I am working on Sciter.GLX - Sciter Engine (HTML/CSS/JS) combined with OpenGL runtime working on all platforms, even on those that do not support OpenGL natively (e.g. Windows/ARM and MacOS).

Sciter offers access to OpenGL as by WebGL/JS as by native OpenGL API access.

Idea is simple: pretty much any 3D application needs some form of 2D UI/Chrome. And so Sciter.GLX provides just that - HTML/CSS/JS UI with <webgl> islands.

Sciter.GLX is also about direct support of as Wayland as X11 on Linux.

Check preview: https://sciter.com/sciter-glx-generation-4/

I'm working on my scifi novel. I had started writing it when LLMs started taking off - I had been doing AI for two decades and I was well-placed to be in a good position to profit with the rise of LLMs, but I ended up gaining nothing much and I was depressed about it - so I started writing instead. Been picking at it for about a year before befriending an editor who encouraged me to keep writing. He's helped me developmentally edit it to a point I am now ready to work on my second draft.

It's a hard scifi novel with mild existential horror tones that is borne mostly of maths jokes. At one point the main character tries to escape the matrix (reality). But the matrix is defective, so the best way out was to orthogonalize the subspace and reduce the matrix to its eigenbasis instead. Most of the scenes are based on similar maths jokes.

Tentative name is Diagonalization of the Meta (I had previously called it The Metaverse).

I'm building an app to help organize information in Genealogical research (family trees/family history) - a few months ago I started doing some family research and I was struck by how many of the resources are owned by one company (Ancestry). I want to have an option that isn't within that ecosystem, and none of the other solutions I found had exactly what I wanted in terms.

The plan is to open source it once I feel good about it.

I don't have anything to show off yet but maybe by the time this thread comes around next month I will :)

I learned how to weld (MIG) and built a giant mushroom to house a mannequin I dubbed "the mushroom man" over about 100 hours in the last 4 weeks. I covered the outside with thick foam panels cut to size, cementing them in place with copious amounts of spray foam. I shaved the outside to a nice shape with a sawzall and the inside I covered in chicken-fenced, then attached a painters tarp to that (so it could be painted on).

To fit on a trailer (the mushroom's cap is 11.5ft wide) the cap comes off the stem and the edges of the cap are two half-moons which have fixed mounting points where threaded rod sticks through some welded washers, and a nut is put on in place. I was too last minute to install the 200 WS2811 pixels and have them run some cool patterns, before the music festival I brought it to came time, but even just a lantern on top (another painters tarp covered the cap's metal-frame, and everything was spray painted) looked great.

Super fun project. Expensive, but I learned a lot, got to be creative, and I'm happy to try out new things and make the best of my before-children time. Also, it was such a joy seeing people croud around the mushroom (and site beside the mushroom man inside) at night during the festival.

https://bauble.studio/ is a programmatic 3D art playground that I've been working on for a while now, and I'm pretty excited about it! It's based around signed distance functions, which are a way to represent 3D shapes as, well, functions, and you can do a lot of like weird mathematical distortions and operations that give you cool new shapes. Like average two shapes together, or take the modulo of space to infinitely repeat something... it's a really fun and powerful way to make certain kinds of shapes.

SDFs are very cool in general, and widely used in the generative art communities, but kinda hard to wrangle when you're writing shader code directly. They really are functions, but GLSL doesn't support first-class functions, so if you want to compose shapes you have to manually plumb a bunch of arguments around. So Bauble is essentially a high-level GLSL compiler that lets you model SDFs as first-class values, and as a result you can make a pretty cool 3D shape in just a few lines of code. And then 3D print them!

I need to do some actual work to promote and publicize it once I'm done with the documentation and implement a few more primitives, but it's very close!

The docs have lots of examples of the sorts of things you can do with SDFs: https://bauble.studio/help/

And for examples of some "art" that I've made with it recently:

https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1839061056301445451 https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1839649510597013592 https://x.com/ianthehenry/status/1827461714524434883

https://www.strengthjourneys.xyz/

I'm working on an open-source web app to visualize barbell lifts.

Basically trying to provide the best motivation and resources to help people invest in their physical strength which is crucial to health and longevity.

I'm keeping it strictly based on user Google Sheet data - because over the years I've changed apps and it's always hard to get your data out.

So far I have:

- lots of charts

- an cgpt wrapper to talk to your lifting data and get lifting advice

- the best strength calculators (in my opinion)

- a strength ranking system for squat, bench press, deadlift and strict press.

Tech stack:

- Next.js on Vercel

- ShadcnUI components (the charts are great)

- nextauth

- Tailwind CSS

- ChatGPT 4o

https://www.strengthjourneys.xyz/

https://github.com/wayneschuller/strengthjourneys

I'm working on https://nuenki.app/, a language learning tool. It teaches you a language while you procrastinate by inserting translations of appropriate-difficulty sentences into webpages as you browse HN etc.

Currently trying to reduce costs by switching from using DeepL (high quality, low latency, high cost) everywhere to a hybrid that also uses Claude (high quality, high latency, low cost) for text that is far from the user. Also experimenting with Gemma 2 9B via Groq to go in between them, but it's bad at following instructions and I don't quite trust the quality numbers I'm seeing for it (they're benchmarked with gpt-4o as a judge).

I'm also trying to work out marketing. I'm not good at it, and I dislike it, but I need to get good at it. Currently considering Reddit ads for awareness, some content marketing going over the technical details (there's some fun language processing and performance optimisations), and... I feel that's not enough, but I'm not sure what to add to that.

I'm running on very little budget (I just left school and I'd rather not go into my limited savings over this), so I can't afford to just throw money at ads.

About to start work on a side project. A map-driven web database of films, TV series, books, thatre and computer games based on where and when they are set. So if you want to watch something set in 1880s Paris, you can. Or you want to see something set in China in the 17th century.

Cute names welcome :)

Building a web app that lets me do math and chemistry problems on an infinite canvas with a drawing tablet. After finishing the problem, I can open up an integrated text editor (with vim bindings) that lets me create Anki flashcards about the problem, letting me copy different portions of the handwritten/hand-drawn stuff onto the flashcard.

I developed a very simple compiler to specify flashcard content. Anything inside brackets is considered the "back" of the flashcard (cloze) in Anki. The @n references the nth group in the canvas, and copies those svg paths into the flashcard.

Example card:

  How do you solve for x in this problem?
  @0 // handwritten text of 2x = 4
  
  [ 
  Divide both sides by 2, them simplify
  ]

I wish educators and educational institutions would make an attempt to incorporate SRS into classes. I think it would help a lot of students, especially for cumulative final exams.

Edit: Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Yaq7vBx

I've been working on https://wut.dev in my spare time.

It's essentially a simpler, read-only, AWS dashboard where everything is a filterable, searchable, exportable-to-CSV table, with some extra features like multi-region mode, saved notes, and a debugger for access denied errors.

It uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript, so everything is run client-side from your browser. I'm not 100% sure what direction I'm taking it yet, but it's been fun to hack on!

There's a live demo here: https://wut.dev/?service=ec2&type=instances&demo=true if you want to try it out.

I'm going to be a dad next year, so I've been thinking about how to baby-proof areas of my house while allowing my cat freedom of navigation.

My wife is an English teacher, so I've been building little educational games for her to try in the classroom. My latest attempt is a proof-reading game https://frogs.cool Currently I'm using wikipedia articles but I'm working on adding a variety of age appropriate texts in different genres.

API tool to automate all the stuff Postman makes painful: https://callosum.dev Spec generation from request logs, automatic schema generation and validation, test generation (eventually), totally offline, no accounts or cloud sync necessary!

Been taking longer than I hoped but should be released soon (next few days)

I spent a week building a website that is a repository of timeless content. It generally consists of old magazine articles (though not exclusively) that you can pick up at any time and will bring value to your life. I notice most of what we consume on daily basis is ephemeral and not all that valuable outside of the moment, whereas ever-present content is always valuable.

The unique angle here is that each article includes a hand-written summary explaining why the article was meaningful to the curator. This gives you a quick window into the piece without being overwhelming.

Since this is a free website mostly to be shared with friends and family, I implemented user login via "phone number" to save and submit articles, but without a one-time token. So it's "password-less" for now; a trust-based system.

