alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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Been working on https://github.com/amterp/rad for almost a year now. It's a programming language designed for writing good CLI scripts, so it's aiming to replace Bash but is much more Python-like, and offers unique syntax and a bunch of in-built support for scripting.
Please check it out if it sounds at all interesting! Keen for feedback :) I've written some docs, including a "getting started" guide, linked in the GitHub page.
I'm building a web game, inspired by GeoGuessr, but for robotics: find the robot's axis configuration to reach a specific target.
It's still a WIP... lots missing, but happy to get any feedback!
I just quit my "day job" to work on a business I've built with some good friends! We make stingray-resistant booties -- ie, if you encounter stingrays in the shallows, these greatly reduce the chance you get stung (https://mydragonskin.com/). I'll be in charge of a couple marketing efforts, helping with Youtube, and other odd things that come up!
My day job required me to go into office frequently, and I'm really feeling the reduced social connection of being fully remote in a small company. Any suggestions how to deal with this? I'm planning to reconnect with old friends, surf a lot, go rock climbing, and maybe take dance / music / other classes. Would also love if anyone wants to work together in the same place (library, coffee shop, etc). I'm in Escondido California, but happy to drive ~30 min to meet folks.
I went Yak shaving.
For my 3D audio project I need an affordable way to make plastic cases. I felt like injection molding services are way overpriced, so I decided to make the molds in-house. Turns out, CNC milling is overpriced, too. As are 5 axis CNC mills. So in the end, we built our own CNC machine.
And like these things always go, I found an EMI issue with my power supply and a USB compliance bug in the off-the-shelf stepper control board. But it all turned out OK in the end so we now have the first mold tool that was designed and machined fully in-house. And I learned so much about tool paths and drill bits. Plus it feels like now that everyone has experienced hands-on how stuff is milled, my team got a lot better at designing things for cheap manufacturing.
* https://cijene.dev (HR, open source) - recently, Croatian retail chains were mandated to start publishing grocery prices online, but not how, so they made a mess of it; I've been building a crawler + unified API to avoid people duplicating the crawl/parse/cleanup effort (open source)
* https://trosko.hr (HR, Android/iOS app) - super-simple receipt/bill tracker (snap a photo of the receipt, reads it using Gemini, categorizes and stores locally - no accounts, no data gathering)
* https://github.com/senko/think (open source) - Python client library for LLMs (multiple providers, RAG, etc). I dislike the usual suspects (LangChain, LLamaIndex) but also don't want to tie myself to a specific provider, so chugging on my on lib for this.
Numpad: https://numpad.io/
It's a web-based notepad calculator, which means it's a notes app but it can evaluate inline calculations like
``` £300 in USD + 20%
09:00 to 18:30 - 45 minutes ```
I wrote the core of the calculator a few years ago, and I've just launched a big rewrite that supports
* document syncing * offline editing * markdown formatting * PDF and HTML exports * autocomplete * vim mode
Happy to hear feedback :)
I'm writing a decompiler for Turbo Pascal 3.0, to reverse engineer an educational game from the 80s.
Since TP 3.0 does no optimisations, and looking at the progress so far (~25% decompiled), it seems like matching decompilation should be achievable.
If/when I get to 100%, I hope to make the process of annotating the result (Func13_var_2_2 is hardly an informative variable name) into a community project.
I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted platform for communities to discover their local area. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet. I've made some good progress recently. I've added the ability to temporarily freeze user accounts, custom WYSIWYG editing for sidebar content and functionality that allows the administrator to set site-wide announcements to appear and disappear at specific dates/times. I also got some great feedback from users of my instance of it for my local town and so fixed some bugs.
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
I've been working on a fully electric last-mile delivery company: https://hudsonshipping.co
Beyond the landing page (built with Astro), I've been building all of the route optimization, the delivery and warehouse management systems. A combination of go and java has allowed me to write a few microservices in the past 6 months to handle all of my logistical processes, and I'm just testing the mobile app in the field as we speak! I hope to make some of the code open-source one day!
I made the same little Roguelike game with Raylib in Odin, C3, and FreeBASIC over the last few weeks. [0] [1] [2]
I started on a Zig one and nope'd right on out of that after a few hours of fighting the compiler.
I'm currently working on porting a bunch of my Rust mini-games to other languages. [3]
[0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/odin-mini-games/tree/main/2d-gam...
