Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

I'm working on a tool to remix/manage my playlists, that's agnostic from the different music platforms.

I used to have an integration in Spotify, that automatically copied my "Discover weekly" playlist into an archive. Over time, it grew close to 10000 songs. It also started to get polluted by ambient sound and kids songs when my daughter was born.

I wanted to clean it up but as far as I could tell, the only way was to do it manually, song by song. I'd want to have something more powerful, that would easily let me rearrange/split/curate my playlists based on any arbitrary constraint.

Been working on https://github.com/amterp/rad for almost a year now. It's a programming language designed for writing good CLI scripts, so it's aiming to replace Bash but is much more Python-like, and offers unique syntax and a bunch of in-built support for scripting.

Please check it out if it sounds at all interesting! Keen for feedback :) I've written some docs, including a "getting started" guide, linked in the GitHub page.

Working on a physical and digital archive of all American vintage print advertising. I've built the archival and database software on Lucee & MySQL to store images and automate, and I use OpenAI to analyze images and extra meta data. All of the full page ads are pushed to https://adretro.com.

I've gotten the process to fully catalog all of the advertisements in a magazine (about 150 on average) down from over a week to a few hours. I should be able to get through the material within my lifetime now :)

Working on https://qrew.cc

When I worked at larger orgs. Reviewing applicants was a very busy task. I would usually get 100-300 applications for the role. And I never trusted HR team to filter out candidates before interviews, so I would go manually through all the candidates. In the world of AI and automatic ATS systems, I have the same problem. I don't trust AI now to filter and rank candidate resumes for me. I wanted something that enhances my process, but does not replace it.

So i've started working on https://qrew.cc, where AI helps you, but keeps you fully in control.

I'm working on my first hide-and-seek game[1], built using my own 2D game engine[2]. The game's theme is dark and mysterious, with various subtle references.

Aside from that, I’ve also made some sillier little games/demos[3].

There’s a computer with a classic BASIC interpreter written in Lua after the first level.

1 - https://reprobate.site

2 - https://carimbo.site

3 - https://carimbo.games