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.
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 :(
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
- 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
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.
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
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).
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 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.
[1]: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud
[2]: https://uncloud.run
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.
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...
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)
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.
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.)
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...
At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID password, or something of the like, there are people that send the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not everyone deletes their message containing the password afterwards.
You enter your secret on the website and it gets encrypted on the client-side before being sent to the database. A one-time-use URL is generated and then you send that URL to whomever needs the password. The backend never sees the secret in plain-text.
The tool is meant to be self-hosted - but I'm in the process of deploying it publicly for people to try out. I got the idea from my brother -- he was doing an internship at Tesla and said they had this being used internally, so I figured I would create my own as a little side project that I can then implement at work.
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/
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.
It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.
It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams.
The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.
There 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.
We're also building OpenEWS (https://github.com/somleng/open-ews) which will be the world's first Open Source Early Warning System Dissemination Platform.
We're a small 2 person team trying to make a big difference.
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.
- object capabilities
- implicit async/await
- immutable collections
It's small and (hopefully) fun, and quite usable already. If you try it out, please share your thoughts!
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
It is very much a work in progress with lots of commented out code which are just experiments.
We tested our competitors apps and make our own blend of tools that actually ease the process. Effortless script breakdowns, moodboards, scene-specific venue suggestions, storyboard from script generation (here we consider us the best), nice pitch deck generation and projects sharing.
The market is still a bit conservative about using AI, but we are looking for testers and enjoyers: https://blooper.ai/.
There's a free trial period for people who don't like to f a lot on pre-production (especially during conversation with stakeholders).
Price is also mild for industry, 49$ for up to 5 projects and 199$ for big guys who need process optimization on scale. So...that's it.
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 moved to London some years back, and was pleasantly surprised by the vibrant cinema scene, that seems to be in a steep decline in so many places. On any day of the week, one can find independent films, old and new classics, Q&A's with filmmakers etc. playing in one of the many theaters across the city. Staying on top of it all is a chore though, and I found myself missing out on screenings regularly, because I didn't check that one cinema's website on time.
This is also my first time building and releasing an independent app. The journey from research, backend development and learning SwiftUI has been a trip. Released on TestFlight a couple of weeks ago.
I realize it is a topic done over and over but it is 100% for my learning. I have generated some graphics locally using Flux model, will play around with sounds and music generation and spice it up in Ableton, but now I'm stumbling on the basics and I learn a lot through solving problems.
Far-reaching goal would be to release it somehow, somewhere - I don't expect to earn even a dollar on it, just for fun and even more exp.
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
It is more an excuse to create a simlpe Electron app, though.
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.
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.
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".
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 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/
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.
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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.
Why? Because I thought it would be a fun challenge. I have a win 98 machine. I have Vim 7.3 installed. It has not been compiled with lua/python. I want a minimap.
It's been fun to find clever compromises to make it work. I've almost completed the project. (at least it works on my modern computer, I'm sure when I transfer it to my Win98 I'll find I'm using some modern vimscript functions and then I have to invent fun workarounds again).
If you want a good dev experience on a Win98, I highly recommend Vim or if you don't vim, then notepad++. Vim is better though.
Currently, it's set up as a daily (short) newsletter with a different link each day, but I'm trying to learn marketing to figure out how to get others interested. I've enjoyed creating it, but would like to see if others like it before moving on to a new project. Link to project: https://www.thedailydetour.co.uk/
I’m 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 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.
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.
We found a nice design someone had released online under creative commons BY, modified it to fit our needs (though we’re thinking mark2 might need a complete redesign), then have been printing the towers out and growing veggies under grow lights!
We have a long way to go but I’m building the online store presently to sell towers (that should be up and running in a few weeks - I’m kind of exhausted after my day job - and we’re hoping to have enough towers to sell veggies at the farmers market by the summer.
Long term I’ll likely buy some land and build a less ad hoc setup, for now, we are still experimenting. The idea is to slowly build this up as self-reliantly and simply as we can so that anyone can grow their own food and so we can use dirt simple tools to run the business. We plan on doing as much as is practical with open source tooling and Linux. No subscriptions, no spyware (once we get to tower design mark4 or 5 and we have some raspberry pis running the tooling), and we want this to be a model so other people can do the same thing we’re doing!
