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

My wife and I are building Spruce, a Slack app that autocorrects typos in your messages: https://spruce.so/The motivation behind this was twofold. Firstly, we're both the type of people who often edit our Slack messages (or any other messages like WhatsApp) to correct mistakes. Secondly, my wife is a PMM at a tech company, but she can't code. I've been telling her that anyone can create a decent product with the help of LLMs and tools like Replit, but she usually just rolls her eyes. So, on a flight from London to SF, I suggested we build Spruce. The idea was that she would take the lead and rely on LLMs (ChatGPT + Ollama for when the wonderful Delta internet wasn't working), and she could also treat me as a [more intelligent] LLM. After ~12 hours and a few small arguments, Spruce was born. :)Some random learnings, top of mind:1. A non-technical person, even with current LLMs (GPT 4.5), can't go from idea to shipped product without at least some help from a technical person.2. I now make even more typos because my habit is to type as fast as possible, often without even pressing the space bar. Spruce autocorrects everything in Slack, but when I'm using other products, I feel incomplete.3. Although I'm practically a native English speaker, it's still my second language. I've added a feature to Spruce, just for myself for now, that DMs me if I make really obvious grammar/English mistakes in my messages. I decided to do this after one of my colleagues, who is very English, said "for prosperity" instead of "for posterity" in several messages, and another said "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes." It's been a very cool development, at least for me! It's fun because a) it has a nice tone, and b) it's not verbose and only nudges you on major mistakes, and only up to twice a day. Anyway, feel free to give it a try: https://spruce.so/P.S. This Slack app necessarily needs the permissions it has because it needs to be able to read and edit your messages everywhere (e.g., public channels, private channels, DMs, etc.). Don't install it if that freaks you out. However, it's easy to remove Slack apps, so there's no harm in giving it a try.

Catching up with the most recent versions of Minecraft for my Prometheus exporter mod, and adding support for more modding APIs.

Experimenting applying Meta's V-JEPA [0] architecture for representation learning to chess. One of the challenges is that validating if the model is learning useful dynamics of the game, so I'm using it as an excuse to learn some reinforcement learning by using the representations generated by the JEPA model to approximate useful Q-values [1]. This method currently has no search so I'm planning on comparing with this paper [2] which achieves GM level chess without any search. Honestly, Im unsure if the full pipeline is stable enough to even converge, but it's fun experimenting. I'm bad at chess so I really want to make a bot that challenges the best bots on lichess.[0]: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/revisiting-feature... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04494

Hey! I'm working on Getgud.io, an AI-powered game analytics and anti-cheat platform. Our goal is to provide complete observability into player behavior, detect cheaters and griefers, and help game developers improve player retention.Some key features we're working on: - AI-powered analysis of in-match player actions to detect anomalies - Customizable rules engine for automated responses to toxic behavior - Visual replay system for reviewing flagged matchesCheck out our website at https://www.getgud.io and watch our detection video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhTpfEzh1M to see Getgud.io in action.We support server-side integration for popular platforms like Unreal Engine and Unity. For integration guides and SDK references, visit our docs at https://github.com/getgud-io/getgud-docs.Happy to chat more about game analytics and cheat detection if anyone's interested!

Building an #AArch64 code generator for the dmd #dlang compiler.

Still working on Octarine (https://octarine.app). Recently released Linux images, so more people could try it.Currently re-writing a bunch of the bundler stuff and how UI takes data in for performance improvements, before shifting gears to building the Windows version!

A reimagination of SuperCollider architecture.* No need to invent a new language, use Python! * Use JIT to compile a SynthDef to a proces function! * Eliminate block_size at runtime by compiling a version of each primitive for every 2^n block size. * Watch the compiler do unrolling, vectorisation and merging loops.Besides, its fun! https://github.com/mlang/mc1 (Nothing to see yet)

I believe I can do and build anything, but I'm out of juice.Working as a consultant, but no extra energy or will to create anything outside of work.Kids are getting bigger, and I have time.... but no will, or maybe it's just fear, to start anything.

I'm working on a podcast and audio media monitoring and research platform. Easily the most complex thing I've built. But still so much more to do to make it truly useful. Testing PR and public affairs use cases at the moment.https://listenalert.comI used to work for a media monitoring company but was instantly struck by how old fashion everything was. And the total reliance on boolean searches meant only experts could find relevant information. This still appears to be the case for most players in the industry.So I'm building a platform that finds what is important before you look for it. Novel entity linking, and sentiment analysis plus speaker tracking. It has come a long way from the proof of concept. Focused on audio media at the moment as it is the hardest to index compared to news articles in my opinion. And the hypothesis is audio media such as podcasts can contain so many juicy insights.Next steps are converting pilot customers to paying customers, testing more markets (based in a tiny market now), raise a small pre-seed (bootstrapped at the moment), and quickly evolve the product based on feedback.

