Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

I am looking for more work at the moment, so I might not have unlimited free time in the future but:

I know embedded hardware and software, Python, and some web dev.

My FOSS projects worth mentioning are KaithemAutomation, an IoT automation system focusing on more low level control for commercial installs, and HardlineP2P, a protocol for P2P remote acess(think DuckDNS replacement).

I'm also working on an open source math reference guide for people who have no math knowledge. I have no particular math talent, so I'm documenting how I'm able to work effectively without really being able to manipulate these things mentally.

CE's primary focuses beyond security are ease-of-use and low-friction, which is what made JSON ubiquitous:

- Simple to understand and use, even by non-technical people (the text format, I mean).

- Low friction: no extra compilation / code generation steps or special tools or descriptor files needed.

- Ad-hoc: no requirement to fully define your data types up front. Schema or schemaless is your choice (people often avoid schemas until they become absolutely necessary).

Other formats support features like partial reads, zero-copy structs, random access, finite-time decoding/encoding, etc. And those are awesome, but I'd consider them specialized applications with trade-offs that only an experienced person can evaluate (and absolutely SHOULD evaluate).

CE is more of a general purpose tool that can be added to a project to solve the majority of data storage or transmission issues quickly and efficiently with low friction, and then possibly swapped out for a more specialized tool later if the need arises. "First, reach for CE. Then, reach for XYZ once you actually need it."

This is a partially-solved problem, but the existing solutions are security holes due to under-specification (causing codec behavior variance), missing types (requiring custom secondary - and usually buggy - codecs), and lack of versioning (so the formats can't be updated). And security is fast becoming the dominant issue nowadays.

Great idea, I was wondering if someone had started working on something like this. My thought was to use the identity for distributed social media (blogging platform where you can easily restrict viewership of your posts by granting revocable keys to your contacts).

Apologies. Should be there now. I can reach out also.

I am definitely interested!

But games are one of the few things I prefer the analog version of, although I do enjoy video games.

Maybe it could be designed so that a subset of the game is playable as a card game, or that monsters have a well defined card equivalent?

I'm not sure how important a first party embeddable engine is. Just defining how a monster is represented and what a battle means , and balancing powers, would already be a big deal.

This seems like a pretty good use case for an arbitrary rules engine, so that games could somewhat customize things. Maybe you're in space and flying works differently, or some epic thing happened to change how magic works.

Or maybe some moves aren't things you need to use, they just happen without even using up a turn.

You could have default rulesets applied to items and monsters and attacks at the game definition level, and then more specific rules on specific monsters.

You'd probably still want all the basic concepts like what a turn means and the fact that you can choose from a list of actions on a turn, but other then that things could be pretty flexible while still giving the monsters consistency between games.

Example:

"It hurt itself in it's confusion" could be done with a "launching attack" phase before the target and effects are finalized.

event: launchingAttack > if self.state== confused > chance(20%) > attack.target = self > message "Oops"