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145 | Working on building a copilot for oncall engineers.Goal is to automate or reduce the grunt work oncall engineers have to do.Code is here: https://github.com/opslane/opslane |
25 | A new CI/CD platform. Local CLI (run without git push), remote debugger, automatic content-based caching, DAG-based definition, and dynamic tasks. It’s taken a lot of work to build it, but I’m really excited about how well it’s working. https://rwx.com/mint |
314 | I've been working on a Hacker News TUI reader written in Rust [0].I'm very proud of the way the architecture turned out - with most notably a components-driven architecture [1].There's just a major performance roadblock in posts with many comments that I should be able to clear with some more multithreading. Then I just need to make it available in brew and other distribution solutions.[0]: https://github.com/pierreyoda/hncli
[1]: https://www.newstackwhodis.com/blog/hncli-2-architecture |
18 | I'm working on FreeInChicago, a site for finding all the free activities to do in the city.I love Chicago and the incredible wealth of free festivals, museums, public art, music, parks, workshops, and so many more activities available to appreciate. I've found there isn't a good way to discover them though so I'm building the tool that I've always wanted. Right now I have a landing page up, have done some work on sourcing data, and I'm working towards defining a discovery interface.https://freeinchicago.com/ |
8 | I’ve been working on Don’t Double Book Me (https://dontdoublebookme.com) the past few weeks out of frustration with keeping my personal and work Google Calendars in sync.Previously used Reclaim but found $10 a month to keep 2 calendars in sync was excessive and the software was increasingly becoming more team oriented, no longer for individuals. Felt like I was paying for a product and also the product. I just needed to keep 2 calendars in sync, not smart meetings, analytics, integrations, etc. ideally I set it up and forget about it.I really needed a way to sync my calendars privately, without all the extras. Now that Dropbox has purchased Reclaim, it's even more important I feel like my calendars are not spied on. I knew I could provide a similar service.Here’s what makes me excited about it as a user:Affordable: Just $20/year with a 7-day free trial. Cancel at any time for a pro-rated refund.Privacy First: No need to store events on a servers enabling unlimited calendar syncs.Working Hours: Adaptive feature that adjusts if an event falls outside your specified working hours.Round Event Times: Opt to round event start and end times to the nearest 15 or 30 minutes for cleaner scheduling.Invitations: Block time between calendars when you receive a meeting invitation that you haven't responded to yet. Decline it? The time block on your other calendar is removed.My plan is to keep it small and focused, while also listening to user feedback for how you'd like to manage your personal and work calendars more efficiently.Thanks for checking out my new project. |
47 | I’ve been building a personal finance app that runs fully in the browser (using the automerge crdt and sqlite) for over a year now at https://tender.run.Recently I’ve been taking more of being able to flexibly run sql against this data, and this past week I’ve been working with d3 to make fancy sankey graphs to show income/expense flows. Quick preview here: https://demo.tender.run/reports/sankey |
160 | Created this website for a local rubble removal business.https://legendsfreight.co.zaI’d love to get feedback on what can be done to improve the website to feature prominantly for local search when people need rubble removal near them. |
465 | I'm learning the course about SEO. I have never heard of this term until now.Although some people say the SEO is dead and does not work anymore, I am still spending effort on it and building BMW VIN Decoder https://bmwvindecode.com/ to learn by doing. |
11 | Hi! This year I quit my corporate job to work full time on https://crucialexams.com/. This month I am working on expanding our new offerings at https://pmpready.com/ and https://vitalnursingexams.com/. Our platform provides a fun way for students to test their readiness for industry certification exams like the PMP, BCEN, CompTIA, AWS and more. Written in ASP.NET, MySQL as backend and good old Javascript/Bootstrap for the frontend. Nothing fancy, works great! |
10 | I have this creative writing website where writing friends can write branching fiction novels together. Sorta like choose-your-own-adventure, but more literary - third person past tense, actual characters and narrative arcs. Configurable number of choices at the bottom of every chapter, and as you're reading, if the choice label doesn't link to a chapter yet, you can write it. It's been floating around since 1996 or so, so my big project lately has been upgrading it. v1 was perl and gdmb files. v2 was php and codeigniter, and it's been limping along there for several years. When ChatGPT came out, I rewrote the whole thing for scala/play and that was super fun. Moved from ubuntu14 to ubuntu20, mysql5.5 to 8.0, etc. I'm done with the rewrite now but am still messing around with launching it, upgrading to ubuntu22 (done today), figuring out if I want to update jvm/scala/play before launching, etc. All this for only a group of six writers (so far)! But collectively we've written more than 425 chapters across a handful of stories, 450,000 words, and had a lot of laughs. I even wrote a snazzy graph visualization thing that animates the structure of the story maps. After I finish launching the thing on hardware/software that actually isn't EOL, I might open up membership to others. |
153 | I'm working on a paid Ruby gem for bespoke Stripe subscription integrations. It cuts down integration time from +6 months to less than a day, and handles many Stripe API pitfalls.Stripe has a "developer friendly" and "easy to use" reputation. But, since 2019 the EU regulation has stepped in and made things more complex with 2nd factor authentication for payments (3DS/SCA). This made payment integrations way more complex. Integrating Stripe subscriptions now easily takes 6 man-months (I'm being very optimistic here).Also, there are some basic scenarios that are hard to get right:- Creating a paid subscription and ensure a customer always has a card on file (this one is almost impossible).