Working on a convoluted app devoted choosing a baby name for your new child... but the underlying library is open source, based on public domain data:https://github.com/jonroig/usBabyNames.jsWe're engineers, we want to make data-driven decisions about what we name our children. My app won't necessarily help you choose a name, per se, but it can assist in eliminating a lot of possible names, giving you a much smaller set of choose from, each of which you can research more. So... like filter by name origin, length, popularity, etc..

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

We’re building an off the shelf software and ECU that allows you to convert anything to EV (classics and low volume OEMs) with enough tweakable knobs to suit every application.There are some players in this space already, but we have repurposed some OEM grade hardware that we usually reserve for the big players and so we can offer differentiating features such as DC fast charging, bidirectional/V2X, and things like this to the retrofit market.B2B to start with.

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

I'm trying to make it easier to run clubs, associations & organizations with a platform called embolt.app[1].We're offering online memberships, event management, and a member database packed with features. Membership management is a crowded space, but it's also a low-tech space with lots of sleeping giants not willing to iterate on their product.It's been a really fun project so far and even more rewarding to see clubs using embolt for their daily operations.[1] https://embolt.app

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

A NES emulator in Typescript targeting the browser. I've been using the Messenger emulator with cycle-accurate emulation to hone it. This stems from my interest in low-level machine code and understanding how computers work. I want to eventually write my own virtual machine and create a functional programming language on top of it.

Working on Pulselyre, a touch-focused Windows app for producing electronic music live. It doesn't output audio on its own, but it lets you configure various virtual "instruments" on screen that can send MIDI note and control messages to other MIDI devices or VSTs configured to receive MIDI messages. You can record notes and events for each instrument and then loop them over a configured number of beats. Also has some other features to make creating music easier, like saving/loading note sequences, an arpeggiator, receiving input from external MIDI controllers/keyboards, and some other stuff. I've been meaning to record a demo video, but I'm not actually very good at playing or making music myself, so I haven't come up with anything presentable yet. I'm also not really married to the name, but it works for now...https://www.pulselyre.comIt's built using C# and WPF, and a related project I work on is an open source MVVM framework called UpbeatUI for making WPF apps that behave vaguely like mobile apps. It's for apps that have a main bottom layer and modal popups that float above and can be closed by clicking/touching the background. Pulselyre uses UpbeatUI, and I actually originally extracted UpbeatUI from a much older version of Pulselyre.https://github.com/Pulselyre/UpbeatUI

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

I am creating custom hardware for my own SaaS. So far I've designed a custom 3D printed case and wrote early version of firmware.It feels great to create something physical after over 10 years of working on CRUD web apps.My work is open source and available at https://github.com/ziolko/eink-calendar-display.

A feature-rich, nice looking audio player for those who don't stream music: https://sakunlabs.com/muziqiIt has 90% of the features that I wanted, and now I am working on what my users want.

I’m working on a few things:- Micro SaaS https://yasl.at, link shortening with custom meta data for link previews on messengers/social media, see my blog post for more details: https://yasl.at/dKpNnZ- A web game called Wizencraft (https://wizencraft.com) which is a logic puzzle to guess the right order of items as quickly as possible which lets you compete with other players, solve daily challenges in groups and let’s you grind thousands of items, it's a very early alpha and I'm building it in public very iteratively and not polished at first, see more details here: https://yasl.at/XnoDtY- And last but not least I started to build a not yet published simple dashboard for analytics where I can plugin my self-hosted database very easily. You can just write SQL queries for MongoDB, Clickhouse, Postgresql in a single YAML which defines the query and how a chart looks like on the dashboard.The idea came from the fact that using other dashboard/analytic tools always is a hassle, existing analytics dashboards I used for products are not easy to copy, replicate or adjust and it's mostly doable solely via clicking in a complex frontend instead of defining it simply via a configuration and the available offerings are charging large.I'm planning to have the chart definition editable via web interface and is stored locally as files which can be versioned and managed by git and can connected to the web interface with a simple docker container (this brings the analytics dashboard to the product source code itself and can be easily copied/adjusted again for new products). Happy to share more and once the first version of the dashboard is ready to use (in the coming weeks...).---Would love your thoughts on all of this and especially the analytics dashboard. Did you you face similar issues/problems with existing solutions (or if i can stop and actually use an existing solution which does what I'd like to have).

https://UpVPN.app : A modern Serverless VPNCurrently trying to get new apps for Apple platform published and going through App Store review process..Existing apps are open source here: https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app

Hi!In the best case, the developers of e-commerce website create unit-, integration-, and functional tests to make sure, they do not break existing functionality.But a website is not only code. Its also data and configuration.Since these types of configuration (e.g. prices, legal texts, bonusses) can change quite often and can get quite complex from the business perspective, it does not make sense to have developers create automatically executable tests to make sure, the website is configured as it should be.And its often not the developers who change the configuration. Maybe its a product manager, a marketeer or the ceo.These people often do not know if they configured something correctly. In additiom, they often don't get any notification, if an process, that is important for them, breaks due to a misconfiguration or some bug in the code (not every code base has a test coverage of 100%).So, I am creating a No-Code Black Box E2E Monitoring Tool, that the process owners/configurators can use to regularly check, if everything is working fine.

