I'm working on a side project which is a Python library that provides of an abstraction layer to manage infrastructure in cloud providers by interacting with their APIs. This is something I've been developing every now and then for the last months after years of working with Terraform and getting tired of the limitations of it's DSL (yeah, Pullumi is better but I just simply want a generic library with classes representing services in the cloud I can call natively in Python without having to deal with a 3rd party application like Pullumi is!).
Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#52Lately I have been working on making MicroPython an excellent platform for deploying Machine Learning on microcontroller-based sensors. Primarily this is via this open source project:
https://github.com/emlearn/emlearn-micropython
But there is also a bit of work needed in the wider ecosystem, like improving drivers for accelerometer/microphone/etc, support for data formats such as Numpy .npy files etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#53I am currently working on a custom markup language called atex. It's syntax reminds of latex syntax, but with @ instead \ as a special character (very similar to the Lout language, if anyone remembers it). Also, the atex language hasn't any predefined commands. Instead, all commands are defined via schema specified in a separate YAML file. Schema defines commands that can be used and means of "rendering" those commands to different targets (HTML, Tex, Typst, whatever...)
Just today, I finished first working version of the new compiler (https://github.com/ubavic/mint). It is written in Go, and there are lot of things on the TODO list, but it works :)
This is actually the second compiler for the atex. The first one was written in Haskell and compiled fixed document schema. I used it for writing a book on Haskell (https://github.com/ubavic/programming-in-haskell).
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#54Working on a voice-interface for messaging. Type-free and voice-first with GPT-4o-mini baked in. Dolby Enhancements on the audio, too.
I’m using it personally as a transcribed voice-note system.
https://athens.winterdelta.com/playlist/536a9778-cd9d-4491-8...
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#55Working on building a copilot for oncall engineers. Goal is to automate or reduce the grunt work oncall engineers have to do. Code is here: https://github.com/opslane/opslane
I've been working on similar lately. Changepoint detection over our metrics time series, and using that to inform automated root cause analysis.
I think your work was mentioned on our team channel this week.
I found these papers to be pretty interesting:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10638 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02357
Anything else I should be reading?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#56Open source online backgammon. Backgammon is fairly niche, so there seems to be a lot of opportunity for backgammon software to be developed. I'm taking inspiration from Lichess, having enjoyed playing chess there for years. Check out the server, client and backgammon AI I'm working on at https://bgammon.org
(Source code at https://bgammon.org/code)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#57Improved the search feature of https://histre.com/ which is a knowledge management tool
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#58Currently studying the segment anything model family (1 and 2 & everything in-between).
I read the abstract a while ago and I was fascinated by the methodology.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#59I recently created a custom 220gsm pre-washed cotton fabric by twisting thrice a 60s yarn (60/3 Ne) into 20s before knitting. It could never be commercially viable so released something similar.
Essentially combining the softness of fine count cotton with the weight and durability of a heavier garment.
Also a lot of ERP, warehouse, UI work and fun with Cursor.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#60I’m a tech nerd rare coin & currency dealer! I took my two hobbies and combined them into a real business and I’m having the time of my life. Just launched a proper retail site here:
About 50% of my days are spend doing the coin dealer stuff - hunting for inventory, buying collections/doing appraisals, going to coin shows and buying and selling in person, etc.
The other 50% I’m writing code and building out the tech stack for this business. I’ve written the whole backend for the retail site myself, which includes my own inventory management system, sync with eBay and other marketplaces, etc.
I’ve also built out a research tool which includes an ML price prediction engine engine (which sounds fancy but is really just a tabular regression model).
Backend is written in Crystal because I love the language and there’s nobody stopping me from using it :) Frontend is all Svelte and they’re glued together using a mini framework I wrote:
https://github.com/noahlh/celestite
I probably have 5 years worth of ideas I still want to build and I wish I could spend even more time building it all, but it’s super fun actually using it in the real live marketplace so I’d never give that up.
Happy to chat about this stuff with anyone who’s interested or vaguely interested in numismatics.