Hey HN,<p>I'm sure you've seen the monthly "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?" headlines on [Hacker News](<a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Ask%20HN%3A%20What%20Are%20You%20Working%20On%20202&sort=byDate&type=story&storyText=none" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...</a>).<p>Honestly, it's my favorite topic because it's packed with insights about what other hackers are up to.<p>I wondered what it would be like if instead of just a headline, there was a whole website where hackers could post daily updates, and where we could follow the hackers we're interested in for their latest updates. And so, this web site was born.<p>I hope it gets used frequently so we can all benefit from it together. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.<p>Let me know what you think!
Excellent work! Such a nice complement to HN. Show HN is my favorite part of the site.<p>Would be cool if the headline was a link to the project :)<p>Thanks for sharing, just signed up!<p>Edit: Nvm it parses links in the title. Only thing is if it's in parenthesis it parses that e.g. "I am making the next big thing (<a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow">https://example.com</a>)" it will attempt to navigate to <a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow">https://example.com</a>) <-- with the paren
I grew 30 heirloom tomato plants to give away to friends and family. They're world-class seed varieties that aren't available through nurseries/retail[1]. I grew them indoors under grow lights[2].<p>After giving most away, I had 4 left, so I walked around my neighborhood, knocked on front doors, and offered them to neighbors (none of whom I knew). The first 4 who answered were all eager to have one. Also, they're all now acquaintances - we've either texted or emailed.<p>[1]: Go down the dwarf heirloom tomato breeding rabbit hole: <a href="https://www.dwarftomatoproject.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dwarftomatoproject.net/</a> , <a href="https://joegardener.com/podcast/tomato-talk-big-gardening-and-life-changes-craig-lehoullier/" rel="nofollow">https://joegardener.com/podcast/tomato-talk-big-gardening-an...</a> . I grew purple/black varieties: Adelaide Festival, Fred's Tie Dye, and Metallica.<p>[2]: Photo of 30 tomato starts on a wire rack in my living room: <a href="https://mas.to/@troyd/112277832267619233" rel="nofollow">https://mas.to/@troyd/112277832267619233</a>
I'm back working on my lighting desk [0]. Got the new boards manufactured and each has basic code on. Now looking at swapping out the i2c communications the main controller was using for CAN-bus that the new boards use. Hoping to get the system turning lights on and off in a month or so.<p>I realised most of my motivation problems were depression-related, and getting treatment for that made it possible for me to get back to work on this project<p>0: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737795">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737795</a>
There's used to be a site for that called advogato. Looks like it was shut down in 2017. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.org/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.o...</a><p>(I found my posts on there from 2000 to 2001. Looks like you could also tag other users in your updates. Apparently I became the "official documenter" of ClanLib and completely forgot about it. Sorry.)
Edit: WHOOSH I totally missed your link! I think your idea is awesome if you couldn't tell by my participation :)<p>TOO MUCH!<p>I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year. The past two or three months things have been improving a lot thanks to meds.<p>Three projects I'm working on are starting to really start to buzz:<p>1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.<p>2. Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING! s/o to the Duet folks their support forum is second to none.<p>3. Electric motor for my kayak. Some very cool people on the internet are selling ESCs designed for brushed / brushless motors and it just so happens they perfectly overlap with the small / lightweight motor I'm using on my kayak. You can spend $$$$ on an electric setup but I'm making it work with a $130 motor, $200 battery and maybe $60 of electronics? Suck it torqueedo.<p>Honestly if you'd have told me all this would be going on at once six months ago I might have got in a fight with you for blowing smoke up my ass. It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.<p>I wish I could go back in time and tell my depressed / stressed self to have some hope and hang in there.
In the midst of searching for what my particular contribution might be in the synthesis of Fediverse / IndieWeb / $other_such_efforts. Personal web page with some experiments is surely first, but if anyone else is like-minded, I'd love to know what you're doing.<p>Discovery, search, UX, advocacy, are all angles I think about. Protocols seem to be in a good place, so that's less likely to need new work.
