Ask HN: What are you working on?

I&#x27;m writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer.<p>2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to stay through the entire program. 17 of them stayed.<p>As of today, 14 of them have gotten full time jobs (which was a high win for them, going from minimum wage to 130k+ per year). The remaining 3 of them are starting interview prep right now. I&#x27;m going for a 100% success rate.<p>Everybody learns at a different pace. The slowest student took 2 years and the fastest around 6 months (I actively made them stay around to help out the slower students for as long as I could).<p>I&#x27;m putting together a curriculum of all the pain points people face when learning how to code and come up with a comprehensive book. It will be free to all. The current rough draft is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F;garagescript&#x2F;Table-of-Contents-a83980f81560429faca3821a9af8a5e2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F;garagescript&#x2F;Table-of-Contents-a83980f...</a><p>To test the effectiveness of the book, I&#x27;ve just recruited a new student (my dad), who spent the last 30 years doing manual labor and barely knows any English. So far, so good.

I quit my job last month to work full time on (what I think is) an under-explored area of climate change: how institutional investors block shareholder proposals calling for firms to adopt more climate-friendly policies. I have just published the first bit of research with data on how 500+ funds from the big 3 fund managers voted on climate change-related proposals in 2018: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voting.greengovernance.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voting.greengovernance.org</a> .<p>Later this year, I&#x27;m planning to launch a &quot;governance-first&quot; ETF that gives investors the same exposure as other funds but is much more aggressive in fighting climate change.<p>I&#x27;d love any feedback! Feel free to email me at &lt;hn-username&gt;@greengovernance.org

Staying sane by staying busy. My wife is slowly dying and is a thousand miles away at a hospital, hoping they can save her. Today I cleaned a workshop area that I&#x27;d been using for storage so that I could use it as an actual workshop. I have car parts to rebuild (Chevy 350 TBI at least) and I have things to build, like a recumbent bicycle from scratch.<p>I am also working on learning CW (aka Morse code), learning to play bass (already play guitar) and am trying to stay busy helping others too.<p>In addition to all that I do breakfix computer work on the side and a freelance gig writin technical tutorials for a site that specializes in selling small to medium sized, low budget VPSs. That has me learning things like Nginx and Redis, which I&#x27;ve never really spent any time on. It&#x27;s great fun and my first professional writing job.<p>I also have a blog where I document my ham radio, automotive, and other misc projects, although I&#x27;m woefully behind on it. I built a 20 meter CW transceiver last week (from a kit) and have yet to post about that. I also had to repair a cracked body on the bass I am learning to play, but didn&#x27;t even take pictures. Writing about things while you do them takes twice as long, at least. I&#x27;m lazy.<p>Lastly I took a recent promotion. I work remotely, training new employees at the web hosting company that I work at. I also develop training materials and am revamping how we approach that stuff. I&#x27;ve never done that before. It&#x27;s the first time I&#x27;ve been off the front lines, and I like it. A lot.<p>Thankfully I have a lot to keep me busy so that my mind can focus on what I&#x27;m doing rather than on the troubles that plague my wife. She&#x27;ll either survive or she won&#x27;t, and my worrying won&#x27;t affect it. All I can do is support her. Our adult daughter is her full time caregiver (I am not cut out for that, and we&#x27;re all okay with it, I promise) and is with her, and that has to be good enough.<p>I&#x27;ve been blessed with an amazing support network and a few extra bucks to let me stay busy on projects. If I didn&#x27;t have those to keep me going... eesh.<p>Lastly, I&#x27;m glad somebody asked this question. I had a lot to get off my chest. And if this didn&#x27;t make a lot of sense, I apologize. It&#x27;s a bit of a brain dump.

Loop Thesis (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loop-thesis.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loop-thesis.com</a>), a multiplayer time traveling puzzle&#x2F;arena shooter that allows players to simultaneously travel to different points on the timeline.<p>In co-op&#x2F;multiplayer this allows you to do things like send someone back in time to open a door for another player in the future, or pull objects outside of time to effect someone in the past.<p>There&#x27;s a big focus on experimentation and discovery. To that end, I never fake or script any of the gameplay systems -- so there&#x27;s a completely internally consistent time-travel simulation running all of the time, even during menus and in lobbies. The goal with that is to make a world that is <i>always</i> predictable; Loop Thesis is about figuring out how the world works and figuring out the subtle implications of its rules.<p>It&#x27;s supposed to capture that feeling you had the first time you were programming and a concept like pointers actually <i>clicked</i> for you. It&#x27;s about these tiny cool moments where you suddenly realize all of the things you can do with a mechanic, or you suddenly understand why this obscure interaction you were dismissing three levels ago actually matters.<p>For that to work, there can&#x27;t ever be a point in the game where you ask why something happened, and the answer is, &quot;oh, that&#x27;s just a glitch, or a hard-coded interaction.&quot; Literally everything, from menus, to how save files work, to even how maps load in and out of memory, is consistent with the internal mechanics of the time-travel simulation.

Indoor vegetable and fish farm, i.e. aquaponics, in a fully circular production system.<p>We are building our pilot installation right now. Additionally we got two government grants: one to set it up monitored with sensors, and a production management system, for future automation, traceability and transparency for the food chain; the other to start taking in food waste and converting into fish food via insect larvae, closing the circle.<p>Sweden has recently adopted a food strategy which puts a lot of emphasis on local, circular food production, and there is a lot of interesting stuff happinging right now.

As a side project, I&#x27;m working on a route planning app for running. I&#x27;m a long distance runner and travel for work a lot, so I frequently find myself planning a run on one of the many existing apps at 5am in a new city whilst jetlagged.<p>My bugbear is that all the existing apps suck. I want a way to say &quot;give me a running route that lasts approximately 10km and is as scenic (greenery, water, mountains, etc) as possible, with few road crossing and is as safe as possible&quot;. Maybe I can even pick from the top 3 options. Existing apps can&#x27;t do any of this.<p>This data is readily available (or can be derived) for many countries using the wonderful openstreetmap and other public sources (e.g. national hiking trail routes).<p>I&#x27;ve adapted the brilliant Graphhopper routing engine to handle the routing algorithm and alternative routes selection. PostGIS (with OSM + other data loaded) is used under the hood to generate weights for each of the &quot;ways&quot; (edges in OSM-speak) for each of my variables (e.g. greenery). I&#x27;m using Leaflet and leaflet-routing-engine on the frontend currently, but would like to make it into a native Android&#x2F;iOS app in the future.

After a decade of R&amp;D, I am (finally) building the first, true multi-model database kernel. All traversable data relationships (relational, polygon intersection, graph data models, time series, etc) are directly represented in a singular data structure that is nearly optimal and extremely parallel. No secondary indexing required whatsoever to access these relationships, so ideal for mixed workloads. Built on top of a new high-performance storage engine that has some neat computer science in it and brilliant performance specs compared to my prior designs (which were pretty damn fast).<p>This is likely my last database kernel design. I can’t think of many ways to materially improve the algorithms and design, and there are some other computer science research domains I previously went deep on that I want to get back to once I am finished with this.

Up until a year ago I worked on a personal project that involved putting online photos of old cars from my country as found on GoogleStreetView + some photos of the same old cars personally taken by me [1], the reason being that most of those cars will be totally gone in the next 10 to 15 years (many of them are already gone since Google took most of the photos back in 2012 and 2014) and so I wanted to sort of preserve and make these images easily searchable&#x2F;browsable for existing and future car nerds.<p>I&#x27;ve also started a small project [2] where I&#x27;m posting photos of local flour mills built before WW2. I find them very interesting from an industrial-architectural point of view and by image-documenting as many of them as I can I hope that somehow these buildings will stir the interest of people with some more influence than me when it comes to architectural preservation so that maybe not that many of them will be teared down. I suspect this will be an &quot;on-going project&quot; for quite some time, as until now I&#x27;ve only taken photos of about 30 of these mills, while I counted 500+ still existing in the whole country (mostly using Google Maps&#x2F;StreetView + Google Image searches + some old topographic maps).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cars.maglina.ro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cars.maglina.ro&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mori-din-romania.blogspot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mori-din-romania.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;ve been working on a project called &quot;HackTheCompany&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackthe.company&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackthe.company&#x2F;</a>) which lists historical hacks that have occurred, with a brief description. It then offers a live CTF for every single historical hack where you can do the same thing the attackers did. Walkthroughs are offered for each as well, if you have no experience. It&#x27;s part of a larger project I&#x27;m working on, but even standalone I think it&#x27;s pretty neat. It&#x27;s not complete yet, but is functional - would love any thoughts and feedback.

I developed chronic hand pain a couple of years ago (probably from overworking), so I quit my job and I&#x27;ve been making Talon [1] since, with the goal of making it possible for anyone to efficiently do anything&#x2F;everything on their computer (general use, programming, games, niche apps) without their hands.<p>Most recently I&#x27;ve been training acoustic models and writing a user frontend for the wav2letter++ [2] speech recognition engine, and porting Talon from Mac to cross-platform.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talonvoice.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talonvoice.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookresearch&#x2F;wav2letter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookresearch&#x2F;wav2letter</a>

I&#x27;m currently participating in Frontier Development Lab Europe ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fdleurope.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fdleurope.org&#x2F;</a>), an 8 week research accelerator with the European Space Agency, Oxford University and a number of tech organisations.<p>The idea is to bring together space scientists (domain experts) and machine learning researchers to try and make a meaningful contribution to the field in a very short period of time. It&#x27;s a lot of fun, and a really interesting mix of people taking part.<p>We&#x27;ve just finished week two, which means we&#x27;re narrowing down our ideas and are about to start the &quot;real work&quot;. We&#x27;re split into teams working on different challenge areas (you can read more on the site). While I can&#x27;t say much about what we&#x27;re doing specifically, the outputs from the teams are usually published after the event at conferences&#x2F;in journals.<p>There is an analogous program in the USA (NASA FDL) which is running in parallel.<p>(and who knows, I&#x27;m pretty sure there are some other FDL&#x27;rs who read HN ;))

Combining open-source photogrammetry software into a system that scales reasonably to &gt;100k images (with accelerometer&#x2F;gyroscope data from the video camera) and &gt;1G vertices in a single, consistent, high-quality mesh. It later computes a texture map based on the images, not smoothing them, but just minimizing seams and using some seam carving and color interpolation to make most seams invisible.<p>I want VR reconstructions that don&#x27;t lack details to be feasible for &lt;1k$&#x2F;acre flat area, not counting someone steering the camera. -<p>Places need to be archived like the rest of our culture.<p>[Current sub-part:]<p>I&#x27;m figuring out how <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de&#x2F;home&#x2F;proj&#x2F;tsr&#x2F;tsr.en.jsp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de&#x2F;home&#x2F;proj&#x2F;tsr&#x2F;tsr.en.jsp</a> can be combined with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;igl.ethz.ch&#x2F;projects&#x2F;instant-meshes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;igl.ethz.ch&#x2F;projects&#x2F;instant-meshes&#x2F;</a> to get better meshes (with less wasted vertices) and also how this can be made to scale Out-of-Core or on a HPC cluster (the kind with lots of RDMA interconnect bandwidth and low latency).<p>AMA (I won&#x27;t respond for a few hours)

In my free time I&#x27;ve been working on a 2D MMORPG engine in C#. I&#x27;m working on the networking code right now, working toward being able to connect and move around the game world. I&#x27;m enjoying the network code, but I&#x27;m really looking forward to getting back to shader code and implementing dynamic lighting at some point down the road.<p>Wanting to build an MMORPG was the main thing that got me interested in software development over a decade ago, so it&#x27;s been nice to be able to work on this hobby project again.

