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

On the "side projects" side of things, I've been working on a "boot to EndBASIC" disk image since December with the goal of creating a small "dev kit" box that boots quickly and directly into the interpreter. The disk image is pretty much done for a first release, so now I need to get to the design and 3D-printing of a case for the board+screen combo. The latter is brand new territory for me, and I have a self-imposed deadline of June when I'll be presenting this at BSDCan.

... but I've also taken a small detour to improve the EndBASIC website and provide a dynamically-generated gallery of user-uploaded projects. This has been a deficiency for a while and I felt it'd be easy to add it, right on time for the "dev kit" release.

Stay tuned!

[0]: https://ezb.io/thoughts/interaction_nets/lambda_calculus/202...

So most of my project work is home-based, after years of being able to chase (and execute) dreams at work.

On the technology front, I'm finally investing in a proper network core for home. WiFi 7 AP, 2.5Gig core, PoE everywhere, zone-based firewall. Still mapping out DHCP scopes and VLANs, but once that's done it'll be moving on to proper IoT and Home Assistant build-outs to prepare for the Unfolded Circle 3 later this summer. Also looking to redo my two N100 hypervisors off Proxmox and back to RHEL + Cockpit, or some other Linux + KVM implementation; from there, it's all about Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform. Really just a lot of oft-postponed side projects because I had amazing fulfillment at work, that I suddenly have ample time for now.

Outside of the tech stuff, I'm still trying to get some decent photos of two local birds of prey that have been hunting in my neighborhood. They seemingly spite me by only showing themselves when I don't have my camera with me, but dangit, I will photograph them.

On the writing front, I've got a few topics jostling around in drafts: speculating on potential futures of LLMs, the internet as a psychohazard, and a series of "fundamentals" to try and teach my non-techie circles more about how computers and the internet work, so they can do some modest self-hosting and get off centralized services. I'll likely dovetail some of them with my own home projects, writing them alongside the documentation as I make progress.