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Working on my game Sandustry, a mining and automation sandbox with pixel-based physics (think Noita meets Factorio).I released the first playtest of the alpha a few days ago, which you can try directly in your browser:https://lanttogames.itch.io/sandustry
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Getting a date with your mom.(ha ha) no really, an app that aims to help out older, lonely, but good people. It's a desperately underserved market. These people are often overlooked and we're trying to empathize with them via software.
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I'm working on my tech interview platform: https://onlineinterview.io/ It is a free platform that allows people to develop on the browser using multiple programming languages, draw on a shared board and talk over video.
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Helping others with their mental health (after my own struggles).Worked as a software dev/manager for a decade, went through workaholism, burnout, then alcoholism, depression, all that. Doing a ton better now, and taking some time off to write about what I went through and hopefully help out others going through the sa...
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I am currently working on a custom markup language called atex. It's syntax reminds of latex syntax, but with @ instead \ as a special character (very similar to the Lout language, if anyone remembers it). Also, the atex language hasn't any predefined commands. Instead, all commands are defined via schema specified in ...
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I’m working on a self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager: https://linkwarden.appGithub: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
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I've been building a web extension for an Inuit language (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ).Most Inuit in Canada speak Inuktitut, which is a language with long words and two different writing systems: the latin alphabet, and syllabics. Syllabics are specially adapted for Inuktitut and well-loved by the Inuit, but unfortunately can be a...
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An integrated Palantir-like system for political campaigning, oppo research, narrative management etc.
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I'm working on a cross-platform file search utility: https://ksylvestre.itch.io/mightygrepI based it off of an old win32 application that is no longer receiving updates. Release cadence has been about once per month.
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I'm working on Xona AI (https://xona.ai). I want to democratize the generation of 3D visualizations for interior and exterior design. We will launch next week on ProductHunt :)Very excited.
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I've been working on https://65words.com by myself for 6 months.65 Words is an anonymous challenge to write 65+ words daily in the language you're learning.The real focus isn't just on improving your writing but on having the opportunity to think about how you'd express something without the pressure of the moment.Ther...
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Parallel streaming video ingestion of live events, chunking up the video, sending it to Gemini Pro to get get the context/narrative/transcription/sentiment, and alerting for various things.
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Working on building the largest database of LEGO minifigure user ratings at https://brickelo.com/
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Making fingerboards. Little skateboards you can do tricks with. I'm always fingerboarding at work when I take a break from programming.It's a ton of fun, especially writing Fusion 360 scripts to do all the parametric modeling of decks and molds. Then 3D printing molds with different parameters, pressing decks with vene...
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I'm actually creating a new web framework/library. I know. I know. Yet another one. I got sufficiently excited about the technology recently that I've dived head first into making one. Stay tuned.
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I'm working on a side project which is a Python library that provides of an abstraction layer to manage infrastructure in cloud providers by interacting with their APIs. This is something I've been developing every now and then for the last months after years of working with Terraform and getting tired of the limitatio...
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I am working on an agent cognitive architecture based around LLMs. Been working on it for a while. The main difference from all the dozens out of agentic systems out there is that has been designed so that it can introspect fully and it has a machine ethics layer based on the work a modern Stoic philosopher. I am tryin...
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https://gpt.franzai.comAI over email.Had some vacation. Now lots of new ideas. Think I will enable email forwarding (not yet possible)Mailto:gpt@franzai.comHey, please send example@example.com a friendly email inviting them to a google meeting next Thursday. Keep me cc.Will only implement minimal spam protection and a ...
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Though I am not actually _working_ on anything concrete(facing analysis paralysis. Also, as a coder, I have no idea how to deal with the sales site) this should turn to a monthly post
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For my startup, a way to debug code errors with LLMs: https://codecomet.io - please let us know if you're interested and we can show you a demo.On the side (with very little spare time), a set of Scrabble-related apps: for studying, AI, and playing. (See https://github.com/domino14 for more info)I just love code too mu...
