this idea for ~13 years!

I started publicly inventorying and documenting my collection of vintage print advertisements (https://adretro.com).

The front end CMS is a combination of Notion and Super.so. The backend will be Lucee and MySQL.

I have many thousands of ads I want to catalog just to start. There are so many print ads, cataloging just a fraction will take a lifetime.

I'm developing a custom cataloging system that will allow me to process them more quickly and automate aspects of the management of the collection. I have in mind to eventually make the database available to other collectors.

I am working on https://vidcap.app/

In the process of making the best AI short video generator.

Trying to get some reps with Llms and image gen models.

https://getclipify.com

Thank you for asking! Excitingly, I'm working on maintaining and improving my canvas library. Which is not news because I spend much of my spare time doing this exact same work.

However for this months work, I'm adding new stuff to the library - specifically some new OKLAB/OKLCH filters: something I don't think other canvas libraries have yet got around to considering[1]. And this weekend (a 3 day weekend in the UK) I'm spending time fixing the horror-show code for the reduce-palette (dither) filter[2] to see if I can get it to work just a little bit faster ...

(Fans of small PRs should definitely not click on these links)

[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/94

[2] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/96

I'm a materials science/engineering critter. I'm working on a new method of making single-crystal diamond slabs up to 300mm diameter.

I am working on Loadjitsu (https://loadjitsu.io) It is a modern alternative to JMeter.

Have spent the last few months working on the current release.

It uses rust and Tauri under the hood.

I am working on rss reader / web scraper

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

I’ve been working on (with a couple of friends) a one-click observability solution for Supabase: https://supafana.com

This our first experience in infrastructure SaaS (we opted for Azure) - way harder than we planned for, but seems to work!

I've been working a lot of some games in Python and Panda3D. I want to make somethingusing the joy cons as motion controls. Also been looking into stackless Python for a text based multiplayer game I'm working on.

I need to update my website at some point its been a while.

I've been struggling to find a workflow that can easily extract knowledge and insights from audio content on the web and sync it with note-taking systems such as Notion, Readwise or Obsidian, so I decided to create a system that transcribes the audio, summarizes it and shares it with other applications.

Right now we are only targetting podcasts to Notion as the vertical slice for the MVP, but in the future we're looking to support "connectors" that can take in other forms of content such as audiobooks, videos, etc. and share it to other popular note-taking forms.

It's been an exciting journey so far and we're looking to launch soon!

Last week I made an in-browser notes editor using TipTap & InstantDB! (https://owri.netlify.app/) - the idea is, you can keep all the notes locally and publish only the ones you want. Some things I'd like: - keep track of your writing streak? graphs? - publish your personal site/blog - Write one-off HTML websites that're really just docs+links

Basically a pretty+easy editor! I'm really enjoying building the small features https://owri.netlify.app/share/25a7d985-7cd5-4217-9766-f5296...

Feel free to tell me if there's anything you want!!

New idea: So currently I'm trying to learn leetcodes, but thinking of alternative/structured ways to do it. What if there's an AI-powered book that's basically like your personal Wikipedia into anything?

You start with a topic, it generates you outlines/courses -- and what'd be great is if this was social, like you can see what everyone else is learning about, what nodes they're expanding...

and make notes on topics and ask questions

Hi, I am Software Engineer from India, I am working on https://shoutmemo.com to collect, manage and showcase customers testimonials using embed widget on website. It can also import testimonials from socials like twitter. This is my first side hustle. It is still in beta stage.

Still working on Octarine (https://octarine.app). Recently released Linux images, so more people could try it.

Currently re-writing a bunch of the bundler stuff and how UI takes data in for performance improvements, before shifting gears to building the Windows version!

I've recently been working on SparkShell: https://sparkshell.dev

It's an online development platform similar to other things like Replit, but it's mainly for static site hosting. You can create projects and make custom subdomains for them. You can add libraries to your project in a click of a button, so you don't have to add scripts or CSS files to every single file of yours. I've recently been doing a lot of work on it and I hope to launch it pretty soon.

Hey. I’m building https://www.unwrangle.com to make it easier to scrape data from ecommerce and other sites that are hard to scrape.

It’s like Apify but my goal is to make it easier to use

Currently, I have APIs and scrapers that work with platforms like Google Maps, Yelp and Amazon. The APIs are useful to get data immediately and scrapers to extract information from many URLs.

The plan is to add more general purpose APIs like an HTML API, Markdown API and eventually features to build your own api and scrapers with AI.

There’s a lot of tools in the space nowadays but imo they are all flaky. My intention with unwrangle is to offer a way to scrape any site that just works without the need for any config or complicated pricing. The project is at a little over $1000 MRR. Marketing it has been and continues to be a big challenge. I’m bootstrapping solo and hoping to reach 5-10k MRR in the following months. Plan for that is to consistently improve offering and conduct marketing experiments.

What I find interesting about it: I’m offering easy ways to scrape sites on which antibot is really hard to bypass like Twitter, paywalled sites, LinkedIn, etc. The ability to build crawlers without writing any code is kinda cool. User who would normally not have used web data are scheduling scraping jobs and using the data for analysis. For the HTML API I’m thinking of doing an interesting spin on what others like ScrapingBee are doing and abstracting the needless config like premium proxy etc. and just effectively offering a higher # of requests. Also for the build your own scraper, offering users a way to create a parser with a prompt and use it in a single browser session to collect data from many pages saves hassle compared to a synchronous API approach

I have just finished an AI design agent [0] that gives UI design feedback, but that launch went really poorly.

