Kind of stopped writing code for a while. Been a few months.
Going back to the basics... a ToDo app
Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#122I just started building a small website for structural engineers with various tools on it (eg. capacity of a steel column). I have spent thousands of hours in the past building fancy excel (incl. vba)and mathcad documents for personal use and this is my first time trying to do it with "real" code. I went with Blazor and c#, so far it looks like a good choice. The long term goal if the projects is a success and becomes popular would be to have a FEM engine for 2D frame structures running in the browser client-side.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#123torchtune (https://github.com/pytorch/torchtune) - a PyTorch library for fine-tuning LLMs, particularly for memory-constrained setups. Try it out and fine-tune Llama3.1 8B on a single RTX 4090!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#124Working on a puzzle book series (for lovers, maybe)
https://www.kakurokokoro.com
It’s a pretty bad hack of HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, saved by Laravel, trying to print slightly larger than A5 paper for a major on demand publisher standard paperback, with browser Print to PDF settings, and is unwieldy but to the point, has an ISBN as well as being NP-complete. Discovered for myself that the number of permutations and derangements of the same length are related by the ratio of Euler’s Number e.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#125I'm working on a foresight and emergency response team to see large calamities coming before they happen, and hopefully be able to do something about it. We put out weekly minutes at https://blog.sentinel-team.org
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#126I’m working on marketing https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/ We’ve experimented with various approaches to promotion, including HN, KDP, Amazon Ads, and most recently Reddit Ads. It's been interesting to see which strategies resonate with the audience, but we're still figuring out the best way to get it in front of the right people. And marketing is really hard!
What is the unique value proposition of this book? How does it stand apart from the numerous amount of other books on the same topic? Marketing is hard when there isn't a clear brand. Branding is hard when you don't have a very simple and clear differentiator to promote.
Thanks for the questions! I hear you it does sound like a generic book name. Well, we have the domain and we couldn't really name it to something else as we think software engineering has many elements and we wanted to cover them.
Our book isn't just a technical book on software development. Instead, it goes into the life aspects of being a software engineer such as migration and parenting.
Many of us have wished for mentors who could guide us beyond the technicalities, offering insights into personal growth and career navigation. Recognizing this gap, we've created a resource that provides practical wisdom.
By taking a holistic approach to software engineering, we address both personal and professional development in a way that few other books do. This unique blend sets our book apart, offering a clear differentiator that defines our brand.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#127I've been experimenting with customizing Postgres to run on top of FoundationDB, which to me would be the dream combination of Postgres' top-notch feature set and ecosystem with FoundationDB's unique resilience, scalability and transactional guarantees.
Haven't written up anything about it or published any code yet, but it's working pretty well and I haven't even had to fork Postgres with all the extensibility it offers!
My email is in my profile if anybody would like to chat about it
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#128I’m working on marketing https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/ We’ve experimented with various approaches to promotion, including HN, KDP, Amazon Ads, and most recently Reddit Ads. It's been interesting to see which strategies resonate with the audience, but we're still figuring out the best way to get it in front of the right people. And marketing is really hard!
Any resources you'd recommend to learn marketing (esp. comming from a software background)? Asking for software friend who's having trouble marketing his software business.
(Also good luck with your book!)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#129Currently shipping some updates to https://storywatch.org, think of us as Goodreads or IMDB for web fiction and fanfiction, rather than traditional dead tree books. If you are fans of books like Worm or HPMOR, give us a try.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
#130Helping React devs move their state to the URL, in a type-safe way.
nuqs [1] started as a Next.js-only library, but recently I've been working on supporting all major React frameworks & routers (Remix, React Router, plain React with Vite etc).