Basically, as we approach this AI inflection point, I really strongly feel like the best results for the future will be to leverage this technology for good. Also, I think there’s a niche in using tech for extremely practical and non-SaaS purposes. Everyone and their brother wants to create this crazy billion dollar startup idea where everyone pays them a subscription to their AI bot or whatever, we’re just hoping we can make people a little more resilient in our community and maybe feed my neighbors. We think we can leverage these new tools for good.
I’m not a very experienced web dev (my day job is in automation), but I’m learning and actually it looks like I might have some side business where I throw together some small websites for local companies too. The goal is modest, practical, and ideally something that makes my community better.
Come check out my terrible flask website here:
www.pragman.io
In a couple weeks I should have my garage cleaned out and the online store ready, but for now enjoy!
It works by connecting to apis of services like github, gitlab, jira, trello and more with user's account and provides widgets for those services with various configurations.
Our most recent feature has been a widget that allows configuring a table that can connect to whatever api the user provides, all handled in the browser so only user can see the data. You can connect to any api endpoint you like and customize the table to your needs.
It was a side project that we needed for our own projects but came to realize there was a huge demand for it when we showcased it on ProductHunt.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
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)
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....
[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
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...
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 ;)
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!
It's been months I've been stuck on the description of note groups because of the insanely complex 2D semantics.
It’s for iPhone only (yes, sorry!), and you can play for free once. Apologies in advance for the large download. Get it from here: https://www.inotherwords.app/
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.
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.
Stella – Inspired by Jack Quaid being interviewed at the Emmy's (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2a1mcfT/). I created Stella (https://usestella.app/) an app that acts as an assistant that helps actors run lines! It is at the very early stages now, but the goal is to have AI do the voices, just in case you aren't as talented as our friend Jack over there! Also the famous little women scene is on their to try out, cause I think running lines is fun just do to when bored.
Doctours – Similarly inspired by TikTok, I started something to help people getting hair transplants overseas. It was crazy for me to think people are still paying in cash for these procedures. Like idk about you but I am not bringing $5k across the border to any country. So I mainly created this as a way to solve the cross border payments problem (https://www.doctours.health/).
edit: added the link to the tiktok.
The core components are on GitHub:
* https://github.com/m3047/shodohflo
* https://github.com/m3047/rear_view_rpz
* https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns
* https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns/blob/main/SHARDS_Command.md
* https://www.zipcon.net/~m3047/observability-dream.mp4
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.
I'm also learning JavaScript through Daniel Shiffman's book Nature of Code. As someone who has a background in modeling it's a very engaging read, and the exercises are fun!
With English not being my native tongue, it gets difficult to speak some words at times and I have to reshoot each takes several times. But it's worth the effort and it's different to what I do in my main channel!
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.
Currently working on adding webhook notifications for status pages.
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.
At work, I'm finalizing a platform to quickly set up and deploy Apache Flink clusters and pipelines. It's going surprisingly well, with several teams interested in using it! Unfortunately we couldn't use the extremely cool Flink Kubernetes Operator because it's incompatible with the existing infrastructure stack at my company... but rolling out something similar enough hasn't been too hard.
At home, I'm about to receive my new robot vacuum and the gear I need to install Valetudo in it. I'm excited because I've had nothing but bad experiences with cloud-connected vacuums. To give you all an example: my current Shark vacuum sometimes starts by itself in the middle of the night. When I get up to stop it and check the app, I see that the floor plan it tried to clean is not my house... so it's receiving cleaning commands from other users.
The main motivation for creating Circuitscript is to describe schematics in terms of code rather than graphical UIs. This makes it easier to track changes and version control with a text based schematic. I have used different CAD packages extensively (Allegro, Altium, KiCAD) in the past and wanted to spend more time thinking about the schematic design itself rather than fiddling around with GUIs.
The main language goals are to be easy to write and reason, generated graphical schematics should be displayed according to how the designer wishes so and to encourage code reuse.
It has taken a couple of months to go from idea to a product that's polished enough for other people to use, and I've been full time on it. It has a couple of dozen companies using it now, almost all from the last couple of weeks. That's been a big boost!
