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

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

#41
Still working on https://gridwhale.com.

This is mostly a nostalgia play--I'm pining for a time when app development was much easier. I'm trying to apply lessons from early Rapid Application Development while still providing a full-featured language.

I confess that I haven't gotten any traction at all, but I find it incredibly useful for my own consulting business, so I'm going to keep on working on it.

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

#46
I'm rebuilding OnlineOrNot's frontend to be powered by the public REST API. Doing this both as a means of dogfooding, and adding features to the REST API, that I easily dumped into the private GraphQL API without thinking too hard.

Basically I've realised GraphQL has taken me as far as it can, and I should've gone with REST to start with. That, and after I finish the first milestone (uptime checks + cron job monitors), I'll be able to start building a proper terraform provider, and audit logs.

https://onlineornot.com/, since early 2021.

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

#47

Continuing to do a lot of historical review of early AI stuff. Just finished the Semantic Information Processing [1] book edited by Marvin Minsky, and now I'm reading Volume 1 of the Parallel Distributed Processing [2 book by Rumelhart and McClelland. After that, I have Principles of Semantic Networks [3] by John F. Sowa queued up. Along with all of that, still working on a lot of stuff using Jason[4] / AgentSpeak[5]…

I love this! If you want to do a short book club or do a review after each book, I'm very down!

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

#49
Testing jig for a traction control system for a locomotive. Microcontroller connected to a DDS waveform generator simulates the sensor that picks wheel speed, various ADCs and DACs read in analog voltages that are compared to determine loss of traction. 1980s analog computing at its finest. If I had a choice I would be doing anything else ;)
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