- Upgrading a free ($0) plan to a paid one.
- Upgrading paid plans, eg $10 to $100/month and ensuring immediate payment.
- Guarantee customer Tax location, keep the flow simple.I made a video analyzing Stripe integration of a successful SaaS company (+$100M valuation). I first paid $30, then upgraded to their highest $2000/month plan - for free!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXp7V4nanUThe gem I'm working on is intended to be used with Ruby on Rails apps. It covers all the above mentioned hard cases, and irons out many more Stripe API kinks. And yes, it handles the basic-but-impossible "ensure customer always has card on file if they start paid subscription".After buying the gem you can hand-off the task to the junior developer (it's that simple). They follow the integration tutorial: follow the steps for Stripe dashboard config, do the local env config, done.The product (Ruby gem itself) is ready. I'm now working on the web app, tutorials etc. If anyone wants an early, guided access, please email me - contact is in the profile. |
250 | Working on a voice-interface for messaging. Type-free and voice-first with GPT-4o-mini baked in. Dolby Enhancements on the audio, too.I’m using it personally as a transcribed voice-note system.https://athens.winterdelta.com/playlist/536a9778-cd9d-4491-8... |
36 | Working on:- Analyzing grocery pricing patterns for 7 Canadian grocers. I took care of the data acquisition. Now it is time to speak with economists / data analysts who can make sense of it. Are you interested? Please get in touch!- Gathering and archiving all graphical material from the "Printers International Specimen Exchange". The gathering is done, now working on a writeup.- ... various side quests from the above. Incl. a tutorial on making mobile-friendly imagemaps |
7 | I'm writing a book. A novel. By hand (this is, no AI involved, just me and vim).Sometimes I feel I'm loosing the time, because nowadays there is a lot of AI generated content and even more competence in self-published books.After a long walk against myself, of about 10 months, it's nearly finished (in my native language, Spanish). It still needs a few more reviews and retouching.I got recently unemployed after +20 years as Linux sysadmin, and my wife is now unemployed too (after +20 years in HHRR), fortunately we have still a few savings.I dream that it will (economically) work, but most of the time I intuit there will be less than a few sales from family and friends.Depending on how it goes, I've already the script for the second and third parts.In parallel I'm researching different ways to generate cash flow without working for another person. I would like to avoid going to search for a job in the current market of cloud, docker and kubernetes, as I'm more a hardware/colocation guy, and 99,9% of job offers request for docker/kubernetes. |
239 | Right now I'm working on withdrawing money from cs.money and Steam balance.It's been sitting there for years, and I finally found health, time, and dedication to withdraw it.On cs.money I had $35k and on Steam balance I had $12k.The only way to get money from cs.money trade mode is to buy skins and sell them somewhere else.On Steam, on the other hand, I buy Steam Decks via Steam balance and sell them locally.I have sold 3 in the last 2 days.Last 2 days I've been taking a short break from coding a bot for cs.money to recover some health back (I have RSI). |
21 | For the past year, I've been working on a CSS Masterclass: https://cssmasterclass.io/It's going to have online text courses with interactive examples and coding exercises, but I'm also in the process of adding video tutorials. These videos will be of 2 types: ones where I teach you the theory, and ones where we actually build a project from scratch.I feel like CSS has always been something that was made to look harder than it actually is. In its essence, the syntax is very simple, and the vocabulary is quite basic. There are only a few things you need to know to be able to code an attractive and flexible responsive web page. For comparison, I find programming backends much more difficult.Even though I've been working on this project for almost a year, I decided that next month will be the day I finally launch it. |
17 | I haven't been working on much at all lately, struggling from bore-out at work. 8 hours of boredom a day is surprisingly exhausting, and it's spilling over into the rest of my life. Starting a new gig next month, hopefully things will pick up again. |
65 | When the hype was focused on chatbots, I joined a startup that built one focused on ecommerce. It turned into a useful product that actually help real customers.Looking back, there wasn't any material to actually build a useful chat agent that resolved real-world problems. So I'm writing the guide that I wish I had when getting started.I'll publish it on github and post here as more progress is made. I've created three parts. Part One is a non dev focused which explains how each of the moving parts work, what is Ai and what isn't. Part two gets technical and explains the tech stack. Part three is a bonus section that looks at how Ai assistants like google and Siri work and can be improved.The working title is Automated Agents.Edit: adding a link for those who want to follow along.https://github.com/ibudiallo/automated-agents-book |
