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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#731

I recently launched a daily word puzzle! https://tiledwords.com It’s inspired by tile placement board games like Patchwork and crosswords. You rotate and move tiles to rebuild a broken crossword. It’s free, web based, and responsive. I currently have several hundred daily players and growing. My wife and I create the puzzles and I’m continuing to fix bugs and add new features. I just launched a ”community puzzle” fea…

I shared with people. They loved it.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#732
An OpenAPI code generation framework for TypeScript called Skmtc (pronounced like "schematic")

It handles the complexities of parsing OpenAPI and rendering output code, while providing the end user with full control over generator code via string templates.

Imagine something like React but for code generation where each code generator can compose its own output using the outputs of other generators.

https://github.com/skmtc/skmtc - https://skm.tc

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#734
Wrote and released a daily reader on sobriety and stillness called I Will Not Drink With You Today.

There’s a companion website: https://iwillnotdrinkwithyoutoday.com

I wrote the book in markdown, stuck it in a SQLite DB and wrote a parser to put all the data in static JSON so it loads very fast.

I also created a new personal homepage to update my presence on the web as a published author and experienced leader and technologist: https://davidbyrondrake.com

Book was released less than a month ago—growing it organically like a startup has been fascinating in terms of marketing, sharing, building, and measuring success.

Have been utilizing my acting skills again with readings from the book on my Instagram and TikTok.

Having a really good time with it!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#735
My custom poker study tools:

https://poker-study.onrender.com/

I really like the range memorization tool from GTO Wizard, but want to be able to put in custom/arbitrary ranges to test. I also want to be able to import and simplify ranges from other sites. Work in progress, but every scenario is url encoded (warning: subject to future breaking changes) and I use those urls in for links in my Anki decks.

https://github.com/nwestallen/poker-study

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#738
I was working on a iPad-focused Dungeons & Dragons app focused on the Dungeon Master called Campaign Codex but I got a little bored with building CRUD apps.

Decided to pivot and start learning about databases and their internals more. Currently pulling down Clickhouse and reading some code along with the reading the book Database Internals by Alex Petrov.

So I'm technically not "working on" an app...I am working on myself to branch out and attempt to specialize a bit more as I progress in my career.

Any advice/papers/books to read is very welcomed!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

#740

I'm building CommitKit, a tool that turns your git history into résumé bullet points and STAR-based talking points for interviews. After being downsized twice in two years from senior engineering roles, I realized how painful it is to reconstruct what you actually accomplished at a job once you’ve lost access to your repos. Each time, I had to dig through memory and scraps of old PRs to remember what I’d built. The f…

I’m terrible at maintaining my resume/cv so I think this is awesome!
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