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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#31
Trying to figure out a bizarre performance drop in a merge sort I wrote for one of those daily coding problems.

https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-1/

It seems that adding one node to a linked list causes a repeatable performance drop. That is, linked lists of say 2^21 nodes sort faster than lists of 2^21 + 1 nodes.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#33
Built a hardware device that sits between any computer and any printer and reads what is getting printed.

Primary use-case is to read receipt data from legacy POS systems without having to write software integrations.

Figuring out how to commercialise. Reach out if you have ideas!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#34
Working on my side project https://gametje.com. It's an alternative to Jackbox games but it has a lower barrier for entry. All you need is a device with a web browser to play (also works with Chromecast). I'm trying to write some better tutorials for the early games I created to make it easier to get a feel for the gameplay. Also trying to work on the ui/ux flow to make it easier for people to understand what it is and how to create and host a game.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#37
I'm working on this food logging app / personal health dashboard that I'm building for myself.

I was asked to log my food by a dietician I'm working with, because I was constantly feeling hunger after cycling training.

But all the solution out there were quite complex to input data, and I just want to write down plain text with some additional markup and be able to generate some graphs and recognize some patterns out it.

Decided to do it T3 and throw in all those weird technologies just to see what's out there.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#39

On writing some blog posts about things I’ve built lately (both at work and in my own time). Helps a lot with diving more deeply into topics than what’s reasonable for a “just needs to work” implementation. Recently, a fairly detailed one on doing something semi-obscure with directory services on AWS. https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/sadwsp.html

Love the domain name! I should start blogging as well. Seems like it would help in a similar way as teaching others.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

#40
- Taking Octachainer and making my own CLI implementation to learn Rust https://www.elektronauts.com/t/octachainer-v1-3/45320

- hacking around with FunDSP (turns out it’s pretty fun), again to learn some Rust https://github.com/SamiPerttu/fundsp

- Giving up Arma3 gamemode dev maintenance for a large-ish community, but hanging around to teach people git/github and provide wisdom / teach how to do software dev (a lot of folks have minimal software experience). Although debating whether to straight up leave the community.

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