538 | Leetcode for a new job, been at my current place for 5 years. But it's actually the perfect thing to do to make your brain come up with new projects that your brain would rather do, so I write those down for later |
382 | Hi fellow hackers!Yesterday, I've built a minimalist solution to let you host Markdown files, while rendering it as html in the browser.No preprocessing needed (like Hugo, Jekyll, Astro...).- You just write plain markdown- Add a script import at the top- UploadCheck it out > https://www.tducret.com/pure-markdown/ |
376 | An app for easing house management - HomeHero (https://HomeHero.pro). Primarily inventory oriented towards easier finds, location hierarchy and related tasks.
Currently only web, android and Linux as there's been little interest from Apple and Windows side |
555 | Hey. I’m building https://www.unwrangle.com to make it easier to scrape data from ecommerce and other sites that are hard to scrape.It’s like Apify but my goal is to make it easier to useCurrently, I have APIs and scrapers that work with platforms like Google Maps, Yelp and Amazon. The APIs are useful to get data immediately and scrapers to extract information from many URLs.The plan is to add more general purpose APIs like an HTML API, Markdown API and eventually features to build your own api and scrapers with AI.There’s a lot of tools in the space nowadays but imo they are all flaky. My intention with unwrangle is to offer a way to scrape any site that just works without the need for any config or complicated pricing. The project is at a little over $1000 MRR. Marketing it has been and continues to be a big challenge. I’m bootstrapping solo and hoping to reach 5-10k MRR in the following months. Plan for that is to consistently improve offering and conduct marketing experiments.What I find interesting about it: I’m offering easy ways to scrape sites on which antibot is really hard to bypass like Twitter, paywalled sites, LinkedIn, etc. The ability to build crawlers without writing any code is kinda cool. User who would normally not have used web data are scheduling scraping jobs and using the data for analysis. For the HTML API I’m thinking of doing an interesting spin on what others like ScrapingBee are doing and abstracting the needless config like premium proxy etc. and just effectively offering a higher # of requests. Also for the build your own scraper, offering users a way to create a parser with a prompt and use it in a single browser session to collect data from many pages saves hassle compared to a synchronous API approach |
547 | About three months ago I had a moment of clarity when I realized that all I did with my spare time was work out, smoke weed, and play video games (not at the same time). So I decided to reallocate a portion of my video game time to learning artistic skills. Largely learning to draw with the classic book Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain, but I've also been making music and video games and learning 3D modelling in Blender. I'm not good at any of it yet but I'm having a great time. |
417 | I like leaderboards, and its a bit sad that Redis is the only optimal database for leaderboards. So, I'm attempting a drunken version of a statistic database that tracks stats and leaderboards in realtime. I guess the only major defining quality would be that in one step I can get both the sorted scores + entire row of linked user data.For redis this is two steps: `ZRANGE leaderb 1 100` + `GET x1 x2 x3 x4 ... x100`.It's mostly a refresher for deep C++ doodling, but maybe I'll use it in production for kicks. |
171 | I am working on revamping my past project built last year https://www.loom.com/share/95c8aa93d24648dca8d61837104fe31d?.... Making this more apealing and user friendly, until I found a new project idea to build a better project. |
540 | A golf swing measurement app using 3 sensors and an esp board. Just started practicing golf and made sense to understand how the swing works. Claude AI is helping me with some of the coding, fun stuff. |
360 | I'm working on QA Sphere https://qasphere.com/ - a lightweight tool for managing software testing. It’s built for QA engineers to document functional test cases and track execution, manually or via automation.Test management tools are nothing new, but I’m focused on making this one fast and easy to use, without the bloat. The goal is to help smaller teams adopt solid QA practices without the hassle. |
410 | https://github.com/jhspetersson/git-taskLocal-first task manager/bug tracker within git repository which can import issues from GitHub and sync task statuses.Pretty much work in progress, made for fun and to help while programming on a plane. |