I make paintings about programming&#x2F;code. Right now I&#x27;m developing a screen print, and I wanted to build on the same abstract style I used with one-off watercolor paintings.<p>I decided to make my first print about rubber duck debugging. I had a lot of fun rendering a crazy hatch-mark pixelated rubber duck, but I keep going back and forth on the final layout and composition. I spent an alarming amount of time this week doodling thumbnails of ducks with different abstract backgrounds.<p>You can see some of my stuff here :) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amydyer.art&#x2F;wp&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;technology&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amydyer.art&#x2F;wp&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;portfolio&#x2F;technology&#x2F;</a>

As a solution architect visiting clients in Europe and North America, I struggled to capture names and roles of people in meetings and workshops. That led to lots of awkwardness and missed opportunities.<p>All meeting management apps I found assume participants always get calendar invites, which I found to just not be the case.<p>So I wrote a small web app that uses qr codes to allow participants in meetings and workshops to introduce themselves, using their phones, on the spot and in a way that persists: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quickintro.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quickintro.app</a><p>I thought I’d be laughed out of the room first time I asked a room full of people to “check in” by scanning a qr code and filling out a form, but no. It worked. So now I’m releasing it for others who might need it.

Still a long way to go, but trying to make it easier (and cheaper!) to research public companies &#x2F; stocks - with both quantitative and qualitative data. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docoh.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docoh.com&#x2F;</a>

Thesis.<p>It&#x27;s a proposed classifier algorithm that is suppose to be better than Random Forest and XGBoost for classifying high dimensional data. The data sets are cancer data (prostate and myeloma). Unfortunately it&#x27;s not going to be publish because I&#x27;d like to graduate sooner and that the software does not meet certain criteria for the journal we were aiming for.<p>The proposed algorithm uses two technique:<p>1. My forest consist of GUIDE decision trees by Dr. Loh. It is better than CART and M4.5 and such because it does not have the selection bias problem. CART and M4.5 are bias to selecting categorical predictor for node splitting. They&#x27;re also bias on variables that enable more splitting so decision trees usually contain more levels. GUIDE is also aim at finding interactions candidate to split if it is statistically significant.<p>2. CERP by Dr. Moon. It makes the trees within the forest less correlated among each other. Much more so than Random Forest. Accuracy takes a hit as your correlation gets higher (obviously zero is the best). It also enabled ensemble of ensembles (ensemble of forests). Of course some of you may state that you can do ensemble of random forests but it is naive and won&#x27;t help you.<p>I should be defending in this month or next month.

Started a startup in early 2018. We help schools in Indonesia to manage their money. Collect payments digitally, manage their finances, digitalise their financial records.<p>Took us a long time to work through the practicalities (think driving motorbikes over rickety bamboo bridges to get to a school who has a shipping container of paper records). Very traditional industry. But doing quite good now, well over 100 schools. And we really help them, which is pretty cool. Maybe the first time ive worked on something that is genuinely productive.<p>Also, its given me a newfound respect for people who work in education, what we in other industries do daily really does pale in comparison:<p>- We find it hard to manage teams of actual professionals getting paid to be there. They have to manage thousands of kids who would rather be doing something else. And their parents, who arent easy &quot;users&quot; to deal with (to put it mildly)<p>- We measure most of our KPIs live. For them, it can take 15 years to measure the impact (graduate employment rates, salaries). Such a ridiculously long timeframe.<p>And of course theres the compensation. How you can stay motivated given all of that is insane. But they do. Met some genuinely great people.

working on my crippling depression &#x2F; ADHD, unemployed (i don&#x27;t want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.

I&#x27;m learning how to draw. Here&#x27;s my latest drawing. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;BzZSo_bFtL6&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;BzZSo_bFtL6&#x2F;</a><p>I really enjoy the challenge of learning to do something that isn&#x27;t one of my natural talents. As a programmer, obviously, I would be better suited to learning music but I&#x27;ve always wanted to draw.<p>Becoming an artist as a part time job outside of writing code has been a journey into time management, budgeting and discipline. It&#x27;s taken me a lot of work to get to a place where I create art on a regular basis.<p>Learning how to be creative is utterly different than building software. Even though building software is an intensly creative job, making art requires turning off a massive portion of your brain. You have to just let things flow.<p>I do not use any generative software in the creation of art. It&#x27;s just me. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;Bt_gqSQAdcu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;Bt_gqSQAdcu&#x2F;</a>

5 years ago, I had a crazy idea that there must be an open source engine that had a really simple learning curve and worked out of the box.<p>The result: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;typesense&#x2F;typesense" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;typesense&#x2F;typesense</a><p>It took me over 3 years to get the nuts and bolts right. It&#x27;s now production ready and being used in quite a few production environments. Of course, there is more work to do and so it&#x27;s still actively being worked upon.

Been spending 4+ hours per day studying languages for the last year and a half.<p>It started as a challenge to learn German, and now it&#x27;s spiraled into going to polyglot conferences and doing &quot;learning challenges&quot;.<p>Right now, my main focus is on Swedish, but I&#x27;ve joined a 3-month language challenge, where I&#x27;m trying to learn as much of Inuktitut as I can.<p>Since 2 weeks ago, I study most days on Twitch as personal motivation; I think most people would find this boring, but I&#x27;ve had a few people show up semi-regularly, so here&#x27;s the link if that&#x27;s something that floats your boat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;letsstudylanguages&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;letsstudylanguages&#x2F;</a>

Working on a desktop version of my webdev tool SnipCSS:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;snipcss&#x2F;hbdnoadcmapfbngbodpppofgagiclicf?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;snipcss&#x2F;hbdnoadcma...</a><p>The current version is a Chrome Extension that extracts every CSS rule needed to rebuild the DOM subtree of a selected element. Unlike other tools it never uses computed styles and uses the actual DevTools protocol to get the CSS. The current extension doesn&#x27;t handle CSS specificity or inheritance correctly, so I&#x27;m waiting until I fix those things before promoting it. Actually this comment is the first time I&#x27;ve told anyone about it.

Erudito Keyboard for iPhone (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erudito.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erudito.io</a>) It&#x27;s a mini game in an iPhone keyboard, you play from any App, just by writing.<p>Common words give you little or no points, infrequent words give you points. You get bonus points when you write a sequence of words with points.<p>There is a leaderboard where you can compare your &quot;skills&quot; against other users and friends. Still need to implement a feature to segregate each leaderboard: general and friends.<p>The keyboard has realtime notifications and bidirectional communication with websockets, so you can know what other users are doing, this will be useful to have &quot;death matches&quot;.<p>As you can see It&#x27;s an experimental App. Currently is available on the Appstore (since last week) but I didn&#x27;t promote it yet, I&#x27;m looking for users to iterate it more :) and crush few bugs along the way.

My family. Got a two year old and 7 month old. Bought our first and hopefully only house a month ago. Work remotely doing some really interesting programming.<p>I reflected early this week during Canada Day fireworks that I have literally everything I wanted out of life. Now I just have to learn how to live in the moment and enjoy it all. That&#x27;s proving to be a small struggle.

I&#x27;m building <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnawesome.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnawesome.org</a> - essentially, a stumbleupon-equivalent for learners with richer data. The idea is to make it easy to answer queries like:<p>&quot;Show me podcasts about architecture that are less than an hour long.&quot;<p>&quot;Show me books about abstract algebra that are visual.&quot;<p>&quot;Show me MOOCs on machine-learning that are challenging.&quot;<p>Just last week, I released browser add-ons for Chrome&#x2F;Brave&#x2F;Firefox to make it super easy to use. Eventually, we&#x27;ll implement unidirectional relationships so you see recommendations only from people you trust&#x2F;admire.

Oh jeez, I&#x27;m reading everyone&#x27;s posts and I&#x27;m feeling shy to post mine since I&#x27;m not doing anything cool. Here goes nothing...<p>I quit my job in January this year with no business but the thought that I must start, I can&#x27;t work jobs anymore.<p>I built and marketed a simple micro-saas for Shopify ecosystem together with my co-founder. He handles tech, I do design and marketing. We both do customer support. App was launched on April 24.<p>June was my first month of revenue and we hit ~$450 MRR which I&#x27;m very happy about. Expecting large churn figures though.<p>This is the app -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.shopify.com&#x2F;whatsapp-chat-button" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.shopify.com&#x2F;whatsapp-chat-button</a><p>Here&#x27;s a post I wrote a month back chronicling the journey thus far -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.preetamnath.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;shopify-micro-saas-growth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.preetamnath.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;shopify-micro-saas-growth</a><p>Currently I&#x27;m learning how to code (Frontend, React) so that I can contribute to the app development, as currently our biggest bottleneck is development speed of new features.

My list keeps changing, but I have three main &quot;projects&quot; these days.<p>- I will complete the final level of a beginner&#x27;s Sanskrit course this August. This has been an intermittently executed project for me. I can follow uncomplicated spoken and written Sanskrit now, and can mostly understand Sanskrit at the level of Gita or the Indian epics. My long term aim is to be able to read Indian philosophical works in their original.<p>- I am teaching a few neighborhood kids Mathematics, Physics, and occasionally, Computer Science. This is immense fun!<p>- I am trying to learn at a deeper level some of the topics that I learned during my undergraduate studies. On this front, right now I am working on understanding operating systems and compilers a bit better.

Since stepping into a new role in the world of full-time Clojure earlier this year I have been almost entirely focussed on launching an ambitious new open source graph database that uses Kafka as the &quot;unbundled&quot; transaction log and provides bitemporal Datalog queries: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;juxt&#x2F;crux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;juxt&#x2F;crux</a><p>Before I made this move, tinkering with Clojure and thinking about databases was just a hobby.<p>I wasn&#x27;t around when Crux was initially designed and built, but my primary job so far as the product manager for Crux has been to figure out how we make the most of all the ingenuity and effort that&#x27;s already gone into it. I also wear many additional hats at the moment: leading the development team, managing community interactions, speaking at events&#x2F;conferences, creating the marketing, and working on sales &amp; strategic partnerships.<p>This all keeps me incredibly busy but it is fun and it feels like the right thing for me to be working on and thinking about at this point in my life. I think of it like the perfect side-project that I am very fortunate to be able to work on all day long (and surrounded by excellent &amp; talented people!).

A few weeks ago I started Spatial Awareness, a curated newsletter for the maps and spatial community. The idea was to scratch a personal itch – to do something with all the interesting links and maps I collect – though it&#x27;s gone down amazingly well with the community. It&#x27;s less than a month old – with 3 issues so far – and it&#x27;s already surpassed 1,000 subscribers. Check it out if you&#x27;re interested in maps!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getrevue.co&#x2F;profile&#x2F;maps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getrevue.co&#x2F;profile&#x2F;maps</a>

Working on a few projects right now as I recently left my job, but the one I am working today is &quot;Allons-ip!&quot;, a free and open source IP address API that uses pure NGINX to work.<p>Right now there is one dedicated server in Germany (AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper 2950X with Hetzner) and all it does is display your IPv4 address, but once I am done it should work with both IPv4 and IPv6, and have servers around the globe to decrease latency as much as possible.<p>The API returns all data in plain text — or JSON&#x2F;JSONP —, without any advertisements or extra data. Server has full disk encryption enabled and a no logging policy.<p>Usage is quite simple. There are no secrets here, just call the URL for the API and it should return the IP address of the machine you used to make the call.<p>Clear Text: curl -s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.allonsip.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.allonsip.sh&#x2F;</a><p>JSON: curl -s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.allonsip.sh&#x2F;json&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.allonsip.sh&#x2F;json&#x2F;</a><p>JSONP: curl -s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.allonsip.sh&#x2F;jsonp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.allonsip.sh&#x2F;jsonp&#x2F;</a><p>There are a few reasons for this, but it boils down to the need to improve my resume, as most of the work I done in previous companies are their propriety now. I also needed to get the public IP address of servers I deploy programmatically, and wanted to have control over how that was done, so I decided to turn it into a public project.<p>Since I did not want to reinvent the wheel and NGINX is so damn powerful, there was no need for anything other than pure NGINX.

