What are you working on this year?

Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these:

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie...

But I'm a believer in asking for help in order to cast a wider net. If you happen to stumble across an obscure-yet-newsworthy dataset, or have a strong feeling about a particular guest essayist that we should be approaching, or can't stop thinking about an argument that's itching you — pitches and tips are always welcome: [my hn username]@nytimes.com

I'm sick of having to decide between using cloud software and using local software. Cloud software so often needs subscriptions, and if the company dies I lose access to my data. Local software isn't collaborative. I don't want to email files around to myself, or think about versions.

So I'm building a software platform for local first applications on top of CRDTs. Its called Replica, though we haven't talked much about it yet. I want to be able to:

- Edit any data from one device in my house and have it just show up on any other device

- Share items with other people, and collaboratively edit with them

- Support lots of different applications - including multiple different applications live editing the same data. Like a universal plugin model.

Linux can't compete with cloud software like google docs because anyone running hosted platforms gets punished if the platform is successful. Ideally I'd love to get replica embedded in linux, as an alternative for desktop applications to use to store their state. Then users could open up the same app from different computers and have all their data there, and collaborative editing and things like that would just seamlessly work. I want to be able to open the same file in two different editors and have typing in one show up live in the other as I type.

I want to opensource the whole thing, but we'll probably go with some sort of open core model and charge for our official hosted version (which you want for backup and delivery). I want this project to be financially self sustaining - otherwise I don't think it'll survive. But still opensource enough that people can self host if they want to.

I'm starting a 100% Worker Owned For-Profit residential Trash and Recycling Co-operative

All profits go into the neighborhoods we serve and our bylaws are based on the US Constitution. No investors or different class shares. Management term limits, workers vote for CEO and a cooperative ombudsman (termed) for representation during yearly plan/budget proposal.

The CEO proposes a yearly plan/budget to the collective of ombudsman representatives, which vote to approve or amend. The yearly plan includes all P&L numbers for previous years, open balance sheet, salaries, as well as hiring, growth, acquisition plans for the following year(s)

I'm leaving out a lot of details of course, but the overall gist is that: incentives are aligned across the co-op such that management is incentivized to care for their employees above all, and there is no pressure from investors to grow more quickly than our company can sustain. Basically will not pursue increased margins at any cost.

We will provide the best service at a price that ensures we can fully take care of our employees such that they have a great life and can provide amazing service because they have the time, and trust to care about how we serve each other and our residential communities everyday.

Over the summer I got into genealogy — my partner tasked me with finding her biological parents. I did, and afterward, I took a DNA test of my own only to discover that my mom failed to tell me something (she passed away a few years ago): who my biological father is.

This was a surprise to me, my dad, and many others. Some of her girlfriends knew this situation existed, but never got a name.

And so I spent my summer in what I call "old lady Facebook groups" and learned the tricks and the trades to investigative genetic genealogy. One of the useful tips you can apply to your DNA matches called DNA color clustering — it's incredibly useful: https://www.danaleeds.com/dna-color-clustering-the-leeds-met...

Of course, I didn't want to do this by hand. There were some tools out there that existed but they were "old school" software packages: you know, you install it on your own device! "Worse" yet, I'd have to give it my raw password — no thanks! It started there, and morphed into a lot more, and now it's used by "search genies" and consumers alike: https://sherlockdna.com

There's a lot more that can be done in this realm by both providers and hackers. There's a niche for these "pro tools" that exist but the typical DNA test taker is not after any sort of genealogical exploration that requires substantial effort. There is a very sizable group of people who do, though, and those people, I have found, are very pleasant, kind, and nice to be around. I like surrounding myself with good people, so I'm happy to help them while I scratch my own itch.

All this, and I am yet to find the guy I'm looking for despite having invested over 1,000 hours into finding him. I have, though, found over two dozen "wanted" individuals (not in the criminal sense) and united them with their searcher — at least that part is satisfying.

Since the start of the summer I have been building a SaaS for companies doing inspections and maintenance on separators, a certain kind of device for cleaning water used in gas stations, restaurants, garages etc.

I have been dreaming of living on my own product since I started as a developer 10 years ago and tried a lot of different ideas out but it just wasn't happening. When I found out that my girlfriend was pregnant with twins in spring 2022 there was this now or never moment. I thought there would never again be enough time available in my life to do something like that. I decided to quit my job to put a gun against my head. Then I contacted hundreds of people on LinkedIn and other places asking them if they had an idea on a product to build. One guy responded telling me about how far behind in digitalization his industry is and that we could potentially do something here. I went with it and have been building it since.

As the product starts to mature we have showed it to potential customers and the response has been amazing. We have been promised around $8000 / month from 8-9 companies as soon as we finish a couple of more features and we estimate that there are at least 100 potential customers in our country.

This autumn has been so intense since I'm doing this while doing 40h/week consultation do get money plus having 2 newborn kids at home. I feel very lucky though that I finally got an opportunity to go all in on my own product.

One thing I have learned: There are so many software developers with both the skills and drive to create a business, but what is super hard is to just come up with an idea. The key is to connect with people outside of our community. The whole world is waiting to be digitalized and our skills are in short supply. The further away from the normal dev community you go, the less crowded will it be and the easier for you to find an opportunity to add value.

My old video game from 2004 [1] is now older than I was when I wrote it, and I recently found the C++ source and sprites in one of my archives, so I'm rewriting it in TypeScript as a personal challenge.

The C++ code no longer builds (it's missing proprietary dependencies), and I no longer have the binaries or even the hardware needed to run them (it's a PocketPC game).

If I manage to finish the rewrite, I'll get in touch with the rest of the team, to ask if they'll let me upload it somewhere public.

So far, I'm surprised by how readable my C++ code is. :-)

[1]: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga.html

I'm continuing work on the No Bullshit Guide to Statistics, which is an introductory book on statistics that includes all necessary prerequisites (practical data analysis using Pandas and probability theory math using the computer models from scipy.stats). It's been a many-year project (because STATS IS TOUGH!), but I've had very good progress in the last couple of months of 2022 (finished first few chapters) and now keeping the momentum going into 2023.

It's really hard to explain statistical concepts without bullshit... there are all kinds of formulas and rules of thumb, so it sometimes takes me 2x or 3x rewrites before I find an explanation that is simple enough and free of unnecessary historical baggage. One thing that I have going for me is the ability to use computer simulations to check all the equations, and generate nice visualizations. Seeing the equations + graphs + code in parallel makes stats concepts finally click... at least for the author, I hope for the readers too ;)

If you're interested in checking this out, I maintain a continuously-updated book outline here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fwep23-95U-w1QMPU31nOvUn... I also have a mailing list where I send chapter preview PDFs as they become ready (see the end of the gdoc).

My mom departed when I was 19. My oldest son is almost 6. I had a moment last week where I realized that if I applied that scenario, I’m about 1/3 through the time I have with my kids. Obviously it doesn’t work that way, but it was a moment that brought shock then clarity.

Life is fleeting.

So I’m working on “working” as little as I need to.

In 1997 I played my first online multiplayer game. It was QuakeWorld Team Fortress. It was incredible, janky, fast, ugly, complicated and absorbing. I found a community of other players through IRC and devoted 8 hours a day to playing this treasure.

By 2005 (a very decent shelf life), the game was all but dead. This was a significant part of my life gone.

In 2018 I found the source, forked it and began FortressOne, a modern port of this classic game.

There are now a thousand people on our discord channel and daily games in four continents. I’m over the moon but more work needs to be done. This year my goal is to get it on steam.

My oldest daughter will turn 8 this year. These days I'm planning which would be best computer/software/OS for her (if any), but nothing in the market fits my requirements as a father. There is so much noise, distraction and overall bullshit in today's computers that I don't think it is healthy or appropriate for her.

So I'm planning to make a custom (software) solution. A small set of focused, minimal, productive and interesting apps in a controlled, noise-free environment. I want her to use the computer as a TOOL to enhance and complement her daily activities, not as a toy, an addiction or an entertainment.

(Think a PICO-8 high-res system for general usage, not only for making games.)

(And yes, she would be able to alternatively watch cartoons and play videogames, but not in this "work/learn" computer)

So if I have to build all this myself on my little spare time, it will probably take me the whole year.. :sweat-laugh:

I wish you a healthy and joyful 2023, dear reader.

I'm working on changing careers. After 10 years of struggling to find the right role/company/environment in software dev or product management, I realized that I just don't like making software. Period. Made some good friends, enjoyed some of the work, learned a lot, got pretty decent at the whole SaaS thing, but I just don't like it.

That realization over the last couple weeks has been a huge relief. I'd like to explore some things I'm naturally curious about such as agricultural waste management.

I’ve been starting and growing a live theater venue in San Francisco for the past couple years, taking a break from the tech world. It’s finally starting to build some good momentum and I’ve even got some paid employees now. This year I’m hoping to get it self-sustaining enough that I can leave it largely in the hands of capable management and start dabbling on the tech ideas I’ve been kicking around.

I’m especially excited about harnessing some of the recent advances in ML. There’s been a ton of exciting advances that haven’t been fully productized yet. And maybe ActivityPub has some cool things that could be built now that people are starting to actually get the value of federation. The last few years have been frustrating, with most of the smart tech builders I know wasting their time on crypto. But finally it seems like people’s eyes are clearing a bit. Lots of exciting times ahead.

But I’ve got to get the theater to a good enough spot first.

After two years of teaching Haskell to highschoolers, I will complete my notes and release them as a proper web book. While working on content I also wrote (in Haskell ofc) a compiler for custom markup (something like Pandoc). The book will defiantly not go deep as some other books, but I hope it will be the best resource on Serbian for starting with Haskell.

Also, now when I have my dream tool for publishing, I am thinking of my next web book project (probably on Complex Analysis).

I'm working on NoisyCamp (https://noisycamp.com), a platform that helps Musicians finding and booking spaces to rehearse.

I mostly implemented all the features I wanted, and I'm now focusing on getting more studios on the platform.

I'm still working part time, and as a software engineer, it's a little bit harder to get motivated doing sales things than it was when programming the web app.

I'm working on a website to track the progress of bonsai trees. I like the bonsai sub reddit, the way people share their trees, but there is no good way to see the trees over time.

