I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the company etc), languages used, security issues. There's time-travel, think Gource for all software in your company, and maybe the most fun: a GeoGuessr for code. Select the repos for your team (or if you feel confident, of the entire org), you get a snippet and have to guess where it is. The plan is for LLMs + tree-sitter to analyze all the code and show relations to other systems, databases etc.
I had the idea 2 years ago, but starting building in earnest 2 months ago. Spending all my time on it now, minus 3 or 4 days per week of earning money. Currently looking for a GTM/sales-oriented cofounder in NL.
Man...If you built this for large mainframe codebases, I think every outsourcing provider would use it. many of these apps have >1 yr parallel runs even when rewritten because there is so much dormant and seasonal code that it is very hard to be confident in the apples:apples functional comparison over any shorter timeline.
On a smaller scale it reminds me of the original concept of Light Table, which let go of the abstraction of individual files in favor of editing your code in a tree like structure. It's a shame this concept seems to have died out, I'd be curious about alternatives to plain file based UX.
Cool. My long-term vision for software development would be to make a new programming environment that structures code in ASTs and stores it in a database rather than file based. However, that will have to come later. First this :)
Sometimes I daydream that we moved beyond text files and had a format with a UUID per line.
Version control could reliably track movement between files, we could identify copy and paste (and prompt when refactoring), and code coverage changes would be accurate.
I've wanted to work with code thus, but it becomes a problem in that things are only really readable/relatable in single-screen chunks, and when one tries to show more than is accurately related on a single screen it becomes an unreadable, confusing, blurry mess.
It's interesting how everyone reading my description must have a different picture in their mind :) Right now I'm doing super simple treemaps, but I'm close to starting work on diagram overlays. No screengrabs yet.
Thanks, that seems useful! Too bad my entire backend is in Rust and works directly on git repos instead of checked out code.
I want to build a local company in my city of Utrecht, primarily on-site. That gives me the most energy and fun and is something that I want to optimize for.
That’s awesome! I’ve always wanted something similar like a Prezi presentation where you could navigate through different layers of the architecture down to the code.
Edit: It would be great if you could set the context and AI would generate it. It would make as an amazing addition to a standard Readme.
Further, at one level it could show endpoints and function signatures with parameters and how the argument usually looks as a value.
Which brings up another point, why doesn't Cursor or others allow me to say, "I'm in debug mode, show me if a value is dissimilar the values you normally get."
I took inspiration from GitDiagram.com but pass a "richer" description of the codebase into the LLMs based on info from tree-sitter. It generates explanatory diagrams quite OK, but this is only a first step.
We use IcePanel for a similar functionality but like all diagramming solutions it suffers if you don’t constantly feed it. If you can solve that problem you’re definitely on to something.
This sounds lovely. I am a spatial thinker so this is right up my alley.
How do you deal with different kinds of groupings and connections? For example, some things could be connected because they are “integrations”, or because they deal with notifications, or because they’re available only in the enterprise plan. Not all related things are related in the same way.
Still a lot of thinking to be done here to be honest. I've built a very fast canvas with zoom-to-code, parsing the git history, code age overlays etc, but understanding the architecture and connections is the next big thing I have to figure out. Plenty of ideas though!
What’s the general algorithms or patterns for these infinite canvas type things? I’ve always wondered. How do you handle interactivity also? Seems all very complex with a html canvas…
There are engines for this. I started out with Fabric.JS but it turned very slow with hundreds of repos. Then I moved to PixiJS (a game engine) which is super fast. I feel like I'll need to move to WASM / OffScreenCanvas and implement a custom engine, like Figma is doing.
Went through your profile searching for a demo and discovered fractional CTO. Could you share a bit about how you evaluate new gigs and figure out how much time each one would need?
People ask if I'm available and if I find the work interesting and they can pay me I say yes. I have never looked for work since starting and have slightly more requests than I can fulfill (almost everything through my network). For efficiency I do full days of work + ad-hoc meetings when necessary and no more than 2 days per week per client.
Note that I'm not always a CTO in the strictest sense of the word, I like doing complex technical challenges with software companies and sometimes just lead a complex project like implementing ISO 27001 or re-packaging a software suite for on-prem deployment.
Sorry to off topic further but I also have a question - how do you deal with recruiters? As a consultant I get grilled and rejected if I ever have overlapping projects or anything that even remotely looks like more than 40h a week. They're very intimidated with implications of being "overemployed"
This isn't a problem for me. I mostly stopped getting interest from recruiters when I became CTO. Now I just get calls from CEOs or CPOs etc and they understand what I offer them. I have a rule for myself to never charge for hours when I'm not productive and never charge overlapping hours though.
mapping the software items (and whatever related)... has been a conquest ever since. Although what you may infer without knowing deeper essential details (engines and what data drives them how), would be static. Still, "communication diagrams" are very useful meta-view.
some suggestions:
* have ways for multiple views and/or start-points and/or both up/down directions. e.g. hierachy vs reason/effect vs dependence vs whatever-else. Then think about animating those in time
* heat-map over the views, as e.g. churn(changes)-in-time, or usage(number of dependents), etc
* requirements engineering kind-of-view ~ may overlap with dependency (both directions!) but with explicit requirements/assumptions tied to respective stakeholders. Though this may need links to/from JIRA and similar issue-trackers etc
* check Wardley maps - yet another view, starting from customer/stakeholder/vendor-points. Also may move in time. It may need user decision on which things are big/separate-enough to surface on that view - sometimes a single script is on-par with whole subsystem
* future maybe - growing above into zoomable per-project thing (more proj.mngmnt than just code, incl. related e-mails etc) - described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060108
* probably more.. will add if something else dawns on me
Lots of good ideas in your comments, thanks. Like you say, you want call-graphs, hot-spots from your monitoring systems, seeing user interaction diagrams, links to other components, amount of engineering time spent on features, mapping security issues, tech debt, etc. The challenge is going to be to keep a simple product :)
Only to prospective buyers/partners/team members for now, as I need to carefully manage my time. If that's you, please reach out :) In any case, based on the interest in this thread I'll do a separate Show HN thread in a couple of weeks/months!
I would pay for it as an individual. Just things like going into code and spending 3 weeks reverse engineering everything is not ideal. Especially if it's something where the entire team has quit or been laid off. And lately the solution for that is just rewriting the damn thing lol.
How much we're willing to pay is a whole other question. I feel like this is the kind of thing that Cursor already does by itself but it's just not releasing a user-readable output of it.
It won't likely be a subscription thing, but one off payments per repo makes sense, and there should be some kind of satisfaction guarantee or say, charge to have the output in a human readable format.
Monorepos are also a pain. On the front end, they sometimes share design. On BE they may share databases. It would be cool to break it down into DDD-style domains if applicable or propose things like anti corruption layers. More often it's like a "pacific ocean meets atlantic ocean" kind of thing, where you can tell there's a difference in the way things are done, but it's not entirely clear where the border is. This would probably be worth a lot more.
To a much lesser extent, an architectural copilot would also make sense. On the front end, we have a lot of redundant components. Say a button might be PrimaryButton, but the same thing is GreenButton or FilledNoOutlineButton by other devs. We tried documenting this which just ended up being a waste of 1 week because nobody read the doc. It's worse with complex components like TwoButtonModal vs TwoButtonModalWithClose. And what happens is code is always built in parallel; people don't realize that the designer's new style applies to both teams so you get two people building the same components at the same time. Not a major problem, but I think this is worth a few cents every PR.
Ultimately it's hard to gauge. Like Copilot underdelivered, Cursor overdelivers, and yet both essentially do the same thing. I guess the amount we're willing to pay is just vibe-based.
Demo yes, feel free to reach out if you'd be willing to pay as I'm slowly starting to look for beta customers. You can also ask me to be put on the waiting list. Downloadable: I think in about two months.
I interviewed ~10 CTOs and the problem of codebases being too difficult to understand, people outside of the team having no clue what's happening and documentation being outdated is obvious to everyone. But when I asked how this idea could help, my take-away was that they couldn't imagine how it would work from my description. So now I'm building it and I hope that seeing it in action will convince people. I have some non-paying pilot customers and over the next couple of months we'll continue the validation :)
I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera.
I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings.
I have a doorbell camera, and by analysing the footage using OpenCV and some code, I can track how fast people drive if you see how fast they move between two known points.
The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast.
The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you should be driving fast. If I go the speed limit in the center lane because I'm going to turn left people will get angry and speed around at 60mph pissed off
Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light is always green.
It's beautiful. People actually drive slowly and safely there. And good, because that system is installed perfectly around the school and doesn't hinder anyone else. If they did this anywhere else you'd argue it's a moneygrab, but this is imo a great way to actually get people to drive slow in a school zone.
In contrast the only thing our town has done is install a bunch of big concrete flower boxes (?) that hinder your vision and causes conflicts on the road. The idea being that you'd have to slow down and that you're no longer on a straight wide road. It's absolutely only made things worse. You need to give way to others but you literally can't see them, or you need to pull weird manoeuvers to let them pass. And in the meantime cyclists need to swerve around them or are hidden behind those boxes. It's terrible.
Sounds great! Now if I could just get that installed in 100% of California
ATM we basically have lawless highways in California. Every time I go out I see outrageous traffic violations. People driving 15-20 mph over the speed limit on the freeway, weaving in and out of the carpool lane. People pulling into the left turn lane at a signal, then just crossing on a red light as soon as they think it's safe. People passing in the gutter (no lane). People cutting across 3-4 lanes of the freeway at ~70mph, across the painted barrier to exit a freeway.
I'd say the average of these incidences I see is 3 per drive and that doesn't include just you average weaver or tailgater. In other words, I take my car out for a 10-15 minute drive, (so 20-30 mins round trip) and see someone do something outrageous endangering other people's lives 3 times per drive on average.
>Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light is always green.
I have never seen a system like that. What town? Or what system?
Speed bumps are a crazy invention because they tell you what humanity is like. Let's make this road worse for driving because many drivers don't care about safety but do care about damaging their cars. I am reminded of this every time I see a speed bump.
>The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast.
This makes sense. Though annoying to drive over, speed bumps work. Also, my parents small town converted their main street from a four lane to a slalom-style two-lane and it so much nicer to walk around because people have to drive slowly. Not quite car-free, which I'd prefer, but it's a decent compromise.
Yeah, unfortunately this is true. A street near my house has a limit of 40mph and people would regularly drive 60 mph+, sometimes someone would pass me doing 65+mph (it's a no-passing residential road).
Eventually someone died, and they added a lot of traffic-calming changes to the road. It's much nicer now, but a shame that someone had to die to change it.
I don’t know about this person’s experience, but there are an overwhelming number of drivers here that don’t notice signals. I can be in the right lane (two lanes in both directions), signal a right turn, slow to turn and they’ll still ride right up on me and look pissed rather than go around.
It gets worse, some drivers seem to adopt an adversarial attitude towards the usage of turn signals and will deliberately accelerate or do something else to make things more difficult to you.
If two cars travelling the same direction contact each other such that the front axle of one car bumps the rear axle of the other (the car in front), it's usually the car in front that has the safety problem. This is the same principle behind the PIT maneuver.
On my street they installed one of those 'current speed' radar displays to let people know they are speeding.
I've never thought they worked really, but this is a new one. It has very prominent red and blue flashing lights that trigger if you are 5+ over. I've seen countless people slow down immediately, it's that jarring/terrifying
Is that legal in your country? In mine (Netherlands) there are way too many people with doorbell camera aimed right at the street even though it's illegal to record a public space like that. Most folks are ignorant about it though, or think that surely the internet-connected gadget sold by some anonymous corporation won't be abused....
On paper it's illegal to record the public street, but it seems to be given a pass for doorbell cameras, even going as far as the police asking people to sign up theirs into a database so they can request footage if needs be [0].
It's not legal where I live (Belgium), it can be legal if you have a driveway and only film your driveway, and if you declare that camera in some database. But since I don't have a driveway, it films the street, I am aware that this is not legal.
It's my personal decision and if I ever get fined for it, I will gladly pay the fine... with the money that my doorbell camera has already saved me. It helped me catch hit&runners that bumped into my parked car twice already, and the camera is now almost two years old.
It's not connected to the cloud, saves data locally, and only stores a couple of days of video. It's not very ethical to unknowingly film public spaces, I know. My lame excuse is that I personally think that catching people that damage my property with a camera is a lesser crime than damaging someone's property and running away. The sad truth is that living in a place where parents drop off and pick up their kids twice a day do not give two shits about others. Hit and runs happen every day here.
Of course it is. Is this controversial anywhere? I would expect surveillance cameras to be regulated in most parts of the world, certainly around Europe. In the Netherlands I believe you need to register such cameras with the local police and you are responsible for following the relevant regulations and data protection laws.
GDPR says no. Also, when you are using a cloud service it is no longer private use, you are sharing the surveillance video with Amazon (and almost certainly with the USA three-letter agencies) too.
It is the "systemic/constant/permanent" recording, record-keeping. etc. a.k.a. "processing" (GDPR "processing" means "if it exists and you touch it, your are processing it").
Back in 2005 I remember working with some physical sec company that were setting up cameras in a factory, and they wanted the cameras to 'not record traffic, be activated on if THIS part of the screen has motion')(sidewalk vs sidewalk-right-on-our-doorbell vs road). Also, sudden changes in lighting would trigger it :)
Then you need to have retention period (good luck). Most people use those door-cams are violating GDPR. UNLESS when people complain and take you to court (very very very rare), you can prove that "I auto-delete records after 24h when there is no incident", "I have proximity scanner so it is only 0m-2m from my front door", etc.) (violating GDPR because "hey you pervert why do you record my kids EVERY DAY going in and out")
Privacy and Data protection is very very very difficult with GDPR (and thank you Facebook for messing up back in 2015ish!!!)
You can set up your cam but have the "AI" automatically pixelating all license-plates, and the video recording (if any) should be post-pixelating, and not the original feed. How about you put something with a speed-measuring-sensor (that is NOT a camera), so you only get 'anonymised' data, i.e. "20 moving items", and their speeds. But you will not be able to tell if the 300km/h was done by a bicycle or a Hayabusa ;)
It's a complex discussion in the Netherlands in which the data protection agency (AP) has a very strict view (they claim it's not allowed) while for example the associated press sees it very different.
There is a key difference between recording vs publishing. There are more restrictions on publishing and an objective assessment needs to be made between the interests of the person in the footage and the general public or publisher.
I would argue that recording the road to collect speed data, not keeping the recording longer than needed and not for example recording license plates, would pass in the Netherlands. Since you're making an assessment between different interests and the is limited privacy impact. Of course assuming this is happening on a public road and not someone's property.
Publishing the recordings instead of just the average speed data would be a very different story, especially if the cars or drivers can be identified.
This is very interesting. I had the same need a few weeks ago, which resulted in a tiny Golang/OpenCV project (https://github.com/kmmndr/motion-speed). In my use case, we even had champions beating 60 km/h, three times allowed speed
It's always interesting when you find out others are doing some obscure idea. Last year I was scraping supermarket data from a small country and I ended up setting up a discord with a half dozen of us sharing tips.
There will be speed limit signs, but they're easily ignored. Maybe one of these plastic "watch out for our kids" things that people place on the street themselves? https://verkeersmaatje.nl/
i think part of the problem is 30mph/48kmph doesnt feel fast - and to get people to drive slower manufacturers need to design cars so 20mph/32kmph feels faster
Ironically, the lower you are to the ground, the faster it feels - everyone should drive a sports car!
(conversely, I drive a motorcycle sometimes which puts my head at or just over roof height of most cars, it makes 80 km/h not feel as fast. Mind you, the added road overview also helps)
Anyway. Narrow / winding roads and speed bumps will definitely make you want to drive slower. We have 'cars are guests' roads inside cities too, which are roads designed and coloured like bike paths (= red asphalt).
But the opposite is also true; I got a speeding ticket once, the road was a 4 lane, separated directions asphalt ring road... but the speed limit was 50 km/h.
There is another way: make the road feel fast. Thankfully it doesn't need to be via bad road surfaces or horrible things like speed bumps that only encourage boy racers and reward large vehicles, making the road narrower with high kerbs or other physical obstacles force drivers to drive slowly and pay attention, otherwise they'll physically damage their vehicle. In a way it evens the playing field, currently cars can kill you, but they are untouchable, there are no consequences for speeding or being distracted. The main downside I can think of is the route becomes difficult for emergency vehicles to use, but with the saved space there could be a dedicated lane for public vehicles.
They did try this approach. There's big concrete flower boxes in many places to create some artificial hindrances. It hinders your vision, causes people to swerve, it's annoying to give way. And worst of all: it slows people down for 2 seconds after which they just floor it.
Honestly it's already pretty narrow and crowded here. I'm a regular driver here (duh) and it honestly feels dumb to drive faster than 30 because a cyclist can pop out of every corner. It's crazy to me that people want to, and do drive faster than that. But here we are. People suck.
I'm starting to think about a similar thing for noise. The noise of motor vehicles seems to be out of control and I am sure it is causing misery for the majority of the population who have to live near roads. I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip. Unfortunately I think awareness of this problem is even worse than speed.
I used to live in a neighborhood about a quarter mile from a highway, nearly perfectly flat land, speed limit I believe was 45 or 55.
Most days the road noise itself was no big deal, if the wind blew it was gone, if you listened for it you could hear a whooshing/droning in the distance.
But all it took was one loud motorcycle or old car/truck to really ruin your peace for a solid 3 to 5 minutes, being able to hear it on approach, and it went by, and exit. And it wasn't that rare to get them back to back, seeing as it's a 4 lane highway with a decent flow of traffic.
It wasn't really until then I realized how a single vehicle could cause so much annoyance for so many people.
> I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip.
What absolutely grinds my gears is when a loud motorcycle or sports car drives through my residential neighborhood right after patiently rocking my baby to sleep.
Interestingly, as a motorcycle and sports car owner myself, I never thought about that aspect for even a second until I became a dad—I drive much more gently nowadays (especially in residential neighborhoods)!
> Interestingly, as a motorcycle and sports car owner myself, I never thought about that aspect for even a second
Right, because the car's cabin and motorcycle helmet protect the driver/rider from it. The noise they create are specifically designed to be heard by everyone but the operator. It's like me sitting in my back garden wearing earplugs, while blasting music out the front into the street.
Also a sure-fire way to get some irate drivers banging on your front door, given that it would be easy to work out which house the photo was taken from.
You sound like someone who doesn't have young children who cross a road where the road users should be respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because it's right in front of an elementary school, but instead a significant proportion of them are Michael Schumacher wannabes who need to drive everywhere at 60km/h.
No need to have children. It’s the same crap in France and I have to be very careful not to get killed when I’m driving myself. These morons don’t care about kids but they don’t care about other drivers either.
I’m a big privacy advocate but when you are handling a killing machine on a public road, there is no privacy IMHO.
I think that's simplifying things too much: as a driver, there are also pedestrians who will jump out into a street without so much as looking where there is no crosswalk; there are also drivers who will drive 20km/h in a 50km/h zone, and you have no idea what's going on except that you are likely to hit 5 red traffic lights which are designed to be a "green wave" and make a 30 second drive through one street into a 5 minute one, and resulting in more gas usage and more pollution.
And yes, this type of driving will produce annoyed drivers that "drive crazy", and I don't accept that this is just their fault.
Mostly, these same drivers doing 20km/h will not even stop for pedestrians on a crosswalk — slowness does not equal attention and safe driving!
Traffic, in essence, is a collaborative effort that requires all participants to be empathetical to other participants — as such, we need to be most mindful of the "weakest" participants like pedestrians (especially kids, who can also be very inattentive), cyclists, motorcycles but also of other car drivers — if we care about each others' experience, we'll reduce the risk for everyone involved, while getting everyone where they want to go in a timely and efficient manner — and that is the goal!
Continued working with my team to grow my granddaughter who at 15 months handles a spoon and fork to feed herself at each meal; drinks from a cup without assistance; can clean her face and understand everything she is told or asked (though sometimes with a devious smile makes what an adult might consider a poor choice.... She is testing her boundaries like she is supposed to do).
I have learned how to and produced 6 different embroidery patterns on various pieces of infant clothing.
I combined multiple web based directions to create a Wi-Fi enabled USB (from a raspberry pi W 2) to enable a link from my computer to my embroidery machine.
I made cookies and shared them with others creating a lot of joy
I'm visiting with my grandson in another state, modeling good parenting and offering help where I can.
Who the heck is so brain broken as to talk about their grandchild as a startup project and their family as a frigging team.
I have to almost need to see this as AI in order to maintain sanity because there’s no way an actual human being talked about a child—their human grandchild like he was a product.
You’re calling someone “brain broken” for writing a comment in a cute manner to make it sound like product development. It’s time to take a step back and relax.
It's clearly a joke. You've never heard people make corporate inspired comments about normal activities? Never had friends talk about sending them a calendar invite for dinner?
you're telling on yourself, highlighting that you're so humorless that you couldn't tell it was an intentional parody of corporate double speak, contrasting one of the most human experiences with one of the least human. It's ironic that you tried to call him brain broken lol
You're telling on yourself by admitting to, apparently, not considering that I COULD tell it was intentional parody, found the ironic humor in it, and STILL found it tasteless enough to call them out for talking about a child like they're a product.
Nah, no shade on the poster but AI slop would be better written, more saccharine and emphatic. You have to provide an AI generator very specific writing style prompts to come up with the same thing.
I'm working on a tool called Font of Web https://fontofweb.com that helps identify the fonts used on any website. It not only detects the fonts but also shows exactly where they're used (which HTML elements) and how they're styled (weight, line height, size, letter spacing).
My goal is to build a comprehensive database of font usage across the web. By collecting and analyzing this data, I believe we can uncover valuable trends, such as:
* Common font pairings
* Popular heading fonts over time
* Market share of commercial fonts
* Top font foundries based on actual usage
I originally built a version of this four years ago and saw a surprising amount of organic interest. I've now rebuilt the tool from the ground up, switching from a Puppeteer-based crawler to an invisible iframe approach. (More details in another post)
Check out the current version at https://fontofweb.com. I would appreciate any feedback
Nice project! Related question, how would you recommend detecting which font is being used for names like ui-sans-serif, system-ui on a given device/browser?
That's a difficult one, you would need information about the device and operating system to infer the font.
But I imagine, if you realllly needed that info. You could go the hard route and render the font on a canvas, vectorise and perform some sort of nearest neighbour search.
Thanks! My idea was to just render a Lorem Ipsum paragraph and compare the calculated width-height across a know list of default fonts.
Of course it wouldn't work with fixed width fonts, for that I'd need a canvas bitmap comparison.
I figured it out mostly from first principles. It's such a niche crawling method that was perfectly limited to my use-case, and there's alot to say. But the main idea is that you can inject a crawling script in the html of the site via a proxy you control. E.g proxy.yoursite.com?url=<SITE_YOU_WANT_TO_CRAWL>. Then once you've got the data you can call window.postMessage(data) to communicate with the main window.
For the past few weeks, I've been annotating all the references I could find in the legendary Unix magic poster: https://unixmagic.net.
I'm happy to reach this first milestone, but I'm already envisioning future iterations. My goal is to transform this into a proper celebration of Unix – a system whose elegant simplicity and powerful design principles continue to inspire me. There's something deeply satisfying about connecting with this foundational piece of computing history.
Contributions are always welcome.
Special shout-out to @abetusk for all the support and enthusiasm with the project.
Social skills and mental health!, I've been working pretty hard on learning how to make friends, showing my admiration to girls and become generally an outgoing and honest person, I used to be somewhat afraid of talking to strangers because I was quite worried that people might hurt me, and now I'm feeling more comfortable having conversation with new friends with less trust issues, though I pushed myself a bit too hard to recently I got plenty of panic attacks, I know it's a phase, so I'll keep working on it!
Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow.
Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people (crucial that they know how to connect back).
I was at a games exhibition a few months ago - and there was a game designed to help people deal with grief which i found interesting. I cant remember the name
I'm working on cataloging open source hardware designs.
When I'm starting a new hardware design, I find myself pulling up familiar boards (like Adafruit or Sparkfun's dev boards) as often as the chip's application note. I sometimes prefer a full reference project so I can get useful context like which voltage regulator they used or how the USB port is connected.
But, it's kind of an awkward process because I'll have to download the design files from Github and open it in the native CAD software (Eagle, for example).
I've been toying with how to solve this. I made a script to crawl Github for open hardware designs, then generate a schematic and interactive BOM for each design. Now, hopefully, you can search for "ESP32"[1] or "WiFi"[2] or "Bluetooth"[3] and get a number of designs to view in browser.
Cool idea. It would be nice to be able to quickly pull up a part in context in various designs across the internet to answer “how did other folks solve this on a board that works?”
I'm interested in uniform approximation with generalized polynomials -- these are linear combinations from families of parametrized continuous functions over some domain that satisfy some technical conditions, but its also fine to think of them as sums of regular monomials like 1, x, x^2, ..., x^N. This problem has been well understood for real intervals (classical case) for a long time, but I'm interested in this problem where we're approximating functions over complex domains.
There is a theoretically stable algorithm for the classical problem called the Remez exchange algorithm, and an extension to complex domains due to P.T.P. Tang in his 1987 PhD thesis at Berkeley. Theoretically Remez and its complex extension are very stable, but unfortunately implementations my advisor and I are aware of seem to struggle with large degree polynomials, where large is bigger than say n=45 -- errors begin to explode.
In any case, independently of this I've been learning more of the nitty gritty details of deep learning for a project at work (I'm a SWE in my day job, the math is more moonlighting), so to ground my efforts there I've been exploring deep learning approaches to this problem of complex uniform approximation, implementing results from various papers and tweaking things for my use case, and coming up with questions. That's much of what I'm thinking about this week!
Also, I'll be having a half-day long ADHD evaluation session on Friday -- so a bit apprehensive about that.
Formally I'm an undergraduate. Not in a hurry to graduate -- I take courses when they are interesting to me / relevant to my research / I happen to have the bandwidth.
I am already several years into my career and I have a spouse to support, so I'm ambivalent about formally attending graduate school -- at least anytime soon -- since that would introduce lots of time pressure and administrivia for little apparent benefit. My relationship with my supervisor is mostly informal
I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities.
The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.
I recently spoke with a Lemmy developer who gave me some advice on making it easy for anyone to host. I was struggling with the mess of supporting both docker and VM hosting. He told me that Lemmy uses ansible provisioning to install docker compose on the target VM so that the effort can be focused on docker support, so that's what I've been homing in on for the last few weeks.
I've now had multiple people ask for this - I will work on adding a new tab for this feature as it is a little different than what the site was originally intended to do.
Generally speaking models seem to be bucketed by param count (3b, 7b, 8b, 14b, 34b, 70b) so for a given VRAM bucket you will end up being able to run 1000's of models - so is it valuable to show 1000s of models?
My bet is "No" - and what really is valuable is like the top 50 trending models on HuggingFace that would fit in your VRAM bucket. So I will try build that.
Would love your thoughts on that though - does that sound like a good idea?
- Use natural language for telling offloading requirements.
Do you mean remove the JSON thing and just summarise the offloading requirements?
- Just year of the LLM launch of HF url can help if it’s an outdated LLM or a cutting edge LLM.
Great Idea - I will try add this tonight.
- VLMs/Embedding models are missing?
Yeah I just have text generation models ATM as that is by far where the most interest is. I will look at adding other model types in another type, but wouldn't be until the weekend that I do that.
I've recently been looking into running local LLMs for fun on my laptop (without any GPU) and this is the one thing I've never been able to find consistent information on. This is so helpful, thank you so much! Going to try and run Llama 3.2 3B FP8 soon.
It doesn't work for all GPU/device in Simple tab: "Exception: Failed to calculate information for model. Error: Could not extract VRAM from: System Shared".
Cool. What about giving the models for a given GPU? Also it could compare using vLLM, local_llama.c, etc. Links to docs maybe. Community build articles and rating. Along the lines of https://pcpartpicker.com/
And you can definitely add some ref links for a bit of revenue.
I am using Streamlit, and it is the thing that is adding React.
I appreciate that it's a heavy site, but just being honest with you - it doesn't seem worth the time optimising this by moving to another lighter framework at this stage of the project.
Not so much purposefully closed source more that I don't want to make it complex by splitting out the data the app uses from the code (co-ordination problem when it comes to deploying that I don't want to deal with for a project of this size).
> can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?
Detecting CPU and GPU specs browser-side is almost impossible to do reliably (even if relying on advanced fingerprinting and certain heuristics).
For GPU’s, it may be possible to use (1) WebGL’s `WEBGL_debug_renderer_info` extension [0][0] or (2) WebGPU’s `GPUAdapter#info` [1][1], but I wouldn’t trust either of those API’s for general usage.
Jay you seem knowledgeable on this - thanks for answering - I have a question
I did look at auto-detecting before, but it seems like you can only really tell the features of a GPU, not so much the good info (VRAM amount and bus speed) - is that the case?
I looked at the GPUAdapter docs, and all it told me was:
- device maker (amd)
- architecture (rdna-3)
and that was it. Is there a way to poke for bus speed and vram amount?
> Is there a way to poke for bus speed and vram amount?
Unfortunately, I’m not aware of any way to reliably get this type of information browser-side.
If you really want to see how far you can get, your best bet would be via fingerprinting, which would require some upfront work using a combination of the manual input you already have now and running some stuff in the background to collect data (especially timing-related data). With enough users manually inputting their specs and enough independently collected data, you’d probably be surprised at how accurate you can get via fingerprinting.
That said, please do NOT go the fingerprinting route, because (1) a lot of users (including myself) hate being fingerprinted (especially if done covertly), (2) you need quite a lot of data before you can do anything useful, and (3) it’s obviously not worth the effort for what you’re building.
Thanks I appreciate that! Love getting feedback :)
Code-wise I didn't take inspiration from anywhere, I followed "C Programming - A Modern Approach" and based my C knowledge off there. There was also a YouTube video I watched regarding raycasting, and watching people optimise Minecraft etc.
Other than that, its just been alot of trial and error and trying many, many different ideas out.
What has helped is I don't worry about cross-platform ability, I just implement what I want and what feels fun and "innovative".
But I have never seen anyone do a Raycaster with as many vertical/z-levels as I'm planning (1000's), maybe the most I've seen is ~10.
Also most of the approach I'm taking is not best-practice, I'm trying to come up with how to approach everything from my own mind which has been extremely rewarding
I have celiacs, so I'm making a database of every single labeled gluten-free product in grocery stores. (I have 8,858 products across 243 grocery categories).
GF products are expensive and hit or miss, I really wanted something where I could keep track of my favorite items. I also want to let people rank them, so maybe I can discover the best gluten free hamburger bun (Rudi's Brioche), or beer (Glutenberg Blonde).
I'm also making a user submitted recipe section, so say you want to recreate a Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco, it's easy to link to the products you need.
I'm not sure where this project is headed but I couldn't find any jobs working in this space so decided to make something to help myself.
Very cliched, but I am working on my own Lisp dialect. I want a more streamlined syntax and keywords, but keep the "batteries included" idea from CL. So, Scheme/Clojure syntax with a CL live image approach, including condition systems, and a fleshed out standard library.
Initially was aiming to use MLIR or at least LLVM but will probably try to handroll to a) reduce dependencies and b) as a learning experience.
The bootstrapped is written in CL with no dependencies and hopefully soon it will be self-hosted.
Not yet. I am still working my way to bootstrapping. I aim to release it some point this year though. I am still figuring out a few bootstrapping things because one of my self-imposed requirements is the bootstrapped in pure CL and no C or other things involved. So basically to be able to bootstrap it from various CL implementations.
I'm tinkering with the USB HID specification for power devices for all the wrong reasons.
Historically, UPSes had various proprietary communication protocols over serial ports. Nowadays they usually have a USB port, but I have a bunch of very old APC UPSes with just the serial port and/or the expansion card slot (which is usually just another serial link plus power on a edge connector).
A normal person would just use NUT or apcupsd over serial and call it a day. A bored person would write a USB HID power device stack and serial protocol acquisitors to give these UPSes USB ports. An insane person would add projectors from the USB HID power device stack to serial protocols so that they could use whatever communication card they want on any UPS they have (for example, a CyberPower RM205 card plugged into an APC Smart-UPS).
Why? Because apparently I'm insane and I needed a break from working on delinking executables back into object files, another heretical project I've worked on for the past couple years.
I've just started and I don't know if I'll finish that, but it's something I need to work on to exorcise that particular nagging thought out of my head.
I'm making a violin. I've been a programmer for just over 25 years, and recently decided I wanted to leave the profession. So I'm planning on attending the Violin Making School of America in the fall, and my project before then is to build a violin myself. There are some good in-depth video tutorials, as well as some famous books on the subject, and I'm planning to pair up with an amateur luthier in my town. The tonewood I purchased just arrived!
A small library which uses a fork of OpenSCAD which adds Python support: https://pythonscad.org/ to allow writing out DXF files and G-code and modeling how G-code will cut in 3D:
Writing it in a TeX editor using a Literate Programming system developed in the course of working on it, the PDF should give both a good overview, and provide all the code.
It has greatly expanded/restored my math/geometry and has me looking forward to how to implement Bézier Curves and surfaces using similar math (since G-code and CGAL are fundamentally limited to lines and arcs and what can be easily made from such constructs).
I’ve deleted all my social media apps (including YOU - LinkedIn).
I’m trying to really see and feel what’s actually missing in my life and trying to build it. Right now I just want to see what my friends are up to in a non-curated way.
Well done, LinkedIn is a cesspool.
Ironically the only thing I am using right now is Twitter, since a lot of interesting people are still on there. There's a lot of negative but balance as well. For every MAGA or ESR's comments, I balance it out with Miguel de Icaza's views on Gaza, etc.
No, I would say at this point a lot of people who say they use twitter feel the need to say they aren't a nazi nor do they support nazi's. YOU may not feel that way, but a lot of people do, and they don't want to be associated in any way with endorsing nazi's or musk.
In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on Micro (https://github.com/micro), I started a new project called Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west.
The name of your app reminds me of one I had started working on when I was out of employment: the app was going to send periodic reminders of stuff you've bookmarked/saved on various social media sites.
I was just about working on the Twitter api when Musk bought the company and restricted access. Real bummer. I got employment weeks later.
That's definitely the right name for periodic reminders right. Years ago I wrote an API called remindme which was supposed to provide pings for when you were in proximity to a location and it would remind you if you needed to pay someone, buy something, do something, etc. Never went anywhere but totally unrelated to this.
The Quran itself is referred to as the reminder. Because it's supposed to remind us of why we're here, our purpose, who made us, and all that.
I was wondering what happened to micro recently (loved the m3o domain). Sorry to hear it’s over. Have you written a post-mortem? I’d love to hear more about it — if you don’t feel too downbeat about it.
Haven't written a post-mortem but maybe at some point if it felt useful for others. Startups built around open source are generally very hard. About as bad as social consumer products. Both micro.dev and m3o.com are for sale yes.
At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID password, or something of the like, there are people that send the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not everyone deletes their message containing the password afterwards.
You enter your secret on the website and it gets encrypted on the client-side before being sent to the database. A one-time-use URL is generated and then you send that URL to whomever needs the password. The backend never sees the secret in plain-text.
The tool is meant to be self-hosted - but I'm in the process of deploying it publicly for people to try out. I got the idea from my brother -- he was doing an internship at Tesla and said they had this being used internally, so I figured I would create my own as a little side project that I can then implement at work.
I taught my parents how to use LLM chat apps. I was pleasantly surprised to see them use it all the time. And even more shocked to see them pasting entire whatsap messages containing passwords, upload income tax files, and a lot more private details with LLMs. They rarely pause to think about privacy/security before sharing info with LLM services. So I'm working on an interface that works as a privacy filter, making sure the private info does not leave the device. It redacts /anonymizes/obfuscates private information from what we share with LLMs via on-device model, and plugs back the output with the private info to make it appear almost similar to the output as before.
I've just published my first novel for adults, The Dark Sorcerer's Intern, my bid to bring back fun and comedy to a fantasy genre that has spent years in a grimdark rut.
The relevance to hackers is that unlike most fantasy where spells are cast with hand motions, magic words, or spell ingredients, there's actually an explanation for why that works and makes sense.
Working on Uncloud[1][2] — think Fly.io but self-hosted. A lightweight Docker clustering tool for running web apps on your own servers (from cloud VMs to bare metal) with no control plane to maintain. Perfect for teams who want cloud-like deployments without Kubernetes complexity. Early days but seeing promising results with eventually consistent state sync, zero-config mesh networking, and automatic HTTPS ingress.
As far as I know, Coolify is great for single-server PaaS or multi-servers that work independently. Uncloud focuses on distributed multi-server HA deployments (which is what is usually preferred for production). It allows you to spread workload replicas across different providers and locations while maintaining unified management. It's closer to Kubernetes and Docker Swarm in terms of providing building blocks to build your PaaS of choice.
Unlike Coolify which requires a dedicated server to run the control plane Uncloud has no central component to manage. It's just a network of interconnected machines so there's no single point of failure and no central service that needs updates, backups, etc.
Honestly, I went with Docker simply because I'm much more familiar with it and its networking stack made integrating with WireGuard overlay straightforward. Podman support could come later but Docker's popularity and API stability made it the practical choice for the initial implementation.
I’m finally trying to jump on the AI train for a long ride instead of getting off at the first stop.
I’m currently creating a new fan site for Marvel Rivals (https://marvelrivals.app), and I’m trying to introduce new types of features using predictive analysis, and further, use some DL maybe to understand specific player behavior and do stuff like find cheaters. I am failing so far.
I thought it’d be easier to throw data at the magic AI monster, but it’s still garbage in -> garbage out. It makes me respect AI engineers a lot more.
I wish there was an easier way to apply AI to this kind of stuff, on the how to do better data analysis. Ideally, I’d hook up some tool to my Postgres db, which has a couple tables but everything is named appropriately and has references. Then the tool would output correlations, patterns, stuff people would find useful and interesting. Instead, right now, I think I have to make those guesses and then build models that will either support my hypothesis or reject it, but I don’t know ahead of time and it relies on my gut feelings.
I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros.
Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where you cannot change the ingredients used.
Weit ideally provides a seamless experience in taking a picture to retrieving ingredients to retrieving macros per ingredient. Once that's sorted, food tracking should be granular enough to build intelligence around it to improve one's diet based on their requirement.
Honestly, I used to constantly struggle with the realisation that none of my ideas are unique and whenever I see someone having built something similar, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm getting better at dealing with it now though.
Not sure if you are already familiar but I use Cal AI and think it does a pretty decent job. How granular do you track the macros? hard to figure out from a picture if I used some cheese or how much oil.
Indeed, I intend on having the user take over after identifying the food that we're working with.
The idea is to reduce the amount of redundant work (clicking a button to add a single ingredient over and over again), and rather push for minor modifications instead.
works fine for my use case and found it alot better than myFitnessPal, ymmv and yeah of course it's impossible to determine with certainty but it gets you 80/90% of the way there.
if you cooked a meal with a ton of butter or oil, it would not be able to detect the quantity. it could possibly undercount by hundreds of calories, making it useless. if you're not serious about the counting then it could be fine
this idea has been rinsed and repeated many times already. unless you're going to include manual input in addition to the image recognition, it will be highly inaccurate
Oh yeah, manual input is going to be a big part of it.
The system should ideally try to map the image to a standard recipe with the ingredients and then hand over control to the user to make any modifications they like.
Computing the nutrients from the ingredients should be reasonably accurate post this because that has a direct mapping in the USDA FoodCentral dataset.
(thanks to Crystal ability to read a file at compile time - I can write raw SQL in a file with syntax highlithing and maybe typesafe if I connect the DB to the editor)
The land page is not ready, but the bot has been working for me for months https://newsbutler.xyz/
A Django UI Desktop app, a là Docker Desktop, but for manage Django projects. Some people prefer UI apps instead of CLI, and it could be good for juniors and starters, to get familiarized with how Django works before jumping into the command line.
It is more an excuse to create a simlpe Electron app, though.
I'm rewriting a suite of network applications from C++ to Rust as a learning exercise. It's a long obsolete and obscure protocol, so the results aren't particularly useful, but it's been a good introduction to the language.
> Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together.
> Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors.
> See which color pairs contrast as you edit so you can create a palette with built-in WCAG accessibility. This way you can plan in advance which foreground colors (for headings, body text, form fields and so on) should contrast on which background colors, so you can avoid running into surprise low contrast issues later when designing.
Responding to some feedback I got: I need to add better UI feedback for this, but you can drag whole hue/saturation/lightness curves if you click/drag between points on the curves.
Feel free to message me if you've got any tricky or tedious problems to do with creating color palettes that extra tooling like this might help with! I have more feature ideas but I want to understand more what others need.
I'm planning to write some articles for giving a more intuitive sense about WCAG color contrast rules and picking accessible colors too. From working with designers, I find many give up here because it takes a while to get your head around and it's often not obvious how to fix designs with failing contrast.
I'm a fashion nerd. I've been working on an outfit tracking app for the last ~4 years (but only really pushed hard on it the last 3 months). I found I kept buying clothes that I never ended up wearing. Either because they didn't fit with what I had, I already had something like it, or it simply wasn't my actual style (although I thought it was). So, I built my own with the simple goal of buying less clothes, and throwing away fewer clothes.
There are plenty of apps that do outfit tracking, with some basic stats. But they all have a few or more of these shortcomings (from my perspective); unpleasant UI, no cross device syncing, lack of detailed usage statistics (e.g. cost spread over time by garment category), some categories just not supported, pushing a specific lifestyle such as Capsule Closets, or just plain focused on recommending what to wear using some mediocre algorithm that doesn't understand cuts and how different pieces fit together; basically only suitable for capsule collections.
These apps all have a lot of downsides too in common, which I haven't been able to solve either yet; ultimately you must start with an inventory of your clothes, and then work from there. It takes ages to catalog and import your clothes, and I haven't found many existing product that lets you export if you've even done it before. And on top of that, you have to be quite rigorous at tracking what you wear; the more data you have the more insight you can get from your choices.
I finally published on iOS a couple of months ago. No traction, and I don't expect there to be. I won't argue that my offering is better than any of the competition, but I've tried most of them (and wasted colossal amounts of time onboarding onto them) and found none fit my need properly. It's still very much work in progress, but I find myself reaching for it multiple times per week to inform my purchasing habits.
To me, vanity is only tangential to the purchasing of clothes, particularly fast fashion, where 'it looks good on the model' is often enough to part with money, not 'will it look good on me', or 'do I need it', which are often never even considered, surprisingly. The individual thinking they will look good is actually not always a factor; it can be a kind of addiction. Source comes from my previous employer (fast fashion related industry).