121 | Vertical tabs for firefox and lots of features. I use it myself in all my firefox profiles. It can be displayed as a sidebar or a popup. Which means you can use it in big windows and small windows.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...Latest commit is on this little nim project to find text, similar to ripgrephttps://github.com/madprops/goldieLast game is this thing where you get to see ants talk and react in different ways.https://github.com/madprops/cromulantLast big thing I made is this powerful python/tk client to chat with language models. Lots of features and my own markdown parser.https://github.com/Merkoba/Meltdown |
484 | A LLM based bot for information literacy. The idea is that it can analyze text and images to help folks understand if they should believe stuff they find on the internet. And what they need to know to understand the subject.https://info-sleuth.com/ |
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267 | Building a toolkit to save hours of time when working with LLMs locally. For example, adding a TTS or Web RAG to the Open WebUI setup both are a single command.https://github.com/av/harbor |
102 | https://blr.today - Working on an open-source stack to curate events happening in Bangalore. It curates events from multiple sources, cleans them up, then curates them further by tagging them nicely, and making all event data available as calendars you can subscribe to.Decided on a GPL/AGPL/ODBL license for the scraper/website/dataset. https://blr.today/licenseMy Core-thesis[0] on why I think this is worth building:1. The vast majority of events in aggregator websites are low-quality, and often filled with spam. The aggregators make money by listing lots of events.2. Small venues hosting cool events will not always publicize them on the aggregator platforms.3. The best UX for event discovery is your existing calendar app.4. Events are highly structured data - but this is often not captured.I've been wanting to build this for almost 6 years now, finally getting around to it.[0]: https://blr.today/about/I updated my ideas repo last week with some more of my ideas.https://github.com/captn3m0/ideasIf any of these sounds like fun, take a look:* A physical variable fuzzy clock* A curl impersonation proxy* A Whisper UX Design Pattern* Mobile App Traffic RE Platform* One-Page (RSVP|EventHosting) Platform on Edge Compute* Price Index for Indian Grocery Websites |
136 | (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132906 for a bit of recent context) |
19 | Right now I'm mostly thinking about AI. Right this minute I'm sitting in a cafe reading a book on Multi-Agent Oriented Programming with a framework called JaCaMo[1], and later tonight when I get home I'll probably spend some time getting my Fuseki[2] server loaded with some base schemas (SKOS, FOAF, etc) as I slowly start working on getting things set up to explore some ideas around integrating symbolic logic with LLM's.And I took my new quadcopter drone out and did some flying last night for the first time. As in, my first time flying a drone, ever. The results were... predictable. Let's just say, I bought a cheap (< $100) drone for a reason. This thing will wind up destroyed. In less than an hour I managed to crash it into fences, walls, bushes, cars, dumpsters, the ground, an armadillo, Elvis Presley, a 1974 AMC Gremlin, and Nickelback. Well, more or less.It brought to mind this famous scene[3] from the movie Days of Thunder:Harry: I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car.Cole: Hit the pace car?Harry: Hit the pace car!Cole: What for?Harry: Because you hit every other god-damned thing out there and I want you to be perfect.[1]: https://jacamo-lang.github.io/[2]: https://jena.apache.org/documentation/fuseki2/[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xll0VOsiE84 |
93 | I'm looking for new ideas for my witch.inc comic strips, it's like IT-Crowd, but for witches and wizards. I kinda ran out of them after I quit my tech-support job. Doing database administration now but it's not as rich in corporate slip-upshttps://ko-fi.com/album/New-Album-J3J512CD1A |
83 | I made this bookmarklet, which will speak highlighted text in the browser regardless of platform. It also makes the initial letters of each word bold. This is the code:javascript:void function(){ javascript:(function(){ var selection = window.getSelection().toString(); if (!selection) { alert("Please select some text on the page."); return; } var encodedSelection = document.createElement("div"); encodedSelection.textContent = selection; var processedContent = encodedSelection.innerHTML.replace(/\n/g, " <br></br> "); var words = processedContent.split(" "); var formattedText = ""; var speechContent = ""; for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { var word = words[i]; var chunkSize = Math.floor(word.length / 3) + 1; var boldPart = "<span style='font-weight:bolder'>" + word.substring(0, chunkSize) + "</span>"; var lightPart = "<span style='font-weight:lighter'>" + word.substring(chunkSize, word.length) + "</span>"; var formattedWord = boldPart + lightPart; if (word.endsWith(".")) { formattedWord += "<span style='color:red'> *</span>"; } formattedText += formattedWord + " "; speechContent += word + " "; } var newWindow = window.open("", "_blank"); newWindow.document.write("<html><head><title>Spoken Content</title></head><body><input type='range' min='0.1' max='10' value='1' step='0.1' id='rate-slider'><p id='content' style='background-color:#EDD1B0;font-size:40;line-height:200%25;font-family:Arial'>"%20+%20formattedText%20+%20"</p></body></html>");%20var%20rateSlider%20=%20newWindow.document.getElementById("rate-slider");%20var%20utterance%20=%20new%20SpeechSynthesisUtterance(speechContent);%20rateSlider.addEventListener("input",%20function()%20{%20utterance.rate%20=%20rateSlider.value;%20window.speechSynthesis.cancel();%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%20});%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%20})();}();Also: https://pastebin.com/zuRVpiVh |
