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

#801
Built a writing assistant for second languages (https://nativi.sh). Still working on it a bit but mostly trying to figure out how marketing works.

Currently working on a few rust tools for drone stuff.

https://github.com/BWStearns/ulog-rs/ https://github.com/BWStearns/flight-engineer

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

#803

I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros. Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where…

This is exactly the app I would've wanted when I was still trying to lose weight by tracking calories, really great idea. I paid for a calorie-tracking app that couldn't do this, I think it was MyFitnessPal, and know several people currently paying for the same type of thing.

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

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I'm working on cataloging open source hardware designs. When I'm starting a new hardware design, I find myself pulling up familiar boards (like Adafruit or Sparkfun's dev boards) as often as the chip's application note. I sometimes prefer a full reference project so I can get useful context like which voltage regulator they used or how the USB port is connected. But, it's kind of an awkward process because I'll have…

Cool idea. It would be nice to be able to quickly pull up a part in context in various designs across the internet to answer “how did other folks solve this on a board that works?”

Thanks! 100% agree. It's the "board that works" part that might be tricky with open source designs.

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

#806

I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros. Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where…

This is exactly the app I would've wanted when I was still trying to lose weight by tracking calories, really great idea. I paid for a calorie-tracking app that couldn't do this, I think it was MyFitnessPal, and know several people currently paying for the same type of thing.

That's good to know!

Thanks for sharing, it feels nice to know that people actually have an interest in the concept.

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

#807

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…

Which tutorials and books?

"The Art of Violin Making" that the sibling comment mentioned is very good and is often referred to as "the Bible" of violin making.

"Violin Making - a practical guide" by Juliet Barker is also very good

I purchased the DVD series "When Trees Sing" by Peter Paul Prier (he was the founder of the Violin Making School of America in Salt Lake City). The DVD series wasn't cheap but it was worth it.

There is also an online course by Lucas Fabro, https://www.lucasfabro.com/en/online-course/, that I know is also very highly regarded. Fabro also has a number of free YouTube videos that are great to just get a feel for what's involved.

The Strad has a whole series of posters (https://www.thestradshop.com/store/product-category/lutherie...) with scans and measurements of famous violins to serve as templates.

International Violin, https://www.internationalviolin.com/, sells a lot of lutherie tools and is where I bought my tonewood.

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

#809

I'm developing ParaNoia, an application that allows people to securely share passwords between each other ( https://github.com/jonesconnor/paranoia ). At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID password, or something of the like, there are people that send the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not everyone deletes their m…

I like the idea, but _please_ include screenshots or a demo on your repo's readme... it's an issue that comes up frequently on the /r/selfhosted subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1iuqoyi/devs_pl...

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

#810
For a few years, I've been learning Rails (on top of some middling previous knowledge of Ruby) so I could build a site that manages data for the racing sim Assetto Corsa.

https://functionalracing.com

It doesn't look like much, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes. I'm proud to finally make it live.

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