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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 gloosx »

svilen_dobrev wrote: post #668
gloosx wrote: post #564

I'm exploring the world of Tauri cross-platform desktop apps in my free time now. For the first project using this technology I decided to go for a simple media converter app. I have a 64MB sampler so I have to convert a lot of samples from lossless formats to mp3, there are two options I know: any random online tool from the google page 1 or ffmpeg cli. The former almost physically hurts , because I have to upload m…

ffmpeg for audio? hmm.. here's what i use: * wav -> mp3: lame * anything -> wav: mplayer (or the specific format decoder if one bothers) * resampling: sox, it does much better quality. But it does not do mp3, so wav > wav have fun!

But isn't ffmpeg itself use lame for mp3 encoding? I primarily use the app for wav -> mp3, but my planned feature is to create ffmpeg "templates" for conversion, so u can use it for video as well.

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

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Post by Bnjoroge »

asdev wrote: post #660
Bnjoroge wrote: post #658

Earlier quoted context omitted.

works fine for my use case and found it alot better than myFitnessPal, ymmv and yeah of course it's impossible to determine with certainty but it gets you 80/90% of the way there.

if you cooked a meal with a ton of butter or oil, it would not be able to detect the quantity. it could possibly undercount by hundreds of calories, making it useless. if you're not serious about the counting then it could be fine

that's what I mentioned above, read again

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

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Post by jtwaleson »

WillAdams wrote: post #688
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…

How do you label blocks/sections? I've wanted to work with code thus, but it becomes a problem in that things are only really readable/relatable in single-screen chunks, and when one tries to show more than is accurately related on a single screen it becomes an unreadable, confusing, blurry mess. Screengrab?

It's interesting how everyone reading my description must have a different picture in their mind :) Right now I'm doing super simple treemaps, but I'm close to starting work on diagram overlays. No screengrabs yet.

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

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Post by jsemrau »

I am still writing about Cognitive Agents on my Substack "Encyclopedia Autonomica" [1]. Last month I crossed 500 subscribers (~15 paying) on Substack and since today Google is properly indexing it. Throughout February I wrote largely about applications in FinTech like Market Making, Agents as Financial Decision Engines, Advanced Named Entity Recognition, and that I built Deep Search for Finance in 2023 and nobody cared.

[1]https://jdsemrau.substack.com/

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

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Post by elric »

p2detar wrote: post #497
elric wrote: post #244

Working on a new Java logging tool. I'm basically yak shaving, really. Was unhappy with the existing solutions for a new project I'm working on. Depending on how it goes and how the customer feels about it, I'll try to open source it.

Do you mean like a library, alternative to log4j2 or some sort of frontend tool to view logs?

Something of an alternative to log4j, yes. On every project I've worked on, the vast majority of logs are useless. They're either too verbose, or not verbose enough. It's never clear who they're meant for. Log levels are very hard to get right. Is this really a warning? Or an error? Should someone do something? And when?

So I'm experimenting with ways of making it easier to write useful logs.

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

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Post by svilen_dobrev »

svilen_dobrev wrote: post #643
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…

mapping the software items (and whatever related)... has been a conquest ever since. Although what you may infer without knowing deeper essential details (engines and what data drives them how), would be static. Still, "communication diagrams" are very useful meta-view. some suggestions: * have ways for multiple views and/or start-points and/or both up/down directions. e.g. hierachy vs reason/effect vs dependence vs…

* runtime-statics i.e. DevOps-view.. like what runs on which machine - maybe derived from container-descriptions? also bi-directional

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

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Post by em-bee »

carlos-menezes wrote: post #618

Videos on programming: https://www.youtube.com/@carlosmenezes98 With English not being my native tongue, it gets difficult to speak some words at times and I have to reshoot each takes several times. But it's worth the effort and it's different to what I do in my main channel!

those videos are pretty well done. your language also sounds fine. subscribed using freetube

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

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Post by jtwaleson »

svilen_dobrev wrote: post #696
svilen_dobrev wrote: post #643

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mapping the software items (and whatever related)... has been a conquest ever since. Although what you may infer without knowing deeper essential details (engines and what data drives them how), would be static. Still, "communication diagrams" are very useful meta-view. some suggestions: * have ways for multiple views and/or start-points and/or both up/down directions. e.g. hierachy vs reason/effect vs dependence vs…

* runtime-statics i.e. DevOps-view.. like what runs on which machine - maybe derived from container-descriptions? also bi-directional

Lots of good ideas in your comments, thanks. Like you say, you want call-graphs, hot-spots from your monitoring systems, seeing user interaction diagrams, links to other components, amount of engineering time spent on features, mapping security issues, tech debt, etc. The challenge is going to be to keep a simple product :)

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

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Post by kleiba »

lnsru wrote: post #345
kleiba wrote: post #311

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 :…

You’re not alone! I cleaned 100 square meter of wall in February from everything that was put there during last 70 years. From somehow modern plasterwork with probably asbestos to two inch thick dirt in other room. Waterproofing is brittle and does not function anymore, so it comes next and then replacing windows. All by myself, the costs of trades can’t be justified especially when quality isn’t there in most cases.

I've looked into replacing windows but decided that that's going to be one of the things that I'll let professionals do.

The ironic thing is that not only are the tradies expensive, but prices for renting specialty machines are also crazy high where I currenly live. Like, I looked into renting a stand-up concrete grinder/sander -- $100 for 4 hours! Plus, you need to buy the sanding attachments which are another $200 if you go for diamond disks. I'm now actually considering using just a hand grinder and spend a whole week on what I could probably do in a day or two otherwise.

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

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Post by Cerium »

jtwaleson wrote: post #642
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #438

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Cool. My long-term vision for software development would be to make a new programming environment that structures code in ASTs and stores it in a database rather than file based. However, that will have to come later. First this :)

Sometimes I daydream that we moved beyond text files and had a format with a UUID per line.

Version control could reliably track movement between files, we could identify copy and paste (and prompt when refactoring), and code coverage changes would be accurate.

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