It's basically 'done' - but I'm not sure that I want to share it publicly for the aforementioned reasons. I've been using it on my subway rides to read more interesting stuff. So far so good.

screenshot - https://i.imgur.com/8kIrgBt.png

I'm working on a production version that allows for the cloning of identification cards with or without RFID using a 7 color epaper display I call psychic paper. Raw BOM is ~$100 I presented it at skywalks and defcon 32.

The hardware and software is really all built out the real thing is to find the right epaper display (4.01 inch 7 color display) and an easy way to display the badge. I moved to a pimoroni instead of waveshare due to an easier way to program the system . See https://github.com/zitterbewegung/psychic_paper

If you want to follow the development see https://discord.gg/xE4TmkSc

I'm building a greenhouse. The frame is done, and I've got plastic and a door on it. Next, I'd like to build boxes to hold soil and allow for easy watering.

Working on a next-gen Java build tool, Mill https://mill-build.org/mill/Java_Intro_to_Mill.html

There's been a lot of innovation in build tools for other languages recently: turborepo, nx, poetry. Also Monorepo build tools like Bazel, Pants, or Buck. Mill aims to bring a lot of those innovations to the JVM ecosystem which is currently dominated by old stalwarts like Maven (circa 2004) or Gradle (2008), which although improving definitely have the weight of legacy holding back their potential

Mill brings things like automatic task caching, side-effect-free build tasks, automatic parallalization, automatic detection of task dependencies, task sandboxing/isolation, and other things that are table stakes in modern build tools, along with a concise strongly typed build language with excellent IDE support to make condiguring your build easy and safe (no more yaml!)

Getting my historical fiction novel published. I finished writing it a couple of months back. Extremely short plot summary: guy deserts from the Roman XI legion, goes back home only to find that his entire province is about to revolt against the Roman Empire at the height of its power. It's one of the most spectacular feats of collective self-immolation in human history and it had a large effect on human history. I think not enough has been written about the role of abject stupidity in human affairs. This book is an attempt to correct that.

Building algorithmic trading models. So far results continue to be good with every model outperforming the market on both absolute and risk-adjusted basis since going live.

Since launching https://grizzlybulls.com in January 2022:

Model | Return | Max drawdown

-------------------

S&P 500 (benchmark) | 21.51% | -27.56%

VIX TA Macro MP Extreme | 64.21% | -16.48%

VIX TA Macro Advanced| 59.13% | -19.12%

VIX TA Advanced | 35.20% | -22.96%

VIX Advanced | 33.39% | -23.93%

VIX Basic | 24.29% | -24.23%

TA - Mean Reversion | 22.30% | -19.92%

TA - Trend | 27.07% | -24.98%

This is an unleveraged, apples to apples comparison. These are not high frequency trading models. Most of them only change signal once every 2-4 weeks on average. During long signals, the models are simply long the S&P 500 and during short signals, they go to cash.

One of the pros of this macro swing-trading/hedging style is high tax efficiency, by holding a core ETF long position that never gets sold and then selling S&P 500 futures (ES or MES) of equal value to the ETFs against the long position. This way your account will accumulate unrealized capital gains indefinitely and you'll only pay tax on the net result of successful hedging. The cherry on top is that the S&P 500 futures are section 1256 contracts that are taxed at 60% long term / 40% short term capital gains rates regardless of the duration they are held.

The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom built. Most important are various VIX metrics (absolute level, VIX futures curve shape/slope, divergences against S&P 500 price, etc), trend-following TA metrics (MACD, EMV, etc), mean-reversion TA metrics (Bollinger Bands, CMO, etc), macroeconomic (unemployment, housing starts, leading composite), and monetary policy (yield curve inversion, equity risk premium, dot plot, etc). They've been backtested very cautiously to avoid overfitting to the best of my ability.

I'm working on https://chivesbot.com/, a GitHub Slack app.

I was frustrated by GitHub's official Slack integration and the lack of certain customization and filtering capabilities. For example, I wanted to be able to send all production deployments to a specific Slack channel, but I couldn't.

Just uploaded the most complete and fine-grained dataset of Parliamentary election results for my country, Namibia. (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...)

Official data sharing practices are poor - results are are often in the wrong format or not available at all. I had to be quite resourceful to put this all together. As I transition out of academia I hope this sort of data helps others do interesting work.

I'm working on my hobby operating system written in Rust. It is completely text-based, but the console was lacking a scrollback buffer until this week. It's a simple feature, really, but having to redirect anything that outputs more than one screen to a file to read it was a pain. I'm happy to finally have it!

This weekend, I also made good progress on user-space memory and found a workaround for some issues I had. I still need to implement it the right way, though. After a few years on the project, the thing that is giving me the most trouble is grokking the concept of page tables.

https://moros.cc

https://github.com/vinc/moros

I’m working on https://www.zonehero.io/ to deliver a cost effective alternative to AWS native load balancing (ALB).

We already had a PoC which saved our customer 50% vs ALB (in their case that’s more than a million dollars a year), we’re now working on tooling and scaling the solution up!

Next we want to bring wasm modules to the lbs, to do edge traffic curation, bring your own model, etc.

In technical terms, we offer a fully managed control plane for an optimised version of envoy running on EC2, and we react in near real time to avoid unnecessary cross AZ traffic (the key to the costs savings).

Good timing, as I just put the finishing touches on this month's devlog:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/september-2024-113011369?utm_m...

Basically, my rhythm-based roguelike on original NES now has a proper economy, with gold gain and shops to spend the gold in. It also now supports PAL and Dendy systems, which is especially wonky due to the different framerate, but helped a bit by this being a rhythm game. As long as the music plays at the correct tempo, the rest of the game adapts its speed and "feels" correct at the lower framerate.

Tons of work left to do, most of it pixel art (I'm learning as I go) but it's progressing quite nicely.

Building a little CLI tool that stores API requests and spins up a small REST server that allows them to be pinged. This stemmed from being on a flight, not wanting to buy WiFi, or the WiFi being slow and I just want to build something around an API.

I called it gofaux: https://github.com/tjb/gofaux

A system to manage software metadata and SBOMs in particularly. This is based on our existing relizahub.com and will implement upcoming Transparency Exchange API - https://github.com/CycloneDX/transparency-exchange-api/

A new robotics framework - https://basisrobotics.tech/

Very testing and production focused. Biggest competitor is ROS though there’s some others popping up now. Our first public release is going to be within a month, I’m excited.

Hi everyone!

I’m currently enhancing the documentation for my project, PGQueuer.

About PGQueuer: PGQueuer is a minimalist, high-performance job queue library for Python, leveraging PostgreSQL’s LISTEN/NOTIFY for efficient job management. It’s perfect for handling background tasks and managing workflows with simplicity and reliability

https://github.com/janbjorge/pgqueuer

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

I cofounded a remote startup in 2021 that I ended up leaving after a few years because I found the remote culture to be very isolating and I didn't feel like it would lead to a successful company. Many companies have started implementing return to office policies that unfortunately don't make sense for a lot of employees. I wanted to build this site to give people the power to find good jobs, companies, and teams that are convenient for them. Let me know if you have any feedback or want to post a job on it!

I'm plugging away on my BitGrid project.... a Turing complete stripped down version of an FPGA without routing fabric and with added delays (for reasons). I'm learning KiCad 8.0, so I can do schematics and build a prototype cell out of TTL.[1]

I'm also re-acquainting myself with Verilog so I can do an ASIC prototype through TinyTapeout. The main question that I hope to answer is just how much power a bitgrid cell actually consumes, both static and dynamic. If it's low enough, then it'll give Petaflops to the masses, if not.. it's a curiosity.

Along that path, I've learned that the configuration memory for the LUTs is going to consume most of the silicon. Since it's all just D flip-flops... I figured I could dual-use it as memory without loss of generalization. You can virtually add 2 bytes of memory in a cell in any of the 4 directions... so I call it IsoLinear Memory.[2] ;-)

I should be able to make the deadline for TinyTapeout 9, in November. Meanwhile I'll update my emulator to include Isolinear Memory, and figure out how to program the damned thing. My stretch goal is to figure out how to program it from TinyGrad.[3].

If nothing else, it'll be good for real time DSP.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/BitGrid_TTL

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/BitGrid_TTL/tree/master/IsoLine...

