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It's an attempt to get round the fact that various health apps and vendors pick and choose what they share or show from other sources.
I have a keyboard I bought in 2020 called the Makerdiary M60 keyboard. It runs Python, and over the years I've coded in various functions. But it was somewhat buggy, and the upstream firmware was never upgraded. I love the hardware because it's the only keyboard I've been able to find that keeps a live Bluetooth connection and lets you toggle back and forth between USB and Bluetooth instantly using only a keyboard sh…
I got laid off at the end of April and have been building my own personal dream tool since, it's a skeuomorphic carpentry simulator with an agent MCP. You start with real wood specs and a shop full of miter saws, router tables, table saws and the like. Think of it like Sketchup but no extruding rectangles. It's been really fun to build with. Agents can create parametric procedures so e.g. stick framing becomes a simp…
I saw that tons of companies are still on GitHub, using their unproductive tools that have no vision to how they work together and I want to do something about it.
The landing page will be up soon, but for now I am actually looking for a cofounder with a technical product management or engineering management background (the multitasker hustlers that know tech), so do reach out if that sounds interesting to you!
(I'm kidding when I say this, and it's also concretely true.)
Been working on realtime DSP and ad-hoc A/V integration and sync.
Audio DACs are a solved problem. Pristine D/A conversion is a ubiquitous low-cost commodity. It's fun to buy a bunch of cheap "chi-fi" DACs – quality is excellent – and ad-hoc merge them into one big audio interface and do per-channel DSP. Toss in some TPA3255 amplifiers. Bodge together a crossover and room correction monstrosity in Reaper or Logic. Run system audio through that. It's easy to get super arcane. My home stereo is frightening. The interesting part is thinking about how to get a human interface on top of it. How to get it to assemble and stay assembled and present human-comprehensible knobs – or not.
Also had an extended family health crisis. About 9 years non-stop of extremely unlikely convergences of life-threatening conditions. (My close family has dissolved due to trauma and stress. (It's okay.)) And I haven't been working a programming or computer-science job since 2020… but I have very serious and significant work experience in things that are… how to even put it. It's not immediately clear how to add the past few years to my resumé?
Did an invisible PhD in mitochondrial neuroimmunobiology at the School of Hard Knocks? Stint of off-piste biomedical engineering? Amateur placental biotechnologist? Independent researcher?, or just… faceplanted into some PDFs on Google Scholar and accidentally read some out-of-my-lane stuff and it turns out it's actionable. Results from molecular biology are actionable.
It is said that there's a 15 year gap before something reaches clinical practice. Between having in one hand some concrete scientific results. On how to treat something in the body. And on the other hand… to clinical practice. A 15 year gap.
What's that 15 year gap made out of?, and can we cross it earlier?
We can.
Trying to figure out how to get this into words, and what to do with it.
And then when I've got the realtime-DSP-ed-to-the-hilt home-computer workstation going, I'm going to work on Idris 2 because we need dependent types.
Lots of fun projects being listed. I'm working on Preloop( https://preloop.dev ), a way to run your unmodified Github Actions locally or self-hosted in isolated cross-platform microvms(uses smolvm which uses libkrun vmm).I got frustrated with Github Actions reliability and inability to run or test my workflows locally so i re-wrote the runner and reverse-engineered the control plane so it follows the exact runner pro…
Will be nice to have a minimal documentation site tho!