A 1:1 meeting software: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oneononemeeting.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oneononemeeting.com</a><p>It was a for-profit side-project, but since I moved to another country (following my wife&#x27;s Masters) it became full-time.<p>If you lead a team and have 1:1s, take a look :)

Been working on a piece of 2D animation&#x2F;vector editing software called FlowBetween for a while now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowbetween.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowbetween.app</a><p>Seemed like a good way to combine my interest in building software with my other interest in creating art.<p>I&#x27;ve been spinning off the various components needed to build it as separate rust crates: interesting ones are flo_curves, desync and flo_binding.

Skincare line for men. I just turned 30 and I wanted an easier way to take care of my skin. One of the things I noticed was that there weren&#x27;t a lot of skincare geared towards men that I &quot;trusted.&quot; So, I threw myself all-in to see if I can bootstrap a brand focused on using natural ingredients myself. It was supposed to launch June 1, but early impressions suggested the &quot;brand&quot; sucked. Yes, I rebranded before I sold a single product, which was an expensive lesson, but it taught me a valuable lesson: Feature creep will always exist if you don&#x27;t reign it in.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m welcome to advice- if you want to check out the basic site, it&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mendskin.co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mendskin.co</a> password: mendskin.<p>If you subscribe at the bottom (I&#x27;m a one man shop... I don&#x27;t have the capacity to set up effective MailChimp campaigns, so you can trust me when I say I can&#x27;t spam your inbox), I&#x27;ll follow up with a personal hackernews offer once I launch.

I&#x27;ve been doing work with the Vegan Hacktivists. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganhacktivists.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganhacktivists.org&#x2F;</a><p>Basically, we code up apps that we hope will help promote veganism. In some cases, we lend engineering help to organizations that need something built (e.g. Meat The Victims, Rancher Advocacy, etc.).<p>Currently, I&#x27;m working on the website for Meat the Victims as well as a platform for education on the &quot;why&quot; and &quot;how&quot; of becoming vegan.<p>If anyone is interested, please reach out (my email is on the website under Gerard O&#x27;Neill). We&#x27;re currently recruiting for experienced developers, ideally with PHP experience.

I&#x27;ve built a thing called the Tech Events Network: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techeventsnetwork.com&#x2F;cities&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techeventsnetwork.com&#x2F;cities&#x2F;</a> which aggregates and publishes tech events - meetups, conferences, workshops, hackathons, etc - across 50+ cities in the US.<p>After being an evangelist at Twilio and running a number of my own meetups, I realized that that the biggest problem most groups had was getting the word out. This pulls data from Meetup, Eventbrite, and other places, uses some light ML to choose hashtags, company names, etc, and then tweets the day before and about a week before a given event. There&#x27;s also a weekly pre-cap email that goes out.<p>If you&#x27;re running a tech event in a major city in the US, we help you get the word out.<p>If you&#x27;re near a major city in the US - or even just visiting - you can find out what&#x27;s going on.<p>* <i>We explicitly exclude job fairs, etc to make it SFW.</i>

Am working on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.savio.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.savio.io</a><p>We help product teams centralize their customer feedback from tools like Intercom, Help Scout, and Slack, and then use it to make data-driven decisions about what features to build.<p>My business partner and I have sold two SaaS businesses (we started one and bought the other). Savio is our third. It was born from the frustrations we had at the first two. We&#x27;d get lots of customer feedback from support, sales, customer calls, surveys, chat, etc. But we never had a good process or tool to keep track of it and use it in a way that gave us confidence we were building the right features.<p>We soft launched a few months ago and are very much figuring out positioning, feature set, acquisition, activation... the whole shooting match.<p>Customer funding as we did with the previous two businesses. We like optionality!

I&#x27;m working on Alchemist Camp, a site with screencasts and tutorials for web devs learning Elixir and the Phoenix framework. I believe that in terms of free content in this niche, nobody on the web has put out more.<p>I&#x27;ve also been sporadically recording podcasts on topics near and dear to my heart—learning, mental models, code and bootstrapping.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alchemist.camp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alchemist.camp</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;code-and-bootstrapping&#x2F;id1448157275" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;code-and-bootstrapping...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;learning-machine&#x2F;id1448157446" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;learning-machine&#x2F;id144...</a>

I’m working on Devev, a visual programming language which integrates with TypeScript and JavaScript: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;zLS1g0t" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;zLS1g0t</a><p>I’ve been working on this on the side for awhile and hope to launch an MVP by the end of the month. I transitioned to full time on the product 2 months ago and I’ hoping to make money by providing domain specific visual programming products. I’m currently thinking about a visual build system for example.

I&#x27;m teaching myself music (guitar and singing)! After casually dabbling for many years and not really getting better, I decided to devote at least 30 minute a day to practice to see how far I can get in a year.<p>I&#x27;m making videos to track my progress (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z1ytq5cTCDE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z1ytq5cTCDE</a>) and creating tools to accelerate the learning process.<p>Some examples:<p>- Chord Bunny (to learn chord transitions): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dkthehuman.com&#x2F;chord-bunny&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dkthehuman.com&#x2F;chord-bunny&#x2F;</a><p>- Interval Trainer (to learn intervals by ear): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dkthehuman.com&#x2F;interval-trainer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dkthehuman.com&#x2F;interval-trainer</a>

I&#x27;m just trying to have a productive day. It&#x27;s hard most of the time.<p>Less dreadful answer: Professionally I&#x27;m working on an Open data portal based on the python library CKAN for the University of Manitoba. Money isn&#x27;t brilliant, but it&#x27;s satisfying and has some odd challenges. In the upcoming month I&#x27;m taking an academic trip to Norway to explore undergrad thesis opportunities in the areas of Neural Networks and Remote Sensing, to which I&#x27;ll hopefully be playing around with before-hand.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snapnews.win" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snapnews.win</a> - a new way to binge on latest Hacker news stories.<p>This was my weekend project but I&#x27;m still working on it in my spare time.<p>The concept is simple: All news stories have a ticking timer. After it expires the news story is gone forever. There is also a clear now button at the bottom that destroys all the stories on the screen if you want to binge even faster.<p>Once the story goes away, it&#x27;s gone forever. You will never see it again! So it&#x27;s like the HN homepage that never shows you the same story twice.<p>Made with Vuejs and hosted on Aws lambda (serverless)<p>There aren&#x27;t many options because I just uploaded the first version and everything is still pretty rough. It&#x27;s just a concept site I made for my own amusement :)

My side project is create a relational language (not a RDBMS!):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tablam.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tablam.org</a><p>I wish to resurrect the &quot;spirit&quot; of the fox&#x2F;dbase family where operate on data was much more natural. This lang also mix some ideas of array langs like kdb+.<p>If my bet is correct, this will erase the need of ORMs yet make it work as easy.<p>Is build on rust, a lang I also learning along the way (making it even MORE slow to progress!!!) but I start to get the gist of it.

I&#x27;m working on a authorization protocol for IoT (ABAC+ReBAC and a little of RADAC). The main idea is to make it easier for non-tech people and secure (yes, everybody wants that), made the threat model and stuff - was my master&#x27;s thesis, want to do a PoC to see if it sees sunlights ;)<p>Also working on a DataScience crash course with basic statistics, R, Python (Basics), Dataviz and webscraping (for journalists, biologists - for everybody).<p>Last, but not least, we have a music&#x27;s group that is doing some visual + electroacoustic music (using supercollider and instruments). Our next step is to use Arduino and some other stuff.<p>resumes pretty much it.<p>(help wanted `:D )

Reverse engineering a handheld device that is used to flash the Bosch ECU memory region related to engine tuning<p>It features:<p>* master&#x2F;slave paradigm<p>* public + private key encryption<p>* XOR ciphers<p>* hardware tokens<p>* server-side validation<p>* .NET obfuscation<p>* Themida&#x2F;WinLicense DLL packing&#x2F;obfuscation<p>* Debugger detection<p>Car tuning is an industry where if your car costs $60k, tuners can charge you $999. If your car costs $120k, they know you are a wealthier client, so they blatantly charge you $3k for the same amount of effort on their end. Gross.

What Got Done, a minimalist tool for teammates to share weekly status updates with each other.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatgotdone.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatgotdone.com&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m a solo developer and find it gratifying to set aside a half hour at the end of each week to write down what I did. Otherwise all the work just becomes a blur. I wrote a longer blog post about the motivation behind it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mtlynch.io&#x2F;status-updates-to-nobody&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mtlynch.io&#x2F;status-updates-to-nobody&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m spending the summer researching the implications of raising taxes on tobacco in low and middle income countries (basically to see how big of an opportunity it is for saving lives&#x2F;earning additional govt revenue that can be funneled to useful areas)

I left my silicon valley job and am building a speedrunning analytics startup out of a side project I started 6 years ago.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;splits.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;splits.io</a>

I’m working on my side project which is building a broswer based multiplayer DAW. It’s been about a tyear since I started working on it. Started with a keyboard that had a simple built in synth. It’s been a lot of fun to make, learning stuff from building sequencers, polyphonic synths, and web socket stuff :D. I hope to use it as my main DAW eventually, and will still finish up tracks in Ableton probably. I hope it will be a useful tool for people to get songs started and do it with other people.

Whenever I have any breathing room after my thesis work, I&#x27;m working on an electric motorcycle build based on an the chassis of an old Honda H100-S2 as a challenge in hardware, software, fabrication, and well, everything really. Shooting for actual road certification, so doing everything by the book.

I am finishing a procedural generation pixel-art editor, aka you connect nodes to get a rectangles of colour. The cool part is the nodes you use are often other graphs also built with the tool. It is a bit like Houdini but for pixel-art.<p>It is close to be a niche but solid product. I can reproduce with it a reasonable amount of the pixel-art I see daily. I am currently writing the tutorials for it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbarret.itch.io&#x2F;rectitude" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lbarret.itch.io&#x2F;rectitude</a><p>The underlying engine is a restricted functional language and the architecture is based on streams of values. I am quite proud of the architecture because so far, I had very little accidental complexity to manage and that&#x27;s key for me to stay motivated&#x2F;productive on the project.

Whenever I get free time I work on my &#x27;abstract visual debugger&#x27; project.<p>I&#x27;ve been doing that since late 2014 though, so recently I&#x27;m trying a new tack to free up some time for myself: I&#x27;ve been building a little desktop utility with three.js + Electron + Rust, that I&#x27;m going to sell in the Microsoft store (eventually elsewhere too): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=j-ANWHLvARM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=j-ANWHLvARM</a><p>I&#x27;ll start beta testing in about a week--definitely excited :D I&#x27;ll probably do a write-up of the project and post it here as well.<p>Edit: just fyi, &#x27;Lucid Disk&#x27; is a placeholder name (my bigger debugger project I mentioned is called &#x27;Lucidity&#x27;).

Working on a fully automated UV unwrapper for 3D meshes. Its basically the process of flattening a 3D object down to a square. used mainly for texturing. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ministryofflat.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ministryofflat.com</a>

I&#x27;m working on a charitable project around animal adoption in the UK: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adoptanimals.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adoptanimals.io&#x2F;</a><p>Other aggregators exist, but often have commercial ties, paid listings, and such. We&#x27;re building something to give shelters a really nice website, and native apps, to list their animals, as a free public service :)

I&#x27;m building an animated SVG icon library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motionicons.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motionicons.com&#x2F;</a><p>There are many icon packs out there but they are almost all static. You can help users by communicating additional meaning using an animated icon. I think this is a gap in the icon market landscape.<p>It is still early days so any feedback would be appreciated!

I&#x27;m building a kanban workflow tool. Think of it as Trello + Google Forms + Process Street. Check it out at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kanrails.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kanrails.com&#x2F;</a> Would appreciate your feedback!