[3] https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad

I built a service that lets you bolt an oauth/oidc provider onto your app with a single callback. https://github.com/poundifdef/connectivly

It lets you use whatever you’re already doing for auth, and lets you become an oauth provider, or issue tokens instead of people passing API keys, on top of that.

The more interesting aspect of that you could use it to bolt on an entire app store or ecosystem on top of your existing product or api.

(ping me if you want to look at this more seriously from a business perspective!)

Photography is a hobby of mine. After putting it off for years, I finally decided to start sharing my photo collection with friends and family.

This resulted in another side project, https://mishmash.photos/ -- a website to organize, share and collaborate on albums (because I always lose photos when going on trips with friends). There are better apps out there for this, but this one is mine.

Sample album: https://mishmash.photos/share/84f83b09-0a24-4d13-b436-8131ee...

Tech stack is django, htmx, bootstrap and a Stripe integration, to keep things simple.

(There's no free tier; from reading this website I know offering free image upload usually ends badly.)

Google Sheets add-on for quickly generating forecasts on seasonal, time series data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUdTCxURgg . Submitted it to the Google Workspace Marketplace a few days ago, hoping it'll get approved soon!

Still working on the golf course wiki: https://golfcourse.wiki

Currently finishing up the tournament software and getting ready for beta testing with some local clubs. This should eventually allow frugal clubs to operate golf tournaments extremely cheaply because no data needs to be licensed if they add their own course's data to the wiki.

I'm writing a book publicly: Automated Agents [1]. When I first joined a startup building a chatbot for customer service, there was a lot of noise and hype. We built a decent product and our company went from 3 people to 30 in 2 years. We resolved millions of customer service issues. The book I'm writing is the guide I wish existed when I was getting started.

It's still a draft, but the main goal is to serve as a guide for both technical and non technical folks.

[1]: https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book

Ps: I shared it in the previous thread last month as well

Started my masters at Georgia Tech [1] this summer. Still in the first semester, but really enjoying so far. Just not much spare time on nights and weekends, but it helped me cut down the time spent on social/news/etc.

[1] https://omscs.gatech.edu/

I’ve been building some friendly CLI and web tools around the terrific Dialog interactive fiction language.

https://github.com/hlship/dialog-tool

Learning Svelte for the web UI part.

CV pipeline to get some additional realtime stats for an annual Mario Kart 8 LAN tournament my friends and I run, hoping to be able to get real time race position tracking and other stats like boost/drift %, per-player item distributions, average time to 10 coins, and whatever else we can think of (and make work)

I made a web metronome to learn music https://lab.est.im/metronome/

source code at https://github.com/est/metronome

https://www.chesspuzzlebot.com/

I made a website where you can play chess puzzles against Stockfish.

I had the idea for a website where you can play chess puzzles, but if you make the wrong move, the puzzle turns into a game against Stockfish. This opens the door to either find alternative solutions or fail miserably (at some point you realize you are not following the puzzle any more). I think its a more engaging way to play puzzles!

This is my first online project, feedback is highly appreciated!

Decided after all these years to start to create open source libraries around things I've worked with in the past.

As worked a lot with Kubernetes in the past, I started with creating a Kubernetes Operator alternative to external-dns I call Phonebook: https://github.com/pier-oliviert/phonebook

It lets you control DNS record like you would any other native resources in Kubernetes through CRDs. Open-sourced it last week and there's already a bunch of features that are planned for the operator"

  - cert-manager's support for DNS-01 challenges
  - More support for other providers
  - Increase support for each provider that already exists
  - etc.

I building a web app around a tool I originally built for myself for interview prep. It basically lets you generate interview questions then practice them in a leetcode-like interface that includes an AI tutor chat ui. The tutor is aware of the question and the user's attempt at a solution so far and is instructed to give hints rather than simply providing the user with the answer. I personally use it as well. https://hinterviewgpt.com

Im currently working on AI agents that control my chrome browser, I have a desktop app with a chat where it does various tasks for me like research/posting on sm/finding free ebooks for me. All using open source LLMs and custom code for the auto web scraping / interactions.

I'm doing https://bialet.dev a web framework for simple web apps with idea to get back to have a fully static HTML first, and then you code the dynamic part.

It's based on the Object-Oriented scripting language Wren, it's fully integrated with SQLite, and it has a sort of JSX for the HTML (it's actually strings and interpolations, being part of the language).

- Taking Octachainer and making my own CLI implementation to learn Rust https://www.elektronauts.com/t/octachainer-v1-3/45320

- hacking around with FunDSP (turns out it’s pretty fun), again to learn some Rust https://github.com/SamiPerttu/fundsp

- Giving up Arma3 gamemode dev maintenance for a large-ish community, but hanging around to teach people git/github and provide wisdom / teach how to do software dev (a lot of folks have minimal software experience). Although debating whether to straight up leave the community.

I am busy rebuilding my music studio with only gear from the late 90s/2000. It's much more fun to relive my youth and with patience less expensive than I thought.

Two things:

- Practicing CAD and 3D printing: building a go pro mount on my bike computer mount for a light (https://twitter.com/asciimike/status/1836892842716750221), an oil filter wrench (https://twitter.com/asciimike/status/1840051449625018870), etc. I like the idea of needing a specialty car/bike/etc. tool and being able to quickly model and build it in hours vs having to order an often fairly expensive tool that takes days to show up.

- Import/export (specifically from Japan to the US): In particular, importing kei vehicles >25 years old as well as specialty roasted coffee. Both of which have a lot of specific regulations and intricacy, and while I've done a lot of reading on how to do them (e.g. this doc on importing a kei truck: https://wittymelon.wordpress.com/portfolio/diy-how-to-import...). If anyone has connections to people who have imported kei vehicles to the US, I'd love to chat!

I just started building a small website for structural engineers with various tools on it (eg. capacity of a steel column). I have spent thousands of hours in the past building fancy excel (incl. vba)and mathcad documents for personal use and this is my first time trying to do it with "real" code. I went with Blazor and c#, so far it looks like a good choice. The long term goal if the projects is a success and becomes popular would be to have a FEM engine for 2D frame structures running in the browser client-side.

Own streaming service for an internet radio, but that's not opensourced atm. It's Go and it seems to be amazing fit.

That makes my other project a bit lacking attention, but I will get back to it - a configuration language BCL https://github.com/wkhere/bcl . Parser is based on a vm beauty from the 2nd part of Robert Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters book.

Working on a library that helps benchmark Active Learning (AL) techniques [1]. This is a form of Machine Learning, where you want to learn a supervised predictor but you don't have labels to start with, and labeling comes at a cost that you need to account for (the term AL can have broader connotations but this is the popular one). We feel the area suffers quite a bit from poor benchmarks, which my colleague and I wrote up about in a paper [2]. To run the many experiments in the paper we had to write a fairly comprehensive codebase that makes it convenient to swap out different bits and pieces of an AL pipeline, which we'll be polishing up now.

PS: If the work is of interest and you want to avoid reading the paper, I have a blogpost too [3].

[1] https://github.com/ThuongTNguyen/active_learning_comparisons

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15744 (this was accepted in EMNLP'24)

[3] https://blog.quipu-strands.com/inactive_learning

AI Playlist Generator for YouTube powered by GPT-4o to create playlists with text descriptions: https://playlists.at/youtube/generate/

Writing some fiction that I’ve wanted to get to for years. Releasing a chapter at a time.

Trying to decide on My Next Big Technology Project. I might have already decided, but I’m not ready to share for psychological reasons. I would like to do it in the open, but I have no idea how to build an audience. Maybe I just get started and hope I'm not totally boring.

I'm building up a small but resourceful artificial intelligence research group focusing on specializing in the triangle "machine learning - search - natural language processing".

Have got a bit of funding, a building, an 1.3 M€ GPU cluster. Also looking for Ph.D. candidates and contract developers. (The hard part is spending the money wisely but in 8 weeks - it is a time-limited government budget that "expires" - while teaching writing papers and writing grant applications.)

Building an electric 1973 Ferrari Dino to compete in the battle of the builders at SEMA in November. Lots of fun electronics and software, as well as mechanical challenges to overcome.

