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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)

#431

Firefly is a typed full stack programming language: - object capabilities - implicit async/await - immutable collections https://www.firefly-lang.org/ It's small and (hopefully) fun, and quite usable already. If you try it out, please share your thoughts!

Firefly language looks simple and beautiful.

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

#434
A web app that extends the capabilities of Spotify. You can create artists' discographies (all albums in a single playlist), merge multiple playlists into a new one with the ability to watch those playlists for new tracks, track live events for artists you follow or artists from a playlist.

I have been working on it for about a year now. It is not yet public because I am yet to apply for Spotify API quota extension, but I'd be happy to allow access manually if anyone wanted to take a look.

https://mottle.it/

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

#435
I've created and am still working on my portfolio page in WASM using Flutter Web: https://dmilicic.com/

To enable WASM properly you should be on the latest Chrome version since other browsers still have some issues supporting it, otherwise, it will fallback to canvaskit renderer which is slower.

I've written about the implementation itself here if anyone is interested: https://blog.dmilicic.com/posts/writing-a-personal-website-i...

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

#436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't. I hope to go around to discuss stuff at local salons that use competitors next week and hope to garner some first interest along my expected feedback. I also already know from an insider that a decently sized Belgian chain has people really frustrated with Salonised so I hope to get my foot in the door there. However before I try that it needs to be a bit more than an MVP.

Talking to local salons is a great next step, i hope you will get some good feedback!

Thank you very much.

Even tho I'm a rather smooth talker and potential salesperson it took me a fair bit of courage building initially to actually approach people about my product. I'm sure that'll get better with experience.

Down the line even if I hope to catch most customers trough unpersonal means such as online advertising, mailing, etc I'll still have to simply try and approach many larger business/chains directly.

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

#438

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…

On a smaller scale it reminds me of the original concept of Light Table, which let go of the abstraction of individual files in favor of editing your code in a tree like structure. It's a shame this concept seems to have died out, I'd be curious about alternatives to plain file based UX.

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

#439
A small library which uses a fork of OpenSCAD which adds Python support: https://pythonscad.org/ to allow writing out DXF files and G-code and modeling how G-code will cut in 3D:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

Writing it in a TeX editor using a Literate Programming system developed in the course of working on it, the PDF should give both a good overview, and provide all the code.

It has greatly expanded/restored my math/geometry and has me looking forward to how to implement Bézier Curves and surfaces using similar math (since G-code and CGAL are fundamentally limited to lines and arcs and what can be easily made from such constructs).

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

#440

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…

Is that legal in your country? In mine (Netherlands) there are way too many people with doorbell camera aimed right at the street even though it's illegal to record a public space like that. Most folks are ignorant about it though, or think that surely the internet-connected gadget sold by some anonymous corporation won't be abused....

On paper it's illegal to record the public street, but it seems to be given a pass for doorbell cameras, even going as far as the police asking people to sign up theirs into a database so they can request footage if needs be [0].

[0] https://www.politie.nl/onderwerpen/camera-in-beeld.html

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