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Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#111

I'm building Kavla, its an infinite multiplayer canvas for data analytics. I have a video on how it works on https://kavla.dev/ And a live demo here: https://demo.kavla.dev/ I've been working in the data space for five years now. Kavla is something that I personally feel would make my job more fun! Built with tldraw and duckdb

This is cool - I like the concept and the usefulness.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#112

Continuing to do a lot of historical review of early AI stuff. Just finished the Semantic Information Processing [1] book edited by Marvin Minsky, and now I'm reading Volume 1 of the Parallel Distributed Processing [2 book by Rumelhart and McClelland. After that, I have Principles of Semantic Networks [3] by John F. Sowa queued up. Along with all of that, still working on a lot of stuff using Jason[4] / AgentSpeak[5]…

I love this! If you want to do a short book club or do a review after each book, I'm very down!

It's funny you say that. I already do run a weekly "book club" group, but it's at work at my $dayjob employer. And, for various reasons, we've drifted away from the book focus and turned into a more presentation/discussion oriented group. But I still love to read physical books, and wouldn't be opposed to trying to come up with something to structure some discussion around some of these "outside of work" readings that I do.

If you want, drop me and email (prhodes@fogbeam.com) and maybe we can set something up.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#113

A burnout detector for SREs. The goal is to help teams identify incident responders who may be overworked/getting burned out. We are looking at: -Objective data: signals from incident management tools (Rootly/PagerDuty), GitHub, and Slack -Self-reported data: asking the engineers how they feel via short survey From this, we generate a CBI score (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory). We're still in beta, but we've received p…

Very good idea. I could have used this multiple times in my career. I am a go until I drop type of person, and I'd just keep going.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#114
Still focused on metal 3D printer slicer software with Blender geometry nodes, and a microscopic positioning stage design for hobbyists.

On the weekend built a lattice-filter test jig with the LiteVNA64, so sorting though the pile of crystals is less time intensive.

Other hobbies maybe 3 other people would find amusing. =3

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#115
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I'm trying to get my agentic software specification tool Arbiter to release (UI polish/debugging is so slow :/, browser shenanigans are harder than Rust fr). It's basically a tool that AI agents can use to construct a project specification. The twist to Arbiter is that the specs are structured and validated, and you can compile them to get: Services with stubbed endpoints, UIs with placeholder components, Dockerfiles…

How does it work? is just a documentation specification like spec kit?

Nope, it's a structured spec agents construct using a CLI or MCP (you can also interact with the spec using a web UI). It's CUE, and validated against a schema. Instead of taking your conversation and generating a markdown document that agents might (but often don't) respect, the agent populates the spec in the service from your conversation, then when you're done you can use the CLI to automatically generate a bunch of code.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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https://buildfreely.com helping people build a shed or small struture.

Nice work! I've recently been modeling sheds in SketchUp both with and without the Framer extension and it can be really tedious.

Random question as I don't know a ton of framing... is your sample model missing jack studs on the large door opening?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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In my free time I’m still working on My Financé (I keep getting feedback this name is confusing), which is a fairly undifferentiated personal finance tool. It’s a labor of love, but I love it! I’m currently building a simulation engine that lets you forecast your spending, build scenarios (like taking a year off, getting a cat, move to a new city, etc based on your current spending patterns and assets. https://myfina…

I don't know what it is about this name, but I read it as "My Fiancé". My brain did not register the first "n" and it wasn't until I read your parenthetical remark that I went back and re-read. The name isn't confusing, per se ("get married to/be exclusive with your finances", OK), but it also isn't very strong... "financé" is also very strange and awkward to pronounce as a native English speaker. Probably because it…

Yeah it was meant to be along the lines of:

My Financé, because you should love your finances.

To your point, I think it’s hard to notice the spelling, and hard to figure out how to pronounce it.

It also is the same spelling as My Finance, which is tricky to rank for on Google.

Overall, it seems like it has potential to be a fun brand, but the constant confusion has led me to strongly consider a “rebrand”.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

#120
I'm working on a site for filmmakers to help showcase themselves!

Why? >

LinkedIn isn't for creatives. Actor's Access is dated and charges a ton for basic extras Squarespace/wix is fine but everyone in 'the biz' has one and nobody wants to maintain it. Plus they're all silo'd.

Check out my site if you wanna. You get to host your own headshots, resume, and reels. You can upload your screenplay there and hear it read outloud. You can put up your cinematic scores and make a place to send people to hear your music.

https://cinesignal.com

Looking for users who wanna test the system out. Give me a shout and I'll throw you some credits if you wanna hear your screenplay read outloud.

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