So now I’m working on learning Golang and loving it! Going to build a backend with it

[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-copilot/hgaldpfd...

Im working on MLJAR Studio, new Python editor perfect for beginners. It has set of interactive code recipes with Graphical Interface. You can create scripts with it. Additionally, it automatically install and import missing packages. It is a kind a new way for visual programming. Most of recupes are ML and AI focused. You can read more on https://mljar.com/docs

Learning Unity. I want to make stupid little games like I used to play on the internet in the early 00’s.

weapons apparently https://www.ft.com/content/17f16071-87e0-4675-a152-6d6285b97...

Navigation using photos. Did not like existing apps, so made an app that lets you match a photo to an (OpenStreetMap.org) background map, and shows your position on that photo during your trip.

Works great with physical maps, screenshots of maps or downloaded pictures of maps. NavigateAnyMap.eu (Android only, sorry!)

Free as in beer, will tell you is uses ads, but have not added them yet (and will make a paid, non-ads version first).

I'm building an open source implementation of the Firebase RTDB server, that will be wire-compatible with Google's. This means that all the (already open sourced) SDKs will work pretty much as is, over REST or websockets. Security rules will also be fully supported. (The only meaningful caveat is that it's just the RTDB, so you need to deal with authentication yourself, and kinda shoehorn it into the existing APIs.)

One of my things is a C-based alternative to react native. https://github.com/petabyt/libui-touch Completely unfinished and incapable.

https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/

it's a free CSV Viewer with charts that supports viewing data in both table and chart formats. It includes features like sorting, searching, filtering, and pagination in table view.

Recently did show hn which didn't go anywhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311629

https://github.com/styluslabs/maps - open-source maps app

I am developing a Pythonic alternative to ArgoCD and FluxCD that uses no CRDs or in-cluster controllers for continuous delivery of applications to Kubernetes clusters

I'm currently working on https://brickranker.com/

It's basically a website for tracking the value of LEGO sets and minifigures. For example see https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures/star-wars for a list of the most valuable LEGO Star Wars minifigures.

You can also catalogue your own collection and track it's value at https://brickranker.com/collections

Im upgrading avx2 to avx512 (where possible) in my reimplementation of RandomX algorithm: https://github.com/patrulek/modernRX

I'm working on a social website where you can share the soft drinks and sodas you try, similar to untappd and maybe swarm, it's not yet ready to share, but I'd love to know if there's any people here that might want to try it (my email is on my profile)

I'm working on an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Forms (because Google is creepy).

It has all the same features plus many more: advanced conditional branching, webhooks, thorough design customisation, better question types (e.g. address autocomplete), etc.

I've bootstrapped it into a (very) small startup. The idea is to maintain an ethics- and privacy-driven form builder that people don't have to trust, since nobody can see your responses. It also makes GDPR way easier for you!

You can try it for free: https://palform.app

Working on an NFL stats & visualisation project, the working title is American Football Insights. It's a hobby project, I'm not planning to charge for. I did a bit of work on this a few years ago, and I found that analysing the stats, you can gain insights, which you can't really from just watching the games. It was prompted by the upcoming NFL season.

Things I'm thinking about...I had an idea for a centralised local DB where I collected all kinds of stats on my life, all in one place. They're already being collected on various platforms, I thought 'why not make them my own, and maybe there's something to gain by pulling them together?'.

I am working on a new type of NFTs.

I found a way to add code to NFTs. The simplest way to understand it is that it is similar to Adobe flash.

I know that NFTs are down, but I have invented a way to add actual utility. I call them xNFTS - executable non fungible tokens. Imagine the famous Ape or Penguin NFTs - by adding my technology, the NFTs can change images, play music, or play games without installing anything.

I got a patent on the process and they work on any blockchain- or even off. the market is down, but I am very excited about tying web2 with web3.

If anyone wants to join or learn more, let me know

I’m learning freeCAD by making a radiator fan shroud for my 1990 Mazda MX-5. I have no idea what I’m doing.

If anyone wants to help out a n00b, I will be forever grateful.

Trying to figure out how to disappear into the ether.

Hey HN! I'm still working on my Docker Swarm dashboard, Lunni: https://lunni.dev/

Lunni essentially takes docker-compose.yml and deploys it on a server. Currently we're using Portainer as the backend, which in turn just runs `docker stack deploy`. I'm reimplementing the stack deployment code from scratch which will allow us to support latest Compose spec and extend it as we need (and perhaps support orchestrators other than Swarm in the future).

I am working on my YC application, not the application itself, but the MVP.

I create mobile drawing app, work same as old snagg.it/sk.itch https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.ngockhanh....

Working on https://www.crawlspider.com

Better visualizations and improvements for internal link building

I'm working on updating the yavaca.com site including the backend written in golang. It allows users to publish an Out-Of-Office (OOO) plan so they can unplug while on vacation. Great for maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

I'm working on updating the https://yavaca.com site including the backend written in golang. It is for users to publish out-of-office (OOO) plans so they can unplug while on vacation. Great for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Having fun with the golang part.

