[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
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       Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
        
       What are you working on? Any new ideas you're thinking about?
        
       Author : david927
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2023-01-02 17:28 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
       | thsbrown wrote:
       | 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 .
        
       | johnohara wrote:
       | Python, Rich, and Textual.
       | 
       | The current state of development is very interesting, especially
       | with embedded projects (bbone, rpi, jetson nano, odroid, etc.).
        
       | zurtri wrote:
       | I will continue to build and improve my comprehensive horse
       | husbandry software: https://horserecords.info
        
       | tdekken wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | --
       | 
       | [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.
        
       | montenegrohugo wrote:
       | 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!
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | tunesmith wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | mrsubletbot wrote:
         | Happy Jamuary! I think this is so great! I'm trying to do
         | produce a musical artifact each day this month. I'm hoping it
         | helps with my bad habit of never finishing songs :)
        
           | jcpst wrote:
           | Then you can keep going through February
           | https://www.rpmchallenge.com/
        
       | victorNicollet wrote:
       | 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
        
       | mozman wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | aerovistae wrote:
         | What country? How much do you anticipate needing to start it?
         | Do you have experience in hospitality?
        
           | mozman wrote:
           | Turkey. On the coast in a small resort town. 200k per key
           | with 15 rooms.
           | 
           | I have no prior experience but what I do have is a business
           | plan and a local partner. I'm networking with people who are
           | in hospitality and working with a consultant to assist with
           | due diligence. I'm moving there to supervise operations.
        
       | grishka wrote:
       | I'll keep building my federated Facebook replacement.
       | 
       | https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
        
       | NotYourLawyer wrote:
       | Building a treehouse for my kids. Turns out that (like most
       | things) treehouse construction can be a very deep rabbit hole.
        
       | CalRobert wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | martin-adams wrote:
       | 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
        
       | szastamasta wrote:
       | 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...
        
       | jason_zig wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | miguelrochefort wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | eaurouge wrote:
         | Say more? On how you plan to double productivity.
        
         | hawski wrote:
         | What is your current life management framework?
        
       | jriot wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | digdugdirk wrote:
         | Gotta say, I absolutely love the UltraStrong concept. Are you
         | being particularly selective about the strongman events you're
         | entering? I've come across a few that have one or two events
         | where even the opening weight/implement might cause issues for
         | anyone trying to run the next day, let alone run an
         | ultramarathon.
        
       | jjp wrote:
       | 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
        
         | Rodeoclash wrote:
         | The first thing I thought of when reading the code for h3 was
         | "I wonder if you could use this to build a Fallout-esque hex
         | layouts for games".
         | 
         | I wonder if the lat/lng to hexes would work well for screen
         | coordinates and the zooming aspect could introduce some
         | interesting UI elements. Purely speculative though, I should
         | probably read the docs in more detail.
        
       | simonhamp wrote:
       | Using Open Banking to make micropayments a thing: https://just-
       | spred.com
        
       | ivarconr wrote:
       | Will continue building Unleash (https://www.getunleash.io), still
       | a lot to do.
        
         | victorNicollet wrote:
         | I reached the bottom of the page without getting a good
         | understanding of what Unleash is. Is it something that deploys
         | applications ? Something that pushes settings to applications ?
         | Something that applications pull settings from ? An agent that
         | runs on servers ? A load balancer (or API gateway) ?
        
           | chrisandchris wrote:
           | It's basically feature flags on Steroids, provided as an
           | (REST) API (at least that's how I got to know it).
        
       | TACIXAT wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | simplyinfinity wrote:
       | I'm working on a calendar syncing for multiple providers, with
       | focus on privacy and control.
        
       | bravetraveler wrote:
       | 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
        
       | SeriousM wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | hawski wrote:
         | That sounds interesting. Could you expand your description or
         | give a link for more information?
        
       | s-xyz wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | coyotespike wrote:
         | At a glance, really nice design, and love the name.
         | 
         | This may or may not be stupid, but you could curate/link to
         | snazzy umbrellas, the most functional and most stylish.
        
       | tylerneylon wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | kinow wrote:
       | 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...
        
       | mighty_donkey wrote:
       | 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/
        
         | kinow wrote:
         | Sounds interesting! I work with these data, is any of that
         | going to be Open Source or commercial only?
        
       | raphaelj wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | kulor wrote:
         | This is excellent, you can see the love that's been put into
         | this. Feels like something that will do really well, keep
         | going.
        
       | zakary wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | cripblip wrote:
         | Would love to hear more about the work item... (and interval
         | training with matched music is a great idea!)
        
       | syngrog66 wrote:
       | 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
        
       | esel2k wrote:
       | 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).
        
       | Cardinal7167 wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | dhucerbin wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | remir wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | radihuq wrote:
       | I'm going to build & launch a new project every week -
       | https://www.radihuq.com/52
        
         | m0wer wrote:
         | Very interesting! I would like to follow what you do through
         | the year, maybe in one of those weeks you could work on an RSS
         | feed for the page ;-)
        
           | radihuq wrote:
           | Haha good idea :) in the meantime feel free to follow along
           | on Twitter (link in bio)
        
       | minhmeoke wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | empressplay wrote:
       | The same thing we worked on last year Pinky, trying to take over
       | the world!
        
