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Show HN: What Are You Working On?

by egcodes on 4/21/24, 11:43 AM with 31 comments

• by _akhe on 4/21/24, 4:11 PM

  Excellent work! Such a nice complement to HN. Show HN is my favorite part of the site.

  Would be cool if the headline was a link to the project :)

  Thanks for sharing, just signed up!

  Edit: Nvm it parses links in the title. Only thing is if it's in parenthesis it parses that e.g. "I am making the next big thing (https://example.com)" it will attempt to navigate to https://example.com) <-- with the paren

• by troydavis on 4/23/24, 5:19 PM

  I grew 30 heirloom tomato plants to give away to friends and family. They're world-class seed varieties that aren't available through nurseries/retail[1]. I grew them indoors under grow lights[2].

  After giving most away, I had 4 left, so I walked around my neighborhood, knocked on front doors, and offered them to neighbors (none of whom I knew). The first 4 who answered were all eager to have one. Also, they're all now acquaintances - we've either texted or emailed.

  [1]: Go down the dwarf heirloom tomato breeding rabbit hole: https://www.dwarftomatoproject.net/ , https://joegardener.com/podcast/tomato-talk-big-gardening-an... . I grew purple/black varieties: Adelaide Festival, Fred's Tie Dye, and Metallica.

  [2]: Photo of 30 tomato starts on a wire rack in my living room: https://mas.to/@troyd/112277832267619233

• by niccl on 4/22/24, 8:56 PM

  I'm back working on my lighting desk [0]. Got the new boards manufactured and each has basic code on. Now looking at swapping out the i2c communications the main controller was using for CAN-bus that the new boards use. Hoping to get the system turning lights on and off in a month or so.

  I realised most of my motivation problems were depression-related, and getting treatment for that made it possible for me to get back to work on this project

  0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737795

• by drivers99 on 4/22/24, 8:17 PM

  There's used to be a site for that called advogato. Looks like it was shut down in 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.o...

  (I found my posts on there from 2000 to 2001. Looks like you could also tag other users in your updates. Apparently I became the "official documenter" of ClanLib and completely forgot about it. Sorry.)

• by dirtybirdnj on 4/22/24, 7:48 PM

  Edit: WHOOSH I totally missed your link! I think your idea is awesome if you couldn't tell by my participation :)

  TOO MUCH!

  I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year. The past two or three months things have been improving a lot thanks to meds.

  Three projects I'm working on are starting to really start to buzz:

  1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.

  2. Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING! s/o to the Duet folks their support forum is second to none.

  3. Electric motor for my kayak. Some very cool people on the internet are selling ESCs designed for brushed / brushless motors and it just so happens they perfectly overlap with the small / lightweight motor I'm using on my kayak. You can spend $$$$ on an electric setup but I'm making it work with a $130 motor, $200 battery and maybe $60 of electronics? Suck it torqueedo.

  Honestly if you'd have told me all this would be going on at once six months ago I might have got in a fight with you for blowing smoke up my ass. It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.

  I wish I could go back in time and tell my depressed / stressed self to have some hope and hang in there.

• by aklemm on 4/22/24, 8:11 PM

  In the midst of searching for what my particular contribution might be in the synthesis of Fediverse / IndieWeb / $other_such_efforts. Personal web page with some experiments is surely first, but if anyone else is like-minded, I'd love to know what you're doing.

  Discovery, search, UX, advocacy, are all angles I think about. Protocols seem to be in a good place, so that's less likely to need new work.

• by eternityforest on 4/22/24, 6:27 AM

  I signed up right away(as SeventhSeeker).

  I like the fact that there's no comments section, so it's just about the people building projects rather than biased by what random unrelated discussions other people decide to have.

  But feedback is still a thing, so I'm not really sure how to balance that.

• by Anon84 on 4/22/24, 8:06 PM

  Trying to put the finishing touches on a Python package [1] for epidemic modeling using Compartmental models. This grew out of a series of blog posts I started writing during the pandemic [2] based on my professional experience in epidemic modeling in a previous life where I was the lead developer for a state of the art global epidemic model [3].

