I've been building replaypics.com. After an event, photos are scattered amongst phones and whatsapp. Difficult to search and retrieve. Creating memories on Google Photos requires some amount of effort. Started working on it after a family vacation - we had more than 400 photos across 4 phones and we had not looked at them after returning home

Replaypics allows a person to create an event and upload pictures, optionally invite others to upload their pictures. It selects the best and makes 4 collages and 2 videos (portrait and landscape). The videos are set to music that is selected as per the mood of the photos, cuts synced to the beats.

Trying a different monetisation method: Albums are free to create, users pay only to get the share link. Curious whether people will pay at the share moment.

Had a moment of nostalgia and started building an IRC client for macOS. It’s totally free/open source. And has been fun to customize / add the features I like to see while avoiding the ones I don’t.

https://github.com/richstokes/Netsplit

I’m attending defcon 34 and I vibe coded an image sharing app running on the badge https://github.com/zitterbewegung/dc34-baogram . When you share a picture you have taken you also digitally sign each picture you share so people know who took the picture . You can also upload arbitrary images using your computer.

I've been working on something to help us pursue our long term interests in a reasonably more structured way: https://pond.li. The basic problem/idea motivating it is that it'd be valuable to reach more often into our archives/collections (or have them reach out to the present) than be pulled into the great big, novel firehose of information we're exposed to everyday.

It's also an attempt to make use of LLMs as not primarily chat partners. Keen for feedback if any of this strikes you as interesting

I have a keyboard I bought in 2020 called the Makerdiary M60 keyboard. It runs Python, and over the years I've coded in various functions. But it was somewhat buggy, and the upstream firmware was never upgraded.

I love the hardware because it's the only keyboard I've been able to find that keeps a live Bluetooth connection and lets you toggle back and forth between USB and Bluetooth instantly using only a keyboard shortcut. That means you use two computers, and switch back and forth as fast as you can type. Years ago I also added a feature that changes the backlight color based on the active connection, so you can instantly tell which computer your typing will go to. I haven't been able to find any other keyboard that's quite as nice.

Lately I've spent weeks using an LLM to update the extremely old keyboard firmware to the latest firmware of its components (e.g., Circuitpython, the BLE firmware, the boot loader) and implementing all of my dream keyboard features that I never had the gumption to spend hours implementing pre-LLM. I finally resolved years-old bugs, and I added things like layer-based backlighting (so that the individual keys with relevant functions are lit), a better battery gauge, better sleep/suspend timing, backlight calibration, better debounce, and so on.

I've also upgraded the hardware and added batteries to each of the keyboards (I have three of these, one at home, one in the office, and one for travel).

It has been a very satisfying project, finally scratching a years-old itch.

I lead development on Pindigo (https://pindigo.app), a social score-tracking and ranking app for pinball players.

Most of my time lately has gone into Flippd, its successor, which we recently soft-launched. We’ve also released a tech demo that uses custom computer-vision models to identify a pinball machine from a photo and extract the player’s score.

You can try it here: https://flippd.gg/scan

Building a cat themed word puzzle game with two friends.

It will have all the top word games in one place with more coming over time.

I always wanted to build games, and AI finally made it possible for us to move fast across UI, level design, coding, and even video production.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superfun.w... iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kitten-word/id6785978180

I'm building a program that should help golf courses and golf course architects design better courses. I've been writing about it on my blog. My goal is to start a golf architecture consulting company, and help design/redesign courses that are better.

The general thesis on identifying architecturally interesting areas on the golf course: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/i-spent-the-last-month...

Identifying dynamic golf design so you get more interesting play on the same course: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/friday-pins-vs-sunday-...

Measuring the addition and removal of hazards and how it dynamically affects different skill levels, and how to measure that: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/measure-2000-times-cut...

How I created a golf dispersion pattern generator -- which I made open source -- so that it can be improved, because the golf analytic companies already have the data and almost certainly won't share it: https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/how-to-bake-a-dispersi...

Yesterday I reached a stopping point in a project I had been working on over several weekends. I wanted to connect my illumos server directly to my Japanese ISP through DS-Lite, and ended up writing and publishing two Rust crates along the way.

The tunnel itself worked, but stock illumos could not manage the DHCPv6 prefix delegation required by my connection. I also spent quite a bit of time tracing a four byte ABI mismatch between a 64 bit Rust process and a 32 bit illumos service.

There was no happy ending, but I learned more about the illumos network stack and distilled the experience into a blog post: https://skalski.dev/connecting-my-illumos-box-to-a-japanese-...

KeibiDrop: A Peer to Peer Network latency hiding filesystem:

You can work on shared files instantly without uploading or downloading them.

1 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wt0NMx2_I8 Github repo: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop

Since last month hardened bidirectional edits such that people can work on video assets with Premier Pro, DaVinci, and such.

Got a pre-alpha release, where we managed to split congestion control over QUIC and bulk data transfers over TCP, and the lockless conflict resolution :D