I don't do a lot of coding any more, so it is nice to keep my hand in. I was feeling pretty rusty. I also suck at front end dev so pushing my comfort zone. I don't know where I'm headed with it, but I am hoping I will find it useful, and some of my friends will too. I suppose I will keep adding features and see how it goes!

If anyone here likes bonsai then maybe take a look at bonsai-garden.com where you will find how far I got over Christmas!

I'm hoping this will be a nice distraction from my career for a while!

My project for the year is to design and produce an open source amateur radio transceiver (HF QRP SSB, for the hams) that anyone can build by schematic. I'll also provide Gerber files for the PCB's if I produce on (not sure...) and a complete online manual for building, testing, and operating.

The other thing: Travel. I've never travelled beyond the western US. I hope to get my passport and fly to one country outside of North America.

For work, focusing on keeping my support team amazing and helping the startup I work at scale significantly.

- I'm pretty gung-ho to finish the first draft of my novel.

- I'll make as much progress as I can on my text adventure.

- I would love to update my Pico-8 z-machine "Status Line" to v3.0 to support said text adventure (add .z5, .z7, .z8 support). Then I can finally stop thinking about that project and mark it officially "done," bug-fixes notwithstanding. (https://christopherdrum.itch.io/statusline)

- If the Jai programming language releases, I'll definitely put time into it and that would likely supercede the below projects entirely.

- As a Pico-8 lover who is frustrated by some of its limitations, I'll tinker with Picotron now that "Picotron Playground" has launched. (https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=playground)

- Continue with my C studies. My problem to date is I just haven't had anything I wanted to build. Now though, I think I'd like to take a stab at making a text adventure language/system just to deconstruct and understand how that process works. Inform6 is tethered to the past too much; Inform7 is simply not my cup of tea. I haven't been smitten by the other options (TADS, et al). This would more likely happen in 2024, if I'm honest with myself.

I'm working on a notes taking service [0] that behaves the way I want. All notes are organized in the (potentially nested) streams, messages can also have metadata attached which makes it easy and natural to keep track of any observations, be it travel notes, reading notes or exercises tracking. The big idea is to make it a place that would accommodate for any types of notes and any steaming messages in general, e.g. data from your smart home weather station.

Public streams have RSS, you can follow my dev and product streams if you like.

Landing page is rubbish, api is not there, but I hope it's good enough to present the idea. I've recorded a video [1] to showcase the features

[0]: https://dabdab.org [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJURq8PH_d4

I'm finally getting around to writing a couple of games. I started my career because I wanted to make games when I was a kid, but took a wrong turn into embedded medical devices, databases, the web... so I figure this will be the year I have time to make some fun software and worry about FPS instead of TPS.

I'll be working on refining my pitch about how bad everything is and why the system needs to change... And posting that into the void where nobody will ever read it due to big tech algorithm censorship... While working a day job which allows me to profit from the root of all system flaws which I keep complaining about because it's the only one I could find which pays the bills... A kind of forced hypocrisy.

Happy new year.

We are building an early childhood literacy app focused on explicitly and systematically teaching the skills of reading (e.g., phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition.) The mission is to democratize access to evidence-based instruction and raise the percentage of proficient US 4th grade readers from 33% [1] to an estimated 94% [2][3].

If anyone is interested in collaborating, please reach out. I am especially looking for experts in sales and marketing.

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[1] National Assessment of Educational Progress. (2022). 2022 NAEP reading assessment. The Nation's Report Card. Retrieved November 15, 2022, from https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/reading/2022/

[2] Education Advisory Board. (2019). Narrowing the Third-grade Reading Gap: Embracing the Science of Reading, District Leadership Forum: Research briefing

[3] Although the estimates of reading capability are for children to reach NAEP’s Basic level, the mission of this project is for every child to reach NAEP’s Proficient, which requires more than just the skills of reading.

Get good at rapidly prototyping games and software in general.

Last year I learned Rust deeply in the hope that it would be my “everything” language to build games, web servers, and CLI/TUI apps.

I like Rust but using it for personal projects taught me that I value higher-level tools as well as very fast prototyping and feedback loops much more than I realised, particularly for games.

So I'm planning to go back to Godot for game prototyping and Go for CLI/TUI/web services, then join a bunch of hackathons to help normalise fleshing out rough but useable prototypes in two days instead of two weeks.

I am working on Magny [1] for the last 5 months. It is a universal search service, like a command palette. For those who don't know what a command palette and how SaaS companies use it, refer to [2].

Basically, you sign up for the service, integrate in your SaaS app, add commands and your users will be able to reach to actions/documentation/menus easily with Cmd-K.

The biggest hurdle is that there are several command palette libraries [3] but not many (even not a handful) services, hence we are trying to build something which is fairly new to others.

The platform is based on PostgreSQL, Nodejs, GraphQL and React Native, running on AWS.

We were supposed to announce it on December but decided to build a few more (required) features after talking to several product managers.

[1] https://magny.io

[2] https://blog.magny.io/command-palettes-with-examples/

[3] https://commandpalette.org

I'm planning on transforming allergy care.

There's no reason for you to be allergic to things. The way we treat allergies today, with antihistamines and nasal spray doesn't solve the underlying problem; it just tries to cover it up. Accessible allergy immunotherapy is the future. And in the future, taking antihistamines for allergies is going to seem like taking a painkiller for an ear infection. Why would you treat the symptoms when you could treat the root cause?

This is what I'm fixing with Wyndly: https://www.wyndly.com

Systematically archiving, transcribing, making searchable the Russian state TV propaganda that’s in a large part responsible for creating and sustaining the war in Ukraine. Tools like Whisper now make it possible to do this on a massive scale. Hoping this will be useful for investigators when the war is over.

Working on a tool to help consumers find products / watch for price drops that match their budget for a very specific industry.

Think camelcamelcamel with price charts (and other aspects of the products) tracked over time and Google Shopping so you can compare the same product among stores.

Hoping to get the MVP out this month, been tracking data heavily since ~last September and currently have ~150k data points across about 37k products in 32 stores.

Biggest problem I'm having right now is matching up products across stores, since each store can name their products differently, some like to add random text to the titles "NEW!!!!", and data points don't always match up due to the batch based aspect of the products. I have a very basic matching system working, enough to extract (some of) the needed metadata from products and roughly match the products.

Current version is good enough for the MVP launch, mostly just working on cleanup / UI work right now before it goes out.

I’m building a hostingplatform for fully managed Wordpress sites. By managed I mean both the WP install, but also plugins, themes and other customizations.

I have a customer who does marketing, SoMe, SEO and all that (as a small business for other small to medium businesses) but it turns out she spends a lot of time dealing with tech issues from WP sites (plugin update errors, other tech issues the hosting provider doesnt handle etc).

I’ve been a SW dev for 10+ years now and know very little about WP. But it has always seemed crazy to me how everyone in the “WP space” seems to be making changes directly in prod o_O. I know WP is mostly configuration management, but Im going to build a platform for hosting based on methods and best practices from “my world” (docker, blue/green deploy, multiple environments (eg for test), automated tests, etc).

WP wasnt exactly intended to be run this way but I want to build it as both a personal challenge, and to prove - at least to myself, that the current Leeroy Jenkins in Prod approach has a better alternative, and ofc because I have a customer willing to pay for the service. And to be able to provide GDPR compliant by design (WP) hosting (EU based).

Im using Hetzner Cloud for the servers.

Today I got a blue/green deploy setup working with docker-compose, nginx and wordpress images, in which WP updates are installed just by updating the docker image version, and the switch betweem active instance (blue/green) is a simple cmd.

I'm going to be working on a personal itch problem. I first spotted the problem about 20 years ago. I solved it as a brute force manual screen scrape 15 and 10 years ago. I tried to solve it programatically 5 years ago, learnt lots but ultimately went round in circles on scaling an approach.

I'm now excited to be playing with Arquero [1] and Uber H3 [2] and hopefully I'll scratch the itch and release something!

[1] https://uwdata.github.io/arquero/ [2] https://github.com/uber/h3-js

I will continue to build and improve my comprehensive horse husbandry software: https://horserecords.info

My stock discovery algo[0] averaged 21% daily increase last month and we're launching in a couple of weeks.

Post launch we're going to be working on buying/selling alerts to save people from having to watch charts all day (which I do, but I enjoy it). Also a few more features we're looking at, such as crypto analysis. But with the current bear market, I'm less enthused that it's a worthwhile avenue currently.

0: https://feetr.io

A multiplayer dice rolling web/app so that I can roll some Platonic solids/polyhedron dice with my D&D friends at any time. Like during lunch.

I'm sure such a thing already exists but I'm having a go at it anyways. I have an app I use today (that I didn't create) to roll dice but it's just computing an RNG value and displaying that number in text and doesn't support multiple players. I want my creation to be flashier and physics based.

Skills I'm flexing

- technical artist skills with modeling, texturing, and VFX from writing shaders and crafting particles

- UX design from the interfaces and considering types of audio to delight the player

- gameplay programming from defining the simple loose "dice room" sandbox

- multiplayer programming obviously from having everyone connected to a room

- AWS solutions architecting from arranging my cloud resources, driven by terraform

- Linux system administration from providing a service on the internet in a secure way

So it's one of those small things that has enough going on with it for me to chew on for a few weeks to possibly even a few months if I want to support player customization topics. You know, custom dice, custom VFX, and maybe even being able to customize where the numbers actually are on your D*.

Fun stuff.

I am working on actually beginning doing something with my photography. It has been a hobby/passion of mine for 7+ years, but so far I do not really do much with the final images. I put them on my private Flickr as a backup and upload the highlights to Instagram, but that's it.

I feel like Instagram is a hard medium because the photos that are trending are mostly the same overdone and oversaturated landscape or travel photos, and while I do take landscape and travel photos myself, I try to not fall into the "bright oversaturated"-look that so many seek.

In the end I guess I want to do more people photography, showcasing cultures etc., but it is a challenge to find good subjects for more serious work rather than just the occasional snapshot. I guess you have to go more all in while traveling and actually travel with the purpose of photography if you want it to become an occupation, rather than just taking pictures along the journey as I do now and not explicitly planning for it.

Has anyone had any experience in this field?

