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Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

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Post by IshanMi »

I'm working on a long-term project to better understand Operating Systems, video game development, and Rust by building the simplest possible OS in Rust that boots directly into a game of Doom, which will also be re-written in Rust.

I'm giving myself 18 months- it's been super fun so far!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

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Post by seafoamteal »

Mostly just exams this month haha, but technically a self-hostable workout tracking app.

The only self-hosted option I found was wger.de and while it looks great, it's a bit too much for my needs. I want something lightweight (so as not to hog resources on my cheap VPS) that does what it needs to do and nothing more.

It's been a while since I've done web dev, so I'm going to try out Deno (TypeScript) with htmx.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

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Post by MortyWaves »

I'm making some minor changes to my personal site/blog to improve contrast, have a more uniform usage of colours throughout, and also replacing "categories" with tags so that I can have related content easily linked and searchable.

I may also finally finish implementing WebMentions support too as a kind of comment section.

I may also work some more on my long-term relaxation/creative maze generation and solver project.

At work, I keep putting off yet more refactorings that are required because of poor/missing requirements and non-technical leadership of the project.

It wouldn't be so bad, but part of this "new" project involves communicating with some awful SharePoint """database""", as well as a poorly designed real database (it has multiple values in one column, not even with any standard, just sometimes there's extra numbers I need to parse, sometimes not - just lots of this type of crap repeated everywhere), and the worst development/deployment experience I've ever had to deal with in ~10 years.

To write code involves Remote desktop to what was a single core VM (and much protesting gained me... one extra core) to Windows Server 2016 meaning most modern/nice developer tooling isn't supported, and deployments are all done by copy pasting files over yet more nested remote desktop sessions.

Sadly there's no real way of automating any of this, every suggestion is always a "default no", again most of the tools I'd need for this won't run on Windows Server 2016, and even if I worked around it the stakes are way too high for "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission".

The turn around time for even a small change is huge because of this mental burden, it's a complete slog to get anything done.

So I guess what I'm saying is I've been casually looking around at jobs this month.

This is why I always stress the importance of being able to work on my own projects, because otherwise, I'd have burnt out.

/rant

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