I've been dipping my toe further into gamedev. Been working on a game/maybe minimal engine? Been writing about it on a site. It uses a basic raycaster style rendering with billboard sprite. Shout out to pikuma for getting me started down this path. But started as C, tried it in Zig and ended up rewriting the whole thing in C++. Front page of the site has a little demo scene. Dev log contains just some mad scribblings about thing I am doing, thinking about, and trying.

https://forgottenelixir.com

Working on a schema migration tool for tortoise-orm (Python async ORM)

https://github.com/tortoise/tortoise-orm/

A reactive computational notebook with an effect system. Kinda like a "factorio for workflow processes." I want to use it to build backend pipelines or AI RAG pipelines. I'd be able to replay network effects for debugging. It is multiplayer and can be easily deployed to a server.

I'd always found web app backends to eventually need something that chained background jobs together. And inevitably, it was something bespoke without a lot of observability. It was always frustrating to maintain. And while building AI RAG pipelines, I've run into the same problems.

I've been working on a decentralized group chat called River[1], which will be the first truly decentralized group chat and the flagship application on Freenet[1], a general purpose platform for decentralized apps.

Just 2 or 3 bugs remaining before people can start playing with both River and Freenet which hopefully means we're days away (touch wood).

[1] https://github.com/freenet/river [2] https://freenet.org/

I have been working towards building and understanding the shift in search / information retrieval.

To that end, I just did a show HN on a couple of my projects

What if google did not focus on hyper commercialisation? 10 Blue links, but sorted by how they answer your query- https://www.unlob.com

Can we answer questions with lesser hallucinations? A snippet cited answer engine which only picks links that focus on answering your query - https://www.unzoi.com

My side project now is a websockets based dashboard that acts as a todo list for my easily distracted children in the morning. The tv remote is an lg one that can be used as a mouse, and they pop the tasks on the screen. I used chatgpt to generate some kawaii style stickers (think big eyes and sparkes). They love it. The reward is (in the morning at least) however many Blueys they can watch before the predetermined departure time.

A few improvements to go, but from what I hear from other parents (without raising it) is that they'd take advantage of something like this.

I'm working on a combined registration and timing system [0] for motorsports organizers, mostly rallycross atm. Most RX organizers in CA are using it now. In 2023 32 events ran their timing with it!

It's designed to save organizers time and solve reg & timing problems I got tired of dealing with as a competitor.

Soon I'll be adding QR code support, so we can just scan a QR code on your helmet or car at lap (which helps handle multi driver cars etc).

I plan to rebrand it into other verticals later.

[0] https://sidewaysdata.com

I'm working on a GenAI learning platform (focusing on software engineering). I want it to not suck, not to be another LLM wrapper. I will make it public as soon as I find it useful myself.

I continue to build the best hardware product design firm in the world. We have designed surgical robots, implanted devices including blood pumps, down bore oil drilling robots, high volume disposables, helped companies bring injection molding in house. On and on.

We are based in the SOMA neighborhood of SF and would love to help anyone with their hardware!!

http://www.iancollmceachern.com http://www.goldebgatemolders.com

I'm building an experimental a JSX-like language that embraces more functional features --- has stronger type guarantees that TS, ADTs, and pattern matching, but it's also more familiar than alternatives like Elm (or, I would argue, even Rescript).

My current tag line is "JS with guardrails, without footguns"

https://chicory-lang.github.io/

https://github.com/chicory-lang/compiler