I built a news aggregator that pulls in hundreds of RSS feeds and uses multiple large language models to synthesize daily briefs. There's also Tech and Finance editions, plus local editions for some US locales. https://feedpunk.com

I'm also building a modern HTTPS-only transport utility called curb. It's an alternative to curl and wget. It's written in Go using only the standard library. curb can stream output or download files and picks the right behavior based on what the server returns and whether the output is going to a human or a pipe. It also has a '--vet' mode that runs the body through security sieves; this is meant to add some protection and friction for the 'curl | sh' use-case. https://gocurb.dev

I am on iNaturalist helping to identify organisms.

Plugging away at my neovim AI plugin - https://github.com/dlants/magenta.nvim

Recently added support for scripts (like Claude code workflows) and been iterating on the UI for that a bunch.

I also ended up wanting other customized tooling - a more streamlined way to grep, find files and review code that my agent has written. So I wrote a few plugins for that : needle (finder with UI and sorting functions that suit me better), shuck (interactive grepper that has a workflow around refining grep commands) and glean (a review tool that lets you mark parts of the code as seen, leave comments, view diffs commit by commit or collapsed, etc). https://github.com/dlants/dotfiles/tree/main/nvim/lua

These are all in various states of experimental and mostly just for me, but a few of my coworkers and friends have been using magenta and like it.

Working on my version of Dynamicland. Today I got this small thing working where I can now live-edit the behaviour of the editor script, see https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZjxPIv-XwoU

Repo is here if anyone wants to have a look: https://github.com/deosjr/unreal-talk

And a browser-based version can be found here: https://deosjr.github.io/dynamicland/live

I'm working on a durable ECS system, mostly for games, though generally useful. It's to exercise a storage engine I have been building with Git like properties.

Should be able to turn the computer off at the mains half way through, then restart and instantly carry on without any loading phase as if nothing had happened.

Well that's the dream.

Now the lower layers work I'm mapping out the actual ECS part and what the API will be like.

I'm quite enjoying it and it's a really fun challenge.

I'm building a video game. It's a Retro Survival Crafting RPG that crams the gameplay of Valheim into the tile-based UI of Ultima IV.

https://stravaeger.com/

It's all vanilla Javascript, running in the browser, so you can wreck today's productivity right this minute if you like. It has multiplayer support, so I'll stand up a server in case anybody wants to jump in.

I’ve been going all-in on regular writing this year, and have published a blog post a week since December (https://mattcasmith.net/).

My most recent piece is about the privacy-impacting plans the UK government announced this week, but my favourite recent output is an essay titled Care About What You Do, which brings together a lot of small thoughts I’ve had for years into a consistent thread.

More technically, have found some time in recent weeks to work on my site design backlog - most recently re-implementing inline newsletter signups after the email platform’s embedded widget broke.

Previously I've shared optio - my project for orchestrating coding agents. It ties into ticketing systems and when assigned a ticket, it launches a coding agent in k8s and works until the PR is ready, resuming for failed CI or PR feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520220).

Recently I've been trying to expand it from just coding focused to any kind of agent workflow. So now there are cron and webhook triggers, and more general agent tasks that aren't necessarily coding focused (https://github.com/jonwiggins/optio/blob/main/docs/persisten...).

I think next I want to try and add features for long term memory for agents, but haven't decided on a good way to do it.

I'm working on https://xingolak.pages.dev/

I've been learning Basque and wanted to see a visualization of how the semantics move into different grammatical structures when translating between Basque and English/Spanish.

Under the hood it's using Stanford NLP to analyze the input then that analysis is given to Claude to generate the data structure needed to visualize the translation. It's really cool and maybe my favorite of the itch-scratchers I've built for myself over the years.

(Xingolak is Basque for "ribbons," a nod to the visualizing metaphor used in the UI.)

Still working on my Dungeons and Dragons combat tracker. It has gained a few users by now (I "launched" it last month) and I am adding features here and there. I think now the next major hurdle is marketing which I am not really good at. I post to reddit and other forums and can get some eyes on the project like that but it is slow going. I think next would be a few youtube videos/shorts explaining the features. - https://topoftheround.com