Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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!

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 =)

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

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.

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/

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.

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

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 :(

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’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...

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.

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.

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

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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.

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 :

    db_message = Model.save_new_message!(@conf.db, DbButler::Hn, item, DbState::Processing)

    def self.save_new_message!(db, butler, external_id, state) : Message
        sql = {{ read_file "./db/save_new_message.sql" }}
        db.query_one(sql, butler.to_s.downcase, external_id, state.to_s.downcase, as: Message)
   end

The land page is not ready, but the bot has been working for me for months https://newsbutler.xyz/

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

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’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.

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.

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.

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 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/

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 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

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 ;)

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.

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

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

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

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

Recently, I started building a crowdsourced wiki for repairability of consumer hardware products in India: https://isfixable.com/

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.

I'm building a podcast player to learn languages.

https://www.langturbo.com (No signup required)

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'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'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

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’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.

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.

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)

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.

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 a free mobile app for speed cubers. you can download the ios version at https://sccomps.com/

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

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.

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 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'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'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’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.

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.

Working on my startup https://wetarseel.ai which uses WhatsApp API for message broadcasts and creating whatsapp bots to converse with incoming messages.

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

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

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...

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'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

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’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 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'm working on a website that anybody can update by calling into the phone number in the url. https://715-999-7483.com/

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/

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!

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'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.)

I'm working on https://github.com/coreui/coreui, the Bootstrap fork with full Dart Sass 3.0.0+ compatibility.

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 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

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.

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

Implementing https://interpreterbook.com/ and subsequently https://compilerbook.com/ in C++.

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.

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'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.

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.

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'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.

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 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

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.

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.

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

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.

I was laid off a month ago so my biggest project right now is finding work.

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.

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/

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'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.

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!

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

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.

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/

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 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’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

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

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

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 my strength, hitting the gym 5days a week and doing only calisthenics with the weights, currently doing pull-ups and dips with 30kg

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.

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)

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 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!

https://genatron.ai - Build ready-to-use business apps in a few minutes by providing requirements in plain English.

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

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.

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.

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

finalizing arXiv paper on why hypertokens eliminate AI hallucinations

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.

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

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’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

(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

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!

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 ^^'

The only national public database of UK food banks https://www.givefood.org.uk

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'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 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'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...

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/

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 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/

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!

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.

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!

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 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/

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

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

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.

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...

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....

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.

A Sui blockchain scanning app. Plenty of those already but a level up for me in programming complexity

Moving to a trading bot eventually

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/

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".

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.

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¹ https://fsl.yellowapple.us/zig64

² https://fsl.yellowapple.us/website

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

A tool For logistics and container planning and movers:

LLM driven 3d packing written in F#

https://3dpack.ing

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?

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 ```

- 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 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 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'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 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 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.

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

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'm trying to work on a new outdoor route building and mapping engine, focused on wilderness areas.

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.

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

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.

OnlineOrNot as always, coming up to 4 years in operation (https://onlineornot.com)

Currently working on adding webhook notifications for status pages.

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.

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

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 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 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

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.

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'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.

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.

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...

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.

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 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 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…

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.

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

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/.

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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/

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.

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.

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

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 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

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 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!

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'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

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.

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...

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 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...

An editor for Clinical Quality Language (CQL) with syntax highlighting and parsing.

Repo: https://github.com/rukshn/cquill

Demo: https://rukshn.github.io/cquill/

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.

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.

bookhead, zapier for independent bookstores: https://bookhead.net/blog/fragmented/

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

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 :-(

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 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...

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.

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 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 :)

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.

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 not being bothered by the fact that everyone else is working on something

Trying my hand at an autonomous AI coding "assistant", via https://mycoder.ai

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'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 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 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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

I'm building an app to help small-to-medium businesses track and manage their subscription spending

https://tracksub.io/

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.

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 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 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.

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 an AI NoCode platform with the MVP still under development.

There's a wait-list sign-up though: https://aiconstrux.com

Coding Interview Prep as an Epic quest: https://faangshui.com/books/foundations/chapters/accumulator...

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!

Embedded Lisp for app scripting:

https://github.com/codr7/eli

Typed Relational Database access:

https://github.com/codr7/tyred

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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

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!

A computationally derived variant of English that has a 1-to-1 mapping between spellings and pronunciations.

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.

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

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

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/

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.

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/

Geolede - An interactive world news map.

https://geolede.com

A platform for technical founders to accelerate their journey to PMF http://buildrappo.com/founders

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...

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/

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.

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.

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

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 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 no-code video game builder: Example made in 3 hours

https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004...

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/

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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).

endlessly hacking on https://grugnotes.com -- an old school, but also ai first notes app. Adding in "Cursor for notes" features right now.

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 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/

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/

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'm building the quickest AI extension for chromium browsers https://chatgptwriter.ai

https://volt.fm - Spotify Stats & Music Discovery

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.

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/

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.

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

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 :(

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

https://blebbit.app

Community Spaces on ATProto

(blend of discord, reddit, fb groups)

"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/

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

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

Trying to keep a computational epidemiology research group going in the teeth of the CDC, NSF and NIH being absolutely gutted.

Currently writing a free "Hiring Developers" booklet

https://leanpub.com/RecruitingDevelopersEbook

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.

Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.

https://matrixbird.com

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.

Super simple business idea validator using AI.

https://ideapulse.io

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.

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)

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)

A snowmobile platform that aggregates all different snowmobile models and their info https://skoterbanken.se

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

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

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

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 building a silly little script to install Ubuntu and the grub partition on encrpyted RAID1 arrays.

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.

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!

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

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)

I'm working on bluesky social analytics tool for businesses and marketers. https://www.graphtracks.com. Feedback is welcome.

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..

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

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.

@work high level modelling of hydraulics constructions (not too much math, just a bit)

@hobby AccurApple my Apple 2e emulator

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

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)

An open-source, non-profit Digital Dopamine Detox platform - https://algodetox.com/

Working on a fun hobby project that uses Dogecoin

Protest music :)

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.

Interface addon for Linux-based NW series Walkmans

https://github.com/unknown321/wampy

Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical.

https://retrochronic.com/

I am collaborating with a group of veterinarians to address pet health concerns.

I am making a clone of the chrome dinosaur game in the terminal using Go and Bubbletea

I'm working on a second brain LLM, kinda super human power to live forever

An LLM assistant app for engaging with your journal. Insights, prompts (for humans), research leads, etc.

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'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.

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.

compiler-as-a-Lua-DSL

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.

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

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.

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.

llm agent for python codebases, targeting swebench verified

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.

Merging data from spreadsheets with db, with schema mismatches nightmare...

Key Transparency for the Fediverse (so that we can build E2EE for DMs atop it)

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

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

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