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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)

#481
I like to wander around the cities quite a lot (still intermediate compared to others, but putting about ~10km/day for the past few years), and over the holidays, we were chatting with my friends about "places we've covered around the world together", it prompted the idea to have a co-op world tracker, with sides of city exploration. Built this iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ato-discover-compete/id6757285.... Works with Apple Workouts + Photos location data. Just a headsup, the data is stored in my servers, so it's not a local app, since my goal was to get a combined data with my friends' data.

In my old app, I was solely tracking the streets, but it became somewhat impossible to have pretty coverage after I moved cities. And it's more fun to see global coverage anyways. Over the past couple of years, I've been getting emails for similar features that would expose city/country wide stats as well. Going to share with the users of the old app once I port its features on this one.

Still actively polishing it over the weekends, but it's very fun to see all the places I've been to on a hex-based map, combine it with my friends' data, and so on. It's been a very fun project so far.

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

#483
Still working on CLIPS-related libraries. My most recent one is CLIPSmqueue[1]. I'm employed full-time, so progress is slow as CLIPS stuff comes second to that. However, I've got a much larger CLIPS-related project in the works that I've been taking my time on, and I'm excited for when I finally feel ready to release it.

I'm not sure these projects will ever "go anywhere," but at the very least I'm honing my craft as a programmer. I've learned so much, and I have so much more to learn.

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[1]https://github.com/mrryanjohnston/CLIPSmqueue

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

#484
Recently have been focusing on a personal assistant type of thing.

I've been building it with the agent sdk and any time I want an additional skill, I create it

Examples: parse this pdf containing my credit card bill and add all transactions

Given it has a db, I've been using it to save notes, ideas etc.

Been fun

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

#486
I want to automate the first half of software engineering work.

I'm building a system that reads Slack, listens to Google Meetings, user complaints, etc and gives me prompts I could feed into coding agents or planners.

Problem-to-prompt seems like a larger obstacle than coding these days, I wonder if it's solvable, and if solving it makes cheaper coding agents viable.

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

#487
I'm working on a Linux live streaming media server. Supports Ingesting, Mixing with Mix Minus, MultiMux, Multistreaming, and Recording of RTMP, RTSP, SRT, and MP4 with LL-HLS, Low Latency WebTransport Viewing, and Low Latency WebSocket Viewing.

https://github.com/Sparks-And-Magic/AVShack

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

#488

Still working on my tool for creating custom Tailwind-style accessible color palettes for web and UI design: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ There's millions of tools that try to autogenerate colors for you using algorithms and AI, but they usually ignore WCAG accessible contrast requirements, don't let you customise the tints/shades, don't let you create a full palette of colors, and the colors often don't look rig…

This is really awesome

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

#489

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any relation to this project? https://www.opentools.studio

Nah, I got into printing because nobody made a commercially available print server, and I ended up making my own, with all the involvement in the stack in the process. I wish Openprinter luck, as it has been announced in the end of September but nothing out there yet, not even the crowdfunding campaign.

Ah dang, I was hoping. I'm super interested in that and love that you're modernizing something BigTech doesn't seem to care about.
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