Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

I've been working on getting another major release out for my side project Materia[0], hopefully by or on the solstice. Materia is a GitOps continuous delivery tool for Podman quadlets: it handles installing/removing/updating files, installing secrets, restarting services and dependencies, rolling back failed updates, and more. I've been working on this for almost two years now and am pretty happy with how its coming along and the growing user base. Plus it's been a fun excuse to try out some new things, like creating a Varlink API or different CI/CD setups.

Besides Materia itself I've been bouncing around some other ideas for the Podman quadlet ecosystem. The biggest one is Athanor[1], which re-uses the same plan-execute system and primitives provided by Materia to backup Podman volumes.

I've also been kicking around a clustering system for Podman volumes called Firmament that uses Serf and the built-in Podman import/export API to move volumes to where they need to be in the cluster. But this will probably wait until Materia hits 1.0 before I really start putting effort into it. Or if my homelab needs something like it, whichever comes first :).

[0] https://github.com/stryan/materia ,main site https://primamateria.systems [0] https://github.com/stryan/athanor

I’m working on Kern, a small, git native, make and unix inspired llm workflow.

Modules are simply folders, and the tool just reads from stdio and outputs to stdout. Runs are stored in simple text files with all the info of inputs, outputs and other metadata.

https://github.com/vichoiglesias/kern

Fairly predictable given the times: a plugin for coding assistants that supports a development workflow that I like :) It's at https://www.shipsmooth.net/.

Perhaps the more interesting bit is that it's in Java (not Typescript or Rust)! Java 25 is pretty neat. Bonus: getting to know how to distribute a self-contained Java program using jlink and the likes: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/man/jli...

I'm working on OSS security tool that can protect you form credential stealers (think Shai-hulud and similar) or prompt-injected agent leaking your secrets.

agent-vault-proxy is a local proxy that injects real secrets into requests in-flight, so a compromised or prompt-injected agent has nothing to steal, feedback welcome: https://github.com/inflightsec/agent-vault-proxy

Nothing besides normal work. Sometimes is good to do a break on personal projects after 3 years nonstop