Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

I want to rekindle my curiosity and re-visit a few subjects I've forgotten since graduating, i.e. discrete mathematics, algos, etc. The second half of last year was rough for me as I got put into a leadership position involuntarily and I've been struggling and burning out ever since. This year I want to take back some of my life and rein in some of the negative habits I've developed then.

An app for quickly and collaboratively drawing maps for tabletop RPGs.

I run a tabletop RPG for some friends over the Internet using Roll20. As a player in other (in-person) games, there have been times where we've collaboratively made a map as we've gone along rather than the GM providing one, and I wanted to be able to provide a similar experience for my players. Since we found Roll20 didn't really work for this use case, I'm cobbling together an app that tries to make the experience as fluid as possible. It's only really intended for my group when I'll be on hand to explain how it works and I'll be the only one deploying it, so the docs are somewhat sparse, but in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/mwilliamson/ttrpg-map-sketcher

I've also been working on a compiler for the most boring programming language in the world: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk

I maintain a library with ports to multiple languages (JavaScript, Python, Java). They have very similar structure, which means doing the same thing in pretty much the same way three times each time I make a change.

The idea I wanted to test with my language is: is it possible to extract a common subset that compiles into reasonably idiomatic code for those target languages? The compiled interfaces should be sensible (i.e. use of the code from the target language should be as good as if written in the target language directly), while implementations can be a little less tidy, but ultimately still readable and easily refactorable if the user ever decides to eject from my language and write everything in the target language(s) instead.

I doubt I'll ever use it in anger, and since it's nowhere near ready for use of any kind there aren't really any docs. In the unlikely event someone is interested, the most illuminating thing to look at would be the very beginnings of the reimplementation of the aforementioned library. Since I use snapshot testing with examples, you can see the source code, generated code and result of running the compiled test suite in one file:

Java: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B... Python: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B... TypeScript: https://github.com/mwilliamson/clunk/blob/main/snapshots/%5B...

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Wow, very cool! We're doing SLIT for my toddler's food allergies right now, and I agree a lot more people should be doing it. It's a huge pain dealing with the doctor for updosing and getting bottles, super inefficient and frustrating like everything else in medicine these days, so if you can fix that you're a hero to me.

I've concluded from recent research that SLIT is clearly far more effective and safer when started super early, ideally before age 3 and even before 1 if possible. And with so many kids having life-threatening food allergies these days, that seems like a big opportunity both from a business perspective and a helping people perspective. What are your barriers to offering treatment for food allergies, and to very young children?

It's a different show when you revisit the opening lyrics as "one is a genius, the other's insane" and view the story as being about how Pinky is a benevolent genius who keeps his power crazed lunatic friend Brain from causing too much harm. There are flashes of his brilliance throughout that hint at it, but when you think of how a genius would live vs. how someone insane would live, it fits well.