I continue to work on my general-purpose object store; which is a 'multi-modal' data management system. Using it, you can create and manage millions of files in a traditional hierarchical folder structure; create relational tables that can be queried and analyzed quickly and easily; and manage semi-structured data normally handled by nosql systems.
The State Department's CEAC portal times out constantly. Session expires, you lose progress. Every tool that solves this charges some money, or bundles you into an attorney service.
So I built a free interface to fill your DS-160 comfortably at your own pace - then a one-click bookmarklet autofills the CEAC portal for you. No account. No data leaving your browser. 100% free.
~10M+ nonimmigrant visa applicants file this form every year.
Vibe coding allowed me to build a couple of map-related things I geek out about:
- a map with all direct train destinations from a given station https://trainconnections.ai-tigers.com/
- a navigation app which avoids traffic jams even it takes longer (I like to stay in flow state)
- a bicycle navigation app which avoids traffic lights (for the same reason as the traffic jam app)
Working on a little DSP (digital signal processing) macOS menu bar app. I've got one of those typical bedroom producer setups (Focusrite Scarlett 4i4, Shure SM57), but no hardware for real-time stuff like compression, eq etc that would help me polish my audio in calls. I used to run OBS to host free VSTs (audio effects) and then hijacked the monitor output with a loopback driver to route it into Zoom etc, but it was a janky workflow. So I made a little app, with AI assistance. I made it just for myself, but it's open source - https://github.com/JyrgenSuvalov/klaar/.
If you must know, I'm writing a real-mode 16-bit x86 assembly to C translator in Common Lisp to be able to run that 3-sector inference engine, which was posted the other day, outside of QEmu, currently I'm debugging it. I'm doing this because it's fun but I can rationalize it as follows: It allows me to simultaneously learn Common Lisp, as I'm otherwise an OCaml & Scheme guy; 16-bit x86 assembly, since I grew up learning 68k assembly and segments are otherwise disgusting; and also slop generator architecture, right now I don't feel like reading a summary paper, those always leave out details. This is 100% hand-written in Emacs in Evil mode, and with SLIME. I guess that counts as a coding assistant, and it's written in LISP and LISP=AI, so that I can claim that I am familiar with generative AI technologies for coding when applying to jobs.
I have been working on making streaming cheaper/more private/lower latency (via WebRTC) in OBS. Been working on this site to get people excited https://webrtcforthestreamer.com/ after it is done want to record a YouTube video for it.
After that I want to spend the weekend just closing out Pion bugs/relaxing :)
Building a website that helps patients to find clinical trials that are actually looking for patients right now. 70% of contacts listed on governmental website for studies that should be active, do not respond to patients. It’s AllClinicalTrials.com
Good to see this post, a simple non AI tagged post would make it more easier to find useful projects that are not focused on AI, while keeping the community together.
Thanks! Do you mean a [Non-AI] tag or something on the answers to the WAYWO post? That could make it easier to search indeed, if it's somehow standardized.
working on a crossword tool that leans on qxw [https://quinapalus.com/qxw.html] for the grid filler and borrows some UI ideas from it, but adds integrated clue management, as well as experimenting with some UI features that are perhaps too idiosyncratic for qxw to add. I will contribute features back to qxw wherever that makes sense too - largely, the latter focuses on being rock solid, stable, and bug free, and I want to take more of a "let's toss in a bunch of features and see what ends up being useful" approach.
Good timings on this. I think a lot of people are quietly building useful things and just not posting about them because it doesn't get traction next to AI announcements. would love to see more of these threads.
I bought $5 worth of Claude API tokens the other day because Newspeak [0] is implementing an API interface in the IDE.
I work with Newspeak every night building all kinds of crazy stuff, from the raycasting tutorial to an IndexedDB interface. Currently, I have the IDE running as an Isolated Web App for access to TCPSockets [1][2][3].
I'm implementing ancient TCP protocols bringing them to the web.
Hi, I'm David and I run the "What are you working on?" posts. I hear what you're saying and yet I think it's just the new reality. There will be more projects and some of those will be quickly-made vibe-coded projects. I'm not against it.