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A drag and drop hosting solution for .NET projects - Like tiiny.host but for .NET.Should be ready for early adoption in a month or so.It was one of those shower thoughts along the lines of "I wonder if it's possible to drag and drop host .net projects..." :)
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I've been working on 2 projects:Insnare: https://www.insnare.net/A head-hunting/recruitment application to search companies and people based on their skills and experience. Currently focused on Australian market.It's also for people who are looking for jobs. The goal there is to help to find good companies which have h...
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I'm working on a single-file executable version of Fivetran you can run wherever you like, for free, without needing an account. It may or may not be OSS, we'll see.
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A text-yourself productivity app called tetr. I have always been messaging myself notes and thoughts on Signal and wanted something that would extend this habit to a funky productivity app and also do more advanced stuff like reminders, habits, mood tracking, etc.Been working on this for nearly 2 years now and it’s bee...
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Secondary applications for med school - once your initial single app gets processed, every school (out of the 20+ you apply to) wants multiple essays from you. The process of preparing for and applying to med school is a nightmare and consumed the last two years of my life. I've had a lot of really cool life experience...
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I'm working on a trip planner for vegans. This is designed to solve my particular problem as a full time (vegan) nomad who likes to stay in walkable cities.I noticed that sometimes, I book accommodations in a new city without realizing I'm very far from the nearest vegan restaurant, having to walk for a really long tim...
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I built a simple teleprompter web app to help record talking head videos with the front camera of my MacBook this week.Link: https://camprompter.appThe insight is that if you read text from a tiny enough box right below the front camera on the MacBook, it appears as if you're talking to the camera.Boom! Easy Eye Contac...
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I am working on a git merge conflict resolution tool. If this is a problem you have, feel free to shot me an email. Still very early stages.
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I'm working on a project to find the best places for you to live (in the US).Right now, people are deciding where to move based on gut feels, spreadsheets, and wikipedia pages. There needs to be a better way to enter personal preferences and come out with enough data that ensures the place you're in is the best fit for...
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We are working on https://aide.dev/ an editor forked from VSCode which allows you to utilize LLMs to speed up coding.Our approach is a bit different since unlike making a better copilot or a chat experience we are building workflows which encourage engineers to work alongside AI and not just offload tasks to AI.
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We’re working on our contract management system for dev and design agencies. Been in beta for a couple months, working as always on that elusive product-market fit.Besides that our team is always working on cool stuff for our clients. Lots of interesting work these days “in” AI, plenty of cool stuff going on in health ...
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I wanted to learn more about htmx so I created a very dumb project https://mettag.ulry.app that fetches meta tags of passed urls and displays them nicely in the UI (also provides APIs because why not?). Still have to finish it, especially the err handling part, but it turns out I quite like htmx!
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I've been working on a pretty basic who's that pokemon game for a little while. There's quite a few online but none quite scratched the itch for me.Still got a big list of improvements to make but I'm quite happy with how it's coming together.https://whos-that-pokemon.gicelascona.org/
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I'm trying up standup comedy this summer -- open mics for now.I thought it would be absolutely terrifying to be in front of a bunch of strangers and try to make them laugh, but it turns out if you're prepared, it's not that hard. Open mic crowds are benevolent and don't expect you to be the next Richard Pryor or George...
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I have been making YouTube videos about a project I built a couple of years ago. It took a while to find the time and the right approach to documenting it, but I'm finally happy with the results.The first video is here: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks (the second is coming out tomorrow)And it's on GitHub here: https://git...
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I'm working on a metadata catalog aimed towards scientific data. After standing up an enterprise data platform/lakehouse for science and laboratories, I've been really depressed by the current offerings and the massive oversight they have when dealing with scientific data. So I thought I'd change that. We're targeting ...
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I'm finally frustrated enough by the state of coding that I'm developing my own coding environment and language. The leading question is: What if UI was first-class while programming?Happy to elaborate if anyone is interested, I will also write about it on my blog (https://watwa.re) at some point
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I have been working on a little price tracker for the Hetzner Dedicated Server auction (https://radar.iodev.org/). Using Sveltekit for the first time, and decided to go frontend only with duckdb-wasm.I pull the data every hour with a GitHub action and redeploy the site nightly. The duckdb is regenerated every time and ...
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Essentially paying down (with time and money) maintenance debt on house and property after semi-retiring. I'll get back into doing some "real" work in the fall. Seems to be a pretty common pattern.I got lazy during COVID but stuff seemed hard to get done and I wasn't really in the mood to try harder.
