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

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

#111
I'm working on this, improving in every iteration. (Documentation needs to be updated as well)

https://github.com/bugthesystem/Flux

Flux is a high-performance message transport library for Rust that implements patterns inspired by LMAX Disruptor and Aeron. It provides lock-free inter-process communication (IPC), UDP transport, and reliable UDP with optimized memory management for applications with low latency requirements.

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

#112
I’m currently 4 years in to doing everything possible to build the best budgeting app https://envelopebudgeting.com

This week I’ve been working on predicting upcoming paychecks with Nodejs so we can automatically decide how much funds to move into your budgets when you get paid. I pull the past 3 months of transaction data from our Postgres database using Prisma and run some analysis.

People think syncing and delayed transaction data is normal, and I’m working on changing that by having the budgeting built in to the checking account. Along with a high yield savings account, goal envelopes, bill envelopes, etc, joint accounts, etc.

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

#113
Have you ever wanted to write your life story but found it too overwhelming? I’m developing an app that acts as your personal interviewer, guiding you through your memories and helping you share them with your loved ones.

The app is designed for older adults who enjoy reminiscing but struggle to organize their thoughts into a coherent narrative. The goal is to preserve their hard-won insights and pass them down—to family members who may be too busy to ask the right questions now, and to future generations who would otherwise never hear these stories.

I have a working prototype that allows me to test the interview flow, and I’ll soon be sharing it with friends and family for initial feedback. I’m now looking for a designer to collaborate on the next phase.

Design will be a critical part of this app. The way stories are visually presented will be central to the user experience and will likely determine the app’s success. If you’re a designer interested in this kind of work, I’d love to hear from you. Given the text-heavy nature of the app, experience with typography and content-focused design will be especially valuable.

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

#115
post #108

We're supposed to use AI at work, which has been very 50/50 for me as expected. Last month I decided to take a subscription of my own for Claude Code to use in my personal time mostly for practice and educational purposes. So the past few weekends and the occasional week night I've been vibe-coding a game for iOS/MacOS using Swift and SpriteKit. I have some experience with Swift previously but not at work, so it's ex…

How do you find xcode, is it as bad as everyone bashes it at reddit? I am planning to get m4 mac mini and do some Swift development, just didn't use xcode ever.

These days it feels particularly outdated. I'm used to Sublime Text and VS Code for most of my day-to-day work and I just find navigating code such a chore in Xcode.

The other issue I've had is if I want to change project/target/build settings, Xcode doesn't provide an easy way to do so. You need to poke around the UI to find where these settings and file relationships are set and change them that way.

There's a project file that I believe contains them all but it's not intuitive to modify by hand.

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

#116

An app to help you split individual receipts with a bunch of people: https://demo.snapreceipts.fyi/ Mainly used by my friends right after we have a group lunch or dinner. You just upload a pic of the receipt after a meal and it parses out the items. We assign who got what and it calculates who owes what. Makes the receipt splitting part super easy.

I just tried it and I really like it! Do you think it’s gonna stay free?

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

#117
I've got a long term project trying to see how far I can get writing a contact simulation using techniques from Klaus Hollig's book on B-spline finite element methods. I'm using D for this. I've been focusing on level set domains, which has led to me spending an inordinate amount of time on high order boundary parametrizations. I'm very curious to see how efficient an approach like this can be made, especially using multigrid. I do numerics and geometry professionally, and this is a bit outside my wheelhouse, although close enough to what I do at my day job that I'm hoping there will be some nice cross pollination of ideas.

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

#118

I'm still working on a tool to create custom accessible Tailwind-style CSS color palettes for web and UI designs: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ Example with colors from HN to play with (the grays used for links and main body background, orange from the navbar, green from newbie usernames): https://www.inclusivecolors.com/?style_dictionary=eyJjb2xvci... The main features are it shows if your colors meet WCAG access…

Very cool project. I don't use tailwind but I have been thinking that the color palette part is great. Love that you can export it all to a big list of CSS variables.

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

#119
> What are you working on?

Early Access for a new terminal emulator [0] bringing dead text to life. It's my professional dream to evolve our conception of terminals without bringing in the bloat of, say, electron (read: staying native).

>Do you have any new ideas you're thinking about?

I like the thought of dropping you into the terminal right on the browser. It wouldn't be the real thing, but having a toy to play with is superior to dry docs.

[0] https://terminal.click

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