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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
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#62I am building a belt tension meter to attach my z-belt idlers to on my voron 2.4. I'm still contemplating what I want the final form to look like, but currently it's a 5 kg load cell and a floating idler and an rp2040 reading values via hx711.
Are you looking at alignment too? Huge impact on the longevity of belt-drive systems.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#63Learning gnuplot. Astonishingly powerful and versatile, criminally underhyped.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#64Open source app to download emails, provide fast search, offline access, automatic labels, categories, summaries, surface up what needs our attention, etc. (some features need AI).
Starting with emails, calendars and attachments. Integrations for Slack, LinkedIn, Stripe, databases, even web crawl are coming...
This branch has updated readme:
https://github.com/brainless/dwata/tree/feature/prepare_mvp_...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#65About three months ago I had a moment of clarity when I realized that all I did with my spare time was work out, smoke weed, and play video games (not at the same time). So I decided to reallocate a portion of my video game time to learning artistic skills. Largely learning to draw with the classic book Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain, but I've also been making music and video games and learning 3D modelling in Blender. I'm not good at any of it yet but I'm having a great time.
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#66A speech-to-speech translation app, with automatic language identification. One touch interface to start/stop. No configurations required for everyday use cases.
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#67A database for my digital life. A place where to store semi-structured data and blobs, everything from phone numbers to my browser history, mail to photo and yes, also notes with a tagging system.
The primary feature that I'm implementing p2p synchronization (similar to syncthing, although the prototype use tailscale); append-only storage for easy backup and an "api" for easy integration/synchronization with external sources like RSS feed for example, all working offline.
Right now I'm using various software to manage my digital life (Zotero, Keepass, Syncthing) but i want to consolidate since I'm having trouble keeping all properly synced and backed)
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#68A new CI/CD platform. Local CLI (run without git push), remote debugger, automatic content-based caching, DAG-based definition, and dynamic tasks. It’s taken a lot of work to build it, but I’m really excited about how well it’s working. https://rwx.com/mint
I haven't tried this yet, but I wanted to say I think there's a lot of potential in this space. There's so much friction with the current popular solutions...and yet it's so hard to justify trying some of the newer and less popular ones.
I wish you luck because there are a lot of good ideas in here. Running locally and remote debugger are the most exciting to me.
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#69I've found that filing out job applications is rather boring and takes a lot of my time for just a few applications. That's why I'm creating an AI tool to rewrite resumes and automate the jobs application process. I previously created a scraping tool for Glassdoor and LinkedIn, so this a natural next step. List of features:
* Analyzes candidate information
* Examines job descriptions
* Generates unique CVs and cover letters for each job
* Answers specific questions that recruiters ask
* Automatically applies to jobs
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
#70Yet another open source OAuth2 server (competing with auth0 and such):