Working on my side project https://gametje.com. It's an alternative to Jackbox games but it has a lower barrier for entry. All you need is a device with a web browser to play (also works with Chromecast). I'm trying to write some better tutorials for the early games I created to make it easier to get a feel for the gameplay. Also trying to work on the ui/ux flow to make it easier for people to understand what it is and how to create and host a game.

Hey! I'm working on Getgud.io, an AI-powered game analytics and anti-cheat platform.

Our goal is to provide complete observability into player behavior, detect cheaters and griefers, and help game developers improve player retention.

Some key features we're working on:

- AI-powered analysis of in-match player actions to detect anomalies

- Customizable rules engine for automated responses to toxic behavior

- Visual replay system for reviewing flagged matches

Check out our website at https://www.getgud.io and watch our detection video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhTpfEzh1M to see Getgud.io in action.

We support server-side integration for popular platforms like Unreal Engine and Unity.

For integration guides and SDK references, visit our docs at https://github.com/getgud-io/getgud-docs.

Happy to chat more about game analytics and cheat detection if anyone's interested!

I just picked up an old Sheldon Lathe. I got it for $200 and hauled it myself with a drop trailer. Its going to need a lot of work but its a beautiful old machine.

https://fitbee.app I'm continuing to build the nutrition tracker I've always wanted myself [1]

This month the focus is improving food data quality & search relevancy. I'm also starting to experiment with some more advanced generative AI use cases in the realm of providing suggestions on what to eat & analysis of your diet.

(Still) working on an OpenPythonSCAD library for modeling 3D cutting with a CNC router:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

Trying to re-write the whole thing in Python, but am stuck due to variable scope issues.

Working on actively trying to quit reading HackerNews.

I've been working on https://github.com/cloudboss/easyto, a tool that converts docker images to EC2 AMIs.

I've also written some Terraform modules that deploy machines from images created with easyto.

One is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/airport/aws, for managing Concourse CI.

Another is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/tailscale-su..., to quickly spin up a tailscale instance in a VPC.

I'm working on a foresight and emergency response team to see large calamities coming before they happen, and hopefully be able to do something about it. We put out weekly minutes at https://blog.sentinel-team.org

Prompting GPT to do rich text editing.

Instead of replacing the entire document or selection, we want it to create diffs or operations for the minimal amount of edits as possible. This helps preserve intent better when merging the doc later on with OT/CRDTs. (Of course, you could also ask GPT to semantically merge docs for you haha).

So far, it's been harder than plain text or spreadsheets which have an easier position/coordinate system to work with: just line-col or row-col.

Rich text is usually stored as trees with json or html. Have seen a paper (https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/) that represents it as a flat array.

Difference in approach would then be: is it easier for gpt to work with diffs or with operations/tool calls?

I'm waiting for my company's layoff...

I am working on https://geobase.app/ which is a platform for geospatial full-stack developers.

We have created workflows that a specific to the geospatial, mapping and GIS industry use cases. This is currently in private beta but going live in a few weeks. It is built on top of supabase's self-hosted stack.

We were recently also featured on motherduck's blog https://motherduck.com/blog/pushing-geo-boundaries-with-moth...

I have an experimental aircraft, a Vans RV-14, that I've been working on for far too long. I have all the expensive parts on hand, I just need to finally finish putting them together.

I'm working on my second novel (genre fiction, both superhero, for fun, no interest in publishing—read: i'm not that good yet)

Last year i wrote a novel about what it'd be like if you were the parent of a teenage superhero, but all you saw was the aversion to touch, panic attacks, unexplained absences, and falling grades (they're obviously lying to you about what the problem is, but you don't know why!).

And how would you handle discovering that it wasn't drugs or her being a victim of assault, but was instead so much worse: that she's the one fighting for her life on the news all the time?

I've just started writing my second, which is superheroes arguing over what to do about one of the villains, who turned good and helped them defeat a Big Bad. The story is still in early stages, so there's plenty more ideas to come up with still.

For a stay at home dad like me, writing is really enjoyable as a hobby because I can do it at the soccer fields while my kids practice for two hours, or I can do it while they're at a gym playing, or at night when they're asleep. I don't have to schedule out a three-hour block to meet up with buddies for tennis a month in advance.

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

- Ride Sustainably with the World's First Repairable Battery

- Refillable in 5 minutes (just buy $150 worth of new cells every 3 years or so, when they're depleted)

- Be Worry-Free thanks to the Fireproof Casing! There's been waaaaaay too many lithium fires!

It's launching as an IndieGogo in one week and there is an offer for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com/1 for a 25% discount on the battery!

Working on a Run N Gun for the Wonderswan Color. Starting making "retro" games about 3 years ago and have been really loving it.

After successfully completing my first game, Strife Sisters - a strategy RPG, I decided to try out a new genre. Although I'm having fun working on this style of game, part of me wishes I had stuck with the same genre since I still had a lot of ideas to work with.

I’m currently spending most of my time building a social media posting platform for https://hellokea.com. This will be an additional tool for small businesses, complementing their helpdesk solution. It’s been interesting to build the entire UI using htmx, aiming to make it comparable in performance and user experience to SPAs.

Working on validating a startup idea I had 12 years ago. It's like Pingdom for ads, periodically checking if your ads are being blocked by AdBlockers.

I always thought the idea was somewhat weak, but not enough to discard entirely. So, along with a friend, I built a prototype over the last two weeks, and now we're trying to validate it: https://scanningfox.com/

I'm enjoying using Elixir for this project. As a long-time Erlang dev, I was initially skeptical about Elixir, but Phoenix.LiveView has changed my opinion.

Working on eliminating the health vs. desk work tradeoff: https://www.movably.com/

Assertables: Rust macros like `assert!` for smarter testing, easier debugging, and faster refactoring.

https://github.com/sixarm/assertables-rust-crate

Working on - "real-time conversations in rich video streaming". Have created rich video composition, mixing, streaming studio (http://www.thecheerlabs.com), working on to bring real-time conversations that can be mixed in real-time for streaming/recording.

I'm working on a timed audio description script for the 1994 science-fiction / adventure film “Stargate” for blind and low-vision audiences.

There are a lot of older films that are not audio described, and so every now and again I pick a film and write a script, and another volunteer records and mixes the narration track.

It takes about 2+ hours to describe about 20 minutes, and the film itself is 2 hours.

Sample:

  68
  00:11:18,219 --> 00:11:33,169
  They step through doors marked "Research Laboratory". The wheel shaped cover stone towers over them, mounted upright on the wall. The disc in the centre has a cartouche, a vertical panel of symbols. Jackson stares up at it open mouthed.

I'm working on an extension to the Modify in blocks Model Synthesis algorithm [0] and the Wave Function Collapse algorithm [1] called "Punch Out Model Synthesis":

https://github.com/zzyzek/PunchOutModelSynthesis

Here's a gallery of sample outputs from the algorithm:

https://github.com/zzyzek/PunchOutModelSynthesis/blob/main/r...

I have an online demo of the algorithm in action for different tilesets (it's a little rough, so be warned):

https://zzyzek.github.io/PunchOutModelSynthesis/

The idea is you take an example image, chop it into little segments and infer tile rules depending on the overlap. It's very much old fashioned "machine learning/artificial intelligence" (that is, without any neural networks involved). There's also a demo of tile rule inference idea here:

https://zzyzek.github.io/TileRuleHighlighter/

[0] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

[1] https://github.com/merrell42/model-synthesis

Tuilet: a TUI for Toilet, the premier ANSI text generator, written in Rust. https://github.com/gamache/tuilet

Are you an IRC shitposter? Isn't it hard to experiment with Toilet/Figlet fonts and flags? Well _not anymore._ Presenting Tuilet: a front-end to Toilet written by us, for us.

Working on getting communications back online in western NC. We are about to post a fundraiser to deploy 10 5G sites by the end of the week.

An app to let people generate images of them and their children in Halloween costumes.

Similar to PhotoAI but much more limited in scope. Wanted to get more experience implementing auth and payments, creating LoRAs, and some different regulations.

Also wanted something that was timeboxed where I could step away when the project is over.

Should be ready to start accepting users next week, then will have to figure out distribution. If I make any money it will be a cherry on top.

Working on Perseid (https://perseid.dev), a framework that allows web developers to ship full-stack apps in minutes, using their favorite stack.