[1] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/c3-mini-games/tree/main/2d-games...
[2] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/freebasic-mini-games/tree/main/2...
[3] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-games/tree/main/2d-gam...
I built a platform that lets you run QA test in plain english for free.
Just type what you what to test in plain english and include the URL in your prompt.
After running your test, sign up to save your test history and access more test functions with the link below:
Visit: https://timetotest.tech/
My girlfriend recently got into making sourdough and wanted to keep a log of all her recipes. She really wanted to explore the relationships between recipe water percentage and crumb density, or proof time and oven spring, for example. I built her https://sourdoughchronicle.com - a local first bread journal that allows peer to peer recipe and results sharing. Claude + aider had a MVP built in an hour and she's loving it! Oddly enough the comparison charts haven't made it in yet, but that's the next feature on the the to-do list.
Lately, I’ve been exploring a few interconnected ideas:
Local-first web applications with a compiled backend – After eight years working on web platforms, the conventional stack feels bloated. The client already defines what it wants to fetch or insert. Usually through queries. So why not parse those queries and generate the backend automatically (or at least, the parts that can be)?
Triple stores as a core abstraction – I’ve been thinking about using a triple-based model instead of traditional in-memory data structures, especially in local-first apps. Facts could power both state and logic, and make syncing a lot simpler.
Lower-level systems programming – I’ve mostly worked in high-level languages, but lately I’ve been writing C libraries (like hash maps) and built a minimal 32-bit bare-metal RISC-V OS.
It’s all still brewing, but I think these ideas tie together nicely. What if the OS didn’t have a file system and just a fact store? Everything could be queried and updated live, like a Lisp machine but built on facts.
Some other things I’ve been playing with:
A jQuery-like framework and element factory - You can pass signals that automatically updates the DOM.
A Datomic-like database on top of OPFS - where queries become signals that react to new triples as they enter the system. Pairs well with the framework above.
I'm building an app to help users find free and paid street parking in Vancouver: https://instaparkr.com/
While apps like Parkopedia and SpotAngels tackle the same problem, their one-size-fits-all approach often results in incomplete, missing, or outdated data. My approach is different: go deep on one city at a time by combining multiple publicly available datasets. This doesn't scale horizontally since each city has different data sources and formats, but the goal is to become the definitive parking resource for one city, build automation to keep it current, then methodically expand city by city.
If you are based in Vancouver, do give it a go. Your feedback would be awesome!
Just published my Chrome extension that makes finding new content on YouTube easier!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/relevant/fdhnccpldk...
Two months ago I posted an update that I had begun work on my Chrome extension [1] for Relevant. Relevant is a crowdsourcing website where users can categorize the channels they watch into a defined hierarchy of categories ranging from broad topics like "Science" and "Gaming" to more specific ones like "Phone Reviews" or "Speedrunning".
Although I had a little bit of engagement on the website, I found myself looking for something that could bring the experience onto YouTube, so I began work on a Chrome extension. It turns out there's a lot more complexity in building a Chrome extension than I realised. It's basically like building a website for the popup window, a javascript server for the background service workers and a message bus for the service worker.
After 2 months' of working weekends, I finally released a version of it that lets users see the categories of the content on the page, discover more channels matching those categories and contribute to the categorisation effort!
http://axcas.net is an online computer algebra system I've been working on. I'm working to finish the programming language which is based on C, and I'm adding an ode solver which I plan to use to evaluate special functions.
I release code into the public domain hoping it will be useful. There's some fast code for Groebner basis computations using the F4 algorithm (parallelized - article to follow), and some routines for machine integers e.g. discrete logarithm, factoring, and prime counting.
A JS framework called Torpor: https://torpor.dev (https://github.com/andrewjk/torpor)
Been working on this for a while, with the aim of making something simple and immediately usable. Components are JS functions, containing UI that is (mostly) HTML, with reactivity only done through proxied objects.
To test it out I built a distributed social media/microblog site called Redraft: https://redraft.social (https://github.com/andrewjk/redraft)
Self-hostable or hosted for a fee, all your posts stored in an SQLite file, comment/like/react on other people's Redraft posts via a Web extension (pending approval, but you can use the unpacked version from source).
Both are in a pretty rough state, but usable for the intrepid.
