Ask HN: What is the most interesting project you are working on?

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At work, standing up openmetadata to capture data lineage from airflow.

At home, increasing the number of libraries I can check live availability for for Leafle. (Library software is a wild place man)

I’m rendering code more legibly without editing it.

One project is a proportional coding font, Camelana, which has left-padded uppercase letters when they are in a camel case identifier.

Also, it has custom ligatures. e.g. the keywords ‘return and ‘throw look like a sticker with a solid background, so it is easy to spot exit points.

https://github.com/ericfortis/camelana

Another project is TabularEye, which renders some code blocks in columns without editing the whitespace.

https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye

And other little projects like that

https://www.laboratory.love

it's independent lab testing of everyday food products for plastic chemicals (phthalates + bisphenols), with all results published publicly. I got nerd-sniped by PlasticList and wanted this kind of testing to keep happening. Now it's a full-blown platform with a fast pay-money -> get any food triplicate tested pipeline

interesting project, when did you start this ?
I have thought about this for so long. Thanks for doing this. Wish you all the success.

But how costly is it? Do you think it is sustainable? I wanted to do something like this for India. But the lab costs was too much.

At work, DC power systems for the telecommunication market. Deceptively complex, think UPSes if they were made of Lego and scaled from kilowatts to hundreds of kilowatts, with installed bases stretching across decades.

At home, ghidra-delinker-extension [1], a Ghidra extension for exporting relocatable object files (or in other words, stripping programs for parts like Doctor Frankenstein). Absurdly complex, got me a poster session at SURE workshop at ACM CCS last year, as a hobbyist.

[1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

Trying to build a Flask webapp that demands age verification. There is a backend (also Flask) server that holds mock IDs so I can compromise it and demonstrate why storing sensitive info in a database is never a good idea. There's also supposed to be a version #2 that is patched and uses a ZKP to prove your age without revealing anything. It's still in the very early stages so there's no GitHub repo or anything yet, but it's something i'm very excited about.
Caveats to why I do so much - I quit my job. So,

Polishing my GitHub bio / project showcase which has landed me interviews

[0] - https://github.com/con-dog

Working on a second version of my maze solving neural network (14 byte brain, 96.5% solve rate up to 21x21 grids)

[1] - https://github.com/con-dog/tiny-neural-network

Also working on a self-editing IDE built from my “ADHD” architecture, slices

[2] - https://github.com/con-dog/slices-demo

Revisiting my first ever game and porting it as an LLM benchmark, but I worked on this for 6 months so it’s piecemeal because I needed time away from it. Oh yeah Astra, Fable, etc all lose to humans in this game. Massively. Also, 1 hour games comfortably fit in a QR code, no server in the loop.

[3] - https://github.com/con-dog/snibble

And finally, I’m working on yet another raycasting game engine and game which is what is taking most of my focus. It has some novel concepts that I’m not yet disclosing

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Building Reloop an open-source, self-hostable email infrastructure for developers. It uses KumoMTA under the hood, and when self-hosted, you can send directly through the VPS's own IP instead of relying on another email provider.

API + SMTP + domain authentication + deliverability tooling, with the goal of making the painful parts of running email infrastructure much easier.

https://github.com/reloop-labs/reloop