A database that basically acts like a modern day “virus scanner” for deep fakes. I believe that virus, malware and such that trick people into handing out information- making false decisions as we have seen with companies would be better suited if they had something like a heuristic threat score assigned to them. Yes we have websites that can tell us but it’s not the same as a virus or malware scanner. I think we need to add it to a database. Block those sites to protect consumers, companies so they don’t make bad choices. Just like in malware we see if a signature , deep fakes from bad actors also have signatures. It’s so many things. From signal- coding- so I was working on that. Maybe foolish or a waste of time. But I am going with to. Was playing with app development for cars to protect data. But might be a push against Nissan- Ford- Chevrolet-Kia- etc who like to steal data to make money off it. They control the interface. No VPN are allowed and no encryption allowed on infotainment system. So you have to do work around to keep your data out of their hands. That’s all.

Last week I made an in-browser notes editor using TipTap & InstantDB! (https://owri.netlify.app/) - the idea is, you can keep all the notes locally and publish only the ones you want. Some things I'd like: - keep track of your writing streak? graphs? - publish your personal site/blog - Write one-off HTML websites that're really just docs+linksBasically a pretty+easy editor! I'm really enjoying building the small features https://owri.netlify.app/share/25a7d985-7cd5-4217-9766-f5296...Feel free to tell me if there's anything you want!!New idea: So currently I'm trying to learn leetcodes, but thinking of alternative/structured ways to do it. What if there's an AI-powered book that's basically like your personal Wikipedia into anything?You start with a topic, it generates you outlines/courses -- and what'd be great is if this was social, like you can see what everyone else is learning about, what nodes they're expanding...and make notes on topics and ask questions

I'm working on a TUI application which allows you to make SQL query on CSV files. I'm working on a web base version too.

Hey guys, at Dispensed are working on Vending as a Service.For $100 we ship a vending mechanism for you to put on your own custom vending box.We then provide online marketplace and payment services (Shopify for vending machines) so your customers can use their phones to buy products from your vending machines.Great alternative for products that don’t justify big $10k vending machines.http://about.dispensed.app

I started publicly inventorying and documenting my collection of vintage print advertisements (https://adretro.com).The front end CMS is a combination of Notion and Super.so. The backend will be Lucee and MySQL.I have many thousands of ads I want to catalog just to start. There are so many print ads, cataloging just a fraction will take a lifetime.I'm developing a custom cataloging system that will allow me to process them more quickly and automate aspects of the management of the collection. I have in mind to eventually make the database available to other collectors.

Replacement system tables for Amazon Redshift.Thinking a free and paid version.Free is everything, but runs on the existing system tables; so it's slow, and so a six day history only.Paid has a system table archiving mechanism, so you have before-and-after when something goes wrong, and where the tables are in Redshift proper, not the leader node, it's fast.

Building this with Elixir: https://flexlogs.comI've always found adding custom metrics and monitoring to applications to be a big hassle, so I'm experimenting with one that uses the log stream instead of agents/daemons.

https://synthql.dev: An alternative to PostgREST focused on the React-Node-PG stack. Main advantage right now is it gives you end to end type safety: you can write type-safe queries straight from your component that directly access your database.Why SynthQL? My experience working for +10 years on enterprise SaaS is that a quite often you just want a database and a way to fetch data from it. Backends will quite often get in the way adding abstractions and layers upon layers of transformation between DB objects to domain objects to DTOs.If you ever feel like you just want to talk to the database directly, give SynthQL a try :)

Hello everyone!Not sure if I caught the train but still. My name is Max, a software developer based in Central Europe, and I'm working on my course "Building Command-Line Interface App from Scratch in Go" (this is a working title).In this course I want to teach how to write CLI application from scratch in Go without any external dependencies (exception: driver for DB).This is not another one course about how to write CLI app using Cobra or any other command-line builder library. Instead, in my course you're gonna write your own Cobra-like command-line builder library (package) to build command-line interface application from scratch.Thus, you will know how to build an API for building CLI like Cobra and you can use it later on for your future projects. I will also talk about Command-Line Interface Guidelines showing how to make powerful, useful and easy-to-use command-line application which you can use every day in your workflow.The course is still work in progress and I don't even have a web page for it. But I do have my newsletter where I share best resources about Go. By subscribing to this newsletter you will be notified once course is ready to launch. Also, everyone who's subscribed to my newsletter and will be in first batch to buy a course gets a 50% discount.So, if you are interested in this kind of stuff join the waitlist for course in my newsletter on https://kovalevsky.ioP.S. I also have daily base newsletter about Go - Daily Golang. If you subscribe to this newsletter you will also be notified once course is ready to launch you and will get 50% discount to buy the course - https://kovalevsky.io/daily-golang.