A free meeting-scheduling tool with all the pro-sounding features without any restrictions or commissions. Think Calendly, but free and much better.
Lately I’ve been working on two things:
An iOS client for Cloudflare. Surprisingly, there’s none out there, maybe because nobody needs it? I do, so I’ve created one and it’s now available on TestFlight [0].
Another interesting thing I’ve recently discovered is that LLMs are pretty great at vetting tenancy agreements, so I’m working on a website that reads tenancy agreements and will return a list of unfair clauses that might be present in the contract along with a detailed explanation of how you should follow up with the landlord/agency. I still need to finish it but if you’re interested it’s here [1].
I've been building small programs in Zig, C and ARM64 assembly without relying on libc and only using Linux syscalls directly.
Some examples:
- A minimal C shell with built-ins like cd, pwd, type: https://gist.github.com/rrampage/5046b60ca2d040bcffb49ee38e8...
- Terminal Snake game which fits in a QR code using Linux syscalls for drawing: https://gist.github.com/rrampage/2a781662645dc2fcba45784eb58...
- HTTP server with sendfile support in ARM64 assembly: https://gist.github.com/rrampage/d31e75647a77badb3586ebae1e4...
I learned to handcraft a static ELF binary using just GNU assembler (no linker): https://gist.github.com/rrampage/74586d0a0a451f43b546b169d46... . Trying to see if I can craft a small assembler in ARM64
I've been building tooling for better debugger support for Rust types using debuginfo: https://github.com/samscott89/rudy
I'm planning on doing a proper writeup/release of this soon, but here's the short version: https://gist.github.com/samscott89/e819dcd35e387f99eb7ede156...
- Uses lldb's Python scripting extensions to register commands, and handle memory access. Talks to the Rust process over TCP.
- Supports pretty printing for custom structs + types from standard library (including Vec + HashMap).
- Some simple expression handling, like field access, array indexing, and map lookups.
- Can locate + call methods from binary.
Working on https://www.space4ads.com - an Out of Home Advertising Marketplace that connects advertisers with underutilized commercial spaces. Think Airbnb, but for ad placements. We're targeting vacant storefronts, construction walls, cargo vans, box trucks, 18-wheelers, and basically any commercial space with foot traffic or vehicle visibility that's not being monetized for advertising.
Building TenantFit: https://tenantfit.mtxvp.com/, a lightweight tool to help small landlords pre-screen rental applicants.
When you post a listing (e.g., on Facebook, Kijiji), you get tons of “Is this still available?” messages — but no useful info. TenantFit lets landlords collect basic answers (income range, pets, lifestyle) via a public link, then ranks responses to highlight promising leads.
No accounts or sensitive info collected from tenants (landlord does not even see candidate email until they reply), just a quick pre-screen before deeper screening to save time.
I'm working on a new kind of encyclopedia and reference website that is way more engaging and rich than a single page of text on every subject like Wikipedia. Back in my childhoold we had Microsoft Encarta on CDROM and it was a very compelling multimedia experience and I want to emulate something like that on the modern web by combining video, sound, images and text in a more compelling user experience with great discoverability. I've been working on the first version for about eight months and I hope to launch it next week at https://reference.org
Me and my friend are working on Workback[1], a tool that can fix a11y issues end-to-end.
First we built it as a tool to fix any bug. After talking to a few folks, we realized that it is too broad. From my own personal experience, we realized how messy it is within organizations to address accessibility issues. Everybody scrambles around last minute. No body loves the work - developers, PMs, TPMs etc. And often external contractors or auditors are involved.
Now with Workback, we are hoping to solve the issues using the agentic loop.
If you personally experienced this problem, would love to chat and learn from your experience.
I'm working on a video game called Astroloot[1], a mix of bullet-heaven and scifi-space ARPG. After two years, I've finally completed the main-campaign and now start with the endgame. Ever since playing Diablo 2, I've wanted to create an ARPG. Have to say, this project brought back the joy of programming for me.
I moved my blog over to Jekyll hosted via Github: https://blog.andrewrondeau.com/
The site itself isn't anything "special." I've had a personal website for about 25 years; the past few years I finally moved from making HTML by hand to using various CMSes. I tried a "no database" CMS that my hosting page had, then I wrote my own CMS, https://github.com/GWBasic/z3, to learn node.js, but then I had to go back because Heroku dropped the free tier.
