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Show HN: What Are You Working On? (hackerupdates.com)

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Hey HN,

I'm sure you've seen the monthly "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?" headlines on [Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Honestly, it's my favorite topic because it's packed with insights about what other hackers are up to.

I wondered what it would be like if instead of just a headline, there was a whole website where hackers could post daily updates, and where we could follow the hackers we're interested in for their latest updates. And so, this web site was born.

I hope it gets used frequently so we can all benefit from it together. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Let me know what you think!

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_akhe
Excellent work! Such a nice complement to HN. Show HN is my favorite part of the site.

Would be cool if the headline was a link to the project :)

Thanks for sharing, just signed up!

Edit: Nvm it parses links in the title. Only thing is if it's in parenthesis it parses that e.g. "I am making the next big thing (https://example.com)" it will attempt to navigate to https://example.com) <-- with the paren

pmdfgy
At the beginning I thought I'd find the same info as in a .plan file (discovered while reading Masters of Doom, where John Carmack explains what he's working on). It would have been super cool ! Unfortunately, your page looks more like a #buildinpublic twitter page which is not really insightful. Good luck with this project.
dlachausse
Masters of Doom is such a great book!
eternityforest
I signed up right away(as SeventhSeeker).

I like the fact that there's no comments section, so it's just about the people building projects rather than biased by what random unrelated discussions other people decide to have.

But feedback is still a thing, so I'm not really sure how to balance that.

dirtybirdnj
Finding people that vibe on the same things you are passionate about is really, really difficult. Feedback and just being around people doing stuff I think is super, super important.

One way I'm considering doing this is running a local HN style invite only message board. There are lots of FB groups for my target activity (fishing) but people are notoriously guarded about their fishing spots so I'm thinking maybe a small $5 a month membership will keep the tire kickers out and reduce the riffraf.

Put it this way, if someone was doing this around here already I'd sign up right now. It's not just finding a community, it's finding a CURATED community where the things / people you need are available for you to interact with.

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andoando
Don't have much to show yet, but I am working on a programmatic way to create visuals and animations. Think lambda calculus but with graphical transformations.
aeonik
Have you seen any work that Parker Ziegler has worked on? He has a couple of projects for automatic wrangling of visuals when it comes to charting data.

Seems related, but also different approach to this area.

https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2023/supporting-data-journali...

andoando
Holy shit its Gilfoyle.

This is pretty cool but what Im thinking about is more like a general purpose language which is primarily visual. Imagine for example a for loop has a visual representation which shows a visual transformation from 100000 010000 001000 000100 000010 000001

and this transformation can be applied abstractly to 1 = red circle, 0= black circle, which when run shows a red circle moving from the beginning position to its end position.

aeonik
I like your idea a lot. I think it's potentially a major missing piece to our systems.

I really hope you are able to map it out.

If you ever need a tester, let me know.

andoando
Thanks! Will do, it ever pans out :<|
aeonik
Also, I never noticed he looks exactly like Gilfoyle until you mentioned it.
fforflo
I'm working on a small Unix-inspired DSL for LLM pipelines.
temporarely
Are you generalizing the output stream beyond raw bytes?
fforflo
Unix-inspired so it's entirely text oriented.
dirtybirdnj
Edit: WHOOSH I totally missed your link! I think your idea is awesome if you couldn't tell by my participation :)

TOO MUCH!

I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year. The past two or three months things have been improving a lot thanks to meds.

Three projects I'm working on are starting to really start to buzz:

1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.

2. Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING! s/o to the Duet folks their support forum is second to none.

3. Electric motor for my kayak. Some very cool people on the internet are selling ESCs designed for brushed / brushless motors and it just so happens they perfectly overlap with the small / lightweight motor I'm using on my kayak. You can spend $$$$ on an electric setup but I'm making it work with a $130 motor, $200 battery and maybe $60 of electronics? Suck it torqueedo.

Honestly if you'd have told me all this would be going on at once six months ago I might have got in a fight with you for blowing smoke up my ass. It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.

I wish I could go back in time and tell my depressed / stressed self to have some hope and hang in there.

all2
> TOO MUCH!

You'n'me both.

> I've been fighting depression and anxiety on / off the past year.

You'n'me both.

> 1. I have a small e-commerce site I'm almost ready to launch. Need to get over myself and the fear of "what if something goes wrong" and just fucking send it.

Link here at the end of the day?

> Custom pen plotter machine, I was stuck on this for a LONG TIME but last week I finally did enough diagnosing and troubleshooting to get it working! FEELS AMAZING!

Video of it running? I'd love to see what you've built. YouTube channels that talk about this stuff are by far my favorite channels.

> It feels great to be productive both at work and on my projects at home.

Yes! I'm excited for you! Keep moving! Keep seeking joy in your work!