Easy to use way for improving OpenStreetMap.<p>It is an Android application called StreetComplete.<p>Minimal user requirements are following:<p>Person who can - read and write - use smartphone - use maps<p>Obviously, there are still many things to improve.

Automated deployment systems where solar powered mesh network repeaters with two camera channels each (SBCs) come online and handshake&#x2F;pair then push auto-configurations, SSH, lighttpd for IP camera images, etc. Then go to secure mode to lock it all down and configure it for operating mode.<p>Edit: think in trees, weatherproofed with solar panels

Grid engine - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.planimeter.org&#x2F;grid-sdk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.planimeter.org&#x2F;grid-sdk&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m working on Grid engine 9, which should release some big improvements to out-of-the-box multiplayer support. It&#x27;s the only source code-based Lua game engine that I know of with first-class multiplayer support that has a dogfood project. Everything else out there is roll-your-own w&#x2F; LuaSockets. I&#x27;ve been writing it for the last few years due to not being able to find a solution that fit my needs.

A declarative, minimalist testing library for javascript.<p>There&#x27;s one method, &#x27;run&#x27;, that takes a simple data structure that <i>is</i> the test suite. No need for special setup, teardown etc methods when you have objects and closures already. It can automatically run on the browser after webpack is done rebuilding, so it&#x27;s good for running tests on phones.<p>I&#x27;m refactoring it now so it works on the console for server side stuff as well. I think I will release, but I will keep using it myself regardless of if anyone else cares because it works so well for me.

I&#x27;m working on the v2 of the UX&#x2F;UI for my side-project <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;batgrowth.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;batgrowth.com</a><p>Basically, the site is just a listing of content creators that accept tips in the form of Basic Attention Token sent through the Brave browser<p>I&#x27;m pretty happy with the project and the site is getting some decent traffic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpleanalytics.com&#x2F;batgrowth.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpleanalytics.com&#x2F;batgrowth.com</a>), but I think the current UI&#x2F;UX is not good enough

Game development, most recently getting a collection of 80s arcade-inspired games polished up and on steam. In the past several months also worked on a few boardgame ideas, and learned a ton about the industry and best practices, which I&#x27;ve carried with me back to videogame development as well.

I&#x27;ve been working on starting a DIY garage that&#x27;s operated as a consumer-owned co-op. The goal is to have a place where you can go take a class in car care or maintenance, or just rent a lift and have a place to wrench on your car and recycle fluids. I&#x27;m hoping that eventually we&#x27;ll be able to open it in Austin or Atlanta: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cornergarage.coop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cornergarage.coop&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m learning C and x86 ASM from scratch all over again. I want to get away from the dumpster fire that web development has become and do something meaningful with my life.<p>Now, if I can only figure out what that is. Embedded development for medical devices, maybe?

I work ~12 hours a day, but in my free time, I like to work on a lightweight, full-featured blog engine. It’s fast, easy to use, platform-agnostic, and I’m pretty proud of it. I ported it to Python 3 last month, and I have some big plans soon. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zacs.site&#x2F;blog&#x2F;first-crack-release-notes-0619.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zacs.site&#x2F;blog&#x2F;first-crack-release-notes-0619.html</a>

I am quite frustrated and fed up of the traffic congestion problems in my city (Pune, India) and so I have decided that I will try and solve this problem.

I&#x27;m writing a GitHub CI bot specifically for Go.<p>There are so many ways you can improve on existing CI if you integrate deeply with a specific language. You can cache test results for packages whose source code hasn&#x27;t changed; you can run a specific test n times; you can run a benchmark and block a merge if the geomean regressed; you can run a linter and suggest it&#x27;s fixes in GitHub comments; etc.<p>It&#x27;s a little bizarre to me that existing CIs don&#x27;t even bother to parse the test output and display it nicely. Go has a -json flag that makes the test output dead-simple to consume, but it&#x27;s certainly not infeasible for other languages. Wouldn&#x27;t it be cool to see individual histories for each test, showing how many times they&#x27;ve failed, or how much total time has been spent executing them?<p>So my goal is to make a Go-specific CI that&#x27;s 10x better than existing language-agnostic CIs, and then shop it around to high-profile Go projects. Those developers would also make for ideal contributors, so hopefully I can source some external contributions that way too.

Adding hdr rendering to my fluid simulation flames<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KcLz3yAqqyI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KcLz3yAqqyI</a><p>And my volumetric lightning effect too<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DdUve22wlvg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DdUve22wlvg</a><p>(Both on the unity asset store as “physics based flames” and “physics based lightning”)

Well I&#x27;ve been working on a general-purpose way to see one week into the future for the past 3 years, but everyone thinks I&#x27;m joking.

I just posted about it. a community&#x2F;social network for remote workers. I &#x27;m looking to add a chat feature next. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reworkin.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reworkin.com</a>

Fixing sourcing of footwear - i.e. helping brands find new footwear factories in a modern way.<p>Check out www.findsourcing.com to learn more. We believe we can be a magnitude better on all metrics (time, cost, effort, quality) and believe in transparency and opening up this industry which still work by handshakes (if you don&#x27;t know the right people you are screwed).

I&#x27;m working on a project that maps the steam controller as a synthesizer and midi controller, called couchsynth. I&#x27;m also working on a textfile-based music sequencer called textbeat (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flipcoder&#x2F;textbeat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;flipcoder&#x2F;textbeat</a>).

Trying to build the next version of Learn Anything. A platform for learning anything via curated study guides as well as a knowledge tree of topics and a platform for ideas. All open source.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;learn-anything&#x2F;learn-anything" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;learn-anything&#x2F;learn-anything</a>

I&#x27;m building a service to effectively &quot;integration test&quot; GraphQL services each time a deployment occurs (via Webhook).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlineornot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlineornot.com</a><p>At the moment it tests GraphQL queries at given intervals, but I&#x27;ve been struggling to find people (other than me) who need the service.

I am working with the people at cleverpet and the small hackerpet community on making this pet training device acessible for DIY additions and new ways to train your dog&#x2F;cat<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerpet.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerpet.com</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clever.pet" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clever.pet</a>

We&#x27;re drowning in emails and Instant Messages and need AI to help make sense of it all. As a former CTO for a fast growing startup I was struck by how often everybody was asking the same questions about connections and skills, and how much time and efforts were wasted in mid-size organizations because of lack of transparency and visibility.<p>I&#x27;m building AntEater (www.anteateranalytics.com) with my team to bridge this gap and empower everyone who uses Gmail and Slack to be more knowledgeable - and as smart as the entire team, using AI. This is a radical shift in terms of information flow in organizations but I truly believe a more transparent workflow will lead to less work and less frustrations.<p>You can check out the project here - it&#x27;s free for small teams <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.anteateranalytics.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.anteateranalytics.com&#x2F;</a>

I feel overwhelmed by the ambition here - I’m burnt out. I’m working on mental health.

I&#x27;m working on a new chapter for my course Mastery with SQL (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masterywithsql.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masterywithsql.com</a>) covering query performance and indexing with PostgreSQL.<p>I want to really allow everyone to see first-hand the impact of re-writing queries to be more performant and adding the right indexes so I&#x27;ve been spending a lot of time to create great exercises where you get to optimise poorly performing queries over some very large and interesting data sets.<p>I launched the course on HN a bit over a week ago and had a really great response (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20260292" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20260292</a>) so has been great motivation to continue working hard! Really enjoying myself at the moment.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;denther.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;denther.com</a> Using game theory to extract the correct dental diagnosis from multiple dentists.

For concert ticket stub collectors, I&#x27;m working on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;Stubforge.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;Stubforge.com</a>, a site where you can design and print custom memorabilia tickets that look and feel just like real TicketMaster style tickets.<p>The site is ready for people to start designing tickets with live preview and helpers (although still need to fill in a lot of info bubbles), and you can order as well. Still a few things I&#x27;d like to fix up&#x2F;improve before I really launch it.<p>The site won&#x27;t really make much money, it&#x27;s made to be cheap and affordable and to help out fellow stub collectors who hate having missing tickets in their collections due to loss, having bought at the door, or only having the option of digital or print-at-home tickets.<p>Would love feedback!

I recently finished writing a book about asynchronous circuit design and set up the landing page for it [1]. It&#x27;s my first crack at modern-ish web technologies, using bootstrap for the front end and making it serverless on AWS S3 with a couple of lambda functions written in go for the back end [2] [3]. I&#x27;m getting to grips payment processing and book printing but giving the ebook away free.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.delayinsensitive.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.delayinsensitive.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gueststar&#x2F;s3quota" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gueststar&#x2F;s3quota</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gueststar&#x2F;lumberjack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gueststar&#x2F;lumberjack</a>

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailchi.mp&#x2F;8e0622427dd5&#x2F;prjmgrwkly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailchi.mp&#x2F;8e0622427dd5&#x2F;prjmgrwkly</a> - Newsletters around Project Management topics.<p>I feel most of the newsletters that aggregate stories and articles have too links. The reader gets overwhelm with what to read and what to skip.<p>I am taking a different strategy and aggregating only four links per week. The reader could quickly scan the four links. If any of them is interesting, click and read. Otherwise, hit the delete and move on for the day. I don&#x27;t want to reader to be captive if he finds the links do no add value for them. Their time is to valuable and I respect that.<p>Also I am using this side project as motivation to consume the various articles for my day job.

I&#x27;m working on a 2.0 release for newLISP on Rockets: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newlisponrockets.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newlisponrockets.com</a><p>It&#x27;s a rapid development web framework written in newLISP, with inspiration (and many many ideas) taken from Dragonfly.<p>I had stopped working on it for a few years while I worked on other projects, but I wanted to make a new and updated personal website, so I&#x27;ve updated the framework to also include a basic blog with comments and a discussion forum, and some simple customization options for administrators.<p>Eating my own dogfood (as it were) has been an interesting and fun experience. I now have three sites running on the latest version of Rockets 2.0.<p>I really missed working with LISP and it&#x27;s a lot of fun to get back to it!

A simple file uploader - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;femto.pw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;femto.pw&#x2F;</a><p>We&#x27;re upto 460TB of data being transferred, :)

Thanks for asking!<p>I’m working on a podcast community site to give a place for listeners to get together and connect.<p>It’s not too far along but the basics are there, feel free to check it out&#x2F;give me feedback:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.podalong.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.podalong.com&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;ve been working on a web app for discovering backpacking (as in hostels, not trails) destinations and planning trips - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waystops.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waystops.com</a>.<p>I&#x27;m a very visual person and for a long time wished there was a browseable map of interesting places to visit and things to see and do when planning backpacking trips. I couldn&#x27;t find anything that quite did what I wanted so thought I&#x27;d have a go myself.<p>The data itself is sourced from a combination of Wikivoyage and Wikipedia. The biggest features I&#x27;m looking to develop next are search and a way to leave reviews&#x2F;comments on places and listings.<p>Still very early days but would love to hear any feedback.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;informedcitizen.me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;informedcitizen.me&#x2F;</a><p>Automatically analyze online content for credibility.<p>Barebones alpha launch last night, 4 July 2019 :)<p>Improve credibility in social networks. Long term plan is to detect when social shares are trending upwards, analyze the shared articles&#x27; contents, and submit an automated reports into threads.<p>Currently the heavy lifting of the system is done via fakebox, supported by a small suite of services you can see in the docker compose configurations. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dino-dna&#x2F;informed-citizen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dino-dna&#x2F;informed-citizen</a><p>I&#x27;d love for others to get involved and help out!

Been geeking out about ZIP code data at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;incomedata.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;incomedata.org</a> . I never realized how cool ZIP code data is, just how important the census is, or how much fun working with geo data is.

