Posted by david927 3/30/2025
Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
If you know of a webhook provider not in my list - https://webhooks.fyi/docs/webhook-directory - let me know and I'll make sure it's added.
It's a double entry based personal finance tool, to help families and individuals, track, understand and plan their finances.
It's local first. Synched across devices via a sync server. Financial data is encrypted before it leaves your local devices. By design, we don't have access to your data.
We are still in early phase, and looking for active users, and their feedback.
to make DXFs and G-code:
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
The next big step is a house-cleaning one, need a vendor-agnostic system for numbering tools:
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/what-tooling-are-folks-usin...
Been learning a lot in the process: brushed up on trigonometry and so-forth using _Make:Geometry/Trigonometry/Calculus_[1] and various other books, some of which I am still reading through; lots about programming, esp. useful was John Ousterhout's _A Philosophy of Software Design_[2] and the next stages are Bézier curves/NURBS, a system for single line fonts (which may get extended into an interactive METAFONT programming system), and a mastery of conic sections _and_ algorithms sufficiently efficient that the 1" x 2" x 1" test case which took ~18 minutes to calculate on an i7 and which generated a ~127MB toolpath file can be done a bit more reasonably.
The big thing it makes me thing about is whether I should try to get a Master's and then go on to get a PhD (but that's a hard sell w/ the finance committee when I'm 59 and still making house payments).
1 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make
2 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of...
It generates interconnected learning documents, a bit like personalized wiki articles. Features include courses on any topic, generative flashcards for spaced repetition (think Anki), as well as a chat alongside each document.
Would love to hear your feedback!
Ended up having to write a decent chunk of C using FFI mind, no wonder people write SSH servers in Go/C, and why every AI tool told me it's really difficult and shouldn't be done :D
Bit of fun though, and I know more than I would ever want to know about the SSH protocol now!
This web app is an off-shoot of a command-line archiving tool I wrote to scratch my own itch.
In its current form it's tripped up by bot detection and often struggles with heavyweight pages, but it works on enough pages to be somewhat useful.
Archived pages aren't retained long-term, but you can download them as static HTML files. (So kinda like a hosted version of SingleFile.)
Hopefully getting Smart Communications to hand over my USPS Mail they blocked while I was in jail. I never agreed to the Terms and Conditions of Mailguard. That doesn’t mean I forfeited my rights. Hopefully some prisoner advocacy groups respond with guidance on what happens next.
Today, it generates clean, formatted product requirements from natural language and includes templates for different use cases (bug fixes, usability adjustments, etc.).
Soon, it will use RAG to incorporate knowledge of your system into the product requirements and perform inference on key down to help product managers write better specs with AI.