[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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       Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
        
       What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
        
       Author : david927
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-08-24 22:00 UTC (59 minutes ago)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132906 for a bit of
       | recent context)
        
       | celltalk wrote:
       | 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.co
       | 
       | Made it with React, Vite, firebase via Typescript. It's a really
       | different world for sure.
        
       | mertbio wrote:
       | Recently released an iOS that helps you to see your Plausible
       | Analytics data on the widgets: https://charsible.app/
       | 
       | Right now making improvements based on the feedback.
        
       | kjksf wrote:
       | I'm working on Edna - a note taking app for developers and power
       | users.
       | 
       | https://edna.arslexis.io/help
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | I'm back to working on an ML app pair (train/consume) for
       | Mac/iOS, for finding a certain type of resource.
       | 
       | I tried it a while back, and wasn't too thrilled with the way
       | Apple has structured their ML stuff (they basically only afford
       | very specific applications, which didn't match my workflow).
       | 
       | It was suggested that I revisit it, so I am.
        
       | gnulinux996 wrote:
       | I moved to doing programming for some post production companies
       | and I am working on a couple of patches for ffmpeg.
       | 
       | First time writing C and the task has been both daunting and
       | rewarding, I am mostly working hls enc/dec and learning about av
       | has been a ton of fun!
        
       | agentultra wrote:
       | Working on an update to `hiedb-mode`. It's an emacs package for
       | querying an hiedb index; a database for building IDE tooling for
       | Haskell. The update will use `compile` for the display buffer
       | similar to how `find-grep` does it.
        
       | cpursley wrote:
       | Despite not liking JavaScript as a language nor the Node runtime,
       | learning about hybrid static and SSR apps with Astro.js - I have
       | to say, I'm impressed so far. Seems like a sweet spot for certain
       | types of sites.
        
       | FretLabs wrote:
       | I'm finishing up FretLabs, a web app that lets you
       | practice/freestyle guitar scales alongside songs. Launching soon!
       | 
       | Promo: https://youtu.be/8709yXI82ms?si=8R_5tkBqwf1UVh9n
        
       | generalizations wrote:
       | Building more Amazon scraper websites. Working on a framework to
       | minimize the effort of creating them, and currently testing to
       | see if I can automate most of the process with Anthropic's
       | Sonnet.
       | 
       | The most recent site is https://computerdisplayprices.com
       | 
       | When I'm done, I'm probably going to make a blog post or two just
       | talking through the automation I figured out so far. LLMs are
       | amazing force multipliers.
        
       | taiters_ wrote:
       | 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
        
       | ahmedbaracat wrote:
       | Working on: https://www.mylondonhomesearch.co.uk/
       | 
       | To help Londoners find their perfect home by filtering for
       | proximity to parks, river, PoIs, commute time, etc.
       | 
       | The website is not optimized for mobile and customers have to pay
       | to access the functional filters/properties.
        
       | fragmede wrote:
       | working on a website showing people how micropayments could work
       | today
        
       | aray07 wrote:
       | 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
        
       | mindcrime wrote:
       | 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
        
       | sawaali wrote:
       | A feature-rich, nice looking audio player for those who don't
       | stream music: https://sakunlabs.com/muziqi
       | 
       | It has 90% of the features that I wanted, and now I am working on
       | what my users want.
        
         | skeuomorphism wrote:
         | Was hoping this was for desktop, as ive been using winamp for
         | roughly 10 years since it has everything i want, including
         | android management support.
         | 
         | Regardless, keep up the good work!
        
       | henrycrutcher wrote:
       | Working on a stock market strategy tester and portfolio
       | simulator. Basically what a lazy dev would want to invest in
       | stocks. https://www.equitieslab.com
        
       | skybrian wrote:
       | I'm writing a new property-testing library for TypeScript. [1]
       | 
       | I wanted a way to define new Arbitraries that's easier than
       | working with .map(), .chain(), .oneOf(), and other combinators
       | that require you to think in terms of sets. It has those
       | combinators, but you can also write code to randomly generate one
       | value at a time. It uses an approach to shrinking that's inspired
       | by Hypothesis.
       | 
       | Along the way, I ended up adding a Domain subclass, which also
       | does validation like Zod. Not sure where I'm going with that.
       | 
       | (The documentation isn't done and doesn't explain what's
       | interesting about it. Caveat: it's Deno-only, and will probably
       | stay that way unless someone wants to help.)
       | 
       | [1] https://jsr.io/@skybrian/repeat-test
        
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