Ask HN: What are you working on?

I (we) are building a challenger bank in the U.S., focusing on checking and savings accounts that expose a full API.

On a personal level, I have been doing a deep dive into the Napoleonic Wars, and spend most of my free time reading. I had an idea the other day to attempt to build some sort of battlefield/timeline visualizer using the newly realized Google Earth Studio. Has anybody used it for anything other than simple flyover animations?

That sounds fucking awesome.

> relatively simple power trains that can be serviced and don’t rely on much complicated technology.

In my part of the world people pay a higher price for 2nd-hand Toyota Hilux 4x4's from the 90's then they do for the more modern versions for just this reason.

Staying sane by staying busy. My wife is slowly dying and is a thousand miles away at a hospital, hoping they can save her. Today I cleaned a workshop area that I'd been using for storage so that I could use it as an actual workshop. I have car parts to rebuild (Chevy 350 TBI at least) and I have things to build, like a recumbent bicycle from scratch.

I am also working on learning CW (aka Morse code), learning to play bass (already play guitar) and am trying to stay busy helping others too.

In addition to all that I do breakfix computer work on the side and a freelance gig writin technical tutorials for a site that specializes in selling small to medium sized, low budget VPSs. That has me learning things like Nginx and Redis, which I've never really spent any time on. It's great fun and my first professional writing job.

I also have a blog where I document my ham radio, automotive, and other misc projects, although I'm woefully behind on it. I built a 20 meter CW transceiver last week (from a kit) and have yet to post about that. I also had to repair a cracked body on the bass I am learning to play, but didn't even take pictures. Writing about things while you do them takes twice as long, at least. I'm lazy.

Lastly I took a recent promotion. I work remotely, training new employees at the web hosting company that I work at. I also develop training materials and am revamping how we approach that stuff. I've never done that before. It's the first time I've been off the front lines, and I like it. A lot.

Thankfully I have a lot to keep me busy so that my mind can focus on what I'm doing rather than on the troubles that plague my wife. She'll either survive or she won't, and my worrying won't affect it. All I can do is support her. Our adult daughter is her full time caregiver (I am not cut out for that, and we're all okay with it, I promise) and is with her, and that has to be good enough.

I've been blessed with an amazing support network and a few extra bucks to let me stay busy on projects. If I didn't have those to keep me going... eesh.

Lastly, I'm glad somebody asked this question. I had a lot to get off my chest. And if this didn't make a lot of sense, I apologize. It's a bit of a brain dump.

I've recently set up this blog : http://www.dndchronologically.com/

I'm reading through all of TSR's D&D products in chronological order. Part of this project is to compile the most accurate chronological list on the net.