After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to student athletes — aka revenue sharing

We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.

Basically Moneyball-as-a-Service

Hey HN! I'm working on Voop - a b2b phone network, leveraging eSIM & web-based UI we're turning company mobile connectivity into a SaaS. Has been really fun as an engineer getting into the telco stack - networks, switches and traffic routing take me back to university - and commercially it's been fun negotiating with the mobile networks to get wholesale access. Launching later this year in the UK and US next year, can't wait to get it off the ground.

One early achievement was buying voop.com - a very nice man in Arizona had held it since the 90s, and despite being retracted on whois, i worked out how to contact him via his custom ssl certificate on the empty holding site parked at the root domain. After a few emails and follow ups to get a response, I bought it for a not-cheap-but-not-bank-breaking amount.

I work with my small team on the exclusive co-op game Sixth Force, about father and son. Father is AI network developer and son-teenager is the artist. They find themselves trapped inside an AI network simulation and need to get out before the network takes over the world :). Btw your wish listing on Steam is very much welcome to finish the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2830090/Sixth_Force/ :)

I'm tinkering away on a turn-based web game that will ideally mix Counter-Strike with something like Door Kickers / Frozen Synapse etc.

Ideally a way to let people lay out strategies and see them executed by a team, go on - prove you're the best IGL!

It's slow going between a full time job and family life but really great to expand my mind into something that isn't "web dev".

Building blazing speed VPN in less than 1000 lines of code: https://github.com/dvasanth/kadugu

Building Blazing speed VPN in less than 1000 lines of code: https://github.com/dvasanth/kadugu

I've been having a lot of fun building a digital garden for my WIP notes into my personal website: https://mxstbr.com/notes/digital-garden

My quests (goals) with this digital garden are:

1. Publish more than I did when I just had space for essays, which hopefully leads to…

2. Getting more input from people on my ideas

3. And have fun futzing with my digital garden technically

So far, so good!

https://hypv.ai ... prototype ecom platform like Big Commerce etc. but with all the Algolia-type predictive stuff baked into the bare metal so can target content at a much more granular level than trad platforms and has visibilty on much higher-resolution signal data

Working on Pulselyre, a touch-focused Windows app for producing electronic music live. It doesn't output audio on its own, but it lets you configure various virtual "instruments" on screen that can send MIDI note and control messages to other MIDI devices or VSTs configured to receive MIDI messages. You can record notes and events for each instrument and then loop them over a configured number of beats. Also has some other features to make creating music easier, like saving/loading note sequences, an arpeggiator, receiving input from external MIDI controllers/keyboards, and some other stuff. I've been meaning to record a demo video, but I'm not actually very good at playing or making music myself, so I haven't come up with anything presentable yet. I'm also not really married to the name, but it works for now...

https://www.pulselyre.com

It's built using C# and WPF, and a related project I work on is an open source MVVM framework called UpbeatUI for making WPF apps that behave vaguely like mobile apps. It's for apps that have a main bottom layer and modal popups that float above and can be closed by clicking/touching the background. Pulselyre uses UpbeatUI, and I actually originally extracted UpbeatUI from a much older version of Pulselyre.

https://github.com/Pulselyre/UpbeatUI

Just finished a blink reminder app https://blinktracker.app a couple of days ago. Monitors your eyes' blink frequency with a camera and also reminds you to take regular screen breaks.

Somewhat ironically after giving up smoking I take too few breaks and get blurry/dry eyes after long days. The app is a bit overengineered and comes with an api in case you ever wanted to start controlling stuff with blinks. Currently Windows only.

voice controlled browser tab finder/switcher. initial viability stage.

Desperately applying to product design jobs as unemployment stretches into a fifth month.

Keeping myself marginally sane by building a custom browsing experience for my “graphic design reconstructed from dreams” project: https://dreambrief.presteign.com/

Working on an advertising and marketing strategy platform with my brother comprising a series of apps that accelerate workflows and time to insight using AI.

Making a fast, easy to use native work chat app @ noor.to

It's a way to share messages, files, code snippets, links, without worrying about distracting others, or quitting the app yourself to avoid notifications. It uses around 10x less RAM than Slack/Discord/Teams and prioritizes fast moving teams over enterprises. High quality software over features. Features that work rather than half-backed list of smart/AI/notes/wiki/etc bloat.

I'm working on a side hustle to help technical consultants build newsletters. Makes me sad when I see a great technical answer on a slack that I know will help far fewer people than it could.

So this weekend, I'm building some processes and marketing materials and doing some outreach.

A compiler from SQL to type-checked C++ to speed-up an ML pipeline.

Working on serving HTTP requests for Python apps from Go:

https://github.com/mliezun/caddy-snake

Physical therapy for chronic problems I didn't prioritize when I was younger, writing a sci-fi novel, and learning Vulkan.

Professionally, I recently founded a startup focusing on education in dentistry. I've developed a platform to discuss and interact with cases online which I use for my own teaching, and thought other might also be interested. I've made some of the custom components (image editor, 3D viewer) freely available: https://kigun.org/

Personally, I'm building a website which lets you quickly setup personal online dashboards, because I wanted to have an overview of all the sites I refresh often on one page: https://frankendash.com/

I believe typescript / js is missing standard library and find it rewarding to work during weekends on those lower level libraries/modules with no/low dependency fanout, publishing them here [0] when they're ready to see the light.