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I am working on improving a system to inform citizens about the public benefits for which they are eligible [0]. It's hold by Barcelona City Council.It analyzes the social situation of a person, or group of people that live together, and forecasts those benefits that they could access. It is an old base code that uses ...
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I made a personal, self-hostable read-it-later service that fits my needs. Just for fun I gave myself the constraint that I couldn’t use any JS, so it’s all done with static html templates in Django. It also archives all articles so you never have to worry about link rot. https://github.com/brendanv/lynxAnd now, becaus...
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Hi, I am Software Engineer from India, I am working on https://shoutmemo.com to collect, manage and showcase customers testimonials using embed widget on website. It can also import testimonials from socials like twitter. This is my first side hustle. It is still in beta stage.
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I am currently working on developing a procedural, interpreted language that is amenable to genetic (evolutionary) programming.I have decided to shelve my work on architectures that are biologically inspired for now. I was getting reasonable results with spiking neural networks and evolutionary training, but there are ...
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I've been working a lot of some games in Python and Panda3D. I want to make somethingusing the joy cons as motion controls. Also been looking into stackless Python for a text based multiplayer game I'm working on.I need to update my website at some point its been a while.
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I am working on a SaaS for real estate agents. Customers get their own tenanted database and web front-end with some fancy front-end tools like geospatial searching to keep customers attracted to said customer's portfolio. I have a paying customer who's been using a 1.0 version for more than a decade now. I don't know ...
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I've been working on a kind of strategy game called Fall of an Empire (https://fallofanempiregame.com), it's a bit like a mix between Crusader Kings, Total War, Mount and Blade type games (just the overworld, not the battles), but rather than expanding you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing.It's a ton of wo...
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LPI/LPD/LPJ video codec/modems that can operate in the UHF band.
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I am working on turning my theory into a code. I have a theory on how the brain works. Do not criticize me, even i know how it sounds.
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Hello! This year I've been working on building an integrated registration and live timing platform [0] for my local organizers in CA, but it is spreading. Very fun/rewarding project. I hope to launch my own cellular-based timing hardware this year which will integrate into the timing platform (right now I've reverse en...
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Work in regulated manufacturing industry, deploying off-the-shelf operational technology systems (think Siemens, Emerson, Rockwell, Honeywell, Aveva, etc.). Been building a software stack to automate building the custom documentation / validation the businesses who buy and deploy that software. Excited about its poten...
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I've been learning io_uring for fun and 0 profit by building a web-based game using only the Rust standard library. I create a simple WebSocket server and am now creating async from the ground up. I'm documenting it all: https://github.com/kilroyjones/series_game_from_scratch
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A small tool to align two versions of a video with each other, that have the same video (e.g same cut of a show or movie), but different audio tracks, so that the audio track from one can be merged into the other. The primary use case is to merge native BluRay rips that only have native language audio with dubbed audio...
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I am working alone on MyApps [1], an app of apps where you can spawn any number of pre-defined "app windows" into a zoomable, pannable infinite 2D space. Currently it only features a clone of PureRef. It runs Gundb in the backend, providing a privacy friendly, p2p syncing organization tools.[1] https://github.com/hrkck...
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I’ve been working on (with a couple of friends) a one-click observability solution for Supabase: https://supafana.comThis our first experience in infrastructure SaaS (we opted for Azure) - way harder than we planned for, but seems to work!
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Inkmi - Dream Jobs for #CTOs https://www.inkmi.comGo/Alpine/HTMX/Postgres, Modulith
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I am trying to get better at trading so I thought it would be nice chance to work on my coding skills. I wondered if financial indicators actually makes money for a given period.https://indicatorinsights.coMade it with React, Vite, firebase via Typescript. It’s a really different world for sure.
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I am working on rss reader / web scraperhttps://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
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I'm working on Edna - a note taking app for developers and power users.https://edna.arslexis.io/help
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A companion that you chat with to keep track of your health symptoms. I was inspired by seeing family members go to their doctors appointments and not knowing the important symptoms to report in their short appointments.Right now, it's Ruth, a companion you can WhatsApp with. She will take your history and record your ...
