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

Each week, everyone emails in a few photos and a sentence or two, and Dearest sends the group a private Sunday digest with everyone’s updates. The catch is, you only receive the digest if you contribute that week.

It is meant for families, old friends, grandparents, siblings, or any small group that wants to stay close without another app or endless notifications.

It’s my way to be social and know what’s going on in my friends lives without social media.

So far I only have my friends using it but I love it.

I've also been working on an open source protocol / reference implementation for user-owned AI memory, with the basic idea being that as applied AI scales, more products will derive more claims about users, teams and workflows from chats, docs, calendars, emails, etc, and they shouldn't be trapped inside of one product. Right now there's a lot of opinions on what shape memory should take internally, but I'm focused less on standardizing that part, and more focused on the primitives around it: requiring inspection, correction, revocation and treating portability as first-class. It's early but I'm starting to build more of a clear vision around it and would love feedback from anyone working on local-first software, personal data stores, capability security, knowledge graphs, etc. https://github.com/danielrmay/likewise

I also shipped Claudity, an experimental thinking partner plugin for Claude Code based on Microsoft's Clarity Agent framework/harness open-sourced last month. https://github.com/danielrmay/claudity https://github.com/microsoft/clarity-agent/

Lastly, I'm working on an homage/satire project to milliondollarhomepage.com as it's one of my favorite web phenomenons of all time.

One is Rad [0], a programming language tailored for writing CLI scripts and tools (mainly an alternative to Bash), taking a declarative approach to things like script arguments. Latest push has been largely on static type analysis, since making that really good is the sort of thing that helps both people and AI agents write good Rad.

Second project is Kan [2], a Kanban board which operates on text files on your machine, and is designed to be Git friendly so you can check it into your repo.

[1]

https://github.com/amterp/rad https://amterp.dev/rad

[2]

https://github.com/amterp/kan https://amterp.dev/kan

80%+ done MVP, for small business use & personal use. First go at full stack development with AI. useful features around voicemail, notifications, and spam prevention (whitelist, blocklist). Built to be robust, secure and available.

2. Intelligent understanding for videos, No MVP yet. Have an interface and use-case in mind that allows people to use understand videos with rich context quickly

currently on pause for leetcoding but I think there's potential here.