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

Officially retired. Managing the money I saved to retire on, which is more time-consuming and stressful than expected. Working on yet another static site generator but stymied by my terrible Git/GitHub skills. Studying historical Western secular music. Jazz guitar too.

I work for a VC, in case you are seeking funding for your startup, Material Science is interesting to us robin@agfunder.com

I've been working on a kind of strategy game called Fall of an Empire (https://fallofanempiregame.com), it's a bit like a mix between Crusader Kings, Total War, Mount and Blade type games (just the overworld, not the battles), but rather than expanding you're trying to prevent an empire from collapsing.

It's a ton of work, especially with the number of systems - you've got combat, resource management, settlement development, food managment, espionage, diplomacy etc - these all need to play together well. And then you've got to add in the storyline, graphics, marketing -but I think I'm making pretty good progress.

I'm still using Unreal Engine 4 because I started work on that version and I haven't needed to upgrade to 5 since it's been released. I've got a free prologue that I'm releasing on October 1, so now until then is a lot of polishing to make it work well.

I just replaced the rear brake pads and rotors on my truck. PITA, but it's fun sometimes to get outside, have tools in your hands, and work on something tangible.

I have another project lined up for my truck that I'm going to get into soon. I'm going to add a secondary high-current power distribution bus with a couple of bus-bar distribution blocks at convenient points, to make it easier to add accessories. I've already replaced one of the battery terminal screws with an aftermarket one that adds an extended stud and a nut, where you can attach a cable with a ring terminal. And I've got heavy duty copper lugs, some #2 welding cable, a hydraulic crimping tool, and the distribution blocks waiting on a shelf.

Once that's in place, It'll be very convenient for adding ham radio gear, an air compressor, a power inverter and some other things I've been chewing on.

Web app development [1]. I know I know, it's 2024 and my friends are doing very cool things with LLMs, but I started a bit late in life and am just catching up with the 20th century (and I feel just fine about it :).

[1] In fact, I just published a blog post about it! Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/clojure-web-app-from-scratch...