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I'd like to work on my writing skills. Some mix of nerdiness and personal Journaling. https://dynomight.net/ is a website that I'm quite inspired by, as it's a interesting mix of personal commentary (https://dynomight.net/advice/) and deep data dives into e.g. homelessness and seed oils.My main barriers are 1) writing discipline and 2) some obsessive need to link/cite every claim I make. This results in me taking months to write an article, be it due to laziness or constant rabbitholes/google scholar searches about an idea.Any clue on dedicated disciplined writing time or even considering "reducing" the rigor of writing?

I've been passionate about superforecasting and AI for a long time, so decided to try and use LLMs to structure data about the world -- commodities, politics, etc. It's now a startup we're trying to get off the ground: https://emergingtrajectories.com/Most of my days are spent reading the news and working on LLMs, which has been a blast. As an example, here's a dashboard that tracks major supply and demand shocks to various commodities around the world: https://emergingtrajectories.com/c/commodities

I have just finished an AI design agent [0] that gives UI design feedback, but that launch went really poorly.So now I’m working on learning Golang and loving it! Going to build a backend with it[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-copilot/hgaldpfd...

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

I'm working on Minders [1], a journaling/notes app. I've been using it for a little over a year for daily journaling and keeping track of interesting links or ideas. It works like a Twitter feed of just your thoughts.It's been fun to work on as I can throw in whatever neat ideas I want since I'm not trying to fit it into a neat category. For instance, I was experimenting with a multi-column browsing experience after I saw a post here [2] for inspiration. The UI could work like TweetDeck but for your notes. Not 100% sure yet if it works, but I'll be doing more prototyping.Right now I'm revamping the sync system and other runtime parts as I'm realizing that once you start amassing lots of posts, it gets bogged down a bit. I probably could've architected some of it a bit better at the start, but I tend to try to release stuff as early as I can to force myself to ship and to see what people think.1. https://minders.ussherpress.com/ 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263203

I'm working on a little mobile game which surrounds locating and collecting VW beetles 'spots'.I've been spending a lot of time in México over the last year and have been working on a photography project surrounding the VW Beetles (Vochos as they call them) you'll find all over the country. I'm inspired by the range of character of the Vochos and how they've become ingrained in the country's cultural landscape.I realized I had a sort of hyper-niche problem where I was locating Vochos I'd like to shoot when I wasn't carrying my camera. I was getting annoyed with using Google Maps to list locations I'd like to return and shoot so I spent a weekend putting the app together and turning it into a game.After using the app for a few weeks I've realized the spotting or hunting of the cars is the part I enjoy the most about my project and when I have the time I'd like to publicize it so others who find themselves in Vocho dense area can check it out if they'd like!

working on a website showing people how micropayments could work today

Billing platform for an E&S Policy administrator and marketing for the small business I work for.

We are working on building a funding subscription for impact innovation called Marabou (https://marabou.pro/). Our plan is to allow people to subscribe starting from $50 per month and receive equity in innovative startups that benefit either human health (biotech, femtech, healthtech, longevity, drug repurposing) or environment(climate tech, adaptive tech, renewable energy, mobility, agriculture).- Here is a short video explainer of WHAT we do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjXwUpBp_Kc- And here's WHY we do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-37CA6-m1Yk&list=PLVJfpLOJQj...Our first campaign to fund Ethan Perlstein's research to find cures for rare diseases officially starts on Sep 9, but we already opened a pre-campaign. This one is a one-time commitment and it's heavily leaning on the charity side.- Here's a landing page of campaign https://marabou.pro/perlara/- And a video where we talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlO8IBQDMBY&t=9sSo my days are now filled with talks with rare disease foundations and influencers as well as usual people who may be willing to support us.Happy to chat with anyone who is interested either in Marabou or the campaign itself!

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

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

I'm currently working on https://brickranker.com/It's basically a website for tracking the value of LEGO sets and minifigures. For example see https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures/star-wars for a list of the most valuable LEGO Star Wars minifigures.You can also catalogue your own collection and track it's value at https://brickranker.com/collections

Designing a diffracting telescope.

I've been struggling to find a workflow that can easily extract knowledge and insights from audio content on the web and sync it with note-taking systems such as Notion, Readwise or Obsidian, so I decided to create a system that transcribes the audio, summarizes it and shares it with other applications.Right now we are only targetting podcasts to Notion as the vertical slice for the MVP, but in the future we're looking to support "connectors" that can take in other forms of content such as audiobooks, videos, etc. and share it to other popular note-taking forms.It's been an exciting journey so far and we're looking to launch soon!

