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

Just a personal project right now but it's a music metadata aggregator.

I find that nobody really knows how to do this. Machine learning can detect some song attributes well (bpm, ez right?) but it's inconsistent with some things (eg mood, spotify valence)

I prefer to only add metadata that I can rely on: track credits & instruments (when available), lyrics, bpm / "energy" and genre. At least that's what I've got for now. I'm not adding anything unreliable.

So far I'm able to pick a genre, artist or even better, song and it gives me a list of tracks that are similar. I can alter the weights of "era", "instruments", "genre".

So far i haven't run old school NLP on the lyrics but that's the next step. It's likely to be far more informative than "valence"

Anyway, not public, still very alpha but I like it and find it useful.

Today I'm carrying on looking for a literary agent to represent me for my young adult speculative fiction. Long after human civ collapsed, crows have evolved to speak and are undergoing their own industrial revolution when they discover an asteroid heading towards earth. My 10 year old read it for the first time yesterday and loved it. That's made it all worth it already even if it doesn't get published.

Tonight is a meeting of a local group growing hemp locally, processing and spinning by hand to make an item of clothing locally and sustainably between us all.

Just spent the weekend at a wing chin gathering with some incredible people. They showed me so much I need at least 2 weeks to think about it all.

Apart from that I’m starting college to study therapy and counselling soon so I'm trying to read up to be a bit prepared.

I was kind of disappointed at our HOA management system so I made my own: https://hoamy.app

Started of manually, later stages I used AI for implementing similar pages, and then for reviewing my own code.

(It was also an excuse to work with Nuxt / Nuxt UI as I loved the development of those projects and wanted to implement something with it.)

Working on Bookmarker, released for Mac. 

Your library. On your Mac. Links, images, PDFs, sorted by on-device AI. (Apple foundation models) Local. Private. Fast.

One time payment. No subscription. Software is yours forever. As it should be.

https://bookmarker.cc/

With the help of AI & LLMs I restarted working on some of my older side projects. I updated the code and did a landing page for Printable Mockups (a free, open-source drag-and-drop tool for creating device accurate wireframes and sketchpads that you can export as PDFs, print, and sketch on by hand) https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups I plan to add more features soon.