If you want to check out my work I post at https://instagram.com/madscphoto

I am working on building a portfolio of software solutions for business software, IaC, CICD etc that can be used as reference applications. Then, I'm planning to provide those on a fixed fee basis. Sort of like a software accelerator for certain types of startups or business applications. I suspect I'll build some of this, but I'm also actively looking for published / open resources.

I need to figure out how to find people who might want to buy that. I suspect they are legion, but getting solutions in front of people is sort of the challenge.

I also have legal questions on this topic; for instance if I have copyright of a reference application, and I clone it or paste it into your repo... Can we both have copyright or does the customer only get an unlimited no attribution license?

Etc

Found a job and moved to Spain, so will spend 2023 practicing Spanish and some Catalan.

Job is related to climate change, so will continue mixing workflow managers, climate experiments, HPC, Python, data analytics.

Other than that continue moderating r/functionalprogramming and r/fuzzylogic on reddit, add more Brazilian Portuguese expressions to https://speaklikeabrazilian.com, and try to release Apache Commons Imaging 1.0, and a new version of some old Jenkins plug-ins I haven't managed to find someone to adopt them.

If I find time will probably try to learn some more Prolog and reasoners with SPARQL/RDF/Jena...

I'm a developer for the OSS Serratus project, https://www.serrartus.io where we have a web-portal used to explore where RNA viruses show up in public sequencing datasets (we've analyzed ~21 petabytes of sequencing data to make this dataset). There's lots of rich meta-data associated with these RNA sequencing datasets, so what I'm trying to do is create meaningful meta-data aggregation and associate them with different types of viruses to make a sort of procedural generated encyclopedia of RNA viruses. Be less biased by what scientists expect to see, and focus more on what is actually observed for virus biology and epidemiology. I've built a little proof of concept called `palmID` (www.serratus.io/palmid) but I think there's lots more to be done to make this really shine.

Same as last year: http://golfcourse.wiki

Launched last year to a really supportive subreddit. Currently working on a very light weight way to use the existing data in the wiki to operate tournaments for clubs on the very cheap (the entire point of the site is to support blue-collar/municipal clubs), which should incentivize adoption with the exact audience I'm targeting.

Have recently created some instructional videos for golfers unfamiliar with .svg graphics, to be able to map their own course in an editable way, with an extremely light weight filetype: https://www.youtube.com/@golfcoursewiki2140

Do need to work on differentiating image blobs vs svg and improve blob storage, but I'm quite happy with where I'm at.

The last few years, I've generally been working on video game and UI stuff with Rust. Recently, and for the foreseeable future, I've transitioned from working on my own stuff, to contributing to the Bevy[0] game engine, on the rendering side of things. Temporal antialiasing, screen space ambient occlusion, bloom, image based lighting, etc. It's been very rewarding working on an established project, rather than my own stuff.

[0]: https://bevyengine.org

working on a few things focused on africa. i have a fundamental belief that much, if not all, of africa’s problems stem from the people not knowing better. you could say i’m firmly in the school of ‘reasonable people act reasonably’ and you don’t be so wrong. not completely right, but not completely wrong either. i’m african myself (ghanaian to be precise) with all my family still residing in my country, and i worry a lot that they will never enjoy a higher quality of life. that’s why i’m dedicating myself to building systems for producing and sharing knowledge. i started a community for developers almost 10 years ago (https://devcongress.org) which, while ~5k members strong, has failed on the most important metric: put ghana on the map of global software engineering. there’s been a few wins here and there but nothing to write home about. so, I’ve started https://toprank.devcongress.org to be a little bit more hands-on in the nurturing of the next generation of software engineers. in my private endeavor, i’m working on a finance product focused mainly on making the average african financially intelligent. we’d like them to invest more, spend less, perceive their financial history in novel and informative ways. it’s exciting work, and we’ll be applying to yc later this year. talking about africa gets me rambling (because they’re a large-ish surface area) so i’ll stop here. if africa or the developing world is on your mind too, feel free to hit me up at wheresyaw@gmail

I want to pivot my career to teaching. I get a lot of satisfaction (and ego boost!) from it but language was a big obstacle for me. I was very aware of my English and it was very frustrating how I can express myself in native language but I mumble in English. Last year I switched my surroundings from native speakers to people like me - with English as second language. It was a great confidence boost. I was mentoring people in DataViz Society and have two lectures about visualization. Now I’m preparing my course about creating data visualization on the web. I can do this on my company time so I’m free from thinking about profits and marketing - I want to run this for free. In the end it is aimed mostly at folks who change careers to programming without company learning budgets.

Updating my mobile game! Helping my wife grow our first baby! Trying to overall be a better human!

Cheers hackernews I hope you're all able accomplish your wildest dreams this year or in the years to come .

Will continue development of my 3D Common Lisp system: https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

Brief trailer: https://youtu.be/i0CwhEDAXB0

I'm trying to do something musical every day, doesn't matter what it is. Two days down. So far I've just been sitting at the piano playing through lead sheets of songs I've written and some jazz standards.

Working on making big geospatial data (from sources like NASA, ECMWF) really easy to work with through a simple API that integrates with common tools in python/R. Would love to help ppl focus on answering really interesting questions (e.g. impacts of climate change, energy load forecasting, food security), without needing to be experts in geospatial data engineering! https://www.pharossoftware.com/

I've spend many years in Growth engineering. We often get asked to build this banner or that modal. I've always felt there should be a Wix kind of experience, but for smaller components. I didn't find one so I decided to build it.(bannerbox.io).

Bannerbox is targeted at existing site owners, specifically non-technical people (i.e. Marketing).

I do all of the design and coding myself (both backend and frontend in Typescript). I've been building this on the side and it's been a slog. I'm nearing feature complete and aim to start marketing the product this year.

It's currently costing me ~$50/month in hosting fees and generating 0 in revenue.

A blog about aircraft ice protection technology in the years 1919 to 1958, the era of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (a predecessor to NASA).

https://icinganalysis.github.io/index.html

I was just accepted in to carbonthirteen.com, an accelerator dedicated to people who want to meaningfully reduce emissions. I applied for my project, gaffologist.com, which makes it easier to find homes where you can walk, bike, and take public transport for your daily needs (Ireland-only for the moment).

However, I also have a day job that I like which pays well, and I'm not sure whether I'll proceed.

Working on Booklet (https://booklet.community), which is my attempt at replacing noisy chat products like Slack and Discord with a calm, real-time, high-polish forum.

Building a treehouse for my kids. Turns out that (like most things) treehouse construction can be a very deep rabbit hole.

I'm still working on https://pagespace.app/. The vision is Github but for books with built in subscription and sale incentives for an author to continuously update a book to make it a lifelong project.

The other idea I want to work on is longevity as a service, helping folks track health metrics that have been reliably shown to affect life expectancy. Things like hormones, cholesterol (apoB, lp(A)), inflammation...

Besides day job (which I am excited about), I've been working on honing my zen buddhist woodworking skills this past year and taking on more complex projects.

This is a torii gate that has been in progress for a while: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm7LNGRP8-r/?hl=en and I plan to finish it this year (painting + gilding + carving)

I want to build a digital / smart foosball table with features like

* automated goal detection

* trigger things like lighten up the field on specific events (e.g. a goal)

* build a league backend / frontend and player management

* allow players to "login" via NFC on the table itself

There are a lot of ideas and questions right now. I pitched the idea to my employer to make it a continous "hackathon" for the employees. If that gets rejected I have at least one colleague that wants to build it in private.

Of course the idea is to make at least the software stack open-source (and give instructions on the integrated / used HW) but before that there is a lot to think about regarding the architecture ("offline" only? connect to a "cloud" component for league management outside of the office?).

I plan to work more on API Bakery [0], my project generator service.

The thing works but looks and feels barebones, and I also need to focus more on marketing (which, as a techie, is a thing I avoid the most).

I also plan to get more hands-on experience with the current state of the art AI - probably more prompt-engineering level than pytorch level, but I do like to dive in so who knows.

[0] https://apibakery.com

The first version of my radiation detector is being sent to people all over the world and I've gotten very good feedback. Now I need to make a second version with Bluetooth and gamma spectroscopy. And a longer battery life. And higher max range. And higher sensitivity. And a bigger screen, probably. https://www.bettergeiger.com

Everything I am working on is mostly physical or mental health related this year. My only career specific goal is to keep the job I have throughout the recession, continue doing personal labs and exercises of anything new and interesting that may come out in the future.

Building a tool for running secure enclaves called Enclaver (https://github.com/edgebitio/enclaver). There is a big opportunity for keeping data encrypted while running code against it within enclaves.

And a more secure software supply chain is possible with device attestation and cryptographic measurements of software.

For work: flexible artificial muscle actuators for use in prosthetics.

For personal use: a workout app that automatically plays high energy music during a workout set and downbeat music while resting between sets. The right music really helps me workout more effectively.

In the current stage of our transition to renewables, the "greenness" of our electricity varies wildly throughout the day. I'm building a ML system to predict the next 7 days of "greenness" (and electricity price) in the hope that folks can reduce their carbon footprint, for example by:

- choosing a 'green' time of day to charge an EV

- 'overdrive' heating/cooling during times of high greenness, reducing usage during

- dream: a large scale user could take greenness into account when scheduling

- dream: the nightly weather report includes a green forecast

Feedback on idea/execution greatly appreciated!

http://greenforecast.au

Im a long time lurker but first time poster. One of my resolutions for this year is to engage more with likeminded people and to build useful product for small-medium sized businesses to help them keep their infrastructure secure.

It’s a webapp written in Django which lets customers perform scans on their machines to help them get a better view on which ports are open, which machines are reachable etc.

I’m planning on adding more features as time goes on but I’m focused on building a MVP for now. 3 days in and I’m loving it so far - I’m new to Python (and programming in general, really) so it’s a great learning exercise either way. I’m hoping to monetise it as SaaS.

I’m currently writing my Zettelkasten workbook to consolidate everything I’ve taught on it on YouTube:

https://atomicnotetaking.com/

Then back to building my Zettelkasten inspired note-taking app Flowtelic:

https://youtu.be/XLAJW7K6CU0

I'm hosting one dinner party per month at my place

Callstacking - a better debugger for Ruby on Rails.

Records all application level method calls within your app, along with their important context.

Visual nesting of the method calls allows you to easily see which methods call which.

