What are you working on and why is it cool?

Most folks here are probably tired of hearing about it, but I work on https://onlineornot.com

Uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams.

In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k , all their system ever did was alert us when we weren't down".

I've built a decent frontend for configuring uptime checks and status pages, now I'm working on a self-documenting (OpenAPI, rolled it myself: https://developers.onlineornot.com/) API that'll let folks use terraform (or even just the API itself) to setup their uptime checks, cron job monitoring, status pages, even their teams.

https://firedating.me/ - the first and only dating website for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) community. It is cool, because it dramatically affects people lives, e.g. I am aware of multiple couples marrying as a result of meeting through the site. Looking forward to FireDating babies :)

Funding FOSS projects has been a challenge; donations help, but not enough. I believe that FOSS maintainers can gain financial independence and sustain their projects by "selling" supply-chain security assurance to consumers on software contents, packaging, etc. I'm building a marketplace that would enable this. I'm looking for FOSS devs to signup/provide feedback.

I am writing a screenplay. A comedy. The bad guy is inspired by Sam Altman.

I don't know if it qualifies as cool, but I'm more excited than when I was working on BI tools.

I don't have a website yet, but I recently hooked myself up to work on yet another CI/CD solution. Hear me out before you say "booring!".

What if you could migrate to a CI/CD that is better to fit your organization _without_ changing any existing definitions?

What if your new fancy CI/CD could support your existing github-actions/bitbucket pipelines/circleci.yml definitions right out of the box?

And what if you could progressively migrate to some new/other format that fits your needs better without having to create multi-year organization wide migration to the "new and better CI"™, only to do it _yet again_ once vendor goes out of business?

So that's my idea. I admit, the endeavor is really big, since supporting multiple formats which often don't have direct equivalents between each other seems like a really hard thing to do. But I strongly believe this is real problem, because according to my n=1 experience, every organization sooner or later faces this challenge, and the fact that all vendors force you to migrate to their custom format for defining, what is essentially a DAG of tasks is outrageous to me.

The BitGrid[1,2] - a novel model of computation, similar to Turing machines in simplicity, except the parallel execution model allows for PetaFlops of performance in a small efficient package, I hope. I bought a FPGA board to try learn Verilog and hopefully get enough knowledge to do a TinyTapeout of a minimal chip. Once I know how much energy it takes to run a cell of 4 - 4x4 LUTs and 4 D latches, I can realistically figure out if the thing is worth doing, or not.

MStoical - A fork^2 of the STOIC language, I'm considering scrapping the C version and just going with Pascal, so I can get quick and easy gigabyte string handling. For now, however, it remains in C, OLD C, apparently.

[1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

[2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical

Over my last few programming jobs I've felt that building software these days usually amounts to drudgery in the short term and burnout in the long-term. I'm building a product [0] to fix that. It helps engineering leaders gather candid feedback to identify and improve quality of life problems in their teams.

Think employee pulse surveys, but purpose-built for dev teams.

It's cool not because the tech is interesting (it isn't) but because the product helps improve the working lives of actual human beings. Working on a company that's calm, deliberate, and fully independent has been a breath of fresh air for my career in tech.

[0] https://workdna.com

A project involving Postgres/PostGIS raster tables https://postgis.net/workshops/postgis-intro/rasters.html Usually I only deal with geometries (polygons, vectors) so being able to merge rasters on top of each other, look at pixel values and joining rasters with other geometry data is new to me. When I look at help pages (stackoverflow) it's often people who work with satellite imagery data.

I've been reading and writing about research from 100, 150, and 200 years ago roughly covering math, economics, and philosophy. It's cool because it can help people find interesting things to read or give an idea of what was going on at the time.

Here's my post on 1873: https://bcmullins.github.io/research-from-1873/.

Helping startups & businesses get Design, Motion Graphic, WordPress & Webflow Team without going through hiring & contract hassles.

https://draftss.com > Own a Team on a subscription basis. No hiring contracts, cancel any time.

I'm working on https://abun.com, a tool that would get you ranked on Google without lifting a finger. It's still not right there where I'd want it to be. Trying to push those features as fast as I can.

https://tiktokexamples.com - website collecting TikTok case studies. It's my first attempt at a non-SaaS product, I'm really curious how it's gonna turn out.