I signed up right away(as SeventhSeeker).<p>I like the fact that there's no comments section, so it's just about the people building projects rather than biased by what random unrelated discussions other people decide to have.<p>But feedback is still a thing, so I'm not really sure how to balance that.
Trying to put the finishing touches on a Python package [1] for epidemic modeling using Compartmental models. This grew out of a series of blog posts I started writing during the pandemic [2] based on my professional experience in epidemic modeling in a previous life where I was the lead developer for a state of the art global epidemic model [3].<p>[1] <a href="http://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik">http://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/DataForScience/Epidemiology101">https://github.com/DataForScience/Epidemiology101</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.gleamviz.org/explore.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gleamviz.org/explore.html</a>
I'm "working" on a blog, <a href="https://blog.javascripttoday.com" rel="nofollow">https://blog.javascripttoday.com</a>. I recently added lots of updates to the main site.<p>Have tons of unfinished articles waiting to be published and a few other things to create.<p>I'm also working on jitsujournal.com, which is something I'd like to have for myself, primarily. I also launched a chess club in my area, which gained massive interest which quickly died down, sadly.<p>With a full-time job, it's hard to maintain everything. :/<p>Ah, I didn't realize it was a site. Interesting!
Are these worthy of being put on the site? I'm not so sure.
I am working on a desktop TOTP manager app, because it's super hard to switch to phone everytime I want to login somewhere.<p><a href="https://github.com/Sparkenstein/tautp">https://github.com/Sparkenstein/tautp</a><p>you can guess what it's written in, don't use it yet, although it works but I store data in plaintext for now, looking for cross-platform solutions to encrypt it but so far no luck. will be adding lots of features soon.<p>plus there's <a href="https://github.com/fosslife/devtools-x">https://github.com/fosslife/devtools-x</a> too
Recently I've been building my own life ops system in Obsidian.
I treat Obsidian like my offline personal CMS.<p>My CSS snippets for minimal theme:
<a href="https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippets">https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippe...</a><p>Life ops starter vault (including above snippets), with very basic cut down daily template:
<a href="https://github.com/replete/life-ops-starter-obsidian-vault/">https://github.com/replete/life-ops-starter-obsidian-vault/</a>
I'm working on a full time job that leaves me almost with no time for personal projects. I've created some miner projects that address personal issues, and I do miss sharing fun stuff here. So I'm glad to say that this weekend i got a new raycaster engine going, using DDA algorithm. By the way this raycasting is related to the Wolfenstein game, not this modern stuff. Right now i got the basic stuff out of the way and as soon as i have more stuff I'll share it here.
This has (in some way) already been done[1][2][3], though almost always focused on the "indie hacker" scene - how will this site work differently?<p>[1]: getmakerlog.com<p>[2]: WIP.co<p>[3]: buildinpublic.xyz
I am working on an app called Lime Reader. It's an app where you can read multiple "forum" like websites such as Hacker News, Lobsters, Tildes, Lemmy etc. from a single app with a familiar UI/UX. Screenshots:<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/3Ip4KVN" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/3Ip4KVN</a><p>The origin of the idea came from my other app called HACK which has been an iOS and Android app for Hacker News for many years. I figured that I really wanted a similar app where I could read other forum like sites too. I have been working on this for a few months now and hoping to go live in the next few weeks. Starting with iOS, iPad and MacOS. Then Android too.
I am working on a dependabot setup wizard written in Go. <a href="https://github.com/kaypee90/dependabot-wizard">https://github.com/kaypee90/dependabot-wizard</a>
A blog/newsletter of TikTok content ideas that have proven to work on the platform: <a href="https://tiktokexamples.com" rel="nofollow">https://tiktokexamples.com</a>
Don't have much to show yet, but I am working on a programmatic way to create visuals and animations. Think lambda calculus but with graphical transformations.
At the beginning I thought I'd find the same info as in a .plan file (discovered while reading Masters of Doom, where John Carmack explains what he's working on). It would have been super cool !
Unfortunately, your page looks more like a #buildinpublic twitter page which is not really insightful.
Good luck with this project.