This app doesn't directly answer those questions, but it gives the data needed to stop and think about the answer (quickly). I don't consider myself a vain person, but I consider myself a person who makes poor decisions with their disposable income (fashion).
The main selling point would be this: You could avoid buying 2 shirts that will be unused then thrown away every year, for the cost of 1 shirt. Save money, and textile waste.
But also, why must everything be profitable? I most I could ever hope for is that the hosting costs are paid for.
I’ve been improving the developer experience of the extremely janky Java Spring app that powers the most popular open source real time transit app, OneBusAway.
Last month I added Dockerfiles and a docker-compose.yml file to the project to make building and locally running it a breeze. Earlier today, I finally had a chance to figure out and document how to debug the app, which should greatly improve quality of life for anyone trying to fix bugs or add features to the backend. https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules...
A game: you're stuck on a 1970s spacecraft and you have to program your way home using 6502 assembly. I wanted to learn more about old 8 bit cpus so figured I would make a game out of it
I've been working on something I call "Poor Fred's SIEM" (a play on Poor Richard's Almanac) for several years, rethinking an approach to observability based on the functional difference between diagnostic and evaluative observables: cooking evaluatives at the edge, presuming that diagnostics will be investigated on the (well-implemented) network segment where they are recorded. I've also rethought PTR records based on local knowledge, dovetails quite nicely. Living off the land: redis, python + dnspython + dpkt, DNS as both observable and transport.
No GUI, command line tools work for me. I've got a toolkit. I don't give it away because I don't want to support it but if you made friends and asked nicely I'd toss it your way. Here's a silly little two minutes of your life... done in one take, in Skype:
I actually eat this dog food to the point where I publish (some) telemetry data on the internet with this toolkit using DNS. Again, make friends and I'll tell you where to find it. I think it would be great if other people ran this toolkit and published telemetry data for other edge operators to see: things can be federated, they don't need to be centralized.
I'm building an interactive, web-based Python tutorial site intended to help with learning basic syntax. Originally it was for my kids who wanted to learn to code, but... might be useful to others.
The content needs some work, but I'm pretty happy with the framework / UX. I would love to get any feedback from folks who check it out!
(The first section is just multi-guess questions as part of the introductory content. Try any other section to get the full in-browser-code-execution experience, which uses client-side Pyodide under the hood.)
the navigation buttons should be at the bottom, because that's where you are when you finish a question. or maybe a "next" button that only shows up when a question is answered correctly.
content wise, i found the first lesson to dry. i'd rather start with something interactive, and explain necessary concepts along the way. the print lesson introduces the separator feature which is rather rarely used and should only be introduced when there is a practical need for it.
I’ve always wanted a large wall mountable e-ink display that I could update periodically - and it didn’t need to be plugged in (or drill holes in a wall to hide the power cable).
The displays are really expensive so I’m looking at taking 12 kindles apart and mounting them in a 3x4 grid. They cannot seamlessly touch at the edges so I’m looking to include that as part of the larger aesthetic then ignore it.
I’ve figured out a few possible approaches and the software/service side - next step is to order 10 more kindles and get to work.
I played around with turning an old kindle into a wall mounted display a while back and got frustrated at how buggy the process was.
I managed to get my own image displayed on the device but sometimes it wouldn't update, sometimes it would drop power way too fast after a full charge.
I think I would use an eink display and a raspberry pi if I ever revive this project.
Yeah, I setup a Kindle that relied on the experimental web browser to open a web page over HTTP (for subway updates). The reliance on wifi meant I had to charge it often but since it was on kitchen counter that was ok.
For this I am jailbreaking the Kindles and relying on the screensaver functionality to pull down an image every 3 hours (will adjust based on power usage - only need 1 update per day tbh). This should require less power than the experimental browser using a web page with Javascript to refresh.
Collectively this will be a bit more abstract (no seamless NYT front-page experience) but I think I can get creative.
I need to see if 12 Kindles with USB cables across 1 or 2 hubs, each hub powered by a removable battery-pack is safe to hang on a wall :)
No, but maybe I will. All my notes are in a messy Google Doc right now.
I have a month sabbatical coming up and that was when I was planning to do all the physical work. Right now just validating the idea on paper and working with 2 kindles to ensure the approach is somewhat viable before I try and get 7 or 10 more Kindles of the same model
If I actually move forward in a meaningful way I'll do a write up and follow-up here.
I'm a long-time FreeCAD user, and one of my annoyances is that long-running operations lock up the entire UI and can't be aborted. This is particularly annoying if you realise you made a mistake, but have no way to go back and correct it without waiting for the operation to complete first. Or you kill FreeCAD but then you don't get to save your work.
So for my first contribution to FreeCAD I'm working on fixing this.
The underlying CAD operations are done by "OpenCascade", and at first I thought OpenCascade had no support for aborting operations part of the way through. So my first implementation was to move the operation into a child process and give the user a dialog box that would allow terminating the child process.
But it actually turns out OpenCascade does support aborting the operations! So now I'm working on doing it the OpenCascade way.
Always awesome to see new freecad devs chiming in. Thank you for your efforts, I bet a lot of people are reading your comments and nodding in approval, waiting for freecad to enter its heyday.
I've been sharpening my axe by working on a few different projects in the shape of of an online shop[0][1]. Products are a bit of a mishmash as a result of the different projects - To date, I've been farming succulents, 3d modeling/printing (flower pots/hobby crafts/etc), and learning Rust/Next.js for the back/front ends!
Time investment has been _massive_ so far, but I just hit the first $100+ profit month, and despite the distance from my normal dev salary, the positive reviews/feedback have been an incredible reward that drives the motivation to continue. I will also say that it is quite the humbling experience to ship physical products and the experience has given me a whole new appreciation for the things we have in this world.
I have been working full-time for about 15 months on a product to store real-world entity-relations in a graph (using AI/ML for extraction). The idea is to extract entities and relations deterministically from text (using AI/ML for clues about type and position of entities in text).
It is very much a work in progress with lots of commented out code which are just experiments.
Nice project! I built something extremely similar with a friend in 2022! Back when we only had the GPT-3 API. I built an ontological graph and relation extractor, mental model analysis engine, bunch of stuff, on top of an Elastic DB being filled with live incoming ephemeral data across the web, including messages, comments, posts, articles and more.
I would really love for you to reach out via the email in my bio so we can talk ontology!
This sounds lovely. This product has not reached to the point where ontology matters, that is still far away.
I am just going for the low hanging fruits - very basic stuff like location, person, event, activity, date (a few more things) and relations between them. One of the limitations is that I want to do deterministic extraction with suggestions from AI/ML, so there is much code to be written. I will email you, thanks a lot!
I've working on Colanode, an open-source & local-first Slack and Notion alternative that you can self host. You can use Colanode for real-time chat, as a knowledge center, project management or file storage. As a local-first application, Colanode offers full offline support, allowing you to work even when you’re not connected to the internet or the server is not available. You can host it in any environment (with minimal dependencies), giving you full ownership and control over your data.
As part of my spare time hobby, implementing small packages for building games that don't allocate memory post startup (or work when the memory map can be declared statically such as with wasm-4-like targets or an rp2040) and can run in resource constrained environments along with performing well on a steamdeck.
Most of it involves taking advantage of data structure properties (and limits) by using zig comptime to derive functions that either compute offsets relative to existing pointers or use pre-computed offset tables, when relative isn't possible, to reduce function size further without inhibiting the ability to take full advantage of SIMD.
One of the next task for this is statically computing update graphs for archetypes such that a multi-thread runtime can mix strategies (last thread (detected by an atomic counter on nodes that require all dependencies to be complete) to reach a node broadcasts new work it unblocks, starved threads steal work from others, etc) to speed up the world update loop when running on larger targets while also remaining lock-free.
It's fun to explore how far one can go with statically declaring all limits upfront and managing even larger targets (steamdeck, servers) as if they were embedded applications.
After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers.
There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least still try.
I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be simple and relatively similar across salons.
Additionally I'm considering where I should move to. I wish to live in a place where owning substantial land for homesteading in a relatively climate safe area (relatively doing a lot of work there but imagine not already arid or with high storm risk) is not completely out of grasp. My region of Belgium is too densely populated for this.
Even if I'm not moving to a different country even next year I figured it's the kind of thing that takes a stupid amount of preplanning.
I don't.
I hope to go around to discuss stuff at local salons that use competitors next week and hope to garner some first interest along my expected feedback.
I also already know from an insider that a decently sized Belgian chain has people really frustrated with Salonised so I hope to get my foot in the door there.
However before I try that it needs to be a bit more than an MVP.
Even tho I'm a rather smooth talker and potential salesperson it took me a fair bit of courage building initially to actually approach people about my product.
I'm sure that'll get better with experience.
Down the line even if I hope to catch most customers trough unpersonal means such as online advertising, mailing, etc I'll still have to simply try and approach many larger business/chains directly.
It’s scary, but I think most people react rather positively once they understand that you aren’t trying to force them into something, but rather are trying to see if it’s possible to create a positive - sum result for both parties.
I am still writing about Cognitive Agents on my Substack "Encyclopedia Autonomica" [1]. Last month I crossed 500 subscribers (~15 paying) on Substack and since today Google is properly indexing it.
Throughout February I wrote largely about applications in FinTech like Market Making, Agents as Financial Decision Engines, Advanced Named Entity Recognition, and that I built Deep Search for Finance in 2023 and nobody cared.
At work, I'm finalizing a platform to quickly set up and deploy Apache Flink clusters and pipelines. It's going surprisingly well, with several teams interested in using it! Unfortunately we couldn't use the extremely cool Flink Kubernetes Operator because it's incompatible with the existing infrastructure stack at my company... but rolling out something similar enough hasn't been too hard.
At home, I'm about to receive my new robot vacuum and the gear I need to install Valetudo in it. I'm excited because I've had nothing but bad experiences with cloud-connected vacuums. To give you all an example: my current Shark vacuum sometimes starts by itself in the middle of the night. When I get up to stop it and check the app, I see that the floor plan it tried to clean is not my house... so it's receiving cleaning commands from other users.
With English not being my native tongue, it gets difficult to speak some words at times and I have to reshoot each takes several times. But it's worth the effort and it's different to what I do in my main channel!
Working on GrocerBird[1] where you upload a grocery receipt, it will parse all of the items and their prices, so you can keep track of grocery spending and prices over time. Please feel free to share your feedback and suggestions!
I'm working on a compiler for asynchronous circuits. Once I have modules, placement, and routing working, I'll have an MVP. Hopefully, this will allow people without any computer engineering expertise to make chips. For now it has a couple of useful tools.
I've been working on an iOS app that aggregates cinema showtimes across chains and independent theaters in the UK.
I moved to London some years back, and was pleasantly surprised by the vibrant cinema scene, that seems to be in a steep decline in so many places. On any day of the week, one can find independent films, old and new classics, Q&A's with filmmakers etc. playing in one of the many theaters across the city. Staying on top of it all is a chore though, and I found myself missing out on screenings regularly, because I didn't check that one cinema's website on time.
This is also my first time building and releasing an independent app. The journey from research, backend development and learning SwiftUI has been a trip. Released on TestFlight a couple of weeks ago.
I've been trying to use genetic algorithms to evolve voice style tensors for Kokoro-82M TTS. My current main barrier is that the scoring function is powered by resemblyzer and whatever it is using to compare the audio data has limitations. The generated tensors over fit and make garbage sounding audio that scores high, but doesn't sound like voice. Considering alternate methods of scoring.
The goal is to create a stream processing framework that supports SQL jobs. Apache Flink supports this but is very heavy-weight overall. I work with cost constrained companies that just can't run Flink but still want access to high performance streaming primitives.
We are taking a slightly different approach from other competitors by building cloud-native tools for engineers. SQLFlow is built on DuckDB, Native Kafka Library, and Arrow. This allows SQLFlow to handle ~70k+ events / second with low memory overhead (~250MiB).
Would love your questions, thoughts and feedback or feature Ideas! Thank you
Interesting project. I'm working on a side project that is sort of adjacent but the user cases I'm targeting are fundamentally different from yours.
I professionally have some projects where we are doing custom CDC from kafka -> dbms. In that context, we're just using spring boot apps. How is the troubleshooting/recovery story for sqlflow?
Maybe there just isn't that much money in it? But I think there's still lots of opportunity to improve the Dev/UX over the JVM and the enterprise solutions.
-----
I would say recovery is achieved through kafka consumer groups right now, which results in at least once processing semantics.
We also support websocket input for the bluesky firehose but that is completely ephemeral. I have a story in the backlog to write ahead to disk which should allow for tolerating process crash/failure.
The tumbling windows stores state using duckdb. The end user can configure a disk-based duckdb databases which achieves durability as well.
The troubleshooting was actually pretty funky, i didn't realize how tricky it could be with stateful stream processing. I certainly don't have a good story for it, but what I did was added a sql debug HTTP handler. When this is enabled it exposes the duckdb execution context over HTTP. This was how I debugged the tumbling window logic during development. I would start SQLFlow, query to make sure the windows were empty, send some known messages, query the windows to make sure they were aggregated correctly, wait for the windows to close and flush, query the tumbling window state, etc.
For troubleshooting it also supports prometheus metrics oriented towards stream processing, # of messages, processing duration, success/failures, etc.
SQLFlow also ships with a dev framework, this allows you to execute your sqlflow pipeline against a json input file to make sure the sql processing logic is correct. I wanted to give the ability to decouple testing the logic, from actually having to stream data.
I would love to know about more what you're hacking on!
I’m creating an observability tool that I’m trying to make user-centric while staying developer friendly. Most of the tools for remote logging, live dashboards and alerts are either too big, too expensive, or have a “per seat” plan, and incorporate the famous “home” screen with metrics and tips you absolutely never care of. I’m also trying to stay cheap and focused on very few techs (node, Postgres, docker, react) and make it stay as a monolith.
So far I’ve put all the side projects I manage (5 of them) and it’s working great. I can follow and query the logs, the JSON payloads by path, see live metrics like number of users currently online, etc. Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs! Will soon be adding alerts through webhooks, slack, discord, etc.
Edit: just want to say that if you want to try the software but not keep it, you can create an account in under 10 seconds, send a curl request to see logs arrive in realtime, and delete your account in 5 seconds. I do not track anything and do not keep a single piece of data.
> Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs!
That’s the spirit! A buddy of mine created a tool/API to solve his own problems, opened it to the public and launched it, but he got very few sign-ups, so he just continued to use it for himself. Recently, about two years later and out of nowhere (without doing anything other than the original bit of SEO he did), he started to see a bunch of sign-ups (including paid) and then started receiving feedback and support request emails from customers. Most folks would’ve just called it quits on the product at least a year ago, but he just kept using the product for his own projects and left it open to the public just in case it was helpful for anyone else. Obviously, YMMV, but good luck with this!
I’m on mobile right now, but I think I’ll give it a try when I’m back at my computer.
That's so refreshing to hear to be honest! I've went on so many side projects hoping I would see adoption for months and was basically chasing the dream. However I've came to realize that I really take happiness in developing things sustainably over time, with small steps, and most importantly for myself and what I would like a product to look like. Lately I've even been able to onboard a friend on it using it for his own projects as well, couldn't be happier so far.
If you ever have feedback/advices, don't hesitate to reach me out on contact[at]halftheopposite.dev and I'll happily answer.
I'm working on Alumnium (https://alumnium.ai). It's an open-source library to simplify web application testing with Selenium/Playwright.
I aim to create a stable and affordable tool that allows me to eliminate most of the support code I write for web tests (page objects, locators, etc.) and replace it with human-readable actions and assertions. These actions and assertions are then translated by an LLM into browser instructions. The tool, however, should still leverage all existing infrastructure (test runner, CI/CD, Selenium infrastructure).
So far, it's working well on simple websites (e.g., a calculator, TodoMVC), and I'm currently working on scaling it to large web applications.
I experimented with Computer Use and even though it's pretty cool, I ended up not using it for 2 main reasons:
1. It's unreasonably expensive. A single test "2+2=4" for a web calculator costs around $0.15. I run roughly 1k tests per month on CI and I don't want to spend $150 on those. The approach I took with Alumnium costs me $4 per month for the same amount of tests.
2. It tries too hard to make the test pass even when it's not possible. When I intentionally introduced bugs in applications, Computer Use sometimes pretended the everything was fine and marked the test passed. Alumnium on the other hand attempts to fail as early as possible.
For the 1st point, I generate a script with hashed check points so next run is automated unless something changes in the UI to invoke AI. I make this possible by proxy wrapping playwright library so I can take over every method. Users use playwright like they always have but with one extra method called act.
Omini parser lets you split section of the UI to hash and watch for changes that are relevant.
I'm working on a project to document all publicly accessible stained glass in North America. The tech itself isn't anything exciting (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS and using Bootstrap for UI).
All the work is in collecting and entereing data and hopefully recruiting folks around the country to go to their local church/synagogue/mosque, government building, or glass shop/studio and taking photos and collecting information on glass pieces.
I’m working on a cross-platform fast multithreaded HTTP / FTP downloader that will download much more quickly than other clients like FileZilla, hash check files, perform follow up operations (like extracting RARs or deleting files on the remote,) and have a nice graphical UI that runs in the browser and allows local/remote/cloud control. It’s early (started last week) so there’s not much done yet, but if you’re interested, would love a star or watch: https://github.com/lukevp/Speedful
Tangentially, I am glad to see this thread again, I was worried the idea was scrapped since I hadn't seen it in the last few months. For whatever it counts for, I like this idea and hope to see it continue.
I'm working on a text editor (https://github.com/blackhole89/autopen/) that continuously analyses the buffer with a local LLM to compute token surprisal and generate candidate completions starting from any point, and switch back and forth between different ones by walking a tree structure. This is pretty different from the usual way people interact with LLMs, and has lots of interesting applications - for example, if you are using them to translate and don't like a particular word choice, you can "dig through" top alternatives on the spot or even insert your own.
Applying the same approach to chain-of-thought reasoning gave me the feeling that I might be looking at a form of realistic UX for some sort of science-fiction neural AI augmentation - you can let the CoT run on and do its thing, but also interject at any point and insert a "thought" of your own, or go back and revise a thought you did not like, and then let it continue. Imagine such a stream hooked up with a two-way pipe into your phonological loop (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/phonological... - perhaps more attainable with existing tech).
Recently, I've been engaged in a project that focuses on the market demands of independent developers and small and medium - sized entrepreneurial teams. People involved in R & D often tend to be completely immersed in technology. As a result, the products they develop are left unattended and may not even be needed by anyone, which is really terrible. After all, everyone hopes that the things they develop can be in demand and receive positive feedback.
Making Fil-C more complete. Fil-C is a memory safe C implementation that can run a lot of stuff. I want to make it run even more stuff.
Recently I landed C exceptions support (I didn’t know that was a thing but it is, look for attribute cleanup if you want to know more) and ifunc support.
I've been working on https://github.com/nickjj/plutus, it's a command line income and expense tracker. It's a zero dependency Python script that you can curl down.
It generates reports to show you your numbers in a bunch of customizable ways, it generates these reports in less than a second and uses a single CSV file as your data source.
I've gotten things to the point where I can do my books every quarter in about 5 minutes with complete accuracy since it supports importing arbitrary CSV files such as bank exports with a way to automate categorizing things in any way you see fit. I currently use it to track my income, business expenses and personal expenses.
Basically I ran into issues using different finance tracking tools over the last decade which always made me feel unhappy to use those tools so I built Plutus with intent to resolve all of those issues I had and make me happy while using it.
I started a football/soccer (mostly Premier League focused) podcast with a friend about two months ago. It's in Portuguese, but it gives us an hour each week to talk about our love for the game and sprinkle in some interesting statistics.
Alongside that, I've also been coaching kids (ages 4 to 11) at a local Benfica academy since September, and I've had a lot of fun helping them improve in many areas of the game. It's a truly enriching experience.
Working with clients I realized that many companies lack basic monitoring and observability. E-commerce shops go down and no one notices. DBs do thousands of useless queries per minute. Emails stop sending silently.
I’m building a tool to make monitoring setup a no-brainer. I’m talking about basic website monitoring setup in 5-seconds — literally.
The problem is not a lack of tools. The existing tools are not even that complicated, but they still require too much thinking to set up.
Apparently finding and setting up monitoring is too problematic for all of the people who are running their freshly-created startups and e-commerce shops without any monitoring.
For someone who does not know HTTP from HTTPs or all the different kinds of probes, reading about them and making decisions about what to set up is a time investment. Complicated might be the wrong word.
All you really need to do is to provide a domain name and an email address for alerts to get basic monitoring set up. My goal is to set up monitoring with zero decisions under 30 seconds.
I'm building a freemium browser extension (https://trashpandaextension.com/) that primarily removes "social metrics" (number of likes, subscribers, views, friends, etc. you see on websites) and sales tactics (20 people have this in their shopping cart, limited time offer, -78% sale!, etc.).
It's also a hodge-podge of other annoying things I want removed on the web, like when articles have pull quotes that repeat what they just wrote one paragraph ago, or when sites block the ability to paste passwords.
The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome/Vivaldi, but it has a lot more development to get it where I want it.
Would appreciate any feedback and tips on both the extension itself as well as advice on monetization.
I'm working on Airweave https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave , an open-source dev tool that makes any app searchable for AI agents. it connects to a source app, db, or api and converts its contents to accessible knowledge for agents. Airweave automates authentication, ingestion, enrichment, mapping, and syncing to vector stores and graph databases of choice. you can use it via our UI, API, or SDKs https://docs.airweave.ai/
we originally built this for our previous agent startup as an internal solution to ensure agents could find the relevant data on apps they're using. We then pivoted to this after some early positive reactions and decided to open-source it.
we're two engineers/friends based in Amsterdam, NL. We just launched the project, so it's rough around the edges ofc, but we're very eager to get some feedback!
I'm exploring the world of Tauri cross-platform desktop apps in my free time now.
For the first project using this technology I decided to go for a simple media converter app. I have a 64MB sampler so I have to convert a lot of samples from lossless formats to mp3, there are two options I know: any random online tool from the google page 1 or ffmpeg cli. The former almost physically hurts, because I have to upload my files to some server which does the same ffmpeg instruction and then get them bytes back, that's a heck of an overhead!
ffmpeg-cli and some knee-made bash scripts is what I have been using for a long time. I love my console, and I spend 90% of the time inside, but then it comes to ffmpeg, it instantly feels tedious to use it. Finally I decided to make yet another GUI wrapper:
The idea is to drag the files in, or select them via dialog, then run an ffmpeg conversion template with each file as input in a separate thread (need to limit theese btw). I decided to go fully open-source, and maybe promote it's usage over the online converter ad-farms which are really abundant. When I decided to publish this, I instantly understood it's going to be a tons of extra work, but in the end I want it to look nice and do it's job flawlessy, and at the moment it's a weekend or two from release.
But isn't ffmpeg itself use lame for mp3 encoding? I primarily use the app for wav -> mp3, but my planned feature is to create ffmpeg "templates" for conversion, so u can use it for video as well.
An AI powered relationship coach. What started off from, how would and AI relationship coach work if it could see both sides of a relationship, to now having evolved to a full therapy session powered by a small swarm of specialized AI, following integrative therapy principles, messaging integration and more. I've been testing with a small group of friends and am about to launch any day now. If somebody would like to try it, just let me know!
It's RPA for browsers which is not fundamentally new, what I'm trying to do that is new is use AI to make it as easy as possible to create automations. Most of the existing tools require you to locate CSS selectors, XPaths, etc. whereas this is just point, click, type, describe data you want to extract in English, etc.
Still early days and it works much better for some tasks/websites than others but it's improving rapidly and I'm quite excited about it.
Also hoping that the likes of OpenAI Operator, etc. are rolled out in a way that I can use them to build a better product rather than being runover by them.
I'm trying to apply the idea of microadventures [1] to the internet, allowing folks to have nice 5 minute breaks on the internet. I don't know if it will catch on - but it's something I need to be honest, so I mainly built it for myself!
Currently, it's set up as a daily (short) newsletter with a different link each day, but I'm trying to learn marketing to figure out how to get others interested. I've enjoyed creating it, but would like to see if others like it before moving on to a new project. Link to project: https://www.thedailydetour.co.uk/
I’m working on a code generation agent that lives and operates inside of GitHub instead of being tied to your IDE so that PMs and others can generate PRs.
I'm working on SPHNX, a voice-based AI coding interviewer. While problem solving is crucial for passing interviews, in a live interview you are also getting tested for your communication, debugging, thinking on the spot, testing, code clarity, and other skills. You can't practice these on leetcode, but it's easy with SPHNX. I've just added rich feedback reports last week that turned out more helpful than I expected.
Right now it works as a mock interviewer for algorithmic (leetcode-style) problems, you can sign up for the waitlist here, I'll send you an invite right after:
It actually works pretty well, but we're having trouble getting users (some sign up but don't end up doing even a single interview?!).
We're thinking whether we could sell a version of this to companies to do their technical screens in, perhaps with problems that are more similar to the actual software engineering work (e.g. debug existing piece of code, write tests, and extend it).
We're generous with interview credits if you give us good feedback =)
Very cool idea. It would help to have testimonials. Also it looks kinda janky on Safari mobile
Marketing/distribution/adoption is maybe the hardest thing about creating a new product or service
I think you have the right idea about focusing on companies, because they can be recurrent users, whereas people preparing for interviews will only briefly use the product
For about year and a half I am working on fully dynamic, zero-downtime, reconfigurable API. Main target is me, hobbyists, self-host enthusiasts and small-to medium companies.
Idea is to be able to configure API with JSON schema definition of an object that API should store and allow you to manipulate (with CRUD operations). In future I plan to add FE for building those schemas based on data and some LLM helper.
* There is possibility of adding relations between schemas (1-to-n, n-to-n, 1-to-1)
* API allows to filter and transform responses to your own arbitrary schema via custom query language
* support Oauth with custom Oidc of your choice and API tokens for easily configurable but strong security
* from the start I designing it with extensibility in mind so there is built-in system of flows and custom extensions
* flows support running via custom http endpoints, and system events (i.e. data changes); cron schedules and external events are planned
* flows are defined via Json files
* flows are also customisable and allows to define your own blocks and flows that can be injected into other flows for bigger pieces of logic.
* all json files are source for code generation so performance should be the same as using your own manually written code or at least very close.
* there is built-in template subsystem, used for flows (i.e. for saving files with content from template) that I also plan to use to generate static files for FE.
* custom pieces of logic are supported by flows so you can create flow to update some read-only values based on other values (i.e. FullName from first and surname).
To achieve that I had to write my own fluent API for C# code generation. I had idea mainly during writing my own API for my house automation: 'Why I have to write another DAL layer, and auhorization, and filtering, and database schema? I did this dozens of times already?!' There is no need to figure this one out every time.
I have been working with LLMs and VLMs to automate browser based workflows among other things for the last couple of years. Given how good the vision models have gotten lately, the perception problem is solved to level where it opens up a lot of possibilities. Manipulation is not generally solved yet but there is a lot of activity in the field and there are promising approaches to solve (OpenVLA, π0). Given these, I'm trying to build an affordable robot that can help around with household chores using language and vision models. Idea is to ship capable enough hardware that can do a few things really well with the currently available models and keep upgrading the AI stack as manipulation models get better over time.
The visualisations generated by the AI from the agreement.
Click on legend text to drill down and on circles in the spiral. UI is 3D cube animation for now.
Former Deputy AG in charge of fighting corruption and fraud affecting US consumers: “I like how it balances the intent of the law for the consumer”
Both academic and practicing lawyers have looked at it and given us good feedback.
Not looking for a problem to solve. Found our niche. We applied for YC but we are all on the older side and the first question in the YC application was our age. LOL. Not gonna work. Doing another round of family and friends fund raising then VC post market traction.
Samples of ToS and financing agreements
Https://labs.sunami.ai/feed
Still needs some work for mobile/responsive version.
MMPs collect user data across apps to help apps run ads. This is needed because mobile apps are downloaded without the additional data you could get passed along an HTTP url like you'd see in a regular email marketing campaign or YouTube affiliate link.
My goal is to create a way for mobile apps to self host their advertising attribution, keeping their user data in house and not sharing it to a 3rd party like AppsFlyer/Adjust/Branch. There are only a few companies that do this in the world and NO open source non 3rd party option.
I'm scratching my own itch with https://buildersqrcodes.com to help convey new construction details to job site workers. I'm building my own house now and I was surprised how many details are not in the plans that are critical to build a house. I think this is a common issue. I already have 10's of paying customers using it on their build too.
Currently working on the side on Java libraries that provide access to Apple's mobile device management service APIs like the automated device enrollment and app and book management services: https://github.com/petarov/apple-mdm-clients
I had this written in Kotlin several years ago but now I want to do it all in Java, use as little 3rd party deps as possible and add more extensive unit testing.
I've been building https://canine.sh for the past year, which is an open source Render / Fly / Heroku, etc.
It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.
It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams.
The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.
There is a lot of potential here to help, and I don't have big ambitions to scale this to a lot of children. There are also schools that need help. Other people that volunteer their time to run a daycare center for those that can't afford a regular one. One school is looking for someone to teach programming, but doesn't have the budget to hire a professional. I could volunteer to do it, if I could find a sponsor. It doesn't even require a full-time salary.
I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs to it too.
I'm also building a customer support app when I'm taking a break from Gorby. The idea is to make it easier to organize and quickly find/copy useful replies, discounts, screenshots etc. It's similar in concept to text expander apps, but those never worked great for me, I either forget the triggers or don't bother storing things I don't use daily. You could probably use Notion for this too, but to me it's too clunky and slow.
Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/) which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and then when done writing and editing convert it back into markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that are available for both. I think Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar.
I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been thinking of making it possible to save and read local files. If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be happy to give you a free license code :)
Working on improving my barista skills, although my latte art seems to have ground (sorry) to a halt at 'heart', which I guess is level 1.
Next I'd like to add a Pi into the espresso machine for some remote fun. A couple of the control panel pcb-pop-style? buttons are failing, and I thought it might be fun to try and control via a touch screen. I suspect I'll want some kind of timer on the machine side to ensure a safe/timely cut-off, but I haven't done anything like that since using a 555 a very long time ago. Maybe I'll just drive a relay from a digital Pi i/o pin, but suspect it is switching mains level V.
Reading literature (academic and otherwise) on parsers, writing blog posts about what I learn, trying to implement the things I learnt. I've written about basic finite automata (for regular expressions), LL, LR (including the difference between SLR, LALR, and LR(1)), detoured into some optimisations for LR from the 80's, then generalised LR (RNGLR in particular). I'm now implementing these things, RNGLR is not easy to implement despite having understood it well enough conceptually to write a blog about it (https://blog.jeffsmits.net/generalised-lr-parsing/). I've read far more than I've written about, trying to keep that straight in my head as well / planning the next... probably year of writing ^^'
I am building Buckaroo [1], the data table UI in Jupyter that I have always wanted. I know how to use df.head(), df.describe(), sort, and run histograms on columns. I just got tired of typing 5 bits of code to minimally inspect each dataframe every time I looked at it.
So I built buckaroo, it combines a high performance scrollable table (built on top of ag-grid), with summary stats, and histograms. All of this is customizable and extensible. I recently built a dataframe compare tool [2] on top of buckaroo that uses coloring to show differences between dataframes intuitively.
Get in touch if you want to talk tables, data science tooling, or exploratory data analysis.
Nothing big but I built a Discord bot using discord.py[0] that reads a game's presence. It notifies me when a dungeon run is about to end.
I didn't have any Python experience but it was surprisingly easy to pick up (MVP in an hour). Wrote it in notepad, which, imo, was a distraction-free experience. Prolly would be scrolling autocomplete than reading docs if I was in nvim. Took me back when I was used to completing coding exercises on paper.
If there is an implementation to read presences without using Discord client, let me know. Would be helpful to skip Discord altogether.
Making a CAN-to-BLE bridge for cheap race car telemetry. It’s using an ESP32C to store MegaSquirt ECU data in BLE characteristics, and a cheap android phone using Chrome + WebBluetooth to buffer and upload data to a server for pit analysis in near real time. Also using the phone for heading, GPS and accelerometer data.
I'm working on http://unwrangle.com solo, it's Ecommerce APIs for people building AI and BI apps for ecommerce stuff, it supports querying search results, product info and customer reviews from over 15 major e-commerce marketplaces
For a few months I've been working on an application to manage my physical music collection. Records I own, records I want to find, with some stats/search/metadata that actually use.
It's built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, backed by SQLite. Records are imported via MusicBrainz, and data enriched via Last.fm.
I'm looking now to add notes for each artist and record, along with arbitrary associations. Think supergroups, side projects, etc. and some trivia/quotes/stories that I can easily add for my own reference.
the process of creating APIs for testing and automation should be as easy possible. the tools that exist nowadays aren't good enough, they require you to use their programming language of choice or complex procedures for a task that should be simple. I built mock to try to solve that and still continue to maintain it.
Building self-ask NPCs and other game systems (crafting, harvesting, quests, automation) in a large open-world RPG that uses the latest generative AI tech to enable new kinds of game mechanics that weren't possible even just a few years ago.
I’m currently developing a link-in-bio tool that requires no cookies, no trackers, and no signups—a true “privacy-first” approach. I’m building it with lovable, which has really helped me overcome the fine-tuning and bug-fixing procrastination that used to slow down my projects.
After spending a lot of time in an acquired startup and becoming more specialized in my role, I realized I needed to switch back to “build mode.” It’s been a rewarding exercise to try generating some organic traffic (no-ads by design) and a much needed escape from excel sheets.
I’m selling refurbished and upgraded Mac mini G4s as the ultimate machines for running software for the classic Mac OS over at https://os9.shop
Over at macos9lives.com a group of hackers figured out a way to get Mac OS 9 running on these late model G4s that previously never supported it. That combined with an SSD upgrade makes them close to the fastest machines that can run Mac OS 9.
I’ve taken advantage of this hack, now having sold about 80 -90 machines. But I’ve hit a wall with finding ways to advertise it. eBay has been okay. I tried Reddit Ads on the vintage Apple subreddit and they were so so—probably lost money doing it but got the word out. Google Search ads have surprisingly been ineffective. I’ve posted on various vintage Mac forums but they don’t allow formal advertising (otherwise I would buy it). I probably will try Facebook ads next. Open to other advertising ideas!
I started using openrouter.ai to have unified api for different models, for HN Distilled I use gemini-2.0-flash-001 – it has huge context window and decent price (much cheaper for the same quality than others)
I'm writing a Developer Runbook[1] for my JS canvas library. Partly because, now I've reached my 7th decade, I need to record as many of the questionable architectural and coding decisions I've made as the library has evolved. But mainly in the vague hope that maybe the extra data will help our new LLords and Masters make less stupid decisions about the code they suggest to innocent developers on how to use my library in their code.
I’ve been doing some analysis on the winners of a local short stories contest (https://santiagoen100palabras.cl/) to see if I can get to make a good contender story.
Plus I having fun plugging it all into ChatGPT and reading the stories it comes up with.
I am working on a departure board [1] for your home or business. Currently only for Swiss Public transport but the plan is to support more countries. Next goal is to update the website which needs work.
The hardware is based around a ESP32. The server that gathers and prepares the data is running on Symfony php. The app to configure the device is written in vue and is using capacitor by ionic. More technical details are here: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...
Optimizing our rendering algorithms for Apple Vision Pro. Trying to render a 300-million atom cell model at 90fps stereo. It's trivial on a 4090, it's pretty hard on a ~30W mobile GPU (W correct??). I'm thinking about a bunch of immersive mesoscale biology stuff next.
Writing, just some writing. It does not matter if it is technical, creative, or something else. Just wanting to put pen to paper, and get it out there. See it at https://urda.com
I've been working on an app that will use ai to decorate my Anki cards with audio/example sentences/images. The more I get into it though, the more I think I may just end up writing my own flashcard app. I feel like most of the project has been spent wrestling with AnkiConnect, while the fun stuff has been fairly simple.
I've been thinking about the same some time ago. But after a while I got to conclusion that Anki is pretty well designed after all. Although for what I remember Anki Connect is in form of unofficial extension. And it would seem that there is a place for an official more stable API. Anyway I never got beyond thinking about it. Just to let you know you are not alone, and you can ping me if you ever decide to do something about it.
«Text-editors are dead as a concept. What’s needed is a text-input system. Mobile phones got it right more than 10 years ago. Both Android and iOS can catch the text-input context: «ah here we can input text, let’s show the virtual keyboard!».
This project is inspired by very same idea: catch the text-input context globally (across all system, not just one process) and do what’s needed: change the UI, keybindings, etc. Emacs got some part of text-input right with modes. But modes should be global, on Window Manager level (or even deeper).
In GUI it’s possible to “catch input context” using Wayland::InputMethod
It should also be possible on pure-tty with readline or something.
The system should be very hackable. That’s why it’s written in Common Lisp»
Working on my mobile semi-idle MMORPG for parents like myself. With the artstyle of 1980s/syntwave/cassette-futurism. Just finished the website over the weekend: https://afterglow-game.com/
I'm working on RailsBilling - it's a Ruby gem for fast Stripe subscriptions integrations. It allows you to implement subscriptions in your app in hours, instead of months.
You see, Stripe is very powerful, but also very complex. Coding a straightforward subscriptions implementation will take you a couple weeks at best.
That is without handling all those edge cases like: prevent starting a paid subscription without a billing card on file (yes, you read that right)!
The gem is ready, I'm currently working on getting the website up. If you're working with Rails and need a solution for subscriptions get in touch at hacker.news@railsbilling.com - I'd love to chat!
Finishing off the last bugs in my free puzzle game called Kombi, before it goes live on Steam.
Made in Love2D, mostly because it's limited in its simplicity (good for creativity) while still allowing me to make something usable. That, plus I love Lua, which is how the project event got started - just me wanting to mess around with the language. From then on it quickly spiraled out of control - 2 weeks to make the core logic of the game, 2 months to create a basic UI library from scratch, just because.
A flight simulator for software engineers.
Think LeetCode x CodeCrafters x HackerRank but doing actual large-scale simulated work to practice your skills (DevOps/Data/AI/ML/MLOps) and then be able to land a job.
Looking for beta users and feedback!
On your site it says "The calendar data can come from one or more calendar providers". Is the connection direct (e.g. data flows from Google to epaper calendar), or via the app installed on the user's phone, or does it need your servers in-between?
thank you, i appreciate it! yes, the software is api first, and much of it’s utility comes from working in other environments like google docs, ios shortcuts, etc..
in essence, the core of the project is a vector database that works for end users who want no fuss quick capture, semantic and fts search, the ability to create new relationships with marginalia.
im not trying to replace tools like obsidian or notion, i think ycb works better with them doing what they do best! i also plan to make the stack self hostable in the near future :)
I'm building a new tool for end-to-end data validation and reconciliation in ELT pipelines, especially for teams replicating data from relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) to data warehouses or data lakes.
Most existing solutions only validate at the destination (dbt tests, Great Expectations), rely on aggregate comparisons (row counts, checksums), or generate too much noise (alert fatigue from observability tools). My tool:
* Validates every row and column directly between source and destination
* Handles live source changes without false positives
* Eliminates noise by distinguishing in-flight changes from real discrepancies
* Detects even the smallest data mismatches without relying on thresholds
* Performs efficiently with an IO-bound, bandwidth-efficient algorithm
If you're dealing with data integrity issues in ELT workflows, I'd love to hear about your challenges!
We’re building a new git collaboration platform on top of atproto! Here’s a sneak preview (best viewed on desktop for now; the UI is mostly WIP): https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core
It’s going to be fully decentralised from day 1—we borrowed the PDS model from Bluesky to allow users to run their own “knots” to self-host their git repositories.
Yes! This architecture allows you to host your git repos on your own server, while allowing contributions from others with a unified identity (unlike say, Gitea or GitLab, where you’d have to make yet another account).
A no-frills X toolkit. Think Athena, add things like dialogs, file picker and make it completely vectored. No antialiasing, top goal is small size and fast execution. Can display vector and bitmap fonts, only external dependency is xcb. I just recently got my first digital storage oscilloscope and begun writing a companion software for it, as I couldn't find anything usable. This is one of the offshoots of that, the other being a somewhat Postscript-like language for scripting the thing.
Once I get this done, I get back to the actual project of a 2.11-BSD based handheld computing appliance.
Probably the best way to develop your taste and understand the spectrum of different coffees available is to do comparative tasting aka try a small number of coffees in parallel to compare and contrast. I was having trouble finding tasting sets so I started freezing a little portion of every coffee bag I bought to create a collection for doing these tastings at home.
I needed something to keep track of them all (as well as my tasting notes in general) so instead of using a spreadsheet I built a full app for it. The app supports NFC-tagged containers which I've found to make my workflow a whole lot easier.
I also set up an online store to sell the NFC-equipped single-dosing tubes: https://store.coffeelibrary.app
Planning on adding more containers that work well with the app in the future.
there is a really great app that i found super useful called roastguide (roastguide.app). i have tried many of them but this is by far the most complete one
I'm working to make private hosting easier. I've been running a software development agency in Melbourne for 10+ years and have been building this platform in the background to help automate and standardise the hosting needs for our clients.
We're now getting ready to launch a web portal for others to manage their own private hosting in a simpler way. The product also includes a directory of off-the-shelf applications which can be launched in a few clicks (eg. Deepseek chatbot).
If you're interested in being part of our closed-Beta in March, reach out! (e: james at below domain)
Continuing bootstrapping my software+service company Alzo (https://alzo.archi/), an Elixir modular monolith.
The first clients are here and I am working on "darker tech" now, a single codebase injecting their data in both MS Office and Adobe's software suites. That's quite a change from Elixir.
Also working on the reverse feature, reading/writing MS Office files inside Alzo. For that, I'm writing a Java app behaving as an Erlang node, connected to my main app via Erlang distribution, to leverage existing rich Java libraries for office tech.
Experimenting with training and running ML models on a “normal computer” (ie. no GPU or cloud servers, just locally on CPU/ram)
Don’t have a background in ML, so mostly just for learning purposes
Been playing a lot with the MNIST dataset. Trying things like training only on the examples the model gets wrong, or training only on random samples of the image (ie. using only a small subset of the pixels of the image as the input), or creating one model per label to overfit the data and then merging the models for testing, or just testing performance of different architectures and frameworks on the same problem
Last few weeks I’ve been trying to implement my own GitHub Actions runner, a little bit as a fun side project and a little bit to improve observability.
