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

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

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post #122

Over the holidays I was building a wooden birdhouse with a Unifi Protect camera and a small web interface that automatically identifies the birds and shows me a simple overview over which type of bird visited how many times. Birdhouse: https://img.notmyhostna.me/cRQ1gJfZCHjQKwFrgKQj UI: - https://img.notmyhostna.me/Hnw4qcvbg1ZQCrFxzGMn - https://img.notmyhostna.me/62TFwSXSRRbCfxDz297h - https://img.notmyhostna.me/40q…

Awesome!

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

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Script to auto-rename screenshots with Claude Code I'm sure there are a ton of other projects out there that do this, but I couldn't find one that fit my needs exactly, so I threw this together in a few hours. claude-image-renamer uses Claude Code CLI to analyze screenshots and rename them to something actually usable. It combines OCR text extraction with Claude's vision capabilities, so instead of "Screenshot 2025-1…

I bet you are running some personal server or tinkering VM. Why not use a dedicated, coherent tool like Immich to manage all your image organisation needs? I don't see how this renaming would help me in any way, to make use of old screenshots left in random places.

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

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A friend and I noticed recently that the last remaining pieces of the puzzle for a full line of "trustworthy technology" have recently dropped into our laps while we weren't looking.

What are those? You know… open, freedom, and privacy respecting technology. Recent products are the Starlite tablet, Furilabs and Fairphone. We've been waiting for these products, well over fifteen years since the introduction of the iPhone and iPad.

We wrote our full thoughts on the subject at: https://aol.codeberg.page/eci/

Despite posting many times, we haven't been able to start a discussion here. Maybe we don't know the right key words, or posted too late in the day, not sure. But I know someone is interested in the subject because there have been three huge discussions this week about how "Linux is good enough now."

That has been true for a decade in my experience, but no one seems to be talking about the new mobile hardware available. I hope to work on bringing these efforts together.

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

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post #238

I'm working on Tech Posts ( https://techposts.eu ), a Hacker News for Europe! Since the last time I posted on HN it's gained a decent amount of traffic and users. I'm particularly happy with the jobs section, which is growing into a high signal-noise source for European tech jobs: https://techposts.eu/jobs The reason I started this website is because so much incredible innovation and growth in Europe flies under the…

I bookmarked it and moved it next to HN. Hi from an Italian living in Zurich

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

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I've been working on an iOS camera app to take natural-looking photos with reduced post-processing. The goal is take photos that look like what you see. I just updated the RAW pipeline and I'm really happy with how the resulting photos look, plus there's this cool "RAW+ProRAW" capture mode I introduced recently. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unpro-camera/id6535677796 I initially released it early last year and have b…

Curious what motivated you to create this camera app when there are a handful of well established apps that already do unprocessed imaging. What does Unpro do differently?

At the time I created it there weren't any that did the end-to-end process with ProRAW in a way that I liked. And I got really tired of manually editing every photo I took, so I built the app for me.

Plus, having full control over the way photos look, I've customized the output to match my taste; I don't think there's any other camera apps that produce photos quite like mine.

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

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An iOS app made for saving locations. It’s called Pyxis: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/travel-journal-pyxis/id6639617...

I’m not a developer by trade but I’ve been learning iOS dev for about 6 years now. It’s become my project that I just keep working at since I personally use it a lot.

The app lets you save your favorite locations, add notes to them, add photos, check weather, tag them for better organization, and archive those tags for future trips. You can also mark off locations that you’ve been to already: think breweries or a coffee shop when visiting a new city.

For the next update, I’m working on a task list functionality for each location. The idea came as a shopping list based on which stores I go to but it can work for any other context as well. This way I can get rid of my shopping list from my task apps.

In terms of weather, I’m also adding historical averages to the forecast to have some sort of context to the weather.

Also leaning more into marketing these days (hence this post) and designing a new icon with some custom art work to give the product some sort of personality. I started learning affinity design to just do it myself so I learn some design software along the way.

Anyways, if you download it, I’d love to hear some feedback. :)

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

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I'm working on a "simple" (started out that way at least) ETL app for the public library system that I work for; the target output is SQLite databases where Datasette will be the platform to interact with the data being generated/extracted. Primarily, the goal is to provide a simple report tool for staff and give me a source for nightly snapshot outputs to a datalake in parquet format.
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