They're driven by what problems I see at work and while playing with other weekend projects so coverage may be asymmetric (some parts are well covered, others that should be are absent <<ie. documentation>>).

I find definition of success as just "working on it" very pleasant.

[0] https://github.com/preludejs

I am working on an https://evy.app/

Evy is an app for collectors, both professional and casual, to help them keep track of their items and share it with the world. Currently there are either overly complex inventory management systems, which are overkill for casual collectors, or generic social platforms, which are "fine" for everything, but great for nothing. My goal with Evy is to fill this gap by offering an easy way for any collector to manage their items.

In short, it is an asset management system tailored specifically for collectors.

I'm getting to know the ins and outs of GitHub CoPilot, and exploring languages and technologies I've avoided. I'm hoping to get done with a usable Bitgrid Emulator[1] in Javascript/HTML so that I can let people play with the concept and get used to it. I've got stuff working in Pascal[2], but that's not something most people can deal with. I've also got a ton of other stuff up on GitHub that I should poke a bit.

I've spent a lot of time in analysis paralysis and this has given me the kick in the pants to get me going again.

As far as new ideas go, I've already spent time learning Verilog, and hope to get a chip design through the TinyTapeout[3] before too long.

Also, I found out that it only takes a few lines of Python and a lot of time to have an AI rate all my photos locally. That's a work in progress, should be less than 100 lines all told with niceties.[4]

[1] https://mikewarot.github.io/Bitgrid_C/bitgrid_sim.html

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

[3] https://tinytapeout.com/

[4] https://github.com/mikewarot/RateMyPhotos

I have a CS background and work as a data scientist, but my hobby is Christian apologetics:

http://saintbeluga.org

This is my latest article, just published 2 days ago:

https://www.saintbeluga.org/follow-the-evidence-wherever-it-...

I’m working on building a payroll outsourcing company targeting the construction industry. 2,900 employees paid last week! Deep ERP integration is our competitive edge.

Doing my book tour. Speaking at conferences and tech user groups, trying to reach folks interested in self-hosting.

Also working on my homelab. Recently got DocuSeal, changedetection.io, and Actual Budget running.

Hello everyone!

Not sure if I caught the train but still. My name is Max, a software developer based in Central Europe, and I'm working on my course "Building Command-Line Interface App from Scratch in Go" (this is a working title).

In this course I want to teach how to write CLI application from scratch in Go without any external dependencies (exception: driver for DB).

This is not another one course about how to write CLI app using Cobra or any other command-line builder library. Instead, in my course you're gonna write your own Cobra-like command-line builder library (package) to build command-line interface application from scratch.

Thus, you will know how to build an API for building CLI like Cobra and you can use it later on for your future projects. I will also talk about Command-Line Interface Guidelines showing how to make powerful, useful and easy-to-use command-line application which you can use every day in your workflow.

The course is still work in progress and I don't even have a web page for it. But I do have my newsletter where I share best resources about Go. By subscribing to this newsletter you will be notified once course is ready to launch. Also, everyone who's subscribed to my newsletter and will be in first batch to buy a course gets a 50% discount.

So, if you are interested in this kind of stuff join the waitlist for course in my newsletter on https://kovalevsky.io

P.S. I also have daily base newsletter about Go - Daily Golang. If you subscribe to this newsletter you will also be notified once course is ready to launch you and will get 50% discount to buy the course - https://kovalevsky.io/daily-golang.

I wanted to learn more about htmx so I created a very dumb project https://mettag.ulry.app that fetches meta tags of passed urls and displays them nicely in the UI (also provides APIs because why not?). Still have to finish it, especially the err handling part, but it turns out I quite like htmx!

When I was in FAANG I picked up Skyrim modding as a hobby, and this year I'm working on monetizing it, in style.

Working on my lisp interpreter and freestanding programming system. I've more or less finished my ELF patcher and am working on the loader/linker that will form the basis of the foreign function interface of the language. This also laid down the ground work for working with binary structures from within lisp.

I'm also studying electronics and trying to learn circuit and PCB design. I want to buy an uconsole and make boards for it. I contacted the uconsole's power management IC manufacturer and they actually sent me some GPLv2 Linux drivers! I intend to clean it up and port the features to the existing kernel driver so I can upstream it.

I have been making YouTube videos about a project I built a couple of years ago. It took a while to find the time and the right approach to documenting it, but I'm finally happy with the results.

The first video is here: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks (the second is coming out tomorrow)

And it's on GitHub here: https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee

I also recently left the Big Tech world after 11 years at Google, so I'm trying to figure out what comes next. (I don't think I can make professional YouTuber pay the bills). If it's not inappropriate to mention here, my resume is at https://hire.masto.me/

I'm still working on our privacy-friendly web analytics tool Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) like a madman :) I've been doing this for 3 1/2 years now and I'm still super motivated, especially because it's challenging from a technical point of view, and very rewarding (I live off it now).

There is still a lot to do and learn (especially in the marketing department), but we have plans for a new product in the privacy space. I don't want to say too much about it until we've started working on it, but it's in the compliance space and fits quite well with our existing product. I think it's always a good starting point to solve your own problems.

