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

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

#34
I realized that many seasoned developers do not yet grasp the power and productivity gains that tools like Cursor can not only provide to them, but ESPECIALLY to those that have a lot of experience and broad expertise.

Therefore, I‘m working on a mid- to longform blog post that details how precisely the competencies that senior developers and tech leads already have are the key to fully harness the potential of these tools.

And who knows, maybe I‘m going to develop this into some form of consulting or training side project.

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

#36
I’m writing an interpreter for the Starlark language in pure Kotlin (no JVM dependencies).

I had this idea in mind for some time already, it began with me wanting to build a simple programming language (and learn in the process) and interest in Bazel. I got started about a month ago by going through the Crafting Interpreters book by Bob Nystrom (it’s crazy good), but now Im straying further and further away from it.

Overall I find the project a great mixture of fun and challenging.

It’s a private repo for now because it’s in a pretty rough state, and is still missing a lot of stuff, but I will release as OSS at some point. That said if someone would like it could be fun:)

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

#37
I've been building mentions.us[1] - it sends you alerts when your keywords are mentioned on Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky, LinkedIn and a few other places. For anyone who uses F5Bot, it's similar but with some extra data sources and a Slack integration.

It's been a fun project. Dealing with the scale of Reddit (~300 posts/second) creates some interesting technical challenges. It's also let me polish up my frontend development skills.

I don't think it will ever be a money spinner - it has ~70 folks using it buy they're all on the free tier. It's felt really good to build something useful, though.

[1]: https://mentions.us

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