I'm working on https://github.com/incidentalhq/incidentalIt's an incident management platform, similar to Pagerduty, Rootly or FireHydrant.It's the first side project I've open sourced, and I've been hacking on it weekends and nights. Hoping to get a few companies to start using it to get some early feedback.

I'm trying to bring the encryption benefits of MTLS, the security of X509 Name Constraints, and the improvements that have been made in the various clients libraries and operating systems to TLS behavior into a nice group, so that any small company, or even individual, can run their own CA infrastructure that puts the bug enterprises to shame (specifically, https://enroll.visaca.com/ already deserves a lot of shame).I'm doing so by making it easier to mint certificates for your pods in k8s (https://gitlab.com/gauntletwizard_net/kubetls/-/tree/master), by writing documentation on how to create good root certs with cheap HSM backed keys, updating cfssl to work with name constraints (https://github.com/GauntletWizard/cfssl/tree/ted/constraints), and building tools to issue short-lived certificates to developers.

Myself

I'm getting to know the ins and outs of GitHub CoPilot, and exploring languages and technologies I've avoided. I'm hoping to get done with a usable Bitgrid Emulator[1] in Javascript/HTML so that I can let people play with the concept and get used to it. I've got stuff working in Pascal[2], but that's not something most people can deal with. I've also got a ton of other stuff up on GitHub that I should poke a bit.I've spent a lot of time in analysis paralysis and this has given me the kick in the pants to get me going again.As far as new ideas go, I've already spent time learning Verilog, and hope to get a chip design through the TinyTapeout[3] before too long.Also, I found out that it only takes a few lines of Python and a lot of time to have an AI rate all my photos locally. That's a work in progress, should be less than 100 lines all told with niceties.[4][1] https://mikewarot.github.io/Bitgrid_C/bitgrid_sim.html[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid[3] https://tinytapeout.com/[4] https://github.com/mikewarot/RateMyPhotos

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

I had surgery for a torn meniscus repair. I’m on the couch for a least another month.I’m using this precious expanded free time to compose music, my primary form of artistic expression.Software-wise, I’m on a platform team for a large company. I’m making some performance enhancements to our http client, and a plug-n-play library for app devs to easily integrate LLMs in their products.

I am building an Excel extension that lets me use LLMs in formulas. For example, I can write =PROMPT(A1:E1, "Extract keywords") in a cell to extract keywords from a row and drag the cell to apply the prompt to many other rows. I find this useful when I want to use AI for repetitive tasks that would normally require copy-pasting data in and out of a chat window many times.I actually built it for my girlfriend who was writing a systematic review paper. She had to compare 7.500 papers against inclusion and exclusion criterias. She obviously did this manually because she cares about scientific integrity, but it sparked the idea to make an AI tool to automate repetitive tasks for people like her who would rather avoid programming. Now I just find it useful myself for a lot of ad-hoc analysis tasks like prompt engineering, rag tuning, and comparing model outputs from anthropic, openai, and google.

Recently after working as a frontend engineer for more than 2 years, I started doing full-stack, so I am going through the language that my new org uses (they are using GoLang) and trying to understand backend concepts as well.I am documenting my learning here - https://github.com/hsnice16/golang_learningMy first task was to write a GitHub action to build and push the docker image on AWS ECR. While working on it, I went through a good number of blogs, and also used ChatGPT, and finally raised a PR. So I thought to write a blog on that, you can read it here - https://hsnice16.medium.com/build-and-push-the-docker-image-...

0ptimizing building apps with an ai stack at https://aiswe.tech

On JumpHigher [1], an app that helps you improve your vertical leaps, just using your phone camera. It's functional already, but very early, the algorithm took quite a while to nail ( still far from perfect ).I'm a CEO of a small consulting company, and I love working with startups ( or hate working with huge companies, matter of perspective ), and I always thought that to be better at that we have to be able to launch our own stuff.Also, I never launched anything solo, working alone is hard for me so this was a challenge. I want to continue working on it on the side for a while.The main audience for now would be basketball players that want to dunk, or anyone that wants a good leg workout and track the progress.1. https://www.jumphigher.io/

I quit my job last year as a CIO and have been working on my own consultancy focused on using strategic foresight to help develop better strategies.I built a bunch of consultant led tools (Jupyter notebooks mostly) using LLMs to help with this, and saw how customers reacted to what they could do. So I decided a few months ago to bundle them together into a SaaS app.I’m just about to release the beta of https://www.portage.so to my waitlist in the next couple of weeks.The main use case is using a virtual whiteboard (ReactFlow) to string together a series of nodes that do a different task through the strategy development process. For example, you can generate scenarios, then analyse the impacts, then create courses of action in response to potential disruptions and so on.I do a fortnightly dev diary as well, the latest one shows off creating the final output: https://youtu.be/nD_FhWkREhE?si=JK60fVlT7wmmONW3

I'm working on a workout API and native apps (iOS/Android) for Strength Level [1] as another interface for my.strengthlevel.com [2]. Strength Level helps you understand your relative strength - how strong you are for your bodyweight.Using PHP Slim Framework, MySQL, and vanilla Swift/Java. Prioritizing reliability and efficient sync between local storage and server. Currently finalizing API endpoints and feature matching the web app. Next up is adding a subscription model.It's challenging as:- Users want to use the app offline which means we need to sync- We have to match our existing features on [2] in the first version and evolve the API and database to support reliable sync- Users want to also track their cardio too e.g. Running Level [3] and Rowing Level [4] but that will have to come out in a future version[1] https://strengthlevel.com/[2] https://my.strengthlevel.com/[3] https://runninglevel.com/[4] https://rowinglevel.com/

A video game.