213 | Only have a screenshot to show at the moment, but I'm working on an accessible color palette creator tool for web/UI design:https://x.com/seanw_org/status/1815442179361317022There's lots of tools in this space, but the key features of this is it lets you easily check the contrast of any color pair (not just against white, so you can check e.g. your text colors will contrast on off-white shades), it's for creating a full palette of colors vs a handful of brand colors (you always end up needing lighter/darker variants for things like borders and backgrounds), and you can alter how the hue/saturation/lightness varies across a whole swatch of colors with a few clicks (being able to visualise these curves also makes picking new colors really easy).Feel free to reach out if you think this might be useful to you! |
117 | I’m working on a test integration tool. You write your tests declaratively using YAML (ie. setup the environment, databases, etc., load fixtures, make api calls or db calls, and check assertions), so it’s completely language agnostic, which makes it perfect for grey-box/black-box testing. This way of testing also ensures you’re testing functional, business cases, and gives great stability on an exposed interface, because everything runs with real dbs, real queues and so on. From experience, this way of testing hits the perfect balance between reliability, usefulness, maintainability (when done right), and verbosity (at a previous company we replaced the tests on all of our layers with this kind of integration tests and it ended up being the most stable code base and test harness we ever worked on).I’m currently polishing the logs and reports as much as possible, and then I’ll add support for more tools (Kafka, Rabbit, Nats, etc.). I have tons of features in mind to improve UX, speed, and bring more value to the tests.Down the line, I want to find a business model for this tool and sell it, but I need to do a lot of thinking on this side since I’ve never done this before. |
118 | Working on a web app to check various metrics on cloud servers (or virtual machines on-prem) and suggest optimizations to reduce cloud waste (and costs). I'm basically automating a good part of the infrastructure maintenance I was doing as a full-stack dev in my previous job.There are already a lot of services to right-size servers, but I want to focus on small teams that might not have a full-time devops yet and lack the time to check every server manually.The app will be simple with an educational part, it should be like having access to continuous audits on our infrastructure, just like the CI/CD tools we use on our codebase.It already helped me at home to reduce the load on my oldest Raspberry Pi by shifting some services to a newer one that was mostly idle and right-sizing some VMs in the Proxmox cluster of the rack in my homelab. Having a green check next to each server name is a good motivation!Another thing that is scratching my own itch is server discovery (especially in a multi-cloud environment) and integrations because it's just so easy to forget some servers in a cloud when you do a lot of experiments and keep paying for them for months.The MVP is getting ready to launch, I'm making the landing page right now, and then I hope to find some early adopters to iterate on the app and make it useful to other devs. I'm also thinking about open-sourcing it.I'm interested in having conversations to discover the pain points of other people in that space, so feel free to reach out to me!https://cloudcheck.cc |
198 | Currently I'm working on file compression program in Rust. Nothing too fancy, it just use common algorithms (LZ77, LZ78, etc.)The only difference here is that the program will switch on the fly between different algorithms depending on which one that can compress file smaller.It can compress 1 GB file (enwik9) down to around 230 MB. Pretty good I guess for something that I worked in my spare time.I'm not publishing it yet, since I'm still experimenting with it a lot. |
170 | I'm working on a device that records surgery and uses AI models to analyze the procedure for things like surgical technique, efficiency, instrument usage, blood loss, etc. We're starting with using it for medical education because that doesn't need FDA approval, but eventually it'll be deployed in operating rooms. The goal is to enable every surgeon to perform like the greats (most aren't), improve patient outcomes and ultimately save lives. We just got into Techstars. Aside from that, dad life in suburbia |
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