Request params, method argument values, method return values, local variable values, all are recorded.

https://callstacking.com/

You no longer need to debug with binding.pry or puts statements, as the entire callstack for a given request is captured.

Any new engineer joining your team can quickly understand what are the important calls/views for any given request.

Teammates can comment on changes to your call chain.

For the start of 2023, I will be continuing my ongoing work on Exhibitor - a React component workshop. The aim is "think Storybook but leaner, faster, simpler, and with sane defaults". Been one month so far (in-between my existing goings-on) and it's been a very promising and exciting time so far. It's still early days, but it's turning into a really delightful tool to use.

Latest update over on my blog: https://samhuk.substack.com/p/exhibitor-update-3-v200

After covid hit I stopped running the Candy Japan subscription box and moved on to making games on Roblox. I’ve had a good start with it, and want to keep improving and releasing more games.

Perhaps I’ll also try some other platforms/side projects as well to avoid getting too stuck on just one platform.

I'm building an open-source[1] alternative to qr-code-generator (Bitly), called RoQR[2]. The goal is to provide advertisers with analytics for the scans of their QR codes while still being as privacy-respecting as possible to the scanners of the codes - sort of like a Plausible.io for QR codes.

[1]: https://github.com/roqr/roqr [2]: https://roqr.app

I just accepted a new job offer as a senior engineer so this year I’m working on leveling up my career and raw coding skills as well as my management and leadership skills. Remote work has been a challenge for me and so I’m trying to combat that more effectively in 2023.

At the moment a lot of planes are bought and sold through facebook groups and the sites that exist are either brokerages charging a % or very old school/poor UX. I'm working on my own marketplace with the key info available and a better UX (maps to find planes at airports near you) etc. Monetization ideas, if it ever goes that far, would be simple sponsored planes higher on the search page like your normal recruitment jobs site.

A FLOSS, offline-first spaced repetition system that has first class support for collaboration, curation, and plugins. It's Reddit for flashcards.

https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive

I've been thinking about this for a stupid amount of time... thinking that someday someone's going to improve on Anki. Finally got tired of it and said that person's me.

Working on my startup for Charging and Routing optimization for EVs in Fleet. https://www.makemydayapp.com

My own self-discipline, and being satisfied with my current lot in life.

Looking at the past few years, my project list has only grown, as I repeat the cycle of getting excited about a new idea, starting to work on it, reaching a snag and getting frustrated at the lack of progress, only to get excited about a new idea and repeat the cycle.

This year I intend to focus a little more about being generally disciplined about all the little daily things, and just being grateful for what I do have today.

My hope is that improved discipline will make sticking to one project easier, and being more content generally will help make the stakes of finishing projects feel less daunting.

And because I recognize this answer isn't totally in the spirit of the question -- I'm also working on building a personal blog site with Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView/Tailwind. I really like the programming model of these tools and how easy it is to build a scalable distributed app with Fly.io, and think building some mastery in these tools will be valuable in the long-run.

I'm extremely bullish on Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3, ChatGPT) and Stable Diffusion (e.g., DALL-E).

This year, I will use them to double my productivity at work. I also plan to integrate them to my life management framework.

Beginning two long endeavors this year. 1. Becoming UltraStrong. A concept I made-up to test myself. Compete and not zero any events in an open strongman event on a Saturday, then complete a 50 miler (ultra marathon) on a Sunday. I did ultras in my 20s and competed in two strongman competitions last year.

2. Reading and writing an essay on all the books in my library; roughly 300 books.

Posted on another thread.

I want to disrupt the toaster industry.

For way too long I've been getting inconsistently toasted toast out of my toaster. My idea is to introduce cameras into the toaster that are used to recognize when the perfect amount of toasting has been applied. It is a way better approach than just using a timer. I have a few problems to solve...

I am clinging onto my day job for dear life trying to stay employed through this craziness

I’ll be finishing my Synth (VST) I’m writing while learning Rust. Started years ago but was delayed by life and by “areweguiyet?”. But now it’s very nearly done.

Narrator: it will never be done.

I'm working on two projects this year.

First is a routine/task management app designed for people with inattentive ADHD. The goal is develop automated strategies that catch and counter the tendency for such tools to spontaneously turn "invisible" to the audience, whereupon they lose progress and time until they find a new strategy or reconnect.

Second is publishing a fiction serial via a self-hosted Ghost instance using a custom theme. The v0.1 of this is about to launch. I've been pottering towards this since lockdown. The goals for this project are two fold - try and build a web-based reading experience that is low friction and enjoyable (probably on top of epub.js), and test my theory that the internet is big enough such that there is an audience that will support any creative work as long as they can find it.

I'm working on a video game. It's pretty hobbyist but maybe it will teach a couple of mates of mine who can't program yet a little. They could use it.

An AI language teacher you can talk to (Mandarin Chinese only, to begin with).

https://polyvox.app

I'm betting there will be few of these popping up, mostly based on ChatGPT/Whisper. I'm a bit more loose with the "AI" angle, because I'm taking a slightly different tack (after a lot of development and experimentation work):

1) I'm incorporating actual lessons, rather than open-ended/free-for-all conversations.

2) I wanted to interact with an actual avatar, not just a textbox.

3) ChatGPT makes mistakes (sometimes, really bad ones - grammatical, vocabulary, you name it). I'm vetting all lessons/content to make sure it's accurate.

4) Everything on-device, no APIs and no remote hosting. If you buy it, it's yours forever.

Not at a stage where I can talk about it in detail, but I'm building a custom filesystem in FUSE. I just got the first basic getattr() working today. :)

Finding a large, long-term project that’s just mine.

Maybe code, maybe writing, maybe organizational.

But something that in 10 years time will look like a significant, positive investment.

I'm continuing to work on https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu . Support for Debian's initramfs-tools, more install guides for distributions, better documentation.

I'm constantly chipping away at Zigpoll (https://www.zigpoll.com).

Flexible surveys are an incredibly broad challenge both from the client side and the analytics/dashboard side. Since it's by nature solving long tail problems the level of complexity is such that you have to have several different user paths which "just work" under the same umbrella. And entering into different markets ensures a constant flow of new features to roadmap. I am focused on e-commerce currently but it could continue to branch out into multiple sectors given enough polish and tighter integrations with relevant third party providers.

Overall theme: Improving my language skills. My hypothesis is that language is the closest we have to a (lossy) codec for thought. By becoming more cognizant of higher-level concepts and the differences between them, we can reason more effectively and improve our thought and communication processes.

1. Get back into the habit of writing and reviewing evergreen notes (https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes, An Executable Strategy for Writing: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z3PBVkZ2SvsAgFXkjHsycBeyS6Cw...) and refining my Zettelkasten knowledgebase and perhaps making it publicly available at some point.

2. Continue refining the precision of my vocabulary and my understanding of the etymology of words. I've realized that I only have a fuzzy grasp of many of the words I use on an everyday basis, yet by becoming more aware of the nuances and subtleties of the usage, origin, and connotations of different terms, I will be able to express myself more accurately and also perhaps better be able to read between the lines of what others say and write.

For example, consider the following definitions:

Compound: composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture.

Complex: consisting of many different and connected parts.

Consequently, a set of buildings which share the same property but are unconnected (for example a mobile home community, or standalone military barracks buildings) should be referred to as a compound. In contrast, if the structure has bridges between the different parts, it should be called a complex.

Also consider:

Sophisticated: (of a machine, system, or technique) developed to a high degree of complexity.

Complicated: consisting of many interconnecting parts or elements, often involving many different and confusing aspects

(from Latin complicat- "folded together", from the verb complicare, from com- "together" + plicare "to fold")

An automobile is a very complex machine, since it consists of thousands of parts and systems. To a mechanic, it might be complicated (as reflected by manuals which are hundreds or thousands of pages long and hours of frustration), while to a user it is sophisticated - capable of doing many things, and yet still easy to use, since the complexity is abstracted away.

These 4 words are seemingly very closely related, yet through careful word selection, we can use them to communicate very different ideas and emotions.

I would like to propose a mobile voting platform for the annual parade in my village in September. It's still work in progress, but it's seems that the organizers are interested.

And also learning two very promising technologies like eBPF and Zig.

I am pitching my friend who just had a wonderfully successful exit to invest in my hotel abroad. It’s a super country with a big tourism economy and inexpensive labor. I have a local friend who knows the business, fingers crossed.

I want to leave tech.

Im currently trying to finish my Raspberry Pi powered RC car, that uses a Pi on the car and as the remote, with Remote GPIO to connect them. Currently stuck on a bug where the Pis connect but the controlled Pi doesnt execute the commands it gets.. Otherwise its all wrapped up, including a custom PCB on the car for controlling the two motors and steering servo.

Once this is done, Im going to start work on a custom model BART train+track. Goal is to have it running with a live third rail, and then long term add some code for controlling the train coming into "stations"

Also get a job at a tech company in the fall...

I'm working on upgrading Pyalgoviz [1] to use Python 3 and run using Pyodide so it doesn't depend on the server. It's been kind of slow going since I'm unfamiliar with some of the technologies involved, but I am really looking forward to releasing it and seeing what people think. Repo (still very much a WIP): https://github.com/stephen-h-d/pyalgoviz

1. https://pyalgoviz.appspot.com/

Nothing that'll move the ground, I'm sure. I'm about 15 years behind on Python - learning it to extend Ansible.

There are quite a few modules I'd like to see... and smarter bridges for inventory management

I'm working on INET256, an API for secure identity based networking. The reference implementation, mesh256 is a mesh network using a distributed routing algorithm. There is also diet256, which is a centrally coordinated network with direct connections using QUIC over The Internet.

https://github.com/inet256/inet256

https://github.com/inet256/diet256

I don't know what groceries to order for food delivery.

I "just" want the healthy-ish person's food list with deep links into grocery apps (Instacart, Walmart, Amazon, etc) and autopopulate it. No different than how I can follow people's song choices on Spotify. What did you last order, I want to order it too. Publicly broadcast, public, private, all optional.

There are tons of apps for "sharing grocery lists", but between a tiny group of people or roommates. And one or two that will let you take a single recipe and get the ingredients into one grocery delivery service ("Tasty" recipe to Walmart, for example). They all require you knowing what you want already, and I don't know. I want to change my diet to different food, I'm fine not learning how to do that.