I recently built a Chrome extension that helps you summarize the comments on HackerNews posts using AI: https://github.com/built-by-as/FastDigest

Single-file vector database in C. Lots of work to do!

https://montyanderson.net/projects/vecdb

I've started writing a technical book about "how to develop a game boy emulator from scratch". :fingers_crossed:

I'm using typst[1] for my writing journey.

[1] https://typst.app/

Dance calendar (Django app, with some AlpineJS/HTMX). Approximately 80 admin pages + 20 end user views + 100 admin views. 2M page loads/month during the summertime. This is in production.

For the dance calendar, support site with good first-line AI support based on FAQ answers.

Ad management platform for the dance calendar. Sites like this have specific requirements for placing ads that are not well supported by AdSense etc. I would like to have an alternative for smaller players for the header bidding used by the larger players.

Separate webapp to store happenings (messages, emails, descriptions, documents, etc.), tag them and show them on a timeline, allowing filtering the events visible on the timeline. Django/HTMX/AlpineJS. This is for a legal battle I am having.

A tool for describing workflows using the Unified Service Management (USM) model. The method is to frameworks (ITIL etc.) what open source is to commercial software. I am currently working on cross-referencing tool to map ISO 27k requirements to USM statements. I have developed my own formal language for defining the requirements. The end goal is to automate validating many ISO 27k requirements.

Quant finance alpha forecasting with alt data and LLMs

Finally learning piano and drums after playing guitars for years. Thinking of own musical voice for first song, EP, and album. Made this chords poster to help: https://hypertexthero.com/piano/

Working on a default home.html page for my web browser with most used links, note pad, drawing pad, and forms for quickly creating posts for static sites that I’ll publish shortly. It would be nice if Firefox let you define a custom page for new tabs as well as new windows, instead of only Blank Page and Firefox Home (Default).

Usually have the relationship between work and play in mind, and how many of my favorite games have elements of compounding interest in rogue lite game modes where a little bit goes a long way with saved progression.

Harvesting four varieties of potatoes planted in the garden earlier in the year. Thankful to be able to work outdoors listening to the wind and nature.

Thinking about the difficult, important work of nurses and caretakers while helping to manage care for an elderly relative.

I've been working on Pyro - a video gallery & community creator. It's a tool that lets you create a video-based (your own YouTube?) community but you can collect videos from many sources.

https://www.pyro.app

Here's a video site I created using this tool - a startup pitch video site

https://video.heystartup.com/

I’m chipping away at bugs and adding features to my app Reminder Sync for Obsidian! https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/

Currently working on supporting dataview tasks format and multiple reminder lists.

The app supports any markdown backed notes app, but I fear I may have limited its appeal by including Obsidian in the app name.

Edit: previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919

Open source doorbell camera software running on Raspberry Pi Zero. Face recognition and motion detection already built-in, so I've set it up so that I get a message on element when someone is at the door and a video of any motion longer than 5 seconds. Not fully optimized yet.

Hey everyone! I wanted to share what I’ve been working on lately: an app called Unlearn Stress [1] on iOS [2] and Android [3]. It came out of my own struggles with stress and trying to find ways to cope. Some days are just rough and while I’ve had some luck with doctors, I’ve found that stories, especially ones read in my own voice, and breathing exercises really help lift my mood. The app is simple, works completely offline and there’s no data collection like other apps.

My next idea is to use SSML to better control some of the speech and add delays where needed.

[1] https://www.excsn.com/apps/unlearn_stress

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unlearn-stress-with-stories/id...

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.excsn.andr...

On writing some blog posts about things I’ve built lately (both at work and in my own time). Helps a lot with diving more deeply into topics than what’s reasonable for a “just needs to work” implementation.

Recently, a fairly detailed one on doing something semi-obscure with directory services on AWS. https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/sadwsp.html

My primary project the past couple weeks has been applying the AI interpretability technique from Anthropic's famous paper this past summer (you know, the Golden Gate Claude one) to single-cell RNA-seq data. What works on one huge, inscrutible vector space ought to work on another, right? In either case, a fun way to keep in practice, both for comp bio and deep learning.

My side-project, in essence, the bash '&' operator for cases where the first process is already running. It took me months of searching before I could believe that this doesn't already exist, but there you go. I gave in to feature creep, of course, so it's a bit more than that now (I made a ncurses-based dashboard? Why??) but someday soon I'll make it public.

Easy Data Transform v2 ( https://www.easydatatransform.com ). It is GUI based data wrangling tool for people who aren't (or don't want to be) programmers. 20 years of running a 1-man software company in January.

I recently noticed how much Apple Maps has improved in recent years so I decided to throw together a little app using it. In addition, I set out with a goal of using tools, frameworks and a hosting provider I had little to no experience with. I learnt a ton and developed opinions across a few areas so I see it as a success.

I don’t expect to add much more to the app and I’ll probably kill it in a few months as it’ll likely cost me more to run it.

https://mapmag.app

A 2D game engine in C++ that can be scripted in Lua to create small games together with my son.

Game (WebAssembly, use WASD): https://play.carimbo.cloud/1.0.2/khromatizo/henrique/0.0.27/... Engine: https://github.com/khromatizo/carimbo

Training folks from around the world to use pandas for data analysis and ML. Training folks on who to apply ML to their data.

A course on using modern Python constructs and tooling. (uv, coding with AI, pytest, type annotations, etc).

A book on interviewing for Python coding jobs.

Planning next book on either catboost or duckdb.

Ideas that I'm thinking about: how AI helps established programmers and new programmers.

I’ve been making a survival-horror Playdate game called Plight of the Wizard[0]. You’re a wizard that fights off an endless horde of enemies by using the crank to rotate around and cast spells quickly. It’s my first game, and it’s been a lot of fun building out the mechanics. It’s in a good state, so I’m figuring out if it needs anything else.

[0]: https://sotix.itch.io/plight-of-the-wizard

Just finished a third short story.

It is about SEO: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...

A basic CRUD app around goal setting as a test for how AI tools can help write web apps to see how a modern web team could leverage this stuff to go faster, and maybe identify some missing pieces I could build one day. ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Copilot etc are genuinely great if you can already write code. They really let you blast straight through the mundane bits and focus on the hard stuff.

Currently shipping some updates to https://storywatch.org, think of us as Goodreads or IMDB for web fiction and fanfiction, rather than traditional dead tree books. If you are fans of books like Worm or HPMOR, give us a try.

I'm currently trying to implement an in-editor sandboxing/modding solution for the Godot game engine. It's hard work trying to make everything work the way people are used to having it, and even competing with GDScript.

https://github.com/libriscv/godot-sandbox

I originally started on it just to get into Godot.

https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/font-topaz-ng

Re-creating a vectorized version of Amiga's system font.

Since I've always found font's online to be unreasonably opaque, the glyphs are stored in a TOML file, edited in Blender and exported using FontForge.

Reverse engineering my e-bike’s head unit and motor controller to build a custom head unit out of a Raspberry Pi with oled touch screen (head unit will also be used to control LED patterns on the bike).

Used a logic analyzer to work out the protocol between the head unit and the motor controller (uart at 9600) and used a ESP32 to man in the middle the protocol. Currently reverse engineering the meaning of the bytes in the packets sent between the units.

First attempt was taking apart the head unit and attaching a debugger to the exposed serial debug interface (Cortex M0) chip, but looks like the manufacturer had disabled flash reading by setting the flash security bit.

https://www.voyago.io/ is a social travel discovery platform that matches your interests with your friends for perfect recommendations

1. SPC kit [0]. Once made it to the front page! [1]

It's an SQL library for doing statistical process control (SPC) calculations.

This has been a labour of love for about 2 years now. I work on it sporadically. Recently I got more disciplined about what I am working on and I am slowly closing the gap on a first 0.1 release.

2. Finding work. As much fun as it is to tinker, I am nursing the standard crippling addiction to food and shelter. I am also nursing an increasing loathing for LinkedIn and wish to be free of having to check it.

[0] https://github.com/jchester/spc-kit

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612775

added support for mysql and sqlite (in addition to postgres) to rainfrog, a database management tui: https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog

they haven't been tested as extensively as postgres though so are still considered unstable!

Working on an extension to my recently purchased outdoor AirGradient unit to add an atmospheric pressure sensor, a second temperature/humidity sensor, some connections to an external rain gauge and a way to power the unit without going through USB.

