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Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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I'm working on Macscope ( https://macscope.app ), a better Cmd+Tab for macOS. I built it because macOS window management feels slow compared to the keyboard-driven speed of a terminal or code editor. It augments your existing muscle memory: a quick tap of a shortcut switches apps like normal, but holding it opens a powerful interface with features like: Unified Search: Instantly find any window, app, or browser tab.…

reminds me of https://contexts.co/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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Still working on cataloging a curated list of craft beer venues across the world at https://wheretodrink.beer Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it's fun for me I'll just keep adding things. Next addition will be to add health inspection data from countries that have that in open datasets or APIs, so if anyone know of that I'd be appreciative of…

Would be great to know which pubs have gluten free beer. I recently became gluten intolerant, and it's ended my 40 year beer career!

That sucks. I see the value in that, and I can add a tag for it. Imagine maintaining a consistent status for that automatically would be hard though. So the meaning of such a tag would likely become "They had at least one gluten free option at one time".

For venues publishing their drafts, cans or bottles publicly it could be possible to create some confidence interval if we scrape the data and keep history of it.

Thanks for checking it out and leaving a suggestion for improvement!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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I love these threads, and always learn or pick up something new. From my side, I've been working on a multi-lingual first words book for a baby. None of the published books have our mix of languages (which is fair enough, I don't think there is much of a market for it!) and so I decided to create our own. It's just images and then the word translated into three different languages alongside it (like a typical first w…

This is awesome. Good luck with it!

Thank you! That is very kind!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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https://weexpire.org - An opensource tool for creating emergency notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your death or if you are seriously injured.

I would love to read about the psychology of why we may want those notes to be hidden from them before our death/injury.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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I'm working on spaced-repetition language flashcards app, that shows you variety of card types (sentences, reverse, audio, definition...) and allows you to add vocabulary from content - youtube, ebooks, website reader.

ios: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vocabulary-flashcards-vocabuo/... android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=world.petr.vok...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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In June, I shared Marches & Gnats (https://mng.quest), a programming puzzle game (similar to Advent of Code) where you solve challenges using a Turing machine.

Since then:

- I added 13 new quests, from arithmetic basics to Elementary Cellular Automata and Sudoku.

- Rewrote the Turing machine core in Rust, making evaluation much faster and able to handle heavier tasks.

- 102 players have joined, submitting 15000 solutions; 10 players have already solved every quest.

The hardest part turned out to be the storyline. I use ChatGPT to draft outlines. It does it quite well, but shaping them into something with real depth and atmosphere takes far more work than I expected.

Another challenge: since it's a competitive game, players quickly explored the edges of the rules. For example, submitting very long solutions that use transitions as a kind of memory. I love that kind of creativity, but it also undermines the original goal of solving a puzzle as efficiently as possible. So I've spent quite some time balancing mechanics to reward creativity without encouraging loopholes much.

The most fun part, though, is still inventing new puzzles.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

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I've been building bewCloud [1] (a simpler Nextcloud alternative written in TypeScript) over the last couple of years and it's finally reached "feature freeze"; I don't plan to add anything major to it anymore, and will now keep maintaining it, updating it, and will focus on removing dependencies. I'm currently waiting for a security audit.

[1]: https://bewcloud.com

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