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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

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I've been working on cardcast.gg. It gives you the ability to play Magic: The Gathering with your friends remotely using a webcam. I got back into MTG back during the pandemic after a long hiatus and Spelltable is what brought me back. My playgroup lamented more features and something tailored to our needs, so curiosity got the better of me and here we are. :) I've never worked with computer vision before, but I went…

An alternative to spelltable is a great idea! My friend group played extensively a few years back through it but always ran into weird bugs and glitches.

I love that there is no sign-up required! Do you have plans to implement utilizing a mobile phone as a camera? Spelltables implementation leaves much to be desired.

Excited to see where this goes!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

#473
I'm working on assembling a full-stack framework/template that aims at building performant and quality web apps very quickly.

It's going to be 100% statically type-safe across the stack, SQL first for the DB layer(s), and with a minimal amount of boilerplate (just enough for a clean architecture without magic).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

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My partner and I got a 1 year old rescue schnauzer a few weeks back, so we are learning to dog while trying to teach her to sit, stay, and come.

Tech thoughts: this week I decided to move to a new to me NameBrand™ Arch distro. Even though I’ve been daily driving Linux for more than 10 years I still can’t get a new install up on the first try. This time the boot loader wouldn’t load. No error, no log, and no boot loading. A few reinstalls later, I picked a different choice and was finally booting. But then the next problem was the login display manager doesn’t want to sleep the monitor if nobody logs in. Learned this after an overnight power flicker caused a reboot. The monitors running full tilt for several hours waiting for someone to log in. While I would like to say this issue is another joy of the Wayland-way of Linuxing, I have found that other display managers offer the same defect.

Anyway dogs are great, I shouldn’t have waited so long to get one.

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