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Posted by david927 11/9/2025

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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clx75 11/10/2025|
1. Langsam - https://github.com/cellux/langsam

This is an AST-walking interpreter for my personal LISP dialect written in C. Once it's ready, I would use it to implement a low-level, statically typed language (Schnell) as a Langsam library. The goal is to gain the ability to JIT-compile Schnell code (sexps of a statically typed language) from Langsam. Once this works, I would rewrite Langsam in Schnell so that it becomes a fast bytecode interpreter. With the faster Langsam (and the Schnell built into it) I could build a little OS called "Oben". The OS would first run on top of Linux, then I would attempt to bootstrap the entire stack on bare-metal. I already have a Forth dialect implemented in assembly language (Grund/Boden). The idea is to implement Langsam in Grund and then bootstrap the entire Grund -> Langsam -> Schnell -> Oben chain on something like the qemu q35, later on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and maybe even my own hardware (ie. an FPGA board like what Wirth et al. created for Project Oberon).

2. MTrak - https://github.com/cellux/mtrak

This is a TUI MIDI tracker written in Go. Not too user-friendly: one has to enter raw MIDI messages in hex into the tracks. Can be connected to synths like Fluidsynth or Surge XT via JACK MIDI. Unfortunately it takes a lot of CPU time, probably due to the use of BubbleTea (and no time spent on optimization).

3. Mixtape - https://github.com/cellux/mixtape

Beginnings of a programmable, non-realtime audio sample generator/manipulator written in Go with an OpenGL GUI. I was thinking about how people in the old times cut up the magnetic tape which contained the sound bites and rearranged them to build something new. What if I'd implement a data type called "tape" which is basically a piece of sound and then provide operators in a Forth-like language to create and manipulate such tapes. Each tape could be a sound and then these could be stitched together to form songs. Who knows maybe an entire song could be represented as a hierarchy of these tapes. Each sound or song section could be its own file (*.tape), these could be loaded from each other, maybe even caching the WAV generated from the code of a tape to speed things up when there is a huge hierarchy of tapes in a project. Lots of interesting ideas are brewing in this one.

dsego 11/10/2025||
A simple strobe tuner for musical instruments with Odin, Raylib and Portaudio. https://github.com/dsego/strobe-tuner/
Mr_Eri_Atlov 11/10/2025||
Garden Boxes

Specifically, torched pine Shou Sugi Ban boxes to house a garden at a much more convenient height for gardening, and eventually, my wintergarden experiments with high compost mixes to keep the garden from freezing in the winter.

ianmabie 11/10/2025||
I have two side projects I continue to make some headway on: a practice call platform (practicecallai.com) and an iOS baby tracker / newborn app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lil-baby-tracker-newborn-log/i...).

The last month has had its ups and downs.

Ups = some local-area doulas have started sharing the baby app in a big WhatsApp group & growth is starting to pick up.

Downs = my first vibe-coding horror story. For PracticeCallAI, the subscription flow was failing and somehow outside my test coverage, so I've been missing out on new subscribers for the last two months. In an effort fix it, Replit Agent - which I have been loving otherwise - truncated the table that stores all of the user calls. and their database rollback is throwing errors. So that's been fun.

avoutic 11/10/2025||
https://web-framework.com, a lightweight PHP framework on Slim and PHP-DI for ORM, caching, auth, etc. (an alternative to Laravel/Symfony for small apps).
AuthAuth 11/9/2025||
No projects at the moment. Just working on myself and improving some things in my life, job, cheaper place to rent, lose weight etc. Dreaming of starting a business, I just want to add a cool service to my local city but the economics is hard
icedtoast 11/9/2025||
We're working on https://www.octozoo.com - helps development teams improve their code quality by tracking code coverage.

Also planning on adding more tools to help development teams.

simonsaysso 11/9/2025||
Been nerd sniped recently so am working on a Rust version of markdownlint-cli2. I'm tired of having a node dependency in my projects and this seems like a constrained enough problem space that I'll actually get around to doing it.
pixel-pusher 11/9/2025||
Working on a Document Manager in the Apple Ecosystem.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/document-manager-fyle/id674003...

wellpast 11/10/2025|
https://xelly.games/

Users post small games to social feeds.

Scroll like a social network, jump into and play any game by tapping on it.

Games are served into fully locked-down, sandboxed iframes for security.

wellpast 11/10/2025|
Docs for game developers: https://xelly-games.github.io/docs/intro
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