I think this problem is overlooked, and frankly invalidated. I don't want to be a recipe enthusiast and I don't care that other people enjoy running around a grocery store in fetch quests as half of the fun in cooking, or that other people don't like how the food delivery person chose the wrong fruit. These aren't important issues to me, and I think there are lots of people like me, although I haven't bothered to quantify this!

So that's decent alpha because I think a lot of people are in similar boats and with this kind of data you could totally elevate a single product for mass purchasing when everyone is buying the same ingredient over food delivery. People that are already fine paying hidden premiums for food delivery.

I'm continuing with my domain parking tool Newsy

https://newsy.co

It's a modern take on domain parking (I know I know) that I'm using for my own ~50 domains.

I will most likely also be re-working on SideProjectors - a marketplace for buying and selling side projects.

https://www.sideprojectors.com

I am also about to launch HN+ (Create your own HN!)

https://hn.plus

My aim is to finish up Concise Encoding [1] and get v1 released before summer. It's an ad-hoc data format with the following design goals:

* Security (tightly specified, safe defaults, consistent implementations, future-proof).

* Native type support, so you don't need to string encode things (I mean c'mon, it's the 21st century).

* Easy to use (no special files or build steps).

* Efficient for humans, efficient for machines.

[1] https://concise-encoding.org/

I'm going to build & launch a new project every week - https://www.radihuq.com/52

https://atomictessellator.com

Public launch in a month or two

I have a VR lab I built so you can visualise chemical reactions in a huge empty room, just because I wanted to learn Unity and multiplayer and WebGL deployments

Modelling for quantum Monte Carlo is almost finished (about 2 weeks away)

Just a lot of tidy ups before public launch really, this is a hobby project of mine, so I’m really just jamming and playing, learning heaps and having tons of fun

I'll keep building my federated Facebook replacement.

https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

Launching an esp32-based camera (both hardware and software) with night vision and motion detection to make it easier to play with different camera sensors, their settings, and TFLite CNNs. It would also support integration with Home Assistant for DYI home automation projects.

https://maxlab.io/portfolio/portfolio-camera-module/

I'm working on my second novel. I published one in French on Amazon last year which was well received.

This one I'm trying to write in English -- but the writing isn't the hard part; the hard part is finding out what to write. I have a general idea that I think is pretty good, original and relevant for our times. But the division into chapters and scenes is proving quite difficult.

I may have found a system though... Exciting times! ;-)

On the personal technology front - I've been finding desktop notifications incredibly frustrating - to the point that I've had them off for years. The reality is that on a per-service basis, I want specific notifications.

I'm working on a CLUI that will receive notifications from my configurations and plugins - so that I can filter what I want specifically. It's a good excuse to play with several random things.

I finally started working on GigTablet, a resource for gigging bands. I use MainStage for notes but it has no tablet version and therefore requires a laptop mirrored to an ipad to be useful when I’m gigging. Features will include: web-based, song notes/images, gig scheduling, setlist creation, simple mobile UI, master controls so one band member can select the next song and all tablets will update, etc.

I am taking the year to learn French and build a companion product that helps me along the way. Making sure to have sane export functionality for Anki and Quizlet.

I am currently using Music and TV shows as learning materials. Testing out the process on me and validating the NLP components on English and Spanish. I have some books as well to avoid pronouncing things horrendously wrong.

Starting something from scratch is terrifying but exciting.

I want to rekindle my curiosity and re-visit a few subjects I've forgotten since graduating, i.e. discrete mathematics, algos, etc. The second half of last year was rough for me as I got put into a leadership position involuntarily and I've been struggling and burning out ever since. This year I want to take back some of my life and rein in some of the negative habits I've developed then.

I recently found out that I'm a direct descendant of 3 families of Mayflower passengers. I'd like to join the Mayflower Society, but the process of researching 8 generations of ancestors will take a bit of time.

I'm really looking forward to digging into my ancestry. I've already discovered some really cool stuff and I see it as problem solving, research and correlation, all of which I really enjoy.

I'm creating a 3D claymation fight between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Amy Coney Barrett done in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch. I've finally gotten enough Blender modeling, rigging, animating, texturing, materials, and video editing under my belt to start producing whole animations. It's going to take months, but I'm confident I can make it happen.

I got quite frustrated by how much native C++ programs are slow/closed to any kind of introspection/debugging so this year I will be attempting to build a live object inspector/debugger for C++ programs/games, independent of the game engine you are using. I have currently lots of ideas on features I want to build but at least for me it's an interesting challenge to tackle. The basic idea right now is to allow to add small changes to your code live without recompiling the whole thing and I aim for instantaneous compilation times, so adding a print() does not take >=5 seconds to compile. Currently I achieve this by using a scripting language that is exposed to classes/functions/variables in your codebase but I may change the approach later if I find a better solution.

I currently have a prototype but nothing that could be used in production yet: https://donadigo.com/d0/

Job board focused on Germany. Same procedure as every year.

https://www.arbeitnow.com

I’m working on Nimbus Web Services[0], a managed service provider (think redis, object storage, etc) for Hetzner and later OVH and LeaseWeb.

I’ve been chipping away at it for quite a while, but I’m finally in the position of standing up the production coasters and letting people on.

The last 10% seems to always take 90% of the time!

[0]: https://nimbusws.com

I'm working on a free and opensource Rails 7 starter kit currently that comes with

- User authentication & authorization - Background worker & scheduler - Roles & permissions management - Pre built UI layouts and themes

https://github.com/tarunvelli/rails-tabler-starter

http://explicable.ai/

It's a dead-simple data exploration and prediction micro-saas, but with a lot of nice pixels and state-of the art AI/ML algorithms. Most people think AI/ML is indistinguishable from magic (especially high-ranking decision makers). Let it look like magic!

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Currently in open alpha. I'd be quite thankful if you the reader want to provide feedback, or tell you need a feature, or tell if you feel you have a need for it (or know someone who does), and how much you would pay for it; at contact@explicable.ai or pro+hn@benoit.paris or here. Do not hesitate to ask me for a demo, or tell me you want to start buying the service ;)

Quite open to be sponsored/funded as well!

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How you interact with it:

1) Prepare your data in excel/csv according to guidelines, upload it

2) Explore it like in the demo and get insights. Get a report and a link that you can share.

3a) Redo a cycle to 1) if necessary

3b) If it's ok, you can upload new data for prediction

I will continue working on the first app I ever have launched.

It's a private local server monitoring that runs on your computer and alarm you if something is going wrong. No data ever leaves your computer except just to check your license! No complexity just showing the vital info and thats it.

https://hiadmiral.com

I'm continuing to work on a finance-related platform discovery tool: https://www.swiftsalary.com/platforms

With the tool, anyone can easily sort through a variety of money-making and money-management platforms to find work, investment opportunities, budgeting tools, and more.

When you find a platform you're interested in, you can easily learn more about it, read user reviews, and evaluate it on your own.

I'm hoping this tool will make it easier for people around the world to improve their financial situation.

I want to write a C compiler in Rust for fun :)

I'm working on getting back into programming. I took a break after burning out.

My main love of software has always been writing programs that deal with music and audio. I'm going to spend more time writing plugins and building out more of my ontological approach to music theory, and eventually work on more evaluation models.

This long weekend (4 nights, 3 days) I built Ben Eater's 6502 computer kit (along with the clock module as a pre-requisite). Just got to the point where it prints "Hello, World!" on the LCD. The most time-consuming part is that I'm making the wires nice and neat like he does, so there's a lot of measuring, cutting, bending, and stripping wires. One of the funniest parts was the first few programs run off of ROM. When you first add subroutines, it doesn't actually work because there's no actual RAM yet; it needs RAM in order for the jump to subroutine to push the return address on a stack in RAM. So hooking up a RAM chip is another 30 or so wires that you have to make. I suppose at some point I will make a Forth for it. I had been wanting to get the kit for years, but finally got around to it by asking for the kit for Christmas.

Adding to the list of note taking apps, I’m working on an open source local note taking app that works in a browser called bangle.io [1]. It provides a rich WYSIWYG interface, allows syncing with GitHub without any backend and I love working on it .

[1] https://bangle.io

I'm working on Autotype [1], a text expansion tool with UX similar to VSCode's command palette.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autotype/mgcgenipp...

Open-source blockchain analytics tool [1]. Lots of use-cases, but a straightforward one is compliance. Many alternatives in the space, but most are SaaS-only.

Still early in the journey, but feel free to star or follow along:

[1] https://github.com/barreleye/barreleye

I'm learning to code for the fun of it, and this year I want to learn about Assembly programming, Embedded Systems Bare Metal programming, as well as improve my C programming. (I enjoy low-level stuff). I hope to get good enough to contribute to graphical projects like RayLib and Godot.

At least that's the long-range plan!

This year I don't anticipate having much free time, so I'm trying to engage more contributors in side projects,

* Automotive ECU tooling, https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash

* DJI FPV forward/reverse/all sorts engineering, https://github.com/fpv-wtf

I've been working a lot with various folks using Discord and contributions are gradually shifting from me towards others, which has been great to see. As the old adage goes, teaching a project is truly the final form of knowing one - much harder than hacking alone, but ultimately more fulfilling.

When I started my automotive ECU journey my goal was to demystify the "tuning" scene for a broader software engineering community, and I think I've generally been successful at this.

I'm currently forking Chromium to render directly in a terminal to learn Rust. It lets you browse the web from a server using a stock terminal app and SSH for example.

It's working and I'm currently making performance adjustments. Hoping to share it here with the technical journey in the next few weeks!

I have a friend with a 1953 vintage Dage Model 60[1] camera, and also a Model 101. We're trying to get them running again, with no schematics, and only vague hints of documentation.

We have a NEW and tested vidicon, and others that we can test in a newer Motorola camera, so that's a plus.

In the past we gotten several HP 5061B cesium beam atomic clocks[2] back from the dead, so we'll get there eventually.

[1] https://www.tvcameramuseum.org/dage/60b/60b1.htm

[2] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/time/5061/5061B_ops.pdf

Continue to work on my indie iOS finance App that helps user to track net worth:

https://www.percento.app

I've been working on this App for 3 years now, I've earned some users in my country. I'm planning to bring more growth in other countries.