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/turbolytics/sql-flow
The goal is to create a stream processing framework that supports SQL jobs. Apache Flink supports this but is very heavy-weight overall. I work with cost constrained companies that just can't run Flink but still want access to high performance streaming primitives.
We are taking a slightly different approach from other competitors by building cloud-native tools for engineers. SQLFlow is built on DuckDB, Native Kafka Library, and Arrow. This allows SQLFlow to handle ~70k+ events / second with low memory overhead (~250MiB).
Would love your questions, thoughts and feedback or feature Ideas! Thank you
In summary, our tool lets you generate dynamic links, track attributions, and analyze referrals. You can easily see which links and marketing campaigns drive the most installs, reactivations, reinstalls, and views.
Also, thinking about building a catio for my cat.
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.
(and some philosophy on the subject :))
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...
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-...
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.
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...
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.
Wondering if being still on a third level domain is messing up my SEO efforts.
Recently added Similar Topics feature which uses Scikit-learn's TF-IDF vectors
LLM driven 3d packing written in F#
The idea came from an interesting "tail wagging the dog" situation. I had an old domain (faxbeep.com) lying around unused which I'd been renewing for 20 years. When I finally built something there, I discovered users were more interested in a fax testing feature that I'd added as an afterthought - the abitlity to send a fax to our test numbers and see it appear on the website for 30 days.
That insight led me to dedicate faxbeep.com entirely to fax testing, and to buy payperfax.com for my original idea: straightforward, pay-as-you-go faxing. People still need to send faxes surprisingly often - for tax authorities, immigration paperwork, medical prescriptions, etc. The service charges a fixed fee for a 3-page fax (cover + 2 pages) with a bit more for additional pages, and you only pay if the fax sends successfully.
My current challenge is visibility - Google has essentially black-holed the site. Even exact match searches like [pay per fax] don't bring up the site. If anyone has SEO advice on how to climb out of this hole - I'd appreciate it!
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
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!
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.
Pycharm AI agent (just started): https://github.com/zerubeus/aladin
Alexa skill to set Muslim prayer reminder, ask for prayer times, and so on: https://github.com/zerubeus/alexa_adhan
- 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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Applying the same approach to chain-of-thought reasoning gave me the feeling that I might be looking at a form of realistic UX for some sort of science-fiction neural AI augmentation - you can let the CoT run on and do its thing, but also interject at any point and insert a "thought" of your own, or go back and revise a thought you did not like, and then let it continue. Imagine such a stream hooked up with a two-way pipe into your phonological loop (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/phonological... - perhaps more attainable with existing tech).
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 asked Gemini 2.0 to describe it and it is what was produced.
Discover a simple yet powerful way to organize and share your cherished memories with m.emori.es. Designed with ease of use in mind, even for those less tech-savvy, this private photo and video storage platform lets you create logical folders and effortlessly invite family and friends to view them. Perfect for sharing precious moments with elderly parents or loved ones, m.emori.es offers a secure and intuitive experience. With plans to integrate contact management, private chat, and genealogy tree support via GEDCOM files, m.emori.es is evolving into a comprehensive hub for family connection and memory preservation. Visit https://m.emori.es today and experience the joy of sharing made simple.
Ignore the pricing page and if you want a test account in exchange for honest feedback, please contact email me at alain AT aoware DOT co DOT uk
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.
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.
Users complained the app was too annoying, so I've revamped it after asking for feedback properly [1]. Learning more about user research, UX, marketing (even making TikToks!) and so on has been pretty neat. Learnings are:
1. People want to avoid losing track of time on social media
2. Instagram is great to connect with friends, but Reels are dangerous!
3. Complete focus is only necessary in cases like work or study.
This has been one of the most creative projects I've done. It's the closest thing I've done to art as a programmer :)
Also, Kotlin Multiplatform has been a joy! Only faced minor issues because it's too new, but it's been easy to create animations and reuse components. XML on Android was a huuuge pain. I'm happy with myself for prototyping without wasting too much time overall.
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.
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.
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://github.com/StarsRail/Cocai
Better than a human, it can draw an illustration of the scene in meme seconds.
It can also roll dices in 3D: Demo: https://youtu.be/8wagQoMPOKY?si=oCa2erHvheEyEKM_&t=55
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.
