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

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

#691

Currently working on my resume website to make it easier to get a sense of what type of developer I am: https://www.terwiel.io/ Also working on a GxP-compliant, offline-first, real -time synced QMS, but I’ve put that on hold in favor of optimizing my resume.

Amazing work!

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

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post #582

Two things related to Postgres: * Velo - Postgres with instant branching ( https://github.com/elitan/velo ) * Terra - Declarative schema management for Postgres ( https://github.com/elitan/terra ) Some fun side projects i hack on during the evenings and weekends.

That instant branching is super cool!

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

#695
https://fooqux.com/ - an experimental tech article aggregator. For several years now, I've had a routine of collecting articles on topics that interest me throughout the week and then reading them over the weekend. To help organize and streamline this process, I created this website.

The main idea is to gather tech articles in one place and process them with a LLM — categorize them, generate summaries, and try experimental features like annotations, questions, etc.

I hope this service might be useful to others as well. You can sign up with github account to submit your articles as well.

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

#696
I’m writing a beginner-friendly 2D game development series with Rust and Bevy.

The first two posts are live: 1. Let There Be a Player — player movement and camera control (https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-...) 2. Let There Be a World — procedural world generation using Wave Function Collapse (https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-...)

Next up: adding physics, collisions, and interaction to make the world feel alive.

From there it’ll grow into combat, UI, sound, polish, and AI-driven NPCs.

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

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post #668
post #341

I am working on the little book of algorithms: https://github.com/little-book-of/algorithms A project to implement 1000 algorithms. I have finished around 400 so far and I am now focusing on adding test cases, writing implementations in Python and C, and creating formal proofs in Lean. It has been a fun way to dive deeper into how algorithms work and to see the differences between practical coding and formal reasonin…

Wow, that looks fun and probably get to learn a lot about algorithms. I don't have any feedback, but rather a question, as I've seen many repositories with people sharing their algorithms, at least on GitHub for many different languages (e.g. https://github.com/TheAlgorithms ), what did you find that was missing from those repositories that you wanted to write a book and implement hundreds of algorithms, what did you…

Another reason for writing the book is that many developers see "algorithms" as something only needed for FAANG interviews, not for real work. For beginners and even seniors, learning algorithms often just means doing LeetCode problems, which most people dislike but feel forced to do.

I want to change that view and show that algorithms are beautiful and useful beyond interviews. They appear everywhere, from compilers to databases to the Linux kernel, where I found many interesting data structures worth exploring. (i will share more about this topic later)

I hope to share more of these insights and connect with others who enjoy discussing real world algorithm design, which is what I love most about the Hacker News community (except for the occasional trolls that show up from time to time).

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

#698
I'm currently building an order queueing and sales recording web app for small coffee shops: SellerMate [https://sellermate.neilvan.com]

Made primarily for my friend's coffee shop. Data is stored locally, and the app is fully functional when offline. There is an optional "syncing" feature to sync your data with multiple devices which requires a sign up. This is a Progressive Web App built with Web Components. The syncing is made possible with PouchDB/CouchDB.

I still have to write (or screen record) a Getting Started guide but the app is ready for use nonetheless.

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

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post #583

The simplest web framework and site generator you've ever seen: https://mastrojs.github.io

It's definitely a step in the right direction. But wouldn't the next step be vanilla JS and any-script-managed HTML?

Thanks, what do you mean with "any-script-managed HTML"? If you mean that you can use any script, like e.g. a bash script, to generate static HTML files, then yes, in a way Mastro is basically that script. Except that it comes with a server as well – both for local development and production, should a static site no longer suffice.

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

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post #41

I'm working on a open-source tool to create photo galleries from a folder of photos: https://simple.photo . It creates galleries as static sites that are easy to self-host. I started this out of frustration that there is no good tool I could use to share photos from my travel and of my kids with friends and family. I wanted to have a beautiful web gallery that works on all devices, where I can add rich descriptions a…

Like the layout tiles you have for the photo thumbnails. Will dig through and learn some css. Have struggled with different size content to create a compact masonry layout.

The CSS for this is indeed tricky. I figured out this layout 5 years ago in the v1 and forgot how it works, just took it over as it looks good. The key is that not all rows are exactly the same height. There are small differences that allow photos to fit horizontally.

I also tried the vertical masonry layout, which looks good, but makes no sense if your photos have a chronological order...

The magic happens here: https://github.com/SimplePhotoGallery/core/blob/a3564e30bcb6...

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