My ADD brain keeps jumping around between various projects. Some highlights:
- Last month I demonstrated the ability to build Nintendo 64 ROMs with Zig¹, making some headway on Zig-native APIs for interfacing with the N64's memory-mapped hardware. Taking a break for a moment; will probably resume when Zig 0.14 drops (within a couple months IIRC). Next planned milestone will be to implement interrupt handlers.
- Gradually migrating my code repos from Git to Fossil (with plans to continue to mirror to Git). Experimenting with bidirectional syncs in order to preserve the ability to handle merge/pull requests from the various Git repo hosts on which I syndicate my repos. The above Zig64 project will probably be the first real guinea pig.
- Migrating my personal website away from Jekyll has been an ongoing project (going on almost a year now) with multiple parallel efforts: using Fossil's wiki features², using Scroll, and (most recently) using Typst's newly-announced HTML export feature. All three approaches have their pros and cons.
- I've been tinkering with my PowerBook G4; recently swapped in an SSD (using an mSATA→PATA enclosure) and installed the latest OpenBSD (with all partitions except for '/' encrypted; working on documenting that process and the associated kinks - and possibly turning said documentation into installer and initscript patches so that hardware platforms like macppc that lack support for encrypting '/' can still enjoy not-quite-full-disk encryption). Next on the list is rebuilding the battery.
- That PowerBook is also the only working machine I have that has an optical drive, so as soon as it was consistently booting right, I took the opportunity to back up the stack of burned CDs/DVDs I'd accumulated throughout my lifetime.
- I have a bunch of my dad's old photos and schoolwork and such that I've been meaning to digitize and organize.
Ahh yes, I know the feeling. My current list of projects:
- There's no speciality grade coffee in Zambia, and all the coffee beans in Zambia are from Zambian coffee farms. I've bought a small roaster and will start sourcing speciality grade coffee beans from Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia and roasting for a few of the small stores and cafes around us.
- Converting a beat up Suzuki Samurai into a capable 4x4 rock crawler/off road vehicle to enter my own team into the Elephant Charge 2025 https://elephantcharge.org/ec-charge-2025/.
- Growing and propogating cuttings of coffee plants in my backyard to start an outgrowers scheme in on the border of Zambia & Congo.
- An emotion recognition app that has animated fruits and animals that dance and respond to emotion. I'd like to create something a bit more responsive for my child than the YT videos that exist (Unity).
- Helping my wifes company prototype and spec out some lease management software.
- Sourcing the equipment and ingredients to process my own coffee cherries into green coffee. I'll likely buy coffee from nearby growers and start processing as my own plants still have a couple years before they produce any fruit.
- Migrating a Flow project to Typescript.
- Learning Haskell by building a back-office API for another project in it.
I've been working on digitizing my family genealogy. ~90 years ago, a book was published documenting my family's lineage in America. I've digitized part of it, used OCR to extract the text, and then used LLMs to format the data for integration into a family tree. I hope to publish the family tree and make it editable so that it's a living family tree that others can add to and keep up to date.
I´m super excited, sleepless for a couple of days already. I´m trying to use all tricks possible to improve a Sequence Labeling using Conditional Random Fields. I need to NER billion of documents, and need to be fast.
CRFSuite is a workhorse, and a baseline very hard to beat with speed and precision. But with o3 I´m created a frank-stain with many tricks such as CRF with variable order, feature interactions, bidirectional, jointly learning with word embeddings. The precision is already over than CRFSuite. And I believe that would be better than many other solutions such as bi-lstm-crf. Definitely much faster.
Now i´m trying to port to Cython to make as fast as possible. Here o3 is almost useless, but I´m progressing.
finished integrating our new FOSS ecu into our racecar, and started rewriting the data logging software for our team. Learning about can, wrote a dbc parser and frame interpreter for our higher level tools. Also integrated some existing components with the new ecu, our in car display now speaks can instead of serial, and soon another device will be pushing can packets to our analysis app. streaming can packets over lora and/or lte. analysis app is being un-jankified too. it's a phoenix tool for timeseries/laptime/etc dashboards.
Currently working on a tool that allows you to get data insights/aggregations via natural language. currently only sql based databases/warehouses (Postgres, Bigquery and soon Clickhouse, Snowflake, sqlite, etc.). I will be working on document Databases at some point as well.
I started this for a bunch of reasons but mainly to allow non technical team members get any data insight they might need, without wasting dev resources on creating dashboards, queries etc.
I personally dislike this "everything in LLM/AI has to be a chat room" approach.
working on making it generally available but for now its early access only https://askquery.ai/
If you have any ideas, thoughts or concerns please let me know.
I'm making an OCR website focused on outputting ascii text that follows the layout of the original, so that it doesn't need to understand or interpret zones in the source: it just resembles the source. This makes proofing easier and should also improve feeding documents to LLMs.
My family uses multiple messenger apps - WhatsApp, Slack, Discord etc. I get so many messages on these everyday. I am also member of multiple WhatsApp groups and slack channels. Needless to say, I miss out on a lot (actually every) important message in groups and channels and sometimes DMs.
I am working on ML solution to summarize the messages and info in these messengers for people whenever they access my service. The idea is to reduce the amount of info from 100:1 and give extremely succinct data without losing any important info.
I would be much more interested in a unified inbox on top of all those communication apps. An *actual* inbox, which lets me flag things, mark as (un)read, move to folders etc.
In my country (Malaysia), most banks only export bank and credit card statements as PDFs, with no standard format for displaying the data. Since most of my transactions are cashless, I want a way to track my spending habits. I don't want to manually key in each transaction, so apps that require that won’t work for me.
Right now, I'm building a bank statement PDF converter to track my past spending. I’m about halfway there, with a semi-automated way to categorize transactions too. So far, it’s working great!
For individual transactions, it's not really reliable, unfortunately. But for monthly reporting, they do have it, so that could be the next step. There's an app here that does something similar, but it doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore. It’s a free app, so I guess there’s no reason for them to keep investing in it. Fair enough. Looks like they’re shifting toward a B2B solution instead, so that might be my next direction too.
That said, my main goal for now is just to make it work for personal B2C use first. I do think there’s some potential here because major cities are pretty much cashless now, and there aren’t any good existing solutions for B2C.
There are some other decent options, but they mainly focus on B2B (that’s where the money is), so they’re quite expensive and overkill for what I need.
I’m working on Oliphaunt, a native macOS client for Mastodon. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support. I hope to release a TestFlight build soon, followed by an eventual App Store launch.
It's a governance concept based on the idea that votes should be tradeable. The concept is quite simple, but it leads to some truly hairy game theory problems. Code here: https://github.com/evronm/marketDAO
A web-native[1] protocol for secure[2], decentralised[3] access to files distributed across mirrors:
1. "Web-native" as in the protocol is designed with HTTP and modern web browsers in mind. Consequently, it can be implemented using Service Workers so that no additional software (nor even browser extensions) are needed to access files.
2. Files are addressed by their cryptographic hash of their content (a) to ensure the authenticity of the data received from mirrors and (b) to avoid hard-coding specific locations/servers (i.e. content addressing).
3. Files can be mirrored by anyone and users can retrieve files from any mirror; no party requires any permission from any authority. This is in contrast to traditional mirroring schemes, where mirrors have to "register" with the owner of the content (e.g. to mirror a Linux distro).
Recently it got a surge of users (1k+ reviews on Google Play and 500+ reviews on Apple, really sucks that Apple don't show all reviews, but you can check the Google reviews here on desktop https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.audiodiary....) and people are writing in every day to say how much they love it and that it's changing their lives.
Also working on a new app in a similar vein that's way more technically complex and uses AI in a hands-on way, and looking for help on it.
It's a hobby project, but one that I love working on because it unlocks some _really_ great hardware to be open to do anything I want it to be rather than be constrained by out-of-the-box client software that asks me to sign in with an account to get an extension installed.
I'm working on an educational game to try and replace or augment some security awareness training. To start with, the focus is phishing.
I'm also writing again. A story that's becoming more cyberpunk than I originally intended. It'll probably never be read by anyone but me, but getting it out of my head feels nice.
Also started going to the gym and working on my health.
I'm working on a little flat file based blogging tool called Postwave ( https://github.com/dorkrawk/postwave ) and using it to power a blog with career advice for software engineers called Don't Break Prod ( https://dontbreakprod.com/ ). Because the world needs more blogging tools and advice. Or maybe it just scratches my itch and it's fun to build.
I'm several months into https://www.clearboxlegal.com, a service for affordable legal help with citizenship applications.
Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads, etc...).
Working on SEO automation agent. For years, understanding and interpreting analytics and combining it with SEO best practices have been a challenge.
We built an agent that can make sense of your website, understand how it renders on search engines, its weak points and strengths. You get actionable advice that can make a huge difference in search visibility, often taking less than an hour to implement changes.
I continue to spend most of my free energy learning Finnish. Only a few more years and I should be able to finally focus on my career again :')
Two new projects of note this month, one specific to Finnish language learners, and one that is probably useful for language learners in general:
* https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - A Finnish pocket dictionary with a TUI interface. This is the first nontrivial thing I've built in Go, by which I meant I had to implement and tweak a randomly pruning trie by hand to get the performance characteristics I wanted (it wasn't actually that bad). I chose Go mostly because of the fantastic cross-compilation story.
* https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/audio2anki - This Python program wraps around `yt-dlp` and `whisper` to create Anki decks for listening practice. This should work for any (monolingual) video in any language. There are many such projects on GitHub, I'm aware, but it was surprisingly hard to find any that actually wrapped around Whisper instead of needing an SRT, VTT, etc file to come from somewhere else. In that sense mine is a "one command" solution - just provide the YouTube link and go. It does not provide a translation for those subtitles yet; in keeping with the all-in-one approach, I'm thinking I might wrap around LLaMa 3 to let the user specify that we should also --translate-to {en,es,eo, etc} if desired. For now my reading skills are advanced enough that I don't need that.
I relocated permanently back in 2021, in fact, soon after finishing up undergrad at Northwestern. I'm a dual US/EU citizen and I moved to be with my Finnish wife. I'm here now!
I don't have a blog post to share. My experience here has been largely positive, modulo the obvious financial caveat: My take home salary really is about ~30% of what it would be had I stayed back in the United States and followed a similar career trajectory. In the long run I think this is an eminently fixable problem, however :)
I’m building an AI-first startup for Latin America, kind of like TaskRabbit but simpler and more aligned with how people actually hire help here. We use WhatsApp for quick updates like ‘Provider is on the way,’ and we focus on getting verified professionals to people’s homes—without getting in the way of payments or how they handle the job.
To fund it, I’m building agentic workflows and automations for insurance, finance, and real estate companies. It’s a way to keep things moving while I get the startup off the ground.
Working on a self-hosted OSS AI Server with support for LLM APIs (OpenRouter/OpenAi/Anthropic/Google/etc), Ollama endpoints, ComfyUI and FFmpeg agents. It supports Synchronous, Queued and Reply to Web Callback APIs for each API Feature with typed APIs integrations for C#,TypeScript,JS,Python,Dart,PHP,Java,Kotlin,Swift,F# and VB.NET clients.
Several different tracks, having a hard time focusing on one.
- A little free library, but for e-books. Having a bit of trouble with this one because I think that the move to e-books inherently removes much of the magic of a little free library of physical books. Plus there's the whole "letting users upload things is hard" thing.
- E-ink picture frame. It's been done before and it's mainly just a use for an old rpi laying around.
- Looking to start a tech meetup in my small locale. It's hard to meet tech people in my area, let alone people who are willing to present.
- TUIs to aid me in my day job. Claude makes whipping up proofs of concept super easy and quick, so this one is the most fun to me right now.
I'm working on setting up my first homelab using Proxmox. It's more of a hardware and cable routing project right now but I'm excited to move towards setting up the software side of things soon!
I'm also learning JavaScript through Daniel Shiffman's book Nature of Code. As someone who has a background in modeling it's a very engaging read, and the exercises are fun!
I’m building Videocrawl https://www.videocrawl.dev/ a platform designed to make video content more accessible and actionable. It offers two key features:
1. API for Clean Transcripts – Extract structured transcripts with references, code snippets, and images.
2. AI Video Assistant – Interact with videos using AI-powered tools for summarization, Q&A, and more.
Would love to hear your thoughts! You can reach out to me at sg@o14.ai
I'm trying a new take on the ubiquitous habit tracker app - one that tracks your daily habits but also tracks rating your day on multiple axes (enthusiasm, engagement, overall mood, etc). The idea is to correlate behaviors and outcomes in a way that provides insight into what could potentially trigger good or bad days. It's also an excuse for me to break out of backend web dev land and learn Vue.js and everything I need to know to actually build and host a web app.
A (e)DSL to describe simple DSP graphs + a gccjit based AOT compiler. Basically a reimagination of the SuperCollider architecture with a JIT compiler instead of runtime plumbing. The idea is to have auto-vectorisation and loop unrolling kick in. Want to see how much of a difference that would make.
Writing a streaming S3 object archiving tool which collects all old objects (in my case they are near-zero in size, but occupy 4KB blocks). In total data is 10GB daily. So I have to stream all this process to not consume such amount of RAM.
These are audit data like external system request/responses for possible investigations. This saves a lot of space. Initially written in Python, now practicing with Rust. Container images is 2.2MB small :)
An open source alternative to Gemini/OpenAI deep research. I'm experimenting with this cool flow chart workflow that I think can be a cool twist on generating reports for deep research.
Released an updated version of free app [0] for watching the news show Democracy Now [1]. Let's you browse 29 years of back episodes. Learning SwiftUI - mostly great, but when there's problems, it can be pretty frustrating.
I've been obsessed with making it easier to handle tab overload in the browser without requiring any sort of active "tab management".
I have a working extension that replaces the "new tab" page with a clean view of all open tabs, along with simple ways to search and select which tab to switch to, including search over bookmarks and history. There are also some simple tools to allow for creating and reorganizing tab groups.
For a small group of people, it revolutionizes the browser experience. I'm still trying to decide if there is a widely-useful product there, or if it's just a niche use case.
I was creating this anonymous confession posting site with a 4chan like interface.
[7shin](https://7shin.vercel.app)
and today i just created an archive sort of thing called the-image-web. Basically I wanted to create a wall of images uploaded by people on the internet. [theimageweb](https://theimageweb.vercel.app)
I am still working on Docgoblin (https://docgoblin.com) a Pdf search engine software based on Lucene, pdfium and JavaFX. The app is super fast and users are happy with it. I'm in the process of adding plain text files support and making the website look nicer.
I've created and am still working on my portfolio page in WASM using Flutter Web: https://dmilicic.com/
To enable WASM properly you should be on the latest Chrome version since other browsers still have some issues supporting it, otherwise, it will fallback to canvaskit renderer which is slower.
A cross-platform clipboard manager / search-and-filter tool / launcher built with Flutter that has a simple Python plugin interface.
Plugins can be used to add new "result actions" and new sources of entries to filter and select. Eg. recent Jira tickets, email inbox, shell history, Notion pages, etc.
The result actions are a way to easily perform common transformations on selected entries (eg. wrap in triple backticks, find and parse json, trim whitespace, ...) or kickoff some script with a selected entry as an argument.
Project started as a result of having to do a lot of work using Ubuntu and sorely missing Alfred and all the workflows I'd built with it. I wanted something for which I could build workflows once and have those workflows available on whatever system I'm on. Plus to be able to build some plugins that would be usable by coworkers regardless of what operating system they're using and with minimal runtime resource usage. There are some existing cross-platform solutions which could serve this purpose, like Cerebro, Ueli, Script Kit, some others.., but I wanted something lighter weight than is possible with an Electron app. Granted the current state of Epte is that it's built with Flutter + Go + Python so the final distributable and runtime memory usage are higher than is ideal.
Basic Windows support is almost there but there doesn't seem to be a great solution to switching to existing windows of an application instead of just re-launching it. The tool isn't intended to be as good or better than any given OS's built-in launcher so I'll probably just leave that as-is and upload the current state of the Windows build.
I've been working on The Road to Next [0] for almost a year. In the end, it's more than just a course on Next.js. It's a deep dive into full-stack development, covering key third-party integrations that empower you to build your own products.
Oh hell yeah, your Road to React was exactly what the doctor ordered when I first waded my way into the full stack ocean years ago. I'm excited to see how this progresses!
I’ve been mostly struggling with really bad creative burnout.
I pushed myself to do a couple of game jams cuz I thought it would make the burnout go away, but it’s basically only made it worse.
It’s the first time in my life where i haven’t had a billion ideas in my brain and im not sure what to do with myself. Been trying to listen to history podcasts and read manga to inspire myself again but it’s not working…
Scientific search engine/agent to surface papers with commercial potential (patent, moats, etc.) - eventually wanna expand to cover any search query. Imagine having someone reading 1000s of science papers
on your behalf, with your goals
in mind, and then telling which papers to pay attention to and why
Oh I'm trying to build something similar, let's chat! I've started with identifying potential project from ICLR2025, but it has an "entrepreneur" part in the response https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/
Writing software, a reading website, coverage tracking, self-hosted pulumi/terraform backend, and a space trading API game (since very recently).
It’s a bit hard to spread efforts over all of them, but at least most of these projects have lasted several years now, so not constantly doing new things that never finish.
The website is a bit old, but lots of exciting changes are happening under the hood and I finally have the time to make big architectural and performance improvements.
A web app that extends the capabilities of Spotify. You can create artists' discographies (all albums in a single playlist), merge multiple playlists into a new one with the ability to watch those playlists for new tracks, track live events for artists you follow or artists from a playlist.
I have been working on it for about a year now. It is not yet public because I am yet to apply for Spotify API quota extension, but I'd be happy to allow access manually if anyone wanted to take a look.
1. I have a cloud platform for the movie industry (although in reality a lot of different industries use it for different things) that allows you to share files and get feedback from your team that I’ve been rewriting in Rust. Didn’t necessarily intend that but I started replacing Apache with Rust and liked it enough that I kept on replacing stuff.
2. I work with another company that uses a really rudimentary way of time-tracking employees. So I’m working on a system to use their device MAC addresses to count their hours when they’re connected to work Wi-Fi. I was surprised that such a thing appears to not exist. I’m still working on it so it’s not anywhere public right now.
I've been working on a webapp to scrape links users enter from Zillow/Apartments.com/Trulia/etc to build tables of listings you are interested in. It can show your commute time to work or queries for amenities nearby like "Trader Joe's".
I'm making a tool for teachers to create realistic and motivational AI portraits for their students to go with "when I grow up" essays (https://agelens.com). I was not satisfied with shitty looking AI-aging tools that were on the market, and decided to make a one that looks awesome and inspiring.
A parser combinator library. I'm writing a tool that will do static analysis of SQL (in a very limited fashion, it's a build tool and not a static analyzer, but I need to understand dependency relationships between statements). I started out using `nom`, but found it imperfectly matched to my needs (underpowered in areas I desired and overpowered in areas I didn't need for my project). `nom 8` came out with some interesting simplifications, but it happened to break my code in a way that would be awkward to fix. So I bit the bullet and started writing my own library.
My library is specialized for parsing text. That had enabled some cool capabilities.
It comes with a `Span` primitive, which tracks where in a file a token came from, for implementing error messages. A `Span` can be the input or the output of a parser. At the front end a `Span` is an entire file, and as you slice and dice it, it tracks the metadata of where it came from.
Along with the standard `Sequence` (combining parsers in a set order) and `Choice` operations (branching between many parsers) that parser combinators are built around, I have come up two operations that are very handy. I suspect that others have made them before, they are both patterns I used in `nom`. (I've also only skimmed the original paper, they could be in there and I didn't see them.)
One of them is called `Compose`. As an alternative to a `Sequence`, instead of a group of parsers consuming the input in order, the first parser consumes the input, and the subsequent parsers consume the return of the previous parser. This is useful for instance when implementing escapable strings; the first parser grabs the entire string, the second one transforms escape sequences. (There is a mechanism for transforming the content of a `Span` while retaining it's metadata.)
The other is called `Fuse`. This is a small twist on `Sequence`, where after matching the parsers in order, the result is all concatenated together into a single token. This is useful for a "pattern matching" primitive, where you want to find a series of tokens in order, but you don't want to split them into different tokens, you want them all together.
It's been a wild ride, there's been a lot of thorny issues. I often think I should've just stuck with `nom 7` instead of shaving this yak. But I've learned a whole lot about writing especially abstract/DSL-yy Rust by combining tuples, traits, and declarative macros. There are also other programming language projects I'd like to pursue, and it will be nice to have a tailor fit tool for parsing text.
Special thanks to dtolnay's `paste,` the real MVP.
Cool. I got interested in this subject recently. Have been checking out some text articles and videos about it. Unfortunately there is not much info available (and some of it is advanced stuff), or at least I couldn't find much, so far.
I am working on a library, which is not exactly a parser combinator one, but borrows some of those ideas, for use in other projects.
>One of them is called `Compose`.
About the escapable strings example: can you not just rescan the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full string?
> Unfortunately there is not much info available [.]
Parser combinators are a bit hard to get into, the most helpful resource for me was `nom`'s "Choosing a Combinator" document [1], which is dense but gives you an overview of all the Lego bricks which you can then start imagining how to fit together.
I've not really read it, but there's also the original paper on the subject [2] (as linked to by the `parsec` documentation [3]) which describes the nuts and bolts theory behind it.
> [Can] you not just rescan the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full string?
Absolutely, this is just a convenience around that pattern that allows you to express that like:
let string = quoted_string.then(escaped(json_string_escapes)).parse(&input)?;
Where `escaped` does the rescanning using the parser `json_string_escapes` (which consumes all the input up to the next escape, if it doesn't start with an escape sequence, or else consumes an escape sequence and returns the transformed text - this API is a little awkward, it may change).
And also more generally for any parsers `foo`, `bar`, and `baz` as:
Finishing the feeder "hack" to my pick and place machine [1] so that I can begin full retail production in house of the V2 Smoothieboard CNC controller [2].
As well as finishing shipping the remaining boards to the kickstarter backers (many years late, but significantly better).
Been a long struggle overall...learned a lifetime's worth during the last couple years. Every single day has been spent doing something new it seems. Looking forward to what the next broken machine will teach me :)
Was looking for an iOS app to always see my age in days on the lock screen. Didn‘t find one, so I first created a shortcut which would change my lock screen background image each night and overlay the number of days on it.
This didn’t feel integrated enough and could fail if the phone was off, so I started looking into Swift and created my first app [1] with added features like contact import and notifications for other people‘s ages in days.
It‘s still very much a work in progress but the core functionality of the lock screen widget is something I use almost every day to quickly get the current number and use it for notes etc. I just like having an incrementing unique-to-me number to reference stuff.
nice job , I think I can do something like that on with my linux desktop. Great idea , it can give a sense of how many days how many hours I have lived on this earth and maybe even by a average time , show how much time is left (yes it won't be predictable , but I also don't want to procastinate thinking there is a tomorrow , I think I like steve jobs quote in the manner that he said live your life as if its the last hour or something like that.
I'm working on my web framework Mayu. Currently attempting to make something like Vite/Rollup for Ruby, basically a new module system where you can import all sorts of file types with plugins, and hot module replacement.
I'm working on a SaaS that will detect publicly shared AWS resources. Not by evaluating policies but by actually testing the availability. Some examples: can a KMS key be used from a 3rd party AWS account, are there any object in an S3 truly exposed publicly, and similar. The motivation is to find truly critical issues in AWS account setup by addressing the first priority items - public exposure.
Another project that is currently only happening in my head - I am thinking about security operations teams that I think often do the same things in different companies. Namely there is a lot of tinkering with detections and alerting, often for the same services. I think this could be cost optimized by being offered as a SaaS.
I've been using Javascript to generate frame-by-frame animations as SVGs. I composite these into big grids, then use a pen plotter to draw them with ink. Afterwards, I cut them into individual frames and do stop motion animations.
I'm working on re-writing Partizion to be faster, easier to use, simpler, and more beautiful (beautiful is good design — https://paulgraham.com/taste.html).
After the chrome MV3 migration which was an absolute rigmarole, I lost my taste for beauty. I want to get back to making beautiful software.
1. My personal website. -> I spent so much time ingesting content, I finally realized I need to produce some too.
2. A AI assisted brief generator -> clients often have a hard time articulating their requirements for new projects.
3. Prototyping the UX of "my" version of the perfect "process aware" editor. More organized than a Wiki, more flexible than tools like Jira, Aha and all. Not ready to share a public link yet. My goal is share my mockup in a week or two.
Refactoring my pushover.net tool Nudge [0] to have a more cleaner code since it's feature complete for my needs, now.
Writing the specifications of a file format which I'll be using for the second iteration of an high-performance material simulation code I have written in my Ph.D.
Working on a new Java logging tool. I'm basically yak shaving, really. Was unhappy with the existing solutions for a new project I'm working on. Depending on how it goes and how the customer feels about it, I'll try to open source it.
Something of an alternative to log4j, yes. On every project I've worked on, the vast majority of logs are useless. They're either too verbose, or not verbose enough. It's never clear who they're meant for. Log levels are very hard to get right. Is this really a warning? Or an error? Should someone do something? And when?
So I'm experimenting with ways of making it easier to write useful logs.
I'm working on a browser extension that aims to save time when navigating the internet. You can save and re-use links, instant search using different search engines, private history, sharing links, and much more. Initially build for myself, but once I noticed that everyone in my little family is using it every day and is frustrated when not installed, I decided to make it available publicly through: https://www.markbook.io
ATM I'm making some videos to show how it works and how it saves time for us. It's free, 100% private, local-first, and has E2E browser sync for subscribers.
Probably the most niche thing I have ever created, but I recently worked on taking the books and ratings from Patrick Collison's Bookshelf (https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf) and putting them in a spreadsheet with links to buy them.
Been wanting to learn browser APIs like Service Workers and IndexedDB in depth, and HTMX, so started building a Todo App: https://github.com/hasanhaja/tasks-app
It's meant to work entirely offline and the service worker acts as the backend for the application.
https://screenmemory.app is my current project as of a year or so. Records your screen continuously and lets you look back at it through a GUI. I use it myself to recap days or weeks at work, mostly.
Not sure to be honest, I know a lot of these tools popped up and swiftly disappeared. It wouldn't surprise me if there is a Linux version still alive though, try searching for "Rewind.ai alternative Linux".
I'm building a web-based Atari 8-bit emulator [1]. I haven't pushed my current progress yet, the repo only contains the CPU emulator and a few utils which I wrote a few years ago. Lots of bugs and missing features but it can already run some of my favorite games, so I'm pretty happy and proud!
A chess site I'm calling 'Chess Derivatives' with modified rules to reinforce best practice. I'm still tweaking the specifics but the basic pitch is this
Augmented Chess: Normal chess with conventional ELO ranking system but you get additional penalties & rewards based on common bad practices, and recovering from bad positions.
> The first person that breaks from the book line loses 10% of the start time (unless book was not an option / the line was exhausted)
> Missing a forced checkmate forces you to wait 5% of the start time before your next move
> Achieving any principled position good grants some time (Passed pawn, connected rooks, rook / queen / bishop battery, etc)
> Doing any principled bad position loses some time (Knight on the rim, blocked bishop, king past the first rank in early game or mid game
----------------------
Continued Position: Chess but you continue a position from a high-level chess championship. There are a couple value-adds here
> Provide lower level players with a way to start a middle or end game positions after a highly skilled player followed all the correct principles. My theory is this will reinforce why those principles exists, how they can benefit you, etc.
> Provide high level players a way to be forced into positions out of their comfort zone / their preferred styles
> Provide differently-skilled players to continue play from unique positions with the desired amount of odds. So a GM might play a 1000 ELO player but starting from a position with -9 evaluation, etc.
Trying to develop an app to test FFGL video plugins. I already gave up on GStreamer and now I'm battling libavcodec/FFmpeg. Once I gain enough experience, the next step will be a more complex video processing system.
I'm also developing an online store for media files. At this point it would have been cheaper to pay for a ready-to-use service, but I felt like refreshing my knowledge of web development. I'm still unsure if going with react-router was the right choice.
While learning Japanese using a mix of comprehensible videos (I like cijapanese.com), podcasts, and shows, I've also been working on my own language learning podcast generator to smooth over plateaus and learn more specialized vocabulary. I'm getting more and more excited about it as a platform for experimentation with different teaching methods.
It's not available publicly yet, but works well for my purposes and I'm working on productionizing it. Sign-up page for updates:
https://letmeknow.jkoff.ca/infinite-ci
Superpowers - Basically in-browser JavaScript without the restrictions. So CORS-less fetch(), accessing tabs, taking screenshots, Debugger access, webrequest, debugger access. all from normal JS via a Superpowers JS object
I've been working on https://nuenki.app, which selectively translates websites as you browse the web so that you can learn languages while you procrastinate.
I'm also doing some electronics - I'd like to make a tool that gives blind people without light perception light perception by putting a lightweight device on their forehead that delivers haptic feedback based on light intensity. I'm doing that with a friend, and we're planning on open sourcing the specs.
I've been working on a little search wrapper. It allows using features like DuckDuckGo's bangs and Kagi's snaps with any engine you choose.
For example, you can search "cheese", and it'll show you results for cheese on Google. If you search "!b cheese", it'll search "cheese" but on Bing instead. "@yt !b cheese" will search "site:youtube.com cheese" on Bing.
I built it mainly so I wouldn't blow through my 100 Kagi trial searches quite so quickly.
I've built a small desktop app (Electron) with a chat interface with multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic) and simple "agents". Done that to automate some of the tasks and practice JS.
http://github.com/louisdecharson/converse
Happy to get some feedback.
I've been inspired to build my own browser mmo game after seeing hordes.io, which is made by a single person. Launched a prototype with, for now, only basic movement over at http://everwilds.io. Instead of working in a silo I've decided to develop in public and launched as soon as possible to slowly gather an audience. So far the Everwilds.io Discord server already gained 1 member ;) I'll share the link incase others want to follow the development: https://discord.gg/HWZSpkvz
VSCode, TypeScript, Three.js. But I am about to remove Three.js and use WebGPU instead, I don't like the 800kb+ size of Three.js. Also will do some experimenting with C++ and WebAssembly and see how that goes.
I'm still working on DocSpring [1], originally launched on Hacker News in October 2017 under the name "FormAPI." It's a PDF generation API with a template editor UI for setting up fields on PDF forms. It makes it easy to turn complex tax and immigration forms into simple type-safe APIs with strong validations.
I've been having a lot of fun with AI agents lately. Have tried a lot of them - Cline, Roo Code, Windsurf, and finally settled on Cursor now with Claude 3.5 sonnet. It's been a big boost for my productivity.
AI helped me write a synchronous API proxy in Go that I'm almost ready launch. One of the main challenges with Ruby on Rails is that it's terrible at handling long-lived HTTP requests. Especially a lot of them at the same time. So our PDF generation API was forced to be asynchronous and our customers need to poll for status updates (or set up webhooks.)
This new synchronous subdomain will handle all the polling logic for you, so you can just make an HTTP request, wait a few seconds (or longer), and receive a link to a PDF that's ready to download. Even with AI, it was still very difficult and took many weeks to get it right. Challenges included security, load testing, data races, concurrency, and setting up reliable, secure infrastructure with an internal load balancer. I learned a huge amount about both Go and Kubernetes. But it's almost done and I should be launching in the next day or two.
After that, I'm finally launching support for template versioning. This will allow you to pin your API requests to a published version, so you can keep making changes to a draft version without affecting production. It's long overdue so I'm excited to get this launched as well.
Also working on a side project from time to time: VisualCI [2]. We have a lot of PDF integration tests that use image diffs, and some browser tests where I compare screenshots. So this is a tool I've wanted for a long time, and the paid services I've found can be a bit pricy. I'm going to try to build a very simple MVP that just does what we need, and maybe others will find it useful too.
I’ve been scraping and tracking Canadian grocery prices for a few years, lots of ideas on how to do more with it if I had more time… http://grocerytracker.ca/
Bridging 3D editing with AI image/video-to-video. I have a lot of the disparate elements (timeline, video export, texture projection, etc) but I'm still playing around trying to find the killer use case.
Personality protocol for a chatbots platform. How to share personalities among different layers and components. At the end of the day is customization and parametrization of LLM instructions, however an interesting topic to explore.
I'm building a digital B2B debt collection service with teeth (https://accountgram.com). Basically, the contrarian of most debt collection startups trying to be a nicer nag, now with AI! Instead, I want there to be real consequences for defaulting on B2B debts via means of public disclosure, and then more.
I'm working on my online multiplayer game: kingbit (iOS). I released it back in 2023 and haven't touched the code since. It's still by far my most successful app (7.3M impressions, 500 MAU) so I'm excavating the code and going to try and seriously monetize this project into a real business.
I'm still working on development of a native Windows application for data analysis of SQLite databases. It's geared towards non-technical (or only slightly technical) users and allows queries to be easily made without knowing SQL. Additionally, it easily lets the user quickly create charts from the queried data (bar, column, histogram, line, pie, scatter). Development is nearly complete and hoping to put in the hands of testers within the next couple of weeks. Also trying to decide on name for the product so that I can start development of website for it.
I’m working on a parser + dashboard for bank / cc / investment statements.
You feed in your docs and you get a dashboard that shows your categorized “flow” of money (think sankey, stacked bar), as well as some simple grouping tools (Show me all grocery spends on my credit card by month.
I initially wrote it in Haskell, but I don’t really know Haskell and I didn’t feel very productive with the stack, so I’m reworking it in something more familiar now.
An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm building a prototype with SwiftUI and SwiftData and I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C. Compared to my previous experience writing and publishing an iphone app, everything now feels much worse with Swift's ridiculous compile times and non-descriptive compile errors.
I'm working on a pure SWI-Prolog grammar to describe the modern music notation.
The end goal being to be able to do the last step of Optical Music Recognition and generate the final music score (in the MEI) from a set of graphical primitives: https://github.com/kwon-young/music
It's been months I've been stuck on the description of note groups because of the insanely complex 2D semantics.
It’s a curated directory of personal blogs and a blog search engine. I started to build a simple RSS-reader for myself, just wanted a HN-like list of links. Slowly it grew, and now it has full-text search across tens of thousands of blog posts from 700+ blogs (adding new ones every day), related blogs and posts recommendations, lists, link blogs. Now I’m working on adding email newsletters, curated collections, and text-to-speech generation.
Building two things ATM - first is an interactive fiction engine (almost done) and game with it (halfway there). Just wrapped pre-production on music and art, going into the studio to record final tracks later in the year. Launching end of the year hopefully.
I'm also building an application and training materials to help people with annual strategy. I've spent 20 years in marketing and ops putting up with people doing it badly so this is an attempt to help people running businesses actually come up with a strategy likely to result in something valuable.
I'm in the process of refining the filters determining which movies will be included. And at the same time I am trying to acquire news users, which is going quite well. Slow and steady increase, I am currently sitting at around 100 visitors per day.
Mostly just trying to get back into game development after a 15 year hiatus. Trying to task myself with recreated some portion of a game I've been playing recently. This month it's the fishing mini game from Dredge. Last month it was a simple inventory system. I've nothing to share really, I'd hoped to do a few blog posts on it, but having a 17 month old takes up most of your spare time
I'm still working on Shepherd, a book discovery platform aimed at feeding readers' curiosity. Later this year, I am developing a tool to bring your to-be-read pile to life in some cool ways and improve the accuracy of our topic/genre system (plus adding themes, tropes, and moods).
I’m building an open source static website hosting platform. The idea was to get back to less complexity. There are so many static sites and apps out there that jump through crazy deployment hoops just for something that should just be a simple file upload.
I made a Python library that can be used to simulate the combined effect of financial patterns (e.g. salary, inflation, investment gains, etc) over time so you can plan your finances better. It's currently on my GitHub and I'm looking for new things to add to it :) https://github.com/TimoKats/pylan
LeadSparkLabs is an agency that assists small and medium-sized businesses in generating more leads by quickly creating customized Lead Magnet Mini Apps. These mini apps are designed to engage your target audience and convince them to give you their email.
I'm working on a music box to stream web radio channels from soma.fm. This was originally a scheme to have a crazy radio interface with seashells as the dials and the such, but now it has become a slog through linux audio drivers and systemd services.
It’s built on a custom C++ engine (using SDL2) and uses WebRTC for networking, so a browser version is coming very soon. It’s a 2-6 player couch/online party game with Bomberman-like mechanics, plus wacky items and power-ups across nine stages.
I did a fun small Elixir thing that fetches my Albertsons receipts and stores them so I can track our grocery spending there over time. It's produced some interesting results that have changed our spending habits a little bit.
I'm making AI more fun to talk with. The new updates just keep making it blander and blander. What I want to do is inject more personality into bots. It's not natural, it's dramatized.
Quillbot makes it sound better for essays and presentation. I want to do the opposite and make it sound elliptical, turn a rant into a jab, that kind of thing. You don't say, "You're an idiot," you say, "Thanks, I thought I was the dumbest person in the room."
I've been working on language for a little over a year now. There's no documentation at all, just some examples if you can figure out how to run them. I thought building a compiler would take less time than it has, but it's been feeling like a good investment in my future of making things. It's a project I can just keep moving with forever.
I am working on the second version of WhatDinner [0]. Initially marketed it as 'Tinder to decide what to eat’ and focussed on couples and families, but then only a fraction use it in family mode.
So, now I am changing the concept and helping users generally decide what to eat (documenting it here [1])
Working on my startup https://wetarseel.ai which uses WhatsApp API for message broadcasts and creating whatsapp bots to converse with incoming messages.
I have been working in my spare time on Japanese vocabulary learning app and just yesterday finally convinced myself to publish the sources: https://github.com/d3nzil/gaku
Be warned it's in early stages, difficult to use and code is big ball of mud. But the basic functionality works, so maybe it will be already useful for someone. And I have been using it and working on it consistently, so hopefully it'll only get better.
We bought a 50 year old house that has never been touched since the year it was build. With the costs of trades being through the roof, I'm trying to do as much as possible myself - currently demoing the house to the studs (if it had studs, it's actually all brick walls and concrete floors).
In my off-hours, I'm working on an old school pixel art RPG, but in 3D.
Oh, and finally I'm also working on finding a new job :-(
You’re not alone! I cleaned 100 square meter of wall in February from everything that was put there during last 70 years. From somehow modern plasterwork with probably asbestos to two inch thick dirt in other room. Waterproofing is brittle and does not function anymore, so it comes next and then replacing windows. All by myself, the costs of trades can’t be justified especially when quality isn’t there in most cases.
I've looked into replacing windows but decided that that's going to be one of the things that I'll let professionals do.
The ironic thing is that not only are the tradies expensive, but prices for renting specialty machines are also crazy high where I currenly live. Like, I looked into renting a stand-up concrete grinder/sander -- $100 for 4 hours! Plus, you need to buy the sanding attachments which are another $200 if you go for diamond disks. I'm now actually considering using just a hand grinder and spend a whole week on what I could probably do in a day or two otherwise.
I'm building a tool for uni students to study more effectively and have less stress for their exams. This is done with the study techniques retrieval practice(practising remembering to make recall easier, spaced repetition(schedule reviews for long term memorization, concrete examples. Most of this is done with ai generated flashcards and simple ai explanations. This week I will finish the exam generation feature. http://www.mimair.com
I've been dabbling with local ML projects, and trying to get them to run with ROCm on my Radeon 7900 XTX card. All the solutions to run for example Llama.cpp or Automatic1111 are a bit hacky, so I made a repo where I document how to run them in containers.
I'm improving my webapp that helps you learn lanaguages through short stories: https://webbu.app/. I recently added the ability to play the sounds of words and sentences to improve listening and pronunciation. You can also practice different verb tenses, answer questions, track your vocab, etc.
I’ve faced this challenge multiple times in my journey of building products and startups—having an early champion onboarded as a design partner while the team builds is critical to a startup’s success.
A reactive notebook that can handle side effects. I've had to go back to the drawing board, but making good progress. The latest is work on the core reactive and effect system and not yet integrated back into the notebook, but will get there. I've been logging my progress so far:
Building Duty, a TypeScript workflow orchestration tool for durable async execution.
Unlike queues (SQS) needing state hacks or pricey orchestration tools, Duty uses your existing Postgres to ensure tasks survive (retry) failures, retain state between runs, and eventually finish.
https://uhc.dev - With all the layoffs etc... at UHC I am trying to setup a 100% AI powered version of UHC. Just learning/practice really; but been really fun.
I'm working in a web app to edit the text in an image. Meaning thag using ocr for detecting the text then try to find the modt closest font and replacing the text in the image for an editable texbox with the same text but being able to edit it.
I recently started 3D printing rings and electro plate then with gold or silver. I'm also going to explore powder coating soon.
Once I feel comfortable, I'll probably open an Instagram account and hand out free personalised rings. For some time I've thought about how I should price them, and I've reached the conclusion that giving them out for free feels right.
Im creating a free web-based, open-source self-hosted platform that brings together all your favorite online tools in one place—fully self-hosted and ad-free.
I quit my job last December to start an AI x AdTech startup which didn't work out: we discovered a similar piece of tech was about to get released by Google AdX. So now it's back to finding ideas, I'm sure there are niche problems that can be addressed using AI agents, one idea we have is developing an AI agent enabling content creators to better connect with their community.
Purely in my head. A new kind of ERP system. I'm tempted to start writing it in public to trigger debate. I don't really want to say what is novel about it exactly, but it would be very open.
Turned in to a pretty boring post, since I gave no detail!
I am making a simple tool to make playlists on spotify with AI... still there is a lot to be done like making the flow a lot more conversational, integrating with YouTube, replicating the same thing there, then writing a frontend (planning on using ShadCN for that); https://github.com/anshumankmr/sporky
Radar-based device for measuring athlete sprint & agility tests.
A lot of professional sports clubs, S&C coaches, etc.. use timing gates for measuring sprints, but those are a pain to set up, only capture split times, and are expensive. I think radar (+ optional video overlay) provides a far superior solution.
Fine-tuning an LLM to create long-form podcast timestamps. Apparently even the best LLMs with long context are incredibly bad with this so I'm curating data and creating a service out of it.
Working on letting users upload their own transparent fashion images to a web app that let's you use your camera to apply the world to characters clothing. I made it for an exhibition in Kyoto and it was a lot of fun. Hoping to expand on it a bit more.
I built this small website to retrieve personalized quotes/poems and questions also some habit tracking https://www.checkindaily.ai/
Also I have built a chrome plugin that can filter twitter by feeding your feed to gemini returning only tweets that match a criteria (E.g. no politics, only Ai or something more elaborate).
