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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#991
post #46

A kind of a configuration management tool, helping me manually "reconcile" between three concurrent aspects of the state of a machine (and then apply the result): - what is "out there" on the machine ("queried"), - vs. what was the state last recorded in (git) history, - vs. what I want there to be on the machine (described in Nickel language https://nickel-lang.org/ , a statically-typed successor to the Nix language…

What's the difference between the latter two? Apart from that, it sounds like a gitops thing "deploy on push", while trying to meld the mutating pets with declarative cattle somehow.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#993
I'm working on an application. It's really challenging to be a solo developer and build a web application from scratch. I've been working on it for four months now, and to be honest, I've gotten a bit lazy over the past few weeks. But I've decided to launch it before it's completely finished. I'm a perfectionist, which makes things harder, but I know I can do it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#995

I am working on an email-based space game (a la Eve Online). Between work and family responsibilites, I find it difficult to carve out time for dedicated gaming sessions anymore. As a result, I often find myself searching for games that I can play when I have a bit of time, can progress over the long-haul, doesn't require real-time monitoring and yet feels like I'm actually playing a game (as opposed to just watching…

In case this gives you some ideas/inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-mail_game

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#996

I launched https://www.emailremind.me/ , which is a simple website to send yourself email reminders in the future. The tech stack I used: - Remix - v0 for UI code gen - Resend - Neon for DB - Exograph for API - Clerk for Authentication - Cloudflare Pages + Workers + Domains - Cody wrote ~ 1/3rd of my code

Ha, I was just reading your blog post on running next.js on cloudflare. It made me seriously consider remix as an alternative. I'll take this comment that remix is the way to go. I'm also working on a small webapp like the one you built

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#997
post #137

I built a site that saves time by summarizing YouTube videos or news articles by simply inputting the URL. The tool preserves the original context, allowing users to ask follow-up questions. I'd like to continue building fun projects like this until I find a market. I work in Phase 1 clinical trials and the end goal would be to implement some of these efficiencies into health technologies. https://tldw.pw/

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#998
post #968

I'm still working on Habitat. It's a self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet. I want it to be easily installable for those who want to host using docker, and for those who want to host on an EC2 instance or something, because online services for docker hosting are quite expensive, so I've been working recently on ansible setup, and it's proving…

This seems similar (or identical?) to Jodel (jodel.com).

Hey, sorry, I didn't initially see this comment. It looks like Jodel could be similar if you were to set up a Habitat instance that exclusively didn't allow for locations to be attached to any post, but that's not what I have in mind, and it's not how my instance will be set-up, because the location attached to the post is what I'm seeing as one of the main purposes of Habitat. In most cases, I envision a post representing an exact location. Perhaps a building, a country park, or a monument or something. Jodel looks like generic discussions that are filtered by proximity, which Habitat would have also by nature of federation, but the posts will be about places, and focused around a map-location of those places.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#999
It's barely functional, but I banged away with GitHub CoPilot and managed to put together a BitGrid emulator in React.js[1]

It's wild seeing something I wrote run in a web browser on my phone. I've been doing desktop programs since the 1980s. I've included a link to the GitHub repo[2].

[1] https://mikewarot.github.io/bitgrid-react-app/

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/bitgrid-react-app

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

#1000

I'm working on a 3D infinite canvas of text, focusing on code. Runs on iPhone, iPad, macOS so they can all act as separate viewports into a space. You can point the app at a repository, download a copy locally, instantly render the entire repository into space in less than a second in most cases, and then fly around and search for text. I just got an optimization working for larger files and it's kinda fun how much e…

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