Ask HN: What are you working on?

The sound for my Game Boy emulator.

A play structure for my kids.

A large refactor of my GIS software stack at work to scale for the next ten thousand robots.

A diet that's not really a diet but more of a lifestyle change: don't worry about weight or "healthy" choices. Just. Count. The. Calories. Hugely successful one month in.

I'm building Career, a mobile-first resume manager. It's in its early stages but I'm already tentatively using it for my own, hoping to add people to a beta soon.

https://twitter.com/thecareerapp

Trying my hand at algorithmic trading, mostly out of regret minimization. I've sunk in a lot of time, and almost none of it has been on trading models. So far, it's all pretty much data mining, data cleaning, and the infra for it.

Many things!

jsso2: Identity provider and authenticating proxy for your non-enterprise use cases. WebAuthn only, no passwords! I was tired of typing a password for things like Grafana and PGAdmin, and IP whitelisting my home Internet for things that didn't have built-in authentication. https://github.com/jrockway/jsso2

If I were starting from 0 today, I'd just use Dex and Envoy's built-in OAuth support. OAuth is overly complicated, requiring a bunch of configuration for each app, and a ton of code in each app... but it won. So use that.

jlog: I read a lot of log files in my day-to-day work and really like the idea of structured logs, but found them hard to read. jlog translates timestamps to my local time zone, lets me query them with jq, highlights errors with color, etc.: https://github.com/jrockway/json-logs Can't live without it, I use it many times every day, and have even convinced other people to use it without writing any documentation. (There are binary releases and a --help though!)

"kubectl jq": I wanted to play with writing kubectl plugins, so I made one that is just "kubectl get x -o json | jq". I use it pretty regularly, but the Kubernetes client machinery doesn't give you autocompletion for free, so it's pretty painful to use. When they fix that, I plan to write more kubernetes extensions (including one that invokes jlog on the logs, saving a pipe ;) https://github.com/jrockway/kubectl-jq

alertmanager-status: How do you know if your Prometheus/Alertmanager is working? If it breaks, it won't be sending you an alert, after all. https://github.com/jrockway/alertmanager-status

ekglue: The good parts of Istio, for internetinternal proxying, written by someone who read the xDS spec :P https://github.com/jrockway/ekglue

For my day job, I work on Pachyderm Hub, which you should totally use if you want to run production-quality data science workloads (data provenance, reproducibility, etc.): https://hub.pachyderm.com/ I could write a lot about it, but basically... we have customers that want to use Pachyderm, but the complexity of Kubernetes stands in their way. How do you store logs? How do you monitor things? How do you give your coworkers access? We solve those problems by letting you click a button in a web UI. (As for why you'd want to use Pachyderm: https://www.pachyderm.com/use-cases/)

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