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Btw, currently I'm looking for some people to test the software, so if you're interested let me know and I'll give you a free license.
I wanted to experiment with building my own ephemeris and calculation stack, and refine my agentic development workflow... and honestly make astrology software that doesn’t look like it was made in 2004.
I started with asteroid calculation software, because much of it is Windows-only, and really inaccessible. (For the best one you literally need to email a guy to get it)
A friend also asked me for a replacement for the old PlanetWatcher.com-- a site where you could use a time scrubber and animate through a chart (it's no longer around)
Inevitably, the project has expanded into so much more... It's been a great way to experiment with MCP, different agentic coding processes, and to test some of the custom harnesses and context management tools I've been hacking on.
Check it out!
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I've been working on a vocal pitch-and-time editor called PitchDance, something like Melodyne. It works both as standalone software or a plug-in for your DAW. The idea is to make software like this more accessible by selling at a much cheaper price than the majors, and only competitors I could find on the market. https://www.pitchdance.com/ Btw, currently I'm looking for some people to test the software, so if you're…
I'm also wondering if you've considered some music theory functions like for example highlighting the midi grid along to some scale, which would allow "snap to" (next in key note). If you're curious, I have familiarity with this end of things so feel free to pick my brain.
It has:
* No tools that grant shell access, instead tools grant access to specific executables (dangerous args can be blocked).
* Separate "driver" and "navigator" modes that enable or block writable tool access for the agent.
* Role-based model config to control model options depending on whether the agent is planning/reviewing/driving/etc.
Very WIP and no installation process yet, but I'm using it as my daily driver and genuinely prefer it to Claude Code etc.
I think I have found three, and they will keep me quite busy for a while.
Read/Think: Bioelectric networks as the software plane of morphology
cf. Allen Center / Levin labs / TAME
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10346 and other work from that fecund lab is ever-fascinating. I have been following their work for five or six years. Much of that informed a giant essay I wrote prompted by an essay contest on Consciousness: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/consciousness-lives-in-a-ded...
Read/Think/Research/Write: How to write a Hard SciFi novel that does not have magic technology genius, and certainly not magic ET showing up to save the day?
A spec fic author friend is on my case about it, because he said "why the hell haven't you written your novel yet?" and I foolishly said "yeah why not? okay let me do it", and now I'm stuck in an honour pact. Write or die trying.
Side-quest of $DayJob: Um, how does the weather even work (metrology)?
Because that's what happens when you're helping an applied sciences team run weather forecasting models, like WRF (pronounced "Worf", which I absolutely love :D). My day-to-day is packer and FreeBSD and shell scripts, but I have to also understand enough about the domain to be somewhat dangerous.
And also... why isn't everybody using FreeBSD + ZFS for all their server workloads?
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x-posted from my earlier question [0] that David offered to fold into this regular Ask HN he runs... Thanks again; this is cool :)
The first version is just simple box that controlling a bunch of valves to control waterflow, quickly learn my mistake that i have to route every wires into that box(at least 2 for power), the bigger your garden, the more wires you use.
Now the current version use Modbus over RS485 so that i can daisy chain the valves, and can extend more valves without compiling new FW.
The master node uses esp32 and the slave node uses the cheapest mcu i can find(Puya py32)
Sometimes i just want a simple device like that, no home assistant or anything, have been bitten in the past.
It has completely local environment and has no servers. Your files saved as SQLite database files per board. This means you have nothing to set up. No account, no sign-in, no sync settings. Just open it and work. You can use git or Onedrive to sync your SQLite files.
The code is open-source on GitHub with MIT license. I am using claude to build it in C#, Skiasharp for canvas and WPF UI.
If you are interested to take a look, please check it here : https://github.com/ppnpm/segue
Thanks, Ankit
I’ve been focused on decentralising it, offering ways for bloggers to write locally (markdown, Obsidian) while hosting remotely on the platform. I think it’s a great way of working. Most people still just use the editor though!
I’ve been focused on marketing and distribution, which is mainly about content. Hard in such a crowded space but it seems to be working.
It’s been such an interesting journey technically too, from using coding agents to dealing with the crazy deluge of bot traffic.
I run it all myself which isn’t so daunting in the AI age.