Jekyll is interesting. As a Mac user, I'm surprised there isn't a push-button app, like MAMP, to just run it. Instead, I got exposed to some weirdness with Ruby versioning that, because I don't have any Ruby experience, was frustrating.
The default Jekyll template has warnings, but when I tried to fix them, I ended up jumping into a rabbit hole of sass versioning.
I also ended up jumping into a rabbit hole with setting up redirects from old urls on my blog to their new locations. I don't touch Apache / cpanel that often, so there was a bit of a learning curve for me.
One funny thing was that I set up two redirects, in cpanel, from the same url to two different urls. (It was a mistake!) I couldn't delete them, so I had to submit a service request with my host.
Two interesting things that I do not have time to do:
- Set up Github actions to deploy on my original host (andrewrondeau.com) - Set up redirects from blog.andrewrondeau.com -> andrewrondeau.com
I am working on an app to detect tooth problems. I envision it as something you can use for a quick check for the large majority who don't have regular dental care. It will be late detection but a good alternative to doing nothing.
I am experimenting with the current SOTA multimodal LLMs, but performance is still not yet there, they still hallucinate non-existent teeth. (As an aside, I have found a simple but very telling test, I have an image with only 4 teeth visible up and 10 down, so I prompt the modal to count, non have been able to, but Gemini 2.5 pro is the closest of the lot, performance is worse in the description when the counting test fails).
I am going to try segmenting the image to see if I will have better results by prompting to describe segment by segment.
I built https://founderfodder.com as an alternate way to read HN stories, plus it has summaries of the stories and the comments if you want to save some time
https://DocCheetah.com - aiming to help accountants chase clients for their documentation. Launched, not got any traction, spent a little bit on advertising through LinkedIn. Probably need to execute more targeted marketing and more problem validation.
https://Full.CX - still hums along in the background. Couple of customers. Just added MCP which has been amazing to use with AI coding agents. Updating the UI/UX to ShadCN to improve usability and make it easier for future changes replacing NextUI and Daisy.
https://Toolnames.com - no changes this month.
https://Risks.io - little bit of work on the new platform, yet to be released.
https://dalehurley.com - little facelift
I am working on building a prototype for a simple 4-track recorder. It would be a cross between a Yak Back [0] voice recorder and a Tascam DP-004 [1] mixer.
My 7 year-old has gotten into music and is trying to record his own ideas. We have found the existing tools to be either too simple (Yak Back) or way too complex (Tascam). I want to make him something that has a simple interface, few buttons, and simple recording/mixing. The idea is to avoid the software programs like Garage Band and Logic.
https://democracy.diy/issues/save-pbs-and-npr/
This is for people who feel powerless in light of all the recent political developments, and would like to do something positive to help.
My goal is to aggregate all the various ways you can actually do something to help, so you can find them without having to get on a million mailing lists.
Still working on https://periplus.app, and recently started to see some traction.
It's an environment for open-ended learning with LLMs. Something like a personalized, generative Wikipedia. Has generated courses, documents, exams and flashcards.
Each document links to more documents, which are all stored in a graph you grow over time.
its https://go-publicly.com, yes this is another product launch platform and this is actually my second SaaS after building a small tool right after learning how to install VS code at the age of 31
https://github.com/srv1n/kurpod
Lets you create encrypted containers disguised as normal files. 1000s of images, pdfs, videos, secrets, keys all stuffed into an innocent look "Vacation_Summer_2024.mp4".
I've almost got true steganography working i.e to get the carrier file to actually open in any file system(currently with mp4, pdf, png and jpeg).
Things like this have existed in the past, but nothing with a simple UI,recent encryption standards.
I'm working on a rhythm game for original NES: https://zeta0134.itch.io/tactus
This is written entirely in 6502 assembly, and uses a fun new mapper that helps a little bit with the music, so I can have extra channels you can actually hear on an unmodded system. It's been really fun to push the hardware in unusual ways.
Currently the first Zone of the game is rather polished, and I'm doing a big giant pixel art drawing push to produce new enemies, items, and level artwork to fill out the remainder of the game. It's coming along slowly, but steadily. I'm trying to have it in "trailer ready" / "demo" state by the end of this calendar year. Just this weekend I added new chest types and the classic Mimic enemy to spice things up.
