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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Thanks for asking! I’m working on a podcast community site to give a place for listeners to get together and connect. It’s not too far along but the basics are there, feel free to check it out/give me feedback: https://www.podalong.com/

Hey that's looking pretty spiffy!

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Going from zero musical ability and knowledge of music theory to composing and playing jazz, classical and hymn. I've given myself a year to do it and documenting my progress every day: https://write.as/poseur-to-composer/about

Cool, it takes time. I picked up the electric guitar, again, I am aiming to be a decent guitarist in ten years. I currently play bass in a hobby metall band which is fun.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Since stepping into a new role in the world of full-time Clojure earlier this year I have been almost entirely focussed on launching an ambitious new open source graph database that uses Kafka as the "unbundled" transaction log and provides bitemporal Datalog queries: https://github.com/juxt/crux

Before I made this move, tinkering with Clojure and thinking about databases was just a hobby.

I wasn't around when Crux was initially designed and built, but my primary job so far as the product manager for Crux has been to figure out how we make the most of all the ingenuity and effort that's already gone into it. I also wear many additional hats at the moment: leading the development team, managing community interactions, speaking at events/conferences, creating the marketing, and working on sales & strategic partnerships.

This all keeps me incredibly busy but it is fun and it feels like the right thing for me to be working on and thinking about at this point in my life. I think of it like the perfect side-project that I am very fortunate to be able to work on all day long (and surrounded by excellent & talented people!).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I'm learning C and x86 ASM from scratch all over again. I want to get away from the dumpster fire that web development has become and do something meaningful with my life. Now, if I can only figure out what that is. Embedded development for medical devices, maybe?

I feel like getting into embedded programming would be trading one dumpster fire for another. I try and limit my exposure to too much web dev crazy ness, usually by avoiding any 'framework' that requires its own command line tool.

Personally I find embedded (actual embedded as in having 20-100kb to work with, not 4gb Pi’s) far less dumpster fire than web dev; it is constrained and there are only so many options once you studied the specsheets and assembled your circuit. It is often like codegolf but for a lot of money and you cannot have bugs because you cannot (easily) send updates. At least I like that kind of thing.

I hope to find time and tech to advance for me to help the dumpster fire: if you see projects like GuiLite it definitely is possible to make things efficient and solid. So that is me hoping for enough advances in webassembly.

For now, embedded I find a lot more fun.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Building the enterprise version of:

https://hnprofile.com/

The goal is to help employees try to find an expert (or content) in a company when you need to solve something. For HR we provide insights about employees (satisfaction, influence levels, etc) in an attempt to reduce turnover (#1 cost to businesses).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Working on a desktop version of my webdev tool SnipCSS: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma... The current version is a Chrome Extension that extracts every CSS rule needed to rebuild the DOM subtree of a selected element. Unlike other tools it never uses computed styles and uses the actual DevTools protocol to get the CSS. The current extension doesn't handle CSS specificity or inheritance c…

I've wanted this badly enough to have it on my list of potential things to build in a medium-term future.

Please do this. Is there a waitlist? If not, please make it so. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I've built a thing called the Tech Events Network: https://techeventsnetwork.com/cities/ which aggregates and publishes tech events - meetups, conferences, workshops, hackathons, etc - across 50+ cities in the US.

After being an evangelist at Twilio and running a number of my own meetups, I realized that that the biggest problem most groups had was getting the word out. This pulls data from Meetup, Eventbrite, and other places, uses some light ML to choose hashtags, company names, etc, and then tweets the day before and about a week before a given event. There's also a weekly pre-cap email that goes out.

If you're running a tech event in a major city in the US, we help you get the word out.

If you're near a major city in the US - or even just visiting - you can find out what's going on.

* We explicitly exclude job fairs, etc to make it SFW.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#110

On exercism.io, learning rust and mentoring people learning JavaScript. Both sides are a lot of fun! Please join in if you can on mentoring... there's a pretty big back-log.

That's awesome! Is there any open source parts of the project we could contribute to, as well?
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