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.
These are audit data like external system request/responses for possible investigations. This saves a lot of space. Initially written in Python, now practicing with Rust. Container images is 2.2MB small :)
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.
Right now it works as a mock interviewer for algorithmic (leetcode-style) problems, you can sign up for the waitlist here, I'll send you an invite right after:
It actually works pretty well, but we're having trouble getting users (some sign up but don't end up doing even a single interview?!).
We're thinking whether we could sell a version of this to companies to do their technical screens in, perhaps with problems that are more similar to the actual software engineering work (e.g. debug existing piece of code, write tests, and extend it).
We're generous with interview credits if you give us good feedback =)
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!
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.
A realtime webOS interacting with it is also nearly ready to be released.
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
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…
We’re also building our own CDN to optimise asset delivery and improve performance across deployments. But beyond infra, we’re betting on something bigger: developers want everything they need to ship an app in one place—not just UI kits, but fully hooked-up components that handle state, auth flows, and analytics automatically.
That means forms, a help desk, user management, and more—all tightly integrated so you can focus on building rather than stitching services together.
Would love to hear from anyone who’s been frustrated by piecing together third-party tools just to get a product off the ground!
``` @Synth def tone(freq=440, amp=0.2): return SinOsc.ar(freq, 0) * amp ```
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.
It was frustrating to apply for jobs, with no rejection emails and no updates, not knowing whether to keep waiting or move on. The plan is to answer questions like:
1. Has anyone heard back from this role?
2. How long does it usually take to hear back?
3. What are the online assessments/interview rounds like for company X?
My library is specialized for parsing text. That had enabled some cool capabilities.
It comes with a `Span` primitive, which tracks where in a file a token came from, for implementing error messages. A `Span` can be the input or the output of a parser. At the front end a `Span` is an entire file, and as you slice and dice it, it tracks the metadata of where it came from.
Along with the standard `Sequence` (combining parsers in a set order) and `Choice` operations (branching between many parsers) that parser combinators are built around, I have come up two operations that are very handy. I suspect that others have made them before, they are both patterns I used in `nom`. (I've also only skimmed the original paper, they could be in there and I didn't see them.)
One of them is called `Compose`. As an alternative to a `Sequence`, instead of a group of parsers consuming the input in order, the first parser consumes the input, and the subsequent parsers consume the return of the previous parser. This is useful for instance when implementing escapable strings; the first parser grabs the entire string, the second one transforms escape sequences. (There is a mechanism for transforming the content of a `Span` while retaining it's metadata.)
The other is called `Fuse`. This is a small twist on `Sequence`, where after matching the parsers in order, the result is all concatenated together into a single token. This is useful for a "pattern matching" primitive, where you want to find a series of tokens in order, but you don't want to split them into different tokens, you want them all together.
It's been a wild ride, there's been a lot of thorny issues. I often think I should've just stuck with `nom 7` instead of shaving this yak. But I've learned a whole lot about writing especially abstract/DSL-yy Rust by combining tuples, traits, and declarative macros. There are also other programming language projects I'd like to pursue, and it will be nice to have a tailor fit tool for parsing text.
Special thanks to dtolnay's `paste,` the real MVP.
I am thinking of starting a venture that will increase the amount of nonesense in the world. The intention is to get people playing, writing and exploring more. I would keep track of "wins" by recording the work that participants/readers create in the world. Very grindset. Much hustle. If you need a push - or a cheerleader - on a creative project that you're working on, then reach out to me.
We're starting with cat, dog, horse, and pollen allergies.
We're close to peanut allergies.
The science is known as allergy immunotherapy. https://www.wyndly.com/pages/immunotherapy
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!
It's also a hodge-podge of other annoying things I want removed on the web, like when articles have pull quotes that repeat what they just wrote one paragraph ago, or when sites block the ability to paste passwords.
The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome/Vivaldi, but it has a lot more development to get it where I want it.
Would appreciate any feedback and tips on both the extension itself as well as advice on monetization.
So I built buckaroo, it combines a high performance scrollable table (built on top of ag-grid), with summary stats, and histograms. All of this is customizable and extensible. I recently built a dataframe compare tool [2] on top of buckaroo that uses coloring to show differences between dataframes intuitively.
