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- I've got so many projects I'm simultaneously working on, but the one I really want to get over the line is "Todo driven development" - An edit to the gleam test-runner gleeunit that adds "todo" as a separate reporting category.
It feels really good when I've been trying it locally, but I've struggled to communicate the value to the maintainer.
Essentially, instead of having a bunch of failing tests that you fix to go green, you have a bunch of yellow "todo" tests, so that when you implement a part, you can see straight away whether you now get actual passing tests or failures.
Going from "12 failing tests, 16 passing" to "10 failing tests, 18 passing" doesn't tell you as much as "12 todo tests, 16 passing" to "1 failing test, 9 todo tests, 18 passing", or "10 todo tests, 18 passing". You can tell immediately whether a partial implementation was correct or not, rather than having to read the details of the failures to understand if they're from "todo" or not.
by eterm - I just finished up Denorm release 1 a couple of hours ago. It solves a class of biz logic problems I've faced since the 90s. Materializes derived columns in Postgres databases, within and across tables. Termination, no race conditions, non-subvertible, concurrency.
https://gitlab.com/kendowns/denorm
Apache license.
by KenPainter - Private call recorder for MacOS: https://www.echo99.app/
- use only local models - creates embedding for each speak and can track them across different calls.
by ertra - I’ve been working on an Elm rewrite of the React FE of my federated social media service, Jonline (https://github.com/JonLatane/jonline). It’s up at https://jonline.io (and https://bullcity.social and http://oakcity.social).
Agents have been huge for me. In addition to the Elm app, I used them to:
- build out ffmpeg/imagemagick image/video resizing - unify all my servers behind one Traefik ingress - build proper cross-site auth with a public/private key pair generated in the browser - create Homebrew/macOS and Linux tarball distros of my service - build an iCal calendar sync feature (if you browse the sites, you’ll see many of the events are synced from locally-oriented ICS feeds)
I also set it up to run my band’s new website at https://ato.band.
- I continue working on Babel Nexus https://babelnexus.com Explore classic books and big ideas in a whole new way — a discovery system for the public domain. A three-floor knowledge graph: 21 science hexagonal galleries on Level I, 23 literature hexagonal galleries on Level II, and 8 wisdom hexagonal galleries on Level III — 52 hexagonal galleries holding 773 primary works (books, papers, and reports, every one in the public domain), plus an AI Oracle (powered by Google Gemini) that answers free-form questions about the Archive. I have added public domain audiobooks to some of the titles, worked on my first AI created youtube video, added some testimonials, and learned quite a bit more. I have a lot more to do. The project could keep going for a long time with a lot more titles and content. I can add public domain films, public domain comics and other public domain media to existing records. My coding is not great, but the idea at this point has become a proof concept and is moving towards something viable even though it is vibe coded.by NishanStepak
- I was building a mathematical equation visualization tool almost 2 years back, it was a hobby project. In the midst of development I discovered an unexpected pattern that is recognizable as a creature that feel alive. With that, I explore the space and found more of them. The sense of wonders of these creatures I had from discovered them is too magical and I can't really keep it myself. So I decided to build a game around these creatures to create a discovery experience that others can have as well, with the only language I knew well, Autoit.
Honestly I am not a mathematicians so I can't explain technically in mathematical terms on how I found these 53 creatures, and also I am not ready to publish the raw equations at this time just yet. But it is my plan to share publicly when the time is right. For the time being, I hope these creatures can be seen.
The creatures emerge from parametric equations traced by mouse cursor movement. Currently I am working toward playtest version to polish for a demo. If you like to know more, visit https://dancingmouse.app/
by hudsonhock - Stowly - https://getstowly.app - a home inventory app to keep track of all your things, maintenance tasks, service history, receipts, etc. Helps keep track of warranty information and alert you when it's coming up. Keep track of important maintenance tasks that you need to perform often, like changing the air filter, and you can keep track of service history so if your oven breaks and it's fixed, you can track that. Most importantly, in the event of a disaster, you can export a report for insurance or you can create a read-only link to share with your adjustor to show all of the things you lost, their value, etc.by dotfrag
- I am actually using AI to learn about Windows OS performance. I have a couple of prompts scheduled to research, test, and implement performance gains in the OS, then post them here [0] and here [1]. I always admired Brendan Greg and Bryan Cantrill at Sun/Illumos/ for their work on OS performance but never had the time to sit down and catch up to their level due to my time in the military. I got Codex to find and apply a bunch of settings I didn't know about and in the future I hope to use AI to make real changes in performance that venders probably don't have time or resources for.
that being said, what I've learned so far is essentially WhyIsItAlwaysHN's entire comment "The place to find them would be performance profiles, query plans, telemetry."
I just find it so frustrating that for a user interface that was basically solved in the 90s, Windows GUI still struggles to survive on hardware exceptionally more powerful than what we had 30 years ago
0 - https://www.lacksan.com/updates/ 1 - https://github.com/Lacksan-Dev/HP-ZBook-Performance
by mlacks - An app to verify citations in peer review journals, https://veruscite-data.com
that is, to identify when papers have hallucinated references
can see an example of results at https://veruscite-data.com/share/3Pu3dwCfc-ixPgtHutVFXgMU7FY... for a preview. Also can sign up and get two free reviews.
by apwheele - A recipe manager PWA - https://halite.cc - I wanted to pull in recipes from social sites, videos where they only speak or show the ingredients/instructions, and be able to paste in text or json from recipes I'm making myself. Uses yt-dlp with a Gemini fallback, sites go direct fetch --> scrape proxy, and a monitor watches for breakages.
I also found it annoying to edit recipes so built in edit by asking ("double the garlic" rewrites the ingredient list). Also set up an mcp connection with Claude and it's been fun collaborating with Claude on what's for dinner and having it find, edit or make new recipes
by mattmaking - I'm currently working on an open-source LLM inference engine [1] for browsers via webGPU. If anyone wants to try or has any suggestions, I'm happy to listen :)
1. https://github.com/stfurkan/bitgpu
Demo: https://stfurkan.github.io/bitgpu/examples/chat.html
2. https://aidekin.com --> this is one of my project that's currently using bitgpu engine
by stfurkan - I'm currently working on WorkWay. It's a job board solving the problem of jobs being scattered across individual company career pages and ATSs like Greenhouse and Ashby. It brings fresh tech and startup roles into one place, with direct links to the original postings and much more
Check it out here - https://www.workway.dev
by enigma52