Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

The other idea I want to work on is longevity as a service, helping folks track health metrics that have been reliably shown to affect life expectancy. Things like hormones, cholesterol (apoB, lp(A)), inflammation...

This was a surprise to me, my dad, and many others. Some of her girlfriends knew this situation existed, but never got a name.

And so I spent my summer in what I call "old lady Facebook groups" and learned the tricks and the trades to investigative genetic genealogy. One of the useful tips you can apply to your DNA matches called DNA color clustering — it's incredibly useful: https://www.danaleeds.com/dna-color-clustering-the-leeds-met...

Of course, I didn't want to do this by hand. There were some tools out there that existed but they were "old school" software packages: you know, you install it on your own device! "Worse" yet, I'd have to give it my raw password — no thanks! It started there, and morphed into a lot more, and now it's used by "search genies" and consumers alike: https://sherlockdna.com

There's a lot more that can be done in this realm by both providers and hackers. There's a niche for these "pro tools" that exist but the typical DNA test taker is not after any sort of genealogical exploration that requires substantial effort. There is a very sizable group of people who do, though, and those people, I have found, are very pleasant, kind, and nice to be around. I like surrounding myself with good people, so I'm happy to help them while I scratch my own itch.

All this, and I am yet to find the guy I'm looking for despite having invested over 1,000 hours into finding him. I have, though, found over two dozen "wanted" individuals (not in the criminal sense) and united them with their searcher — at least that part is satisfying.

I recommend finding one of those. When you turned it on, the only thing you could type was Basic. As he got older, I just gave him my old computers.

Don’t overthink. If your kid is going to like computers basically the only thing you need to do is get out of the way. If you approve too energetically, she will start to hate on her thirteenth birthday on principle… unless she likes it then it matters very little what you do.

First is a routine/task management app designed for people with inattentive ADHD. The goal is develop automated strategies that catch and counter the tendency for such tools to spontaneously turn "invisible" to the audience, whereupon they lose progress and time until they find a new strategy or reconnect.

Second is publishing a fiction serial via a self-hosted Ghost instance using a custom theme. The v0.1 of this is about to launch. I've been pottering towards this since lockdown. The goals for this project are two fold - try and build a web-based reading experience that is low friction and enjoyable (probably on top of epub.js), and test my theory that the internet is big enough such that there is an audience that will support any creative work as long as they can find it.

Records all application level method calls within your app, along with their important context.

Visual nesting of the method calls allows you to easily see which methods call which.

Request params, method argument values, method return values, local variable values, all are recorded.

https://callstacking.com/

You no longer need to debug with binding.pry or puts statements, as the entire callstack for a given request is captured.

Any new engineer joining your team can quickly understand what are the important calls/views for any given request.

Teammates can comment on changes to your call chain.