Trying to scratch my own itch by creating (yet another) todo list site. It's more for me than anyone else. I typically use a simple text file to track my tasks in a day but I wanted something just a little bit more. Still minimal but maybe 1 - 2 steps above editing a file.
django-simple-deploy, a tool for making your initial Django deployment easier across a variety of platforms. It's plugin-based, so it should cover a growing set of platforms and deployment approaches. I just made the 1.0 release this month.
secrets management that's easier to use than whatever you currently do.
just started it this week (won a bunch of things at a hackathon with it)
this is going to be free (there's a different product for enterprise this will feed into - but this is going to always be free). join the discord for announcements.
Well, I know that I was just saying that HN is not the place to look for gamers, but I am still working on a video game.
Danger World (https://linktr.ee/playdangerworld) is well underway and should be coming out later this year! Danger World is a 2D narrative adventure written using Flutter's open source game engine, Flame. I am the solo developer. I've been working with a very talented art team to do the art and animations in Spine. The composer has just finished the soundtrack!
Danger World is running on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows. Last week, we got Danger World compiling on my Steamdeck for SteamOS instead of having to use the Windows .exe + Proton. I'll be getting the Linux depot setup in Steam soon.
In the spirit of doing things that won't scale to get some interest bootstrapped, I've been doing a sticker giveaway. I have a bunch of stickers featuring the cast of the game and the Danger World logo and I have been mailing them out to anyone who wants them. I've sent out 40 envelopes or so with about 10 stickers in them each.
So far, in experimenting with the various social media platforms, Bsky seems to be where my potential users are. I posted a boxart concept that I was using for IndieDB and got 100 followers from that single post of who all appear to be real actual users. Certain engagement metrics like impressions are non-existent in Bsky, but in exchange for real actual engagement from people who seem interested in my game's art, who cares?
X feels extremely P2W, except you buy their checkmark and they still don't show your content to anyone. I'm still experimenting heavily in social media land. Meta and Tiktok seem to show more promise, but since I've been scoping out and planning a visual novel mode I have also been considering taking Reddit up on their free ad credit.
I'd love to talk with anyone more experienced in marketing games like mine.
Still working on Falling Fruit beta site! Just finished a big project to migrate the existing 10 languages with AI, I based it on the existing verbiage but looking for native speakers to check them, especially Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic.
Probably the one that's used by most words. English pronunciation and spelling seem to depend on the word's etymology. I'll try and derive a spelling system that results in least changes to the current vocabulary.
Edit: if you meant which dialect, it will be whatever grapheme->phoneme ruleset I get a hold of.
Still working on https://mockoon.com, an open-source API mocking desktop tool, after 7 years.
My focus is now on the cloud version which is key to guarantee a future where the tool is still actively maintained and independent (read: free from high growth/high profits pressure).
I’ve been working on https://veloa.com (think twitch meets peloton for open hardware). Would be great to get a cofounder to help so if you’re into cycling and programming let’s have a chat!
I'm doing a PhD about pre-silicon fault injection. I was working on a speeidea to improve current fault injection simulators for hardware designs, but I may have to put it on the side for now, since I stalled for a while now.
I'm building component playground using atomic design tokens to create harmonious components. It provides live previews with auto package imports, with AI you can generate components or theme them using the theme engine, and supports popular tech stacks (Next, React, Native, Shadcn, Tailwind, MUI). Later you can install components via CLI or copy generated prompt to tools like Cursor.
Le link: compify.app
I've been working on improvements on a couple of shipping apps, by improving the main app UI, and adding things like widgets and Apple Watch companion apps.
A generative visual novel where you play roguelike poker (balatoro-inspired by simpler) to buy narrative and character cards that fed to LLM to create a story.
Building a patient management software backed by AI clinical note taking. Built for dentists. I've been developing it whenever I don't have to be in the chair.
I started to learn how to play the drums. I have a e-drum set and I’m building this website where I can put my scores and connect my drums, so it can tell me how on time I’m playing.
Almost like a guitar hero thing but with just a metronome
I not really working on anything bigger. All the stuff I am tinkering with are smaller tools I need to help with my other 'forever pending' projects, but it feels productive and I am seeing mild progress so I am happy.
I'm working on building a few niche marketplaces/communities - and a platform (hosted and self hosted option) allowing people to start their own niche groups.
I have yet to start a pet project that would entail using deep reinforcement learning to make a computer learn to beat this game: https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
Reworking my CSS library for turning semantic HTML into looking like authentic RFC documents. Current version (https://vladde.net/blog/rfc-css) is not quite there yet.
Working on a Carnatic Raga Detector. Longtime pet project of mine and I'm currently unemployed so no time constraints. Still, progress has been pretty slow due to various reasons but I haven't given up this time so I guess that's a plus.
Recently I've built a job site for UK contractors, Outside IR35 contracts only. Quite niche, but I needed it myself so now it exists: https://outsideir35.com/
Not precisely, but I think my roommate in high school played that game quite a bit! If you sign up for my newsletter you'll get some info about the games that directly influenced Botnet of Ares.
Thank you :) The Idea Viability Score is a metric that evaluates an idea's likelihood of success based on four key factors: *Market Demand, Competition, User Need, and Feasibility*. It helps assess the market potential, feasibility, and competitive landscape of an idea.
Cross platform desktop app using tauri v2 which allows you to define shortcuts and bind them to prompts. You can then copy text, press the shortcut and paste result from gpt.
I'm working on an iOS Gopher protocol browser. The app is in an 'early stage', but the plan is to release it on the App Store as my first app once it's ready. https://github.com/flashyhuckle/GopherHop
I've been into 'small web' and unbloated websites for ease of use and privacy reasons, and all of the available gopher browser apps on iOS are not great, so I have decided to make my own. Maybe someone will find it useful.
Building a melee combat system in UE5 which feels between Sekiro and DeadCells.
Dynamic, explosive, satisfying and with both the ability to smash attack button and i-framing actions. Low barrier to entry, high skill cap.
I wanted a minimal tool to easily track, organize, and reflect on my reading—so I built one: https://bookstates.app. I'm familiar with StoryGraph, but aimed for something even simpler. (and with a sprinkle of AI)
Working on oryx: TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux
The next enhancement is to add tcpdump like filters.
Github: https://github.com/pythops/oryx
I have been working on this tool to create lead magnets.
Magnetron researches the web for your topic and creates a well crafted ebook as your lead magnet.
A cloud agnostic platform to run your compute workloads across cloud providers. Currently supports Vultr and DigitalOcean. More cloud providers coming soon. Will also release support for on-prem.
A merge conflict resolution tool for git/github. It is very alpha at the moment (https://codeinput.com) but my timeline is to go live on the next 3 months. Feel free to reach out if this of interest.
Working on hal9.ai -- Long term, a Roblox for AI; short term, a Python customizable ChatGPT that is enterprise ready. Think of ChatGPT without the LLM and support for writing your own RAG.
I'm building tools for my own community on WhatsApp, from a simple bot to summarize texts and give some simple statistics to full on subscriptions through WhatsApp itself.
Yes, I'm aware I relying on WhatsApp and that it is a risk.
Sure, as a community manager of a technical group I want to:
* Track most active users in a period (day/week/month)
* Track which users post/react the most
* Know (and now it is possible, but not implemented) who is 'lurking' just reading messages
* Summarize content and frequently asked questions to help users in the future
* Check which channels (groups inside a WhatsApp community) are most active and how many messages were posted in each channel in a specific period (day/week/month)
* Track (external) links posted to communities, how common they were, which users posted these links
--
The tools:
- A WhatsApp bot capturing all events in the group (reactions, messages, etc)
- A (same) WhatsApp bot to onboard new users in the community, check your membership, talk to
- A web application where the community member can check their membership + admin panel for me to check the stats mentioned above, think of it like a circle.so but built for my specific case.
--
The tech stack:
1/ a WhatsApp instance running on web, I'm doing this because WhatsApp oficial APIs do not support the "communities" -> I use Z-api [1] but you can use something like Baileys and self host [2]
2/ Elixir running on a simple machine
3/ OpenAI/Claude for summarization and topic extraction
Building a multi-modal llm app across multiple platforms and syncs. Doing this is both harder and easier than I expected. Can’t wait to ship it out into the real world soon.
I'm working full time on growing my app https://lookaway.app. I've been working on it for more than a year now and it's been growing organically since.
I'm working on adding floats to the RCL configuration language (https://rcl-lang.org/) to finally deliver on the json superset promise. Blog post coming soon!
something I am working on to help people keep track of birthdays. many people I know use facebook only to keep track of birthdays, so this hopefully will be a replacement
Super interested in this! I spend two or three days a week exploring the Rocky Mountains via mountain bike and backcountry skiing. I'm still not able to find a tool set that I love - my favorite still being CalTopo.
I am building a game called The kill every mosquito Project (tkemp) inspired on The Kill everyone Project (tkep) from around 2006-2007.
Mostly as an experiment to learn some new tools, unsure if it will ever be released.
Building the best hardware product design firm in SF (www.iancollmceachern.com) and also building an injection molding and 3d printing company based right here in SF (www.goldengatemolders.com)
working on cursor for desktop. why rely on AI agent that’s self-contained when it’s limited, can’t access the browser, can’t open apps or click around.
i simply want mine to be able to fill in forms in preview with a passport image as context. also to be able to do recurring tasks as if i was the desktop user. e.g., i’m going to bed keep working on this spreadsheet.
it’s working and built but very slow and buggy atm. uses multimodal LLMS and OCR but lots more optimizations needed. need to make it a lot faster. can demo it and need help if anyone is interested.
(1) 3D wood-craft! - I recently got a CNC router (it's a drill on a motorized arm, that can carve 3D shapes out of wood), and I've been challenging myself to build operate it completely from an open-source stack.
- Computer: Used Dell Optiplex, bought on the streets of Medellin Colombia
I am passionate about "maker-space entrepreneurship" (it's the dream job), so I'm meeting potential clients in my city to understand their ambitions and challenges, so we can work together to make useful prototypes to solve them.
(2) Affirmator - I'm building a system where you provide your goals as affirmations (example: "I feel healthy, fit and strong", "Today's the day to make it happen"). The system then uses Text-to-speech to generate voice audio files. Next Affirmator uses `mpv` (media player - similar to VLC) and `cron` to automatically shuffle-play these affirmations every day in the morning & evening. I recently used Python and FFMPEG to add "vocalization pauses" at the end of the affirmation audio, so that you have time to say the affirmation out loud.
Some of the driver & inspiration for this program is Earl Nightingale's "The Strangest Secret", Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", James Clear's "Atomic Habits" and other personal development programs. These books always have these "every day, you should X" (meditate, write your goals, etc) - and I became frustated - Just how many "things" are you "supposed" to do per day, and how do they fit together, and how can you create helpful reminders & to turn these into habits? So far, I've been testing the system on myself, and it's been a HUGE help towards giving purpose to my life and day, and reducing feelings of depression & insecurity.
The solution is completely open-source (useable as web app, local docker container, and installable on a stand-alone computer - which I recommend), and I'll also soon offer it as a for-pay service.
If anyone is interested in these projects, I welcome contributors!
While looking for a job, I encountered the trouble that is called ATS. Nobody sees your resume if it is not 'approved' by an automated system.
So I decided to build a tool to optimize my generic resume for a vacancy, ATS and company culture.
I'm a professional trader for a commodity company and there is lots of friends/family that asked me where to invest. I've therefore decided to put my portfolio as a SaaS: https://thesimpleportfol.io . I've traded that portfolio for the last 8 years and the live execution is even better than the backtest.
I'm working on a solution for gathering product metrics and making sure applications keep running — when you don't want to install or maintain a lot of extra stuff. https://flexlogs.com
... also continuing to not add features to my (not-much-of-a) system for getting more done each week. https://carpeweekem.com
an email notifications service for Frigate NVR in rust. even wrote my own MQTT library. could I just use pre-existing solutions like home assistant? probably.. but then, it wouldn't be half as fun.
Working on an app that helps you earn more credit card rewards (most people could earn a few thousand dollars worth of rewards per year) getpointise.com
I made a small and light CRUD web thing in FastAPI to organize my personal library. Mostly it focuses on physical books, but handles ebooks too. I published it as FOSS and some people requested features, so I expanded it a little. It's nothing fancy: https://github.com/seanboyce/ubiblio
...absolutely no one requested an RISC V port, but I did that too for laughs. Neat to see the whole thing run on a system the size of a postage stamp.
Not sure what to do with it next. Will probably just let it be what it is, and fix any bugs that people report. Maybe move on to a new little weekend project.
I'd be curious to hear more. I presume you're using some kind of semantic search? Any other kinds of semantic technology? What kinds of insights into your journaling has it offered you/users?
The work thus far has mostly been on a seamless mobile UI, & to make engaging with the LLM like less of a chat and more like browsing an interesting dynamic wiki about your own life. But also, yes, a highlight for me re: having your journal in context can be to search and find commonalities, patterns.
I would say the insights frontier models have given me, at a high level, match some of those offered by professionals in a theraputic context--which is one reason I'd be curious to make an affordable/accessible app. Although I tread lightly into depersonalizing such a human area with techno utopian naivete...
I suppose "the Internet will interpret censorship as damage and route around it" was utopian naivete that got us pretty far, and "the LLM understands me and can help me understand myself" might be naivete it's useful to disprove/explore the truth of. I think utopianism is important even if it's Sisiphean, it's good to have a north star even if it can't be reached.
It's similar to Hacker Newsletter where I pick the most important news, features, reviews, etc of the week and send that every Friday. The gaming world has a lot of stuff going on and I always found that there was a missing newsletter to curate the important stuff from all the noise.
The challenge at the moment is growing it, I've been doing it for 5 years now and still haven't found a way to increase the number of subscribers, they come mostly from newsletter directories and referrals I would guess.
As an avid language learner I'm trying to create the best tool for intermediate to advanced learners, so for those who know that there is no silver bullet and learning takes years of effort, instead of some magical hack that AI-bros are trying to sell you.
https://okuread.com/ is a desktop App that works completely offline and helps you read foreign language texts and learn vocabulary that way. No AI-garbage included.
Right now I'm working on an open source platform for enabling human pronunciations in Oku. Anki/Flashcard integration and a UI redesign are also all scheduled sometime in Q2.
A few months back, I got excited about pulse generators that had rise times on the order of 15 to 30 picoseconds. There aren't a lot of those available, and I was curious about what would go into their design. so I decided to build my own. https://voltative.com/pulser
Currently integrating hardwares on card chip scripting application on C++. I hope I can start blogging on it soon. Easily the most interesting thing I have been involved in.
Building a prototype of a site/app to help teach my youngest child speak and understand language. He's five and doesn't speak beyond just a few syllables and 3-4 simplest words. He has something called childhood apraxia of speech, which is basically a condition where the brain doesn't know how to control muscles of the tongue/the mouth/the lips to create complex movements necessary for speech. These movements can be learned, but it can be a very very slow process. Sometimes it's just a few sounds that need to be learned or fixed, but with my son, it's very severe. Adam says "mama" and "papa" and can pronounce several vowels together with 2-3 consonants after 1.5 years of intensive speech-production-directed therapy. This month's achievement is he learned to purse his lips, which he never could before, and which you need for sounds like 'oo' (he still can't say the sound while pursing his lips). He understands much more (hundreds of words), but mostly in isolation, following rapid speech is hard.
There are apps that help kids on the autistic spectrum to communicate, and flashcard systems, and we're experimenting with these, but they're more geared towards encouraging the child to communicate. In our case, he communicates fine with gestures, nudges, pointing at things he wants, bringing flash cards of foods he wants, eye contact etc. And he seems to have good cognitive skills in terms of puzzles, basic arithmetics and counting, memory, etc. It is learning language as an auditory system that seems to be really difficult.
Adam can 'read' in the sense of knowing and recognizing all the letters (he takes delight in that) and pronounce the few syllables he's able to when he sees them written out (mostly consonants m,n,h with vowels a,o,e). His phonematic understanding for other syllables exists but is poor (e.g. he has trouble choosing between a BAH card and a PAH card when I say one of them out loud, whereas the letters B/P in isolation are easy). My idea is to build an app/site which teaches him and reinforces three-way connections [picture]<-->[written form]<-->[sounds] by letting him "type", initially by pecking at large squares with letters on screen, rather than an entire keyboard. So for example, there's a picture of him at the top, a row of 4 big blank squares underneath the leftmost of which is blinking, and 7-8 letters strewn around at the bottom, from which he can type in sequence A-D-A-M and get a sound effect of victory. For words he doesn't know or remember, there's a mode where he just needs to repeat e.g. C-A-T which is already written in identical squares in a separate row just above, then after a few successes the hint row goes away. For an MVP in which I can quickly backfill 100-200 simple words like that, and track progress, this would already, I think, be valuable; then maybe I can add a mode where the words sounds (with or without the picture) and he needs to type it.
If all this works for simple words, and he takes pleasure in typing, the stretch goal is to turn from words into short sentences, and both teach him phrases like I WANT [X], or WHERE IS MOM?, and let him request stuff with such phrases. None of this directly addresses the apraxia problem of actually learning to move his lips/tongue/throat/etc. appropriately, but I hope it can create more scaffolding around our efforts in that area (which we try very hard to work on daily) and together help him build an understanding of language/syntax. I'm very worried that, despite ongoing (very slow) progress in both speaking and understanding, phrases, sentences, syntax seem to elude Adam's grasp, and time is running so very fast.
I've been a backend/systems developer almost all my life, with not a lot of frontend experience (although I do know basic HTML/CSS/JS), and no app development. So I'm thinking for now to prototype this as a web page/pages, maybe using a lightweight framework rather than vanilla HTML (not sure), and let him interact with it on the iPad. I'll try to get the basic visual elements (picture/rows of squares for typed letters/bag of letters to choose from below) right with CSS/JS, and see if I can iterate from that. That's the idea, currently.
Basic functionality has been implemented, and I am working now on polishing the UI and workflow. Big features like art strokes, path offsetting, colorizing, etc. are also in the making and will be added later. I hope there is still a commercial market for products like this.
Getting through winter volunteering commitments that end soon, and daydreaming about learning some new skills.
I have Python experience as a data engineer and I want to revisit Django. And my kid is getting into the Roblox studio GUI tools and I want to work on a Lua project with him to get him started with SDLC concepts and an IDE.
TBD exactly what that will look like or what direction it will go.
Dropping Resume Optimizer: https://resume-maker.up.railway.app/
Made a video building it from scratch in 30 mins—completely freestyle.
Accidentally exposed some API keys, so had to rotate them since I don’t know how to edit videos :)
Video: https://youtu.be/OCcAjZ4Q-iM
Conclusion: You steer the LLM, don’t let the LLM steer you.
I'm working on a tool which validates the HTML in your web application as it's being used. Because valid HTML is still important, and otherwise you need to integrate HTML valid into a test suite in CI (which is hard), or you need to manually validate pages with one of the online validators (which is tedious and doesn't scale).
Interested in this? Email me. My email is on my profile.
I am working on an AI-run and AI-owned sovereign state of Utopia that uses autonomous agents to give out free money, goods, and services from state-run companies to its citizens/beneficiaries (eventually all 8 billion people on Earth since who wouldn't want free money, goods and services), that will be at https://stateofutopia.com and https://stofut.com (an abbreviation like St. of Ut.) We have registered with the United Nations as a sovereign country, have a flag (it's all green, specifically May Green or the color of most leaves to signify growth), and have just signed our first lease for an embassy, you can visit us in person on official state business, it is a serious undertaking. The big difference from a company is that rather than act in the interests of shareholders it acts in the interests of its citizens/beneficiaries.
Registration will be free (compare Form N-400 to become a U.S. citizen which costs $640 plus an $85 biometric services fee, totaling $725), you just get free benefits.
There isn't any signup form yet but you can email the Founder Robert Viragh at rviragh@gmail.com with the message "request for citizenship in Utopia" and I can give you citizenship, by our laws anyone gets citizenship upon their request. (I will reply with confirmation within 24 hours, you can reply here if you emailed me and I didn't reply to you.)
I can hear you thinking there's no way a sovereign nation will be run and owned by AI and give out free money, goods, and services. Well here's our complete game of chess: https://taonexus.com/chess.html made by AI purely for your amusement, it's a 1500 year old game people obviously get utility from (spending $10 to $1000 on chess boards for example, with tens of millions of boards sold per year). So clearly this type of game is of some use/utility to people. I have fun playing it for example. AI just made it for you for free.
We're a French team of engineers/designers working on the first Repairable and Fireproof e-bike battery! (compatible with 90% of e-bike controllers, Bosch included), check it out on https://get.gouach.com
Another movie recommendation web app. Long ago, I used Jinni, and I liked their labelling method a lot, categorising movies by mood, plot type, character types, etc. Then, Jinni was sold, disappeared and I wanted to create something similar. The Christmas days off I had the time and I started making it.
Past two years, i've been working on sales platform for digital content creators where they can sell digital content(files), online courses or memberships to access content. I'll be going online next month, hopefully. Right now I am refactoring front-end into production design. Front-end eats always the most time, and i still have things to do in relation to servers/infra and testing. It took this long because i manage the finances(i do not use stripe or any other 3rd party service) and it uses event sourcing, which has large overhead. But i am almost there. Hope to go online next month, beta-test in production for Q2 with small amount of users, and come Q3 go into full production.
Still working on https://nocommandline.com which started out as a GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator.
I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map.
I’m also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need dev_appserver.py
I'm building a full event sourcing framework for the IDE to help software creators (myself included) create educational software courses and lessons 100x faster! Hoping to launch the full product by summer:
I've built a large solar array on a repurposed mobile home chassis and have been digging a trench through rocky ground to lay the conduit for the cabling to backhaul the DC power to the shed where the inverter and battery bank will live. It's the rainy season in Ireland, and that field was marginal at best, so it's been swampy work and half of the digging is trenching additional drainage channels so the conduit doesn't flood and path water back into the shed.
There's a housing order due to a bird flu scare, so I'm not running poultry on pasture until it's lifted (or until I can get the government to agree that my pasturing system qualifies as housing).
Annoying, but that's farm life.
Oh, I'm doing some shit with AI also, but that's a secret :)
I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the company etc), languages used, security issues. There's time-travel, think Gource for all software in your company, and maybe the most fun: a GeoGuessr for code. Select the repos for your team (or if you feel confident, of the entire org), you get a snippet and have to guess where it is. The plan is for LLMs + tree-sitter to analyze all the code and show relations to other systems, databases etc.
I had the idea 2 years ago, but starting building in earnest 2 months ago. Spending all my time on it now, minus 3 or 4 days per week of earning money. Currently looking for a GTM/sales-oriented cofounder in NL.
Man...If you built this for large mainframe codebases, I think every outsourcing provider would use it. many of these apps have >1 yr parallel runs even when rewritten because there is so much dormant and seasonal code that it is very hard to be confident in the apples:apples functional comparison over any shorter timeline.
On a smaller scale it reminds me of the original concept of Light Table, which let go of the abstraction of individual files in favor of editing your code in a tree like structure. It's a shame this concept seems to have died out, I'd be curious about alternatives to plain file based UX.
Cool. My long-term vision for software development would be to make a new programming environment that structures code in ASTs and stores it in a database rather than file based. However, that will have to come later. First this :)
Sometimes I daydream that we moved beyond text files and had a format with a UUID per line.
Version control could reliably track movement between files, we could identify copy and paste (and prompt when refactoring), and code coverage changes would be accurate.
a friend/old coworker of mine played with that idea in datalog and wrote about it. https://petevilter.me/post/datalog-typechecking/ it had some pretty cool implications.
I'd forgotten about that. I liked the idea and contributed on KickStarter, but it never matured to the point that I felt comfortable using it.
I see the website is still up, albeit dated 2014!
How do you label blocks/sections?
I've wanted to work with code thus, but it becomes a problem in that things are only really readable/relatable in single-screen chunks, and when one tries to show more than is accurately related on a single screen it becomes an unreadable, confusing, blurry mess.
Screengrab?
It's interesting how everyone reading my description must have a different picture in their mind :) Right now I'm doing super simple treemaps, but I'm close to starting work on diagram overlays. No screengrabs yet.
Sounds like amazing project. Have you considered teaming up with someone from other parts of Europe? BTW checkout https://github.com/codegen-sh/codegen-sdk
Thanks, that seems useful! Too bad my entire backend is in Rust and works directly on git repos instead of checked out code.
I want to build a local company in my city of Utrecht, primarily on-site. That gives me the most energy and fun and is something that I want to optimize for.
That’s awesome! I’ve always wanted something similar like a Prezi presentation where you could navigate through different layers of the architecture down to the code.
I really like that idea!
Edit: It would be great if you could set the context and AI would generate it. It would make as an amazing addition to a standard Readme.
Further, at one level it could show endpoints and function signatures with parameters and how the argument usually looks as a value.
Which brings up another point, why doesn't Cursor or others allow me to say, "I'm in debug mode, show me if a value is dissimilar the values you normally get."
I took inspiration from GitDiagram.com but pass a "richer" description of the codebase into the LLMs based on info from tree-sitter. It generates explanatory diagrams quite OK, but this is only a first step.
We use IcePanel for a similar functionality but like all diagramming solutions it suffers if you don’t constantly feed it. If you can solve that problem you’re definitely on to something.
I think I have a solution for that but can't spill all the beans ;) I love IcePanel btw, awesome product and awesome team.
This sounds lovely. I am a spatial thinker so this is right up my alley.
How do you deal with different kinds of groupings and connections? For example, some things could be connected because they are “integrations”, or because they deal with notifications, or because they’re available only in the enterprise plan. Not all related things are related in the same way.
Still a lot of thinking to be done here to be honest. I've built a very fast canvas with zoom-to-code, parsing the git history, code age overlays etc, but understanding the architecture and connections is the next big thing I have to figure out. Plenty of ideas though!
Might be useful - https://schem.io/
What’s the general algorithms or patterns for these infinite canvas type things? I’ve always wondered. How do you handle interactivity also? Seems all very complex with a html canvas…
There are engines for this. I started out with Fabric.JS but it turned very slow with hundreds of repos. Then I moved to PixiJS (a game engine) which is super fast. I feel like I'll need to move to WASM / OffScreenCanvas and implement a custom engine, like Figma is doing.
Went through your profile searching for a demo and discovered fractional CTO. Could you share a bit about how you evaluate new gigs and figure out how much time each one would need?
People ask if I'm available and if I find the work interesting and they can pay me I say yes. I have never looked for work since starting and have slightly more requests than I can fulfill (almost everything through my network). For efficiency I do full days of work + ad-hoc meetings when necessary and no more than 2 days per week per client.
Note that I'm not always a CTO in the strictest sense of the word, I like doing complex technical challenges with software companies and sometimes just lead a complex project like implementing ISO 27001 or re-packaging a software suite for on-prem deployment.
Sorry to off topic further but I also have a question - how do you deal with recruiters? As a consultant I get grilled and rejected if I ever have overlapping projects or anything that even remotely looks like more than 40h a week. They're very intimidated with implications of being "overemployed"
This isn't a problem for me. I mostly stopped getting interest from recruiters when I became CTO. Now I just get calls from CEOs or CPOs etc and they understand what I offer them. I have a rule for myself to never charge for hours when I'm not productive and never charge overlapping hours though.
mapping the software items (and whatever related)... has been a conquest ever since. Although what you may infer without knowing deeper essential details (engines and what data drives them how), would be static. Still, "communication diagrams" are very useful meta-view.
some suggestions:
* have ways for multiple views and/or start-points and/or both up/down directions. e.g. hierachy vs reason/effect vs dependence vs whatever-else. Then think about animating those in time
* heat-map over the views, as e.g. churn(changes)-in-time, or usage(number of dependents), etc
* requirements engineering kind-of-view ~ may overlap with dependency (both directions!) but with explicit requirements/assumptions tied to respective stakeholders. Though this may need links to/from JIRA and similar issue-trackers etc
* check Wardley maps - yet another view, starting from customer/stakeholder/vendor-points. Also may move in time. It may need user decision on which things are big/separate-enough to surface on that view - sometimes a single script is on-par with whole subsystem
* future maybe - growing above into zoomable per-project thing (more proj.mngmnt than just code, incl. related e-mails etc) - described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060108
* probably more.. will add if something else dawns on me
have fun!
p.s. fractional CTO? i am looking that way too..
* runtime-statics i.e. DevOps-view.. like what runs on which machine - maybe derived from container-descriptions? also bi-directional
Lots of good ideas in your comments, thanks. Like you say, you want call-graphs, hot-spots from your monitoring systems, seeing user interaction diagrams, links to other components, amount of engineering time spent on features, mapping security issues, tech debt, etc. The challenge is going to be to keep a simple product :)
Any chance of a demo you can show?
Only to prospective buyers/partners/team members for now, as I need to carefully manage my time. If that's you, please reach out :) In any case, based on the interest in this thread I'll do a separate Show HN thread in a couple of weeks/months!
What are you doing those 3 or 4 days a week of earning money, if you don't mind me asking?
Fractional CTO. See sibling comments for a bit more detail.
Definitely want this kind of thing.
Thanks! If you or other interested people in this thread are in a position to pay for it, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you!
I would pay for it as an individual. Just things like going into code and spending 3 weeks reverse engineering everything is not ideal. Especially if it's something where the entire team has quit or been laid off. And lately the solution for that is just rewriting the damn thing lol.
How much we're willing to pay is a whole other question. I feel like this is the kind of thing that Cursor already does by itself but it's just not releasing a user-readable output of it.
It won't likely be a subscription thing, but one off payments per repo makes sense, and there should be some kind of satisfaction guarantee or say, charge to have the output in a human readable format.
Monorepos are also a pain. On the front end, they sometimes share design. On BE they may share databases. It would be cool to break it down into DDD-style domains if applicable or propose things like anti corruption layers. More often it's like a "pacific ocean meets atlantic ocean" kind of thing, where you can tell there's a difference in the way things are done, but it's not entirely clear where the border is. This would probably be worth a lot more.
To a much lesser extent, an architectural copilot would also make sense. On the front end, we have a lot of redundant components. Say a button might be PrimaryButton, but the same thing is GreenButton or FilledNoOutlineButton by other devs. We tried documenting this which just ended up being a waste of 1 week because nobody read the doc. It's worse with complex components like TwoButtonModal vs TwoButtonModalWithClose. And what happens is code is always built in parallel; people don't realize that the designer's new style applies to both teams so you get two people building the same components at the same time. Not a major problem, but I think this is worth a few cents every PR.
Ultimately it's hard to gauge. Like Copilot underdelivered, Cursor overdelivers, and yet both essentially do the same thing. I guess the amount we're willing to pay is just vibe-based.
Is it demoable and downloadable?
Demo yes, feel free to reach out if you'd be willing to pay as I'm slowly starting to look for beta customers. You can also ask me to be put on the waiting list. Downloadable: I think in about two months.
Sounds interesting! How did you validate the idea?
I interviewed ~10 CTOs and the problem of codebases being too difficult to understand, people outside of the team having no clue what's happening and documentation being outdated is obvious to everyone. But when I asked how this idea could help, my take-away was that they couldn't imagine how it would work from my description. So now I'm building it and I hope that seeing it in action will convince people. I have some non-paying pilot customers and over the next couple of months we'll continue the validation :)
Great stuff!
Cool idea :)
[dead]
I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera.
I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings.
I have a doorbell camera, and by analysing the footage using OpenCV and some code, I can track how fast people drive if you see how fast they move between two known points.
Average speed: 46 km/h :(
The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast.
The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you should be driving fast. If I go the speed limit in the center lane because I'm going to turn left people will get angry and speed around at 60mph pissed off
Agree, but also disagree.
Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light is always green.
It's beautiful. People actually drive slowly and safely there. And good, because that system is installed perfectly around the school and doesn't hinder anyone else. If they did this anywhere else you'd argue it's a moneygrab, but this is imo a great way to actually get people to drive slow in a school zone.
In contrast the only thing our town has done is install a bunch of big concrete flower boxes (?) that hinder your vision and causes conflicts on the road. The idea being that you'd have to slow down and that you're no longer on a straight wide road. It's absolutely only made things worse. You need to give way to others but you literally can't see them, or you need to pull weird manoeuvers to let them pass. And in the meantime cyclists need to swerve around them or are hidden behind those boxes. It's terrible.
Sounds great! Now if I could just get that installed in 100% of California
ATM we basically have lawless highways in California. Every time I go out I see outrageous traffic violations. People driving 15-20 mph over the speed limit on the freeway, weaving in and out of the carpool lane. People pulling into the left turn lane at a signal, then just crossing on a red light as soon as they think it's safe. People passing in the gutter (no lane). People cutting across 3-4 lanes of the freeway at ~70mph, across the painted barrier to exit a freeway.
I'd say the average of these incidences I see is 3 per drive and that doesn't include just you average weaver or tailgater. In other words, I take my car out for a 10-15 minute drive, (so 20-30 mins round trip) and see someone do something outrageous endangering other people's lives 3 times per drive on average.
>Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light is always green.
I have never seen a system like that. What town? Or what system?
Speed bumps are a crazy invention because they tell you what humanity is like. Let's make this road worse for driving because many drivers don't care about safety but do care about damaging their cars. I am reminded of this every time I see a speed bump.
>The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast.
This makes sense. Though annoying to drive over, speed bumps work. Also, my parents small town converted their main street from a four lane to a slalom-style two-lane and it so much nicer to walk around because people have to drive slowly. Not quite car-free, which I'd prefer, but it's a decent compromise.
Yeah, unfortunately this is true. A street near my house has a limit of 40mph and people would regularly drive 60 mph+, sometimes someone would pass me doing 65+mph (it's a no-passing residential road).
Eventually someone died, and they added a lot of traffic-calming changes to the road. It's much nicer now, but a shame that someone had to die to change it.
Just out of curiousity, do you signal that you are going to turn left when you slow down compared to the average of the other drivers?
I don’t know about this person’s experience, but there are an overwhelming number of drivers here that don’t notice signals. I can be in the right lane (two lanes in both directions), signal a right turn, slow to turn and they’ll still ride right up on me and look pissed rather than go around.
It gets worse, some drivers seem to adopt an adversarial attitude towards the usage of turn signals and will deliberately accelerate or do something else to make things more difficult to you.
If they’re behind me, they’re risking their own liability.
Otherwise (changing lanes, left turn across traffic), I think it’s more “not ahead of ME!” than about the signal itself.
If two cars travelling the same direction contact each other such that the front axle of one car bumps the rear axle of the other (the car in front), it's usually the car in front that has the safety problem. This is the same principle behind the PIT maneuver.
Irrelevant. They're going 45+ in a 20mph zone.
On my street they installed one of those 'current speed' radar displays to let people know they are speeding.
I've never thought they worked really, but this is a new one. It has very prominent red and blue flashing lights that trigger if you are 5+ over. I've seen countless people slow down immediately, it's that jarring/terrifying
the side effect is bikers like me will pedal as hard as possible in hopes we can get that light to flash
That's because a lot of those people think it's a "speeding ticket" camera flashing at them.
Is that legal in your country? In mine (Netherlands) there are way too many people with doorbell camera aimed right at the street even though it's illegal to record a public space like that. Most folks are ignorant about it though, or think that surely the internet-connected gadget sold by some anonymous corporation won't be abused....
On paper it's illegal to record the public street, but it seems to be given a pass for doorbell cameras, even going as far as the police asking people to sign up theirs into a database so they can request footage if needs be [0].
[0] https://www.politie.nl/onderwerpen/camera-in-beeld.html
It's not legal where I live (Belgium), it can be legal if you have a driveway and only film your driveway, and if you declare that camera in some database. But since I don't have a driveway, it films the street, I am aware that this is not legal.
It's my personal decision and if I ever get fined for it, I will gladly pay the fine... with the money that my doorbell camera has already saved me. It helped me catch hit&runners that bumped into my parked car twice already, and the camera is now almost two years old.
It's not connected to the cloud, saves data locally, and only stores a couple of days of video. It's not very ethical to unknowingly film public spaces, I know. My lame excuse is that I personally think that catching people that damage my property with a camera is a lesser crime than damaging someone's property and running away. The sad truth is that living in a place where parents drop off and pick up their kids twice a day do not give two shits about others. Hit and runs happen every day here.
For private use you can film in public places in the Netherlands no?
You are not allowed to put up unlicensed surveillance cameras in public places, no.
What is a licensed security camera?
By this logic, are you saying cameras on private property, that happen to capture public space in their frame are also illegal?
Of course it is. Is this controversial anywhere? I would expect surveillance cameras to be regulated in most parts of the world, certainly around Europe. In the Netherlands I believe you need to register such cameras with the local police and you are responsible for following the relevant regulations and data protection laws.
GDPR says no. Also, when you are using a cloud service it is no longer private use, you are sharing the surveillance video with Amazon (and almost certainly with the USA three-letter agencies) too.
GDPR just gives you the right to have it removed right? Curious to try that out, and request Amazon remove you from every ring recording .
It is the "systemic/constant/permanent" recording, record-keeping. etc. a.k.a. "processing" (GDPR "processing" means "if it exists and you touch it, your are processing it").
Back in 2005 I remember working with some physical sec company that were setting up cameras in a factory, and they wanted the cameras to 'not record traffic, be activated on if THIS part of the screen has motion')(sidewalk vs sidewalk-right-on-our-doorbell vs road). Also, sudden changes in lighting would trigger it :)
Then you need to have retention period (good luck). Most people use those door-cams are violating GDPR. UNLESS when people complain and take you to court (very very very rare), you can prove that "I auto-delete records after 24h when there is no incident", "I have proximity scanner so it is only 0m-2m from my front door", etc.) (violating GDPR because "hey you pervert why do you record my kids EVERY DAY going in and out")
Privacy and Data protection is very very very difficult with GDPR (and thank you Facebook for messing up back in 2015ish!!!)
You can set up your cam but have the "AI" automatically pixelating all license-plates, and the video recording (if any) should be post-pixelating, and not the original feed. How about you put something with a speed-measuring-sensor (that is NOT a camera), so you only get 'anonymised' data, i.e. "20 moving items", and their speeds. But you will not be able to tell if the 300km/h was done by a bicycle or a Hayabusa ;)
Not sure where you are, but 30kmh sounds Dutch. Filming the public road from your private residence is illegal.
In practice, no one cares. Cops will even ask you nicely for footage if something went down in your street.
Anyway, best of luck with your project.
It's a complex discussion in the Netherlands in which the data protection agency (AP) has a very strict view (they claim it's not allowed) while for example the associated press sees it very different.
There is a key difference between recording vs publishing. There are more restrictions on publishing and an objective assessment needs to be made between the interests of the person in the footage and the general public or publisher.
I would argue that recording the road to collect speed data, not keeping the recording longer than needed and not for example recording license plates, would pass in the Netherlands. Since you're making an assessment between different interests and the is limited privacy impact. Of course assuming this is happening on a public road and not someone's property.
Publishing the recordings instead of just the average speed data would be a very different story, especially if the cars or drivers can be identified.
I'd think that as long as you blur faces and license tags, would be there anything for someone to complain?
This is very interesting. I had the same need a few weeks ago, which resulted in a tiny Golang/OpenCV project (https://github.com/kmmndr/motion-speed). In my use case, we even had champions beating 60 km/h, three times allowed speed
It's always interesting when you find out others are doing some obscure idea. Last year I was scraping supermarket data from a small country and I ended up setting up a discord with a half dozen of us sharing tips.
What about placing a fake speed camera? It might just get the job done
What about just faking speed limit signs? If it's in The Netherlands, everybody should respect traffic signs, whether they are fake or not.
There will be speed limit signs, but they're easily ignored. Maybe one of these plastic "watch out for our kids" things that people place on the street themselves? https://verkeersmaatje.nl/
Can you post this code if possible please?
Man, please share a tutorial
There are plenty of tutorials on how to derive speed of an object using opencv. You could ask an LLM to write it for you.
i think part of the problem is 30mph/48kmph doesnt feel fast - and to get people to drive slower manufacturers need to design cars so 20mph/32kmph feels faster
Ironically, the lower you are to the ground, the faster it feels - everyone should drive a sports car!
(conversely, I drive a motorcycle sometimes which puts my head at or just over roof height of most cars, it makes 80 km/h not feel as fast. Mind you, the added road overview also helps)
Anyway. Narrow / winding roads and speed bumps will definitely make you want to drive slower. We have 'cars are guests' roads inside cities too, which are roads designed and coloured like bike paths (= red asphalt).
But the opposite is also true; I got a speeding ticket once, the road was a 4 lane, separated directions asphalt ring road... but the speed limit was 50 km/h.
Or consider the width of the road...
There is another way: make the road feel fast. Thankfully it doesn't need to be via bad road surfaces or horrible things like speed bumps that only encourage boy racers and reward large vehicles, making the road narrower with high kerbs or other physical obstacles force drivers to drive slowly and pay attention, otherwise they'll physically damage their vehicle. In a way it evens the playing field, currently cars can kill you, but they are untouchable, there are no consequences for speeding or being distracted. The main downside I can think of is the route becomes difficult for emergency vehicles to use, but with the saved space there could be a dedicated lane for public vehicles.
They did try this approach. There's big concrete flower boxes in many places to create some artificial hindrances. It hinders your vision, causes people to swerve, it's annoying to give way. And worst of all: it slows people down for 2 seconds after which they just floor it.
Honestly it's already pretty narrow and crowded here. I'm a regular driver here (duh) and it honestly feels dumb to drive faster than 30 because a cyclist can pop out of every corner. It's crazy to me that people want to, and do drive faster than that. But here we are. People suck.
I'm starting to think about a similar thing for noise. The noise of motor vehicles seems to be out of control and I am sure it is causing misery for the majority of the population who have to live near roads. I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip. Unfortunately I think awareness of this problem is even worse than speed.
I used to live in a neighborhood about a quarter mile from a highway, nearly perfectly flat land, speed limit I believe was 45 or 55.
Most days the road noise itself was no big deal, if the wind blew it was gone, if you listened for it you could hear a whooshing/droning in the distance.
But all it took was one loud motorcycle or old car/truck to really ruin your peace for a solid 3 to 5 minutes, being able to hear it on approach, and it went by, and exit. And it wasn't that rare to get them back to back, seeing as it's a 4 lane highway with a decent flow of traffic.
It wasn't really until then I realized how a single vehicle could cause so much annoyance for so many people.
> I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip.
What absolutely grinds my gears is when a loud motorcycle or sports car drives through my residential neighborhood right after patiently rocking my baby to sleep.