These days, I've been working on a small tool to run GUIX as an unprivileged user, so that you can use GUIX profiles as a dev environment builder. I didn’t do any market research, but AFAIK there are similar tools using Nix. Honestly, this is just a toy project for fun. I had GUIX on one hand and Zig on the other, so I figured, why not try something new using both?Why not Nix? I just don’t like the Nix language. Plus, it seems like they ended up reinventing part of Lisp with their Flakes, which made me even more convinced in using GUIX. The GUIX folks didn't disappoint me, as they utilized the full power of Scheme to design a (internal) DSL that is clean and almost reads like JSON/YAML. I feel quite confident that it’s a better language for building devenvs for most people. The only downside is that it can get really verbose, but, hey, at least you have full control.

Tried to rewrite the Javascript 3D library three.js to make it smaller and more specialized for my game. Today I’m ending that and instead starting to write a 3D engine from scratch with the knowledge I learned from this rewrite process. Less object orientation and code organization, in order to get to the core of what happens in the machine (the phone/computer). There is enough complexity in the OS+browser to get through to use the device’s full power, so I at least try to remove all complexity possible from the code. Make it use less memory, download time and CPU time, and also make it go through the Javascript parser and bytecode converter as smoothly as possible. Then minimize the number of draw calls (that’s often what takes most time in the GPU) so I can render more varied graphics at the same speed (if less time is spent on sending data back and forth to the GPU, more time can be spent doing cool stuff in the shader code, I guess?).

https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/it's a free CSV Viewer with charts that supports viewing data in both table and chart formats. It includes features like sorting, searching, filtering, and pagination in table view.Recently did show hn which didn't go anywhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311629

I have some side projects that I work on alongside my regular job.- TheFile.Ninja, which is a file manager with the Everything indexer built-in for extremely fast information retrieval. This allows you to quickly run file queries, and these queries can then be saved or even added as folders in the file system. When you open the folder, it automatically fills with the contents from the query. I have also created a service with LLM/AI that translates plain text into Everything's query language. This enables you to build very complex queries directly from plain text. For example, you can ask if any directories contain a certain file, and if this file is found and contains specific text, it will be displayed. You can learn more about the project at: https://thefile.ninja or watch https://youtu.be/JREufgkf5pk. This summer, I also built three smaller games (not fully finished but almost):- ThrustMe!, a space/underwater cave exploration game (https://youtu.be/M0d7CSpEJ1E). It works on Android, Web, Windows, and possibly soon on iOS.- MergeQuanta, a Tetris-like game where you merge matching blocks (color + shape) to make them disappear, taking surrounding blocks with the same shape along with them. There are also cement blocks and bombs. The game works well with touch and stylus but also on regular computers (https://youtu.be/VXvpzhi8ySE).- Flip the Maze, a simple multi-dimensional maze game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVRB0uAPIE).What do you think about them?

Working on a ton of new music - https://4D4M.com and 4D4M on Spotify. Currently exploring production of new genres and some hybrids as well as some tech to improve live shows.

I'm putting the finishing touches on the major engine pieces for my NES game Tactus. (https://zeta0134.itch.io/tactus) The level generation is all working, there's a new raster effect system that can do nifty screen-slides and distortions, the dynamic lighting is more performant, and I'm at the point where it's time to shift gears and start making a bunch of content.The one zone that's in the game is looking more polished than ever, but it's not going to be much of a game if there are only 4 levels. Next month is all about stage art, enemy design, and items to flesh out the new economy systems. Hopefully it all comes together, we'll see. It's a ton of pixel art, and I'm still learning my way around that craft.

I’m finishing up FretLabs, a web app that lets you practice/freestyle guitar scales alongside songs. Launching soon!Promo: https://youtu.be/8709yXI82ms?si=8R_5tkBqwf1UVh9n

Playing with cursor, trying to get used to using it better.

