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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#161

I'm writing a decompiler for Turbo Pascal 3.0, to reverse engineer an educational game from the 80s. Since TP 3.0 does no optimisations, and looking at the progress so far (~25% decompiled), it seems like matching decompilation should be achievable. If/when I get to 100%, I hope to make the process of annotating the result (Func13_var_2_2 is hardly an informative variable name) into a community project.

Sounds cool, what game?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#162
https://finbug.xyz/, free software tools for Finnish language learners continues to be my primary project, in between long bouts of Anki cards. I recently revamped and standardized the CSS a little among the various online tools, and I quite like how they look now.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#163

I'm working on a simple, local storage budgeting app called "Wasa Budget". I wrote it because I got tired of tracking my budget on excel sheets. It's written in flutter, it works well enough that I was able to entirely ditch the excel sheets now. I want to publish it on Google play, but I need testers. If anyone cares about budgeting, I'd love to get some feedback. Here's the app link: https://play.google.com/apps/te…

'A testing version of this app hasn't been published yet or isn't available for this account.'

> Send me your Gmail address if you're interested!

Where? nleschov at gmail

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#165
https://attachedapp.com

Still figuring out how to pitch it, but so far it's 'Duolingo for relationship issues'

We launched this month and are growing fast which is exciting. I'm mostly impressed by how easy React Native has gotten, as a long-time native Apple Platforms dev, given all the training LLMs have on React.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#166

I went Yak shaving. For my 3D audio project I need an affordable way to make plastic cases. I felt like injection molding services are way overpriced, so I decided to make the molds in-house. Turns out, CNC milling is overpriced, too. As are 5 axis CNC mills. So in the end, we built our own CNC machine. And like these things always go, I found an EMI issue with my power supply and a USB compliance bug in the off-the-…

That's a pretty big yak to shave! Building a 5 axis that gives good results a big task. How long did it take you to get that working?

Why do you need to make so many molds?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#167
https://hobzcalvin.github.io/blumon/editor

Node based visual editor for 2D LED patterns over BLE. Web/iOS/Android app to ESP32, works with most addressable LEDs. It’s like TouchDesigner x WLED x PixelBlaze, but Bluetooth so you don’t need annoying wifi setup. And hopefully you can make much more interesting patterns without touching any code.

Eventually the ESP32 devices will save all the patterns they’ve seen and share them with apps that connect to them. So there’s a pattern ecosystem, like Electric Sheep.

Still rough and in progress (and constantly deploying so it may break for you )

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#168
post #80

Still working on: an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-source PCB that can interact with Home Assistant. - The encoder ring which works like an LED mouse, but in reverse: Fully reverse-engineered and on its own demo PCB - The faceplate PCB, which does the actual c…

Is this project online anywhere yet that I can watch for it to be ready?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#170
post #136

A homegrown Plex. After a lot of grief trying to make Plex and jellyfish to work with my collection, and then some more with the community [1] I decided to make my own. There's no selling point and clear pathway to monetize, as other solutions are way more mature and feature complete, but this is my own and serves my needs the best. I've been working on it on and off for last 8 years or so, and it's been my personal…

Jellyfin right?
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