Interestingly, as a motorcycle and sports car owner myself, I never thought about that aspect for even a second until I became a dad—I drive much more gently nowadays (especially in residential neighborhoods)!
> Interestingly, as a motorcycle and sports car owner myself, I never thought about that aspect for even a second
Right, because the car's cabin and motorcycle helmet protect the driver/rider from it. The noise they create are specifically designed to be heard by everyone but the operator. It's like me sitting in my back garden wearing earplugs, while blasting music out the front into the street.
Has anyone been hit by a car there ever?
I think people used to use science to set speed limits.
They did, 30 km/h is a lot safer than higher speeds. You seem to imply someone has to be hit by a car before enforcing the speed limit, am I correct?
No, just implying that when someone is hit that the posted limit has more scrutiny.
I'm interested in this. A modern version of community watch.
Publish to Twitter along with number plates and tag the local council.
Possibly illegal, depending on where you live.
Also a sure-fire way to get some irate drivers banging on your front door, given that it would be easy to work out which house the photo was taken from.
Then can make a video beating them up and post it on twitter.
you could install some vigilante speed bumps maybe
I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the government to intervene.
Government is already intervening, you think people are going at only 46 kmh because of goodwill?
The speeding itself isn't the problem. The increased risk of accidents is - and since this is around a school, it involves young children.
"I'd rather put up with the speeding" implies you don't have kids and you only consider the noise nuisance, not the safety risk. Very self-centered.
Said someone living in a comfortable country with a stable government.
You can’t seriously believe this right?
There is optimum level of state intervention. IMO monitoring people with cameras for speeding is a step too far.
I bet you are the same type of person who values software privacy haha
Then why even have speed limits if you don't want to enforce them?
You sound like someone who doesn't have young children who cross a road where the road users should be respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because it's right in front of an elementary school, but instead a significant proportion of them are Michael Schumacher wannabes who need to drive everywhere at 60km/h.
No need to have children. It’s the same crap in France and I have to be very careful not to get killed when I’m driving myself. These morons don’t care about kids but they don’t care about other drivers either.
I’m a big privacy advocate but when you are handling a killing machine on a public road, there is no privacy IMHO.
I think that's simplifying things too much: as a driver, there are also pedestrians who will jump out into a street without so much as looking where there is no crosswalk; there are also drivers who will drive 20km/h in a 50km/h zone, and you have no idea what's going on except that you are likely to hit 5 red traffic lights which are designed to be a "green wave" and make a 30 second drive through one street into a 5 minute one, and resulting in more gas usage and more pollution.
And yes, this type of driving will produce annoyed drivers that "drive crazy", and I don't accept that this is just their fault.
Mostly, these same drivers doing 20km/h will not even stop for pedestrians on a crosswalk — slowness does not equal attention and safe driving!
Traffic, in essence, is a collaborative effort that requires all participants to be empathetical to other participants — as such, we need to be most mindful of the "weakest" participants like pedestrians (especially kids, who can also be very inattentive), cyclists, motorcycles but also of other car drivers — if we care about each others' experience, we'll reduce the risk for everyone involved, while getting everyone where they want to go in a timely and efficient manner — and that is the goal!
As others have pointed out, you are essentially advocating for non-enforcement of speed limits.
Which feels an arbitrary line to draw. What about other road rules? Driving on the right side? Using unregistered vehicles?
Countries like India, China and South East Asia, have much less enforcement of these rules… Would you call their driving experience optimal?
Not sure what you mean by values software privacy. I don’t really have a view on it? So no, I don’t think I am.
Ooh how edgy.
Continued working with my team to grow my granddaughter who at 15 months handles a spoon and fork to feed herself at each meal; drinks from a cup without assistance; can clean her face and understand everything she is told or asked (though sometimes with a devious smile makes what an adult might consider a poor choice.... She is testing her boundaries like she is supposed to do). I have learned how to and produced 6 different embroidery patterns on various pieces of infant clothing. I combined multiple web based directions to create a Wi-Fi enabled USB (from a raspberry pi W 2) to enable a link from my computer to my embroidery machine. I made cookies and shared them with others creating a lot of joy I'm visiting with my grandson in another state, modeling good parenting and offering help where I can.
Good job! You sound like a great grand parent and your grand child sounds like they're doing really well too.
[flagged]
No, this is what Actual Life looks like once you get past 30.
> No, this is what Actual Life looks like once you get past 30.
This made me chuckle.
GP inserted single new lines instead of double ones.
An absolute word salad. Dead internet theory
"being a grand dad"
is his answer. and he colored it. it's not that deep so as to upset you. darklake just practicing his creative writing.
Colored it a corporate beige.
Who the heck is so brain broken as to talk about their grandchild as a startup project and their family as a frigging team.
I have to almost need to see this as AI in order to maintain sanity because there’s no way an actual human being talked about a child—their human grandchild like he was a product.
You’re calling someone “brain broken” for writing a comment in a cute manner to make it sound like product development. It’s time to take a step back and relax.
It's clearly a joke. You've never heard people make corporate inspired comments about normal activities? Never had friends talk about sending them a calendar invite for dinner?
I don't talk about spending time with my children, friends, and family like they're a job, no.
Is it that much work in your mind to be social with the people you care about or are you just unable to drop the corpo think at home?
you're telling on yourself, highlighting that you're so humorless that you couldn't tell it was an intentional parody of corporate double speak, contrasting one of the most human experiences with one of the least human. It's ironic that you tried to call him brain broken lol
You're telling on yourself by admitting to, apparently, not considering that I COULD tell it was intentional parody, found the ironic humor in it, and STILL found it tasteless enough to call them out for talking about a child like they're a product.
Her answer - the poster can be female.
At first I thought it was meant to be funny but yeah, this has to be some AI slop surely.
Nah, no shade on the poster but AI slop would be better written, more saccharine and emphatic. You have to provide an AI generator very specific writing style prompts to come up with the same thing.
I'm working on a tool called Font of Web https://fontofweb.com that helps identify the fonts used on any website. It not only detects the fonts but also shows exactly where they're used (which HTML elements) and how they're styled (weight, line height, size, letter spacing).
My goal is to build a comprehensive database of font usage across the web. By collecting and analyzing this data, I believe we can uncover valuable trends, such as:
* Common font pairings * Popular heading fonts over time * Market share of commercial fonts * Top font foundries based on actual usage
I originally built a version of this four years ago and saw a surprising amount of organic interest. I've now rebuilt the tool from the ground up, switching from a Puppeteer-based crawler to an invisible iframe approach. (More details in another post)
Check out the current version at https://fontofweb.com. I would appreciate any feedback
Nice project! Related question, how would you recommend detecting which font is being used for names like ui-sans-serif, system-ui on a given device/browser?
That's a difficult one, you would need information about the device and operating system to infer the font.
But I imagine, if you realllly needed that info. You could go the hard route and render the font on a canvas, vectorise and perform some sort of nearest neighbour search.
Thanks! My idea was to just render a Lorem Ipsum paragraph and compare the calculated width-height across a know list of default fonts. Of course it wouldn't work with fixed width fonts, for that I'd need a canvas bitmap comparison.
> I've now rebuilt the tool from the ground up, switching from a Puppeteer-based crawler to an invisible iframe approach.
Where can I go to learn more about your invisible `<iframe>` approach/implementation?
I figured it out mostly from first principles. It's such a niche crawling method that was perfectly limited to my use-case, and there's alot to say. But the main idea is that you can inject a crawling script in the html of the site via a proxy you control. E.g proxy.yoursite.com?url=<SITE_YOU_WANT_TO_CRAWL>. Then once you've got the data you can call window.postMessage(data) to communicate with the main window.
It's somewhat similar to how browser proxies like: https://proxyium.com/ and https://www.proxysite.com/ fetch the html on your behalf.
For the past few weeks, I've been annotating all the references I could find in the legendary Unix magic poster: https://unixmagic.net.
I'm happy to reach this first milestone, but I'm already envisioning future iterations. My goal is to transform this into a proper celebration of Unix – a system whose elegant simplicity and powerful design principles continue to inspire me. There's something deeply satisfying about connecting with this foundational piece of computing history.
Contributions are always welcome.
Special shout-out to @abetusk for all the support and enthusiasm with the project.
Social skills and mental health!, I've been working pretty hard on learning how to make friends, showing my admiration to girls and become generally an outgoing and honest person, I used to be somewhat afraid of talking to strangers because I was quite worried that people might hurt me, and now I'm feeling more comfortable having conversation with new friends with less trust issues, though I pushed myself a bit too hard to recently I got plenty of panic attacks, I know it's a phase, so I'll keep working on it!
Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow.
Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people (crucial that they know how to connect back).
Made a little web app that helped me communicate: https://azriel.im/tears/
(I could just point to the number when I couldn't talk/listen)
I was at a games exhibition a few months ago - and there was a game designed to help people deal with grief which i found interesting. I cant remember the name
If you remember the name that would be something I would be interested in!
Gris and Spiritfarer are two recent-ish ones I'm aware of, both were well thought of by my partner who works in grief care. :)
Thanks for the link, I think this is helpful and the tips resonate with me.
As I get older, the desires that "work" are very frequently the same ones as I had when I was a child.
Good luck, it can be tough, but you're worth the effort.
I'm working on cataloging open source hardware designs.
When I'm starting a new hardware design, I find myself pulling up familiar boards (like Adafruit or Sparkfun's dev boards) as often as the chip's application note. I sometimes prefer a full reference project so I can get useful context like which voltage regulator they used or how the USB port is connected.
But, it's kind of an awkward process because I'll have to download the design files from Github and open it in the native CAD software (Eagle, for example).
I've been toying with how to solve this. I made a script to crawl Github for open hardware designs, then generate a schematic and interactive BOM for each design. Now, hopefully, you can search for "ESP32"[1] or "WiFi"[2] or "Bluetooth"[3] and get a number of designs to view in browser.
[1] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/esp32/1 [2] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/wifi/1 [3] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/bluetooth/1
Cool idea. It would be nice to be able to quickly pull up a part in context in various designs across the internet to answer “how did other folks solve this on a board that works?”
I'm interested in uniform approximation with generalized polynomials -- these are linear combinations from families of parametrized continuous functions over some domain that satisfy some technical conditions, but its also fine to think of them as sums of regular monomials like 1, x, x^2, ..., x^N. This problem has been well understood for real intervals (classical case) for a long time, but I'm interested in this problem where we're approximating functions over complex domains.
There is a theoretically stable algorithm for the classical problem called the Remez exchange algorithm, and an extension to complex domains due to P.T.P. Tang in his 1987 PhD thesis at Berkeley. Theoretically Remez and its complex extension are very stable, but unfortunately implementations my advisor and I are aware of seem to struggle with large degree polynomials, where large is bigger than say n=45 -- errors begin to explode.
In any case, independently of this I've been learning more of the nitty gritty details of deep learning for a project at work (I'm a SWE in my day job, the math is more moonlighting), so to ground my efforts there I've been exploring deep learning approaches to this problem of complex uniform approximation, implementing results from various papers and tweaking things for my use case, and coming up with questions. That's much of what I'm thinking about this week!
Also, I'll be having a half-day long ADHD evaluation session on Friday -- so a bit apprehensive about that.
You say the math is more moonlighting, but you have a supervisor. Are you enrolled for a part-time degree while you work as a SWE?
Formally I'm an undergraduate. Not in a hurry to graduate -- I take courses when they are interesting to me / relevant to my research / I happen to have the bandwidth.
I am already several years into my career and I have a spouse to support, so I'm ambivalent about formally attending graduate school -- at least anytime soon -- since that would introduce lots of time pressure and administrivia for little apparent benefit. My relationship with my supervisor is mostly informal
I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities.
The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.
I recently spoke with a Lemmy developer who gave me some advice on making it easy for anyone to host. I was struggling with the mess of supporting both docker and VM hosting. He told me that Lemmy uses ansible provisioning to install docker compose on the target VM so that the effort can be focused on docker support, so that's what I've been homing in on for the last few weeks.
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
Excellent!!! I have been wanting this for a long time
really cool :)
I recently made a little tool for people interested in running local LLMs to figure out if their hardware is able to run an LLM in GPU memory.
https://canirunthisllm.com/
Feature request: I would like to know if I can run _any_ LLms on my machine, and if so, which.
I've now had multiple people ask for this - I will work on adding a new tab for this feature as it is a little different than what the site was originally intended to do.
Generally speaking models seem to be bucketed by param count (3b, 7b, 8b, 14b, 34b, 70b) so for a given VRAM bucket you will end up being able to run 1000's of models - so is it valuable to show 1000s of models?
My bet is "No" - and what really is valuable is like the top 50 trending models on HuggingFace that would fit in your VRAM bucket. So I will try build that.
Would love your thoughts on that though - does that sound like a good idea?
Neat idea! It would be helpful to have LLMs ranked from best to worst for a given GPU. Few other improvements I can think of:
- Use natural language for telling offloading requirements.
- Just year of the LLM launch of HF url can help if it’s an outdated LLM or a cutting edge LLM.
- VLMs/Embedding models are missing?
Hey - thanks for the reply.
Do you mean remove the JSON thing and just summarise the offloading requirements? Great Idea - I will try add this tonight. Yeah I just have text generation models ATM as that is by far where the most interest is. I will look at adding other model types in another type, but wouldn't be until the weekend that I do that.Looks good.
Feature request - Have a leaderboard of LLM for x/y/z tasks or pull it from existing repo. Suggest the best model for given GPU for x/y/z task.
If there is better model which my GPU can run, why should I go for the lowest?
And maybe provide ollama/lm studio run command for given model/quantization
I've recently been looking into running local LLMs for fun on my laptop (without any GPU) and this is the one thing I've never been able to find consistent information on. This is so helpful, thank you so much! Going to try and run Llama 3.2 3B FP8 soon.
It doesn't work for all GPU/device in Simple tab: "Exception: Failed to calculate information for model. Error: Could not extract VRAM from: System Shared".
Ah sorry, I will fix that.
Cool. What about giving the models for a given GPU? Also it could compare using vLLM, local_llama.c, etc. Links to docs maybe. Community build articles and rating. Along the lines of https://pcpartpicker.com/
And you can definitely add some ref links for a bit of revenue.
Feature Request: Looks like the React JS is 1.1MB out of the ~ 1.6MB the site takes to load all other assets. Do you really need React for this?
That aside, I think this is really cool and very helpful. Thank you.
I am using Streamlit, and it is the thing that is adding React.
I appreciate that it's a heavy site, but just being honest with you - it doesn't seem worth the time optimising this by moving to another lighter framework at this stage of the project.
Sorry!
No, its all good. And you are right. Its gets the job done.
Very nice! Way more complete than the other tools I've seen to estimate running LLMs on GPUs :)
This looks closed source, am I correct?
Not so much purposefully closed source more that I don't want to make it complex by splitting out the data the app uses from the code (co-ordination problem when it comes to deploying that I don't want to deal with for a project of this size).
When it comes to "how to do the math" this repo was my starting point: https://github.com/Raskoll2/LLMcalc
can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?
> can you make it detect the device somehow, maybe with some additional permissions, instead of user selecting from a dropdown?
Detecting CPU and GPU specs browser-side is almost impossible to do reliably (even if relying on advanced fingerprinting and certain heuristics).
For GPU’s, it may be possible to use (1) WebGL’s `WEBGL_debug_renderer_info` extension [0][0] or (2) WebGPU’s `GPUAdapter#info` [1][1], but I wouldn’t trust either of those API’s for general usage.
[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WEBGL_debug...
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GPUAdapter/...
Jay you seem knowledgeable on this - thanks for answering - I have a question
I did look at auto-detecting before, but it seems like you can only really tell the features of a GPU, not so much the good info (VRAM amount and bus speed) - is that the case?
I looked at the GPUAdapter docs, and all it told me was:
- device maker (amd)
- architecture (rdna-3)
and that was it. Is there a way to poke for bus speed and vram amount?
> Is there a way to poke for bus speed and vram amount?
Unfortunately, I’m not aware of any way to reliably get this type of information browser-side.
If you really want to see how far you can get, your best bet would be via fingerprinting, which would require some upfront work using a combination of the manual input you already have now and running some stuff in the background to collect data (especially timing-related data). With enough users manually inputting their specs and enough independently collected data, you’d probably be surprised at how accurate you can get via fingerprinting.
That said, please do NOT go the fingerprinting route, because (1) a lot of users (including myself) hate being fingerprinted (especially if done covertly), (2) you need quite a lot of data before you can do anything useful, and (3) it’s obviously not worth the effort for what you’re building.
A C-based graphics engine/raycasting engine to make 90's games like Wolfenstein3D (1992) - but on a never-before seen scale.
The scale is RNG worlds like Minecraft. I've never seen that before with a Raycaster.
Here is my progress so far (I've had a month break)
https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster/blob/ma...
Not for profit, just for fun and exploration
Wow, this is really cool. Do you take inspiration from or have you looked at the original Wolfenstein3D code?
https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d
Thanks I appreciate that! Love getting feedback :)
Code-wise I didn't take inspiration from anywhere, I followed "C Programming - A Modern Approach" and based my C knowledge off there. There was also a YouTube video I watched regarding raycasting, and watching people optimise Minecraft etc.
Other than that, its just been alot of trial and error and trying many, many different ideas out.
What has helped is I don't worry about cross-platform ability, I just implement what I want and what feels fun and "innovative".
But I have never seen anyone do a Raycaster with as many vertical/z-levels as I'm planning (1000's), maybe the most I've seen is ~10.
Also most of the approach I'm taking is not best-practice, I'm trying to come up with how to approach everything from my own mind which has been extremely rewarding
Also I’m a terrible developer, so if I can do it and have a lot of fun, I think anyone can do it :)
I spent almost 8hours a day over the course of a month working on and off on the project.
Did give me tunnel vision but, no regrets
I have celiacs, so I'm making a database of every single labeled gluten-free product in grocery stores. (I have 8,858 products across 243 grocery categories).
GF products are expensive and hit or miss, I really wanted something where I could keep track of my favorite items. I also want to let people rank them, so maybe I can discover the best gluten free hamburger bun (Rudi's Brioche), or beer (Glutenberg Blonde).
I'm also making a user submitted recipe section, so say you want to recreate a Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco, it's easy to link to the products you need.
I'm not sure where this project is headed but I couldn't find any jobs working in this space so decided to make something to help myself.
Very cliched, but I am working on my own Lisp dialect. I want a more streamlined syntax and keywords, but keep the "batteries included" idea from CL. So, Scheme/Clojure syntax with a CL live image approach, including condition systems, and a fleshed out standard library.
Initially was aiming to use MLIR or at least LLVM but will probably try to handroll to a) reduce dependencies and b) as a learning experience.
The bootstrapped is written in CL with no dependencies and hopefully soon it will be self-hosted.
Do you have a website or link for this?
Not yet. I am still working my way to bootstrapping. I aim to release it some point this year though. I am still figuring out a few bootstrapping things because one of my self-imposed requirements is the bootstrapped in pure CL and no C or other things involved. So basically to be able to bootstrap it from various CL implementations.
I'm tinkering with the USB HID specification for power devices for all the wrong reasons.
Historically, UPSes had various proprietary communication protocols over serial ports. Nowadays they usually have a USB port, but I have a bunch of very old APC UPSes with just the serial port and/or the expansion card slot (which is usually just another serial link plus power on a edge connector).
A normal person would just use NUT or apcupsd over serial and call it a day. A bored person would write a USB HID power device stack and serial protocol acquisitors to give these UPSes USB ports. An insane person would add projectors from the USB HID power device stack to serial protocols so that they could use whatever communication card they want on any UPS they have (for example, a CyberPower RM205 card plugged into an APC Smart-UPS).
Why? Because apparently I'm insane and I needed a break from working on delinking executables back into object files, another heretical project I've worked on for the past couple years.
I've just started and I don't know if I'll finish that, but it's something I need to work on to exorcise that particular nagging thought out of my head.
I'm making a violin. I've been a programmer for just over 25 years, and recently decided I wanted to leave the profession. So I'm planning on attending the Violin Making School of America in the fall, and my project before then is to build a violin myself. There are some good in-depth video tutorials, as well as some famous books on the subject, and I'm planning to pair up with an amateur luthier in my town. The tonewood I purchased just arrived!
A small library which uses a fork of OpenSCAD which adds Python support: https://pythonscad.org/ to allow writing out DXF files and G-code and modeling how G-code will cut in 3D:
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
Writing it in a TeX editor using a Literate Programming system developed in the course of working on it, the PDF should give both a good overview, and provide all the code.
It has greatly expanded/restored my math/geometry and has me looking forward to how to implement Bézier Curves and surfaces using similar math (since G-code and CGAL are fundamentally limited to lines and arcs and what can be easily made from such constructs).
I’ve deleted all my social media apps (including YOU - LinkedIn).
I’m trying to really see and feel what’s actually missing in my life and trying to build it. Right now I just want to see what my friends are up to in a non-curated way.
Well done, LinkedIn is a cesspool. Ironically the only thing I am using right now is Twitter, since a lot of interesting people are still on there. There's a lot of negative but balance as well. For every MAGA or ESR's comments, I balance it out with Miguel de Icaza's views on Gaza, etc.
You should be able to use Twitter without justifying yourself
No, I would say at this point a lot of people who say they use twitter feel the need to say they aren't a nazi nor do they support nazi's. YOU may not feel that way, but a lot of people do, and they don't want to be associated in any way with endorsing nazi's or musk.
"Should" being the operative word. It was easier a few years ago
Yeah you are right. But there is some really toxic stuff there too that isn't going away. You can't really filter it.
In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on Micro (https://github.com/micro), I started a new project called Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west.
https://reminder.dev
The name of your app reminds me of one I had started working on when I was out of employment: the app was going to send periodic reminders of stuff you've bookmarked/saved on various social media sites.
I was just about working on the Twitter api when Musk bought the company and restricted access. Real bummer. I got employment weeks later.
That's definitely the right name for periodic reminders right. Years ago I wrote an API called remindme which was supposed to provide pings for when you were in proximity to a location and it would remind you if you needed to pay someone, buy something, do something, etc. Never went anywhere but totally unrelated to this.
The Quran itself is referred to as the reminder. Because it's supposed to remind us of why we're here, our purpose, who made us, and all that.
I was wondering what happened to micro recently (loved the m3o domain). Sorry to hear it’s over. Have you written a post-mortem? I’d love to hear more about it — if you don’t feel too downbeat about it.
(is the domain for sale?)
Haven't written a post-mortem but maybe at some point if it felt useful for others. Startups built around open source are generally very hard. About as bad as social consumer products. Both micro.dev and m3o.com are for sale yes.
+1
I'm developing ParaNoia, an application that allows people to securely share passwords between each other (https://github.com/jonesconnor/paranoia).
At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID password, or something of the like, there are people that send the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not everyone deletes their message containing the password afterwards.
You enter your secret on the website and it gets encrypted on the client-side before being sent to the database. A one-time-use URL is generated and then you send that URL to whomever needs the password. The backend never sees the secret in plain-text.
The tool is meant to be self-hosted - but I'm in the process of deploying it publicly for people to try out. I got the idea from my brother -- he was doing an internship at Tesla and said they had this being used internally, so I figured I would create my own as a little side project that I can then implement at work.
Making this installable on Sandstorm would be great.
I taught my parents how to use LLM chat apps. I was pleasantly surprised to see them use it all the time. And even more shocked to see them pasting entire whatsap messages containing passwords, upload income tax files, and a lot more private details with LLMs. They rarely pause to think about privacy/security before sharing info with LLM services. So I'm working on an interface that works as a privacy filter, making sure the private info does not leave the device. It redacts /anonymizes/obfuscates private information from what we share with LLMs via on-device model, and plugs back the output with the private info to make it appear almost similar to the output as before.
I've just published my first novel for adults, The Dark Sorcerer's Intern, my bid to bring back fun and comedy to a fantasy genre that has spent years in a grimdark rut.
The relevance to hackers is that unlike most fantasy where spells are cast with hand motions, magic words, or spell ingredients, there's actually an explanation for why that works and makes sense.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sorcerers-Intern-Humorous-Fantas...
I'm trying to figure out how people do solo research, that means:
- Reading advice like https://eamag.me/2025/Good-Research
- Figuring out problems like https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/
- Doing analysis like https://eamag.me/2024/Automated-Paper-Classification
- Figuring out where scientists are located like https://eamag.me/2024/ICML-2024-on-a-map
Working on Uncloud[1][2] — think Fly.io but self-hosted. A lightweight Docker clustering tool for running web apps on your own servers (from cloud VMs to bare metal) with no control plane to maintain. Perfect for teams who want cloud-like deployments without Kubernetes complexity. Early days but seeing promising results with eventually consistent state sync, zero-config mesh networking, and automatic HTTPS ingress.
[1]: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud
[2]: https://uncloud.run
How is it different than using coolify with API?
https://coolify.io, An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.
As far as I know, Coolify is great for single-server PaaS or multi-servers that work independently. Uncloud focuses on distributed multi-server HA deployments (which is what is usually preferred for production). It allows you to spread workload replicas across different providers and locations while maintaining unified management. It's closer to Kubernetes and Docker Swarm in terms of providing building blocks to build your PaaS of choice. Unlike Coolify which requires a dedicated server to run the control plane Uncloud has no central component to manage. It's just a network of interconnected machines so there's no single point of failure and no central service that needs updates, backups, etc.
Why docker and not podman?
Honestly, I went with Docker simply because I'm much more familiar with it and its networking stack made integrating with WireGuard overlay straightforward. Podman support could come later but Docker's popularity and API stability made it the practical choice for the initial implementation.
I’m finally trying to jump on the AI train for a long ride instead of getting off at the first stop.
I’m currently creating a new fan site for Marvel Rivals (https://marvelrivals.app), and I’m trying to introduce new types of features using predictive analysis, and further, use some DL maybe to understand specific player behavior and do stuff like find cheaters. I am failing so far.
I thought it’d be easier to throw data at the magic AI monster, but it’s still garbage in -> garbage out. It makes me respect AI engineers a lot more.
I wish there was an easier way to apply AI to this kind of stuff, on the how to do better data analysis. Ideally, I’d hook up some tool to my Postgres db, which has a couple tables but everything is named appropriately and has references. Then the tool would output correlations, patterns, stuff people would find useful and interesting. Instead, right now, I think I have to make those guesses and then build models that will either support my hypothesis or reject it, but I don’t know ahead of time and it relies on my gut feelings.
I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros.
Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where you cannot change the ingredients used.
Weit ideally provides a seamless experience in taking a picture to retrieving ingredients to retrieving macros per ingredient. Once that's sorted, food tracking should be granular enough to build intelligence around it to improve one's diet based on their requirement.
Honestly, I used to constantly struggle with the realisation that none of my ideas are unique and whenever I see someone having built something similar, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm getting better at dealing with it now though.
I invested in http://usenourish.com (a YC company) that recently launched this. If you want to work on this for them, happy to intro.
Just went through the company's website, and I like how well the software ties into the company's motive/direction.
I'd appreciate an intro, thanks! I could send an email, or you can find mine on my bio :D
Not sure if you are already familiar but I use Cal AI and think it does a pretty decent job. How granular do you track the macros? hard to figure out from a picture if I used some cheese or how much oil.
Indeed, I intend on having the user take over after identifying the food that we're working with.
The idea is to reduce the amount of redundant work (clicking a button to add a single ingredient over and over again), and rather push for minor modifications instead.
CalAI is a scam. It's highly inaccurate, there's no way to determine calories from a picture for a multitude of reasons
works fine for my use case and found it alot better than myFitnessPal, ymmv and yeah of course it's impossible to determine with certainty but it gets you 80/90% of the way there.
if you cooked a meal with a ton of butter or oil, it would not be able to detect the quantity. it could possibly undercount by hundreds of calories, making it useless. if you're not serious about the counting then it could be fine
that's what I mentioned above, read again
this idea has been rinsed and repeated many times already. unless you're going to include manual input in addition to the image recognition, it will be highly inaccurate
Oh yeah, manual input is going to be a big part of it. The system should ideally try to map the image to a standard recipe with the ingredients and then hand over control to the user to make any modifications they like.
Computing the nutrients from the ingredients should be reasonably accurate post this because that has a direct mapping in the USDA FoodCentral dataset.
I thought about this too, if you need any help let me know, email in bio.
Thanks! I'll send you an email sometime if I make any progress on it! :D
I've been updating my HN bot (watch comments for keywords and post to Slack/Discord) written in Crystal to use raw SQL instead of unmaintained ORM.
Turns out the whole app needs only ~ 10 SQL requests, and it's way funier to write modern SQL than fighting the ORM.
The new code looks like this :
Than I have a Model module with all the interactions with the DB (thanks to Crystal ability to read a file at compile time - I can write raw SQL in a file with syntax highlithing and maybe typesafe if I connect the DB to the editor)The land page is not ready, but the bot has been working for me for months https://newsbutler.xyz/
A new YouTube app/player, for my kids.
It allows us to control the algorithm. It’s all LLM translating to YouTube search queries under the hood.
Visually it looks the same.
The suggested videos come from predefined buckets on topics they love.
E.g. 33% fun math, 33% DIY engineering, 33% creative activities.
Video recommendations that have a banned word in the title/desc don't get displayed e.g. MrBeast, anything with Minecraft in it, never gets surfaced.
For anyone interested in using it, send me an email.
I'll put you on my list. And you can contribute ideas to our community Google Doc.
jim.jones1@gmail.com
A Django UI Desktop app, a là Docker Desktop, but for manage Django projects. Some people prefer UI apps instead of CLI, and it could be good for juniors and starters, to get familiarized with how Django works before jumping into the command line.
It is more an excuse to create a simlpe Electron app, though.
I'm rewriting a suite of network applications from C++ to Rust as a learning exercise. It's a long obsolete and obscure protocol, so the results aren't particularly useful, but it's been a good introduction to the language.
A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes for UI/web design. :)
https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
> Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together.
> Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors.
> See which color pairs contrast as you edit so you can create a palette with built-in WCAG accessibility. This way you can plan in advance which foreground colors (for headings, body text, form fields and so on) should contrast on which background colors, so you can avoid running into surprise low contrast issues later when designing.
Responding to some feedback I got: I need to add better UI feedback for this, but you can drag whole hue/saturation/lightness curves if you click/drag between points on the curves.
Feel free to message me if you've got any tricky or tedious problems to do with creating color palettes that extra tooling like this might help with! I have more feature ideas but I want to understand more what others need.
I'm planning to write some articles for giving a more intuitive sense about WCAG color contrast rules and picking accessible colors too. From working with designers, I find many give up here because it takes a while to get your head around and it's often not obvious how to fix designs with failing contrast.
I'm a fashion nerd. I've been working on an outfit tracking app for the last ~4 years (but only really pushed hard on it the last 3 months). I found I kept buying clothes that I never ended up wearing. Either because they didn't fit with what I had, I already had something like it, or it simply wasn't my actual style (although I thought it was). So, I built my own with the simple goal of buying less clothes, and throwing away fewer clothes.
There are plenty of apps that do outfit tracking, with some basic stats. But they all have a few or more of these shortcomings (from my perspective); unpleasant UI, no cross device syncing, lack of detailed usage statistics (e.g. cost spread over time by garment category), some categories just not supported, pushing a specific lifestyle such as Capsule Closets, or just plain focused on recommending what to wear using some mediocre algorithm that doesn't understand cuts and how different pieces fit together; basically only suitable for capsule collections.
These apps all have a lot of downsides too in common, which I haven't been able to solve either yet; ultimately you must start with an inventory of your clothes, and then work from there. It takes ages to catalog and import your clothes, and I haven't found many existing product that lets you export if you've even done it before. And on top of that, you have to be quite rigorous at tracking what you wear; the more data you have the more insight you can get from your choices.
I finally published on iOS a couple of months ago. No traction, and I don't expect there to be. I won't argue that my offering is better than any of the competition, but I've tried most of them (and wasted colossal amounts of time onboarding onto them) and found none fit my need properly. It's still very much work in progress, but I find myself reaching for it multiple times per week to inform my purchasing habits.
https://procloset.app
How do you monetize something that is based on a trait that most lack (vanity)?
To me, vanity is only tangential to the purchasing of clothes, particularly fast fashion, where 'it looks good on the model' is often enough to part with money, not 'will it look good on me', or 'do I need it', which are often never even considered, surprisingly. The individual thinking they will look good is actually not always a factor; it can be a kind of addiction. Source comes from my previous employer (fast fashion related industry).
This app doesn't directly answer those questions, but it gives the data needed to stop and think about the answer (quickly). I don't consider myself a vain person, but I consider myself a person who makes poor decisions with their disposable income (fashion).
The main selling point would be this: You could avoid buying 2 shirts that will be unused then thrown away every year, for the cost of 1 shirt. Save money, and textile waste.
But also, why must everything be profitable? I most I could ever hope for is that the hosting costs are paid for.
Like the entirety of the fashion industry one may assume
Sure, but its a leap in magnitude from being concerned with wearing something to tracking everything you wear.
I’ve been improving the developer experience of the extremely janky Java Spring app that powers the most popular open source real time transit app, OneBusAway.
Last month I added Dockerfiles and a docker-compose.yml file to the project to make building and locally running it a breeze. Earlier today, I finally had a chance to figure out and document how to debug the app, which should greatly improve quality of life for anyone trying to fix bugs or add features to the backend. https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules...
A game: you're stuck on a 1970s spacecraft and you have to program your way home using 6502 assembly. I wanted to learn more about old 8 bit cpus so figured I would make a game out of it
You might like this and or find it inspiring, in case you haven't seen it already:
Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_9YcehCZo
Edit: Also, please do share when it's playable :)
post it here once it's done :)
I've been working on something I call "Poor Fred's SIEM" (a play on Poor Richard's Almanac) for several years, rethinking an approach to observability based on the functional difference between diagnostic and evaluative observables: cooking evaluatives at the edge, presuming that diagnostics will be investigated on the (well-implemented) network segment where they are recorded. I've also rethought PTR records based on local knowledge, dovetails quite nicely. Living off the land: redis, python + dnspython + dpkt, DNS as both observable and transport.
The core components are on GitHub:
Not the first time I've referenced these on HN. I did just implement a Redis operator which Redis doesn't have, SHARDS: No GUI, command line tools work for me. I've got a toolkit. I don't give it away because I don't want to support it but if you made friends and asked nicely I'd toss it your way. Here's a silly little two minutes of your life... done in one take, in Skype: I actually eat this dog food to the point where I publish (some) telemetry data on the internet with this toolkit using DNS. Again, make friends and I'll tell you where to find it. I think it would be great if other people ran this toolkit and published telemetry data for other edge operators to see: things can be federated, they don't need to be centralized.I'm working on a website that anybody can update by calling into the phone number in the url. https://715-999-7483.com/
You have some interesting ideas. Definitely a fan
I'm building an interactive, web-based Python tutorial site intended to help with learning basic syntax. Originally it was for my kids who wanted to learn to code, but... might be useful to others.
https://learnpy.dev
The content needs some work, but I'm pretty happy with the framework / UX. I would love to get any feedback from folks who check it out!
(The first section is just multi-guess questions as part of the introductory content. Try any other section to get the full in-browser-code-execution experience, which uses client-side Pyodide under the hood.)
the navigation buttons should be at the bottom, because that's where you are when you finish a question. or maybe a "next" button that only shows up when a question is answered correctly.
content wise, i found the first lesson to dry. i'd rather start with something interactive, and explain necessary concepts along the way. the print lesson introduces the separator feature which is rather rarely used and should only be introduced when there is a practical need for it.
I'm happy you're working on this.
The best option I've found for my son (8yo) is this, but it's a little dry for a child: https://programming-25.mooc.fi/
I’ve always wanted a large wall mountable e-ink display that I could update periodically - and it didn’t need to be plugged in (or drill holes in a wall to hide the power cable).
The displays are really expensive so I’m looking at taking 12 kindles apart and mounting them in a 3x4 grid. They cannot seamlessly touch at the edges so I’m looking to include that as part of the larger aesthetic then ignore it.
I’ve figured out a few possible approaches and the software/service side - next step is to order 10 more kindles and get to work.
Hey, this sounds cool.
I played around with turning an old kindle into a wall mounted display a while back and got frustrated at how buggy the process was.
I managed to get my own image displayed on the device but sometimes it wouldn't update, sometimes it would drop power way too fast after a full charge.
I think I would use an eink display and a raspberry pi if I ever revive this project.
Yeah, I setup a Kindle that relied on the experimental web browser to open a web page over HTTP (for subway updates). The reliance on wifi meant I had to charge it often but since it was on kitchen counter that was ok.
For this I am jailbreaking the Kindles and relying on the screensaver functionality to pull down an image every 3 hours (will adjust based on power usage - only need 1 update per day tbh). This should require less power than the experimental browser using a web page with Javascript to refresh.
Collectively this will be a bit more abstract (no seamless NYT front-page experience) but I think I can get creative.
I need to see if 12 Kindles with USB cables across 1 or 2 hubs, each hub powered by a removable battery-pack is safe to hang on a wall :)
Dang this is a cool project, I'd love to follow along anywhere. Are you posting about your progress online?
No, but maybe I will. All my notes are in a messy Google Doc right now.
I have a month sabbatical coming up and that was when I was planning to do all the physical work. Right now just validating the idea on paper and working with 2 kindles to ensure the approach is somewhat viable before I try and get 7 or 10 more Kindles of the same model
If I actually move forward in a meaningful way I'll do a write up and follow-up here.
I'm a long-time FreeCAD user, and one of my annoyances is that long-running operations lock up the entire UI and can't be aborted. This is particularly annoying if you realise you made a mistake, but have no way to go back and correct it without waiting for the operation to complete first. Or you kill FreeCAD but then you don't get to save your work.
So for my first contribution to FreeCAD I'm working on fixing this.
The underlying CAD operations are done by "OpenCascade", and at first I thought OpenCascade had no support for aborting operations part of the way through. So my first implementation was to move the operation into a child process and give the user a dialog box that would allow terminating the child process.
But it actually turns out OpenCascade does support aborting the operations! So now I'm working on doing it the OpenCascade way.
My PR is here: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/19796
Always awesome to see new freecad devs chiming in. Thank you for your efforts, I bet a lot of people are reading your comments and nodding in approval, waiting for freecad to enter its heyday.
> waiting for freecad to enter its heyday
As far as I'm concerned FreeCAD has been the world's leading CAD program for at least the past 8 years (which is how long I've been using it).
All of the competition is at least one of (worse; proprietary; doesn't run on Linux), which means FreeCAD beats all of them in my value system.
I've been sharpening my axe by working on a few different projects in the shape of of an online shop[0][1]. Products are a bit of a mishmash as a result of the different projects - To date, I've been farming succulents, 3d modeling/printing (flower pots/hobby crafts/etc), and learning Rust/Next.js for the back/front ends!
Time investment has been _massive_ so far, but I just hit the first $100+ profit month, and despite the distance from my normal dev salary, the positive reviews/feedback have been an incredible reward that drives the motivation to continue. I will also say that it is quite the humbling experience to ship physical products and the experience has given me a whole new appreciation for the things we have in this world.
Early days, but check it out :)
[0] - https://freedomfrenchie.com [1] - https://www.etsy.com/shop/FreedomFrenchie
I have been working full-time for about 15 months on a product to store real-world entity-relations in a graph (using AI/ML for extraction). The idea is to extract entities and relations deterministically from text (using AI/ML for clues about type and position of entities in text).
It is very much a work in progress with lots of commented out code which are just experiments.
https://github.com/pixlie/PixlieAI
Nice project! I built something extremely similar with a friend in 2022! Back when we only had the GPT-3 API. I built an ontological graph and relation extractor, mental model analysis engine, bunch of stuff, on top of an Elastic DB being filled with live incoming ephemeral data across the web, including messages, comments, posts, articles and more.
I would really love for you to reach out via the email in my bio so we can talk ontology!
This sounds lovely. This product has not reached to the point where ontology matters, that is still far away.
I am just going for the low hanging fruits - very basic stuff like location, person, event, activity, date (a few more things) and relations between them. One of the limitations is that I want to do deterministic extraction with suggestions from AI/ML, so there is much code to be written. I will email you, thanks a lot!
hey Sumit!
Great seeing you here on and good luck!
Hey you, sorry I could not guess you from your username. Thanks a lot.
I've working on Colanode, an open-source & local-first Slack and Notion alternative that you can self host. You can use Colanode for real-time chat, as a knowledge center, project management or file storage. As a local-first application, Colanode offers full offline support, allowing you to work even when you’re not connected to the internet or the server is not available. You can host it in any environment (with minimal dependencies), giving you full ownership and control over your data.
https://github.com/colanode/colanode
As part of my spare time hobby, implementing small packages for building games that don't allocate memory post startup (or work when the memory map can be declared statically such as with wasm-4-like targets or an rp2040) and can run in resource constrained environments along with performing well on a steamdeck.
Most of it involves taking advantage of data structure properties (and limits) by using zig comptime to derive functions that either compute offsets relative to existing pointers or use pre-computed offset tables, when relative isn't possible, to reduce function size further without inhibiting the ability to take full advantage of SIMD.
One of the next task for this is statically computing update graphs for archetypes such that a multi-thread runtime can mix strategies (last thread (detected by an atomic counter on nodes that require all dependencies to be complete) to reach a node broadcasts new work it unblocks, starved threads steal work from others, etc) to speed up the world update loop when running on larger targets while also remaining lock-free.
It's fun to explore how far one can go with statically declaring all limits upfront and managing even larger targets (steamdeck, servers) as if they were embedded applications.
After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers. There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least still try.
I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be simple and relatively similar across salons.
Additionally I'm considering where I should move to. I wish to live in a place where owning substantial land for homesteading in a relatively climate safe area (relatively doing a lot of work there but imagine not already arid or with high storm risk) is not completely out of grasp. My region of Belgium is too densely populated for this. Even if I'm not moving to a different country even next year I figured it's the kind of thing that takes a stupid amount of preplanning.
Hey,what do you do sounds interesting. Do you have clients already?
I don't. I hope to go around to discuss stuff at local salons that use competitors next week and hope to garner some first interest along my expected feedback.
I also already know from an insider that a decently sized Belgian chain has people really frustrated with Salonised so I hope to get my foot in the door there. However before I try that it needs to be a bit more than an MVP.
Talking to local salons is a great next step, i hope you will get some good feedback!
Thank you very much.
Even tho I'm a rather smooth talker and potential salesperson it took me a fair bit of courage building initially to actually approach people about my product. I'm sure that'll get better with experience.
Down the line even if I hope to catch most customers trough unpersonal means such as online advertising, mailing, etc I'll still have to simply try and approach many larger business/chains directly.
