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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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We bought a 50 year old house that has never been touched since the year it was build. With the costs of trades being through the roof, I'm trying to do as much as possible myself - currently demoing the house to the studs (if it had studs, it's actually all brick walls and concrete floors).

In my off-hours, I'm working on an old school pixel art RPG, but in 3D.

Oh, and finally I'm also working on finding a new job :-(

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast. The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you should be driving fast. If I go the spe…

Just out of curiousity, do you signal that you are going to turn left when you slow down compared to the average of the other drivers?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

#313

I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

Publish to Twitter along with number plates and tag the local council.

Possibly illegal, depending on where you live.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

#314
Probably the most niche thing I have ever created, but I recently worked on taking the books and ratings from Patrick Collison's Bookshelf (https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf) and putting them in a spreadsheet with links to buy them.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11jLH3UISmRId_gTFXiTQ...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

Not sure where you are, but 30kmh sounds Dutch. Filming the public road from your private residence is illegal. In practice, no one cares. Cops will even ask you nicely for footage if something went down in your street. Anyway, best of luck with your project.

I'd think that as long as you blur faces and license tags, would be there anything for someone to complain?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

#316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! If you or other interested people in this thread are in a position to pay for it, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you!

Is it demoable and downloadable?

Demo yes, feel free to reach out if you'd be willing to pay as I'm slowly starting to look for beta customers. You can also ask me to be put on the waiting list. Downloadable: I think in about two months.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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In between figuring out what to do after a decade of work on Micro ( https://github.com/micro ), I started a new project called Reminder which tries to provide a single clean app and API for the Quran, Hadith and names of Allah. Maybe some of you would find it beneficial. It tries to put English first since most of us are non Arabic speaking and cultural from the west. https://reminder.dev

The name of your app reminds me of one I had started working on when I was out of employment: the app was going to send periodic reminders of stuff you've bookmarked/saved on various social media sites. I was just about working on the Twitter api when Musk bought the company and restricted access. Real bummer. I got employment weeks later.

That's definitely the right name for periodic reminders right. Years ago I wrote an API called remindme which was supposed to provide pings for when you were in proximity to a location and it would remind you if you needed to pay someone, buy something, do something, etc. Never went anywhere but totally unrelated to this.

The Quran itself is referred to as the reminder. Because it's supposed to remind us of why we're here, our purpose, who made us, and all that.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data on how many people speed, the max speed recorded, that sort of thing. Things the city should be doing after many complaints of dangerous driving and people being almost killed on zebra crossings. I ha…

I'm starting to think about a similar thing for noise. The noise of motor vehicles seems to be out of control and I am sure it is causing misery for the majority of the population who have to live near roads. I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip. Unfortunately I think awareness of this problem is even worse than speed.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

#319
I'm working on valuation models for wholesale electricity trading of flexibility assets (batteries, basically).

Currently I'm restructuring a big chunk of the code for readability, trying to apply good refactoring practices (work in small bits).

After a lot of frustrating experiences with Python linear optimization DSLs, I'm thinking of writing my own at some point as a side-project :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

#320

I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the…

This sounds lovely. I am a spatial thinker so this is right up my alley. How do you deal with different kinds of groupings and connections? For example, some things could be connected because they are “integrations”, or because they deal with notifications, or because they’re available only in the enterprise plan. Not all related things are related in the same way.

Still a lot of thinking to be done here to be honest. I've built a very fast canvas with zoom-to-code, parsing the git history, code age overlays etc, but understanding the architecture and connections is the next big thing I have to figure out. Plenty of ideas though!
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