I am implementing a single Rust process to which you can connect a zero-knowledge proof of identity, such as can be created with ZKPassword from a physical passport. Each user ends up with a keypair which is:
1) Highly Sybil resistant. Neither the keypair owner nor anyone else can re-use the same underlying ID to link to another keypair.
2) Very high anonymity. While the Sybil resistance requires a nullifier representing the underlying ID to be present in a database (or stored in a public, decentralized form for blockchain use), there is no way to connect that nullifier with the keypair. Even if someone were to use brute force to successfully connect the nullifier with a specific underlying ID, such as a passport, there is no way to connect that ID with the keypair. (In the passport case, even merely brute-forcing the nullifier could only be done by the issuing government, someone who has hacked the government database, or someone with physical access to the passport. This is due to the fact that other passport information than the passport number is included in generating the underlying zero-knowledge proof.)
I understand that other technologies may have similar end-functionality, but this has the advantage that most of the functionality is encapsulated in a single Rust executable that could be easily used in any context, whether distributed or decentralized. (If anyone would like to know more, my contact info is at garyrobinson.net.)
An AI-native DocuSign
It's been around a month I've been working on it. Struggling with getting people to actually use it - this week I've set the ambitious goal of 10 new contracts sent *and completed* by people I don't know (last week's was 10...by people I do know).
It's hard because I feel I'm in a weird hole - in order to have a good product I need people to use it and give me feedback, but in order for people to use it and give me feedback I need a good product. It's like wth!
Another thing I'm struggling with - enjoying the process. I get daydreams like mad. I feel I'm always living in the future in some way, especially with this software, and it's taking away from being present in this work. Which sucks, because I want to be excited to *work* on this and NOT fake my own excitement towards this as a manifestation of my greed to get rich off it.
But MAN am I greedy. It's ugly sometimes, to myself.
But god how I love to work on software also. How I love making stupid bash commands on my terminal. How I love to feel like the old gods, who conquered the infant digital world.
Currently building a SaaS for product management to make up for some of my own defects. Looking for beta testers if anyone is interested in trying it and providing feedback. There will definitely be bugs but I plan to start using it for myself to help me keep up on some projects I'm working on. The big thing I'm excited about is AI Risk Analysis, which will review the dependencies and hopefully catch bottlenecks and issues before they cause misses. Current URL is below. Name is pending. Just had Google tell me something that sounded cool.
The stuff I'm working on never feels worth sharing, but I am doing a lot of computer stuff lately. It's kind of the year of moving towards declarative setups for me.
- Migrating to Niri on my laptop and re-evaluating my literate config approach, switching from xkb configs to kanata and a few other QOL changes to make my tooling more composable and expressive
- Shoring up my blog / media sharing infrastructure (migrated to a landing page on an s3 bucket, with different prefixes for several different hugo deployments for different purposes, still need to get better about actually posting content)
- Preparing to migrate a bunch of my self-hosted services to a k8s cluster which can can be fully deployed locally for testing and defined in code. All this is managed through argo and testable with localstack and crossplane for some non-local resources
- Attempting (somewhat unsuccessfully) to setup a nixos config for a bunch of services that just don't feel right to run in containerized stack that I want to live in ec2 and have as close to 100% uptime as possible (uptime kuma, soju/weechat relay/bitlbee, conduit, radicale, agate, whatever else I think of that is small and has a built-in nixOS service module. Thinking about some kind of RSS aggregating solution here as well)
- Experimenting with vibecoding by trying to get an LLM to do the legwork to build a TUI interface to ynab using rust (which I don't know how to write)
I'm hoping that by the end of this summer most of the tooling I use for most things will be way more concrete and seamless. I also want to get my workflows down and get on top of converting at least a few the ~100 draft blog posts I have laying around into something I can actually post. Ditto for my photography albums, which are not yet organized into coherent groupings or exported for web.
I'm building an Electron app that integrates with Shopify and QuickBooks Online to streamline operations for artist-led product businesses. As a jewelry maker, I'm automating the spreadsheets and photo archives I rely on to run my studio. I want a single source of truth for all the data scattered locally and across platforms: tracking material prices, calculating costs and labor, analyzing marketing ROI, and accurately updating cost of goods sold when a piece sells.
I am working on Community Notes for Bluesky: https://github.com/johnwarden/open-community-notes
Working on https://vide.dev, the Cursor for Flutter devs.