It’s scary, but I think most people react rather positively once they understand that you aren’t trying to force them into something, but rather are trying to see if it’s possible to create a positive - sum result for both parties.
I am still writing about Cognitive Agents on my Substack "Encyclopedia Autonomica" [1]. Last month I crossed 500 subscribers (~15 paying) on Substack and since today Google is properly indexing it. Throughout February I wrote largely about applications in FinTech like Market Making, Agents as Financial Decision Engines, Advanced Named Entity Recognition, and that I built Deep Search for Finance in 2023 and nobody cared.
[1]https://jdsemrau.substack.com/
Got a few:
At work, I'm finalizing a platform to quickly set up and deploy Apache Flink clusters and pipelines. It's going surprisingly well, with several teams interested in using it! Unfortunately we couldn't use the extremely cool Flink Kubernetes Operator because it's incompatible with the existing infrastructure stack at my company... but rolling out something similar enough hasn't been too hard.
At home, I'm about to receive my new robot vacuum and the gear I need to install Valetudo in it. I'm excited because I've had nothing but bad experiences with cloud-connected vacuums. To give you all an example: my current Shark vacuum sometimes starts by itself in the middle of the night. When I get up to stop it and check the app, I see that the floor plan it tried to clean is not my house... so it's receiving cleaning commands from other users.
Videos on programming: https://www.youtube.com/@carlosmenezes98
With English not being my native tongue, it gets difficult to speak some words at times and I have to reshoot each takes several times. But it's worth the effort and it's different to what I do in my main channel!
those videos are pretty well done. your language also sounds fine. subscribed using freetube
This is the first real feedback I got on those videos so thank you very much!
Working on GrocerBird[1] where you upload a grocery receipt, it will parse all of the items and their prices, so you can keep track of grocery spending and prices over time. Please feel free to share your feedback and suggestions!
[1]: https://www.grocerbird.com
I'm working on a compiler for asynchronous circuits. Once I have modules, placement, and routing working, I'll have an MVP. Hopefully, this will allow people without any computer engineering expertise to make chips. For now it has a couple of useful tools.
https://github.com/broccolimicro/loom
I've been working on an iOS app that aggregates cinema showtimes across chains and independent theaters in the UK.
I moved to London some years back, and was pleasantly surprised by the vibrant cinema scene, that seems to be in a steep decline in so many places. On any day of the week, one can find independent films, old and new classics, Q&A's with filmmakers etc. playing in one of the many theaters across the city. Staying on top of it all is a chore though, and I found myself missing out on screenings regularly, because I didn't check that one cinema's website on time.
This is also my first time building and releasing an independent app. The journey from research, backend development and learning SwiftUI has been a trip. Released on TestFlight a couple of weeks ago.
https://qino.app
cool idea! good luck with your app! I also want to build an app that leverages happenings "in the real world".
I was laid off a month ago so my biggest project right now is finding work.
I feel your pain :) I need a job soon too.
Recently, I started building a crowdsourced wiki for repairability of consumer hardware products in India: https://isfixable.com/
I've been trying to use genetic algorithms to evolve voice style tensors for Kokoro-82M TTS. My current main barrier is that the scoring function is powered by resemblyzer and whatever it is using to compare the audio data has limitations. The generated tensors over fit and make garbage sounding audio that scores high, but doesn't sound like voice. Considering alternate methods of scoring.
I'm building a stream processing framework using DuckDB.
https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow
The goal is to create a stream processing framework that supports SQL jobs. Apache Flink supports this but is very heavy-weight overall. I work with cost constrained companies that just can't run Flink but still want access to high performance streaming primitives.
We are taking a slightly different approach from other competitors by building cloud-native tools for engineers. SQLFlow is built on DuckDB, Native Kafka Library, and Arrow. This allows SQLFlow to handle ~70k+ events / second with low memory overhead (~250MiB).
Would love your questions, thoughts and feedback or feature Ideas! Thank you
Interesting project. I'm working on a side project that is sort of adjacent but the user cases I'm targeting are fundamentally different from yours.
I professionally have some projects where we are doing custom CDC from kafka -> dbms. In that context, we're just using spring boot apps. How is the troubleshooting/recovery story for sqlflow?
Very Cool! Which use cases are you targeting?
I'm surprised at the relatively sparse state of streaming. I feel like there are:
- Flink - Spark - ~Benthos - Arroyo - Then mostly custom / bespoke frameworks
Maybe there just isn't that much money in it? But I think there's still lots of opportunity to improve the Dev/UX over the JVM and the enterprise solutions.
-----
I would say recovery is achieved through kafka consumer groups right now, which results in at least once processing semantics.
We also support websocket input for the bluesky firehose but that is completely ephemeral. I have a story in the backlog to write ahead to disk which should allow for tolerating process crash/failure.
The tumbling windows stores state using duckdb. The end user can configure a disk-based duckdb databases which achieves durability as well.
The troubleshooting was actually pretty funky, i didn't realize how tricky it could be with stateful stream processing. I certainly don't have a good story for it, but what I did was added a sql debug HTTP handler. When this is enabled it exposes the duckdb execution context over HTTP. This was how I debugged the tumbling window logic during development. I would start SQLFlow, query to make sure the windows were empty, send some known messages, query the windows to make sure they were aggregated correctly, wait for the windows to close and flush, query the tumbling window state, etc.
For troubleshooting it also supports prometheus metrics oriented towards stream processing, # of messages, processing duration, success/failures, etc.
SQLFlow also ships with a dev framework, this allows you to execute your sqlflow pipeline against a json input file to make sure the sql processing logic is correct. I wanted to give the ability to decouple testing the logic, from actually having to stream data.
I would love to know about more what you're hacking on!
I’m creating an observability tool that I’m trying to make user-centric while staying developer friendly. Most of the tools for remote logging, live dashboards and alerts are either too big, too expensive, or have a “per seat” plan, and incorporate the famous “home” screen with metrics and tips you absolutely never care of. I’m also trying to stay cheap and focused on very few techs (node, Postgres, docker, react) and make it stay as a monolith.
So far I’ve put all the side projects I manage (5 of them) and it’s working great. I can follow and query the logs, the JSON payloads by path, see live metrics like number of users currently online, etc. Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs! Will soon be adding alerts through webhooks, slack, discord, etc.
If you want to try it out: https://app.getboringmetrics.com (no landing page yet).
Edit: just want to say that if you want to try the software but not keep it, you can create an account in under 10 seconds, send a curl request to see logs arrive in realtime, and delete your account in 5 seconds. I do not track anything and do not keep a single piece of data.
> Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs!
That’s the spirit! A buddy of mine created a tool/API to solve his own problems, opened it to the public and launched it, but he got very few sign-ups, so he just continued to use it for himself. Recently, about two years later and out of nowhere (without doing anything other than the original bit of SEO he did), he started to see a bunch of sign-ups (including paid) and then started receiving feedback and support request emails from customers. Most folks would’ve just called it quits on the product at least a year ago, but he just kept using the product for his own projects and left it open to the public just in case it was helpful for anyone else. Obviously, YMMV, but good luck with this!
I’m on mobile right now, but I think I’ll give it a try when I’m back at my computer.
That's so refreshing to hear to be honest! I've went on so many side projects hoping I would see adoption for months and was basically chasing the dream. However I've came to realize that I really take happiness in developing things sustainably over time, with small steps, and most importantly for myself and what I would like a product to look like. Lately I've even been able to onboard a friend on it using it for his own projects as well, couldn't be happier so far.
If you ever have feedback/advices, don't hesitate to reach me out on contact[at]halftheopposite.dev and I'll happily answer.
Firefly is a typed full stack programming language:
- object capabilities
- implicit async/await
- immutable collections
https://www.firefly-lang.org/
It's small and (hopefully) fun, and quite usable already. If you try it out, please share your thoughts!
Firefly language looks simple and beautiful.
Thank you!
I've been building Tailcolors lately, a TailwindCSS color palette: https://tailcolors.com
Just recently actually I published a Chrome extension for it too, so you can access and copy all the Tailwind CSS colors directly from an extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tailcolors-tailwind...
I'm working on Alumnium (https://alumnium.ai). It's an open-source library to simplify web application testing with Selenium/Playwright.
I aim to create a stable and affordable tool that allows me to eliminate most of the support code I write for web tests (page objects, locators, etc.) and replace it with human-readable actions and assertions. These actions and assertions are then translated by an LLM into browser instructions. The tool, however, should still leverage all existing infrastructure (test runner, CI/CD, Selenium infrastructure).
So far, it's working well on simple websites (e.g., a calculator, TodoMVC), and I'm currently working on scaling it to large web applications.
Pretty cool. I built my own framework to do something similar very recently.
Microsoft omni parser and claude computer use alone can take you very far in testing almost anything.
I experimented with Computer Use and even though it's pretty cool, I ended up not using it for 2 main reasons:
1. It's unreasonably expensive. A single test "2+2=4" for a web calculator costs around $0.15. I run roughly 1k tests per month on CI and I don't want to spend $150 on those. The approach I took with Alumnium costs me $4 per month for the same amount of tests.
2. It tries too hard to make the test pass even when it's not possible. When I intentionally introduced bugs in applications, Computer Use sometimes pretended the everything was fine and marked the test passed. Alumnium on the other hand attempts to fail as early as possible.
For the 1st point, I generate a script with hashed check points so next run is automated unless something changes in the UI to invoke AI. I make this possible by proxy wrapping playwright library so I can take over every method. Users use playwright like they always have but with one extra method called act.
Omini parser lets you split section of the UI to hash and watch for changes that are relevant.
For 2, can you give some examples?
I'm working on a project to document all publicly accessible stained glass in North America. The tech itself isn't anything exciting (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS and using Bootstrap for UI).
All the work is in collecting and entereing data and hopefully recruiting folks around the country to go to their local church/synagogue/mosque, government building, or glass shop/studio and taking photos and collecting information on glass pieces.
Site is still a work in progress, but if anyone out there is interested you can find it here: https://www.stainedglassatlas.com
I’m working on a cross-platform fast multithreaded HTTP / FTP downloader that will download much more quickly than other clients like FileZilla, hash check files, perform follow up operations (like extracting RARs or deleting files on the remote,) and have a nice graphical UI that runs in the browser and allows local/remote/cloud control. It’s early (started last week) so there’s not much done yet, but if you’re interested, would love a star or watch: https://github.com/lukevp/Speedful
Tangentially, I am glad to see this thread again, I was worried the idea was scrapped since I hadn't seen it in the last few months. For whatever it counts for, I like this idea and hope to see it continue.
I'm working on a text editor (https://github.com/blackhole89/autopen/) that continuously analyses the buffer with a local LLM to compute token surprisal and generate candidate completions starting from any point, and switch back and forth between different ones by walking a tree structure. This is pretty different from the usual way people interact with LLMs, and has lots of interesting applications - for example, if you are using them to translate and don't like a particular word choice, you can "dig through" top alternatives on the spot or even insert your own.
Applying the same approach to chain-of-thought reasoning gave me the feeling that I might be looking at a form of realistic UX for some sort of science-fiction neural AI augmentation - you can let the CoT run on and do its thing, but also interject at any point and insert a "thought" of your own, or go back and revise a thought you did not like, and then let it continue. Imagine such a stream hooked up with a two-way pipe into your phonological loop (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/phonological... - perhaps more attainable with existing tech).
Recently, I've been engaged in a project that focuses on the market demands of independent developers and small and medium - sized entrepreneurial teams. People involved in R & D often tend to be completely immersed in technology. As a result, the products they develop are left unattended and may not even be needed by anyone, which is really terrible. After all, everyone hopes that the things they develop can be in demand and receive positive feedback.
I'm working on an AI spaced-repetition flashcards app for learning vocabulary in foreign languages.
https://vocabuo.com
The idea is to have srs flashcards, like Anki, but without the pain of creating example sentences, translations, images and audio.
As a bonus, I've added the option to add vocabulary from ebooks, YouTube videos and websites.
Making Fil-C more complete. Fil-C is a memory safe C implementation that can run a lot of stuff. I want to make it run even more stuff.
Recently I landed C exceptions support (I didn’t know that was a thing but it is, look for attribute cleanup if you want to know more) and ifunc support.
More info about the project here: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge
And a Linux/X86_64 binary release if you want to play with it: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/releases/t...
I've been working on https://github.com/nickjj/plutus, it's a command line income and expense tracker. It's a zero dependency Python script that you can curl down.
It generates reports to show you your numbers in a bunch of customizable ways, it generates these reports in less than a second and uses a single CSV file as your data source.
I've gotten things to the point where I can do my books every quarter in about 5 minutes with complete accuracy since it supports importing arbitrary CSV files such as bank exports with a way to automate categorizing things in any way you see fit. I currently use it to track my income, business expenses and personal expenses.
Basically I ran into issues using different finance tracking tools over the last decade which always made me feel unhappy to use those tools so I built Plutus with intent to resolve all of those issues I had and make me happy while using it.
I started a football/soccer (mostly Premier League focused) podcast with a friend about two months ago. It's in Portuguese, but it gives us an hour each week to talk about our love for the game and sprinkle in some interesting statistics.
Alongside that, I've also been coaching kids (ages 4 to 11) at a local Benfica academy since September, and I've had a lot of fun helping them improve in many areas of the game. It's a truly enriching experience.
Working with clients I realized that many companies lack basic monitoring and observability. E-commerce shops go down and no one notices. DBs do thousands of useless queries per minute. Emails stop sending silently.
I’m building a tool to make monitoring setup a no-brainer. I’m talking about basic website monitoring setup in 5-seconds — literally.
The problem is not a lack of tools. The existing tools are not even that complicated, but they still require too much thinking to set up.
So uptimerobot.com is complicated for you?
Not for me.
Apparently finding and setting up monitoring is too problematic for all of the people who are running their freshly-created startups and e-commerce shops without any monitoring.
For someone who does not know HTTP from HTTPs or all the different kinds of probes, reading about them and making decisions about what to set up is a time investment. Complicated might be the wrong word.
All you really need to do is to provide a domain name and an email address for alerts to get basic monitoring set up. My goal is to set up monitoring with zero decisions under 30 seconds.
Getting pretty close with nixmonitor.com
[dead]
I'm building a freemium browser extension (https://trashpandaextension.com/) that primarily removes "social metrics" (number of likes, subscribers, views, friends, etc. you see on websites) and sales tactics (20 people have this in their shopping cart, limited time offer, -78% sale!, etc.).
It's also a hodge-podge of other annoying things I want removed on the web, like when articles have pull quotes that repeat what they just wrote one paragraph ago, or when sites block the ability to paste passwords.
The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome/Vivaldi, but it has a lot more development to get it where I want it.
Would appreciate any feedback and tips on both the extension itself as well as advice on monetization.
https://trashpandaextension.com/
I'm working on Airweave https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave , an open-source dev tool that makes any app searchable for AI agents. it connects to a source app, db, or api and converts its contents to accessible knowledge for agents. Airweave automates authentication, ingestion, enrichment, mapping, and syncing to vector stores and graph databases of choice. you can use it via our UI, API, or SDKs https://docs.airweave.ai/
we originally built this for our previous agent startup as an internal solution to ensure agents could find the relevant data on apps they're using. We then pivoted to this after some early positive reactions and decided to open-source it.
here's a short demo: https://tinyurl.com/demo-airweave
we're two engineers/friends based in Amsterdam, NL. We just launched the project, so it's rough around the edges ofc, but we're very eager to get some feedback!
feel free to reach out to me personally if you like this! - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennertjansen/ - https://x.com/lennertjansen
I'm exploring the world of Tauri cross-platform desktop apps in my free time now.
For the first project using this technology I decided to go for a simple media converter app. I have a 64MB sampler so I have to convert a lot of samples from lossless formats to mp3, there are two options I know: any random online tool from the google page 1 or ffmpeg cli. The former almost physically hurts, because I have to upload my files to some server which does the same ffmpeg instruction and then get them bytes back, that's a heck of an overhead!
ffmpeg-cli and some knee-made bash scripts is what I have been using for a long time. I love my console, and I spend 90% of the time inside, but then it comes to ffmpeg, it instantly feels tedious to use it. Finally I decided to make yet another GUI wrapper:
https://github.com/ilya-lopukhin/conversimp
The idea is to drag the files in, or select them via dialog, then run an ffmpeg conversion template with each file as input in a separate thread (need to limit theese btw). I decided to go fully open-source, and maybe promote it's usage over the online converter ad-farms which are really abundant. When I decided to publish this, I instantly understood it's going to be a tons of extra work, but in the end I want it to look nice and do it's job flawlessy, and at the moment it's a weekend or two from release.
Let me know what you think ;)
ffmpeg for audio? hmm.. here's what i use:
* wav -> mp3: lame
* anything -> wav: mplayer (or the specific format decoder if one bothers)
* resampling: sox, it does much better quality. But it does not do mp3, so wav > wav
have fun!
But isn't ffmpeg itself use lame for mp3 encoding? I primarily use the app for wav -> mp3, but my planned feature is to create ffmpeg "templates" for conversion, so u can use it for video as well.
An AI powered relationship coach. What started off from, how would and AI relationship coach work if it could see both sides of a relationship, to now having evolved to a full therapy session powered by a small swarm of specialized AI, following integrative therapy principles, messaging integration and more. I've been testing with a small group of friends and am about to launch any day now. If somebody would like to try it, just let me know!
Creating a tool to automate browser tasks: https://browsable.app.
It's RPA for browsers which is not fundamentally new, what I'm trying to do that is new is use AI to make it as easy as possible to create automations. Most of the existing tools require you to locate CSS selectors, XPaths, etc. whereas this is just point, click, type, describe data you want to extract in English, etc.
Still early days and it works much better for some tasks/websites than others but it's improving rapidly and I'm quite excited about it.
Also hoping that the likes of OpenAI Operator, etc. are rolled out in a way that I can use them to build a better product rather than being runover by them.
I'm trying to apply the idea of microadventures [1] to the internet, allowing folks to have nice 5 minute breaks on the internet. I don't know if it will catch on - but it's something I need to be honest, so I mainly built it for myself!
Currently, it's set up as a daily (short) newsletter with a different link each day, but I'm trying to learn marketing to figure out how to get others interested. I've enjoyed creating it, but would like to see if others like it before moving on to a new project. Link to project: https://www.thedailydetour.co.uk/
[1] https://alastairhumphreys.com/microadventures-3/
I’m working on a code generation agent that lives and operates inside of GitHub instead of being tied to your IDE so that PMs and others can generate PRs.
https://rivets.dev
I'm working on SPHNX, a voice-based AI coding interviewer. While problem solving is crucial for passing interviews, in a live interview you are also getting tested for your communication, debugging, thinking on the spot, testing, code clarity, and other skills. You can't practice these on leetcode, but it's easy with SPHNX. I've just added rich feedback reports last week that turned out more helpful than I expected.
Right now it works as a mock interviewer for algorithmic (leetcode-style) problems, you can sign up for the waitlist here, I'll send you an invite right after:
https://sphnx.dev
It actually works pretty well, but we're having trouble getting users (some sign up but don't end up doing even a single interview?!).
We're thinking whether we could sell a version of this to companies to do their technical screens in, perhaps with problems that are more similar to the actual software engineering work (e.g. debug existing piece of code, write tests, and extend it).
We're generous with interview credits if you give us good feedback =)
Very cool idea. It would help to have testimonials. Also it looks kinda janky on Safari mobile
Marketing/distribution/adoption is maybe the hardest thing about creating a new product or service
I think you have the right idea about focusing on companies, because they can be recurrent users, whereas people preparing for interviews will only briefly use the product
For about year and a half I am working on fully dynamic, zero-downtime, reconfigurable API. Main target is me, hobbyists, self-host enthusiasts and small-to medium companies. Idea is to be able to configure API with JSON schema definition of an object that API should store and allow you to manipulate (with CRUD operations). In future I plan to add FE for building those schemas based on data and some LLM helper.
* There is possibility of adding relations between schemas (1-to-n, n-to-n, 1-to-1)
* API allows to filter and transform responses to your own arbitrary schema via custom query language
* support Oauth with custom Oidc of your choice and API tokens for easily configurable but strong security
* from the start I designing it with extensibility in mind so there is built-in system of flows and custom extensions
* flows support running via custom http endpoints, and system events (i.e. data changes); cron schedules and external events are planned
* flows are defined via Json files
* flows are also customisable and allows to define your own blocks and flows that can be injected into other flows for bigger pieces of logic.
* all json files are source for code generation so performance should be the same as using your own manually written code or at least very close.
* there is built-in template subsystem, used for flows (i.e. for saving files with content from template) that I also plan to use to generate static files for FE.
* custom pieces of logic are supported by flows so you can create flow to update some read-only values based on other values (i.e. FullName from first and surname).
To achieve that I had to write my own fluent API for C# code generation. I had idea mainly during writing my own API for my house automation: 'Why I have to write another DAL layer, and auhorization, and filtering, and database schema? I did this dozens of times already?!' There is no need to figure this one out every time.
Building a wheeled robot with arms to help automate household chores - https://x.com/ajhai/status/1891933005729747096
I have been working with LLMs and VLMs to automate browser based workflows among other things for the last couple of years. Given how good the vision models have gotten lately, the perception problem is solved to level where it opens up a lot of possibilities. Manipulation is not generally solved yet but there is a lot of activity in the field and there are promising approaches to solve (OpenVLA, π0). Given these, I'm trying to build an affordable robot that can help around with household chores using language and vision models. Idea is to ship capable enough hardware that can do a few things really well with the currently available models and keep upgrading the AI stack as manipulation models get better over time.
Amazing, lol
Agreement Risk Analysis and visualisation.
The visualisations generated by the AI from the agreement.
Click on legend text to drill down and on circles in the spiral. UI is 3D cube animation for now.
Former Deputy AG in charge of fighting corruption and fraud affecting US consumers: “I like how it balances the intent of the law for the consumer”
Both academic and practicing lawyers have looked at it and given us good feedback.
Not looking for a problem to solve. Found our niche. We applied for YC but we are all on the older side and the first question in the YC application was our age. LOL. Not gonna work. Doing another round of family and friends fund raising then VC post market traction.
Samples of ToS and financing agreements
Https://labs.sunami.ai/feed
Still needs some work for mobile/responsive version.
DM marc fawzi on LinkedIn.
Video: showing drills downs etc
https://youtu.be/r97cujq4Egk?si=Ks7ivB411sFyzLTg
The first open source MMP https://openattribution.dev
MMPs collect user data across apps to help apps run ads. This is needed because mobile apps are downloaded without the additional data you could get passed along an HTTP url like you'd see in a regular email marketing campaign or YouTube affiliate link.
My goal is to create a way for mobile apps to self host their advertising attribution, keeping their user data in house and not sharing it to a 3rd party like AppsFlyer/Adjust/Branch. There are only a few companies that do this in the world and NO open source non 3rd party option.
Please reach out if interested, I'd love to chat!
https://github.com/openattribution/open-attribution
I'm scratching my own itch with https://buildersqrcodes.com to help convey new construction details to job site workers. I'm building my own house now and I was surprised how many details are not in the plans that are critical to build a house. I think this is a common issue. I already have 10's of paying customers using it on their build too.
Nice idea. Just some nitpicks:
"Visit QR code to:" – You don't "visit" a QR code. Perhaps "Scan the QR code to:"? (Optional grammar fix included.)
"Comment on the QR code" – "Leave a comment"? (Unless you really want a comment about the QR code! ;-) )
I just get a busy spinner when I scan the QR code in the screenshot. A working live example would be nice.
Great feedback. Fixed that QR code too.
Currently working on the side on Java libraries that provide access to Apple's mobile device management service APIs like the automated device enrollment and app and book management services: https://github.com/petarov/apple-mdm-clients
I had this written in Kotlin several years ago but now I want to do it all in Java, use as little 3rd party deps as possible and add more extensive unit testing.
I've been building https://canine.sh for the past year, which is an open source Render / Fly / Heroku, etc.
It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.
It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams.
The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.
I am learning how to promote http://codingforafrica.at/ in particular http://codingforafrica.at/help/
There is a lot of potential here to help, and I don't have big ambitions to scale this to a lot of children. There are also schools that need help. Other people that volunteer their time to run a daycare center for those that can't afford a regular one. One school is looking for someone to teach programming, but doesn't have the budget to hire a professional. I could volunteer to do it, if I could find a sponsor. It doesn't even require a full-time salary.
I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs to it too.
I'm also building a customer support app when I'm taking a break from Gorby. The idea is to make it easier to organize and quickly find/copy useful replies, discounts, screenshots etc. It's similar in concept to text expander apps, but those never worked great for me, I either forget the triggers or don't bother storing things I don't use daily. You could probably use Notion for this too, but to me it's too clunky and slow.
[0] https://gorby.app/
Gorby looks interesting. Any future potential for operating on local markdown files?
Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/) which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and then when done writing and editing convert it back into markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that are available for both. I think Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar.
I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been thinking of making it possible to save and read local files. If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be happy to give you a free license code :)
Working on my strength, hitting the gym 5days a week and doing only calisthenics with the weights, currently doing pull-ups and dips with 30kg
Working on improving my barista skills, although my latte art seems to have ground (sorry) to a halt at 'heart', which I guess is level 1.
Next I'd like to add a Pi into the espresso machine for some remote fun. A couple of the control panel pcb-pop-style? buttons are failing, and I thought it might be fun to try and control via a touch screen. I suspect I'll want some kind of timer on the machine side to ensure a safe/timely cut-off, but I haven't done anything like that since using a 555 a very long time ago. Maybe I'll just drive a relay from a digital Pi i/o pin, but suspect it is switching mains level V.
Reading literature (academic and otherwise) on parsers, writing blog posts about what I learn, trying to implement the things I learnt. I've written about basic finite automata (for regular expressions), LL, LR (including the difference between SLR, LALR, and LR(1)), detoured into some optimisations for LR from the 80's, then generalised LR (RNGLR in particular). I'm now implementing these things, RNGLR is not easy to implement despite having understood it well enough conceptually to write a blog about it (https://blog.jeffsmits.net/generalised-lr-parsing/). I've read far more than I've written about, trying to keep that straight in my head as well / planning the next... probably year of writing ^^'
OnlineOrNot as always, coming up to 4 years in operation (https://onlineornot.com)
Currently working on adding webhook notifications for status pages.
Some of your screenshots are cut off on mobile (iPhone/safari/portrait)
Hey thanks for letting me know!
A cross-platform, cross-provider, IMAP client.
Started building this with a friend, as I was personally frustrated at the lack of good options when it comes to "true IMAP" email clients.
https://marcoapp.io
I’m working on not being bothered by the fact that everyone else is working on something
I am building Buckaroo [1], the data table UI in Jupyter that I have always wanted. I know how to use df.head(), df.describe(), sort, and run histograms on columns. I just got tired of typing 5 bits of code to minimally inspect each dataframe every time I looked at it.
So I built buckaroo, it combines a high performance scrollable table (built on top of ag-grid), with summary stats, and histograms. All of this is customizable and extensible. I recently built a dataframe compare tool [2] on top of buckaroo that uses coloring to show differences between dataframes intuitively.
Get in touch if you want to talk tables, data science tooling, or exploratory data analysis.
[1] https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u3PW6q36ufo
Nothing big but I built a Discord bot using discord.py[0] that reads a game's presence. It notifies me when a dungeon run is about to end.
I didn't have any Python experience but it was surprisingly easy to pick up (MVP in an hour). Wrote it in notepad, which, imo, was a distraction-free experience. Prolly would be scrolling autocomplete than reading docs if I was in nvim. Took me back when I was used to completing coding exercises on paper.
If there is an implementation to read presences without using Discord client, let me know. Would be helpful to skip Discord altogether.
[0]: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
Making a CAN-to-BLE bridge for cheap race car telemetry. It’s using an ESP32C to store MegaSquirt ECU data in BLE characteristics, and a cheap android phone using Chrome + WebBluetooth to buffer and upload data to a server for pit analysis in near real time. Also using the phone for heading, GPS and accelerometer data.
I'm working on http://unwrangle.com solo, it's Ecommerce APIs for people building AI and BI apps for ecommerce stuff, it supports querying search results, product info and customer reviews from over 15 major e-commerce marketplaces
Cool! How are you getting your data? Public API?
For a few months I've been working on an application to manage my physical music collection. Records I own, records I want to find, with some stats/search/metadata that actually use.
It's built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, backed by SQLite. Records are imported via MusicBrainz, and data enriched via Last.fm.
I'm looking now to add notes for each artist and record, along with arbitrary associations. Think supergroups, side projects, etc. and some trivia/quotes/stories that I can easily add for my own reference.
I've been working on mock:
https://dhuan.github.io/mock/
the process of creating APIs for testing and automation should be as easy possible. the tools that exist nowadays aren't good enough, they require you to use their programming language of choice or complex procedures for a task that should be simple. I built mock to try to solve that and still continue to maintain it.
Building self-ask NPCs and other game systems (crafting, harvesting, quests, automation) in a large open-world RPG that uses the latest generative AI tech to enable new kinds of game mechanics that weren't possible even just a few years ago.
Also, thinking about building a catio for my cat.
I’m currently developing a link-in-bio tool that requires no cookies, no trackers, and no signups—a true “privacy-first” approach. I’m building it with lovable, which has really helped me overcome the fine-tuning and bug-fixing procrastination that used to slow down my projects.
After spending a lot of time in an acquired startup and becoming more specialized in my role, I realized I needed to switch back to “build mode.” It’s been a rewarding exercise to try generating some organic traffic (no-ads by design) and a much needed escape from excel sheets.
https://barelink.lovable.app/
Wondering if being still on a third level domain is messing up my SEO efforts.
I'm building a fast, lightweight 3D house modelling tool. Revit/AutoDesk are hugely cumbersome and expensive. Sketchup died when Trimble took over.
I'm glad to say it's gaining traction - here's an unsolicited post by Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind: https://x.com/adamwathan/status/1889134672866582617
And here's the site: https://arcadium3d.com/
I’m selling refurbished and upgraded Mac mini G4s as the ultimate machines for running software for the classic Mac OS over at https://os9.shop
Over at macos9lives.com a group of hackers figured out a way to get Mac OS 9 running on these late model G4s that previously never supported it. That combined with an SSD upgrade makes them close to the fastest machines that can run Mac OS 9.
I’ve taken advantage of this hack, now having sold about 80 -90 machines. But I’ve hit a wall with finding ways to advertise it. eBay has been okay. I tried Reddit Ads on the vintage Apple subreddit and they were so so—probably lost money doing it but got the word out. Google Search ads have surprisingly been ineffective. I’ve posted on various vintage Mac forums but they don’t allow formal advertising (otherwise I would buy it). I probably will try Facebook ads next. Open to other advertising ideas!
I am working on HN wrapper which summarize topic discussions and outline main themes of it
https://hn-distilled.fly.dev/
Recently added Similar Topics feature which uses Scikit-learn's TF-IDF vectors
It look fun. Good look and feel. Resumés are quite ok. Witch AI service do you use ?
I started using openrouter.ai to have unified api for different models, for HN Distilled I use gemini-2.0-flash-001 – it has huge context window and decent price (much cheaper for the same quality than others)
I'm writing a Developer Runbook[1] for my JS canvas library. Partly because, now I've reached my 7th decade, I need to record as many of the questionable architectural and coding decisions I've made as the library has evolved. But mainly in the vague hope that maybe the extra data will help our new LLords and Masters make less stupid decisions about the code they suggest to innocent developers on how to use my library in their code.
[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/write-initi...
I’ve been doing some analysis on the winners of a local short stories contest (https://santiagoen100palabras.cl/) to see if I can get to make a good contender story.
Plus I having fun plugging it all into ChatGPT and reading the stories it comes up with.
I am working on a departure board [1] for your home or business. Currently only for Swiss Public transport but the plan is to support more countries. Next goal is to update the website which needs work.
The hardware is based around a ESP32. The server that gathers and prepares the data is running on Symfony php. The app to configure the device is written in vue and is using capacitor by ionic. More technical details are here: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...
[1] https://www.stationdisplay.com/
That looks awesome!
Thank you
Optimizing our rendering algorithms for Apple Vision Pro. Trying to render a 300-million atom cell model at 90fps stereo. It's trivial on a 4090, it's pretty hard on a ~30W mobile GPU (W correct??). I'm thinking about a bunch of immersive mesoscale biology stuff next.
Curious—Do you have a best Metal project to learn from? Foveated rendering and temporal reprojection important here I imagine.
Writing, just some writing. It does not matter if it is technical, creative, or something else. Just wanting to put pen to paper, and get it out there. See it at https://urda.com
I've been working on an app that will use ai to decorate my Anki cards with audio/example sentences/images. The more I get into it though, the more I think I may just end up writing my own flashcard app. I feel like most of the project has been spent wrestling with AnkiConnect, while the fun stuff has been fairly simple.
I've been thinking about the same some time ago. But after a while I got to conclusion that Anki is pretty well designed after all. Although for what I remember Anki Connect is in form of unofficial extension. And it would seem that there is a place for an official more stable API. Anyway I never got beyond thinking about it. Just to let you know you are not alone, and you can ping me if you ever decide to do something about it.
1. Hackable text input system := Hatis https://github.com/shegeley/hatis
«Text-editors are dead as a concept. What’s needed is a text-input system. Mobile phones got it right more than 10 years ago. Both Android and iOS can catch the text-input context: «ah here we can input text, let’s show the virtual keyboard!».
This project is inspired by very same idea: catch the text-input context globally (across all system, not just one process) and do what’s needed: change the UI, keybindings, etc. Emacs got some part of text-input right with modes. But modes should be global, on Window Manager level (or even deeper).
In GUI it’s possible to “catch input context” using Wayland::InputMethod
It should also be possible on pure-tty with readline or something.
The system should be very hackable. That’s why it’s written in Common Lisp»
2. SaaS Sales platform on Clojure(+script)
Working on my mobile semi-idle MMORPG for parents like myself. With the artstyle of 1980s/syntwave/cassette-futurism. Just finished the website over the weekend: https://afterglow-game.com/
Why for parents
Well... in general for busy people who don't have much free time anymore. Not strictly for parents
I'm working on RailsBilling - it's a Ruby gem for fast Stripe subscriptions integrations. It allows you to implement subscriptions in your app in hours, instead of months.
You see, Stripe is very powerful, but also very complex. Coding a straightforward subscriptions implementation will take you a couple weeks at best.
That is without handling all those edge cases like: prevent starting a paid subscription without a billing card on file (yes, you read that right)!
The gem is ready, I'm currently working on getting the website up. If you're working with Rails and need a solution for subscriptions get in touch at hacker.news@railsbilling.com - I'd love to chat!
Finishing off the last bugs in my free puzzle game called Kombi, before it goes live on Steam.
Made in Love2D, mostly because it's limited in its simplicity (good for creativity) while still allowing me to make something usable. That, plus I love Lua, which is how the project event got started - just me wanting to mess around with the language. From then on it quickly spiraled out of control - 2 weeks to make the core logic of the game, 2 months to create a basic UI library from scratch, just because.
A flight simulator for software engineers. Think LeetCode x CodeCrafters x HackerRank but doing actual large-scale simulated work to practice your skills (DevOps/Data/AI/ML/MLOps) and then be able to land a job. Looking for beta users and feedback!
I am still working in my epaper calendars, now making a 10 inch display: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...
More broadly, I’m working on replacing my day job with something more exciting and impactful.
I think the most excitement and impact can be found in a startup, so that’s what im trying to get into now!
Nice!
On your site it says "The calendar data can come from one or more calendar providers". Is the connection direct (e.g. data flows from Google to epaper calendar), or via the app installed on the user's phone, or does it need your servers in-between?
I have a backend that connects to the calendar providers and then renders the content for the display.
a self organizing scrapbook! focused on zero stress for storage, searching, synthesizing and sharing a personal library
https://yourcommonbase.com/
(and some philosophy on the subject :))
https://www.bramadams.dev/tag/personal-library-science/
That sounds interesting, I might give it a try. Do you plan to allow plugins for domain-specific development ?
thank you, i appreciate it! yes, the software is api first, and much of it’s utility comes from working in other environments like google docs, ios shortcuts, etc..
in essence, the core of the project is a vector database that works for end users who want no fuss quick capture, semantic and fts search, the ability to create new relationships with marginalia.
im not trying to replace tools like obsidian or notion, i think ycb works better with them doing what they do best! i also plan to make the stack self hostable in the near future :)
Self-hosted notion replacement would be amazing, I hope you succeed !
I'm building a new tool for end-to-end data validation and reconciliation in ELT pipelines, especially for teams replicating data from relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) to data warehouses or data lakes.
Most existing solutions only validate at the destination (dbt tests, Great Expectations), rely on aggregate comparisons (row counts, checksums), or generate too much noise (alert fatigue from observability tools). My tool:
* Validates every row and column directly between source and destination * Handles live source changes without false positives * Eliminates noise by distinguishing in-flight changes from real discrepancies * Detects even the smallest data mismatches without relying on thresholds * Performs efficiently with an IO-bound, bandwidth-efficient algorithm
If you're dealing with data integrity issues in ELT workflows, I'd love to hear about your challenges!
This sounds interesting. Is this meant to run in pipelines or be used interactively?
Are you building something open source? Link to the repo?
It’s meant to run in or alongside the pipeline continuously.
Not planning to open source, working on a commercial offering but haven’t launched anything publicly yet.
Would love to hear any more thoughts on the concepts here or my email is in bio
I’m working on a programming language for robots called Mech!
https://github.com/mech-lang/mech
Mostly a research project until I find some more people interested in pushing it further.
A recent blog for anyone who wants to check it out: https://mech-lang.org/post/2025-01-09-programming-chatgpt/
And a 10 minute video: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/i-tried-rubbing-a-database-on...
We’re building a new git collaboration platform on top of atproto! Here’s a sneak preview (best viewed on desktop for now; the UI is mostly WIP): https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core
It’s going to be fully decentralised from day 1—we borrowed the PDS model from Bluesky to allow users to run their own “knots” to self-host their git repositories.
https://www.tldraw.com/s/v2_c_E1XeFuW0tGbDxqnhDiLRT?d=v-286....
That's super nice. Can I eventually replace my centralized forge ?
Yes! This architecture allows you to host your git repos on your own server, while allowing contributions from others with a unified identity (unlike say, Gitea or GitLab, where you’d have to make yet another account).
We need to get away from GitHub! Look forward to seeing this grow
A no-frills X toolkit. Think Athena, add things like dialogs, file picker and make it completely vectored. No antialiasing, top goal is small size and fast execution. Can display vector and bitmap fonts, only external dependency is xcb. I just recently got my first digital storage oscilloscope and begun writing a companion software for it, as I couldn't find anything usable. This is one of the offshoots of that, the other being a somewhat Postscript-like language for scripting the thing.
Once I get this done, I get back to the actual project of a 2.11-BSD based handheld computing appliance.
Also there is this thing called "day job".
I discovered the world of specialty coffee last year, fell into the rabbit hole and am now building a coffee journal and bean tracking app called Coffee Library (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coffee-library/id6664071528?uo...).
Probably the best way to develop your taste and understand the spectrum of different coffees available is to do comparative tasting aka try a small number of coffees in parallel to compare and contrast. I was having trouble finding tasting sets so I started freezing a little portion of every coffee bag I bought to create a collection for doing these tastings at home.
I needed something to keep track of them all (as well as my tasting notes in general) so instead of using a spreadsheet I built a full app for it. The app supports NFC-tagged containers which I've found to make my workflow a whole lot easier.
I also set up an online store to sell the NFC-equipped single-dosing tubes: https://store.coffeelibrary.app Planning on adding more containers that work well with the app in the future.
nice, fun project!
there is a really great app that i found super useful called roastguide (roastguide.app). i have tried many of them but this is by far the most complete one
This is awesome. I was considering building something very similar, but great to see it already exists.
How are you building the app? The interface makes me think it's native SwiftUI?
Yeah, all SwiftUI. I'm curious, was there anything specific that you saw in the interface that makes it obvious (vs UIKit)?
The segmented view at the top of each of the screenshots is "modern" app vibe which tend to be SwiftUI. It was just a hunch.
The photos too. That kind of stuff with the text overlays is way easier to build in SwiftUI; especially in a tableview.
I'm working to make private hosting easier. I've been running a software development agency in Melbourne for 10+ years and have been building this platform in the background to help automate and standardise the hosting needs for our clients.
We're now getting ready to launch a web portal for others to manage their own private hosting in a simpler way. The product also includes a directory of off-the-shelf applications which can be launched in a few clicks (eg. Deepseek chatbot).
If you're interested in being part of our closed-Beta in March, reach out! (e: james at below domain)
https://getbach.io
Continuing bootstrapping my software+service company Alzo (https://alzo.archi/), an Elixir modular monolith.
The first clients are here and I am working on "darker tech" now, a single codebase injecting their data in both MS Office and Adobe's software suites. That's quite a change from Elixir.
Also working on the reverse feature, reading/writing MS Office files inside Alzo. For that, I'm writing a Java app behaving as an Erlang node, connected to my main app via Erlang distribution, to leverage existing rich Java libraries for office tech.
Experimenting with training and running ML models on a “normal computer” (ie. no GPU or cloud servers, just locally on CPU/ram)
Don’t have a background in ML, so mostly just for learning purposes
Been playing a lot with the MNIST dataset. Trying things like training only on the examples the model gets wrong, or training only on random samples of the image (ie. using only a small subset of the pixels of the image as the input), or creating one model per label to overfit the data and then merging the models for testing, or just testing performance of different architectures and frameworks on the same problem
Last few weeks I’ve been trying to implement my own GitHub Actions runner, a little bit as a fun side project and a little bit to improve observability.
My ADD brain keeps jumping around between various projects. Some highlights:
- Last month I demonstrated the ability to build Nintendo 64 ROMs with Zig¹, making some headway on Zig-native APIs for interfacing with the N64's memory-mapped hardware. Taking a break for a moment; will probably resume when Zig 0.14 drops (within a couple months IIRC). Next planned milestone will be to implement interrupt handlers.
- Gradually migrating my code repos from Git to Fossil (with plans to continue to mirror to Git). Experimenting with bidirectional syncs in order to preserve the ability to handle merge/pull requests from the various Git repo hosts on which I syndicate my repos. The above Zig64 project will probably be the first real guinea pig.
- Migrating my personal website away from Jekyll has been an ongoing project (going on almost a year now) with multiple parallel efforts: using Fossil's wiki features², using Scroll, and (most recently) using Typst's newly-announced HTML export feature. All three approaches have their pros and cons.