I've been learning io_uring for fun and 0 profit by building a web-based game using only the Rust standard library. I create a simple WebSocket server and am now creating async from the ground up. I'm documenting it all: https://github.com/kilroyjones/series_game_from_scratch

implementing double-entry accounting for the 10,000th time in human history on our ERP/MES product.

— I’m still curating my newsletter / post series focused on humans and their blogs to help people rediscover that part of the web (https://peopleandblogs.com)

— I’m working on a second newsletter that’s more discovery oriented but still focused on the personal web space

— I’m setting up a private, invite only discourse forum to create a space where people can hang out and connect in a more meaningful way

— I’m working on a new studio site in collaboration with a friend

Working on plump.ai – job-seeker's AI hiring agent. Think you have a personal career manager who searches for better job opportunities, applies you to them, speaks with recruiters on your behalf up until the interview scheduling, and does it 24/7 without involving you until real human action is required.

A reimagination of SuperCollider architecture.

* No need to invent a new language, use Python! * Use JIT to compile a SynthDef to a proces function! * Eliminate block_size at runtime by compiling a version of each primitive for every 2^n block size. * Watch the compiler do unrolling, vectorisation and merging loops.

Besides, its fun! https://github.com/mlang/mc1 (Nothing to see yet)

I’m working on a Swift implementation of 802.1Q SRP. Niche interest.

Chillin - Next-Gen AI Video & Motion Editor, I'm working on the online video editor, https://chillin.online. Chillin has a significant advantage over its competitors(veed.io, clipchamp, capcut online), eg it supports mobile devices, offers full keyframe support, no watermark high-resolution video exports, and supports vector motions. So I feel like I am changing the world through this work.

I am creating a RAG trained with HN post "Who is hiring". It's nothing special, but it's just a simple project to get confident with LLMs and prompt engineering

I am working on a strategy game. I call it The Lost Age Of Abundance. A multi-player, real-time war-and-economics game. It is the kind of game that most developers would typically take a turn-based approach to, but I think turn-based games are mostly boring, so in this case it is real-time. My plan is that at least 100 players can play at once, but perhaps I might be able to get that up to 1,000.

There are some unusual things about the game. To win, you have to conquer all of the land. However, no player is ever knocked out of the game. If you lose all of your land, you can simply become a guerrilla leader and engage in guerrilla warfare, in the hopes of turning your situation around. Being a guerrilla leader is difficult, but if all of the guerrilla leaders form an alliance, they might have the strength to reduce the power of whoever is winning at that moment. Every player starts off as a Noble Lord but you can become a Priest or a Communist or an Anarchist. (The Anarchists have a unique way of winning, which does not involve conquest.)

I have been working, for months, on the economics, which are very complex and I think very interesting. All prices start off randomized (within certain bands) so there are no "good units" or "bad units" only those that are under priced or over priced. There is an economic cycle that runs once every 60 seconds. It takes all purchases and turns the money spent into inflation. Specifically, the percentage of total world GDP that was spent on a particular product is the inflation rate, so if all of the players collectively spent 2% of their income buying swords, so 2% of total world GDP was spent on swords, then the price of swords goes up 2% for that minute. In this way, with players buying what is under-priced and thus driving up prices, the prices are pushed to their rational levels. Also, the inflation rate tells you something important about what other players are doing. If you notice the price of horses is going up at an alarming rate, it means one (or more) of the players is spending heavily to build a large cavalry force. The economics are entirely deterministic, based on the activity of the players, there are no random events. There are no randomly generated earthquakes or floods or NPC invasions. Every change arises from the actions of the players.

I was originally going to give the game the historical setting of the Chinese Warring States period, but then I decided to go with more of a fantasy theme. But there is nothing overtly fantasy in the game, it's simply that there are many myths, which the peasants might genuinely believe, that explain how the Empire Of Abundance was transformed into the Ruined Lands. The peasants are looking for some leader who can restore the Lost Age Of Abundance. The peasants (NPCs) will switch their loyalty to whoever they think can win. Occasionally some peasant will become a True Believer, in which case their loyalty is fixed for the rest of the game. That means even if their chosen leader is defeated and becomes a guerrilla leader, the peasant will remain loyal to them, and secretly send them small amounts of money, to help them recover.

If your peasants think you are doing a terrible job with the economy, they will emigrate to the lands of one of your enemies. You can seal the border, to stop the emigration, but the peasants treat this as tantamount to putting them in prison, so their morale will plunge. If their morale gets low enough, they will switch their loyalty away from you and to any nearby guerrilla leader.

There are 3 games in this game:

1. the military game

2. the economics game

3. the spy game

The military game and the economics game are entirely deterministic. At no point does the software "roll the dice". Combat is as deterministic as in the game of chess.

The spy game does use probability. If you torture a peasant then there is an 80% chance they will tell you the true. If you are wondering if one of your peasants has become a True Believer for one of your opponents, you can torture the peasant to get them to confess. There is an 80% chance that whatever they tell you is the truth.

I have almost zero graphics for this game, so I think it will only appeal to a limited set of people who are interested in a game with a very dynamic economics system. The point of view is basically that of a ruler sitting on their throne in their capitol -- they only hear the reports brought to them by messengers. They cannot see the economy, they can only read the reports and graphs given to them by their court scribes. Likewise, with battles. In that sense, the whole game is a bit abstract, but I hope it will appeal to some niche that wants something complex.