Many of the sensors and connections are small enough that I could have spun another PCB to replace the VOC/NOx module it comes with[1], but SGP41 ain't cheap & I wouldn't dare to desolder one from the existing module. So instead I'm going to try to use the extension I/O connector AG board has. Am currently waiting for my PCBs to arrive.

Speaking of PCBs. It is wonderful that it is possible to get 5 units of a prototype for a price of a coffee or two.

[1]: https://www.airgradient.com/shop/#!/SGP41-TVOC-NOx-Module/p/...

https://chillin.online, Next-Gen AI Video & Motion Editor, no watermark, faster than competitors such as Veed, Clipchamp, Capcut, mobile support

I am working on Zipshot. http://zipshot.co -- The goal is to make the best free screenshot & OCR app for mac.

This is my side project because I needed an app like this for my daily use and I hate the fact that every other good app is paid even though maintaining such an app really doesn't cost anything.

Zipshot solves several problems:

  - Easy to use shortcuts like cmd+shift+1
  - No desktop clutter as images are uploaded to Zipshot cloud.
  - Share via links.
  - Powerful editor and figma style comments for annotations.
  - OCR that works without the internet on 11 languages.
  - Slack & Gmail integration.
  - Context aware naming.
  - Serious privacy measures.
  - One click data download.

  - Users who take 5+ screenshots a week with mostly the purpose of sharing it with their team or friends.

  - Make the on-boarding and permission seeking workflow simpler.
  - Speed up the app for apple silicon devices.
  - Support OCR for rotated text and include more languages.

Just harvested my chilies and first time trying to ferment a jar and pickle a bunch as well.

Trying out https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021581-pickled-jalapeno... but using lots of different chilies instead of only jalapenos. In-progress pic: https://ibb.co/XFBpyYV

Working on a HomeAssistant plugin to control my home from my Macintosh SE/30. Compiling with retro68 and using my bluescsi for wifi.

i'm writing https://aesthetic.computer which is a 'social computer' designed as a more open and integrated alternative to existing kids media networks like roblox and tiktok

recently discussed here on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526754

and i'm currently seeking funding to support another year of development (just enter the command 'bb')

Bookbinding class. Its really fun to make things with my hands!

A custom lightweight insulated hard-sided truck camper for mid-size and half-tons. Decided against fiberglass since it can be a pain in the butt, especially with no garage and in the cold. Ideal would be no wood and minimal framing, but i'm not a mechanical engineer, so it's hard to calculate the forces involved, so over-building feels necessary. If anyone is a mechnical engineer, and bored, and would like to contribute their skills, I really want to open source the result so anyone can build it, using basic parts you can find at the big box store. So far I have a crappy model in FreeCAD and a lot of research material.

I'm working on a public access Symbolics Portable Genera system that will be reachable from the web, similar to Interlisp Online. The current owner of Symbolics' intellectual property gave me the permission to do this. I'm also going to mirror all Symbolics documentation on the same domain.

I've been working on drone fleet control software from scratch, could definitely use some help. Right now I'm looking for algos that optimizes for long straightaways for pathfinding.

Currently in the middle of moving, but very recently added full phrase search to marginalia search. And paged search results too.

I'm working on a 2D computational geometry library with a focus on irregular part packing in Rust. IE laying out laser cuts for wood or water jet for metal. https://crates.io/crates/babushka

I've got some nice types set up and a no fit polygon algorithm. Working on the genetic algorithm for packing à là svgnest.

I've been messing around with a graph-based interface for task management over in https://github.com/crockeo/ekad. The interesting branches are:

- `main`, which currently houses a custom interactive graph visualizer built on top of the great `vello` from linebender (https://github.com/linebender/vello).

- `ch/typescript`, which has my attempts at joining a more traditional task manager with a graph visualization.

Working on a puzzle book series (for lovers, maybe) https://www.kakurokokoro.com

It’s a pretty bad hack of HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, saved by Laravel, trying to print slightly larger than A5 paper for a major on demand publisher standard paperback, with browser Print to PDF settings, and is unwieldy but to the point, has an ISBN as well as being NP-complete. Discovered for myself that the number of permutations and derangements of the same length are related by the ratio of Euler’s Number e.

Built a hardware device that sits between any computer and any printer and reads what is getting printed.

Primary use-case is to read receipt data from legacy POS systems without having to write software integrations.

Figuring out how to commercialise. Reach out if you have ideas!

I've been experimenting with customizing Postgres to run on top of FoundationDB, which to me would be the dream combination of Postgres' top-notch feature set and ecosystem with FoundationDB's unique resilience, scalability and transactional guarantees.

Haven't written up anything about it or published any code yet, but it's working pretty well and I haven't even had to fork Postgres with all the extensibility it offers!

My email is in my profile if anybody would like to chat about it

Writing a screenplay about the Peace of Philocrates, the entire history of which is somewhat hilarious.

I’m working on figuring out what I will be working on.

Friday was my last day at my now previous employer and I’m looking at the wake of promising projects I’ve let lay idle. Do I want to seek funding and dive in full time on something? I think yes, but that’s going to be hard mode because I don’t fit the profile.

I‘m building https://sql-workbench.com in my spare time.

It‘s a SQL Workbench in the browser, based on DuckDB WASM. You can query remote and local datasources, such as CSV, JSON or Parquet files.

You can also visualize the results, and share the queries via URL. Let me know what you think!

I'm working on a Sketch Comedy Database website:

https://www.sketchtv.lol/

https://github.com/swax/SCDB

Just a fun little CRUD app built with Next.js, MUI, Prisma Postgres. I'm adding Halloween sketches now, if you know some good ones feel free to add them, or anything else :)

A sort of "Aquarium Trampoline"! I'm securing LED ropes to my trampoline walls in the shapes of various sea creatures, and they light up cleverly depending on accelerometer readings on the canvas. No pics yet sorry!

iOS game to learn rhythm and drums [0]. It's MIDI based. Midi files to use as the tracks to practice on and Midi controllers to use as input. Here's a demo with my son on electronic drums [1]

Tech stack: Swift, UIKit, SpriteKit

[0] https://testflight.apple.com/join/Sy5573Uw

[1] https://youtu.be/RN2RRewR9B4?si=ic-_dmwp2sJGh94D

Built a site that will follow development of popular upstream open source projects on a daily basis and uses AI to summarize the commits and attempt to make it easier to track what's going on with the project: https://gitpulse.org

I'm working on an application that I'm writing for myself (no release ambitions for the time being) that focuses on spaced repetition applied to chess.

It's similar to chess puzzles but with a twist: positions and moves are explained, there's a wider variety of exercises (such as excluding all the bad moves explaining why, improving the board position, and many others).

I’m working on marketing https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/

We’ve experimented with various approaches to promotion, including HN, KDP, Amazon Ads, and most recently Reddit Ads. It's been interesting to see which strategies resonate with the audience, but we're still figuring out the best way to get it in front of the right people.

And marketing is really hard!

Org-mode grammar (PEG parsing) for GNU Guile. Still at the very beginning, but hoping, that over time I can add more and more things, to make it a useful library for things like a minimal static blog based on org mode files or if any git hoster wants to have a good parser for org mode files to render readmes ...

That, and my personal website, using only HTML and CSS, and trying to keep it minimalistic, yet nice looking.

I'm trying to create a space startup in NYC.

Right now my main idea is an orbital transfer vehicle powered by solar sails

After a long break, I'm working on writing about Japan things I find interesting: https://onefromnippon.com/

I'm hoping Japanese vending machines will be an interesting topic for the next post.

I'm working on an open-source event tracking infrastructure based on AWS (think Heap or Mixpanel but all infrastructure is in your AWS account and you own the data). It's incredible how much can be done just by combining AWS services.

https://github.com/manymetrics/manymetrics

Stack Frontend: NextJS, Tailwind, NextUI, Rust (via wasm-bindgen) hosted on Vercel

Backend: Rust, Axum server, LMDB hosted on Alwyzon, Cloudflare for CDN caching and SSL.

https://www.arible.co A growing directory of useful productivity tools accessible without multiple subscriptions or registrations

Adding optional user sign-in to my word replacer browser extension: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/word-replacer-max. This is a precursor to adding generative replacement suggestions based on search terms. Even further, I'd like it to eventually analyze and de-trigger/disarm the copy on websites more broadly without having to define specific words or phrases.

https://blog.faangshui.com/

Helping folks prepare for their coding interviews.