Get in touch if you want to talk tables, data science tooling, or exploratory data analysis.
Almost like a guitar hero thing but with just a metronome
It requires WebMidi to be enabled:
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.
Plus I having fun plugging it all into ChatGPT and reading the stories it comes up with.
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
This year I’m making it production safe and open sourcing it.
The visualisations generated by the AI from the agreement.
Click on legend text to drill down and on circles in the spiral. UI is 3D cube animation for now.
Former Deputy AG in charge of fighting corruption and fraud affecting US consumers: “I like how it balances the intent of the law for the consumer”
Both academic and practicing lawyers have looked at it and given us good feedback.
Not looking for a problem to solve. Found our niche. We applied for YC but we are all on the older side and the first question in the YC application was our age. LOL. Not gonna work. Doing another round of family and friends fund raising then VC post market traction.
Samples of ToS and financing agreements
Https://labs.sunami.ai/feed
Still needs some work for mobile/responsive version.
DM marc fawzi on LinkedIn.
Video: showing drills downs etc
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!
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!
«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)
Lots of fun to think about the future of crypto if you're able to handle unstructured data (and I'm not really a crypto person.)
Feel free to check us out/hit us up if you're curious: hello@ambient.xyz
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...
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.
* There is possibility of adding relations between schemas (1-to-n, n-to-n, 1-to-1)
* API allows to filter and transform responses to your own arbitrary schema via custom query language
* support Oauth with custom Oidc of your choice and API tokens for easily configurable but strong security
* from the start I designing it with extensibility in mind so there is built-in system of flows and custom extensions
* flows support running via custom http endpoints, and system events (i.e. data changes); cron schedules and external events are planned
* flows are defined via Json files
* flows are also customisable and allows to define your own blocks and flows that can be injected into other flows for bigger pieces of logic.
* all json files are source for code generation so performance should be the same as using your own manually written code or at least very close.
* there is built-in template subsystem, used for flows (i.e. for saving files with content from template) that I also plan to use to generate static files for FE.
* custom pieces of logic are supported by flows so you can create flow to update some read-only values based on other values (i.e. FullName from first and surname).
To achieve that I had to write my own fluent API for C# code generation. I had idea mainly during writing my own API for my house automation: 'Why I have to write another DAL layer, and auhorization, and filtering, and database schema? I did this dozens of times already?!' There is no need to figure this one out every time.
I’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 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.
https://imgur.com/a/miniature-weather-station-kkw7RLI
The data path will be the same as my DIY full-size weather station; ESP32(MQTT)-->WiFi-->Rpi-->Node Red-->InfluxDB-->Grafana
I found that boilerplate code needed for handling defaults, environment variables, and CLI variables could become unreasonably large and error prone. I just wanted to have a struct hold the settings needed for the project, with sane defaults, helpful messages, and handling of environment and CLI variables at the same time.
So I created Settingo.
Settingo is a unified solution to handle defaults, environment variables, and CLI arguments. Settings are a boring aspect of a project, and Settingo will allow a dev to focus on the project. https://github.com/Attumm/settingo
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.
There is a lot of potential here to help, and I don't have big ambitions to scale this to a lot of children. There are also schools that need help. Other people that volunteer their time to run a daycare center for those that can't afford a regular one. One school is looking for someone to teach programming, but doesn't have the budget to hire a professional. I could volunteer to do it, if I could find a sponsor. It doesn't even require a full-time salary.
I 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.
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.
Now i´m trying to port to Cython to make as fast as possible. Here o3 is almost useless, but I´m progressing.
Right now I'm working on getting the data more complete, adding more sources and improving the learn (https://computeprices.com/learn) section.
Any feedback appreciated! Here's hoping the tools and info help people learn more about training models, deep learning research and generative AI.
[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/write-initi...
Currently working on setting up a blog with some dev details about the newest game. Also working with a UI/UX designer to make it look and flow a bit better.
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!
- A little free library, but for e-books. Having a bit of trouble with this one because I think that the move to e-books inherently removes much of the magic of a little free library of physical books. Plus there's the whole "letting users upload things is hard" thing.
