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

#953
Currently working on building my first 3D printed star tracking rig for astrophotography (via the incredible OpenAstroTracker project) and beginning to think through a 3D printed Dobsonian telescope. Also working on some ceramic glazing techniques to try and make cool gas giant-looking tiles. I'm on a real space kick right now!

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

#954
Sharecare | Backend Engineer (Contract) | Remote – South America, Mexico, India, Canada | sharecare.com

We're hiring a Backend Engineer to join our high-performing team. This is a remote contract position open to candidates in South America, Mexico, India, and Canada.

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What we offer:

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* Competitive salary based on location

* Startup culture with strictly no BS meetings

* Work alongside top-notch engineers

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Who we’re looking for:

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* Expert in Clojure and functional programming

* Familiarity with GCP and Kubernetes infrastructure is a plus

* Strong knowledge of relational databases like PostgreSQL

* Experience with graph data structures and graph traversal

* Comfortable with Docker and build systems

* Prior experience at startups is a plus

* We don't hire task rabbits — we value ownership, initiative, and problem-solving

* Ability to convert business requirements into scalable solutions

* Ability to think from the customer's perspective — not just "code to spec"

* If you are a self-starter who loves building real-world systems with a clean functional approach, we’d love to hear from you.

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email me: prashanth.iyer at sharecare dot com

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

#955
I'm working on a lightweight next.js alternative named after my dog: https://github.com/davedx/dex.ts/

It's going fairly well, I'm more or less as feature complete as I want to be. I might do something addon-like at some point to make scaffolding apps with shadcn, tailwind, prisma and friends a single command. Like shadcn does with components.

Feedback welcome!

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

#956

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…

Beautiful UI and a genuinely fun game

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

#957

Working on some fun/silly projects. My favorite so far is: "The Anti-AI UI Test". After ChatGPT Atlas came out I thought it would be fun to find UI patterns that AI browsers couldn't figure out like multiple download buttons, hidden unsubscribe buttons, etc. So I created 7 levels of web dark patterns for AI browsers. You can try it yourself if you want: https://codinhood.com/anti-ai-ui I found Atlas can get through m…

It was fun. xD

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

#958

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’m enjoying this a lot and even got my partner playing. We did one together and now they are off working through puzzles because they liked it so much.

The game design is really good too. It has just the right amount of juice.

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

#959
A client-side web app to help scuba divers set up their dive computer.

Scuba divers use computers to tell them when to make stops during ascent to prevent decompression illness. Many recent computers implement Bühlmann's decompression algorithm with "Gradient Factors".

Gradient Factors are 2 free parameters that control the "safety" margin of the dive. It's not obvious what values to choose, especially for novice divers.

My app explains what they are and shows their impact on the computed dive plan.

https://repied.github.io/paliers/

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

#960
I'm working on Volt-Test, a performance testing engine I started building after repeatedly debugging concurrency and race-condition issues in Laravel/PHP applications.

The idea is to bring something like k6 to the PHP ecosystem:

A Go-based load-testing engine

A PHP SDK that lets developers write performance tests inside PHPUnit

Assertions for latency, error rates, and business logic

Can spin up local servers and run in CI/CD

Working on distributed mode to scale tests across multiple nodes

Currently building the cloud version so teams can run large tests without managing infrastructure

For Laravel developers, I also released a package that integrates Volt-Test directly into the framework:

https://github.com/volt-test/laravel-performance-testing

It supports automatic route discovery and makes it easy to write performance scenarios using familiar testing patterns.

Docs + examples: https://php.volt-test.com

If anyone here has experience building or running distributed load-testing systems, I’d appreciate any feedback or pointers.

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