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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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Post by jtwaleson »

MortyWaves wrote: post #385
jtwaleson wrote: post #165

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…

What’s the general algorithms or patterns for these infinite canvas type things? I’ve always wondered. How do you handle interactivity also? Seems all very complex with a html canvas…

There are engines for this. I started out with Fabric.JS but it turned very slow with hundreds of repos. Then I moved to PixiJS (a game engine) which is super fast. I feel like I'll need to move to WASM / OffScreenCanvas and implement a custom engine, like Figma is doing.

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

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Post by konschubert »

modo_mario wrote: post #329

After work hours I'm continuing work on my Saas for hairdressers. There's some big players there but I feel like I can at least still try. I'm honestly really surprised about how much I get stuck on business logic decisions. I went into this thinking making appointments, basic managing of employees and all that would be simple and relatively similar across salons. Additionally I'm considering where I should move to.…

Hey,what do you do sounds interesting. Do you have clients already?

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

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Post by niek_pas »

AJRF wrote: post #127

I recently made a little tool for people interested in running local LLMs to figure out if their hardware is able to run an LLM in GPU memory. https://canirunthisllm.com/

Feature request: I would like to know if I can run _any_ LLms on my machine, and if so, which.

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

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Post by jtwaleson »

marcotac wrote: post #383
jtwaleson wrote: post #165

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…

Sounds interesting! How did you validate the idea?

I interviewed ~10 CTOs and the problem of codebases being too difficult to understand, people outside of the team having no clue what's happening and documentation being outdated is obvious to everyone. But when I asked how this idea could help, my take-away was that they couldn't imagine how it would work from my description. So now I'm building it and I hope that seeing it in action will convince people. I have some non-paying pilot customers and over the next couple of months we'll continue the validation :)

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

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Post by WhyOhWhyQ »

jtwaleson wrote: post #165

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…

What are you doing those 3 or 4 days a week of earning money, if you don't mind me asking?

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

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Post by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B »

richrichardsson wrote: post #334
01jonny01 wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is optimum level of state intervention. IMO monitoring people with cameras for speeding is a step too far. I bet you are the same type of person who values software privacy haha

You sound like someone who doesn't have young children who cross a road where the road users should be respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because it's right in front of an elementary school, but instead a significant proportion of them are Michael Schumacher wannabes who need to drive everywhere at 60km/h.

No need to have children. It’s the same crap in France and I have to be very careful not to get killed when I’m driving myself. These morons don’t care about kids but they don’t care about other drivers either.

I’m a big privacy advocate but when you are handling a killing machine on a public road, there is no privacy IMHO.

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

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Post by jtwaleson »

WhyOhWhyQ wrote: post #397
jtwaleson wrote: post #165

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…

What are you doing those 3 or 4 days a week of earning money, if you don't mind me asking?

Fractional CTO. See sibling comments for a bit more detail.
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