I&#x27;m making a website aggregator currently on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feldot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feldot.com</a>. Most people are increasingly siloed into small portions of the internet. The idea of this site is to provide tools to a small portion of content creators that make discovery of new websites easier, then have them post on a reddit-like main page to introduce those sites to the masses.<p>Only the reddit-like portion of the site is ready right now, but there will be new tools released soon that will make the discovery of new sites trivial. It has been really fun to make, and I really look forward to making a Show HN post when it&#x27;s ready for a growth phase.

I&#x27;m working on ReferDigital, an affiliate partner network with no monthly or startup fees, subscription tracking (monthly commissions for the life of the customer), and some other features currently in beta.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ReferDigital.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ReferDigital.com</a><p>My side-project is Classient.com, a class booking system &#x2F; marketplace. My wife has been using it for several months now to teach a weekly class to kids in the neighborhood. A class could be simply watching kids and keeping them entertained (group baby-sitting) so no formal teaching experience is required:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;Classient.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;Classient.com</a>

Continuing my deep dive into TypeScript and particularly its type expressions.<p>I keep running head first into terms I’ve only loosely heard before and having to wander off to find out what they mean before coming back, it’s been absolutely fascinating though.

New version of Exoframe - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;exoframejs&#x2F;exoframe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;exoframejs&#x2F;exoframe</a><p>It&#x27;s a self-hosted one command deployment tool that makes running CD to your own VPS quite trivial.<p>Current version allows to deploy any dockerized apps quite easily, but I really wanted to have a simple way to deploy Node.js functions (be it HTTP, background process, or trigger&#x2F;reaction). So Exoframe v5 includes is exactly that (and nearly ready!).<p>Create index.js, run `exoframe init -f` and then `exoframe` is all it&#x27;ll take to deploy a function once I&#x27;m done. I&#x27;m quite happy with the result :)

A saas boilerplate with the fastest build out I can possibly muster and least code. Stack is hasura, graphql, stripe for the API, quasar framework for initial frontend to get easy mobile, native, electron, pwa, ssr, etc.<p>API has teams, users, roles, permissions, subscriptions and plans, following the paradigm that a user can belong to or own multiple teams and easily switch without logging out, users can be invited or request access to teams, admins can set and change features per plan... Etc...<p>The idea being minimal changes needed to go to market with an idea. Add a few services or features the &#x27;what&#x27;s it do&#x27; and everything else is ready to go.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kopi.cloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kopi.cloud</a><p>It&#x27;s an email forwarder that lets you hand out burner addresses so companies&#x2F;sites don&#x27;t have your real email address. Kopi supports replying to messages too - so you can have whole conversations without giving out your real address.<p>Not just useful for website signups etc. - it can also be part of a strategy for de-googling yourself.<p>You can re-direct specific mail forwarders to publish mail as an RSS feed (useful for Github, StackOverflow, etc.)<p>Just finished implementing &quot;bring your own domain&quot; functionality, so you don&#x27;t have to be locked in to the Kopi domains.

I&#x27;ve been working on the site for Overpowered Mats, day in and day out. It&#x27;s been a challenge but I&#x27;m very happy that I was able to work on such a cool idea. The &quot;Custom Mat Designer&quot; for it is going to be soooo cool. We&#x27;re super close! There will be room for improvement when the project is launched, for sure, so hang tight! Feel free to check it out and let me know if there&#x27;s any improvement that could be made or bugs to fix! You can pre-order now, by the way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overpoweredmats.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overpoweredmats.com&#x2F;</a>

Developing the first completely new class of wind instrument mouthpiece introduced in recorded history. For wind instruments there are reed mouthpieces, double reed, jet reed, lip reed, etc. These have all existed in various forms for millenia. My design, based on over 15 years of research uses optical sensing to very precisely measure multiple dimensions of the embouchure.<p>It will be available in the form of a hands-free music controller supported on what we call the &quot;neck unit&quot; or on a variety of hand-held units of different fingering styles that we call &quot;finger units&quot;.

KeyDB: a multi-threaded fork of Redis. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JohnSully&#x2F;KeyDB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JohnSully&#x2F;KeyDB</a><p>It seemed crazy to me Redis was still single threaded in 2019. Sometimes the rationale was one thread was enough to saturate a machine (it is not). Other times it was justified by the fact that you could create a local cluster - but I thought that was needlessly complex. Eventually I went ahead and just did it.<p>The project has since expanded to include Active Replication and a bunch of other new features.

After 10 years of development, My AI is &quot;commercial ready&quot;;offering Alternative data for hedge funds.

I&#x27;m currently working on a macOS application that allows users to save and load their working context, by which I mean sets of open applications and their internal states.<p>It has helped me reduce information overload, and allowed me to switch between tasks more efficiently - and I hope other people will find value in this as well.<p>It&#x27;s an idea I&#x27;ve been toying with and prototyping in different forms on and off for about four years now.<p>I&#x27;m finally releasing an open Beta this summer&#x2F;fall, as soon as I implement delta updates and the license validator.

I have two excellent passion projects right now.<p>The first is working with my friend on remote pair programming in service of levelling her up faster than would otherwise be possible for the average graduate of a coding bootcamp program. She got a job as a junior dev almost immediately out of the program, and I spend sometimes many hours a day screen sharing and talking through problems. It demands patience and good communication, but the results have been one of the most incredible investments I&#x27;ve ever made. It&#x27;s also one of the most intimate connections I&#x27;ve ever experienced. We both have a ton of gratitude, and I&#x27;ve learned an amazing amount in the process.<p>I&#x27;ve also been working on my own Rails project, which I&#x27;ve been converting from ad hoc jQuery to Stimulus and Turbolinks. One of the things I&#x27;ve learned from working with my friend is that when it comes to the whole React&#x2F;JS-for-everything ecosystem, the inmates are running the asylum. In this case, inmates are a critical mass of relatively new devs in an echo chamber that thinks React is the default choice for every project and have little practical experience to base this on. Sadly, Stimulus&#x2F;Turbolinks is not the hipster choice and part of the problem is a lack of visible examples of how amazing these libraries actually are. I&#x27;m excited to publish a series of posts about how warm the water is on our side of the debate.

Trying out a hardware side project this time. Figuring out a way to track your surf board or kite board once it&#x27;s lost at sea during a session. It&#x27;s a pretty interesting challenge.

I’m spending much of my free time experimenting with tech which augments the creative process.<p>- Creating variants on the fly [1]<p>- WebGL shader composition [2]<p>- Plug n’ play wireless mesh devices for sensing and control<p>My goal is to properly test them with absurd interactive art projects :D<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awfulaxolotl&#x2F;tastes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awfulaxolotl&#x2F;tastes</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awfulaxolotl&#x2F;lucida" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;awfulaxolotl&#x2F;lucida</a>

Working on research for my thesis, which will be wrapped up by years end. The current project focuses on improving sample efficiency in deep reinforcement learning. I am researching how best to merge the options framework with the adaptability of meta-reinforcement learning.<p>In my spare time I write and research algorithmic trading strategies. I’ve been sticking to the traditional techniques, with a small toe into statistics for modeling.<p>With whatever time is left, I’ve been learning rust and have enjoyed it quite a bit so far.

SSD Nodes is a bootstrapped cloud hosting provider I&#x27;ve been working on since 2011. Our servers are 90% lower cost than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode when you commit to 1 or 3 years in advance.<p>We recently launched a Performance line of servers leveraging NVMe technology that boasts millions of IOPS and up to 6,400MB&#x2F;s disk throughput, while still being 75% lower cost than what you would pay with at competitors.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssdnodes.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssdnodes.com</a>

A fun thing I’ve been putting together is growing Oyster mushrooms on wood. There’s actually a lot that goes into getting it to work. The mycelium has to fully inhabit the log before it can produce fruit. That can take 6-12 months. That, and the log has to stay very moist so you have to soak it for awhile before you can put the plugs of mycelium into the wood. Then you seal it with a wax and water it every couple of days. Apparently, a single piece of wood can fruit multiple times.

I spent the last year bootstrapping Wallfly: Smart Volume Control.<p>Ever been to a bar where the music was too loud?<p>Wallfly is cruise control for sound. The sonic control system measures the ambient audio levels in every room using your device&#x27;s microphone or Wallfly Sonic Sensor (coming Q4 2019) and modulates amplifier gain to keep the levels <i>just right</i>...because you can&#x27;t tell someone you love them when they can&#x27;t hear you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wallfly.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wallfly.app</a>

I&#x27;ve recently put this up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iamwfh.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iamwfh.com&#x2F;</a><p>A lot of the people in our office work from home on any given day. A joke emerged where we come up with funny alternative words for &#x27;WFH&#x27;, like &#x27;Worshipping Foreign Horizons&#x27;. Anyway I quickly ran out of original combinations, so I made something to generate some. I figure there are probably others out there who would get a kick out of it.

We have optimized neural ODEs, neural SDEs, neural DDEs, and neural DAEs quite a bit in Julia, and have some experimental results with neural jump SDEs and neural PDEs. But we can really do more with the neural PDEs, especially neural PDEs with constraints (i.e. partial differential-algebraic equations) and neural stochastic PDEs (SPDEs). It&#x27;s all working with DiffEqFlux.jl (you can see a blog post of experiments here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stochasticlifestyle.com&#x2F;neural-jump-sdes-jump-diffusions-and-neural-pdes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stochasticlifestyle.com&#x2F;neural-jump-sdes-jump-dif...</a>), and it works with GPUs, but we really need to make a few of the overloads like mapslices have better GPU kernels to really capture the neural SPDE applications well.<p>I&#x27;m also spending quite a bit of time looking into the ability for these neural differential equations to understand phase space. What exactly do they learn, and why? Can you predict beforehand how well you can learn the equations directly from data? Of course, this is intertwined with the previous part, because to understand how well you can auto-learn neural SPDEs you need the ability to quickly solve neural SPDEs, along with all of the implicit solvers and GPU support.

I moved to Norway with my wife and son from the USA. As part of the move, I ended my employment at a FAANG company and joined a small Norwegian software company.<p>On the side, I&#x27;m working on a feature documentary and I&#x27;m also exploring some ideas with a friend of mine who is a talented film director.<p>Most of my spare time is spent with my son and wife. I&#x27;m recovering from burnout and as part of the Scandinavian mindset I&#x27;m relearning how to have a healthy work life balance.

The food photos on your phone are an untapped treasure trove of verified legit food recommendations.<p>I&#x27;m building an IOS app that uses your food photos to create a social food diary, which when aggregated with posts from your friends, also creates this communal food brain of legit food. I call it friend-sourcing instead of crowd-sourcing.<p>An example use case is going to Tokyo and trying a bunch of ramen places. You take photos and upload the ones you like onto a geotagged list (called Tokyo Trip).<p>Your friends are going to Tokyo soon and ask you for ramen recommendations. Instead of creating a google map with pins or a long email lists with no pictures or geo-capabilities, you show&#x2F;send them the list with the app and it will show them all your ramen photos on a map.<p>We want to help answer &quot;What is the closest legit food my friends have tried around me?&quot; wherever you are.<p>We are looking for beta test users and will be launching this year. You just have to love food and like telling your friends where they should go eat (like me). Feel free to reach out at weizou@legitlist.me<p>Here is the beta test link if anyone is interested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;testflight.apple.com&#x2F;join&#x2F;3Ho5creV" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;testflight.apple.com&#x2F;join&#x2F;3Ho5creV</a>

Working on making knowledge sharing, onboarding, and development easier for organizations. The focus is on enabling team members to capture small chunks of knowledge (checklists, definitions, explanations, short updates).<p>Each chunk can be tagged and searchable (so that they’re easy to find), versioned (so there aren’t duplicates of the same information), and composable (so that they can be reused in different pieces&#x2F;versions of training materials).

