Ask HN: What are you working on this year? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by ChristopherDrum » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:49 AM UTC

- I'm pretty gung-ho to finish the first draft of my novel.

- I'll make as much progress as I can on my text adventure.

- I would love to update my Pico-8 z-machine "Status Line" to v3.0 to support said text adventure (add .z5, .z7, .z8 support). Then I can finally stop thinking about that project and mark it officially "done," bug-fixes notwithstanding. (https://christopherdrum.itch.io/statusline)

- If the Jai programming language releases, I'll definitely put time into it and that would likely supercede the below projects entirely.

- As a Pico-8 lover who is frustrated by some of its limitations, I'll tinker with Picotron now that "Picotron Playground" has launched. (https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=playground)

- Continue with my C studies. My problem to date is I just haven't had anything I wanted to build. Now though, I think I'd like to take a stab at making a text adventure language/system just to deconstruct and understand how that process works. Inform6 is tethered to the past too much; Inform7 is simply not my cup of tea. I haven't been smitten by the other options (TADS, et al). This would more likely happen in 2024, if I'm honest with myself.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by thomastjeffery » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:49 AM UTC

jashkenas wrote: post #65

Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie... But I'm a believer in asking for…

It's really disillusioning to see the top comment in a front-page HN-thread require payment to even be read completely.

I can see that this isn't your personal design decision, but there is a literal paywall preventing you from communicating with me. This is absurd.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by rahul_nyc » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:57 AM UTC

I'm planning to work on the service for freelancers[1] and also more AI projects[2].

[1] - Freelance leads as service for freelancers and web agencies - RemoteLeads

[2] - Planning to build the world's first Photo studio using AI

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by jashkenas » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:58 AM UTC

thomastjeffery wrote: post #262

jashkenas wrote: post #65

Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie... But I'm a believer in asking for…

It's really disillusioning to see the top comment in a front-page HN-thread require payment to even be read completely. I can see that this isn't your personal design decision, but there is a literal paywall preventing you from communicating with me. This is absurd.

Sorry about that! I didn't think to put in gift links, and of course I should have. Here are (what should be) unpaywalled versions:

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by felipemnoa » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:58 AM UTC

I will hopefully be finishing the first playable version of a game I've been working on for some years now.

A game that allows you to build machines.

This a video of a very simple demo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/indiegames/comments/zolsc4/dominoes...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by keizo » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:58 AM UTC

making the simplest note-taking app in the world through the lens of a small manufacturing business owner who's inherently unorganized. I've been programming on and off for my entire life, but it's never been my main thing. I'm not counting on it to become my main thing now, but with all the tools these days (django, htmx, copilot, openai mostly), it feels like I can accomplish things in my free time that I never thought possible. It's fun, keeps me in the loop, and I'd love to grow it into more than a side project. Nothing groundbreaking, just putting puzzle pieces together in the most straight forward way possible. :) wip at https://grugnotes.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by igeligel_dev » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:02 AM UTC

Working on bringing sheetshortcut alive [1] and dabbling into some new spaces around side projects, probably in the google sheet/excel area.

[1] https://sheetshortcut.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by jweatherby » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:05 AM UTC

I'm building an attendance management app - https://tendee.co

I had a few itches to scratch:

- one off events now that fewer people are on facebook;

- planning in advance for subs in team sports;

- some work events have max capacity, so building out a wait-list

It's been a good way to play around and learn some tech I've been meaning to get around to, like NextJS and PrismaDB, but I kinda regret not giving Remix a shot.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:07 AM UTC

tylerneylon wrote: post #91

jashkenas wrote: post #65

Working at a still-feels-new-to-me job as Graphics Director for Opinion at The New York Times. Our small team publishes arguments and guest essays supported by visual evidence, like these: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/scien... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/08/opinion/urban... - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/20/opinion/ancie... But I'm a believer in asking for…

This is great work. I'm impressed. Just in case you happen to know the answer: How does taking tree samples (as in your third link) not harm the tree? It seems inevitable that it would do so, at least intuitively.

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on this year?

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Post by pkghost » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:08 AM UTC

jashkenas wrote: post #109

tylerneylon wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great work. I'm impressed. Just in case you happen to know the answer: How does taking tree samples (as in your third link) not harm the tree? It seems inevitable that it would do so, at least intuitively.

I had the same question! My understanding — relayed through one degree of separation from Daniel Griffin, the dendrochronologist who wrote the piece — is that the core samples are very long and thin, and care is taken not to injure the tree and to allow it to heal rapidly. Here's a write-up from Carleton with more info about how the tree core sampling process works: https://serc.carleton.edu/trex/students/labs/lab2_2…

Not having read the much more authoritative response above (or any such), I'll foolishly offer the one fact about trees I recall from boy scouts or outdoor school:

The core of a tree is much less alive than the bark—so much less, in fact, that if you walk in a circle around a tree scraping off a thin strip of bark and make sure to stop where you started, the tree will die.

Having googled this just to be sure, I also learned that trees can only lose up to about a quarter of a circumference of bark (in the fashion describe above) before facing mortal peril.