https://fooqux.com/ - an experimental tech article aggregator. For several years now, I've had a routine of collecting articles on topics that interest me throughout the week and then reading them over the weekend. To help organize and streamline this process, I created this website.

The main idea is to gather tech articles in one place and process them with a LLM — categorize them, generate summaries, and try experimental features like annotations, questions, etc.

I hope this service might be useful to others as well. You can sign up with github account to submit your articles as well. I would appreciate any feedback.

I am working on methods to automate my VC firm. We have a small team and many different tasks to do. I’ve had success with using LLMs to help us automate various projects. But I appreciate any open source tools, techniques, readings, etc. if anyone knows any!

I've been working web scraping using LLMs, I just shared one of the libraries I created to get structured data from arbitrary pages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870231

Instead of sending the page's HTML to an LLM, Hikugen asks it to generate python code to fetch the data and enforces the generated data conforms to a Pydantic schema defined by the user. I'm using this to power yomu (https://github.com/goncharom/yomu), a personal email newsletter built from arbitrary websites.

Porting LevelDB[1] to Seastar[2], for internal metadata storage in Redpanda[3]. Before you ask why can’t something off the shelf be used, seastar has unique constraints around its runtime and its memory allocator that means we can’t reuse an existing library.

1: https://github.com/google/leveldb

2: https://github.com/scylladb/seastar

3: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/28351

I'm building a better language learning Chrome extension. I wanted it to offer not just tools, but also the best Comprehensible Input practices.

Here’s what I plan to add that other tools don’t have:

- Super smooth Anki integration — saves words/sentences with full video context, native audio, screenshots, etc.

- A structured way to improve step by step.

- Real dictionaries for each language (as long as I can afford them ), not just AI translations.

What I’ve built so far:

- Word meanings in real context

- Real-time subtitle translation

- Auto detection of common collocations

- Target languages: English/Spanish/French/German/Japanese/Korean/Chinese. Native languages: English and Chinese.

If you also like learning languages through videos or podcast/audiobook, I’d love your feedback and ideas!

Decompiling Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64! https://github.com/cdlewis/snowboardkids2-decomp

The work is mysterious but important.

Basically small data tools for myself.

A non-bloated HTML, CSS and pure Vanilla JS framework to create dashboards.

A cross-platform JSONL viewer where I am learning ImGUI. Haven’t found any other open source GUI framework that‘s small, provides out of the box components for tables, sorting

Im finalizing the Google Calendar integration for Ganttify. https://gantt-chart.com

It will allow users to fully manage their calendar in a Gantt chart. Complete with customizations like dependencies between events, custom colors for time blocks and custom icons for single-day events (“milestone”-like).

Ganttify is a Gantt chart add-on for web applications or services that can benefit from a Gantt view. My goal is to expand the number of integrations for Ganttify and release a new integration every month or so. If any of you have an interesting (niche or non-niche) idea to integrate Ganttify with feel free to contact me.

Added compression to my metal 3D printer slicer exported CAM files, and refactored the code to better support larger volumes.

Tweaking the piezoelectric driver PCB design for the micro-positing microscopy stage project. The Nanomotion piezoelectric motors were not meant to be used in the manner I chose, but it is fun to push the limits of technology.

Finishing up some custom 1U mounted hardware, and getting a batch of test PCB soon. Bend radius came back 1mm oversize, but this was acceptable for a single run item.

Also involved in several other projects maybe 3 people would care about. Doing a custom FPGA PCB is not very fun unless encountering that rare class of problem CPU/MCU simply can't handle cleanly. =3

I am working on a home-oriented solution (hardware box + software) for backups of the media files from phones. The solution facilitates having a separate backup drive (stored in a closet) in addition to the primary data drive in the box.