I am working on an open-source natural language search for codebases. I thought it might be interesting to be able to search for relevant classes, functions etc. when the codebases are very large. Then further I am planning on extending it to searching for git commits, PRs, issues etc.

I've got a lot of drafts (counting in the low hundreds), but I am not quite for publishing unfinished stuff. So this year I'm going heavy on publishing that. In addition, I have several projects on my mind I'll be working on this year:

- A browser extension for HN written in WASM (Rust)

- A book about NixOS

- Want to finally set a start up, hopefully, I'll have something to show within 2 months

I also have a newsletter for my blog [0]. If you wish to track the progress on the mentioned items, feel free to subscribe, that would be highly appreciated. Btw, people are subscribing, but many have not confirmed their subscription (newsletter is double opt-in).

[0] https://drakerossman.com

Magento.

You would think that 20+ years in Python and PHP would make any modern framework a breeze. Not so for an Adobe product! (yes, I know that Adobe purchased the framework, but did not develop it... I suspect that the purchase appeal was the developer "experience")

Apparently PHP is just too hard to use, so to make customization possible by content managers without needed a PHP developer, Magento employs an XML config system. Because XML is so much easier to use, right? Because there exist easy to use XML tools that warn of misconfigurations, bad syntax, typos in element names, typos in attribute names, typos in attribute values, and typos in tag values. Because content managers can safely SSH into the server to recompile the entire XML config from a CLI. Because content managers can read the docs - not that there are much in practice anyway - and understand how to configure the XML. Because content managers can grep and sed and perl and awk and sort their way to finding what depends on what. Because content managers understand when a namespace needs a leading backslash, and when a leading backslash is forbidden, and case sensitivity, and the difference between an underscore and a dash and a space and a   and whatever nonprinting unicode character they managed to copy off Raj's blog post. Because content managers understand that config relevant to Magento 1 is not relevant Magento 2 (which share only name and logo) so that needs to be checked _before_ you put that in the live config and recompile while users are trying to browse the site. Because content managers understand that _this_ element needs CamelCase, but the same string must be snake_case when used in that attribute over there.

Don't get me started on the PHP aspects of Magento! Or the Magento ORM. Or the Magento docs. Or the Magento deploy process. Or the heavy dependency on a patched minor JS framework for all backend UI elements. Or the server spec requirements. Or the heavy reliance on PHP magic methods. Or the fact that the entire community seems to exist due to the benefit of one prolific blogger who burned out two minor versions back.

Few months ago I found out that there is such thing as tinyML. The popular introductory material is a book by Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake, and free edX course with paid certificate. Arduino has also released a kit for that course. Santa read my letter and now I have one laying on my desk. I know a little bit about DL but exactly nothing a bout microcontrollers. I have a simple project in mind that should help me become more familiar with the topics, once I will be done with the course. I don't think unfortunately that I will be able to use this knowledge anytime soon at work but building things at this level of complexity should not be expensive and I hope the inspiration for the new projects will come once I will get my hands dirty.

I've been trying to think of some ideas for mobile applications to build. I want to break into the mobile space in some way, but all of my ideas seem to already exist and demotivates me from actually doing anything. Maybe someday I will get out of that headspace.

I plan to work on an idea I’ve been thinking about for 2 years already.

It’s a mix of Intercom and Bugsnag, but made for technical people. For indie-hackers and small dev-houses where developers themselves have to support users and are not affraid of code and stack traces. Especially for mobile apps.

All these customer support tools are web only and focused mostly on marketing and sales. But my experience from my failed startup is that it works really well to get in touch with your users when you’re an indie hacker. Or to bugfix while on live chat with the user who can reproduce a bug.

Also I don’t know why, but all these support tools except Intercom have really bad ux and are slow and buggy. They also neglect mobile apps, all is web only. Or maybe I’ missing some real gem on the field…

My printing app (for Sailfish OS) is now pretty much done. https://github.com/attah/harbour-seaprint It works very well with the vast majority of even remotely modern networked printers, and has no dependency to CUPS, foomatic or other legacy stuff.

For this year i'll learn from my mistakes and move over any remaining logic from QML/JS to C++ so that it can be made useful for other OSes, for the remote chance that anybody would care about it.

Since QML has many dialects and basically needs duplicated effort for several platforms, the "frontend" part should be as slim as possible.

I haven't decided on something final, but with the release of Dwarf Fortress on Steam I got inspired to try something similar - although obviously of massively more humbling scale. Basically, I want to implement an ant simulation, down to pheromones, etc. and if that goes well combine it with reinforcement learning. Less of a video game and more of a self running simulation, though.

That, and actually get around to study more math and read more books and write my own horror and scifi short stories, that I have floating around in my head.

Busy year.

Decluttering and organizing multiple aspects of my life, and making time to take care of myself.

Wrapping up a system where I can pay people per image and annotation for building computer vision data sets. Applying for my federal firearm manufacturer license so I can 3d print guns in California. Hopefully landing SBIR funding to go full time on my projects.

Have been working on a dark mode extension for Chrome and Firefox. The idea is to make it as lightweight as possible.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-lit...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode-lite/bdl...

A music magazine to help artists and musicians not starve, and to sing the gospel psychedelic.

Continuing to work on the soroban-sdk[1] and soroban wasm environment[2], but after spending last year completely immersed in Rust, which was exhilarating learning experience, I'm really hoping to find some ways to spend more time back developing in Go soon and hope to do more of that this year, but unclear on exact plan for that yet.

Also hoping to find some small uses cases for cutting my teeth on using Zig beyond the toying around I've done recently.

[1]: https://docs.rs/soroban-sdk

[2]: https://github.com/stellar/rs-soroban-env

I'm trying to make a dent in the UX of crypto. Currently, it really really sucks.

The first thing we've built is https://peanut.to - a way to pay people with just a link.

Happy to take feedback and suggestions!

I will keep on working on my Cybersecurity newsletter [1] and expand it to more things Cyber with the inclusion of adjacent tools i.e. data breaches list, privacy guides, maybe job board.

A rebrand is also likely on the way, as the concept has proven to work.

[1] cyb3rsecurity.tips

My cup literally runneth over.

I'm launching a series of community-focused dinners for Colorado-based CEOs and VCs (https://www.ThunderviewCEODinners.com)

I'm launching a social photo-sharing game that I designed over a decade ago and then put in the icebox. Super excited to share when this comes out.

I'm launching a new coaching program for successful entrepreneurs on finding enduring fulfillment and happiness in their lives by identifying and pursuing their greatest values.

And I'm still coaching 15+ early-stage startup founders at any given time. Despite all the work, I've never been happier.

I’m building and launching a new WordPress plugin with a new partner soon, and we’re planning on doing it live and in public. Weekly calls will be live streamed and archived. Some of it will not be pretty. :-) Sign up here if you want to follow along: https://express.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9ee9c87b6b6...

I have an open source video player for esports coaches that allows them to view video synced to all members of their team:

https://www.vodon.gg/

This year I'm going to move it from being an Electron app to online (and a PWA). I'm also going to introduce the ability to stream video from live matches (also capture it for later playback) as well as capture the events from the games themselves and connect that with some kind of data analysis tooling so you can ask questions like "What % of headshots were landed in the pistol round of my last three CS:GO matches".

I'm playing with some ideas around making IVF more accessible in the U.S. and Europe, making home (or apartment) ownership more accessible in Sub-Saharan Africa, community based emergency services in Sub-Saharan Africa, and mining automation... trying to go through and weed things down to one particular area over the next ~6 months with the intention of trying to start really building something in Q2/Q3. If anyone is interested/knowledgeable about the aforementioned areas (or just wants to spitball about things that are potentially high impact, always happy to jam out).

I'm working on SourceShield (https://sourceshield.io) - a software supply chain security platform that's fully integrated into developer workflows/tooling (GitHub, AWS, etc.). I just started working on it a few weeks ago, so it's more of a set of tools/PoCs at this point. I'm focusing less on dependency security (which is quite a saturated market - think products like Snyk) and more on the other components of the supply chain: SCM, pipelines, build tooling, integrity validation, etc.

I'm working on a 2D top-down time attack skill based spaceship racing game.

I plan to release it on Steam and Google Play Store this year.

I'm the solodev making the Game, Game Server, as well as various integrations to external systems

I wrote a self help book about relaxation and want to make it better this year by adding couple of chapters on how to live a more meaningful life. and marketing of the book. thats the side goal for this year :)

Building for a good while something like plex, but for documents including a scheduler system for recurring events and reminders. It's not the usual document management system, but it has some features of it.

Working on an ebook showing data engineers how to debug data pipelines, Kafka queues and expunge bad data from their database. Basically a how to guide to stop data pollution that happens in most companies.

I’m finally learning how to think in triangles. After that, maybe shaders.

I recently fell in love with node-based editors so I'm working on several plugins for my game engine https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine, e.g. node-based procedural geometry plugin, node-based image editor, visual scripting or node-based level generator. I am also thinking about using WASM as runtime for the visual script, which also means easier support for scripting in other languages which can compile to WASM.

A video course for software engineering managers to learn about testing, it's called Ready to Test:

https://testfromthetop.com/ReadyToTest/

This is aimed at getting managers new to testing up to speed from the very beginning. For me this is the start of a series of material progressing to more advanced concepts.

If you're interested at all I'd love to hear from you! We're starting a beta-testing program before release, message me to try the course for free.

I just bought my first house, so I am hoping to sink my teeth into some home improvement tasks (drilling, basic plumbing, changing light fixtures etc) - definitely a challenge for someone who's only lived in rentals before.

Also interested in making the home as energy efficient as possible (LED bulbs, better insulation, smart thermostatic valves on the radiators etc). If anyone has any resources to read on this please share! For anything "smart" I'm looking for local-first systems without cloud dependencies.

Presuming the question is primarily aimed at software/technology, I’m working on an email checker for the macOS menu bar. (Shameless plug: there’s a sketch and an extremely low volume newsletter available for anyone interested in eventual progress.[0])

More broadly but still related, tomorrow I start as a Squad Lead at work, which will be my first foray into any sort of people management. Excited to learn new types of skills!