While Cursor stops after writing great code, Vide goes the extra mile and has full runtime integration. Vide will go the extra mile & make sure the UI looks on point, works on all screen configurations and behaves correctly. It does this by being deeply integrated into Flutters tooling, it's able to take screenshot/ place widgets on a Figma-like canvas and even interact with everything in an isolated and reproducible environment.
I currently have a web version of the IDE live but I'm going to launch a full native desktop IDE very soon.
I’m building an e-book reader for the web and PWA platforms:
The library of public domain classics is courtesy of Standard Ebooks. I publish a book every Saturday, and refine the EPUB parser and styler whenever they choke on a book. I’m currently putting the finishing touches to endnote rendering (pop-up or margin notes depending on screen width) so that next Saturday’s publication of “The Federalist Papers” does justice to the punctilious Publius.
Obligatory landing page for the paid product:
Syntax highlighting caught my interest after I created a data format. I stumbled upon TextMate grammar bundles which are supported in some editors and created a bundle that works with three of them. The gnome text editor uses a different language definition format for which I created a grammar file as well. [1]
To highlight the syntax in the browser I checked out the CodeMirror project that uses Lezer grammars. It is very flexible and allowed me to implement additional features like custom folding. [2]
I would also like to create a grammar for tree-sitter, finish the Java implementation and documentation of the ESON parser before I try to implement it in other languages.
[1] https://gitlab.com/marc-bruenisholz/eson-textmate-bundle [2] https://gitlab.com/marc-bruenisholz/eson-lezer-grammar
A free site to find sports/games around you (tennis, basket, chess, etc). You propose a game at a certain date/place, and people around can reach out to join. Let me know if you want to try it out (ready in the coming days).
Writing the last chapter of my book myindiebook.com for the official release in July.
It's the story of how I quit my job ($100k/year) with no experience, foundation or advantage to build a profitable one-man business 3 years later.
I'm not actively working on it daily, as I have shortage of free time and helping hands, but the HTTP Spec Test Suite is my Moby-Dick. I wrote about it here: https://www.caffeinatedwonders.com/2024/12/18/towards-valida..., I also discussed it on the HTTP WG mailing list and presented it at the HTTP WG Workshop last year.
Another Moby-Dick of mine is Kadessh, the SSH server plugin of Caddy, formerly known as caddy-ssh. This one is an itch. I wrote about it here https://www.caffeinatedwonders.com/2022/03/28/new-ssh-server..., and the repo is here: https://github.com/kadeessh/kadeessh. Similar to the other one, feedback and helping hands are sorely needed.
They are both sort of an obsession and itches of mine, but between dayjob and school, I barely have a chance to have the clear mind to give them the attention they require.
Writing multisynq.io apps in newswpeaklanguage.org. Two game changing technologies now working together. My dream Frankenstein has finally come to life! I (re)implemented my toy application, The Chalculator, to yet another platform (the 7th or 8th maybe?) [1] I added comments to my blog _without any backend whatsoever_ [2] I built a counter app using Newspeak's Hopscotch GUI components to respond to Multisynq (javascipt) subscriptions (the final milestone) [3] 1) https://youtu.be/MPW5L1gj4Dw?si=Lms3odwQElZu_mLu 2) https://youtu.be/8gcCIaXmQjU?si=Qg2XSDu6mIhSAd9d 3) https://youtu.be/2-tZzB8MAX0?si=6nZ1nD6d4isdQd-5
Still on my sabbatical and continuing to build on things I enjoy rather than things that pay (for now).
Main focus is https://wheretodrink.beer, collecting and cataloging craft beer venues from around the world. No ambition of being exhaustive, but aiming for a curated and substantial list. After the last thread, a bunch of people added their suggestions, thanks! It helped add interesting new venues from cities I hadn’t covered yet.
I’m very slowly layering on features, and have a few spin-off ideas I’ll keep brewing on for later. The hardest problem thus far has been attempting to automate popularity rankings and automatic removal of defunct venues without breaching a bunch of ToS.
Also made https://drnk.beer, a small side project offering beer-related linkpages and @handles for Bluesky (AT Protocol). It's been on the backburner, but still very much live.
Probably looking for another small project for the next few months to focus on something else for a while. Always curious to see what others are building and doing. Thanks for sharing!