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I'm tinkering away on a turn-based web game that will ideally mix Counter-Strike with something like Door Kickers / Frozen Synapse etc.Ideally a way to let people lay out strategies and see them executed by a team, go on - prove you're the best IGL!It's slow going between a full time job and family life but really grea...
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I'm a tech exec who misses their physics roots. In my spare time I'm interviewing "materials manufacturers" to come up with a viable startup idea. I'm hoping to build a company that leverages simulation and ML to accelerate material discovery.Keeping key bits of the idea to myself. If this admittedly vague idea excites...
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Currently studying the segment anything model family (1 and 2 & everything in-between).I read the abstract a while ago and I was fascinated by the methodology.
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I'm working on a tool directory that lets you run then directly without multiple subscriptions.https://www.arible.co
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I've been messing around with an e-ink Spectra 6 full colour display. Colours are so much better than Gallery, but the contrast isn't as good. Still makes for better looking photos. I'm merging support in my DIY smart picture frame project this weekend (https://github.com/DDoS/Cadre).I'm trying to get my hands on a lar...
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Desperately applying to product design jobs as unemployment stretches into a fifth month.Keeping myself marginally sane by building a custom browsing experience for my “graphic design reconstructed from dreams” project: https://dreambrief.presteign.com/
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implementing double-entry accounting for the 10,000th time in human history on our ERP/MES product.
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a pocket knife search engine: https://knifegeek.ioi like knives
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I've been working on an iOS app called snapmail: lets you take any photo on your phone, filter / sticker it, and send it as a 4x6 postcard anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99. Fun way to stay in touch with friends & fam. One of a few no-account-needed, single use iOS apps I've been working on.TestFlight for now - try it out...
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I’ve been realizing that while I’ve found an incredibly effective solution to a problem I keep having, it does not automatically lend itself to becoming a wildly thriving business. If the problem that is being solved is a somewhat infrequent one (once a year or less), and not applicable to a super-wide audience (think ...
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Analyzing data to assess Frontoparietal - default mode network interactions in intellectual disability in autism.
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I am trying to build a algotrading system for myself. I have reached the stage where it acts as my co-pilot and I can read graphs and take trade, but I am now stuck to make it fully automated.
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Open source presenter software. The idea is anything you want to show on screen, all can be controlled through a single page. Useful for any events like concert, conference, camps, etc. You can also use it for digital signage.Very early stage right now but I hope to release alpha soon. I'm already using it privately ri...
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I'm working on a CI/CD tool that runs scripts in the some of the most popular programming languages rather than YAML.My motivation has been some recent jobs/roles in which no-pipeline-feature-gets-denied YAML scripts have grown unmanageably large.I'd be interested to hear of any pitfalls that any of you might foresee. ...
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Mostly just learning Finnish. I tried to get started on the Georgia Tech online master's in CS, but between that, a quite stressful full-time job, and a happy pregnant wife, I just found it was stretching my nerves too thin.I'll come back to it once I'm farther along in my language learning journey and want to take my ...
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I'm tring to write a minimal tool in Go to deploy and manage CD for my self-hosted projects.I've tried many things but still none fit exactly my needs (I deploy many static websites so I want that to be effortless but I still want to be able to do continuous deployment on git+docker based projects). I know about Dokku ...
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I'm a materials science/engineering critter. I'm working on a new method of making single-crystal diamond slabs up to 300mm diameter.
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I'm making a cyberpunk-like ttrpg system, that should be roughly backwards compatible with the old gear catalogs. But it adds better progressions, some fairly innovative (I think) die rolling systems that make better use of party skills, and a number of ways that roleplay changes the rules, and visa versa.
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Bungee is our audio stretching library. It can change music tempo and pitch effortlessly in real time on all common devices and browsers.Bungee is unique in its quality, performance and controllability. Every media player, DAW, video editor should use something like Bungee for smooth scrubbing and audio slomo.Try it wi...