- E-ink picture frame. It's been done before and it's mainly just a use for an old rpi laying around.
- Looking to start a tech meetup in my small locale. It's hard to meet tech people in my area, let alone people who are willing to present.
- TUIs to aid me in my day job. Claude makes whipping up proofs of concept super easy and quick, so this one is the most fun to me right now.
I'm happy to reach this first milestone, but I'm already envisioning future iterations. My goal is to transform this into a proper celebration of Unix – a system whose elegant simplicity and powerful design principles continue to inspire me. There's something deeply satisfying about connecting with this foundational piece of computing history.
Contributions are always welcome.
Special shout-out to @abetusk for all the support and enthusiasm with the project.
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
Next I'd like to add a Pi into the espresso machine for some remote fun. A couple of the control panel pcb-pop-style? buttons are failing, and I thought it might be fun to try and control via a touch screen. I suspect I'll want some kind of timer on the machine side to ensure a safe/timely cut-off, but I haven't done anything like that since using a 555 a very long time ago. Maybe I'll just drive a relay from a digital Pi i/o pin, but suspect it is switching mains level V.
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...
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.
- A webassembly bindings library for go, with "namespaced" / subpackaged adapters for Web APIs, so the final wasm binary won't be bloated
- A git management tool for my repositories, implemented in pure go (and using said wasm library) to find out what I need to build a small little app with it
https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
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...
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
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 also a student at WSU and will be pitching at our business plan competition. https://carmapay.com
Typed Relational Database access:
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
Don’t have a background in ML, so mostly just for learning purposes
Been playing a lot with the MNIST dataset. Trying things like training only on the examples the model gets wrong, or training only on random samples of the image (ie. using only a small subset of the pixels of the image as the input), or creating one model per label to overfit the data and then merging the models for testing, or just testing performance of different architectures and frameworks on the same problem
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11jLH3UISmRId_gTFXiTQ...
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.
The goal is to bring inspiring emotions like these to the classrooms - https://youtube.com/shorts/waLXYiV-2cE
Currently working on a few rust tools for drone stuff.
https://github.com/BWStearns/ulog-rs/ https://github.com/BWStearns/flight-engineer
For example, you can search "cheese", and it'll show you results for cheese on Google. If you search "!b cheese", it'll search "cheese" but on Bing instead. "@yt !b cheese" will search "site:youtube.com cheese" on Bing.
I built it mainly so I wouldn't blow through my 100 Kagi trial searches quite so quickly.
I 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.
Now you paste in the job description, we use an llm to generate a new resume grounded in the details you added earlier. You get a pdf that you can submit to the job application.
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.
Our reader's fav reads of 2024: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published
I'm also building an application and training materials to help people with annual strategy. I've spent 20 years in marketing and ops putting up with people doing it badly so this is an attempt to help people running businesses actually come up with a strategy likely to result in something valuable.
* An 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
I'm also doing some electronics - I'd like to make a tool that gives blind people without light perception light perception by putting a lightweight device on their forehead that delivers haptic feedback based on light intensity. I'm doing that with a friend, and we're planning on open sourcing the specs.
I've been 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.
a platform (not an engine) for building “native”, cross-platform games. exposes WebIDL inspired APIs, including audio, GPU, input, storage, etc. you can think of it like unity without the engine. eventually will support user libraries (read: engines) written in whatever language, usable in whatever language.
very rough, don’t expect everything (anything?) to work. might change the name due to the collision with the Rust library by the same name.
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.
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/
Beets takes almost 5 minutes per incremental update of ~1000 folders of tagged flacs with my current configuration, when all I really want it to do is:
- fetch album art if not present
- create folder structure readable by Subsonic server
- symlink relevant files
Very raw and unfinished, currently only implemented adding new albums. However, 5 minutes to <1 sec is a promising improvement.
Right now we're trying to figure out our funnels. We've had some pretty good success doing things that don't scale particularly well, like going to immigration events. Now I'm working on getting better visibility across the country (SEO, Google Ads, etc...).
I'm learning a lot, but it's slow going.
Includes some nice-to-haves like payload encryption, carrier image creation
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.
