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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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After I had to put my subscription box Candy Japan on covid pause, I started exploring new projects.

First I created a baby name finding website, which had a bit of popularity, but only made a few dollars.

Then I got curious about the Roblox platform, learned to script there, launched a game and have been updating that ever since. It's doing pretty well, and is also the most fun I've had programming since the times of MUD wizarding.

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I contribute to a neat platform called https://pol.is/home . It's used to shape legislation in Taiwan. It's basically a techno-social exoskeleton that gives laypersons the superpower to see the whole forest (10,000s of ppl) via dimensional reduction over a chaotic matrix of agree/disagree statements. Or rather: To "listen at scale". Like these: https://pol.is/4yy3sh84js https://pol.is/5pch2hmyn7 https://pol.is/4hnmy3…

None of the roamresearch pages load on FF Android and get stuck showing that 'spinner instrument'.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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I finally started to take the time to develop the parser and data types for "stutter" [1], a spoken programming language idea I had for a while now.

The underlying idea is that this language is absolutely syntax clutter free and uses grammar similar to how sentences are built, so that it can be predicted and recognized much easier in noisy environments whilst being a programming language that is made for dictation (instead of typing).

I don't want this to be an esoteric idea, so I'm also experimenting a bit with the use case of embedding it into my browser stealth [2] in order to automate and schedule web scraping tasks.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/stutter

[2] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

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#686

I’m building some projects to slow the internet down. 1. A less addictive Hacker News ( https://hackerdaily.io ) 2. A brief overview of yesterday’s world events ( https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com )

2 is amazing! How do you pick the news and create the summaries? Is it automated?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#690

At the risk of sounding like I am kidding, I am building a personal productivity application. While the world is full of "todo" apps, they are essentially list management systems. They vary in aesthetics and mechanics but none of them help you do the hugely valuable work of planning years out and then driving your weekly planning and daily activity off these huge goals. More so, they profoundly fail to keep you accou…

I'm also working on a todo app, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, and I see the same problems you do. Good luck with yours!
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