What are you working on?

I have been working for a few years now on Exomind[1], a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have an iOS and a web/electron clients at the moment and a simple browser extension for bookmarking.

Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients. It's extensible via WebAssembly written applications.

It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before).

[1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore

https://firedating.me/ - a community of FIRE (financial independence, early retirement) enthusiasts looking for friends and a partner. Stats are public: https://firedating.me/open/.

I like sharing my on again, off again side project, CyFHIR. https://github.com/Optum/CyFHIR In healthcare there are a set of open standards for data, messaging, integrating, etc called FHIR. I recognized the unstructured nature of those data standards as graph-like and made this Neo4j plugin for handling FHIR data at the db level. You can import FHIR data directly with optional structural validation and export that data back to json. A graph of the data lets you analyze connections between resources and you can do things like patient similarities on medical histories using graph data science.

Using a Reddit API Wrapper [1] to collect comments from /r/wallstreetbets, and compare stock mentions to prices. Found a cool way to store historical stock data [2] (or any time series) - surprisingly haven't seen much discussion here about that.

[1]: https://psaw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2]: https://github.com/man-group/arctic

A newsletter that (partially) curates HN stories that didn't make the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255

Ongoing investigations into email tracking and privacy: https://bengtan.com/blog/whats-in-email-tracking-links-and-p...

... and whatever I feel like :)

Working on building a newsletter about key learnings from the best and most innovative companies in the world. My goal is to understand what did they do to become better than everyone else, so that others can adapt and improve their own businesses with these learnings. If you're interested you can read here: https://disclosinggrowth.substack.com/welcome

So far I've written about companies like Revolut, Notion and Webflow.

I am building a tool that will post some text (for now on reddit) every time it gets triggered by some predefined keyword. I think i can use it to advertise my other side project but maybe other people find it also useful, either as ads alternative or for anything really. yeah will see.

before that i did work on

https://ideasfilter.com/

and

https://insightrend.com/

https://sumi.news - A peaceful news feed. Read RSS, Twitter, and newsletters, without ads, algorithms, or distractions.

Also working on a no CSS, classless UI framework, where you only use semantic HTML and get beautiful UI by customizing base color scheme and other presets.

Working on ExtensionPay, a way for developers to easily take payments in browser extensions without the tedious work of making their own backend:

https://extensionpay.com

Working on a tool to track my groceries and create grocery lists for shopping. It uses a receipt printer to print the groceries and I’m learning ziglang and SDL while making it :)

http://www.vendormanagementoffice.net

I am working on spreading awareness about a robust Technology Vendor Management program. This is an area that lacked focus and is very important for company of any size.

Whether you are a startup or a large organization trying to sell something that involves technology, or whether you are on the purchase side of the table, both parties need to understand the nuances. Why are few things important to a client such as your SOC 2 report, ISO27001 report, why is the client asking for regular governance cadence to discuss SLAs, what is the risk, why are vendor’s security controls important Etc.

I am getting amazing response from people in Technology, Procurement, Third Party Risk Management and Cyber Security for a common place to consume information.

I hope the momentum continues.