I (we) are building a challenger bank in the U.S., focusing on checking and savings accounts that expose a full API.<p>On a personal level, I have been doing a deep dive into the Napoleonic Wars, and spend most of my free time reading. I had an idea the other day to attempt to build some sort of battlefield&#x2F;timeline visualizer using the newly realized Google Earth Studio. Has anybody used it for anything other than simple flyover animations?

Im a bit late to the party, but outside of work I spend most of my professional time on a curated newsletter for infosec news: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;securitynewsletter.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;securitynewsletter.co&#x2F;</a>.<p>Two years running, just crossed 5700 subscribers. MRR between $600 and $1000. Most successful thing I ever started and still love doing it. Kinda scary to have an “audience” of that size :)

A software defined radio app optimized for raspberry pi 4.

Currently building some serverless automation platform, as a SaaS, with an associate.<p>Something similar to Zapier, but appropriate for heavy workloads, with separate dev &amp; production environments, which handles throttling (you don&#x27;t want to accidentally DDOS a third-party API) and doesn&#x27;t structure an array of objects into arrays of their properties, etc<p>The goal is to be handle to handle all non-crud backend workflows.<p>It&#x27;s quite challenging really.

An automatic time series model finder.<p>The idea is to find a good model for predicting a time series given a set of other time series. Input is basically an excel file and output is a CSV file, expected to be delivered within a minute.<p>I mostly test it on power load and supply data but it should work on anything.<p>Also, it&#x27;s free.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ausblick.cryptoport.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;index" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ausblick.cryptoport.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;index</a>

Professionally, I&#x27;m really lucky as I am working in R&amp;D at a university hospital and I have a couple of cool projects going:<p>- The current medical application used in our hospital does not have a way to track if a case is a re-admission or not. This information is very important in surgery and urology. The doctors are using an excel file to track this information at the moment and we are building an app so that this information gets put into a database and will also later be integrated into the main medical system.<p>- Currently, students in radiology do not get very many chances to actually look at images to practice so we are building a crowdsourcing platform for radiology images. This will also be useful for interviewing or general practice for professionals.<p>On the side, I&#x27;ve been working on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ewolo.fitness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ewolo.fitness</a> - a workout tracking app that also has running and weight tracking built-in. I found all existing solutions too gimmicky and annoying - a workout tracker should be as flexible as possible and let you add your data and get out of your way...

Creating a visual tool to replace CSS <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;masiulis&#x2F;Ugnis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;masiulis&#x2F;Ugnis</a><p>So that anyone could create a nice UI by drag’n’drop, without writting a single line of CSS. It also works as a design system, so companies can create their own component library quickly.<p>After 3 years of trial and error, finally getting really close to beta version.

I am working on moving the interface of my notes app to Javascript (so it can be a PWA). To do this, I need to learn Javascript, so I am learning javascript by writing little games.<p>I present to you, the worst game in the entire world - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lifepim.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;LifeSIM&#x2F;battle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lifepim.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;LifeSIM&#x2F;battle</a>

I&#x27;m trying to get back into writing. I wrote a lot as an intern cuz that&#x27;s what you do when you&#x27;re an intern in SF, but recently I&#x27;m realizing that a lot of stuff I have a lot of first-hand experience is stuff that other engineers even within my own company don&#x27;t have a ton of knowledge about (for context, I do a lot of frontend performance work).

Working on my macOS image viewer app, VoidView. I hadn’t been serious about polishing it but now I’m adding some simple quality of life improvements, especially for making artists that use apps like Bridge or PureRef for displaying references happier.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ESWAT&#x2F;voidview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ESWAT&#x2F;voidview</a>

Umbrella App.<p>It&#x27;s a free, open source app with best practice advice on how activists&#x2F;journalists&#x2F;aid workers&#x2F;travellers can learn about and manage their own digital and physical security.<p>It covers stuff like travel safety, staying safe at protests, dealing with arrest, surveillance, sending a secure mail or communication etc. Our background is working with activists and journalists to keep them safe, so we wanted an all-in-one guide for anyone who needs help. You can read more about it at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.secfirst.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.secfirst.org</a> or try it<p>iOS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;umbrella-security&#x2F;id1453715310" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;umbrella-security&#x2F;id14537153...</a><p>Android: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=org.secfirst.umbrella" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=org.secfirst.u...</a>

I wrote a workflowy clone in draftjs, to see if it&#x27;s possible to do it - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumpster.netlify.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dumpster.netlify.com&#x2F;</a><p>It keeps data in local storage and has an option to back it up to your dropbox account.<p>Nowhere as smooth and bug free as workflowy, but it was a fun experiment.<p>Warning - Has a lot of bugs in mobile. Leads of loss of data.

When I have down time, I am working on updating a passion project that I have not touched in 3+ years.<p>The idea is to be able to scan Android apps installed on your device and see which libraries&#x2F;SDKs were used to develop them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;michaelcarrano&#x2F;detective-droid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;michaelcarrano&#x2F;detective-droid</a>

I am working &quot;sharing note books&quot; in Sciter.Notes.<p>This feature will allow<p>1. to share notes using cloud of your choice 2. and so to access notes on mobiles and in browser.<p>More on this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notes.sciter.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;note-sharing-is-coming&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notes.sciter.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;note-sharing-is-coming&#x2F;</a>

Stalled a bit recently but I&#x27;ve been working on&#x2F;with a programming language called Joy[1].<p>It&#x27;s stack-based, &quot;concatinative&quot; and Categorical. It&#x27;s a little like Forth+LISP.<p>I had just implemented some type inference[2] when Warren&#x27;s &quot;Logic Programming and Compiler Writing&quot; went by here on HN[4] and I got into a very rewarding Prolog rabbithole.<p>So now I&#x27;m writing a compiler in Prolog for Joy.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joypy.osdn.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joypy.osdn.io&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joypy.osdn.io&#x2F;notebooks&#x2F;Types.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joypy.osdn.io&#x2F;notebooks&#x2F;Types.html</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;220280364_Logic_Programming_and_Compiler_Writing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;220280364_Logic_Pro...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17674859" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17674859</a>

Working to release version 2 of <i>Video Hub App</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;videohubapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;videohubapp.com</a> (browse and manage videos on PC, Win, Linux)<p>Original discussion on HN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17587992" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17587992</a>

I&#x27;m trying to validate an idea&#x2F;app for modularising and streamlining internal and external business communication (mainly email).<p>At the moment it&#x27;s just an application to create some reusable templates and snippets, and extend and share them with colleagues. My next step would be to create a browser extension that allows to easily injected the content from the application into other websites directly while typing (for example into any web email client, google docs, any website form, etc.).<p>The main benefits of the application would be to save time, reduce errors, and potentially to standardize a company&#x27;s business communication thought a collective effort (document, template and snippet creation) where also employees that generally don&#x27;t like to write emails can benefit (as a developer I find myself in this category).<p>Still in alpha, feedback is greatly appreciated: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getlimpid.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getlimpid.com</a>

I&#x27;m currently attempting to bootstrap taxammend.com (a service to send your 1040X IRS tax form easily) and gearing up for amiaccessible.com (a service to run automated accessibility checks against your website, enabling good-faith efforts are improving internet accessibility).<p>I am also currently working on my Master&#x27;s in Cybersecurity and Info Assurance.

I&#x27;ve been building out a product with two other developers for over a year now - and we&#x27;re finally just a couple of weeks from launching.<p>It&#x27;s a drop in e-commerce system that allows people to start selling products on an existing site very quickly (a similar space as Snipcart).<p>Now just building out the marketing and wondering if anyone will want to use it.

I&#x27;m working on implementing a few optimizations for our DWH, in particular I want to automatically find the best partition and bucketing schema for tables based on their access patterns. This is actually part of a much bigger project that I want to do to further increase the performance and efficiency of our data analytics systems.

I&#x27;ve recently set up this blog : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dndchronologically.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dndchronologically.com&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m reading through all of TSR&#x27;s D&amp;D products in chronological order. Part of this project is to compile the most accurate chronological list on the net.

When not procrastinating...<p>* Doing some IT work through field service platforms like Fieldnation. About to start writing some software to auto-bid on some preferred assignments while I sleep. ;) This is a more involved task than you might think because it involves parsing free-form text and data mining email notifications. These sites have an annoying habit of not notifying when an offer is declined. Many projects post a ton of boilerplate with some relevant text in the middle. It also has to figure out if the city is close enough to other assignments so I don&#x27;t wind up driving 30+ miles. * Working on my main software project, but really not. * Working on a new project related to helping people work on their cars.<p>It feels like I am level capped at an RPG. I need to raise my programming skill, which I want to do right, so I want to raise my math skill.

I finally finished writing the CMS that I was using as an excuse to delay the start of writing online, I just started publishing to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;philipkiely.com&#x2F;essays" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;philipkiely.com&#x2F;essays</a> and I have dozens more that I want to write.

1. API to extract and store metadata about an uploaded PDF (images, relevant field locations, signature boxes, etc.)<p>2. Tool that shows an image of each field to the user and allows them to enter human readable prompts (title, description, input style).<p>3. A PWA that uses the prompts to help an end user complete the form, collects signatures, etc.<p>4. Add the ability to link&#x2F;upload some tabular data and tie fields from the data source to fields on a PDF.<p>5. Communications—email a unique short link to somebody to request they complete a form, pre-filled with data.<p>6. Build an example web site that consumes 1-4 and shows off e.g. completing a legal contract. Notifications when a form is completed.<p>7. Multi-party forms<p>8. Start figuring out how to charge people and who to sell to, build more niche wrappers around the product, stand up an auth&#x2F;billing service, etc.

My side project is a fork[0] of an old Java Swing app. I have been updating the code to use newer Java features and rewriting portions of it in Scala.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dbremner&#x2F;JavaPH" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dbremner&#x2F;JavaPH</a>

Working on a new version of hardware, firmware and app[0] for new payment features for AU client.<p>Together with a local friend; garden &amp; home automation&#x2F;security with Pi’s and Arduino’s.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scramcard.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scramcard.com&#x2F;</a>

Currently I&#x27;m working on documentation, trying to explain (and sort of figure out for myself) why I spent the last 2 years developing a declarative scripting framework called &#x27;freckles&#x27; ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freckles.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freckles.io</a> ).<p>The code is at a state now that I&#x27;m happy enough with (at least to prove the concept), but I realized that it is not as obvious to other people why a thing like it should exist than it has been to me.<p>I was working as programmer as well as a sys-admin-type years before DevOps became a thing, and I always thought there was something missing. We are automating a lot of stuff, but not up to the &#x27;last mile&#x27;, there is always some manual requirement install or preparation necessary. And I always thought that once we can wrap <i>every</i> single one of the tasks &#x27;around&#x27; a software project into a re-usable, formalized structure, it would make a lot of things easier, and open up lots of possibilities that are hidden from our views for now.<p>Basically, I think we should be able to create any desired state in a specific computational environment (physical machine, VM, container, filesystem, infrastructure, ...) using a single instruction, and one (optional) dictionary-type structure for arguments. Be it trivial (like make sure a folder exists) or fairly involved (setup a complete Wordpress instance incl. reverse proxy, Letsencrypt cert, firewall, ...).<p>There are technologies that help with some of the issues I have (Docker, K8s, Terraform, config-management ...), but it feels like they all have a slightly off-target focus and priority for what I have in mind.<p>I&#x27;m still struggling to find the right words (as you can probably see) to explain the what and why, but it&#x27;s an interesting experience working on basically reverse-engineering something I think is important but can&#x27;t express (it&#x27;s like trying to explain a color). Gaining a lot of understanding about the problem too. And the funny thing is, I don&#x27;t think I could have done all that before I went ahead and actually implemented the&#x2F;my solution to the problem itself.