Why: - because stable voice AI is still extremely hard. I built multiple such platforms (inbound, outbound, support, phone based) last year. And learned, it is very hard to build something complex with current tool - the interview paradigm is common enough to be useful. E.g: off boarding, business insights, pre/post lab experiment interview, market research
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.
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.
1. API for Clean Transcripts – Extract structured transcripts with references, code snippets, and images.
2. AI Video Assistant – Interact with videos using AI-powered tools for summarization, Q&A, and more.
Would love to hear your thoughts! You can reach out to me at sg@o14.ai
Alongside that, I've also been coaching kids (ages 4 to 11) at a local Benfica academy since September, and I've had a lot of fun helping them improve in many areas of the game. It's a truly enriching experience.
I've been having a lot of fun with AI agents lately. Have tried a lot of them - Cline, Roo Code, Windsurf, and finally settled on Cursor now with Claude 3.5 sonnet. It's been a big boost for my productivity.
AI helped me write a synchronous API proxy in Go that I'm almost ready launch. One of the main challenges with Ruby on Rails is that it's terrible at handling long-lived HTTP requests. Especially a lot of them at the same time. So our PDF generation API was forced to be asynchronous and our customers need to poll for status updates (or set up webhooks.)
This new synchronous subdomain will handle all the polling logic for you, so you can just make an HTTP request, wait a few seconds (or longer), and receive a link to a PDF that's ready to download. Even with AI, it was still very difficult and took many weeks to get it right. Challenges included security, load testing, data races, concurrency, and setting up reliable, secure infrastructure with an internal load balancer. I learned a huge amount about both Go and Kubernetes. But it's almost done and I should be launching in the next day or two.
After that, I'm finally launching support for template versioning. This will allow you to pin your API requests to a published version, so you can keep making changes to a draft version without affecting production. It's long overdue so I'm excited to get this launched as well.
Also working on a side project from time to time: VisualCI [2]. We have a lot of PDF integration tests that use image diffs, and some browser tests where I compare screenshots. So this is a tool I've wanted for a long time, and the paid services I've found can be a bit pricy. I'm going to try to build a very simple MVP that just does what we need, and maybe others will find it useful too.
I'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.
Website is just a placeholder, but I'm documenting my progress on Bluesky at https://nickfisherau.bsky.social/.
A tool that builds job-specific tailored resumes. It's not a novel idea, but the ones I've seen use a subscription based model, and as a user I feel more inclined to purchase some tokens for usage based approach. Also my wife has been looking for a job for a time and I thought it would be handy for her.
Pretty close to getting ready for launch.
https://interjectedfuture.com/tag/lab-notes/
Subscribe to follow along if you're interested.
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."
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.
Done the first demo: https://www.osequi.com/studies/list/list.html, now focusing on "diagrams as code": https://tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/
Right now I am adding a couple of features as well as improvements to the UI and I want to make a proper pricing section for the landing page. Also need to figure out marketing. I enjoyed building it so much!
https://github.com/Krisseck/ROCm-Docker-Scripts
Needs more documentation and more projects, but all contributions are welcome!
Here's how it works:
- Define your GPT
- Choose a base LLM (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, etc.)
- Upload knowledge base
- Set pricing and start making money
I’d love to hear what the HN community thinks!
I’ve gotten to some degree of a protocol, surprisingly.
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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’m learning golang and made this library that parses ham radio ADIF logs. my goal was to match the speed of the golang json parser. i managed to surpass it by about 2x!
i’m currently employed writing c#, but looking for a job elsewhere and golang seemed like a good way to level up :)
This is first attempt, working on another now: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdORIKNQ5w/
* reversed engineered 90% of the data files
* finally got copying banks between projects working (a 10-ish year old feature request no-one has implemented yet)
* now tidying it up before I publish it on basically every public forum octatrack people hang out on and hoping I don't completely bork people's stuff in the process.
https://github.com/btahir/open-deep-research
An open source alternative to Gemini/OpenAI deep research. I'm experimenting with this cool flow chart workflow that I think can be a cool twist on generating reports for deep research.
Check it out and lemme know what you think. :)
It doesn't look like much, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes. I'm proud to finally make it live.
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...
Been on this the last few months. Have worked on a few other ideas before that but those didn't fly.
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.