       | lormayna wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | dt3ft wrote:
       | Rewriting https://20-things.com in TS and React (new frontend:
       | https://client.20-things.com)
        
       | danielovichdk wrote:
       | Empty km/miles challenges for the logistics field. Zero revenue
       | optimization.
        
       | jerryu wrote:
       | Working on a database modeling tool for past year and half.
       | Planning to do a public launch later this week. Fingers crossed!
        
       | user_named wrote:
       | I'm hosting one dinner party per month at my place
        
         | ljlolel wrote:
         | I'd recommend getting a remote assistant to help
        
         | dopeboy wrote:
         | Love this. What inspired you to do so? Do you cook or is it
         | like a potluck?
        
         | winterismute wrote:
         | That's actually a great idea, the lack of effort spent in
         | keeping friends is an underestimated issues, at least in many
         | western cities...
        
       | kaveh808 wrote:
       | Will continue development of my 3D Common Lisp system:
       | https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9
       | 
       | Brief trailer: https://youtu.be/i0CwhEDAXB0
        
       | 1xdevloper wrote:
       | 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...
        
       | mhlakhani wrote:
       | 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!
        
       | cod1r wrote:
       | I want to write a C compiler in Rust for fun :)
        
       | aminseyedi wrote:
       | 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
        
       | noloblo wrote:
       | a.i driven hedge fund
        
       | hawski wrote:
       | Being organized. Planning and achieving.
       | 
       | This time I will succeed.
        
       | gorkemcetin wrote:
       | 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
        
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       | josephg wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | zht wrote:
       | I am clinging onto my day job for dear life trying to stay
       | employed through this craziness
        
         | jerryu wrote:
         | Always have something of your own to work on in addition to
         | your full-time job. This advice from an old timer changed my
         | life!
        
       | kyleyeats wrote:
       | 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/
        
       | bri3d wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | styren wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | philip1209 wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | 4kimov wrote:
       | 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
        
       | ubavic wrote:
       | 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).
        
         | kinow wrote:
         | Nice and good on you for teaching Haskell to highschoolers.
         | Being exposed to some of its concepts at early age will
         | probably pay dividends later on.
         | 
         | If you ever have something in English, post on reddit to
         | r/functionalprogramming o/
        
         | johnohara wrote:
         | Most people don't fully appreciate the amount of material a
         | truly interested and motivated group of high school students
         | can cover, grasp, and learn.
         | 
         | Kudos to you for being so prepared that your notes can be
         | published as a book, and by proxy, for creating a rich learning
         | environment wherein they're encouraged to flourish.
         | 
         | Well done.
        
       | smcn wrote:
       | 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
        
       | kstenerud wrote:
       | 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/
        
       | vertis wrote:
       | I'm continuing working on twirrl.io. I will, at some point, get
       | it finished.
        
       | robszumski wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | ChadB wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | iceburgcrm wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | silisili wrote:
         | Curious about the name - in US English we spell it iceberg. Is
         | it spelled differently in CA, or was it an intentional
         | decision?
        
       | Aaronstotle wrote:
       | 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
        
       | geocrasher wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | majewsky wrote:
       | 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. :)
        
         | hawski wrote:
         | Last year I was thinking about a FUSE filesystem that would
         | help keep downloads directory more organized. But I think that
         | maybe using fanotify or inotify could work better for it.
         | Probably there exist something like it.
         | 
         | Other FS I had in mind that could be tied to the first idea is
         | a naive online deduplication layer. This could help keeping
         | Yocto build directories size under control.
         | 
         | Other idea (that would be useless for Yocto but useful for
         | private files) is to add redundancy in terms of par2 files
         | being created online.
         | 
         | I know that most of those ideas could be better served by more
         | sophisticated filesystems, but I think on one side you can't
         | always choose the filesystem you can use and on the other hand
         | for archiving purposes the simplest things could be the best.
        
       | Rodeoclash wrote:
       | 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".
        
       | Msurrow wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | E39M5S62 wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | caser wrote:
       | Working on an evidence-based 8-week intervention around values &
       | meaning-making in the style of MBSR:
       | 
       | nosmallplans.io/mindful-values
       | 
       | Also working on a community for exploring life's big questions
       | outside of traditional religion:
       | 
       | formationgroups.com
       | 
       | Mostly non-tech projects for me this year :)
        
       | autotune wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | adithyasrin wrote:
       | Job board focused on Germany. Same procedure as every year.
       | 
       | https://www.arbeitnow.com
        
       | flutas wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | scottmcdot wrote:
         | You should check out pricehipster.com. It was really good until
         | companies started making it difficult to maintain a data feed.
        
           | flutas wrote:
           | Looks interesting and almost the exact same idea, just a
           | different industry.
           | 
           | I am worried about the data feed aspects, the stores aren't
           | exactly going to enjoy this, since they are the ones making
           | the majority of the profit in this situation (my brother
           | works at a manufacturer on the other side of this, so I know
           | roughly the margins involved).
           | 
           | I understand it though, who would enjoy something like this
           | coming out when your price for a product can go from $45 to
           | $9 in a day and you're still making profit off of it... ex of
           | actual data: https://i.imgur.com/jYUDriD.jpg
        
       | jashkenas wrote:
       | 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
        
         | tylerneylon wrote:
         | This is great work. I'm impressed.
         | 
         | Just in case you happen to know the answer: How does taking
         | tree samples (as in your third link) not harm the tree? It
         | seems inevitable that it would do so, at least intuitively.
        
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