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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#42
I've been more actively developing PAPER, and expect to push to GitHub and publish wheels on PyPI tomorrow although it's really still not ready for a Show HN. My work there has also led me to developing some side utilities:

* a library for filesystem tree operations (and other trees, if you're clever enough swapping in components)

* a utility to identify and extract wheels from pip's cache (so that they can be dumped into other installers' caches, for example)

I also hope to return to bbbb soon, if only to make sure that it can build PAPER's wheels smoothly (and with a few other basic conveniences implemented).

Oh, and I wrote an article for LWN recently and have plans for a few more....

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#44
I wrote a simple app last year that put all my Apple Watch workout routes on a simple map, so I can see how much of the city I’ve covered (all existing options were paid, and I was too cheap for it). Now I have some time, so rewriting it properly that’s based on neighbourhood, completion %s, achievements and etc. It’s weirdly fun, because I’m not a mobile engineer, but satisfying to see hundreds of users per month using my app.

Also, every region has different ways of representing a “neighbourhood”, so I get to learn how to extract viable data from each city. Lots of map stuff, I’m genuinely enjoying it!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#45
I've been working on https://stacks.camera - it's an idea about overlaying the previous picture when you're taking a photo so you can create a timelapse or animation.

For example, you can scroll through 60 pictures from my window https://stacks.camera/u/ben/89n1HJNT

Most of the challenges are around handling images & rendering, but I've also been playing with Passkey-only authentication which I'm finding really interesting.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#48
Two things: https://urbanismnow.com a weekly newsletter that pulls together (mostly) positive news from around the world to inspire local change.

The other more recent is a web based CalDAV client for Todo items. I love the tasks.org mobile app and can't stand the Nextcloud Tasks UI so I'm making an alternative that'll be local first and simple but fast.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

#50
New “AI in a box” product, can run the big models I.e. DeepSeek-R1-0528 etc. comparatively cheap, fast and just works. Our build partner is big on sustainability, considering a return to upgrade option.

Likely will do a prosumer SKU, will be faster and cheaper than the Mac Studio equivalent.

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