- I've been tinkering with my PowerBook G4; recently swapped in an SSD (using an mSATA→PATA enclosure) and installed the latest OpenBSD (with all partitions except for '/' encrypted; working on documenting that process and the associated kinks - and possibly turning said documentation into installer and initscript patches so that hardware platforms like macppc that lack support for encrypting '/' can still enjoy not-quite-full-disk encryption). Next on the list is rebuilding the battery.
- That PowerBook is also the only working machine I have that has an optical drive, so as soon as it was consistently booting right, I took the opportunity to back up the stack of burned CDs/DVDs I'd accumulated throughout my lifetime.
- I have a bunch of my dad's old photos and schoolwork and such that I've been meaning to digitize and organize.
----
¹ https://fsl.yellowapple.us/zig64
² https://fsl.yellowapple.us/website
Ahh yes, I know the feeling. My current list of projects:
- There's no speciality grade coffee in Zambia, and all the coffee beans in Zambia are from Zambian coffee farms. I've bought a small roaster and will start sourcing speciality grade coffee beans from Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia and roasting for a few of the small stores and cafes around us.
- Converting a beat up Suzuki Samurai into a capable 4x4 rock crawler/off road vehicle to enter my own team into the Elephant Charge 2025 https://elephantcharge.org/ec-charge-2025/.
- Growing and propogating cuttings of coffee plants in my backyard to start an outgrowers scheme in on the border of Zambia & Congo.
- An emotion recognition app that has animated fruits and animals that dance and respond to emotion. I'd like to create something a bit more responsive for my child than the YT videos that exist (Unity).
- Helping my wifes company prototype and spec out some lease management software.
- Sourcing the equipment and ingredients to process my own coffee cherries into green coffee. I'll likely buy coffee from nearby growers and start processing as my own plants still have a couple years before they produce any fruit.
- Migrating a Flow project to Typescript.
- Learning Haskell by building a back-office API for another project in it.
I've been working on digitizing my family genealogy. ~90 years ago, a book was published documenting my family's lineage in America. I've digitized part of it, used OCR to extract the text, and then used LLMs to format the data for integration into a family tree. I hope to publish the family tree and make it editable so that it's a living family tree that others can add to and keep up to date.
I´m super excited, sleepless for a couple of days already. I´m trying to use all tricks possible to improve a Sequence Labeling using Conditional Random Fields. I need to NER billion of documents, and need to be fast. CRFSuite is a workhorse, and a baseline very hard to beat with speed and precision. But with o3 I´m created a frank-stain with many tricks such as CRF with variable order, feature interactions, bidirectional, jointly learning with word embeddings. The precision is already over than CRFSuite. And I believe that would be better than many other solutions such as bi-lstm-crf. Definitely much faster.
Now i´m trying to port to Cython to make as fast as possible. Here o3 is almost useless, but I´m progressing.
finished integrating our new FOSS ecu into our racecar, and started rewriting the data logging software for our team. Learning about can, wrote a dbc parser and frame interpreter for our higher level tools. Also integrated some existing components with the new ecu, our in car display now speaks can instead of serial, and soon another device will be pushing can packets to our analysis app. streaming can packets over lora and/or lte. analysis app is being un-jankified too. it's a phoenix tool for timeseries/laptime/etc dashboards.
I am maintaining the internet on the github. Take a look.
[0] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
I use it for various projects, like simple search
[1] https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=emulation
[2] https://rumca-js.github.io/search?page=1&search=amiga
Would be cool to see sites mapped on a network graph.
Currently working on a tool that allows you to get data insights/aggregations via natural language. currently only sql based databases/warehouses (Postgres, Bigquery and soon Clickhouse, Snowflake, sqlite, etc.). I will be working on document Databases at some point as well.
I started this for a bunch of reasons but mainly to allow non technical team members get any data insight they might need, without wasting dev resources on creating dashboards, queries etc.
I personally dislike this "everything in LLM/AI has to be a chat room" approach.
working on making it generally available but for now its early access only https://askquery.ai/
If you have any ideas, thoughts or concerns please let me know.
I'm making an OCR website focused on outputting ascii text that follows the layout of the original, so that it doesn't need to understand or interpret zones in the source: it just resembles the source. This makes proofing easier and should also improve feeding documents to LLMs.
My family uses multiple messenger apps - WhatsApp, Slack, Discord etc. I get so many messages on these everyday. I am also member of multiple WhatsApp groups and slack channels. Needless to say, I miss out on a lot (actually every) important message in groups and channels and sometimes DMs. I am working on ML solution to summarize the messages and info in these messengers for people whenever they access my service. The idea is to reduce the amount of info from 100:1 and give extremely succinct data without losing any important info.
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED?
I would be much more interested in a unified inbox on top of all those communication apps. An *actual* inbox, which lets me flag things, mark as (un)read, move to folders etc.
This sounds an awful like Siri Intelligence.
And sorry to say it's a pretty underwhelming experience.
In my country (Malaysia), most banks only export bank and credit card statements as PDFs, with no standard format for displaying the data. Since most of my transactions are cashless, I want a way to track my spending habits. I don't want to manually key in each transaction, so apps that require that won’t work for me.
Right now, I'm building a bank statement PDF converter to track my past spending. I’m about halfway there, with a semi-automated way to categorize transactions too. So far, it’s working great!
Do the banks offer email notifications for transactions? That could be another approach if you automate pulling info from the emails
For individual transactions, it's not really reliable, unfortunately. But for monthly reporting, they do have it, so that could be the next step. There's an app here that does something similar, but it doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore. It’s a free app, so I guess there’s no reason for them to keep investing in it. Fair enough. Looks like they’re shifting toward a B2B solution instead, so that might be my next direction too.
That said, my main goal for now is just to make it work for personal B2C use first. I do think there’s some potential here because major cities are pretty much cashless now, and there aren’t any good existing solutions for B2C.
There are some other decent options, but they mainly focus on B2B (that’s where the money is), so they’re quite expensive and overkill for what I need.
I was wondering about building a payment SMS notification -> Tracking app.
It would be more real-time and give me heartaches everytime I go out of budget :D:D:D
I’m working on Oliphaunt, a native macOS client for Mastodon. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support. I hope to release a TestFlight build soon, followed by an eventual App Store launch.
I’m also working on the next version of HacKit, a native macOS reader for Hacker News. You can already download it on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1549557075, and you can read more about it here: https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support.
It's a governance concept based on the idea that votes should be tradeable. The concept is quite simple, but it leads to some truly hairy game theory problems. Code here: https://github.com/evronm/marketDAO
A web-native[1] protocol for secure[2], decentralised[3] access to files distributed across mirrors:
1. "Web-native" as in the protocol is designed with HTTP and modern web browsers in mind. Consequently, it can be implemented using Service Workers so that no additional software (nor even browser extensions) are needed to access files.
2. Files are addressed by their cryptographic hash of their content (a) to ensure the authenticity of the data received from mirrors and (b) to avoid hard-coding specific locations/servers (i.e. content addressing).
3. Files can be mirrored by anyone and users can retrieve files from any mirror; no party requires any permission from any authority. This is in contrast to traditional mirroring schemes, where mirrors have to "register" with the owner of the content (e.g. to mirror a Linux distro).
Demo: https://webmirror-demo.netlify.app/
Code: https://gitlab.com/webmirror/webmirror/
Work in progress!
A self-contained little web server that supports Lua, HTTP/3, PostgreSQL and all sorts of different things:
https://github.com/xyproto/algernon
A snappy and configuration-free little editor/IDE for the terminal:
https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton
I've been building a little web DAW on the side for a minute. It's very early and not great yet, but it features some Faust effects [1] and WAMs [2].
https://minidaw.aykev.dev/
[1]: https://faust.grame.fr/
[2]: https://www.webaudiomodules.com/
I'm working on AudioDiary which is next-gen journalling app https://audiodiary.ai
Recently it got a surge of users (1k+ reviews on Google Play and 500+ reviews on Apple, really sucks that Apple don't show all reviews, but you can check the Google reviews here on desktop https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.audiodiary....) and people are writing in every day to say how much they love it and that it's changing their lives.
Also working on a new app in a similar vein that's way more technically complex and uses AI in a hands-on way, and looking for help on it.
Hey AudioDiary, I have a lot of experience in AI. Would love to chat. You can connect with me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnabgho/.
I am working on a reverse-engineered SDK for Stream Deck devices, called DeckSurf:
https://deck.surf
The SDK is open-source and on GitHub:
https://github.com/dend/decksurf-sdk
It's a hobby project, but one that I love working on because it unlocks some _really_ great hardware to be open to do anything I want it to be rather than be constrained by out-of-the-box client software that asks me to sign in with an account to get an extension installed.
I'm working on an educational game to try and replace or augment some security awareness training. To start with, the focus is phishing.
I'm also writing again. A story that's becoming more cyberpunk than I originally intended. It'll probably never be read by anyone but me, but getting it out of my head feels nice.
Also started going to the gym and working on my health.
I'm working on a little flat file based blogging tool called Postwave ( https://github.com/dorkrawk/postwave ) and using it to power a blog with career advice for software engineers called Don't Break Prod ( https://dontbreakprod.com/ ). Because the world needs more blogging tools and advice. Or maybe it just scratches my itch and it's fun to build.
I'm several months into https://www.clearboxlegal.com, a service for affordable legal help with citizenship applications.
Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads, etc...).
I'm learning a lot, but it's slow going.
This is primarily for US citizenship right? Do you offer US citizens help with emigrating as well?
Working on SEO automation agent. For years, understanding and interpreting analytics and combining it with SEO best practices have been a challenge.
We built an agent that can make sense of your website, understand how it renders on search engines, its weak points and strengths. You get actionable advice that can make a huge difference in search visibility, often taking less than an hour to implement changes.
https://nightwatch.io/seo-ai-agent/
Geolede - An interactive world news map.
https://geolede.com
I continue to spend most of my free energy learning Finnish. Only a few more years and I should be able to finally focus on my career again :')
Two new projects of note this month, one specific to Finnish language learners, and one that is probably useful for language learners in general:
* https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - A Finnish pocket dictionary with a TUI interface. This is the first nontrivial thing I've built in Go, by which I meant I had to implement and tweak a randomly pruning trie by hand to get the performance characteristics I wanted (it wasn't actually that bad). I chose Go mostly because of the fantastic cross-compilation story.
* https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/audio2anki - This Python program wraps around `yt-dlp` and `whisper` to create Anki decks for listening practice. This should work for any (monolingual) video in any language. There are many such projects on GitHub, I'm aware, but it was surprisingly hard to find any that actually wrapped around Whisper instead of needing an SRT, VTT, etc file to come from somewhere else. In that sense mine is a "one command" solution - just provide the YouTube link and go. It does not provide a translation for those subtitles yet; in keeping with the all-in-one approach, I'm thinking I might wrap around LLaMa 3 to let the user specify that we should also --translate-to {en,es,eo, etc} if desired. For now my reading skills are advanced enough that I don't need that.
Are you relocating permanently to Finland? Do you have a blog post of your experience there?
I relocated permanently back in 2021, in fact, soon after finishing up undergrad at Northwestern. I'm a dual US/EU citizen and I moved to be with my Finnish wife. I'm here now!
I don't have a blog post to share. My experience here has been largely positive, modulo the obvious financial caveat: My take home salary really is about ~30% of what it would be had I stayed back in the United States and followed a similar career trajectory. In the long run I think this is an eminently fixable problem, however :)
I’m building an AI-first startup for Latin America, kind of like TaskRabbit but simpler and more aligned with how people actually hire help here. We use WhatsApp for quick updates like ‘Provider is on the way,’ and we focus on getting verified professionals to people’s homes—without getting in the way of payments or how they handle the job.
To fund it, I’m building agentic workflows and automations for insurance, finance, and real estate companies. It’s a way to keep things moving while I get the startup off the ground.
I'm working on https://github.com/coreui/coreui, the Bootstrap fork with full Dart Sass 3.0.0+ compatibility.
Working on a self-hosted OSS AI Server with support for LLM APIs (OpenRouter/OpenAi/Anthropic/Google/etc), Ollama endpoints, ComfyUI and FFmpeg agents. It supports Synchronous, Queued and Reply to Web Callback APIs for each API Feature with typed APIs integrations for C#,TypeScript,JS,Python,Dart,PHP,Java,Kotlin,Swift,F# and VB.NET clients.
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ai-server
Several different tracks, having a hard time focusing on one.
- A little free library, but for e-books. Having a bit of trouble with this one because I think that the move to e-books inherently removes much of the magic of a little free library of physical books. Plus there's the whole "letting users upload things is hard" thing.
- E-ink picture frame. It's been done before and it's mainly just a use for an old rpi laying around.
- Looking to start a tech meetup in my small locale. It's hard to meet tech people in my area, let alone people who are willing to present.
- TUIs to aid me in my day job. Claude makes whipping up proofs of concept super easy and quick, so this one is the most fun to me right now.
[dead]
I'm working on setting up my first homelab using Proxmox. It's more of a hardware and cable routing project right now but I'm excited to move towards setting up the software side of things soon!
I'm also learning JavaScript through Daniel Shiffman's book Nature of Code. As someone who has a background in modeling it's a very engaging read, and the exercises are fun!
I’m building Videocrawl https://www.videocrawl.dev/ a platform designed to make video content more accessible and actionable. It offers two key features:
1. API for Clean Transcripts – Extract structured transcripts with references, code snippets, and images.
2. AI Video Assistant – Interact with videos using AI-powered tools for summarization, Q&A, and more.
Would love to hear your thoughts! You can reach out to me at sg@o14.ai
I'm trying a new take on the ubiquitous habit tracker app - one that tracks your daily habits but also tracks rating your day on multiple axes (enthusiasm, engagement, overall mood, etc). The idea is to correlate behaviors and outcomes in a way that provides insight into what could potentially trigger good or bad days. It's also an excuse for me to break out of backend web dev land and learn Vue.js and everything I need to know to actually build and host a web app.
A tool For logistics and container planning and movers:
LLM driven 3d packing written in F#
https://3dpack.ing
Love to see some F# in the wild
A (e)DSL to describe simple DSP graphs + a gccjit based AOT compiler. Basically a reimagination of the SuperCollider architecture with a JIT compiler instead of runtime plumbing. The idea is to have auto-vectorisation and loop unrolling kick in. Want to see how much of a difference that would make.
``` @Synth def tone(freq=440, amp=0.2): return SinOsc.ar(freq, 0) * amp ```
Writing a streaming S3 object archiving tool which collects all old objects (in my case they are near-zero in size, but occupy 4KB blocks). In total data is 10GB daily. So I have to stream all this process to not consume such amount of RAM.
These are audit data like external system request/responses for possible investigations. This saves a lot of space. Initially written in Python, now practicing with Rust. Container images is 2.2MB small :)
I'm working on my epidemic modeling package in Python: https://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik (also https://pypi.org/project/epidemik/).
Currently adding support:
- loading/saving models
- model library
- simple math in parameter definition (for example, defining beta=2*eta, where eta is defined previously)
- viral intra-host models
- demographics
- arbitrary seasonality functions
The goal is to have it all ready for when my Cambridge epidemic modeling review gets published in a couple of months.
It's my first serious package, so I would love any feedback
My weekend project Open Deep Research got more traction than I would have thought.
https://github.com/btahir/open-deep-research
An open source alternative to Gemini/OpenAI deep research. I'm experimenting with this cool flow chart workflow that I think can be a cool twist on generating reports for deep research.
Check it out and lemme know what you think. :)
Getting (back) into development for Apple TV.
Released an updated version of free app [0] for watching the news show Democracy Now [1]. Let's you browse 29 years of back episodes. Learning SwiftUI - mostly great, but when there's problems, it can be pretty frustrating.
[0] https://kenschutte.com/democracy-now/ [1] https://www.democracynow.org/
https://www.tabomagic.com
I've been obsessed with making it easier to handle tab overload in the browser without requiring any sort of active "tab management".
I have a working extension that replaces the "new tab" page with a clean view of all open tabs, along with simple ways to search and select which tab to switch to, including search over bookmarks and history. There are also some simple tools to allow for creating and reorganizing tab groups.
For a small group of people, it revolutionizes the browser experience. I'm still trying to decide if there is a widely-useful product there, or if it's just a niche use case.
Any and all feedback welcome!
sounds very useful. unfortunately i am on firefox
Since July of last year, in reverse chronological order:
WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl
Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-query
Guish, a bi-directional CLI/GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines: https://github.com/williamcotton/guish
I was creating this anonymous confession posting site with a 4chan like interface. [7shin](https://7shin.vercel.app) and today i just created an archive sort of thing called the-image-web. Basically I wanted to create a wall of images uploaded by people on the internet. [theimageweb](https://theimageweb.vercel.app)
I'm trying to eliminate all allergies in the world without customers having to ever leave their home.
We're starting with cat, dog, horse, and pollen allergies.
We're close to peanut allergies.
The science is known as allergy immunotherapy. https://www.wyndly.com/pages/immunotherapy
I am still working on Docgoblin (https://docgoblin.com) a Pdf search engine software based on Lucene, pdfium and JavaFX. The app is super fast and users are happy with it. I'm in the process of adding plain text files support and making the website look nicer.
Oh, thanks for this, this is going to make my life easier!
I've created and am still working on my portfolio page in WASM using Flutter Web: https://dmilicic.com/
To enable WASM properly you should be on the latest Chrome version since other browsers still have some issues supporting it, otherwise, it will fallback to canvaskit renderer which is slower.
I've written about the implementation itself here if anyone is interested: https://blog.dmilicic.com/posts/writing-a-personal-website-i...
A cross-platform clipboard manager / search-and-filter tool / launcher built with Flutter that has a simple Python plugin interface.
Plugins can be used to add new "result actions" and new sources of entries to filter and select. Eg. recent Jira tickets, email inbox, shell history, Notion pages, etc. The result actions are a way to easily perform common transformations on selected entries (eg. wrap in triple backticks, find and parse json, trim whitespace, ...) or kickoff some script with a selected entry as an argument.
Project started as a result of having to do a lot of work using Ubuntu and sorely missing Alfred and all the workflows I'd built with it. I wanted something for which I could build workflows once and have those workflows available on whatever system I'm on. Plus to be able to build some plugins that would be usable by coworkers regardless of what operating system they're using and with minimal runtime resource usage. There are some existing cross-platform solutions which could serve this purpose, like Cerebro, Ueli, Script Kit, some others.., but I wanted something lighter weight than is possible with an Electron app. Granted the current state of Epte is that it's built with Flutter + Go + Python so the final distributable and runtime memory usage are higher than is ideal.
Basic Windows support is almost there but there doesn't seem to be a great solution to switching to existing windows of an application instead of just re-launching it. The tool isn't intended to be as good or better than any given OS's built-in launcher so I'll probably just leave that as-is and upload the current state of the Windows build.
https://github.com/mwalkerr/Epte
I've been working on The Road to Next [0] for almost a year. In the end, it's more than just a course on Next.js. It's a deep dive into full-stack development, covering key third-party integrations that empower you to build your own products.
[0] https://www.road-to-next.com/
i read a lot of your articles, will try this for sure..
Oh hell yeah, your Road to React was exactly what the doctor ordered when I first waded my way into the full stack ocean years ago. I'm excited to see how this progresses!
That's great to hear :)
I’ve been mostly struggling with really bad creative burnout.
I pushed myself to do a couple of game jams cuz I thought it would make the burnout go away, but it’s basically only made it worse.
It’s the first time in my life where i haven’t had a billion ideas in my brain and im not sure what to do with myself. Been trying to listen to history podcasts and read manga to inspire myself again but it’s not working…
Scientific search engine/agent to surface papers with commercial potential (patent, moats, etc.) - eventually wanna expand to cover any search query. Imagine having someone reading 1000s of science papers on your behalf, with your goals in mind, and then telling which papers to pay attention to and why
Oh I'm trying to build something similar, let's chat! I've started with identifying potential project from ICLR2025, but it has an "entrepreneur" part in the response https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/
Writing software, a reading website, coverage tracking, self-hosted pulumi/terraform backend, and a space trading API game (since very recently).
It’s a bit hard to spread efforts over all of them, but at least most of these projects have lasted several years now, so not constantly doing new things that never finish.
What do you mean when you say "a reading website"? Something like Goodreads? Or a website for actually reading specific content?
Reading fiction written with the writing software. Think RoyalRoad or similar websites.
We’re building bleeding edge visual AI infrastructure at VLM Run (https://vlm.run).
We’re also hiring for multiple roles if anyone’s interested in founding roles (ML Systems, DevRel): https://vlm-run.notion.site/vlm-run-hiring-25q1
Taking a sabbatical and spending more time on an open source XMPP web client that I started 10 years ago already.
https://conversejs.org
The website is a bit old, but lots of exciting changes are happening under the hood and I finally have the time to make big architectural and performance improvements.
A web app that extends the capabilities of Spotify. You can create artists' discographies (all albums in a single playlist), merge multiple playlists into a new one with the ability to watch those playlists for new tracks, track live events for artists you follow or artists from a playlist.
I have been working on it for about a year now. It is not yet public because I am yet to apply for Spotify API quota extension, but I'd be happy to allow access manually if anyone wanted to take a look.
https://mottle.it/
I’m working on two main things right now.
1. I have a cloud platform for the movie industry (although in reality a lot of different industries use it for different things) that allows you to share files and get feedback from your team that I’ve been rewriting in Rust. Didn’t necessarily intend that but I started replacing Apache with Rust and liked it enough that I kept on replacing stuff.
https://www.kollaborate.tv (current version on cloud is not the Rust version, but on-prem is)
2. I work with another company that uses a really rudimentary way of time-tracking employees. So I’m working on a system to use their device MAC addresses to count their hours when they’re connected to work Wi-Fi. I was surprised that such a thing appears to not exist. I’m still working on it so it’s not anywhere public right now.
I've been working on a webapp to scrape links users enter from Zillow/Apartments.com/Trulia/etc to build tables of listings you are interested in. It can show your commute time to work or queries for amenities nearby like "Trader Joe's".
https://getlistable.app/
I'm making a tool for teachers to create realistic and motivational AI portraits for their students to go with "when I grow up" essays (https://agelens.com). I was not satisfied with shitty looking AI-aging tools that were on the market, and decided to make a one that looks awesome and inspiring.
The goal is to bring inspiring emotions like these to the classrooms - https://youtube.com/shorts/waLXYiV-2cE
Multiple things
* An open-source desk scheduling solution: https://workplacify.com/ (GitHub: https://github.com/igeligel/workplacify)
* A bit passively: https://sheetsinterview.com/ - Hackerrank for Excel/Google sheets (I need to add some more task templates, hopefully with AI)
* A Chakra UI v3 component library for SaaS
A parser combinator library. I'm writing a tool that will do static analysis of SQL (in a very limited fashion, it's a build tool and not a static analyzer, but I need to understand dependency relationships between statements). I started out using `nom`, but found it imperfectly matched to my needs (underpowered in areas I desired and overpowered in areas I didn't need for my project). `nom 8` came out with some interesting simplifications, but it happened to break my code in a way that would be awkward to fix. So I bit the bullet and started writing my own library.
My library is specialized for parsing text. That had enabled some cool capabilities.
It comes with a `Span` primitive, which tracks where in a file a token came from, for implementing error messages. A `Span` can be the input or the output of a parser. At the front end a `Span` is an entire file, and as you slice and dice it, it tracks the metadata of where it came from.
Along with the standard `Sequence` (combining parsers in a set order) and `Choice` operations (branching between many parsers) that parser combinators are built around, I have come up two operations that are very handy. I suspect that others have made them before, they are both patterns I used in `nom`. (I've also only skimmed the original paper, they could be in there and I didn't see them.)
One of them is called `Compose`. As an alternative to a `Sequence`, instead of a group of parsers consuming the input in order, the first parser consumes the input, and the subsequent parsers consume the return of the previous parser. This is useful for instance when implementing escapable strings; the first parser grabs the entire string, the second one transforms escape sequences. (There is a mechanism for transforming the content of a `Span` while retaining it's metadata.)
The other is called `Fuse`. This is a small twist on `Sequence`, where after matching the parsers in order, the result is all concatenated together into a single token. This is useful for a "pattern matching" primitive, where you want to find a series of tokens in order, but you don't want to split them into different tokens, you want them all together.
It's been a wild ride, there's been a lot of thorny issues. I often think I should've just stuck with `nom 7` instead of shaving this yak. But I've learned a whole lot about writing especially abstract/DSL-yy Rust by combining tuples, traits, and declarative macros. There are also other programming language projects I'd like to pursue, and it will be nice to have a tailor fit tool for parsing text.
Special thanks to dtolnay's `paste,` the real MVP.
I did something like this some time ago [0] and still using it in prod - feel free to get inspiration in case you find it useful.
[0] https://github.com/preludejs/parser
>A parser combinator library.
Cool. I got interested in this subject recently. Have been checking out some text articles and videos about it. Unfortunately there is not much info available (and some of it is advanced stuff), or at least I couldn't find much, so far.
I am working on a library, which is not exactly a parser combinator one, but borrows some of those ideas, for use in other projects.
>One of them is called `Compose`.
About the escapable strings example: can you not just rescan the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full string?
> Unfortunately there is not much info available [.]
Parser combinators are a bit hard to get into, the most helpful resource for me was `nom`'s "Choosing a Combinator" document [1], which is dense but gives you an overview of all the Lego bricks which you can then start imagining how to fit together.
I've not really read it, but there's also the original paper on the subject [2] (as linked to by the `parsec` documentation [3]) which describes the nuts and bolts theory behind it.
> [Can] you not just rescan the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full string?
Absolutely, this is just a convenience around that pattern that allows you to express that like:
Where `escaped` does the rescanning using the parser `json_string_escapes` (which consumes all the input up to the next escape, if it doesn't start with an escape sequence, or else consumes an escape sequence and returns the transformed text - this API is a little awkward, it may change).And also more generally for any parsers `foo`, `bar`, and `baz` as:
[1] https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom/blob/main/doc/choosing_a_...[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140528151730/http://legacy.cs....
[3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec
Thanks for the reply. I will check out those links.
Finishing the feeder "hack" to my pick and place machine [1] so that I can begin full retail production in house of the V2 Smoothieboard CNC controller [2].
As well as finishing shipping the remaining boards to the kickstarter backers (many years late, but significantly better).
Been a long struggle overall...learned a lifetime's worth during the last couple years. Every single day has been spent doing something new it seems. Looking forward to what the next broken machine will teach me :)
[1] https://youtu.be/Vk53VsXkh9o?si=SU45-DkkjwZi6orp [2] https://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieboard2 https://github.com/Smoothieware/SmoothieV2
I am actually pleased to have an answer to this. I'm working on IronCalc, an open source spreadsheet engine:
https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc
I have been doing this as a side project for over a year now. It's progress is slower than I would like but there we go!
Trying to keep a computational epidemiology research group going in the teeth of the CDC, NSF and NIH being absolutely gutted.
Was looking for an iOS app to always see my age in days on the lock screen. Didn‘t find one, so I first created a shortcut which would change my lock screen background image each night and overlay the number of days on it.
This didn’t feel integrated enough and could fail if the phone was off, so I started looking into Swift and created my first app [1] with added features like contact import and notifications for other people‘s ages in days.
It‘s still very much a work in progress but the core functionality of the lock screen widget is something I use almost every day to quickly get the current number and use it for notes etc. I just like having an incrementing unique-to-me number to reference stuff.
[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/days-of-life-milestones/id6738...
nice job , I think I can do something like that on with my linux desktop. Great idea , it can give a sense of how many days how many hours I have lived on this earth and maybe even by a average time , show how much time is left (yes it won't be predictable , but I also don't want to procastinate thinking there is a tomorrow , I think I like steve jobs quote in the manner that he said live your life as if its the last hour or something like that.
Thanks! Yes, was also thinking of adding a menu bar item to macOS to have it always visible.
I'm building a cashback rates comparator for France :) https://www.best-cashback.com/
I'm working on my web framework Mayu. Currently attempting to make something like Vite/Rollup for Ruby, basically a new module system where you can import all sorts of file types with plugins, and hot module replacement.
https://github.com/mayu-live/framework
https://mayu.live/
A platform for productivity assistants for startup founders
I'm working on a SaaS that will detect publicly shared AWS resources. Not by evaluating policies but by actually testing the availability. Some examples: can a KMS key be used from a 3rd party AWS account, are there any object in an S3 truly exposed publicly, and similar. The motivation is to find truly critical issues in AWS account setup by addressing the first priority items - public exposure.
Another project that is currently only happening in my head - I am thinking about security operations teams that I think often do the same things in different companies. Namely there is a lot of tinkering with detections and alerting, often for the same services. I think this could be cost optimized by being offered as a SaaS.
An editor for Clinical Quality Language (CQL) with syntax highlighting and parsing.
Repo: https://github.com/rukshn/cquill
Demo: https://rukshn.github.io/cquill/
I've been using Javascript to generate frame-by-frame animations as SVGs. I composite these into big grids, then use a pen plotter to draw them with ink. Afterwards, I cut them into individual frames and do stop motion animations.
This is first attempt, working on another now: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdORIKNQ5w/
I'm working on re-writing Partizion to be faster, easier to use, simpler, and more beautiful (beautiful is good design — https://paulgraham.com/taste.html).
After the chrome MV3 migration which was an absolute rigmarole, I lost my taste for beauty. I want to get back to making beautiful software.
1. My personal website. -> I spent so much time ingesting content, I finally realized I need to produce some too.
2. A AI assisted brief generator -> clients often have a hard time articulating their requirements for new projects.
3. Prototyping the UX of "my" version of the perfect "process aware" editor. More organized than a Wiki, more flexible than tools like Jira, Aha and all. Not ready to share a public link yet. My goal is share my mockup in a week or two.
Refactoring my pushover.net tool Nudge [0] to have a more cleaner code since it's feature complete for my needs, now.
Writing the specifications of a file format which I'll be using for the second iteration of an high-performance material simulation code I have written in my Ph.D.
[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~bayindirh/nudge
Working on a new Java logging tool. I'm basically yak shaving, really. Was unhappy with the existing solutions for a new project I'm working on. Depending on how it goes and how the customer feels about it, I'll try to open source it.
Do you mean like a library, alternative to log4j2 or some sort of frontend tool to view logs?
Something of an alternative to log4j, yes. On every project I've worked on, the vast majority of logs are useless. They're either too verbose, or not verbose enough. It's never clear who they're meant for. Log levels are very hard to get right. Is this really a warning? Or an error? Should someone do something? And when?
So I'm experimenting with ways of making it easier to write useful logs.
I'm working on a browser extension that aims to save time when navigating the internet. You can save and re-use links, instant search using different search engines, private history, sharing links, and much more. Initially build for myself, but once I noticed that everyone in my little family is using it every day and is frustrated when not installed, I decided to make it available publicly through: https://www.markbook.io
ATM I'm making some videos to show how it works and how it saves time for us. It's free, 100% private, local-first, and has E2E browser sync for subscribers.
I have been screwing around with the idea of converting a video to a line scan camera. I wrote a small blog host about it. [1]
After seeing an example image on wikipedia someone took of a tram [2] I want to try do it to the trains that run near my house.
[1]: https://writing.leafs.quest/programming-fun/line-scanner
[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-scan_camera#/media/File...
The only national public database of UK food banks https://www.givefood.org.uk
Probably the most niche thing I have ever created, but I recently worked on taking the books and ratings from Patrick Collison's Bookshelf (https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf) and putting them in a spreadsheet with links to buy them.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11jLH3UISmRId_gTFXiTQ...
Been wanting to learn browser APIs like Service Workers and IndexedDB in depth, and HTMX, so started building a Todo App: https://github.com/hasanhaja/tasks-app
It's meant to work entirely offline and the service worker acts as the backend for the application.
https://screenmemory.app is my current project as of a year or so. Records your screen continuously and lets you look back at it through a GUI. I use it myself to recap days or weeks at work, mostly.
Anything like this for Linux ?
Not sure to be honest, I know a lot of these tools popped up and swiftly disappeared. It wouldn't surprise me if there is a Linux version still alive though, try searching for "Rewind.ai alternative Linux".
This is nice, quite expensive tho.
I'm building a web-based Atari 8-bit emulator [1]. I haven't pushed my current progress yet, the repo only contains the CPU emulator and a few utils which I wrote a few years ago. Lots of bugs and missing features but it can already run some of my favorite games, so I'm pretty happy and proud!
[1] https://sfotty.cyco130.com
A chess site I'm calling 'Chess Derivatives' with modified rules to reinforce best practice. I'm still tweaking the specifics but the basic pitch is this
Augmented Chess: Normal chess with conventional ELO ranking system but you get additional penalties & rewards based on common bad practices, and recovering from bad positions.
> The first person that breaks from the book line loses 10% of the start time (unless book was not an option / the line was exhausted)
> Missing a forced checkmate forces you to wait 5% of the start time before your next move
> Achieving any principled position good grants some time (Passed pawn, connected rooks, rook / queen / bishop battery, etc)
> Doing any principled bad position loses some time (Knight on the rim, blocked bishop, king past the first rank in early game or mid game
----------------------
Continued Position: Chess but you continue a position from a high-level chess championship. There are a couple value-adds here
> Provide lower level players with a way to start a middle or end game positions after a highly skilled player followed all the correct principles. My theory is this will reinforce why those principles exists, how they can benefit you, etc.
> Provide high level players a way to be forced into positions out of their comfort zone / their preferred styles
> Provide differently-skilled players to continue play from unique positions with the desired amount of odds. So a GM might play a 1000 ELO player but starting from a position with -9 evaluation, etc.
If you have any ideas, comments, or feedback LMK.
Trying to develop an app to test FFGL video plugins. I already gave up on GStreamer and now I'm battling libavcodec/FFmpeg. Once I gain enough experience, the next step will be a more complex video processing system.
I'm also developing an online store for media files. At this point it would have been cheaper to pay for a ready-to-use service, but I felt like refreshing my knowledge of web development. I'm still unsure if going with react-router was the right choice.
While learning Japanese using a mix of comprehensible videos (I like cijapanese.com), podcasts, and shows, I've also been working on my own language learning podcast generator to smooth over plateaus and learn more specialized vocabulary. I'm getting more and more excited about it as a platform for experimentation with different teaching methods.
It's not available publicly yet, but works well for my purposes and I'm working on productionizing it. Sign-up page for updates: https://letmeknow.jkoff.ca/infinite-ci
Superpowers - Basically in-browser JavaScript without the restrictions. So CORS-less fetch(), accessing tabs, taking screenshots, Debugger access, webrequest, debugger access. all from normal JS via a Superpowers JS object
I am currently exploring methods to detect and categorize undocumented special tokens (or: "delimiters") used by LLMs.
As part of this effort, I have developed a preliminary prototype (named deLLMiter) that I am refining.
This method is founded upon the hypothesis that there exists a correlation between first-order expressions and more complex, hierarchical forms of expression (https://glthr.com/llm-delimiters-and-higher-order-expression...).
With this project, my goal is to improve the security of LLM models.
I've been working on https://nuenki.app, which selectively translates websites as you browse the web so that you can learn languages while you procrastinate.
I'm also doing some electronics - I'd like to make a tool that gives blind people without light perception light perception by putting a lightweight device on their forehead that delivers haptic feedback based on light intensity. I'm doing that with a friend, and we're planning on open sourcing the specs.
Launched Mashups back in January and been iterating over it. It's Yahoo Pipes clone - something I always wanted to make myself.
https://www.mashups.io
I've been working on a little search wrapper. It allows using features like DuckDuckGo's bangs and Kagi's snaps with any engine you choose.
For example, you can search "cheese", and it'll show you results for cheese on Google. If you search "!b cheese", it'll search "cheese" but on Bing instead. "@yt !b cheese" will search "site:youtube.com cheese" on Bing.
I built it mainly so I wouldn't blow through my 100 Kagi trial searches quite so quickly.
https://search.vale.rocks
I've built a small desktop app (Electron) with a chat interface with multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic) and simple "agents". Done that to automate some of the tasks and practice JS. http://github.com/louisdecharson/converse Happy to get some feedback.
I've been inspired to build my own browser mmo game after seeing hordes.io, which is made by a single person. Launched a prototype with, for now, only basic movement over at http://everwilds.io. Instead of working in a silo I've decided to develop in public and launched as soon as possible to slowly gather an audience. So far the Everwilds.io Discord server already gained 1 member ;) I'll share the link incase others want to follow the development: https://discord.gg/HWZSpkvz
Which tools are u using?
VSCode, TypeScript, Three.js. But I am about to remove Three.js and use WebGPU instead, I don't like the 800kb+ size of Three.js. Also will do some experimenting with C++ and WebAssembly and see how that goes.
I'm in the early stages of working on a Kubernetes cost monitoring solution.
The current solutions out there are too expensive and not self-serve.
If anybody else has this problem, I'd love to chat with you.
I'm still working on DocSpring [1], originally launched on Hacker News in October 2017 under the name "FormAPI." It's a PDF generation API with a template editor UI for setting up fields on PDF forms. It makes it easy to turn complex tax and immigration forms into simple type-safe APIs with strong validations.
I've been having a lot of fun with AI agents lately. Have tried a lot of them - Cline, Roo Code, Windsurf, and finally settled on Cursor now with Claude 3.5 sonnet. It's been a big boost for my productivity.
AI helped me write a synchronous API proxy in Go that I'm almost ready launch. One of the main challenges with Ruby on Rails is that it's terrible at handling long-lived HTTP requests. Especially a lot of them at the same time. So our PDF generation API was forced to be asynchronous and our customers need to poll for status updates (or set up webhooks.)
This new synchronous subdomain will handle all the polling logic for you, so you can just make an HTTP request, wait a few seconds (or longer), and receive a link to a PDF that's ready to download. Even with AI, it was still very difficult and took many weeks to get it right. Challenges included security, load testing, data races, concurrency, and setting up reliable, secure infrastructure with an internal load balancer. I learned a huge amount about both Go and Kubernetes. But it's almost done and I should be launching in the next day or two.
After that, I'm finally launching support for template versioning. This will allow you to pin your API requests to a published version, so you can keep making changes to a draft version without affecting production. It's long overdue so I'm excited to get this launched as well.
Also working on a side project from time to time: VisualCI [2]. We have a lot of PDF integration tests that use image diffs, and some browser tests where I compare screenshots. So this is a tool I've wanted for a long time, and the paid services I've found can be a bit pricy. I'm going to try to build a very simple MVP that just does what we need, and maybe others will find it useful too.
[1] https://docspring.com
[2] https://visualci.com
I’ve been scraping and tracking Canadian grocery prices for a few years, lots of ideas on how to do more with it if I had more time… http://grocerytracker.ca/
Bridging 3D editing with AI image/video-to-video. I have a lot of the disparate elements (timeline, video export, texture projection, etc) but I'm still playing around trying to find the killer use case.
https://mixreel.ai
Website is just a placeholder, but I'm documenting my progress on Bluesky at https://nickfisherau.bsky.social/.
Personality protocol for a chatbots platform. How to share personalities among different layers and components. At the end of the day is customization and parametrization of LLM instructions, however an interesting topic to explore.
I'm building a digital B2B debt collection service with teeth (https://accountgram.com). Basically, the contrarian of most debt collection startups trying to be a nicer nag, now with AI! Instead, I want there to be real consequences for defaulting on B2B debts via means of public disclosure, and then more.
I'm working on my online multiplayer game: kingbit (iOS). I released it back in 2023 and haven't touched the code since. It's still by far my most successful app (7.3M impressions, 500 MAU) so I'm excavating the code and going to try and seriously monetize this project into a real business.
Implementing https://interpreterbook.com/ and subsequently https://compilerbook.com/ in C++.
I'm still working on development of a native Windows application for data analysis of SQLite databases. It's geared towards non-technical (or only slightly technical) users and allows queries to be easily made without knowing SQL. Additionally, it easily lets the user quickly create charts from the queried data (bar, column, histogram, line, pie, scatter). Development is nearly complete and hoping to put in the hands of testers within the next couple of weeks. Also trying to decide on name for the product so that I can start development of website for it.
I’m working on a parser + dashboard for bank / cc / investment statements.
You feed in your docs and you get a dashboard that shows your categorized “flow” of money (think sankey, stacked bar), as well as some simple grouping tools (Show me all grocery spends on my credit card by month.
I initially wrote it in Haskell, but I don’t really know Haskell and I didn’t feel very productive with the stack, so I’m reworking it in something more familiar now.
Seems like you're not the only one, I've seen other people mentioning similar projects in this post
Yeah I noticed that as well! Makes sense that it’s a pretty “front and center” problem for a lot of people.
An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm building a prototype with SwiftUI and SwiftData and I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C. Compared to my previous experience writing and publishing an iphone app, everything now feels much worse with Swift's ridiculous compile times and non-descriptive compile errors.
I'm working on a pure SWI-Prolog grammar to describe the modern music notation. The end goal being to be able to do the last step of Optical Music Recognition and generate the final music score (in the MEI) from a set of graphical primitives: https://github.com/kwon-young/music
It's been months I've been stuck on the description of note groups because of the insanely complex 2D semantics.
Embedded Lisp for app scripting:
https://github.com/codr7/eli
Typed Relational Database access:
https://github.com/codr7/tyred
I'm still working on https://reciperium.com I've fixed a bunch of bugs, and hopefully if I can I'll be adding support for uploading pictures.
reciperium is a small platform to write recipes and easily fork other recipes to adapt them to your liking
https://milliontimer.com - A time-tracking and invoice generation tool for freelancers focusing on simplicity.
It's not 100% finished yet, but I've been using it myself on my freelance projects.
Continuing to work on https://minifeed.net/ for the second year.
It’s a curated directory of personal blogs and a blog search engine. I started to build a simple RSS-reader for myself, just wanted a HN-like list of links. Slowly it grew, and now it has full-text search across tens of thousands of blog posts from 700+ blogs (adding new ones every day), related blogs and posts recommendations, lists, link blogs. Now I’m working on adding email newsletters, curated collections, and text-to-speech generation.
Building two things ATM - first is an interactive fiction engine (almost done) and game with it (halfway there). Just wrapped pre-production on music and art, going into the studio to record final tracks later in the year. Launching end of the year hopefully.
I'm also building an application and training materials to help people with annual strategy. I've spent 20 years in marketing and ops putting up with people doing it badly so this is an attempt to help people running businesses actually come up with a strategy likely to result in something valuable.
