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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

#274
Rewriting the region drawing code in my LisaGUI project so it does per-word bitwise operations instead of per-pixel calculations. I'm using Claude to help plan and debug it, but I'm being careful to review all its outputs and make sure I fully understand what it's suggesting and why. I don't want to lose all my neurons to this thing...

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

#275
I'm working on a nationwide US parcel dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-laye....

It's mostly "public" data, but incumbent data vendors charge $90k+ for this data because it has to be acquired and aggregated from 3200+ US counties. This is a lot of work if you aren't using LLMs and agents to do much of the work for you.

I'm trying to make quality parcel data more accessible to everyone.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

#276
A Web-based, self-hosted database client and editor for teams - https://github.com/p-raj/collab-sqlc

Supports - Postgres - DynamoDB - Clickhouse - Redis

Primary idea is to evolve from SQL client to a Database Client, where users would be able to host queries, share queries and the work remains auditable.

Previously it was an SQL client, a PopSQL alternative. But I am trying to re-work the architecture so that it can support more databases, and services (query-as-service, query-as-reporting-job, etc).

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

#279
I want fast answers to questions like:

"Why is Zoom lagging?"

"Is the issue my WiFi?"

"What's going on with the Internet?"

So, I built a local Mac utility that runs in the menubar to give at-a-glance visibility into live network and application issues. It's free (for typical uses), battery-efficient, and gives fast and reliable answers.

https://breakdown.live/

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

#280
I’m working on Envelope. https://envelopebudgeting.com It’s a budgeting app that comes with a built in checking account and debit cards. Because your budget can actually decline card transactions it’s a very effective system for stopping overspending.

I’m currently migrating the codebase to Swift 6 and dealing with the new concurrency system.

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