What's your current side project?

Social welfare programs.

Got laid off, am Millenial, cue 2008 flashbacks. Have to scramble to keep a place to live, as my savings gets wiped out every few years.

I'm fascinated by the differences between social programs in the US (born) and Canada (where I am now). There's little if any means testing. Many programs I just ask for help, and they give it. Then, social welfare is available to a LOT more people as compared to the US. For example, someone my wife grew up with has to stay poor enough in the US to keep their healthcare. Here, if I make less than 90k a year (for a family of two), then I qualify for many programs; Including just cash payments. Just amazing to compare the two; It's night and day.

Implementing version 2.0 of https://contextualise.dev/ a knowledge management tool. At the moment, adding (vector) embeddings for semantic search and automatically surfacing related topics. Once that is done, adding a multi-modal embeddings model so that uploaded images can be (semi) automatically described and tagged.

A blog documenting my journey to learn algo trading: https://learningquant.com

And a basic web app that converts HEX codes to Tailwind colors: https://hextotailwind.com

I’m building a browser extension. Currently trying to implement payments and subscriptions.

It’s very hard to do in the context of a browser extension when you don’t have a server. So I’m using cloud functions, probably not doing it correctly though

I'm trying to recreate this plugin in VSCode: https://github.com/hoschi/yode-nvim

Currently facing challenges with the extension API lacking features needed to do this.

I just launched an AI art newsletter.

https://randomdailyart.ai

Nothing concrete yet, but I'm thinking out a 3 way merge mechanism for Org Mode files