Posted by david927 12 hours ago
Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Mostly I wanted more art and colour in my workday - something to look at, learn through and draw inspiration from in the moments between meetings and code. You can create an account to save your favourites and curate your own gallery. Just released collections that you can make public.
Art from: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Institute of Chicago. Rijksmuseum. Cleveland Museum of Art.
So I've been working on https://fringeflypost.com/, an event tracker with maps, search and filter, scheduling, and sharing with friends that's offline first. It syncs down a locally stored sqlite database and caches assets pretty aggressively.
(You don't actually need to sign up, and you can just jump into the list of shows directly here https://fringeflypost.com/shows).
Right now there is a runtime and compiler targeting C, written in dependency-free Rust, and a minimal Python frontend. The project is very much proof-of-concept stage so not yet fast. Working on a CUDA backend now.
The goal is to enable automatic discovery of FlashAttention-style optimizations which is not feasible with current compilers.
Very open to feedback/discussion from anybody interested in or knowledgeable about tensor compilers!
https://www.agentkanban.io - Github Copilot / Claude Code integrated Kanban board with context management
https://www.asmusictheory.com - Music Theory lessons, tools, including piano roll with midi in the web browser
unfortunately, I did not have the time to pursue them. good luck to you!
“nub” is a good name because it can also be read as “noob”, which I am, when it comes to PL, type systems, and OS design. But I’m loving the deep connections that I am learning to draw across subjects like computability theory, functional programming, and brass-tacks software development.
For example, I find myself understanding the purpose of the borrow checker in Rust (“to make race conditions impossible” is my understanding: feel free to correct me / add color).
No website or GitHub repo yet. I’m brushing up on classical logic and learning Idris. Installed QEMU today.
The thing Im most proud of though is just the viewer, its designed to just open all the images and videos in a folder, and then there is no UI except a right click context menu, the list is a grid or a masonry layout that uses 100% of the space for the images/video so you can just navigate them. It adds anything you open to a local sqlite db so you can tag things if you want optionally. Also control modes that make sense for either a mouse or a laptop trackpad.
1) Using Chrome's Isolated Web App technology and the afforded TCPSockets in the browser, I am resurrecting an ancient, windows desktop only, TCP protocol for connecting to * from web applications. All Newspeak, all the time.
2) Re-writing my friends football pool in Newspeak. The Squeak/Seaside version has served him well for more than a decade but I've grown tired of the setup. My VPS server got hacked recently affording the impetus to try another iteration. Storing all the data locally in IndexedDB, using my own Newspeak library for that API.
* While I have no problem being "left behind", I refuse to actively assist others in "getting ahead".
However what happens when you actually build and launch your agent is customers try it, do some initial runs and then go ask your manager to automate their use case. That is why I have been building https://toolscaled.com/ The goal being work through your problem space using agentic chat (like Claude Desktop) and then at the end convert it to a workflow. I am pretty close to launching and have been testing. If you're interested send me an email! (if you do sign up just fyi its still in beta so YMMV.
Its still in the building phase but what I have currently is at:
You can find the tool at https://www.cangjieworkbook.com/ and there is a free demo linked inside. It should work on desktop and mobile web browsers.