Practicing on leetcode for AC solution to work on FANG

Nothing too crazy, just got done setting up OpenWRT this week, but am having a few issues getting ipv6 working properly.<p>Also setting up a mediawiki server for the family, mainly so I can get all of my mom&#x27;s great recipies and share them with the rest of the family :)

Connecting a heart rate monitor to a linux system and attempting to study the impact of different activities on my heart rate.<p>Context: I train for endurance events, and that&#x27;s seen my resting heart rate fall by about 13 beats per minute. On some days this goes lower during training, and some days it doesn&#x27;t. The idea is that certain kinds of foods, and certain activities might help me make my training more effective. Also, a part of the inspiration comes from here - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a16z.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;13&#x2F;ai-doctor-deep-medicine-topol&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a16z.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;13&#x2F;ai-doctor-deep-medicine-topol&#x2F;</a>

Been working on a weekly security newsletter customized to the subscribers software stack. It includes vulnerabilities and security news and it&#x27;s 100% free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secalerts.co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secalerts.co</a>

I&#x27;ve become bored with software. I just started a masters degree in Biology and have a vague and naive plan of becoming a cardiologist and running a lab with the primary goal of reducing human suffering, rather than money (been there, done that).

A cell therapy manufacturing device that uses micro injection to genetically modify cells.

I&#x27;m trying to clean up the app I wrote, that pulls data out of a PostGres database and denormalizes the data based on a simple config file and then pushes the denormalized data into ElasticSearch, so that the frontend code can query the data. I&#x27;d like to eventually release the app as Open Source, as I think it is a more practical way of doing some of the things that GraphQL is supposed to do. I wrote a little bit about it here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smashcompany.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;caches-are-cheap-build-a-lot-of-them-for-the-frontend" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smashcompany.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;caches-are-cheap-buil...</a>

I&#x27;m working on a way to re-use your Selenium page objects for load testing.<p>Thesis: The reason, instead of automating browsers, that we collectively started making HTTP-level load scripts and investing expensive labor hours in &quot;correlation&quot; was because hardware was really expensive.<p>Around Y2K, A single server might cost 500 a month in hardware and rack costs. Now a 72 core machine can be rented for an hour for under a dollar.<p>So I&#x27;m making a real-browser load testing service that <i>lets you use the same integration test code you already maintain</i>. Fewer tools, fewer specialties, CI&#x2F;CD ready.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browserup.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browserup.com</a>

I am working on a whisky app called Drammer <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drammer.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drammer.com</a> Where users can manage their collection, search by taste and use a barcode scanner to find a whisky quickly.

Maintaining some marginally-novel open-source projects, and looking for a new side-project idea. I burned out and ended up shutting down my previous side-project the other day; just taking a break before starting up a new one.

I&#x27;m working on Photo Recall an Amazon Alexa skill and Google Assistant app that let&#x27;s you play photo slideshows by voice: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;photo-recall" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;photo-recall</a><p>I&#x27;ve also been working on Custom Voice Commands an Android app and web app that let&#x27;s you load web content like YouTube video playlists, Google Drive or OneDrive documents, manage lists and reminders by voice plus ask Alexa questions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;custom-voice-commands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;custom-voice-commands</a>

I&#x27;m teaching myself graduate mathematical analysis using Rudin and whatever I can find online. It&#x27;s a really beautiful subject, and I&#x27;m finding myself look forward to the little time I have in the day for it.

Since I couldn&#x27;t find a good tool to make 3D experiences for the web, I created one that so far it made my clients very happy.<p>It&#x27;s node-based, which allows you to try different ideas very quickly within the same scene. You can process models and geometries, or even create your own glsl shader with just nodes. And if you&#x27;re not a coder, it can also be a good way to learn.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polygonjs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polygonjs.com&#x2F;</a> and some tutorials: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;polygonjs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;polygonjs</a>

I took a break from straight coding in my side projects. I had this domain since 2003, and I always wanted to make an educational project. I decided to try to make a course on how to teach kids how to program using Scratch.<p>Its been an interesting challenge making this. I had to learn about how to structure lessons, how to setup lighting, and a whole host of other things. My 5 year old daughter is helping me make it. She does some of the video and she helps me iron out the lessons.<p>Its slow going, but its a lot of fun.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextlesson.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextlesson.com</a>

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdf.to" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdf.to</a>

Been happily hacking away on zlog [0] a distributed shared-log that runs on top of software-defined storage like Ceph. I&#x27;ve been working on it for a couple years, steadily getting closer to something stable. It&#x27;s a lot of fun working through all the many supporting aspects of a project like this: ci&#x2F;jenkins&#x2F;cloud-hosting, marketing&#x2F;promotion, packaging for distributions, learning about tools for communities, etc...<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cruzdb&#x2F;zlog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cruzdb&#x2F;zlog</a>

I&#x27;m building a lightweight framework for A&#x2F;B testing on sites.<p>It&#x27;s like Optimizely except it weighs just 5kb, is self hosted and allows you to build and launch split tests from inside your IDE or via CD.

I’ve been working on a visual programming language to explore red black trees (actually just using RB trees to explore a new way of programming, but...).<p>RB tree insert:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ArDMmfbOxi4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ArDMmfbOxi4</a><p>RB tree rebalance:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=O2-8uEEtvso" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=O2-8uEEtvso</a><p>I previously did the same thing for quicksort (see my YouTube channel for lots of videos), and am currently thinking of way to generalize this approach.

100 pushups in a row

I’m working on Lightbus, a Python framework for RPCs and eventing. I’ve been working on it for a couple of years now, and I’ve been trying to get the API as clean as possible. It’s currently running in production with a couple of companies.<p>The project came about because I was using Celery to communicate between Django projects, but it felt like a kludge.<p>I’m getting close to an official release soon, but there are already extensive docs at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightbus.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lightbus.org</a><p>Code is in GitHub, linked to at the above address.

Since most of my side projects don’t end up seeing light, so somebody could do it before me:<p>A photo app that lets me view (and make galleries to share) of my photos uploaded to s3, that is self&#x2F;locally hosted.

I am planning to build a business card scanner like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.camcard.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.camcard.com</a>. Not that nothing like it exists. I am currently working on finishing deep learning courses from fast.ai and wanted to build a cool open source project to apply my learnings. Also wanted to release iOS app which does this on the device without server intervention using MLKit for iOS (I have worked with React native but not on swift - so personally challenging on many fronts).

I am refactoring the report designer from one of my projects, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.shopify.com&#x2F;export-orders" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.shopify.com&#x2F;export-orders</a>.<p>The report designer is iimplemented using Datatables.Net library (demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QQ-viTQARTk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QQ-viTQARTk</a>) and I am implementing the same functionality and some more features (column renaming, custom column expressions) using VueJS.

I&#x27;m working on an IDE for music composition <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ngrid.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ngrid.io</a>.<p>Ive mentioned this many time but I&#x27;m close to being done. Fall of this year.

I&#x27;m teaching programming for beginners &amp; non-programmers on YouTube with Flutter and JavaScript. I&#x27;m trying to expose my pupils to slightly lesser known concepts, paradigms with the focus on functional programming, Reactive extensions etc. I have plans to do Clojure or Common Lisp next.<p>I&#x27;m also doing some Emacs related videos, presenting a single concept each time. I&#x27;m a big fan of Doom Emacs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;zaiste" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;zaiste</a>

Working on a enterprise training planning solution and we are celebrating our first two customers. Yay!!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;niftylearning.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;niftylearning.io</a>

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.QuickCut.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.QuickCut.io</a> - I built it because of the frustration I have editing courses I make for fun ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udemy.com&#x2F;beginner-programming-intro-python-self-driving-car&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udemy.com&#x2F;beginner-programming-intro-python-self...</a> ). It blew my mind that we&#x27;re still editing video the same way we have in the 90&#x27;s - so quickcut was born

After writing a number of Forth&#x2F;Lisp-like interpreters [0] in different languages, I felt like it was time to attempt an extraction of lessons learned into a flexible C++ framework [1] to use as foundation for future projects.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;codr7&#x2F;g-fu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;codr7&#x2F;g-fu</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;codr7&#x2F;cidk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;codr7&#x2F;cidk</a>

Commemini [1], It&#x27;s a bookmarking&#x2F;view this later site with tag based search, mostly a side project to better learn Postgres.<p>Still to come<p>- Full text search<p>- Capturing a snapshot of the site to allow Full text search, offline view, &#x27;saving&#x27; pages incase they go offline.<p>- Learning tags based on page contents<p>Pricing on the main page is a template at this point and signup is still free&#x2F;unlimited as i&#x27;m not &#x27;releasing&#x27; it yet.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commemini.xyz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commemini.xyz</a>

Working on a book&#x2F;guide for developers about the mathematics behind machine learning with an aim towards intuition. All of the concepts are implemented in Python.

I took the week off work to plow through Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers so that&#x27;s been most of my time, haha<p>I&#x27;m going to see how viable it is to host a Matrix&#x2F;Riot server from my house. Looks like there&#x27;s going to be a hard time with SSL given that my router has its hook into Port 80 regardless of DMZ. Perhaps I can just use a self signed cert.<p>I would host it in a VPS but I&#x27;m looking to use the bridges for Whatsapp&#x2F;FB Messenger&#x2F;Telegram

Working on (and have been for far too long) a side project I call &quot;unearth&quot;. It is a web app that lets users easily navigate and rediscover their Reddit saved things. There are a couple other projects that scrape the surface of saved things management (Reddit Manager and Savvit to name a couple), but being a developer I wanted to make my own version that was a bit more elegant, both in terms of engineering and UI&#x2F;UX.

I&#x27;ve been spending time working on my board game accessories business <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;burgertokens.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;burgertokens.com&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s been an awesome experience so far. I have enough customers now that I can go to pretty much any board game event and find people who are fans of my business.<p>I&#x27;m working on editing a video for an upcoming kickstarter that we&#x27;re about to run. Super excited :)

I’m not actively working on anything any more after my son was born, but I’ve spent some time trying to build <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;resumedrone.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;resumedrone.com</a> to more easily update my resume whenever I need to do that.<p>I’m playing with the idea of making it export into several agencies formats and then sell that to them so they don’t keep formatting stuff by hand, but it’s not quite there yet.

An Android client to control mpv (media player) remotely. It is actually both the server (written in python) and client.<p>I started it because I didn&#x27;t want to get up to control the movie playing on my laptop, and it has turned into a fun experiment in UX and network security.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mcastorina&#x2F;mpv-remote-app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mcastorina&#x2F;mpv-remote-app</a>

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deltatrail.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deltatrail.io</a><p>Working on a infrastructure change tracking service called Deltatrail.io. It tracks changes both automatically (via API, Jenkins, AWS Cloudtrail, etc) and also manually (via Slack, etc). It really helps us when trying to debug outages or issues that arise. Most come from changes that have been made&#x2F;deployed.

Working on a link aggregator for website while learning to code. Any rails mentors out there feel free to reach out to me! I could use some help

On exercism.io, learning rust and mentoring people learning JavaScript.<p>Both sides are a lot of fun!<p>Please join in if you can on mentoring... there&#x27;s a pretty big back-log.

I&#x27;m going through the formalities of shutting down my failed startup. We&#x27;re finishing up the few contracts we have, telling customers we&#x27;re not extending their service, and trying to figure out how to split what little assets we have left.<p>This wasn&#x27;t anyone&#x27;s sole income, so it&#x27;s not a disaster. It&#x27;s certainly been a learning experience, so there&#x27;s that.

A puzzle game about binary encoding.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;pUkgeqV80m8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;pUkgeqV80m8</a>

Building the enterprise version of:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnprofile.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnprofile.com&#x2F;</a><p>The goal is to help employees try to find an expert (or content) in a company when you need to solve something. For HR we provide insights about employees (satisfaction, influence levels, etc) in an attempt to reduce turnover (#1 cost to businesses).