I had this realization that, sometimes, people on my team are doing the same tasks in different ways, resulting each of them taking different amount of time. In certain scenarios, there is an optimal way of doing things, and I don't even know about it. Trying to test out if current AI-models are solid enough to do comparisons from a screen recording, or just general suggestions for improving white-collar workflows. I could see an eventual platform that could be built out of it.

https://datasignal.ukI've been working on an exciting project called DataSignal, where I'm developing a sophisticated Named Entity Recognition (NER) and enrichment system. This system is designed to identify and extract key entities from blocks of text, such as names, locations, or organizations, and then provide rich contextual information about them. The goal is to transform raw text into meaningful data that users can easily understand and leverage in various applications.The real magic of DataSignal lies in how it delivers this contextual information. It can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow through a browser plugin, which instantly highlights and explains entities as you browse the web. For developers, DataSignal can be embedded directly into a webpage via JavaScript, enhancing the content on the page with dynamic insights. Additionally, it offers a REST API, allowing for flexible and customizable integration into other software systems.Whether you're a developer looking to enhance your application with smart text analysis or someone who wants to streamline research and data gathering, DataSignal is poised to bring a new level of insight and efficiency to text analysis. This project aims to make complex data more accessible and actionable, transforming how we interact with and interpret information.

I have a CS background and work as a data scientist, but my hobby is Christian apologetics:http://saintbeluga.orgThis is my latest article, just published 2 days ago:https://www.saintbeluga.org/follow-the-evidence-wherever-it-...

I'm working on Relay [0] -- a collaboration plugin for Obsidian using yjs to provide live cursors and folder sync.I'm currently thinking about how to robustly Integrate different edit sources like iCloud, obsidian sync, git, and yjs updates. I think it could be cool to create a crdt persistence format that can live alongside markdown files (like note.md + note.md.crdt) to support edit history tracking from multiple users and their devices.[0] https://youtu.be/Ol6zDF5vrZo

rehabbing an old bike. also, bookhead, software for bookstores to sell online: https://www.bookhead.net/

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

I have a. suite of tolls for developers:https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode and vice-versa conversion),https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML and need to clean it up),https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so well-formed HTML and need to fix it),https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple tool to HTML encode (escape) a text),https://www.urlenc.com/ (a simple tool to URL encode (escape) a text),https://www.gguid.com/ (a customizable GUID generator),https://www.64baser.com/ (a Base64 and vice-versa encoder),https://www.hexator.com/ (a Hex and vice-versa encoder),https://www.cescaper.com/ (a C and C++ string escaper and unescaper) https://www.htmlinstant.com/ (a simple HTML editor).https://www.notationer.com/ (a tool to switch across (code) notations, like camelCase, PascalCase, snake-case).Frontend is mostly in React/Next.js (Some older projects have frontend still in the old ASP.NET MVC and Ajax :-)). Where the backend is needed, it is written in .Net/C# and running on Azure.

I’ve been working on Style.ai, an app that helps you dress better.You add a photo of your outfit and get some feedback along with ways to improve it.https://apps.apple.com/us/app/style-ai-outfit-analysis/id647...

I'm a software engineer with a passion for pencil portraits (https://bpsagar.github.io/sketch). As an artist, I've often thought that a companion sketching app could help beginners and intermediate artists improve their process.I'm currently working on an app that provides a step-by-step guide to drawing from a reference photo. My goal is to make the sketching process more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.

I'm working on writing a sort of code and data playground from scratch - with currently only CodeMirror, ProseMirror, and some icons as dependencies - so that everything in it can be edited live. Everything is web components with the shadow DOM. It is sandboxed both as a whole and at the notebook level. The overall sandboxing uses a Content Security Policy that allows inspecting the URL for following a link, to enable using untrusted code (from humans or an AI) and private data without it easily being leaked. I've built a resizable split view, draggable tabs with multiple panes, and a color picker. It's a few dozen Markdown files with code in fenced code blocks and a Deno and Docker-based build process. There is a hybrid notebook/playground editor with the fenced code blocks changed into links that open the files in tabs. It's open source and at https://ristretto.codeberg.page/

I'm building a free library of website components and templates: https://uisual.com/. People can simply copy-and-paste the Tailwind CSS, Figma, and Framer into their own projects. No attribution, no sign up required.I'm a designer, and this is my first Vue project. Super happy and proud of it. This is a way for me to learn coding. I'm working on improving the project by adding a simple website builder where people can edit the components and templates directly.