I’m working on an Open Source SQLite VFS extension with modern encryption using libsodium. Using the VFS instead of adapting the source like SQLcipher is not straightforward but feasible. I hope that a modern encryption library, extensive testing and using vanilla SQLite source can convince users to give the extension a chance.

Trying to expand on a quirky travel website populated by AI content. Working on adding countries, regions, areas (e.g. ski resorts), etc.: https://meoweler.com

The quality of the generated content is surprisingly good, but there are many stereotypes and mistakes that I'm fixing in the next mass generation pass.

Been working on a small temperature and humidity sensor using cheap components and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Using https://gokrazy.org/ to turn it in to a little appliance.

I've gotten quite carried away with a web interface and custom on-disk (on-sd card?) storage format based on Facebook's Gorilla paper.

I've realised that where it'll be deployed it will only have access to a public guest WiFi, so a remote server hosting the dashboard makes sense. So now it sends the compressed time-series over a TCP connection to a server component, hoping to bypass WiFi captive portals. Might need to use UDP to make it look like DNS or perhaps NTP. I haven't tested it on-site yet.

It has been a very fun and rewarding project so far. Looking forward to deploying it and getting remote updates working if I can get it to work with Tailscale on the guest WiFi. If anyone has any tips on circumventing captive portals and sending really small amounts of data through, I'd love to hear it!

I rewrote https://github.com/laktak/chkbit in Go because Python packaging was so frustrating. With Go you can just build for any platform without spinning up multiple VMs.

i've been working on a webhook to instant messaging service called https://hooks.im after reading about a similar project here on hacker news (i think it was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41144227). you can create webhooks, get a receiver-url that you can send your webhook invocations to and receive webhooks via im (currently only telegram). i've also added a jq-like template engine to reformat the request bodies (if wanted) to extract specific information. (only works for json bodies, obviously)

this is all in super early non-peer-tested alpha (if anything), so feel free to try it out and give feedback :)

I'm working on my email forwarding app https://mailwip.com to enhance and control my email.

Working on adding many small features such as webhook, email parser.

Few recent side projects:

- a fact management tool based on a timeline. I have a complex legal situation, so I created a tool to store information about events. I can prioritize and tag the events, attach files to them, and have small workflow on them, and then filter the timeline based on the tags/priorities/workflow states. It is very helpful, because the amount of events and data was too much to handle mentally. I am using Django/HTMX/AlpineJS.

- a dance event calendar for dance events in Finland, where both artists and venues can add events. The data is stuctured, which allows me to make views for each performer, venue etc. Mostly Django, but some HTMX/AlpineJS as well for complex screens

- for the dance event calendar, I have created a support site that uses ChatGPT to handle two first steps for incoming support emails/questions. First it categorizes the question, and then tries to answer it based on FAQ. If it fails, it summarizes the issue (and possibly asks few basic questions related to it) and forwards it to me.

I'm working on a cross-platform file search utility: https://ksylvestre.itch.io/mightygrep

I based it off of an old win32 application that is no longer receiving updates. Release cadence has been about once per month.

Still working to get my one-way video interviewing startup off the ground - http://www.vesume.net

I’m working on a lightweight tool that corrects grammar using an LLM: https://correctly.app

Working on a virtual file system with Dokana (C#), to enable a cloud-backed storage solution in the video editing space. It is kicking my ass.

I'm working on a new approach to assess engineering candidates. Lot's of good HN discussion around this, it's been fun to read. https://ropes.ai

Tried to rewrite the Javascript 3D library three.js to make it smaller and more specialized for my game. Today I’m ending that and instead starting to write a 3D engine from scratch with the knowledge I learned from this rewrite process. Less object orientation and code organization, in order to get to the core of what happens in the machine (the phone/computer). There is enough complexity in the OS+browser to get through to use the device’s full power, so I at least try to remove all complexity possible from the code. Make it use less memory, download time and CPU time, and also make it go through the Javascript parser and bytecode converter as smoothly as possible. Then minimize the number of draw calls (that’s often what takes most time in the GPU) so I can render more varied graphics at the same speed (if less time is spent on sending data back and forth to the GPU, more time can be spent doing cool stuff in the shader code, I guess?).

I'm working on planning next year's Square Foot Garden and building some tools to help me figure out staggering and succession planting--trying to be self-sufficient this year. I'm also working on a cookbook that focuses on "composable" meals and minimizing kitchen waste.

I'm making a cyberpunk-like ttrpg system, that should be roughly backwards compatible with the old gear catalogs. But it adds better progressions, some fairly innovative (I think) die rolling systems that make better use of party skills, and a number of ways that roleplay changes the rules, and visa versa.

I'm trying to push the boundaries of SQL by building Anyquery[1]. It's a SQL query engine that allows you to run queries on anything (GitHub, Todoist, Parquet, Google Sheets, logs, emails, etc.)

It's mental gymnastics to transform different data sources (e.g. a spreadsheet) into a SQL database with write support, but I do enjoy the journey and learn a lot from it.

[1] https://github.com/julien040/anyquery

Multiple iOS Apps.

https://www.plainweb.dev is my shot at making web development simpler.

my bet is that most companies and solo devs only need a single process and sqlite to drive revenue.

i’m considering switching from tsx to bun, but i’m hesitating because of some missing node 20 api.