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I’ve built a tool that allows anyone to add an AI chatbot to their website. There are lots of features I would like to add but I’m making the jump into sales and marketing work by starting a youtube channel to promote the product.https://chattysun.com
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I’m working on a pretty cool private equity platform at Pactio.It’s probably the most complicated product I've ever worked on. The team is incredible & I’m lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people. Our head of engineering is a fantastic person too, so it makes working here so easy!In my spare time I’m worki...
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I have been recently thinking about the NP-complete class of problems particularly the knapsack problem (it is easy to understand and attack). And I think it is really solvable in polynomial time. I actually tried and posted my solution here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341608 a bit of feedback would be real...
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Goodreads doesn't let you sort books by rating so making a tool that does:book-filter.com
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I’ve been working on robotics for a few months now. I have built an arm, started receiving parts for my quadruped, and have learned enough RL to at least hold opinions on it (my background is ML/LLM training, so a bit different).Eventual goal before I return to work next year is to have a robot I can take on walks with...
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I have been working on creating a hosting project where I can provide access to lots of private frontends (invidious, redlib, etc) and different services (vaultwarden, nextcloud, etc), etc. I have been setting up glusterFS (a distributed nfs) which I can use in Docker swarm to share the volumes for different nodes. I w...
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Smart assistant for kids that takes on the personality of their toys. Christmas gift for my nieces and nephews, so I am building four of them.Raspberry Pi5 + RFID reader, touchscreen, and some 3d printed enclosures. Going to get a lightweight LLM to run on the Pi5 and some custom interactive software.I just started t...
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I quit my job in the spring to work on UI design software where designers visually build real component and design system implementations, and engineers can collaborate by editing the code.The goal is to eliminate the massive chasm that exists in design-to-engineering hand-off by having a single source of truth.
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I dusted off an old project today. It's a browser based CHIP-8 emulator with a built in editor.https://chip8.dotslashdan.com/I added the ability to import/export ROMs and finally added some of documentation....Plenty bugs left to fix
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I am currently working on CyberScraper-2077 its a powerful web scraper powered by LLM.https://github.com/itsOwen/CyberScraper-2077
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My friends and I are working on https://supermemory.ai, an AI second brain to help you remember content from saved webpages and notes
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https://zimly.app is an open-source S3 media backup app that I've been working on in my free time.The last few months I've been trying to get the real-time upload speed to display nicely, which proved to be harder than anticipated. But I think I've got a good solution now and might roll a new release today.My goal is t...
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Few recent side projects:- a fact management tool based on a timeline. I have a complex legal situation, so I created a tool to store information about events. I can prioritize and tag the events, attach files to them, and have small workflow on them, and then filter the timeline based on the tags/priorities/workflow s...
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I'm one of the people working on Prodigy Reloaded (https://prodigyreloaded.com), recreating the Prodigy server to work with the client software in DOS and Mac. The new server software is written in Elixir.My part has been to generate news headlines and weather maps using current news and weather information. The most i...
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Working on an audio watermarking system.I've got the API ready, which requires 2 main values: - The original file ( which can be sent as a file, or hosted internally and requested using an ID ) - The data that needs to be printed into the audio file.The API will return a watermarked version of the audio file that you c...
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I made https://rascalhq.com, just to experiment with embeddings and because I wanted to see what kind of “advice” Shakespeare and Warren Buffet would give me for various queries.
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I have been reading the Reinforcement Learning textbook for the past three years religiously- didn’t get the concepts clear until this week, made it past Chapter 3 finally. The excellent YT lectures by David Silver and Emma Brunskill have been helpful but it took me a long time to ‘get it’.Next, I will try to build som...
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I built a chrome plugin to scrape data.It's pretty good for List and Lead extraction. https://pandaextract.com/
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Myself.More specifically, my mental health. I'm a bit of a mess, and I'm not sure I'll be able to properly commit to any external endeavors until I'm feeling better inside.
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Exploring adding the (novel?) concept of forward and backward packet loss heuristics to Trippy [1] as discussed here [2].[1] https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/issues/860[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591945
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I am working on an open book Library and a "new" D-Licence.It is an experiment for the exploration of the free aspect of blockchain storage, where the book library is now permanently hosted on the blockchain, and it's content voted upon by its members.The licence is based on creative commons, and enforces that the data...
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Working on a game that parents of young gamers can play together without the child being frustrated or the parent being bored :)