Howdy! Happy Friday. I started putting up my own personal space @ <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codingbbq.github.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codingbbq.github.io</a><p>I worked on setting up jekyll and made the site as per my like. I have plans to continue writing and maintaining an online journey. Brings a smile everytime I make some commits in the repository. :)

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noageismintech.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noageismintech.com</a> - Job board focused on over 35s in tech Launched last week on HN and generated a massive discussion around the subject. We&#x27;re now working to get more companies onboard and make their profile sharable.<p>I hope that will bring consistent users to the website

I am working on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jekyllontime.top&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jekyllontime.top&#x2F;</a> these days. It is a service to publish jekyll+GitHub Pages blog posts at a given time. This is a pain point I am having myself and that&#x27;s why I decided to create this service. So far it is in a MVP stage.

I am working on my side project to monitor and alert SSH login and breach attempts. Hopefully will be launching next month!

A better trading platform. We are currently building a system where you can upload a model designed in a spreadsheet and it will turn it into a live, real-time trading algorithm for you in the cloud (yes, there&#x27;s a VBA-compatible interpreter too).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;Kloudtrader.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;Kloudtrader.com</a>

I&#x27;m building a new way to grow plants using electromagnetic water-vapor distribution systems.<p>Had some successes, mostly failure, but getting there. Should be more accessible, use less water, less expensive, and produce better&#x2F;more food than traditional hydroponic systems (and far more than traditional farming).<p>LPA grow system without needing any pumps.

Writing a process analyzer to find multilevel pointers to game data in order to show additional information on an overlay.

You&#x27;ve probably heard of Libra. I&#x27;ve been working on a permissionless version of Libra for the last two years. We are called Celo (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;celo.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;celo.org</a>), and we are committed to advancing financial inclusion using an open decentralized protocol.

Just writing code for open-source projects.

I&#x27;m working on Robotics Newsletter : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weeklyrobotics.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weeklyrobotics.com&#x2F;</a><p>That has been going quite ok for the past few months.<p>Another side thing I&#x27;m working on is a set of tutorials for Robot Operating System but that one I started just couple of weeks ago.

A decentralized Medium alternative<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decentium.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decentium.org</a>

I have a side project that I&#x27;ve been working on which is re-implementing a couple of old rails4 projects that old customers still use in Phoenix&#x2F;Elixir. It&#x27;s been going pretty well.<p>I&#x27;m also working on a generative mobile game in react-native, which is fun but is taking a while to do.

A math practice website called <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;studycounts.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;studycounts.com</a>. I’m trying to combine randomly generated math practice problems with addictive Skinner box-ish gaming elements. Skinner box for self improvement is the idea.

I&#x27;m working on a travel agency website that integrates with global booking systems, something like expedia but less complex. So far along the process I&#x27;ve learned a lot specially about a wide range of Azure services. I just learned Azure Search and wow, it works great!

For past 1.5 years I&#x27;ve been developing a game part time. The game is a 2D top down racing with procedurally generated race tracks. It is the biggest and most fulfilling pet project I have ever done.<p>You can find it on Steam or Reddit, search for &quot;Bloody Rally Show&quot;.

I am working on a company that curates trial week at their potential job and also help them find a job. I am really passionate about this. Doing this alongside a full-time consultant agreement with a start-up, I am a bit stretched but overall excited about this.

Running a fintech startup - real time, 24&#x2F;7 B2B settlement, and we&#x27;re never in the money. I only wish I had time for side projects!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transparentsystems.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transparentsystems.com&#x2F;</a>

Building a budgeting app for Android. Pretty basic in terms of functionality, but I&#x27;d like to at least bring a project to completion before moving on to something more complicated. Been at it for 6+ months, and the end isn&#x27;t in sight yet...

My side project is PostgresCompare (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgrescompare.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgrescompare.com</a>), a PostgreSQL schema comparison and deployment app. Evenings and weekends for a couple years now!

Adding stuff to Anarki, random wheel-spinning gamedev BS in C and C++, and Godot tutorials.

Been working on a web service to convert JS apps to PWAs and host them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.superweb.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.superweb.app</a><p>Hoping that it makes it easier for folks to create native-like apps, especially games.

I&#x27;m working as the chairman of my hackerspace, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c3d2.de&#x2F;whois.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c3d2.de&#x2F;whois.html</a>, to balance order and chaos in the literal Chaos Computer Club.

I&#x27;m writing a book on Crystal programming language in fun, dialogues way - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chauhankiran.github.io&#x2F;crystalie&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chauhankiran.github.io&#x2F;crystalie&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m making a robot that makes string art.<p>I have an instagram if you want to check it out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;string.art.bird&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.instagram.com&#x2F;string.art.bird&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m a bit idle lately, so I&#x27;m doing a webapp for Mario Maker stages, where you can create your profile and share with others easier (today you have to send a string to share a stage or your profile on Mario Maker)

Working on my company TARS. We have built a non-AI non-NLP Chatbot Builder product for last 3.5 Years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hellotars.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hellotars.com&#x2F;</a><p>I also wish I had time for some Side Projects.

I&#x27;m building a database + API with Trading Hours and Market Holidays for the world&#x27;s financial markets.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockmarketclock.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stockmarketclock.com</a>

I&#x27;m building (what I hope to be) your new home for all your photos and videos. It&#x27;s called PhotoStructure.<p>TL:DR; see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.photostructure.com&#x2F;introducing-photostructure&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.photostructure.com&#x2F;introducing-photostructure&#x2F;</a><p>In a nutshell, I&#x27;ve got 20 years of digital photos and videos, spread over tens of hard drives, CDRs, crashed laptops and servers, and takeouts from failed photo services.<p>Nothing I tried could sweep everything into one neat and deduped pile.<p>Nothing I tried scaled up to several hundred thousand files, with cross-platform support (to minimize vendor lock-in).<p>And nothing I tried had a UX that made browsing that large of a library be delightful and serendipitous.<p>So I&#x27;m making it.<p>I&#x27;ve currently got a build for Mac, Windows 10, and Ubuntu desktop. I&#x27;ve got a preliminary snap and docker image, and look forward to trying it out on a raspberry pi 4 soon.<p>I&#x27;m looking for more beta testers, if this sounds interesting and you&#x27;d be willing to share feedback! Email signups are in the above link.

A bootloader that makes you win a game of pong before you get to your OS.

* Writing a Lisp interpreter for a homebrew 6502 single board computer.<p>* Learning DEC PDP-11 assembly language, may &quot;port&quot; the above Lisp interpreter to it... The -11&#x27;s instruction set is so nice.

For work: porting some infrastructure from the company I work to code (ansible) and creating new ones. For fun: developing an ansible intellij plugin for code completion and documentation lookup.

As a side project, I am creating a general purpose model-based testing solution (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leth.dev&#x2F;ao" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leth.dev&#x2F;ao</a>).

I&#x27;m on working on my masters with gaTech&#x27;s OMSCS. Taking a summer class atm, and will finish in the fall. Going to start on a new job search and maybe TA a class too.

We are drowning in emails and Instant messaging, esp. in our workplaces. As a former CTO of a fast growing startup I was struck by how much frustration and wasted time there was due to inefficient communication and lack of sharing knowledge about who we know and who knows what.<p>I&#x27;m building AntEater to make every on teams as smart as the team - using AI. It&#x27;s free to try (for Gmail and Slack - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anteateranalytics.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anteateranalytics.com&#x2F;</a>) for small teams and helps share knowledge and activity for truly transparent teams to help individuals work less and work better.

An experimental model to predict the price of an individual stock (AMZN or AAPL) for the next minute, based on the price of an index (SPY or NDAQ) during the current minute.

I am learning video editing (Da Vinci Resolve) and I just made this [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;346285447" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;346285447</a>

My most recent project is a chess training tool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.checkmatechamp.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.checkmatechamp.net&#x2F;</a>

Trying to grow my company Orchestra, which is effectively DevOps for ML. Hoping to complete a few proof of concepts and am building a founding team.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hugapi&#x2F;HOPE&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hugapi&#x2F;HOPE&#x2F;</a><p>Working on hug 3.0

Shaving the entire yak army, as usual.<p>Scatching my own itch on a shell history thing that isn&#x27;t annoying. Baby steps towards a releasable version.

Writing my dissertation over summer on Asian Equity Risk Arbitrage. Nice long summer days in Cambridge spent in front of a Computer ;)

Leetcode<p><i>tears</i>

I&#x27;ve been working on a web app to help political campaigns scale and manage an exploding volunteer network. Helping the campaign delegate tasks, helping the volunteers connecting to constituents, and see statistics along the way.<p>I&#x27;ve seen too many campaigns attempt to run hundreds of volunteers, do crazy tricks with Google Sheets (just to have volunteers accidentally delete critical information), and I&#x27;ve been a volunteer waiting to be told what to do.

A native hacker news iOS app and more.... work in progress...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;KLCSsTy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;KLCSsTy</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;RcHDwvN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;RcHDwvN</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;25vX0hT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;25vX0hT</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;gD89CG6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;gD89CG6</a>

Freelancing and preparing for vacation!

Marketing for my buy a press pass service (gets you in for free to all kinds of events, concerts, museums, clubs, etc): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.magicpresspass.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.magicpresspass.com</a><p>Marketing and recruitment for people who want to get paid consulting who have done amazing adventures (like travelled around the world on a bicycle, climbed Everest etc, please reach out if you have). Essentially I want to have a consultancy for people who have done amazing things and want to get paid to consult to people who have done those things before. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adventurecopilot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adventurecopilot.com</a><p>Also seeking suggestions on how to learn marketing, it&#x27;s a skill I&#x27;m keenly interested in acquiring.<p>And considering a Trump related merchandise business (not because I like Trump, but I think it would sort of market itself). I love businesses where people have strong opinions. Strong opinions travel, positive or otherwise.<p>Also writing about entrepreneurship and personal excellence at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidparkinson.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.davidparkinson.com</a> and polishing up my &#x27;find your phone, escape a boring meeting&#x2F;date service&#x27; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phonemyphone.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phonemyphone.com</a> (fun fact, launched this on Hacker News 10+ years ago :P).<p>Feel free to rip any of those ideas&#x2F;concepts apart :P.

Just starting on cannabis cultivation software. Partnering with one of the top growers in the country.

I have a few things I work on, including writing Free Hero Mesh (which is a puzzle game engine).

aidlab.com - a wearable assistant to replace your Thermometer, ECG Holter and Alexa!

im working on a way to automatically check gift card balances for various brands.

i&#x27;m working on a music streaming service for indie artists called .mixtape<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixtape.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixtape.ai</a> (in alpha and only works on chrome)

We have reached alpha on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sitefitnesshq.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sitefitnesshq.com</a> , an early warning service for website failures. We have just started reaching out to customers.<p>Wish us luck.

modeling&#x2F;growing cellulose for wound healing

soundcloud but more retro (alpha) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixtape.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixtape.ai</a>

Reading these books:<p>- The Effective Engineer<p>- Crime &amp; Punishment

I’m working on Snapchat.

Bibimapp<p>We&#x27;re a personal recommendation social network. We&#x27;re the antidote to crowdsourced averaged algorithmic recommendations. We started with map based personal recommendations of places and will expand once we have traction. We&#x27;ll be doing a ShowHN shortly.<p>We&#x27;re on iOS and Android.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bibimapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bibimapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>*we&#x27;ve soft launched on both appstores so if you want to check us out just type &quot;Bibimapp&quot; into the appstore search.<p>Also we&#x27;re fully bootstrapped

Going from zero musical ability and knowledge of music theory to composing and playing jazz, classical and hymn. I&#x27;ve given myself a year to do it and documenting my progress every day: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write.as&#x2F;poseur-to-composer&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write.as&#x2F;poseur-to-composer&#x2F;about</a>

Amazing question i really liked that, Actually i m working on some ads and that is my job to performe that. And I love to complete that.

Ten Ask HN posts in the last four days? Is there not a limit on this sort of thing?