I've been working on something to handle the "plumbing for your observability". It's a way to collect, stream, and route observability data that can get it from and into a wide variety of systems.

It's not targeted at the 'cloud native' crowd, but rather more at traditional on-prem infra.

It is all manageable via an API and provides a Kafka API for streaming data (RedPanda under the hood).

Name: Morio Documentation: https://morio.it/ Code: https://github.com/certeu/morio

Note: here is no commercial angle here. This is an open source project of (the CERT of) the EU (license: EUPL).

Secondary applications for med school - once your initial single app gets processed, every school (out of the 20+ you apply to) wants multiple essays from you. The process of preparing for and applying to med school is a nightmare and consumed the last two years of my life. I've had a lot of really cool life experiences because of it though, learned so much about medicine, and done some actual good. But I just want to get in this cycle and be done with endless essay writing.

I've been working on and off on building an app for learning chest x-ray interpretation, but that's shelved until I finish applications.

I've created a two player wordle style game. https://twordle.app

The backend is a web socket server written in go and the frontend is solidjs. Two technologies I've been wanting to use properly in a project for a while. Would recommend this to anyone wanting to improve their understanding of go's concurrency model. I've really enjoyed working on it, if anyone can think of any improvements please let me know!

I have started working on some open source actuarial tooling. Mostly relevant for non-life pricing.

The open tooling is quite lacking in the sense that one has to create a lot of stuff manually. Especially for the evaluations, even though most of them are quite common in the actuarial realm.

Also I wanted to tinker with Jax. So I am basing all on Jax, polars, seaborn/matplotlib and scipy.

I already have lift plots and Poisson regression in Jax. I’ll keep adding to it over the next months as time allows.

A small tool to align two versions of a video with each other, that have the same video (e.g same cut of a show or movie), but different audio tracks, so that the audio track from one can be merged into the other. The primary use case is to merge native BluRay rips that only have native language audio with dubbed audio from DVD or VHS rips. Should help simplify my media collection and cut down on storage.

Uses the scenedetect Python library to locate scene breaks and then uses perceptual hashing to find points for alignment. Also will include a small webapp to debug and adjust things manually in difficult cases.

I'm current building web browser AI agents (can do anything the browser can do via prompting, logging in, scraping, can code websites with the data it scrapes etc.) going to ship next week! if anyone wants to join our beta lmk.

Building a word game for my mom: https://little-riddle.com/

I'm putting together something to program Anytone AT878 DMR radios for amateur radio use using a web browser.

https://github.com/jasiek/webprog-anytone

Almost finished a short story I started writing about a year ago. It is about SEO.

Edit: Two from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories

WebForge IDE - develop for the web on iOS.

Rich text editor, run PHP and NodeJS on device, manage Git repos, and view your projects in a built-in browser that includes dev tools.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webforge-ide/id6450872424

A NES emulator in Typescript targeting the browser. I've been using the Messenger emulator with cycle-accurate emulation to hone it. This stems from my interest in low-level machine code and understanding how computers work. I want to eventually write my own virtual machine and create a functional programming language on top of it.

I am working on ByteChef(https://github.com/bytechefhq/bytechef). It is an open-source, low-code, extendable API integration and workflow automation platform. It automates daily routines that require interaction between independent business applications. ByteChef maintains automation definitions in an easy-to-understand workflow format.

I have been working on a platform for digital content creators where they can sell their work or build online communities. In a few weeks it will be exactly two years since I started. I had a 6 month break but beside that it was daily grind from morning to evening. I'll be going online later this year.

Most funny thing is that the toughest part related to the project had nothing to do with coding or tech. But finding a free domain. I had no idea 99% of the .com domains are just squatters.

I’ve been working on the same side project since nearly a year now.

Self Host Blocks https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks is a modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices. The manual can be found here https://shb.skarabox.com/

Compared to others, its goal is to make best practices easy, be declarative, robust and fully featured.

I’m a self hosting and data sovereignty advocate and this project is my contribution to this space.

Best practices easy is made by adding a layer on top of the stock nixpkgs modules that make for example Vaultwarden easy to secure (/admin behind SSO with Authelia) and easy to backup. One doesn’t need to understand how to setup Authelia nor what folders to backup. That is taken care for you. https://shb.skarabox.com/services-vaultwarden.html

Declarative is taken care by NixOS but it goes further than the stock nixpkgs modules. For example it installs the needed Nextcloud apps for LDAP and SSO fully unattended. https://shb.skarabox.com/services-nextcloud.html#services-ne...

Robust thanks NixOS being a declarative OS, for example by adding a grub menu for every new deployment, making rollbacks easy. But also thanks to extensive tests that for example validates that the SSO integrations do not break on upgrades.

Fully featured because for every service it provides, it makes setting up the reverse proxy, backup, LDAP, SSO, etc. easy and importantly in a standardized way thanks to contracts I’m adding https://shb.skarabox.com/contracts.html

All of this is not meant to stay in this project though. I’m slowly working towards upstreaming everything into nixpkgs. I’m starting with upstreaming a feature that allows out of band secrets to be interpolated into config files easily https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/328472 I make extensive use of this is Self Host Blocks already.