I'm learning to deweed our lawn space. Its strange feel to have visual proof of what happens when you neglect your responsibilities even for a short time.

A native MacOS menu bar app that gives you a deep breathing reminder every hour: https://github.com/p44v9n/deepbreath/releases/tag/v0.0.4

Functional but a few small bugs to iron out, then want to get a nicer welcome screen up and submit to the Apple App Store. Would love any feedback!

https://exfilcloud.com was me playing with E2E encryption without authentication.

Working on cleaning up my wood shop and trying to finishing my hand-tool wall.

Also building an easier way to add real-time metrics and monitoring to web applications: https://flexlogs.com

Also, this little side project for less overwhelming weekly goals: https://carpeweekem.com

Making a tab manager for powah usahs

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

Same, same:

A custom Lisp: https://github.com/codr7/sharpl

A backend on top of Postgres: https://github.com/codr7/hostr

And a frontend in React: https://github.com/codr7/hostr-web

I'm working on https://www.ironcalc.com as a side project.

A spreadsheet engine with an open source permissive license. I have high hopes for it but I'm still in early stages of the project.

I'm working on software that isn't source-available (as of now, anyway).

I've written an app that is aimed at a specific demographic (so I'm not linking to it), and I'm developing an improved backend admin app.

This involves mostly Swift, using UIKit, to produce an app that will run on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS. The backend is PHP, and doesn't need much work.

Working on creating Java bindings for io_uring. Trying to get some better performance by batching downcalls and making the API Java friendly.

I'm working on a scripting interface for android that's based on js https://github.com/MurageKabui/PhoneDo

Basically a mobile app with an integrated IDE and terminal with custom commands tailored to execute js code that interfaces with native android features

I’m working on a generic way of getting human input within any automated workflow.

The forms can be dynamically generated within the workflow, and then call back with the response.

The docs still need some work and I plan on adding some video demos, but here it is so far.

https://humaninput.app

Making rent.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

taking one last editing pass on a novel, gotta get some folks to read it this week.

also, bookhead - inventory and e-commerce software for booksellers: https://www.bookhead.net/

just finished an mvp. gonna try to find some users during the next month. email me at sam@bookhead.net if you wanna be a beta user. you can list those old books you've always thought about selling! just add the book to the inventory and it'll be listed on ebay, biblio, and your bookstore's custom e-commerce website.

I am working an Instagram reel downloader savreel(.) app to learn SEO. I have gotten 37 clicks so for in the last month organically. I am on Twitter as @cornfieldlabs

Helping React devs move their state to the URL, in a type-safe way.

nuqs [1] started as a Next.js-only library, but recently I've been working on supporting all major React frameworks & routers (Remix, React Router, plain React with Vite etc).

[1] https://nuqs.47ng.com

Working on https://aliveai.app/. It is a simple wrapper frontend around a complex ComfyUI workflow. There is a lot of different things you can generate with StableDiffusion but I wanted to make it as easy as possible to create photo-realistic images of people.

The App is mostly being used for generating NSFW images though (which is ok).

Been working on https://consciousness.social, a social media app focused on providing a first-person experience of human society as a whole.

It’s the kind of thing that could only exist because after I built the theory behind it, I went into software engineering and learned how to build web apps, so that I could build strange stuff like this.

I'm working on an online drum machine for https://dopeloop.ai/beat-maker and the web version of a game called Asterogue https://asterogue.space

Shortest.com - AI writing my test suite for me, so I can focus on shipping features

torchtune (https://github.com/pytorch/torchtune) - a PyTorch library for fine-tuning LLMs, particularly for memory-constrained setups. Try it out and fine-tune Llama3.1 8B on a single RTX 4090!

I’ve been building a copilot for an underserved language, and paused that in March with a little time since spent making a full language service: something where you can parse and resolve methods and types, and generally query for useful info. Perhaps it’s the root of a LSP server in future.

Recently got exicited about transforming my Tensorflow.js Parking mointoring application to a more general webapp that can do many things with Computer Vision, as well as upgrade from YOLO7.

https://github.com/oxedom/parker

Made my own company that provides services and consultations in drones, robotics, and even cybersecurity. Very slow business at this stage, if someone is in the same field or went through the same stage, any tips are welcome.

I’d like to drop some cool tech thing, but mostly just working on balancing running our company and being a new dad.

https://www.videototextai.com/ - an AI transcription, translation, chat with your video/audio platform. We are very close to releasing an update where it is possible to caption any video in any language - perfect for making social media content.

Gnosi: https://www.gnosi.ai/ . Y You can auto-generate a constantly updated encyclopedia from a set of documents and conversations with an AI about those documents. Trying to make the process of having a Zettlkasten or personal notetaking system frictionless.

My book. Halfway to the first draft !

https://github.com/polymonster/diig

A music digging app for record collectors, with instagram style feed for listening to new vinyl snippets

A tool that makes it easier to run Docker Compose projects on NixOS. It’s essentially a Compose backend that targets a mix of NixOS + systemd + Podman/Docker.

https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix

I've been recently working on a Minecraft-like sandbox game at https://github.com/Pannoniae/BlockGame.

The tech stack is .NET and OpenGL.

Progress has been a bit slower than I wanted mostly because I've been sick but we'll get to an MVP some day!

A real-time interface for my Fantasy Premier League… league. It calculates point totals up to the minute, which the official app lacks for some reason (can take hours for final point tallies).

It’s mostly an excuse to play with data processing with duckdb, remote APIs, and Pocketbase.

I'm just dipping my toe into the Typescript water, with a rehype plugin that helps me turn markdown into <figure><img><figcaption></figcaption></figure> HTML.

The code's done, the yak shaving of packaging it as an npm module continues.

Trying to finish this ultralight airplane with started to build with my father 14 years ago!

Working on an alternate reader and similarity search for hacker news: https://hn.garglet.com

Some features:

Search user profiles

Find similar comments

Find similar stories

Find similar users

See user karma next to their comments

browse comments in chronological order on stories

Working on https://www.brief.news - a completely personalized daily newsletter on the topics you're interested in. We've just launched the ability to add custom topics, so you can create a newsletter on anything now!

Prototyping a reactive UI library using DataScript[1] as the db and LWJGL as the rendering layer. I just want to see what happens.

1. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript

Working on an alternative to character.ai, they recently updated their UI and a lot of the fan favorite features are gone.

https://makebelieve.lol

A new kind of document editor which blends features of word processor and jupyter notebook. Email me (see bio) if you want to try it out.

I am working on https://www.merklemap.com/ A subdomain / CT search engine.

I have my side project: https://www.vidwiz.ai

Think "Cursor, for videos"

Very crowded space, but it's been fun making it!

Building some prototypes of games with Godot. Mostly enjoying it.

A few gripes with the GDScript language though. Might switch back to C#.

https://godotengine.org/

A browser based no frills TODO list for managing and sharing multiple lists without having to login or sign up: https://www.computedigit.com/list.html

I'm developing a scuba diving app for the Apple Watch Ultra. It's an algorithm and graphical user interface that provides critical real-time information to recreational scuba divers while scuba diving. (Nautosys.com)

Working on my first foray into DML-based speakers. Low expectations, but more enjoying the fun of learning a new domain (and it’s a distraction from building garden furniture). Got various exciters, panel types, mount ideas ready, just taking the time out of the evenings.

Building Serverless VPN, among the most recent work is an open source iOS app: https://UpVPN.app/ios

Still working on https://evy.app/ - app for collectors, both professional and casual, to help them keep track of their items.

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

Rewriting my "UHF" app — a personal TV channel that plays video content I have on a hard drive to a schedule.

Also beginning to build a piece of furniture for "The Lab" (man-cave?).

New for me, I guess:

- Doing a massive tech modernization for a global nonprofit.

-Ghostwriting educational email courses for agTech founders who want to convert more customers or investors.

- IF I'm good and get my chores done, I may let myself build a better way to apply for agTech grants.

Building a contextual ad-targeting engine to replace Grapeshot which Oracle is shuttering, uh, tomorrow.