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 :-(
Although n=1, I do have the feeling it works ( but that could also be the IKEA coginive dissonance)
https://github.com/xyproto/algernon
A snappy and configuration-free little editor/IDE for the terminal:
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).
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/
Recently open sourced everything.
Interested in this? Email me. My email is on my profile.
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.
Donezo: https://donezo.pages.dev/
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
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 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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
It's meant to work entirely offline and the service worker acts as the backend for the application.
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.
- 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
reciperium is a small platform to write recipes and easily fork other recipes to adapt them to your liking
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/reflect-ad2b97ed-13af-443d...
It's a way to create a visualization of your life in weeks, based on Gina Trapani's version that I saw here last week. Would love feedback if anyone has any!
Time to play some black metal!
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.
https://free-visit.net/fv_users/garance/vis/VisiteBNF001-004...
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)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.puzzle.pad...
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.
Daestro - https://daestro.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8K7yWjdyJQ
We didn't win :(
It's not 100% finished yet, but I've been using it myself on my freelance projects.
Just create/upload your resume, update it, choose the template and colour and download.
Edit: Three from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
think virtual table top, live sharing for players, map manipulation
Turned in to a pretty boring post, since I gave no detail!
Lot of cool cpp to write
- 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
Yes, I'm aware I relying on WhatsApp and that it is a risk.
generally using customized whisper based models with better performance
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.
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.
There's a wait-list sign-up though: https://aiconstrux.com
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 a lot of work to do, but solves a real pain I had while building my previous side project
i figure writing online would be a fun way to try and start conversations with people who are interested in the same topics. also, hopefully any technical posts can go to show employers that im not just another junior engineer whos reliant on LLMs for coding, and have some deep knowledge.
https://www.langturbo.com (No signup required)
What do you think? https://brainblitz.app
Danger World (https://linktr.ee/playdangerworld) is well underway and should be coming out later this year! Danger World is a 2D narrative adventure written using Flutter's open source game engine, Flame. I am the solo developer. I've been working with a very talented art team to do the art and animations in Spine. The composer has just finished the soundtrack!
Danger World is running on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows. Last week, we got Danger World compiling on my Steamdeck for SteamOS instead of having to use the Windows .exe + Proton. I'll be getting the Linux depot setup in Steam soon.
In the spirit of doing things that won't scale to get some interest bootstrapped, I've been doing a sticker giveaway. I have a bunch of stickers featuring the cast of the game and the Danger World logo and I have been mailing them out to anyone who wants them. I've sent out 40 envelopes or so with about 10 stickers in them each.
So far, in experimenting with the various social media platforms, Bsky seems to be where my potential users are. I posted a boxart concept that I was using for IndieDB and got 100 followers from that single post of who all appear to be real actual users. Certain engagement metrics like impressions are non-existent in Bsky, but in exchange for real actual engagement from people who seem interested in my game's art, who cares?
X feels extremely P2W, except you buy their checkmark and they still don't show your content to anyone. I'm still experimenting heavily in social media land. Meta and Tiktok seem to show more promise, but since I've been scoping out and planning a visual novel mode I have also been considering taking Reddit up on their free ad credit.
I'd love to talk with anyone more experienced in marketing games like mine.
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.
Helping people find their ideal place to live (in the US)
Why not just grow the first one? It has plateaued and I can’t seem to figure out why.
Moving to a trading bot eventually
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
...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.
@hobby AccurApple my Apple 2e emulator
this week, thinking of adding a new feature where users can create forms just with prompts..
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
Side project: Building a 6 DOF robot arm with dynamixel servos.
... 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)
I've built a large solar array on a repurposed mobile home chassis and have been digging a trench through rocky ground to lay the conduit for the cabling to backhaul the DC power to the shed where the inverter and battery bank will live. It's the rainy season in Ireland, and that field was marginal at best, so it's been swampy work and half of the digging is trenching additional drainage channels so the conduit doesn't flood and path water back into the shed. There's a housing order due to a bird flu scare, so I'm not running poultry on pasture until it's lifted (or until I can get the government to agree that my pasturing system qualifies as housing). Annoying, but that's farm life.
Oh, I'm doing some shit with AI also, but that's a secret :)
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.
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.
- [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
how cool is that?
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