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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 throwaway2037 »

kgabis wrote: post #211

An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm building a prototype with SwiftUI and SwiftData and I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C. Compared to my previous experience writing and publishing an iphone app, everything now feels much worse with Sw…

Open source yet? This sounds like a great project to learn how to build a small, but functional app.

    > I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C
I never wrote code in ObjC nor Swift. Can you share more thoughts behind this statement? Like, is Swift a worse dev experience compared to ObjC?

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

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Post by joeyguerra »

Another website framework. I'm using this objective to figure out what's essential and what's not. Trying to answer the question, "what's the least amount of code required to get something performant, hot-reloading for fast dev feedback, and web tech"?

https://github.com/joeyguerra/juphjacs

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

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Post by throwaway2037 »

bwb wrote: post #102

I'm still working on Shepherd, a book discovery platform aimed at feeding readers' curiosity. Later this year, I am developing a tool to bring your to-be-read pile to life in some cool ways and improve the accuracy of our topic/genre system (plus adding themes, tropes, and moods). https://shepherd.com/ Our reader's fav reads of 2024: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published

Silly question: How did you get ownership of that domain? It is a great brand name!

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

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Post by fl4tul4 »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #641

I'm making a violin. I've been a programmer for just over 25 years, and recently decided I wanted to leave the profession. So I'm planning on attending the Violin Making School of America in the fall, and my project before then is to build a violin myself. There are some good in-depth video tutorials, as well as some famous books on the subject, and I'm planning to pair up with an amateur luthier in my town. The tone…

Yes! That's a very good objective.

I am too studying a lot and trying to build one from scratch. It has been very humbling and enlightening experience, something that AI will never replace ;)

Kudos sir, and best of success. Check Maestronet (Luthier section, ie, Peg Box) for insightful comments and suggestions.

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

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Post by jmpavlec »

seanwilson wrote: post #4

A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes for UI/web design. :) https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ > Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together. > Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors. > See which color pairs contrast as you…

Tried it out on mobile and thought the site had broken the back button. Turned out to just be a history entry for every click/drag (which grows quite quickly). I found that quite off-putting but maybe that's a bit like an "undo" in this context...?

Either way, I didn't appreciate the 100+ entries in my history.

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

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Post by seanwilson »

jmpavlec wrote: post #736
seanwilson wrote: post #4

A tool for building WCAG accessible Tailwind-like color palettes for UI/web design. :) https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ > Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together. > Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors. > See which color pairs contrast as you…

Tried it out on mobile and thought the site had broken the back button. Turned out to just be a history entry for every click/drag (which grows quite quickly). I found that quite off-putting but maybe that's a bit like an "undo" in this context...? Either way, I didn't appreciate the 100+ entries in my history.

Oops, that should be it fixed. Desktop version has more features by the way, the mobile version is more of a preview.

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

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Post by jmpavlec »

Still working on https://gametje.com which is an alternative to Jackbox games. Currently have 5 available games (with a 6th behind signup + opt-in alpha tester flag). It's free to try as a guest for a few days before an account is necessary. Playable in 9 languages and hostable/playable from any device with a web browser. Most games offer the ability to play against an AI player to try it out before trying to convince your friends.

Currently working on setting up a blog with some dev details about the newest game. Also working with a UI/UX designer to make it look and flow a bit better.

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

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Post by dijksterhuis »

still working on octatools ... CLI for doing "stuff" with Elektron Octatrack binary data files.

* reversed engineered 90% of the data files

* finally got copying banks between projects working (a 10-ish year old feature request no-one has implemented yet)

* now tidying it up before I publish it on basically every public forum octatrack people hang out on and hoping I don't completely bork people's stuff in the process.

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

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Post by BurningFrog »

gamedever wrote: post #723
mavamaarten wrote: post #626

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, but also disagree. Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light is always green. It's beautiful. People actually drive slowly and safely there. And good, becau…

Sounds great! Now if I could just get that installed in 100% of California ATM we basically have lawless highways in California. Every time I go out I see outrageous traffic violations. People driving 15-20 mph over the speed limit on the freeway, weaving in and out of the carpool lane. People pulling into the left turn lane at a signal, then just crossing on a red light as soon as they think it's safe. People passin…

Many places on California are more or less lawless, not just the freeways...
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