  [1] http://github.com/DataForScience/epidemik

  [2] https://github.com/DataForScience/Epidemiology101

  [3] https://www.gleamviz.org/explore.html

• by mattFromJSToday on 4/22/24, 8:08 PM

  I'm "working" on a blog, https://blog.javascripttoday.com. I recently added lots of updates to the main site.

  Have tons of unfinished articles waiting to be published and a few other things to create.

  I'm also working on jitsujournal.com, which is something I'd like to have for myself, primarily. I also launched a chess club in my area, which gained massive interest which quickly died down, sadly.

  With a full-time job, it's hard to maintain everything. :/

  Ah, I didn't realize it was a site. Interesting! Are these worthy of being put on the site? I'm not so sure.

• by Sparkenstein on 4/23/24, 10:22 AM

  I am working on a desktop TOTP manager app, because it's super hard to switch to phone everytime I want to login somewhere.

  https://github.com/Sparkenstein/tautp

  you can guess what it's written in, don't use it yet, although it works but I store data in plaintext for now, looking for cross-platform solutions to encrypt it but so far no luck. will be adding lots of features soon.

  plus there's https://github.com/fosslife/devtools-x too

• by replete on 4/22/24, 9:09 PM

  Recently I've been building my own life ops system in Obsidian. I treat Obsidian like my offline personal CMS.

  My CSS snippets for minimal theme: https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippe...

  Life ops starter vault (including above snippets), with very basic cut down daily template: https://github.com/replete/life-ops-starter-obsidian-vault/

• by atum47 on 4/22/24, 8:23 PM

  I'm working on a full time job that leaves me almost with no time for personal projects. I've created some miner projects that address personal issues, and I do miss sharing fun stuff here. So I'm glad to say that this weekend i got a new raycaster engine going, using DDA algorithm. By the way this raycasting is related to the Wolfenstein game, not this modern stuff. Right now i got the basic stuff out of the way and as soon as i have more stuff I'll share it here.

• by bcye on 4/22/24, 8:16 PM

  This has (in some way) already been done[1][2][3], though almost always focused on the "indie hacker" scene - how will this site work differently?

  [1]: getmakerlog.com

  [2]: WIP.co

  [3]: buildinpublic.xyz

• by busymom0 on 4/22/24, 8:06 PM

  I am working on an app called Lime Reader. It's an app where you can read multiple "forum" like websites such as Hacker News, Lobsters, Tildes, Lemmy etc. from a single app with a familiar UI/UX. Screenshots:

  https://imgur.com/a/3Ip4KVN

  The origin of the idea came from my other app called HACK which has been an iOS and Android app for Hacker News for many years. I figured that I really wanted a similar app where I could read other forum like sites too. I have been working on this for a few months now and hoping to go live in the next few weeks. Starting with iOS, iPad and MacOS. Then Android too.

• by kaypee901 on 4/22/24, 8:24 PM

  I am working on a dependabot setup wizard written in Go. https://github.com/kaypee90/dependabot-wizard

• by meowtastic on 4/23/24, 1:50 AM

  A blog/newsletter of TikTok content ideas that have proven to work on the platform: https://tiktokexamples.com

• by andoando on 4/22/24, 7:42 PM

  Don't have much to show yet, but I am working on a programmatic way to create visuals and animations. Think lambda calculus but with graphical transformations.

• by programjoe on 4/22/24, 8:22 PM

  "serverless" for realtime video streaming. Just wanted an easier way to plug and play code to do some computer vision work.

• by fforflo on 4/22/24, 7:48 PM

  I'm working on a small Unix-inspired DSL for LLM pipelines.

• by pmdfgy on 4/21/24, 8:39 PM

  At the beginning I thought I'd find the same info as in a .plan file (discovered while reading Masters of Doom, where John Carmack explains what he's working on). It would have been super cool ! Unfortunately, your page looks more like a #buildinpublic twitter page which is not really insightful. Good luck with this project.