Thank you for asking! Excitingly, I'm working on maintaining and improving my canvas library. Which is not news because I spend much of my spare time doing this exact same work.However for this months work, I'm adding new stuff to the library - specifically some new OKLAB/OKLCH filters: something I don't think other canvas libraries have yet got around to considering[1]. And this weekend (a 3 day weekend in the UK) I'm spending time fixing the horror-show code for the reduce-palette (dither) filter[2] to see if I can get it to work just a little bit faster ...(Fans of small PRs should definitely not click on these links)[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/94[2] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/96

Have been working on a protocol library [1] meant to be a substitute for "JSON-RPC over HTTP/WebSocket". Part of the goal is to more natively support byte-oriented data structures and reduce overheads. It supports a bidirectional HTTP2-style "channel" concept, but without making any assumptions about how they're meant to be used. It also can be configured to require authentication of the client and/or server, but punts secrecy to a lower-level transport protocol. It uses Rust macros to generate traits and wrappers to make the ergonomics fairly easy.Currently I've built a call/response RPC abstraction with it to use it for another project that I'm working on. Eventually I'd want to add a streaming message system beyond the basic call/response pattern. I also might like to ship some easy setup to bridge between these protocol abstractions and ZMQ, JSON-RPC, be able to behave like inetd, etc.It's functional enough to use in non-production environments but not completely seriously yet. I'm working out the kinks and improving the DX by using it for that other project. There's still some easy improvements around the byte encoding that I still haven't gotten to yet.[1] https://codeberg.org/treyd/ecksport

I just (like today) started working on an open-source, self-hosted, e2e encrypted, and free password manager.I’m writing the backend in Go, with a standard API layer to allow custom frontends. I will also be building “official” frontends for mobile apps, desktop apps, and browser extensions.The main reason I’m doing this is because I don’t like the UI of other self-hosted password managers, and I hate relying on the security of cloud options.Seeing as I just started work on it today, I don’t have much (not even a real name). If you want to follow along, heres the Github, https://github.com/dickeyy/passwordsMy goal for this project is to provide teams and individuals with the ability to secure their passwords while also providing a clean and elegant experience.LMK what you think!

Working on an open mouth animatronic you can prop on a desk or hang on a wall.

Trying to find a solution for my inability to digest plants https://github.com/cutestuff/FoodDepressionConundrum/blob/ma...latest success seems to be probiotic for oxolate-digestion, which now helps me digest green salad. For a test I tried green onions, but got anxiety back. Being able to digest onions and garlic would enrich my food choices a lot.I doubt there's money to be made from all this material, except I could offer some coaching, but pretty much everything I know is in this little repo

I'm building a developer tool for working with FHIR APIs called "Vanya Client".- https://vanyalabs.com/FHIR is a data standard for sharing healthcare data. It's in use all around the world by healthcare, health insurance and medtech companies as well as researchers working with healthcare data.Vanya grew out of my own frustrations as a developer working with FHIR. I wanted an easier way to see the data behind the APIs. To say Postman is not ideal for working with this data is a major understatement.We're a few months away from a commercial release, and have an MVP available for download right now. We're very much building in public and have a strong user base already all around the world.Just finished a Sunday morning release of the latest version. Looking forward to the next 6 months!

I've mentioned my project a few times around HN, but might as well reiterate :)I took some time off from work to teach myself Rust and to build a WASM colony simulation game. You've got a colony of ants, they're in a cold, foggy crater, and you help them grow and survive. The simulation runs 24/7, like a Tamagotchi, but a bit more complex, like a simplified RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress. I am hoping to design game play systems which focus on mental health, self-care, addiction, motivation, and personal growth and to use the gameplay as a means of encouraging awareness in the player.https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiantsI haven't added any features in a while, unfortunately, but it's on my mind. For a while I was just adding whatever popped into my head, as a means of learning Rust, and I naively thought the full idea would crystallize with time, but it hasn't. So, I'm trying to take a step back and figure out how to actually make a coherent game that does justice to the mechanics I want to see in my simulation. I've spent a lot of time thinking rather than coding, but I'm optimistic that I'll get through this phase sooner or later. I will admit, though, that trying to take a novel approach with game design is overwhelming at times. That's okay, though! I'm enjoying the process of tinkering with the project and will likely continue tinkering on it for many years to come as a creative outlet for self-actualization.

Learning gnuplot. Astonishingly powerful and versatile, criminally underhyped.

I have been working on a platform for digital content creators where they can sell their work or build online communities. In a few weeks it will be exactly two years since I started. I had a 6 month break but beside that it was daily grind from morning to evening. I'll be going online later this year.Most funny thing is that the toughest part related to the project had nothing to do with coding or tech. But finding a free domain. I had no idea 99% of the .com domains are just squatters.

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Minimal blog platform. I'm creating one for myself but I'm making it generic enough that other people could fork it and make one for themselves. PHP and vanilla JS, as usual.

https://github.com/anacrolix/possumconcurrent disk-backed cache supporting efficient direct file I/O, transactions, and snapshots using file cloning and sparse files

Interactive Fiction authoring platform (sharpee) built in C# 8 and mostly coded iteratively using Claude Sonnet 3.5.V.01 close to ready.

I'm trying to figure out how to safely and effectively add hallucination-free LLM generation to medical care at my company: https://www.wyndly.com/Been playing with RAG on my co-founder's medical expertise.

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.

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

I’m a software engineer looking for problems to solve…

I’ve been working on some Common Lisp binding for webgpu native.Trying to learn both a bit better along the way.

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

reading answers here just inspired me so much