[0]: https://binarywidgets.com

I'm going to try my hand at an open source smart home. It'll hopefully start with a low-power home server for a e-book library and plex server, and ideally blossom into stuff like smart lighting that looks 'bioluminescent' at night, voice control and scheduling for blinds, privacy windows - and self regulation of air quality and heating/electricity.

It's all very doable, but i've never had the time (or made the time), so here's hoping it's this year.

I'm continue to grow my small SaaS. Hopefully to reach ramen profitability this year.

I also have a few other startup ideas to pursue, hopefully one of them can turn into a profitable business :D

Trying to make an academic article dashboard for personal use.

Something that would let me select a couple of academic journals and display latest papers published in them, along with abstracts.

I can't even find a free API to reliably get abstracts. After spending an hour reading the docs and failing to understand the monetization model, I refuse to use Elsevier's APIs.

I will probably use Crossref's API and just not display abstracts at all. I will put links to publisher's site and to Sci-Hub in the dashboard items.

I'm helping my Chinese-teaching girlfriend expand her online teaching business. She has zero business background and zero tech background, but even then still managed to land some consistent students last year.

This year I'm using my product development/tech background to help her make a logo, brand guidelines, set up landing pages for her Chinese teaching programs, setup CRMs to track potential student leads, help her write a sales script, etc. It's lots of fun!

Scaling my businesses from $4M profits to around $12M in profits.

I think there is a huge opportunity in the dampening of the financial markets, to use that to get people to buy my products and services.

I'm working on a tool for OBS which allows the creation and population of graphics templates. There are tools for overlays/lowerthirds but I find they are inflexible.

I'll continue working on my open source crm iceburg.ca I just added an admin builder, image/video fields and a workflow feature. We'll see what the next year brings.

Continuing to work on https://www.vantage.sh/

We help individuals and companies get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrastructure costs. Currently support AWS, Datadog, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks and Fastly.

We originally launched on HN nearly 2 years ago now and it's been a very enjoyable experience so far. Feel free to shoot me a note if I can help out on anything infrastructure-cost related.

I want to transition into UX/UI design, aka Digital Product Design eventually. Not sure that going to happen in 2023, but I'm collecting books and courses right now.

I will hopefully be finishing the first playable version of a game I've been working on for some years now.

A game that allows you to build machines.

This a video of a very simple demo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/indiegames/comments/zolsc4/dominoes...

Marketing (relaunching?) and/or finding the user base for my no-workflow CSS framework[0], working on a self-hosting solution for creators, and maybe an HHS[1] demo project if they ever get proper documentation up.

[0] https://casscss.github.io/cass/ [1] https://www.hyperhyperspace.org/

My Christmas project that did pretty well on Reddit: Helping shoppers find good deals through visual lookalikes. https://getscore.app

https://www.reddit.com/r/frugalmalefashion/comments/zydup3/i...

When chatGPT first came out, my first thought was to replicate it myself. But then, I have too many missing skills or lack the time for backend, frontend and deployment. So I found LAION started an initiative for open-assistant. https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

So I just join them, so far its quite an active community working on pushing out the initial 0.1 version.

I'm working on bringing Speech to Text and some contextualization for Police/Fire/EMS Scanner projects.

I host P25 monitoring appliances that I've built and have hosted in a few different cities (that I have apartments at) and want to know if there's a fire/police/EMS call near my house without having to listen to the scanner 24/7.

I basically just want to know if it's safe to walk my dog or if I should wait 15-20 mins.

If the number of sign ups keeps increasing in current rate, I will most likely continue with enhancing the “Do I need an Umbrella Today?” app: https://umbrellatoday.app/#!/today-in/

Perhaps find a way to commercialize it as there are quite a lot of users that have signed up already, any ideas?

Happy to also get your feedback on the most wanted features.

Scratching a perpetual itch by building a managed Kubernetes provider that's first and foremost cheaper, but also solve a slew of usability problems I've ran into over the years (https://symbiosis.host). Also working on plowing through the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire by Gibbon. Remains to see which project is more successful.

I'm building an attendance management app - https://tendee.co

I had a few itches to scratch:

- one off events now that fewer people are on facebook;

- planning in advance for subs in team sports;

- some work events have max capacity, so building out a wait-list

It's been a good way to play around and learn some tech I've been meaning to get around to, like NextJS and PrismaDB, but I kinda regret not giving Remix a shot.

One click temporary recovery of self hosted infra on the cloud. I self-host NAS and Bookstack (adding more) but my anxiety spikes whenever I leave town knowing that it could go down any time.

I'm planning to create a secure webapp hosted on S3 that would call AWS APIs to restore my backups into a graviton instance so that I don't get blocked if I'm out of town. Has to be one click, low bandwidth, and highly secure.

Finally setup my homeassistant amber I bought to finally get a decent setup where I can manage all my home automation devices in a single place with my wife and kids using it (needs to work and be simple).

Then: Getting back into more technical stuff by refreshing python and SQl skills - mostly to have more fun in my next job (trying to move from a pure Product/Program mngr role into a technical PM role/Sol Architect).

I got an art tablet and started drawing comic style art.

Exploring opportunities at the intersection of recruiting and large language models.

As a technical recruiter, technologies like ChatGPT have the potential to save significant time [1]. It seems like the technologies are in its early days and we'll continue to see new capabilities emerge in 2023.

[1] http://recruitingcopilot.com/chatgpt

Will continue building Unleash (https://www.getunleash.io), still a lot to do.

Working on an evidence-based 8-week intervention around values & meaning-making in the style of MBSR:

nosmallplans.io/mindful-values

Mostly non-tech projects for me this year :)

Gooher server that connects to your WordPress site and exposes it to the phlogosphere

https://github.com/EamonnMR/gopher-wp-bridge

And my life wouldn't be complete without working on another space game

https://github.com/eamonnmr/space-craft-22

Working on building API access for health care professionals and telehealth globally and across the US. Set up a full end to end solution to access both doctors + tech in a day. https://www.medcase.health/ Happy to help any startups or companies in the health care space shoot me a message :)

Starting a startup doing AI CEO as a Service. It'll begin as a personal assistant to everyone inside slack and expand out from there. We're building the first AI run company. It's called UpMortem. Watch out for us. Our first product will be free, giving you access to GPT-3 inside slack. Ping me if you want to be kept up to date about it at raj@upmortem.com.

I'm trying to figure out how to get a raspberry pi cluster up and running. It's my dream to get something like stable diffusion and chatGPT to run on it. https://clusterhat.com/ Will 20 1GHz CPU cores have enough omph do you think? Could I maybe get the VideoCore GPUs on the boards hooked in somehow?

I'm working on improving & scaling up my startup - https://www.hairstyleai.com

It's an app that let's you try on new hairstyles with AI technology.

Launched the MVP in November and released the full app in December.

It was well received so now my focus is on making it the best possible experience for users & doubling down on marketing.

I'm working on building specialized, local-first/local-only editors: https://koodpad.com and experimenting with a free to use business model (https://koodpad.com/notes/why-pay/). Wish me luck :D

I launched Assetbots (https://www.assetbots.com/) last year and went through a lot of ups and downs transitioning into the "people give me money" phase of the SaaS journey.

This year I plan to go all-in on scaling customer acquisition and getting the business out of infancy and into the next level of growth.

A SaaS for SMEs focused on reducing risk and ensuring compliance in the handling of digital assets.

[1] https://dltpay.com/

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/techstars-invests-120-000-dlt...

Working on a new MLOps tool to manage files, data, pipelines, experiments and models.

I'm writing it in Rust. Using ECS instead of OOP. Going well so far.

It's open (and alpha.) https://github.com/iesahin/xvc

Documentation: https://docs.xvc.dev

My goal for this year is to continue building (mainly Mac and iOS) apps (like Remember[1] and Franz[2]) using Racket and to help improve the language and ecosystem in any way I can.

[1]: https://remember.defn.io [2]: https://franz.defn.io

In December I started a blog, inspired by posts and comments here on HN, to record various techy tips and tricks I ended up needing or using. It’s quickly turning into a list focusing on Unreal Engine 5 as the hobby project for the year is a multiplayer third person MOBA type project.

https://tinytech.tips/

Manufacturing!

Hoping to get a handle on scaling my business, either through injection molding or just amassing a 3d printer farm; one new printer at a time.

Python, Rich, and Textual.

The current state of development is very interesting, especially with embedded projects (bbone, rpi, jetson nano, odroid, etc.).

Being organized. Planning and achieving.

This time I will succeed.

I've been working on a site to track game purchases across a lot of the platforms, to help people manage their libraries and avoid duplicate features: https://trackmy.games/

Lots of potential places to take this in the future, so looking for ideas for more features to add!

Right now building an open source writing application (basically a Notion clone) that lets you save offline and seamlessly publish your notes/writing as websites. It's not ready yet but hoping to have minimal MVP ready within a few weeks: https://yume.fyi

I'm working on making natural-sounding text-to-speech widely available. Specifically targeting normal people, not companies/developers. It's going to start with me picking the content, but I'd like to make it possible to have pretty much any text someone finds converted into a voice that is nice to listen to.

Keep learning how to catch rabbits (users)

I'll continue to go through books, docs, courses, and other resources on programming, CS, and math topics and share the best ones on https://bestresourcestolearnx.com to help people learn more effectively.

InventAI: https://inventai.xyz

This is a generative AI product. I'm building differentiating features I won't discuss yet. I'm considering a source-available license where you'd still pay a subscription for commercial use.

I have created a customizable mobile app for museums and similar cultural institutions.

The app is meant as a guide through the museum and also a replacement for old audio guide hardware.

currently only in german: https://smartcompanion.app

I took a break from working on my dumb Rust JIT project (lineiform) to write a safe concurrent garbage collector library (samsara) for a few months. It's mostly done now (save for figuring out good benchmarks to tell how bad it is), so I want to try working on lineiform again.

making the simplest note-taking app in the world through the lens of a small manufacturing business owner who's inherently unorganized. I've been programming on and off for my entire life, but it's never been my main thing. I'm not counting on it to become my main thing now, but with all the tools these days (django, htmx, copilot, openai mostly), it feels like I can accomplish things in my free time that I never thought possible. It's fun, keeps me in the loop, and I'd love to grow it into more than a side project. Nothing groundbreaking, just putting puzzle pieces together in the most straight forward way possible. :) wip at https://grugnotes.com

I started working on a open source cocktail management application. Had a lot of fun (re)learning api design, docker and application testing.

https://github.com/karlomikus/bar-assistant

Continuing to grow TigYog [1]. Finishing current courses on data science and computability. Supporting new interactive courses (if you're interested in writing one, let me know!).