Finally, I’m using this project for my home server and one in my parent’s place. So I’m using it in “prod” already.

I just published the first issue our digital zine, Forest Friends. The first issue is on "LLM System Evals in the Wild".

Lots of AI engineerers are doing vibes-based engineering, just eyeballing the LLM output and saying "LGTM!". This is a good place to start, as we all should look at our data more. But it's best to move on from vibes to system evals.

The first issue is on how to design and build system evals for a systematic way to gauge how well your LLM app is doing. That way, no matter if there are new models, new users, or new queries, you can be sure you're continuously improving, rather than allowing regressions.

You can buy the first issue here:

https://issue1.forestfriends.tech/

And if you want to keep abreast of the next issue, you can subscribe here:

https://forestfriends.tech

Reproducing this cheap optogenetic rig to control e. coli gene expression using light.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.13.499906v1

I'm working on my tech interview platform: https://onlineinterview.io/ It is a free platform that allows people to develop on the browser using multiple programming languages, draw on a shared board and talk over video.

I was working on reading the comments on this post, and got tired of scrolling with the mousepad. I had not used any of the LLMs in a few weeks now and wanted to see how they fared for writing a web extension to let me browse hacker news via arrow keys and the "prev" and "next" comment buttons. My goal was to write 0 lines of code myself and rely solely on copy-pasting(successful in my eyes). ChatGPT 4o disappointed me on getting a final product, but Claude Sonnet blew me away enough to push me to pull out my credit card to subscribe to a pro plan.

All that to say I "worked" on a chrome extension to let you browse a hacker news post via arrow keys: https://github.com/humishum/hacker_news_keys.

(While typing this I found that the arrow key actions are still active while in the textbox, time for claude to provide me a fix!)

I am working alone on MyApps [1], an app of apps where you can spawn any number of pre-defined "app windows" into a zoomable, pannable infinite 2D space. Currently it only features a clone of PureRef. It runs Gundb in the backend, providing a privacy friendly, p2p syncing organization tools.

[1] https://github.com/hrkck/MyApps/wiki

Mostly just learning Finnish. I tried to get started on the Georgia Tech online master's in CS, but between that, a quite stressful full-time job, and a happy pregnant wife, I just found it was stretching my nerves too thin.

I'll come back to it once I'm farther along in my language learning journey and want to take my foot off the gas pedal a bit.

I have been working on two projects:

- https://formlick.com : A typeform alternative with lifetime deal

- https://aye.so : Create your link in bio in bento style using the widgets

Smart assistant for kids that takes on the personality of their toys. Christmas gift for my nieces and nephews, so I am building four of them.

Raspberry Pi5 + RFID reader, touchscreen, and some 3d printed enclosures. Going to get a lightweight LLM to run on the Pi5 and some custom interactive software.

I just started this project about two weeks ago, but I've been tinkering with the hardware side of electronics lately and this is the culmination of about 18 months of various hobby projects.

I’m constructing my house alongside a small crew, who are guiding me through the process of welding, erecting brick walls, and laying porcelain tiles. While I’m definitely slowing them down, it’s been an incredibly rewarding experience.

Stenography/text expansion app that emulates a Bluetooth keyboard. Combines regular character entry, stenography, and fast autocomplete using an N-gram language model (lower latency than an LLM, more transparent/debuggable, no need to cap vocabulary size for embedding).

For the past few weeks I have been working on Enhance [0], a SaaS to help game developers easily add leaderboards, friendlists, store players' data, in-app currency store and purchases, and marketing tools such as email list and website builder and hosting.

I am almost done with the landing page and don't think I'll put much more into it, and will continue working on the API itself. But I still plan on adding a playable game into the 3D scene just for the sake of it and to learn. But so far I'm struggling at projecting a 3D camera render to a texture inside an already existing 3D context.

[0] https://the-project-e609e.web.app/ (temporary domain for development)

rehabbing an old bike. also, bookhead, software for bookstores to sell online: https://www.bookhead.net/

https://wegrok.review

I'm working on trying to make code reviews easier, faster, and more powerful. Adding rule based automation to check for common errors.

I built a simple teleprompter web app to help record talking head videos with the front camera of my MacBook this week.

Link: https://camprompter.app

The insight is that if you read text from a tiny enough box right below the front camera on the MacBook, it appears as if you're talking to the camera.

Boom! Easy Eye Contact With Camera.

I scrunched up the Notion app and placed it as well as I could in the safe area to test it out for a couple of videos, but then I just wrote a web app because it seemed like the next logical step.

Once you paste the script and hit play... you can only see the text in the safe area so your eyes don't wander.

Fire up PhotoBooth and try it out!

PS: Press F for fullscreen.

Working on building the largest database of LEGO minifigure user ratings at https://brickelo.com/

I've been working on a pretty basic who's that pokemon game for a little while. There's quite a few online but none quite scratched the itch for me.

Still got a big list of improvements to make but I'm quite happy with how it's coming together.

https://whos-that-pokemon.gicelascona.org/

https://gimli.app/

I'm working on my Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap DevTools browser extensions.

Billing platform for an E&S Policy administrator and marketing for the small business I work for.

https://UpVPN.app : A modern Serverless VPN

Currently trying to get new apps for Apple platform published and going through App Store review process..

Existing apps are open source here: https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app