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Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#571
I'm working on a more general purpose programming language called "Pear", rather than the DSL I wrote before called "runny" (a Make/Just equivalent).

I want it to have a more concise syntax (no keywords, fewer characters) but feel familiar to most programmers. All definitions use square brackets in combination with some other set of characters.

e.g.

``` [myFunc](arg1,arg2){ ?(true){ #do something }{ #do something else } } ```

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#572
Last shipment of components shipped today, so I'll soon build the project I mentioned [last time](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700806), a remote for BabyBuddy. Main features are:

- 10 switches that I can assign to start/stop timers and trigger events (Kalih Choc Robin)

- One encoder + four way directional switch

- Round LCD display with touch

- 9 DoF IMU and ambient light sensor

I've started coding the firmware using Rust with the excellent embassy OS.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#574
Wife and I tend to plan long, multi-day, multi-destination travel.

Got sick of working in Google Docs and having to manually move days around and re-label dates, shift hotels, etc. Ended up creating Turas.app over a weekend in 2023 (and then let it loose on Reddit). But just recently created the Chrome Extension which feels like it is an even better tool because it lets you access all of the richness of Google Maps. It's a Google Maps powertool for people who like to plan their travel meticulously.

(Completely free and intended to be free forever; we tried to monetize it but realized that there's no reasonable way to do so that we ourselves would be happy with; seriously thinking about just open sourcing it, but needs some cleanup first!)

Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turasapp/lpfijfdbgo...

App: https://turas.app

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#575

Not exactly what I'm currently working on, as it got released last week, but... I gathered many of my bash scripts and aliases, focused on making use of Android Debug Bridge (ADB) easier, together into a single collection[0]. The wiki page has visuals and more information on functionality[1]. Then starting a new project this week around gathering and displaying information on air quality in Iceland. [0]: https://gith…

Looking forward to see that project on air quality.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#576
post #370

The Berlin immigration office is notoriously slow and unresponsive. The processing time for a residence permit varies from a few weeks to a few months. During that time, people are left unable to work or unable to leave the country. They never know how long it will take, and it causes some people to give up and leave Germany. I am writing a tool to collect and aggregate data about the processing times. This will help…

Sweden has the same problems, maybe I could build a similar tool for this market. I was wondering how you collect and present data? Just self-reported or do you have some API to gather this information?

The immigration office does not collect data about the time it takes to process a case. I am building the infrastructure needed to poll my users at a date in the future.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#579

I built 3 electric cars from 2018 to 2023 and drove them 20k miles. My own firmware and controllers, with an https://openinverter.org motor controller Now I release my knowledge in bite-sized chunks on my new YouTube channel to help others: What's a battery management system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsMoCrSTYc What is the C-Rate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDu1fRtKfsA What is battery balancing? https://…

You are the closest I have found to this, even though it is a digression: Do you know of any communities with self-built airplanes? (especially novel-esque designs for propulsion or wings?) I realise these have far more regulations, but experimental GA is something that really excites me.

Are you familiar with the Experimental Aircraft Association? EAA.org

They have had a handful of articles of people working on electric propulsion in their magazine. I would imagine you could reach out to some of those featured. I once contacted a person who was building a DIY HUD and he was very friendly and eager to talk about the project. Overall a very good community!

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