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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#101
Not sure if this qualifies, but here goes: I wrote a hard science-fiction novella. It's intended to be scientifically accurate to special and general relativity, with just one tweak that permeates throughout.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19e3HfnK1lNHHBef-5c-KvNdD...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#102
I just released my 2nd app to the App Store: Just Chess Puzzles

It’s as simple as it sounds: 100,000 chess puzzles, all offline, rated (just like chess.com or lichess puzzle modes)

A big thing I added that makes mine unique is the play it out” mode that allows you to finish the game with a chess engine of equal difficulty

You get 20 free puzzles per day, or a $5 lifetime purchase for unlimited puzzles and features: https://justchesspuzzles.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#104
Waiting for the remaining broadcast equipment for my LPFM (www.kpbj.fm) to arrive! Then we finally get on the broadcast band. We have over 80 shows at this point. We still need fundraising support. If you are in Los Angeles and want to support freeform community please reach out.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#106

I am retired, so this may not be of general interest: I am working on my fourth AI coding agent, this one written in Racket Scheme: https://github.com/mark-watson/racket-coding-agent I don't necessarily suggest that anyone besides myself use it. I open-sourced it to perhaps give other people ideas, but it is tailored to just my own needs (e.g., hardwired to use deepseek-v4-flash-0731 via FireWorks.ai; supports just t…

I like the racket+deepseek combo

ty for sharing this + your books

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#109
I've continued to work on a modal text editor, which has a server-client architecture that supports multiple clients (terminal, native, web) with consistent UI/bindings. I'm not using an editor as I used to, so this is more oriented around viewing/navigating code. I've recently been working on adding a Markdown viewer. The process of being able to use the editor and then get Claude to quickly make changes has been very satisfying.

I've also revived a project to design/implement a programming language. I'm slowing converging on a (keyword-less) syntax and (Beam-like) architecture that's starting to feel good.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

#110
Recently bought a Sovol SV08 printer. It comes with open source binaries, but there is no source code. Turns out they are a known to be violating the GPL. Looks like it can be rebuilt from other sources, so I have started to put together a clean implementation using Yocto. It will be possible to add support for similar 3D printers.

I bought that printer in order to print parts for two other projects: a baby monitor (security camera) and a hat-mounted teleprompter monocle. Both using COTS part and running Yocto-based open source images. All affordable products in both of those sectors are completely untrustworthy or otherwise unsuitable for my requirements, since one of which is total replacement of the firmware with my own custom versions.

In my day job, I am a principle embedded engineer consultant working on distributed embedded systems, so all of the above software will be relatively easy.

The mechanical work will be the most challenging, as I am presently only using OpenSCAD. I would entertain suggestions for alternative open source CAD solutions, but I hope to recruit a ME (or two!) to help drive that portion of the work to completion.

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