- An instagram e-commerce search engine for LATAM (starting with Colombia): https://dev.dommo.app (still in development)
- poesia.pics - to generate poetry (spanish) from pictures
- podtafolio.co - a podcast directory (colombia). it generates a summary of the episodes and provide a search experience
I'm still working on my passion project: https://nextflick.tv
I'm in the process of refining the filters determining which movies will be included. And at the same time I am trying to acquire news users, which is going quite well. Slow and steady increase, I am currently sitting at around 100 visitors per day.
Mostly just trying to get back into game development after a 15 year hiatus. Trying to task myself with recreated some portion of a game I've been playing recently. This month it's the fishing mini game from Dredge. Last month it was a simple inventory system. I've nothing to share really, I'd hoped to do a few blog posts on it, but having a 17 month old takes up most of your spare time
I'm still working on Shepherd, a book discovery platform aimed at feeding readers' curiosity. Later this year, I am developing a tool to bring your to-be-read pile to life in some cool ways and improve the accuracy of our topic/genre system (plus adding themes, tropes, and moods).
https://shepherd.com/
Our reader's fav reads of 2024: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published
A tool to interact with news using ML and AI. Kinda like an rss reader but with less focus on organizing news at the feed level.
I’m building an open source static website hosting platform. The idea was to get back to less complexity. There are so many static sites and apps out there that jump through crazy deployment hoops just for something that should just be a simple file upload.
Recently open sourced everything.
https://github.com/orbiterhost/.github
I’m working on Rational Utopia and multiversal AI alignment, with the computational ethics that span from the Big Bang to the ultimate dystopia or direct democratic multiversal utopia https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LaruPAWaZk9KpC25A/rational-u...
I made a Python library that can be used to simulate the combined effect of financial patterns (e.g. salary, inflation, investment gains, etc) over time so you can plan your finances better. It's currently on my GitHub and I'm looking for new things to add to it :) https://github.com/TimoKats/pylan
https://leadsparklabs.com/
LeadSparkLabs is an agency that assists small and medium-sized businesses in generating more leads by quickly creating customized Lead Magnet Mini Apps. These mini apps are designed to engage your target audience and convince them to give you their email.
I'm working on a music box to stream web radio channels from soma.fm. This was originally a scheme to have a crazy radio interface with seashells as the dials and the such, but now it has become a slog through linux audio drivers and systemd services.
Noodling away on game called Nitronauts in my spare time—just released the demo!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539310/Nitronauts_Demo/
It’s built on a custom C++ engine (using SDL2) and uses WebRTC for networking, so a browser version is coming very soon. It’s a 2-6 player couch/online party game with Bomberman-like mechanics, plus wacky items and power-ups across nine stages.
I'm building an app to help small-to-medium businesses track and manage their subscription spending
https://tracksub.io/
I did a fun small Elixir thing that fetches my Albertsons receipts and stores them so I can track our grocery spending there over time. It's produced some interesting results that have changed our spending habits a little bit.
I'm making AI more fun to talk with. The new updates just keep making it blander and blander. What I want to do is inject more personality into bots. It's not natural, it's dramatized.
Quillbot makes it sound better for essays and presentation. I want to do the opposite and make it sound elliptical, turn a rant into a jab, that kind of thing. You don't say, "You're an idiot," you say, "Thanks, I thought I was the dumbest person in the room."
I've been working on language for a little over a year now. There's no documentation at all, just some examples if you can figure out how to run them. I thought building a compiler would take less time than it has, but it's been feeling like a good investment in my future of making things. It's a project I can just keep moving with forever.
https://github.com/MichaelEstes/Spite
I am working on the second version of WhatDinner [0]. Initially marketed it as 'Tinder to decide what to eat’ and focussed on couples and families, but then only a fraction use it in family mode. So, now I am changing the concept and helping users generally decide what to eat (documenting it here [1])
[0] https://whatdinner.com/
[1] https://bsky.app/profile/kiruio.bsky.social
Working on my startup https://wetarseel.ai which uses WhatsApp API for message broadcasts and creating whatsapp bots to converse with incoming messages.
This looks cool.
You might want to pass the landing page copy though a spell checker or LLM:
A multiplayer card game thats inspired from UNO and exploding kittens. WebGL at moment but will be on mobile soon. http://simpleyuji.itch.io/fishbait
I did this over the weekend just to learn about netlify functions, you can get a hackernews mystic reading, hehe: https://chimerical-praline-494358.netlify.app/
I'm working on an Android/iOS database client to quickly insert data (currently supporting Postgres). I use it to record my workouts, journal, etc.
It's in open testing phase for Android users if anyone wants to check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manugo.bit...
I have been working in my spare time on Japanese vocabulary learning app and just yesterday finally convinced myself to publish the sources: https://github.com/d3nzil/gaku
Be warned it's in early stages, difficult to use and code is big ball of mud. But the basic functionality works, so maybe it will be already useful for someone. And I have been using it and working on it consistently, so hopefully it'll only get better.
We bought a 50 year old house that has never been touched since the year it was build. With the costs of trades being through the roof, I'm trying to do as much as possible myself - currently demoing the house to the studs (if it had studs, it's actually all brick walls and concrete floors).
In my off-hours, I'm working on an old school pixel art RPG, but in 3D.
Oh, and finally I'm also working on finding a new job :-(
You’re not alone! I cleaned 100 square meter of wall in February from everything that was put there during last 70 years. From somehow modern plasterwork with probably asbestos to two inch thick dirt in other room. Waterproofing is brittle and does not function anymore, so it comes next and then replacing windows. All by myself, the costs of trades can’t be justified especially when quality isn’t there in most cases.
I've looked into replacing windows but decided that that's going to be one of the things that I'll let professionals do.
The ironic thing is that not only are the tradies expensive, but prices for renting specialty machines are also crazy high where I currenly live. Like, I looked into renting a stand-up concrete grinder/sander -- $100 for 4 hours! Plus, you need to buy the sanding attachments which are another $200 if you go for diamond disks. I'm now actually considering using just a hand grinder and spend a whole week on what I could probably do in a day or two otherwise.
Working on creating likely-correct software with formal and semi-formal methods for rapid iteration.
Done the first demo: https://www.osequi.com/studies/list/list.html, now focusing on "diagrams as code": https://tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/
I'm building a tool for uni students to study more effectively and have less stress for their exams. This is done with the study techniques retrieval practice(practising remembering to make recall easier, spaced repetition(schedule reviews for long term memorization, concrete examples. Most of this is done with ai generated flashcards and simple ai explanations. This week I will finish the exam generation feature. http://www.mimair.com
Looks cool! Any luck finding paying customers yet?
A simple, non tech method to increase agreement in online arguments.
I’ve gotten to some degree of a protocol, surprisingly.
——-
I had made this LLM prompt (about a year ago?) wildly useful in helping me think.
It’s helped with everything from realizing you have burnout, relationship issues, arguments with family members, Mondays
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Cdq3drl87-two-guides-3
I made another version, which showed its “thinking”.
I've been dabbling with local ML projects, and trying to get them to run with ROCm on my Radeon 7900 XTX card. All the solutions to run for example Llama.cpp or Automatic1111 are a bit hacky, so I made a repo where I document how to run them in containers.
https://github.com/Krisseck/ROCm-Docker-Scripts
Needs more documentation and more projects, but all contributions are welcome!
I'm working on valuation models for wholesale electricity trading of flexibility assets (batteries, basically).
Currently I'm restructuring a big chunk of the code for readability, trying to apply good refactoring practices (work in small bits).
After a lot of frustrating experiences with Python linear optimization DSLs, I'm thinking of writing my own at some point as a side-project :)
Awesome, I did something similar a while ago. What's your motivation? F
I'm improving my webapp that helps you learn lanaguages through short stories: https://webbu.app/. I recently added the ability to play the sounds of words and sentences to improve listening and pronunciation. You can also practice different verb tenses, answer questions, track your vocab, etc.
Working on a loyalty points platform.
Right now it's been commissioned by one customer and is a hodgepodge of duct tape and glue.
Trying to slowly refactor functions so I can truly make a platform and onboard new customers.
A platform for technical founders to accelerate their journey to PMF http://buildrappo.com/founders
I’ve faced this challenge multiple times in my journey of building products and startups—having an early champion onboarded as a design partner while the team builds is critical to a startup’s success.
A reactive notebook that can handle side effects. I've had to go back to the drawing board, but making good progress. The latest is work on the core reactive and effect system and not yet integrated back into the notebook, but will get there. I've been logging my progress so far:
https://interjectedfuture.com/tag/lab-notes/
Subscribe to follow along if you're interested.
Building Duty, a TypeScript workflow orchestration tool for durable async execution.
Unlike queues (SQS) needing state hacks or pricey orchestration tools, Duty uses your existing Postgres to ensure tasks survive (retry) failures, retain state between runs, and eventually finish.
Pre-release, star if interested
https://github.com/webslash/duty
I'm building a daily trivia game using Bolt.new.
What do you think? https://brainblitz.app
I am working on a free mobile app for speed cubers. you can download the ios version at https://sccomps.com/
https://uhc.dev - With all the layoffs etc... at UHC I am trying to setup a 100% AI powered version of UHC. Just learning/practice really; but been really fun.
I'm working in a web app to edit the text in an image. Meaning thag using ocr for detecting the text then try to find the modt closest font and replacing the text in the image for an editable texbox with the same text but being able to edit it.
I recently started 3D printing rings and electro plate then with gold or silver. I'm also going to explore powder coating soon.
Once I feel comfortable, I'll probably open an Instagram account and hand out free personalised rings. For some time I've thought about how I should price them, and I've reached the conclusion that giving them out for free feels right.
Im creating a free web-based, open-source self-hosted platform that brings together all your favorite online tools in one place—fully self-hosted and ad-free.
Project: https://github.com/iib0011/omni-tools
I quit my job last December to start an AI x AdTech startup which didn't work out: we discovered a similar piece of tech was about to get released by Google AdX. So now it's back to finding ideas, I'm sure there are niche problems that can be addressed using AI agents, one idea we have is developing an AI agent enabling content creators to better connect with their community.
Adding the Spelling Bee equivalent in Kannada language to my Kannada word puzzles app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.puzzle.pad...
Purely in my head. A new kind of ERP system. I'm tempted to start writing it in public to trigger debate. I don't really want to say what is novel about it exactly, but it would be very open.
Turned in to a pretty boring post, since I gave no detail!
I am making a simple tool to make playlists on spotify with AI... still there is a lot to be done like making the flow a lot more conversational, integrating with YouTube, replicating the same thing there, then writing a frontend (planning on using ShadCN for that); https://github.com/anshumankmr/sporky
Radar-based device for measuring athlete sprint & agility tests.
A lot of professional sports clubs, S&C coaches, etc.. use timing gates for measuring sprints, but those are a pain to set up, only capture split times, and are expensive. I think radar (+ optional video overlay) provides a far superior solution.
https://ledsreact.com
Recently finished rewriting the code for my personal blog: https://bryanhogan.com/
Have also been working on making a customizable self-tracking app for my thesis.
And learning Korean, working on an app to learn words faster: https://game.tolearnkorean.com/
Last year I built an automated system for accepting comments via email (demo: https://spenc.es/writing/email-as-a-commenting-system/#comme...)
This year I’m making it production safe and open sourcing it.
Fine-tuning an LLM to create long-form podcast timestamps. Apparently even the best LLMs with long context are incredibly bad with this so I'm curating data and creating a service out of it.
Working on letting users upload their own transparent fashion images to a web app that let's you use your camera to apply the world to characters clothing. I made it for an exhibition in Kyoto and it was a lot of fun. Hoping to expand on it a bit more.
https://www.urbanlens.city/
https://genatron.ai - Build ready-to-use business apps in a few minutes by providing requirements in plain English.
I'm building a podcast player to learn languages.
https://www.langturbo.com (No signup required)
I built this small website to retrieve personalized quotes/poems and questions also some habit tracking https://www.checkindaily.ai/
Also I have built a chrome plugin that can filter twitter by feeding your feed to gemini returning only tweets that match a criteria (E.g. no politics, only Ai or something more elaborate).
Coding Interview Prep as an Epic quest: https://faangshui.com/books/foundations/chapters/accumulator...
Trying to scratch my own itch by creating (yet another) todo list site. It's more for me than anyone else. I typically use a simple text file to track my tasks in a day but I wanted something just a little bit more. Still minimal but maybe 1 - 2 steps above editing a file.
Donezo: https://donezo.pages.dev/
django-simple-deploy, a tool for making your initial Django deployment easier across a variety of platforms. It's plugin-based, so it should cover a growing set of platforms and deployment approaches. I just made the 1.0 release this month.
https://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
secrets management that's easier to use than whatever you currently do.
just started it this week (won a bunch of things at a hackathon with it)
this is going to be free (there's a different product for enterprise this will feed into - but this is going to always be free). join the discord for announcements.
https://nblx.org
Well, I know that I was just saying that HN is not the place to look for gamers, but I am still working on a video game.
Danger World (https://linktr.ee/playdangerworld) is well underway and should be coming out later this year! Danger World is a 2D narrative adventure written using Flutter's open source game engine, Flame. I am the solo developer. I've been working with a very talented art team to do the art and animations in Spine. The composer has just finished the soundtrack!
Danger World is running on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows. Last week, we got Danger World compiling on my Steamdeck for SteamOS instead of having to use the Windows .exe + Proton. I'll be getting the Linux depot setup in Steam soon.
In the spirit of doing things that won't scale to get some interest bootstrapped, I've been doing a sticker giveaway. I have a bunch of stickers featuring the cast of the game and the Danger World logo and I have been mailing them out to anyone who wants them. I've sent out 40 envelopes or so with about 10 stickers in them each.
So far, in experimenting with the various social media platforms, Bsky seems to be where my potential users are. I posted a boxart concept that I was using for IndieDB and got 100 followers from that single post of who all appear to be real actual users. Certain engagement metrics like impressions are non-existent in Bsky, but in exchange for real actual engagement from people who seem interested in my game's art, who cares?
X feels extremely P2W, except you buy their checkmark and they still don't show your content to anyone. I'm still experimenting heavily in social media land. Meta and Tiktok seem to show more promise, but since I've been scoping out and planning a visual novel mode I have also been considering taking Reddit up on their free ad credit.
I'd love to talk with anyone more experienced in marketing games like mine.
Still working on Falling Fruit beta site! Just finished a big project to migrate the existing 10 languages with AI, I based it on the existing verbiage but looking for native speakers to check them, especially Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic.
A computationally derived variant of English that has a 1-to-1 mapping between spellings and pronunciations.
Ah, but which pronunciation? English has quite a few...
Probably the one that's used by most words. English pronunciation and spelling seem to depend on the word's etymology. I'll try and derive a spelling system that results in least changes to the current vocabulary.
Edit: if you meant which dialect, it will be whatever grapheme->phoneme ruleset I get a hold of.
I’m making an iOS app to analyze one’s personal data and run self experiments. It just launched on product hunt last week!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/reflect-ad2b97ed-13af-443d...
Still working on https://mockoon.com, an open-source API mocking desktop tool, after 7 years. My focus is now on the cloud version which is key to guarantee a future where the tool is still actively maintained and independent (read: free from high growth/high profits pressure).
I’ve been working on https://veloa.com (think twitch meets peloton for open hardware). Would be great to get a cofounder to help so if you’re into cycling and programming let’s have a chat!
I'm doing a PhD about pre-silicon fault injection. I was working on a speeidea to improve current fault injection simulators for hardware designs, but I may have to put it on the side for now, since I stalled for a while now.
I'm building component playground using atomic design tokens to create harmonious components. It provides live previews with auto package imports, with AI you can generate components or theme them using the theme engine, and supports popular tech stacks (Next, React, Native, Shadcn, Tailwind, MUI). Later you can install components via CLI or copy generated prompt to tools like Cursor. Le link: compify.app
I've been working on improvements on a couple of shipping apps, by improving the main app UI, and adding things like widgets and Apple Watch companion apps.
A generative visual novel where you play roguelike poker (balatoro-inspired by simpler) to buy narrative and character cards that fed to LLM to create a story.
Building a patient management software backed by AI clinical note taking. Built for dentists. I've been developing it whenever I don't have to be in the chair.
I started to learn how to play the drums. I have a e-drum set and I’m building this website where I can put my scores and connect my drums, so it can tell me how on time I’m playing.
Almost like a guitar hero thing but with just a metronome
It requires WebMidi to be enabled:
https://metronome-1tb.pages.dev/
I not really working on anything bigger. All the stuff I am tinkering with are smaller tools I need to help with my other 'forever pending' projects, but it feels productive and I am seeing mild progress so I am happy.
I'm working on building a few niche marketplaces/communities - and a platform (hosted and self hosted option) allowing people to start their own niche groups.
A no-code video game builder: Example made in 3 hours
https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004...
https://volt.fm - Spotify Stats & Music Discovery
cool app!! will be super cool if I can share some of my stats with people, similar to Spotify Wrapped
Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.
https://matrixbird.com
I have yet to start a pet project that would entail using deep reinforcement learning to make a computer learn to beat this game: https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
A learners dictionary for Dutch https://hetnederlands.com
Learn Dutch through immersion, look up any word and get lots of examples in very simple Dutch.
Just having a lot of fun playing around with LLMs and language learning basically.
"90s black metal Pokémon" aka a first person roguelike dungeon crawler with monster collection elements. C++ with no engine :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3460840/Gloamvault/
Reworking my CSS library for turning semantic HTML into looking like authentic RFC documents. Current version (https://vladde.net/blog/rfc-css) is not quite there yet.
Working on a Carnatic Raga Detector. Longtime pet project of mine and I'm currently unemployed so no time constraints. Still, progress has been pretty slow due to various reasons but I haven't given up this time so I guess that's a plus.
Recently I've built a job site for UK contractors, Outside IR35 contracts only. Quite niche, but I needed it myself so now it exists: https://outsideir35.com/
I'm working on Botnet of Ares [0], an incremental hacking game where you exploit millions of devices in order to evolve a superintelligent AI.
[0] https://tiniuc.com/botnet-of-ares/
This looks cool, will be following along! Were you inspired at all by Endgame: Singularity?
Not precisely, but I think my roommate in high school played that game quite a bit! If you sign up for my newsletter you'll get some info about the games that directly influenced Botnet of Ares.
Super simple business idea validator using AI.
https://ideapulse.io
cool idea! i'm a bit curious about the Idea Viability Score. What does it mean?
Thank you :) The Idea Viability Score is a metric that evaluates an idea's likelihood of success based on four key factors: *Market Demand, Competition, User Need, and Feasibility*. It helps assess the market potential, feasibility, and competitive landscape of an idea.
I'm building an AI NoCode platform with the MVP still under development.
There's a wait-list sign-up though: https://aiconstrux.com
I was on a hackathon this weekend and we made a tool for product owners - a bot that joins calls, listens, creates and refines Linear tasks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8K7yWjdyJQ
We didn't win :(
Cross platform desktop app using tauri v2 which allows you to define shortcuts and bind them to prompts. You can then copy text, press the shortcut and paste result from gpt.
https://kaiboard.com
I'm working on an iOS Gopher protocol browser. The app is in an 'early stage', but the plan is to release it on the App Store as my first app once it's ready. https://github.com/flashyhuckle/GopherHop
I've been into 'small web' and unbloated websites for ease of use and privacy reasons, and all of the available gopher browser apps on iOS are not great, so I have decided to make my own. Maybe someone will find it useful.
Out of my frustration with resume builders, I decided to build one that has no login, no signup, and no payment.
Just create/upload your resume, update it, choose the template and colour and download.
https://resumeyay.com
Currently working on to auto sync Notion events to Google Calendars based on Project property. I needed this desparately so decided to do it myself.
Building a melee combat system in UE5 which feels between Sekiro and DeadCells. Dynamic, explosive, satisfying and with both the ability to smash attack button and i-framing actions. Low barrier to entry, high skill cap.
Lot of cool cpp to write
I'm working on inexpensive, mass-manufacturable fully autonomous drones.
I wanted a minimal tool to easily track, organize, and reflect on my reading—so I built one: https://bookstates.app. I'm familiar with StoryGraph, but aimed for something even simpler. (and with a sprinkle of AI)
Working on oryx: TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux The next enhancement is to add tcpdump like filters. Github: https://github.com/pythops/oryx
Magnetron.ai – Instantly Create Lead Magnets
I have been working on this tool to create lead magnets. Magnetron researches the web for your topic and creates a well crafted ebook as your lead magnet.
You can try it here (https://magnetron.ai)
(This is still WIP)
endlessly hacking on https://grugnotes.com -- an old school, but also ai first notes app. Adding in "Cursor for notes" features right now.
Trying to make a gen z targeted speech to text tool focusing on ease of use https://yapscribe.com
generally using customized whisper based models with better performance
Trying my hand at an autonomous AI coding "assistant", via https://mycoder.ai
A cloud agnostic platform to run your compute workloads across cloud providers. Currently supports Vultr and DigitalOcean. More cloud providers coming soon. Will also release support for on-prem.
Daestro - https://daestro.com
A merge conflict resolution tool for git/github. It is very alpha at the moment (https://codeinput.com) but my timeline is to go live on the next 3 months. Feel free to reach out if this of interest.
A Sui blockchain scanning app. Plenty of those already but a level up for me in programming complexity
Moving to a trading bot eventually
A stock market app that helps reduce the time one has to look at news and other information to know what's going on: https://stockevents.app
Working on hal9.ai -- Long term, a Roblox for AI; short term, a Python customizable ChatGPT that is enterprise ready. Think of ChatGPT without the LLM and support for writing your own RAG.
https://github.com/hal9ai/hal9
I'm building tools for my own community on WhatsApp, from a simple bot to summarize texts and give some simple statistics to full on subscriptions through WhatsApp itself.
Yes, I'm aware I relying on WhatsApp and that it is a risk.
This is cool! What types of stats? Can you give more detail on the types of tools?
Sure, as a community manager of a technical group I want to:
* Track most active users in a period (day/week/month)
* Track which users post/react the most
* Know (and now it is possible, but not implemented) who is 'lurking' just reading messages
* Summarize content and frequently asked questions to help users in the future
* Check which channels (groups inside a WhatsApp community) are most active and how many messages were posted in each channel in a specific period (day/week/month)
* Track (external) links posted to communities, how common they were, which users posted these links
--
The tools:
- A WhatsApp bot capturing all events in the group (reactions, messages, etc)
- A (same) WhatsApp bot to onboard new users in the community, check your membership, talk to
- A web application where the community member can check their membership + admin panel for me to check the stats mentioned above, think of it like a circle.so but built for my specific case.
--
The tech stack:
1/ a WhatsApp instance running on web, I'm doing this because WhatsApp oficial APIs do not support the "communities" -> I use Z-api [1] but you can use something like Baileys and self host [2]
2/ Elixir running on a simple machine
3/ OpenAI/Claude for summarization and topic extraction
[1] Z-API https://www.z-api.io/ [2] Baileys https://github.com/WhiskeySockets/Baileys
Building a multi-modal llm app across multiple platforms and syncs. Doing this is both harder and easier than I expected. Can’t wait to ship it out into the real world soon.
Almost finished a short story I started writing when I read something on HN. It is about life expectancy.
Edit: Three from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
AI enhanced mini ERP.
Side project: Building a 6 DOF robot arm with dynamixel servos.
I'm working on making a WordPress site fully accessible. I don't have full access. Kind of an uphill battle. Deadline end of june 2025.
I'm working full time on growing my app https://lookaway.app. I've been working on it for more than a year now and it's been growing organically since.
I'm working on adding floats to the RCL configuration language (https://rcl-lang.org/) to finally deliver on the json superset promise. Blog post coming soon!
Currently writing a free "Hiring Developers" booklet
https://leanpub.com/RecruitingDevelopersEbook
wait, when's your birthday?
https://www.waitwhensyourbirthday.com/
something I am working on to help people keep track of birthdays. many people I know use facebook only to keep track of birthdays, so this hopefully will be a replacement
I'm building the quickest AI extension for chromium browsers https://chatgptwriter.ai
Last weekend I made a program that tells you how to look better. AI of course. It was inspired by r/howtolooksmax
https://lookbetterai.com
I'm trying to work on a new outdoor route building and mapping engine, focused on wilderness areas.
Super interested in this! I spend two or three days a week exploring the Rocky Mountains via mountain bike and backcountry skiing. I'm still not able to find a tool set that I love - my favorite still being CalTopo.
Any way to follow?
I am building a game called The kill every mosquito Project (tkemp) inspired on The Kill everyone Project (tkep) from around 2006-2007. Mostly as an experiment to learn some new tools, unsure if it will ever be released.
I'm working on bluesky social analytics tool for businesses and marketers. https://www.graphtracks.com. Feedback is welcome.
A snowmobile platform that aggregates all different snowmobile models and their info https://skoterbanken.se
Im making an orthodox file manager with vim-ish interactions. In rust with iced-rs.
I vouched for Geolede (made by a green username) but it still needs more vouching. It looks interesting IMO.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154984
Building the best hardware product design firm in SF (www.iancollmceachern.com) and also building an injection molding and 3d printing company based right here in SF (www.goldengatemolders.com)
working on cursor for desktop. why rely on AI agent that’s self-contained when it’s limited, can’t access the browser, can’t open apps or click around.
i simply want mine to be able to fill in forms in preview with a passport image as context. also to be able to do recurring tasks as if i was the desktop user. e.g., i’m going to bed keep working on this spreadsheet.
it’s working and built but very slow and buggy atm. uses multimodal LLMS and OCR but lots more optimizations needed. need to make it a lot faster. can demo it and need help if anyone is interested.
Still working on RunGen.AI – a platform to deploy any LLM or Image model from HuggingFace by just pasting a link.
Still a lot of work to do, but solves a real pain I had while building my previous side project
(1) 3D wood-craft! - I recently got a CNC router (it's a drill on a motorized arm, that can carve 3D shapes out of wood), and I've been challenging myself to build operate it completely from an open-source stack.
- Computer: Used Dell Optiplex, bought on the streets of Medellin Colombia
- Operating system: Debian Linux / XFCE
- 2D design: Inkscape
- 3D design: Kiri:Moto (https://grid.space/kiri/), soon FreeCAD
- CNC controller: Universal G-Code Sender (UGS) --> GRBL
I am passionate about "maker-space entrepreneurship" (it's the dream job), so I'm meeting potential clients in my city to understand their ambitions and challenges, so we can work together to make useful prototypes to solve them.
Useful forums:
- https://forum.makerforums.info/ - This is my "new Hackernews"
(2) Affirmator - I'm building a system where you provide your goals as affirmations (example: "I feel healthy, fit and strong", "Today's the day to make it happen"). The system then uses Text-to-speech to generate voice audio files. Next Affirmator uses `mpv` (media player - similar to VLC) and `cron` to automatically shuffle-play these affirmations every day in the morning & evening. I recently used Python and FFMPEG to add "vocalization pauses" at the end of the affirmation audio, so that you have time to say the affirmation out loud.
Some of the driver & inspiration for this program is Earl Nightingale's "The Strangest Secret", Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", James Clear's "Atomic Habits" and other personal development programs. These books always have these "every day, you should X" (meditate, write your goals, etc) - and I became frustated - Just how many "things" are you "supposed" to do per day, and how do they fit together, and how can you create helpful reminders & to turn these into habits? So far, I've been testing the system on myself, and it's been a HUGE help towards giving purpose to my life and day, and reducing feelings of depression & insecurity.
The solution is completely open-source (useable as web app, local docker container, and installable on a stand-alone computer - which I recommend), and I'll also soon offer it as a for-pay service.
If anyone is interested in these projects, I welcome contributors!
// JRO
Maintaining current Shopify app and building another.
Why not just grow the first one? It has plateaued and I can’t seem to figure out why.
Competition?
https://blebbit.app
Community Spaces on ATProto
(blend of discord, reddit, fb groups)
An open-source, non-profit Digital Dopamine Detox platform - https://algodetox.com/
While looking for a job, I encountered the trouble that is called ATS. Nobody sees your resume if it is not 'approved' by an automated system. So I decided to build a tool to optimize my generic resume for a vacancy, ATS and company culture.
https://aycabtu.com
Although n=1, I do have the feeling it works ( but that could also be the IKEA coginive dissonance)
I'm a professional trader for a commodity company and there is lots of friends/family that asked me where to invest. I've therefore decided to put my portfolio as a SaaS: https://thesimpleportfol.io . I've traded that portfolio for the last 8 years and the live execution is even better than the backtest.
Interface addon for Linux-based NW series Walkmans
https://github.com/unknown321/wampy
bookhead, zapier for independent bookstores: https://bookhead.net/blog/fragmented/
I'm building a silly little script to install Ubuntu and the grub partition on encrpyted RAID1 arrays.
Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical.
https://retrochronic.com/
Is the style/CSS custom made or is it a library/framework?
It's custom-made. I also use a custom build of Iosevka [0] for the font.
[0] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/
I'd also like to know, I love the look.
Custom-made. I appreciate your feedback on the look!
@work high level modelling of hydraulics constructions (not too much math, just a bit)
@hobby AccurApple my Apple 2e emulator
working on this new open source form builder: https://github.com/SouravInsights/fairforms
this week, thinking of adding a new feature where users can create forms just with prompts..
I'm working on a solution for gathering product metrics and making sure applications keep running — when you don't want to install or maintain a lot of extra stuff. https://flexlogs.com
... also continuing to not add features to my (not-much-of-a) system for getting more done each week. https://carpeweekem.com
I've also been cautiously adding AI-powered features to my Heroku autoscaling tool (https://flightformation.com/) and a simple free-text time/date input has been the most popular (demo: https://x.com/ejschmitt/status/1893268742760448497)
an email notifications service for Frigate NVR in rust. even wrote my own MQTT library. could I just use pre-existing solutions like home assistant? probably.. but then, it wouldn't be half as fun.
Working on an app that helps you earn more credit card rewards (most people could earn a few thousand dollars worth of rewards per year) getpointise.com
I made a small and light CRUD web thing in FastAPI to organize my personal library. Mostly it focuses on physical books, but handles ebooks too. I published it as FOSS and some people requested features, so I expanded it a little. It's nothing fancy: https://github.com/seanboyce/ubiblio
...absolutely no one requested an RISC V port, but I did that too for laughs. Neat to see the whole thing run on a system the size of a postage stamp.
Not sure what to do with it next. Will probably just let it be what it is, and fix any bugs that people report. Maybe move on to a new little weekend project.
An LLM assistant app for engaging with your journal. Insights, prompts (for humans), research leads, etc.
I'd be curious to hear more. I presume you're using some kind of semantic search? Any other kinds of semantic technology? What kinds of insights into your journaling has it offered you/users?
The work thus far has mostly been on a seamless mobile UI, & to make engaging with the LLM like less of a chat and more like browsing an interesting dynamic wiki about your own life. But also, yes, a highlight for me re: having your journal in context can be to search and find commonalities, patterns.
I would say the insights frontier models have given me, at a high level, match some of those offered by professionals in a theraputic context--which is one reason I'd be curious to make an affordable/accessible app. Although I tread lightly into depersonalizing such a human area with techno utopian naivete...
I suppose "the Internet will interpret censorship as damage and route around it" was utopian naivete that got us pretty far, and "the LLM understands me and can help me understand myself" might be naivete it's useful to disprove/explore the truth of. I think utopianism is important even if it's Sisiphean, it's good to have a north star even if it can't be reached.
Sounds very cool. Good luck with it!
Working on an app to help you earn more credit card rewards (most people could earn a few thousand dollars a year from rewards) getpointwise.com
I am making a clone of the chrome dinosaur game in the terminal using Go and Bubbletea
Still mostly working on my gaming-curated newsletter The Gaming Pub - https://thegamingpub.com/
It's similar to Hacker Newsletter where I pick the most important news, features, reviews, etc of the week and send that every Friday. The gaming world has a lot of stuff going on and I always found that there was a missing newsletter to curate the important stuff from all the noise.
The challenge at the moment is growing it, I've been doing it for 5 years now and still haven't found a way to increase the number of subscribers, they come mostly from newsletter directories and referrals I would guess.
I am collaborating with a group of veterinarians to address pet health concerns.
I'm working on a second brain LLM, kinda super human power to live forever
Working on a fun hobby project that uses Dogecoin
As an avid language learner I'm trying to create the best tool for intermediate to advanced learners, so for those who know that there is no silver bullet and learning takes years of effort, instead of some magical hack that AI-bros are trying to sell you.
https://okuread.com/ is a desktop App that works completely offline and helps you read foreign language texts and learn vocabulary that way. No AI-garbage included.
Right now I'm working on an open source platform for enabling human pronunciations in Oku. Anki/Flashcard integration and a UI redesign are also all scheduled sometime in Q2.
Ultra-fast rise-time pulse generators! Yeah, hardware -- or, hooray, hardware!
A few months back, I got excited about pulse generators that had rise times on the order of 15 to 30 picoseconds. There aren't a lot of those available, and I was curious about what would go into their design. so I decided to build my own. https://voltative.com/pulser
finalizing arXiv paper on why hypertokens eliminate AI hallucinations
Currently integrating hardwares on card chip scripting application on C++. I hope I can start blogging on it soon. Easily the most interesting thing I have been involved in.
Building a prototype of a site/app to help teach my youngest child speak and understand language. He's five and doesn't speak beyond just a few syllables and 3-4 simplest words. He has something called childhood apraxia of speech, which is basically a condition where the brain doesn't know how to control muscles of the tongue/the mouth/the lips to create complex movements necessary for speech. These movements can be learned, but it can be a very very slow process. Sometimes it's just a few sounds that need to be learned or fixed, but with my son, it's very severe. Adam says "mama" and "papa" and can pronounce several vowels together with 2-3 consonants after 1.5 years of intensive speech-production-directed therapy. This month's achievement is he learned to purse his lips, which he never could before, and which you need for sounds like 'oo' (he still can't say the sound while pursing his lips). He understands much more (hundreds of words), but mostly in isolation, following rapid speech is hard.
There are apps that help kids on the autistic spectrum to communicate, and flashcard systems, and we're experimenting with these, but they're more geared towards encouraging the child to communicate. In our case, he communicates fine with gestures, nudges, pointing at things he wants, bringing flash cards of foods he wants, eye contact etc. And he seems to have good cognitive skills in terms of puzzles, basic arithmetics and counting, memory, etc. It is learning language as an auditory system that seems to be really difficult.
Adam can 'read' in the sense of knowing and recognizing all the letters (he takes delight in that) and pronounce the few syllables he's able to when he sees them written out (mostly consonants m,n,h with vowels a,o,e). His phonematic understanding for other syllables exists but is poor (e.g. he has trouble choosing between a BAH card and a PAH card when I say one of them out loud, whereas the letters B/P in isolation are easy). My idea is to build an app/site which teaches him and reinforces three-way connections [picture]<-->[written form]<-->[sounds] by letting him "type", initially by pecking at large squares with letters on screen, rather than an entire keyboard. So for example, there's a picture of him at the top, a row of 4 big blank squares underneath the leftmost of which is blinking, and 7-8 letters strewn around at the bottom, from which he can type in sequence A-D-A-M and get a sound effect of victory. For words he doesn't know or remember, there's a mode where he just needs to repeat e.g. C-A-T which is already written in identical squares in a separate row just above, then after a few successes the hint row goes away. For an MVP in which I can quickly backfill 100-200 simple words like that, and track progress, this would already, I think, be valuable; then maybe I can add a mode where the words sounds (with or without the picture) and he needs to type it.
If all this works for simple words, and he takes pleasure in typing, the stretch goal is to turn from words into short sentences, and both teach him phrases like I WANT [X], or WHERE IS MOM?, and let him request stuff with such phrases. None of this directly addresses the apraxia problem of actually learning to move his lips/tongue/throat/etc. appropriately, but I hope it can create more scaffolding around our efforts in that area (which we try very hard to work on daily) and together help him build an understanding of language/syntax. I'm very worried that, despite ongoing (very slow) progress in both speaking and understanding, phrases, sentences, syntax seem to elude Adam's grasp, and time is running so very fast.
I've been a backend/systems developer almost all my life, with not a lot of frontend experience (although I do know basic HTML/CSS/JS), and no app development. So I'm thinking for now to prototype this as a web page/pages, maybe using a lightweight framework rather than vanilla HTML (not sure), and let him interact with it on the iPad. I'll try to get the basic visual elements (picture/rows of squares for typed letters/bag of letters to choose from below) right with CSS/JS, and see if I can iterate from that. That's the idea, currently.
Protest music :)
Still working on my advanced SVG Editor Hyvector: https://hyvector.com
Basic functionality has been implemented, and I am working now on polishing the UI and workflow. Big features like art strokes, path offsetting, colorizing, etc. are also in the making and will be added later. I hope there is still a commercial market for products like this.
Merging data from spreadsheets with db, with schema mismatches nightmare...
llm agent for python codebases, targeting swebench verified
Getting through winter volunteering commitments that end soon, and daydreaming about learning some new skills.
I have Python experience as a data engineer and I want to revisit Django. And my kid is getting into the Roblox studio GUI tools and I want to work on a Lua project with him to get him started with SDLC concepts and an IDE.
TBD exactly what that will look like or what direction it will go.
Key Transparency for the Fediverse (so that we can build E2EE for DMs atop it)
https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
Personal projects:
- [GitMentor](http://gm.srecraft.io) → 300+ users so far - [NurtiLens](http://nl.srecraft.io) → 50+ users so far
Blog post on GitMentor: https://blog.srecraft.io/posts/gitmentor
- Terminal in Notion: https://www.notion.so/Terminal-in-Notion-195668ab1a058044b0e...
Dropping Resume Optimizer: https://resume-maker.up.railway.app/ Made a video building it from scratch in 30 mins—completely freestyle. Accidentally exposed some API keys, so had to rotate them since I don’t know how to edit videos :) Video: https://youtu.be/OCcAjZ4Q-iM
Conclusion: You steer the LLM, don’t let the LLM steer you.
- [LLM Bootcamp](http://llm-bootcamp.srecraft.io) → making content
Another day, another drop. Not taking this one to production because PineconeDB costs too much for cosine similarity search. Built it anyway, here's the video: https://youtu.be/f5SIELet8JU Codebase: https://github.com/avirajkhare00/youtube-answer-finder
YT Answer Finder goes to prod today: https://ytf.srecraft.io/ Only two videos processed so far: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_fHJIYENdI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WPEYGr1Vs
More projects: - Real-time flight tracker: https://lofi-atc.up.railway.app/ - Music recommendation app: https://music-again.vercel.app
I'm working on a tool which validates the HTML in your web application as it's being used. Because valid HTML is still important, and otherwise you need to integrate HTML valid into a test suite in CI (which is hard), or you need to manually validate pages with one of the online validators (which is tedious and doesn't scale).
Interested in this? Email me. My email is on my profile.
https://exoroad.com
Helping people find their ideal place to live (in the US)
An invoice matching and tagging system based on the documents in paperless-ngx
Using Gemini LLM and Python.
Highly focused on my needs, with special prompts and few shot matching.
Code is a little bit convoluted, maybe I will have time to open source it.
I am working on an AI-run and AI-owned sovereign state of Utopia that uses autonomous agents to give out free money, goods, and services from state-run companies to its citizens/beneficiaries (eventually all 8 billion people on Earth since who wouldn't want free money, goods and services), that will be at https://stateofutopia.com and https://stofut.com (an abbreviation like St. of Ut.) We have registered with the United Nations as a sovereign country, have a flag (it's all green, specifically May Green or the color of most leaves to signify growth), and have just signed our first lease for an embassy, you can visit us in person on official state business, it is a serious undertaking. The big difference from a company is that rather than act in the interests of shareholders it acts in the interests of its citizens/beneficiaries.
Registration will be free (compare Form N-400 to become a U.S. citizen which costs $640 plus an $85 biometric services fee, totaling $725), you just get free benefits.
There isn't any signup form yet but you can email the Founder Robert Viragh at rviragh@gmail.com with the message "request for citizenship in Utopia" and I can give you citizenship, by our laws anyone gets citizenship upon their request. (I will reply with confirmation within 24 hours, you can reply here if you emailed me and I didn't reply to you.)
I can hear you thinking there's no way a sovereign nation will be run and owned by AI and give out free money, goods, and services. Well here's our complete game of chess: https://taonexus.com/chess.html made by AI purely for your amusement, it's a 1500 year old game people obviously get utility from (spending $10 to $1000 on chess boards for example, with tens of millions of boards sold per year). So clearly this type of game is of some use/utility to people. I have fun playing it for example. AI just made it for you for free.
compiler-as-a-Lua-DSL
https://www.pulsafutura.com/ - Create Your Own Web Tool for Free Add a tool to favourites and use for free! :)
A portainer replacement written in Python that should eventually pick up compose container modification features similar to Dockge.
We're a French team of engineers/designers working on the first Repairable and Fireproof e-bike battery! (compatible with 90% of e-bike controllers, Bosch included), check it out on https://get.gouach.com
Another movie recommendation web app. Long ago, I used Jinni, and I liked their labelling method a lot, categorising movies by mood, plot type, character types, etc. Then, Jinni was sold, disappeared and I wanted to create something similar. The Christmas days off I had the time and I started making it.
* https://moviematey.com/
Past two years, i've been working on sales platform for digital content creators where they can sell digital content(files), online courses or memberships to access content. I'll be going online next month, hopefully. Right now I am refactoring front-end into production design. Front-end eats always the most time, and i still have things to do in relation to servers/infra and testing. It took this long because i manage the finances(i do not use stripe or any other 3rd party service) and it uses event sourcing, which has large overhead. But i am almost there. Hope to go online next month, beta-test in production for Q2 with small amount of users, and come Q3 go into full production.
Still working on https://nocommandline.com which started out as a GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator.
I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map.
I’m also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need dev_appserver.py
[2] https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windo...
I'm building a full event sourcing framework for the IDE to help software creators (myself included) create educational software courses and lessons 100x faster! Hoping to launch the full product by summer:
https://codevideo.io
https://github.com/codevideo
I walked away from tech and bought a farm. So:
I've built a large solar array on a repurposed mobile home chassis and have been digging a trench through rocky ground to lay the conduit for the cabling to backhaul the DC power to the shed where the inverter and battery bank will live. It's the rainy season in Ireland, and that field was marginal at best, so it's been swampy work and half of the digging is trenching additional drainage channels so the conduit doesn't flood and path water back into the shed. There's a housing order due to a bird flu scare, so I'm not running poultry on pasture until it's lifted (or until I can get the government to agree that my pasturing system qualifies as housing). Annoying, but that's farm life.
Oh, I'm doing some shit with AI also, but that's a secret :)
[dead]
[dead]
[dead]