Avalonia version of my terminal Redis client https://github.com/cosmez/RedisMan

React Email Generator: https://reactemailgenerator.vercel.app

Just write a prompt and get the perfect email template for your use case.

I've been doing a new Qt Widgets binding for Go - https://github.com/mappu/miqt

Building in the college NIL space.

Working on https://achromatic.dev - Next.js 15 SaaS boilerplate focused on web app functionality.

Just added MFA via authenticator apps + recovery codes today.

Anyone know of a community where you genuinely try each other’s stuff and give feedback? Sometimes lose motivation aimlessly guessing what people want without having users to give actual feedback.

Just trying to get my personal site up and going: https://nassharaf.github.io/ideasthete/

Building a narrative interactive novel/RPG thing. Wrapping music composition this week, writing about half done, game engine built, art finishing around Christmas.

Aiming to launch next summer, with various media.

I’m working on a replacement for file coreutils (touch, cp, mv, rm) which prompt before deleting by default and have a more sane api overall. Intended for interactive use on the CLI. In Rust.

Working on https://carbonimpacthq.com

We are building out the Vanta equivalent for sustainability and climate disclosures.

Mission Vishwakarma 2035.

Working on a data exploration and visualization tool for SQLite. Some of the features include: ER diagram, browse table data, charting (bar, column, line, pie, scatter).

A little stable of websites.

www.fpgajobs.com

www.firmwarejobs.com

www.reportCardcomments.com

www.primeribcalculator.com

Working on book summaries product - https://brieflane.com

A toy compiler for analog quantum architectures.

Also, on my spare time, a tabletop role-playing game.

I'm working on this food logging app / personal health dashboard that I'm building for myself.

I was asked to log my food by a dietician I'm working with, because I was constantly feeling hunger after cycling training.

But all the solution out there were quite complex to input data, and I just want to write down plain text with some additional markup and be able to generate some graphs and recognize some patterns out it.

Decided to do it T3 and throw in all those weird technologies just to see what's out there.

A scavenger hunting app for couples. I have it working but I'm trying to figure out the gamification aspect.

I'm working on our privacy-friendly and GDPR compliant web analytics tool Pirsch Analytics (pirsch.io) :)

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). We just released a major update, making funnels more flexible and easy to use. One of our goals is to make analytics easy to understand also for non-marketeers.

Kind of stopped writing code for a while. Been a few months.

Going back to the basics... a ToDo app

A stenography app that lets you type regularly on a QWERTY keyboard but also lets you do stenography when you hold down and release multiple keys at once. It's intended to make it easier to use a computer and write code while using steno when typing English words than Plover does.

I'm building android app for Teenage Engineering OP-1 (original) backups

Writing up a paper for my PhD on machine learning with non-Euclidean loss functions.

Taking over the affairs of one of my elderly relatives now that she can't manage by herself.

A project with a medical insurer for adjudicating insurance claims using LLMs.

Can you make a website that can block the blocker app for the board of ed and can you also unblock webs with blocked webs on them?

Finishing a web map widget suitable for geo-data visualization.

Still working on turtleSpaces (a 3D extended implementation of Apple Logo) https://turtlespaces.org

We're actually starting to get users!

Also, we're going to start working on a 2D arcade game builder that uses Logo as its scripting language

- browser extension development framework from scratch

- doing a few SQL courses

- NAND to Tetris

- Graphical programming

Working on DRAAS AI. Data analysis for geolocation compliance.

https://www.draas.ai

Trying to mimic mode 7 (Mario kart graphics) using canvas and JavaScript.

It is fun.

I'm getting LLMs to modify your source code by writing code that modifies the Abstract Syntax Tree of your code rather than the code itself. I wrote a simple blog post to explain it: https://codeplusequalsai.com/static/blog/prompting_llms_to_m...

My initial goal is to let users make webapp prototypes and iterate on them by writing tickets for the AI to complete.

I for some reason call it Code+=AI: https://codeplusequalsai.com

I'm working on an AI outlining tool in preparation for NaNoWriMo.

I'm building a hotel reservation system on tripoffice.com

Taking my metaverse/game to alpha and crowdfunding.

Just finished a python package for a 'readability' calculator for Japanese: https://github.com/joshdavham/jreadability

Not the most impressive project, but hey, some of my friends found it cool!

a task runner/build tool thing, https://github.com/notnmeyer/tsk

I'm just starting a project to automate XBRL tagging

Getting a job in cybersecurity again.

I am working on (yet another?) DuckDB gui, with an emphasis on devops-y/back office workflows.

I want to join data from AWS with other sources and present a nice data-table UI, and perhaps allow taking some basic actions on a row, defining some filters, etc.

Have you ever tried to copy-paste data out of the AWS console? Truly a terrible experience.

Deepening the primary literature review for Nick Land's thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical at https://retrochronic.com/

A non-toxic, intelligent, trustworthy successor to the web that works offline, called The World Wide Scroll. https://wws.scroll.pub/readme.html

I’ve created a startup lab [1].

I’m currently building an Electron/Tauri alternative that uses Bun called Electrobun [2].

As well as a hybrid code editor + browser which is built on Electrobun called co(lab) [3].

I’m also going to be open sourcing some other stuff that powers Electrobun and co(lab) including an optimized bsdiff implementation I wrote in zig, and a NoSql database designed for rapid prototyping.

Meanwhile I also spend around 3-6 months a year helping friends/fellow alumni with their startups. Typically unblocking hard technical problems or driving large refactors and process/culture changes. Currently midway through my 3rd.

[1]: https://blackboard.sh

[2]: https://electrobun.dev

[3]: https://colab.sh

A scavenger hunt app for couples

Designing a CPU out of vacuum tubes

Still researching trust. It's the deepest philosophical rabbit hole I've ever fallen down, but am now coming up for air.

I'm working on a project to help people find the best place for them to live or move to (USA right now). You can filter based on 50+ metrics, compare side by side, and just look up random facts about all US counties and states currently.

https://exoroad.com/

I'm currently working on a new blockchain technology called Roughchain. Earlier today, I shared the whitepaper in this HN thread [1], and I’ve already received some valuable feedback.

The core architecture is split into two components: a timestamping signing service and a P2P gossip network. By decoupling the gossip network, I'm simulating its performance using a Monte Carlo approach. With a basic gossip protocol, the simulation reaches ~10k TPS on a 100-node, randomly connected network (not fully connected), and I see a lot of potential for further protocol optimizations.

Initially, I considered a more resource-intensive approach using Shadow [2] for more realistic node simulations, as outlined in this discussion on libp2p's Gossipsub stress metrics [3]. However, the Monte Carlo method allows me to simulate the network more efficiently without needing to deploy full nodes.

In parallel, I'm exploring game-theoretical concepts for selecting signers and ensuring the system remains open to new entrants. One paper I'm currently diving into is "Collusion, Efficiency, and Dominant Strategies" [4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687715

[2] https://shadow.github.io/

[3] https://discuss.libp2p.io/t/rough-stress-metrics-for-gossips...

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089982561...

I just launched https://www.crowdwave.com a week ago, it spent 24 hours on the front page of HN.

Lots of people have visited but a launch on HN isn’t enough on its own. I’m trying to figure out how to get the word out to more people to kickstart it. The goal is for it to be a community that people return to as part of their daily online life. That’s not a programming problem so it’s hard (for me).

Taking a break from learning Go/Rust to learn Polish. Lol

Trying to bring the finishing touches to a Common Lisp SSG I made during a handful of vacation afternoons (https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/make-website) and filling the resulting website (https://world-playground-deceit.net/) with more content. More motivated by #2 now that the generator does 99% of what I need.

On Mac, pbcopy and pbpaste don't work with images. I've written one that does in python, so I can right click on an image in Chrome, hit copy, then do pbipaste > foo.png and have it work. And then also do pbicopy < foo.png, and then be able to paste in Preview or whatever.

it's incomplete but https://github.com/fragmede/pasteboard-image

I'm in the middle of rewriting it in rust so it's easier to install.

Trying to figure out a bizarre performance drop in a merge sort I wrote for one of those daily coding problems.

https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-1/

It seems that adding one node to a linked list causes a repeatable performance drop. That is, linked lists of say 2^21 nodes sort faster than lists of 2^21 + 1 nodes.