Ask HN: What are you working on?

I work on a lot of projects and love doing the concepts. in parts I consider myself an Artist and Explorer. My qualities are a good sense for abstraction and having a broad knowledge (as opposed to specific expertise) and knowing how to communicate between people. The tech side is often too much work and to complicated for me to go beyond a proofs of concept, but as I do most just to satisfy my own curiosity I'm feeling great with this.

My Passions are structuring knowledge, perception, society, art, sound, music and love.

I'm not so much career focused, but I'll see what opportunities I can find, once I finished my Diploma:

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1. PostPriori - combining news aggregation with twitter like personal subscriptions, exploring weighting of content beyond:

- a suggestion engine (not yet good enough for the finesse of a personal taste, scary because out of direct control, biased towards easily digestible content)

- democracy (simply does not scale. Might work for niches, but look at the shift in reddits audience. It has to become mainstream. Subreddits are a fix, but not a very elegant solution I think)

- doing it chronologically (one needs to filter the mass of input, making actuality so important is not the right way I think and a huge problem in the media. I'm also incapable on using twitter as is because of this.)

I have a few things to try on how to keep all the ratings very human and hand-choosen by those you personally trust. I also want to try to enhance viral distribution and allow for semi-classical editorial institutions.

Further discussions about it are very welcome!

It will become my Diploma in Arts, so I'm free for now from commercializing it. You can subscribe to a newsletter which I will send out once beta-testing starts:

http://signup.postpriori.com/

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2. All of It - A personal, local Wiki.

I recently started making a wiki out of my notes. I will yet have to see on how to cramp the naturally ribosomal information there is in to some hierarchy with cross links.

To stay true to the nature of information I'd need a more associative indexing, but i won't build another google or some other brain. :)

I'm using markdown, http://wikitten.vizuina.com/ and owncloud.

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3. musical experiments

- I'm writing sort of a firmware for a midi keyboard to play quarter tones. (using this http://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/qunexus/ it has 2 pressure sensors per key, so I can split keys easily once I have the raw data)

- I'm planning a responsive, randomized effect array.

From my instrument (a trumpet for now), I try to extract how I play (pitch, volume etc.) and randomly assign effects to certain locations in this matrix. Once I like a certain location I will fix it and shuffle everything else. Over time a a spectrum of curated effects will be fixed on the range of my playing. I hope for something like bending down a loud C and having it distorted, than when I go silent it suddenly becomes roomy with a reverb and things like that.

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4. I'll join another startup on monday. I want to build something to make money, not just sell my time/workforce.

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5. I do some freelancing as a web developer, throwing together and customizing CMS'.

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6. a relaxing students job at the state television

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7. Other small jobs: media installations for exhibitions and artists, photography, proofreading (in german, spare me my mistakes here :)

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edit: added projects and edited a bit

That's awesome. Would love to know more. I was (only tangentially, really it was my manager) involved with (one of many) LIMS evaluations at CSIRO. I'm under the impression that "Generic" LIMS have awful track records in Australia at universities and research orgs like CSIRO: despite custom software projects also having poor cost/performance outcomes generally, historically it seems there aren't any great examples of LIMS aimed at diverse multidisciplinary research environments which have delivered better outcomes at less cost than even the most horribly expensive over-budget bespoke systems places like this churn out. There is a trail of train wrecks that is failed LIMS projects in this sector, largely from manufacturing/forensics sector thinking their LIMS fits all...

The most inspiring thing I saw was work on automated high-throughput materials discovery (I believe the examples at the time were polymers). Instrument operation, experiment design and results capture was done with OWL/RDF... And off it goes: repeatable results where the software drives experiment parameters until a goal or properties are reached. Semantic web tech has a lot of failed promises to answer for but those guys really seemed to make this stuff sing. Seeing what they're modeling/capturing, graph data models might not be such a bad fit, after seeing the contortions we went through in genetic studies trying to capture every facet of every piece of data and its provenance and the provenance of its methods and materials and specimens and specimen preparation and specimen identification and splitting and cloning and so on ad nauseum

Better stop ranting. I do software defined radio at dayjob and some silly osint graph-db driven thing I'm playing with at home to help security audit all packages, binaries and hopefully one day in-memory processes in linux/containers :)

https://askpatron.com fast single screen customer feedback with rewards for small local businesses. It's a work in progress and I am doing things that don't scale right now. I have four businesses that are helping me beta test. I am looking for more. The overall goal is to improve the customer experience using a system that is super fast and super simple to use.

This is great! I was thinking about building my own drone, but was having trouble finding a starting point.