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About fifteen years ago a puzzle game called Trainyard came out for iOS and took my dev team by storm for a few weeks. It ceased getting updates some years ago and isn't on the app store anymore. So I came up with a variant on it and just put up https://www.geoffcanyon.com/lightyard.html I need more puzzles to include in the base pack, if you come up with something interesting, export it and send it to me!
It's an extension of a longer-running project (https://www.forth.news) where it exposes and organizes 100s of newsworthy primary sources -- statements, press releases, press pool reports, emergency alerts, etc, whether from press email lists, X/Twitter, Bluesky, RSS, etc. The web UI is similar to TweetDeck - and it sends notifications.
Latest update now allows some panels to be based on an LLM prompt (i.e. "everything about the Iran War and its effects in the U.S.") which searches the entire catalog of sources as they are posted.
I am currently developing a great encryption tool for long-term highly confidential files in the post quantum era, but I am still concerned about any issues with it, so I am personally using it for a period of time to prove that this tool can be released as open source! (I plan to personally use it to encrypt and backup some of my GPG keys offline, then burn them onto M-DISC discs and store them in a bank safe)
Won’t that make it difficult to rotate your keys?
Keys should be something you don’t hesitate to throw away and rotate at the first hint of a compromise.
As many of us here, I sit too much in my chair during the day and I'm trying to stretch more often and strengthen my back/core muscles.
There are a lot of "free" apps out there e.g. Bend that are helpful but I was annoyed with ads and limitations so I built one for myself. Now I use it daily.
The app is simple, you have about 100 routines to pick from and you can even build your own from existing exercises. Each routine comes with simple images, a link to a Youtube video and a timer. There are a lot of 5 minute routines that are perfect for a short break during work.
There are no accounts and I don't plan on adding any more features unless highly requested by users. I've built this for myself but I'm sharing it here as others might find it useful. Any feedback is appreciated!
A social media platform trying to solve misinformation, astroturfing and inauthentic posting. I also thought there was a real space for some non-US-based social media, so this is based in Australia. This is owing to all the political instability going on in the US right now and especially stuff like users' identities being subpoenaed for criticising the government. It was a pet peeve of mine seeing threads of comments that are obviously artificially created to push some kind of narrative, and the ability to buy likes and upvotes to shape opinion. Nothing ever seems to get done about it on big platforms, so I wanted to make some small contribution towards fixing it. And there's an element of self-interest here, because I want to be able to read a platform where every comment is authentic.
I've been working on it since 2023 and launched in March this year. Recently, native mobile apps have been launched. It was also an experiment in seeing whether Swift Vapor can be used to build a complex backend and the answer appears to be yes. It's a lot of fun to see how bad actors are joining the site, then building automated mechanisms to counter them, using AI to improve detection, without impacting legitimate users. It's also been a great technical challenge to try to support features that the big players support, like video upload and encoding, image upload, CSAM detection, NSFW detection, LLM-generated text detection and auto-translation using DeepL.
There are also lots of legal compliance challenges now with age verification laws coming in around the world, and ensuring you employ all the correct Apple and Google-specific verification (Declared Age Range, Play Age Signals) in the correct global regions. It's also fascinating to see behind the scenes how tight or not so tight current age verification actually is.
Recently, I've been polishing the iOS version to try to hit the 120 Hz target frame rate while scrolling feeds and finding SwiftUI is much less capable at this than the old UIKit approach. I'm also trying to teach myself marketing and how to keep users engaged. I'm primarily code-oriented and historically haven't had to do any marketing myself, and this is a vertical learning curve. I have gained a great deal of respect for those who have 'figured out' marketing, seeing how difficult it is starting from nothing.
It's also satisfying to take a feature from a user suggestion in the morning to an app release including that feature in the evening. This is a speed of delivery that would be unthinkable in the corporate world, where I previously worked, and it's very gratifying to put a complete feature in a user's hands within 24 hours.
Anyway, it's a very long and tough road and may amount to nothing in the end. But if nothing else, it's been immensely educational and enjoyable. Thanks for reading and feel free to check it out:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.topicle.ap...
https://studio-galois.com/ My wife and I are working on a math/science/CS-inspired jewelry: pieces that stand on their own aesthetically but have a hidden meaning. We currently have two styles: lambda calculus based pieces (we depict the Tromp diagram) where we have Y-Combinator earrings (well, strictly speaking they are one beta reduction away from Y-combinator. Aesthetic oblige) and a pendant depicting a lambda exp…
Actually, I can share the link if anyone is interested (because this is the "what have you been working on" thread and this has been one of my more fun projects): https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/mathematical-minds-thre...
Same thought on marketing - where to advertise where people would appreciate this kind of thing?
The second probe in Boston fixes this and the site can now say "unreachable from Asia" versus "down for everyone". Many of the existing checkers do not do this and they are prone to show false positives.
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There are no ads either, it's mostly been for my personal learning experience, hopefully others will find it useful.
There is even a free API and of course a MCP server.
https://downforjustmeoreveryone.com
Any feedback is welcome!