I'm updating Metabase's Podman documentation to reflect using Quadlet instead of "the old way." It's my first open source contribution in quite awhile and while it's tiny I'm excited for it. It's a chance to get to know pi.dev, not to write, but to behave as a copy editor and fact checker. Since it uses Mistral on the back-end it's a slightly insane copy editor and fact checker, but that's almost better. It's forcing me to check everything I say.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#412A roguelike with card battles:
https://uzudil.itch.io/rquest
Very early. Tech: raylib-zig with Lua, loreline convos, shaders. Graphics in aseprite.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#413Just a little personal tool: Shipment tracking I call Lighthouse:
- All our shipments in one UI (instead of searching trough our mail boxes or going to several merchant apps/sites)
- LLM processes update emails, but everything can be manually adjusted (or created from scratch)
- We have a bunch of destinations we order to (work, home, different pick-up spots), this lets me see where I have to pick up and with which pick-up code
- Real-time sync in case we update something, the other person sees it immediately
- PWA, with animations, feels as good as native on mobile
- $0 running cost (I only paid for AI sub when vibing this)
Desktop: https://imgur.com/a/HD9mCIr Mobile: https://imgur.com/a/EAuJiqH
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#414I am building my "dream tool" too, a cross-device roaming profile-experience context-focused UI. Many, many iterations that go back maybe 15y, even built a custom linux distro (iolinux) back in the day(ro root, containerized user-spac with composer-like app handling). Always worked on side-projects, consulting gigs or one-off implementations, often times across multiple customer-devices. Switching context is damn expensive, hence tried to build a tool to help with that. Always failed on the UI parts - native linux tooling was just awful. What do you specifically mean by "context" you ask? Well, you get a call, switch to work on `work://customer-foo/project-bar/task-baz`, every bound device / tool / application loads data related to that task (your filesystem mount shows relevant files, browser loads relevant tabs, obsidian relevant notes etc). Building my own small db engine to accommodate that use-case, getting more fun working on it every day
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#415Audion, interpreted scripting language that is fun to write and lets you make interactive music, a/v installations using supercollider or any daw and hardware. BPM synchronization between real OS threads and Ableton sync is built in as well.
https://github.com/audion-lang/audion
hack music
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#416Building a simple sandboxed way to run open weight models over a copy of all my personal data (email, docs, messaging, photos, etc). Think it'd be cool to have a self hosted AI "chief of staff" that has full read access to my personal info.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#417Recently completed GearPix https://www.gearpix.app/
Which is an app and audio plugin to take and send pictures to a DAW tracks and have them stored in the project file.
Not vibecoded but I must say Claude was a big help to finish and debug my C++ code (which I didn't know before this).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#418I created a make-your-own-circuit simulator in python to help learn electronics. The best part about this is that it is entirely hosted online and people can just go through the lessons, learn electronics by skipping the maths, and in the process have made their own circuit simulator (which is arguably a pretty cool project on its own) at the end of it. https://spicycircuits.dev/
Well done.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#419I'm working on a Python rewrite of Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
#420Working on the chainsaw for my centaur form factor robot. Have one part to machine then just need to weld everything up and will be ready to try it out. It uses a motor and controller sourced from an E foil, and has 2DOF position control. https://www.satyress.com/buildprogress
I've also been slowly chipping away at a Jagged Alliance 2-like game in Godot. Nothing to share yet but if anyone else is also frustrated that there hasn't been a good video game since Jagged Alliance 2 and you want to work on it reach out to me through the contact in my profile.