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

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

#791
I cobbled together something that generates playing cards from html and css. Currently running off a csv, building a game for a friend's birthday.

The experience with printers has left me thinking there's a gap in the market for _good_ Europe-based, small batch card printing. Awful experience with printers.

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

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post #65

I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning & acquisition tool for polyglots. I’ve been using it to study ~12 languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually “studying”) and it’s starting to feel really good. If anyone is learning/maintaining several languages, please reach out! I’m looking for beta testers in as many languages as possible (it supports 120+). In what I believe is sti…

I have just created an account and tried to use the app; either I am dumb (at this hour), or the app has a very not intuitive UI :-) I (think I) managed to create an expression, but: 1. it takes forever, I don't know what it's doing and it's still not done 2. I have no idea how to use it, onward 3. does not seem that I will be actually able to use it, as the app requires to be subscribed to use it... Looking forward…

I made some quick live videos today:

https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1917093849219895715?s=61

Please excuse the video quality, there will be better paced/audio/scripted demos soon!

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

#794
post #180
post #65

I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning & acquisition tool for polyglots. I’ve been using it to study ~12 languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually “studying”) and it’s starting to feel really good. If anyone is learning/maintaining several languages, please reach out! I’m looking for beta testers in as many languages as possible (it supports 120+). In what I believe is sti…

Sounds good. What languages do you support? Learning Latvian through Anki flashcards, but it's not well supported by the main platforms, and there's not a huge amount of content out there for learning. This alongside a couple of the usual suspects. As a side note, on a Pixel 4a 5G (old phone , but functionally not ready for e-waste) the homepage bleeds all over. Some components into each other, others off screen. Mig…

I made some quick live videos today:

https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1917093849219895715?s=61

Please excuse the video quality, there will be better paced/audio/scripted demos soon!

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

#795
post #65

I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning & acquisition tool for polyglots. I’ve been using it to study ~12 languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually “studying”) and it’s starting to feel really good. If anyone is learning/maintaining several languages, please reach out! I’m looking for beta testers in as many languages as possible (it supports 120+). In what I believe is sti…

The UI was a little unresponsive on mobile, and when I opened the "Media" page on desktop I got multiple block rendering errors. Opening the console reveals a syntax error (missing ] after element list) and some type errors. Also, it looks like you have to get the subscription to use it in any way? It's hard to gauge whether it is for me or not if I have no way to trial it. I found the UI a bit confusing too, I was n…

I made some quick live videos today:

https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1917093849219895715?s=61

Please excuse the video quality, there will be better paced/audio/scripted demos soon!

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

#796
post #65

I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning & acquisition tool for polyglots. I’ve been using it to study ~12 languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually “studying”) and it’s starting to feel really good. If anyone is learning/maintaining several languages, please reach out! I’m looking for beta testers in as many languages as possible (it supports 120+). In what I believe is sti…

i signed up and tried to use it. The UI is very confusing. i couldn't find the place to setup what language i want to learn and what language i know (for translation). It is best if you can have a video or images documenting how to use it.

I made some quick live videos today:

https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1917093849219895715?s=61

Please excuse the video quality, there will be better paced/audio/scripted demos soon!

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

#797
post #65

I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning & acquisition tool for polyglots. I’ve been using it to study ~12 languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually “studying”) and it’s starting to feel really good. If anyone is learning/maintaining several languages, please reach out! I’m looking for beta testers in as many languages as possible (it supports 120+). In what I believe is sti…

Great job on the design. I like the idea here, but the app was unresponsive on Windows > Chrome to most clicks

Unfortunately I do not have a windows device to test with. I have a suspicion as to what’s causing it (background blurs) and I plan to get rid of it this week

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

#799
post #402

https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/ Colibri—a self-hostable web application to manage your (and your family's) ebook library, intended as a companion to Calibre. I want it to be a friendly, simple, capable, opinionated app to review your books, add metadata to them, get them onto your reader, share them with family and (few) friends, create a public shelf for bragging, connect with Goodreads etc., and exchange com…

Great stuff, has been meaning to create an online library of my burgeoning ebooks collections for quite som time now, this is exactly what the doctors ordered and it's based on Postgres. Just wondering about the encrypted collection of ebooks from Kindle for example. Are these ebooks supported and does it only supports metadata, what about the content search for these ebooks?

So, Colibri is intended to be a companion to Calibre, maybe do like 80% of what it does, but not all of it. Also, I want Colibri's core to have a fully clean collar: It handles your personal books, but will not be able to automatically de-DRM books and such. However, the way book assets work, you're of course free to just attach an encrypted AZW3 file to a book!

> Are these ebooks supported and does it only supports metadata, what about the content search for these ebooks?

Have you seen https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/issues/45? Content search is planned, but requires access to a book's text content, obviously. My recommendation would be to use Calibre to strip DRM and convert the books to epub/mobi files, and import those to Colibri; this has the general benefit of ensuring access to content you bought without depending on Amazon's good will :-)

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

#800
post #111

So many cool technical projects here. But I am doing something completely different - masonry. Repairing walls in 3 rooms. It includes reinstalling dozens of falling off bricks, installing 30 or so power outlets, replacing old windows with bigger modern ones, fixing openings for the doors and plastering everything afterwards. On one hand it’s interesting, because it’s very different from the dayjob. But doing it by m…

If you had a YouTube channel or a flickr feed of that project or something, I'd watch it :)
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