[1]: https://tigyog.app

I'll be working on my own mobile proxy build: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...

working on https://gitimprove.com . It is a tool to help engineering managers/vp/cto understand what is going on in their teams and improve their development process.

I'm working on a calendar syncing for multiple providers, with focus on privacy and control.

I'll keep contributing to https://benthos.dev, the data streaming processor. It's written in Go and I really enjoy making various enhancements and engaging with the community.

I'm working on a new "transpiles to TypeScript" language called Civet. It's essentially a new CoffeeScript for TypeScript.

- https://github.com/DanielXMoore/Civet

Building the new writing platform I’ve been working on for the past year: https://reproof.app/. Trying to find the best ways to make writing teams more productive.

My side project! After an unplanned hiatus (I guess everything comes and go in waves) I want to be more regimented and systematic about improving it over time.

Link: https://getloaf.io/

Working on bringing sheetshortcut alive [1] and dabbling into some new spaces around side projects, probably in the google sheet/excel area.

[1] https://sheetshortcut.com/

I’m working on growing my YouTube channel and learning more about how to become better at producing content.

https://www.youtube.com/@homelessintoronto

Meditation progress tracker. Promoter and motivator tool for keeping participants engaged.

Rewriting https://20-things.com in TS and React (new frontend: https://client.20-things.com)

I'm building a "learn language from content" app. The idea is to have a dictionary of all the words the user knows and then teach the words in collections by loading music lyrics, subtitles, photos of text etc.

I'm building software to provide better human-in-the-loop recommendations for media, content, and retail companies. I'm also keeping up with developments in machine learning, large language models, and image generation.

I am going to make prototypes of various small projects with ChatGPT or alike as the sidekick. IMO, ChatGPT is super useful for getting started with stuff without getting decision paralysed about architectural decisions.

Hoping to find something new to bring money and keep me creatively busy. Been writing ebooks for 4+ years now. Started updating them yesterday instead of embarking upon a new book - I expect this to take more than a year.

Continue implementing PICO-8 on an ESP32 platform, trying to make it into a PCB with a friend's help

https://github.com/DavidVentura/PicoPico

I'm continuing working on twirrl.io. I will, at some point, get it finished.

I'm planning to work on the service for freelancers[1] and also more AI projects[2].

[1] - Freelance leads as service for freelancers and web agencies - RemoteLeads

[2] - Planning to build the world's first Photo studio using AI

The same thing we worked on last year Pinky, trying to take over the world!

Started playing with GPT3, and building services on top of it. I built what I believe is a compelling service (unfortunately if I monetize it, it'll probably be replaced by openAI easily)

Trying to persevere and get 1000 users for the first time in an app which I built.

Currently growing https://www.fetcher.page/

This year I’m planning to do as much adventures as possible. Building more and faster. And within them do more artistic related work.

I always ignored art without understanding its part on history.

Building a privacy-friendly, self-hosted WordPress Analytics plugin: https://wplytic.com

I am working on my journey to become an Indie Hacker and currently building WordfixerBot. I hope that I can learn to be better at marketing and sales this year.

I'm working as a student who's doing some projects. I guess I'll finally end up writing more on blog posts and try and figure out my life this year

I’m working on cyber security education this year.

As for right now I’m learning more about RISC-V to see how it can be applied in a cyber security oriented teaching environment.

I'm working on a platform that connects consumer goods companies and independent sales representatives in an "Uberesque" business model.

Mastering SvelteKit on S3 & Lambda with DynamoDB as my go-to stack. Using it to build a personal PWA to manage my budgets, reminders, journal, whatever.

I’ve got two side tables in progress that I hope to wrap this month. After that I’ve got a maloof low-back chair on deck that I’m excited to start on.

Using Open Banking to make micropayments a thing: https://just-spred.com

I'll be spending my professional time working to make SONiC a practical reality for enterprise DCs.

Personally, I will be getting back to my NES emulator.

I'm moving out and going to try and apply to a remote BA SWE course.

Might try to go for a few CompTIA+ certs.

Getting a 3D printer.

Also starting my WH40K army (mostly for painting).

I will finally build something fun that ties in Strava data and gives myself little collectibles for bike rides.

Have a simple application I want to build also

A minimalistic Mastodon web client https://phanpy.social

Working on a database modeling tool for past year and half. Planning to do a public launch later this week. Fingers crossed!

Chedoku, a fun chess puzzle game. Try it here:

https://chedoku.com

Last year we set out to create an ultra fast and extremely cheap Feature Flagging solution, DevCycle [1]

We pulled it off, and it has been growing and working great for those using it.

Hoping to expand it to be a deeper part of the development lifecycle, and having a deeper integrations with things such as datadog.

Depends on what devs are looking for really, but we have a base direction to start with and are going strong.

[1] https://devcycle.com

A DRM remover for a niche e-book vender.

Going to spend the year designing and developing some guitar effects pedals that make disturbing noises.

Empty km/miles challenges for the logistics field. Zero revenue optimization.

a few side projects I juggle, when have time and energy:

* 2 books underway: software performace; sci-fi comedy novel

* making a sim related to democracy and climate

* ideas for tons more but learned must practice extreme prioritization

Running for city council

Meditation tracker to help people engage and focus on themselves.

Urban DJ - A fun poll for music geniuses. Wordle for music. Dixit for music.

I'd be happy to have some people from HN joining the fun https://urbanpoll.com/dj

I am building a platform for digital content creators.

Teaching my 7 year old Japanese. Wish me luck.

Central Bank Digital Currency - A new kid on the block. Works on blockchain but very different than Bitcoin, Ethereum

I'm working on a side-project full time for at least a few months. I just finished ~4.5 years of employment and have some cash saved up. I want to create something emotionally evocative and helpful to not only me but others. I'm also kinda worn out from being in a weird environment at work for too long. So, I want to create for a while just to shake off the cobwebs and surround myself with more positive workflows.

If my project seems to be going well then I'll keep at it and, if not, then it'll become more like an artistic self-expression and less like a failed attempt at entrepreneurship. :)

I'm building a "sneaky" mental health app. It presents as if it were a modern, sci-fi take on Tamagotchi coupled with a daily self-reflection routine. It's a fledgling ant colony on an alien planet being nurtured by a personality within an orbiting satellite. The player finds themselves compelled to keep their pet alive, commit to the routine of checking in on the pet when the satellite has LOS, and a meditative journaling routing is established by blurring the pet care routine with a self-care routine of journaling and breathwork. The player goes along with all of it since they're interested in keeping their pet alive and growing and are slowly fed entertainment as a reward.

Finch App is the most likely competition in this space. The largest difference is how our audiences discover and think about us. Finch users feel they need help and seek out Finch. Finch understands this, calls attention to the needing help, and presents itself as an anxiety-free warm hug. Finch wants users to "come out of their shell" and to engage with the world. Then, Finch nudges that engagement towards self-improvement. It's great.

Untitled Ant Game users think they're fine as-is (but are underappreciating how far from the ceiling they are), frequently lean into gaming to wind-down and as a means of escapism, and are more likely to adopt concepts that make themselves feel "smart" rather than applying labels to themselves that make them feel like they need fixing. Untitled Ant Game strives to talk about mental health at a higher level of abstraction, hinting at the complexities of psychology, and allows the user to feel like they are discovering knowledge by connecting all the dots. It then provides tools to allow the user to apply their new knowledge.

I'm excited to see how I improve myself with my software and if I can touch others who might typically be reticent of adopting additional self-care habits.

I'm also excited to try and build a game, lol. Everyone who's anyone says it's a bad idea, that it's hard, and that it's not valuable. They're probably right, but sometimes you just gotta touch the hot stove for yourself to really learn. :)

Full building in public, you can find a Discord link in my bio or you can follow https://www.untitledantgame.com/ it'll update ~daily for the forseeable future. Twitch streams coming once I get my thoughts more organized.

Maps!

Killing debt, money, capitalism. Birthing a donation-driven carnival circuit dedicated to free public unlicensed group play therapy, not entertainment, structured to apply evolutionary graph theory in a way as to experiment with strong amplification of natural selection in evolving cultures. Starting the Moon Thoth Arkestra.

a.i driven hedge fund

AWS certifications.

An app for quickly and collaboratively drawing maps for tabletop RPGs.

I run a tabletop RPG for some friends over the Internet using Roll20. As a player in other (in-person) games, there have been times where we've collaboratively made a map as we've gone along rather than the GM providing one, and I wanted to be able to provide a similar experience for my players. Since we found Roll20 didn't really work for this use case, I'm cobbling together an app that tries to make the experience as fluid as possible. It's only really intended for my group when I'll be on hand to explain how it works and I'll be the only one deploying it, so the docs are somewhat sparse, but in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/mwilliamson/ttrpg-map-sketcher

I've also been working on a compiler for the most boring programming language in the world: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk

I maintain a library with ports to multiple languages (JavaScript, Python, Java). They have very similar structure, which means doing the same thing in pretty much the same way three times each time I make a change.

The idea I wanted to test with my language is: is it possible to extract a common subset that compiles into reasonably idiomatic code for those target languages? The compiled interfaces should be sensible (i.e. use of the code from the target language should be as good as if written in the target language directly), while implementations can be a little less tidy, but ultimately still readable and easily refactorable if the user ever decides to eject from my language and write everything in the target language(s) instead.

I doubt I'll ever use it in anger, and since it's nowhere near ready for use of any kind there aren't really any docs. In the unlikely event someone is interested, the most illuminating thing to look at would be the very beginnings of the reimplementation of the aforementioned library. Since I use snapshot testing with examples, you can see the source code, generated code and result of running the compiled test suite in one file:

Java: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B... Python: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B... TypeScript: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B...

i’m trying a few small apps/websites while consulting part time. my first attempt is https://hourly.fyi which is levels.fyi for freelancers/consultants/etc.

It’s basically in it’s MVP form right now but have been overhauling it over the holidays. Excited for the re-release :D