In Moveable Feast, Hemingway talks about being opposed to ski lifts (which were probably fairly new at the time). He thought, if you're fit enough to hike up the mountain, you're going to be fit enough to ski down without getting injured; it opens skiing up to people who maybe shouldn't be skiing. I deeply prefer ski lifts. :-) And I love agentic AI coding.
I guess what I'm saying is that we shouldn't compare it to the past, because that's gone. And yet, each month the number of comments breaks 1000, so "drowning" is a fair word for just number of projects alone. And I don't have any answers.
Anyway, you (and anyone reading this) can feel free to email me. My email in my profile.
It doesn't seem like you hear what they're saying at all.
Writing code to coax computers into doing specific things in specific ways is a craft, trade, and art form older than pretty much anybody alive today.
Writing prose instructions to direct LLM's to generate that code also produces software, but it's essentially a different craft/trade/art altogether.
Whatever success the latter claims in commerce or mindshare, both of these arts will coexist for longer than anybody will be around.
It's completely natural to carve out spaces where people who appreciate the process or character of hand-crafted projects can discuss those projects without people talking about a whole different thing crowding out their conversations.
I heard what they're saying, and while I don't personally agree with it, I can see it's shared by a lot of people.
Personally, I'm not sure a separate thread makes sense. What if people mark their project as "[ARTISAN]" like they do with [Remote] in Who's Hiring? Any other ideas?
One day, way before the lifts had started, I hiked up the mountain, snowboard under my arm. Trudging, my breath heavy, lungs filling, oxygen, snow, blue sky, cold but my body warmed. There was not one track in the fresh powder. My snowboard was slower in the powder, and I felt safe in the knowledge. I had to work a little harder. Carving.
I continue to work on my general-purpose object store; which is a 'multi-modal' data management system. Using it, you can create and manage millions of files in a traditional hierarchical folder structure; create relational tables that can be queried and analyzed quickly and easily; and manage semi-structured data normally handled by nosql systems.
https://www.didgets.com
I built a free DS-160 filler - the only one I could find thats 100% free
https://fillvisa.com/form/usa-ds160/
The State Department's CEAC portal times out constantly. Session expires, you lose progress. Every tool that solves this charges some money, or bundles you into an attorney service.
So I built a free interface to fill your DS-160 comfortably at your own pace - then a one-click bookmarklet autofills the CEAC portal for you. No account. No data leaving your browser. 100% free.
~10M+ nonimmigrant visa applicants file this form every year.
I understand the frustration with dealing with the constant log outs, but I am too paranoid to try anything automated in case they have bot detection.
For some people, getting a US visa denied can ruin their lives (job loss).
Vibe coding allowed me to build a couple of map-related things I geek out about: - a map with all direct train destinations from a given station https://trainconnections.ai-tigers.com/ - a navigation app which avoids traffic jams even it takes longer (I like to stay in flow state) - a bicycle navigation app which avoids traffic lights (for the same reason as the traffic jam app)
Helping a friend repair the internal oscilloscope control board on an IFR-1200 Super-S communications service monitor.
There's a new undocumented version of the board with surface mount parts that rhymes with the old known through hole version.
Working on a little DSP (digital signal processing) macOS menu bar app. I've got one of those typical bedroom producer setups (Focusrite Scarlett 4i4, Shure SM57), but no hardware for real-time stuff like compression, eq etc that would help me polish my audio in calls. I used to run OBS to host free VSTs (audio effects) and then hijacked the monitor output with a loopback driver to route it into Zoom etc, but it was a janky workflow. So I made a little app, with AI assistance. I made it just for myself, but it's open source - https://github.com/JyrgenSuvalov/klaar/.
I am working on npm supply-chain security. My tool is called @lateos/npm-scanner You can install it via npm -I @lateos/npm-scanner . The npm readme page is at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@lateos/npm-scan and open spruce is at https://github.com/lateos-ai/npm-scan . I appreciate all input and feedback
If you must know, I'm writing a real-mode 16-bit x86 assembly to C translator in Common Lisp to be able to run that 3-sector inference engine, which was posted the other day, outside of QEmu, currently I'm debugging it. I'm doing this because it's fun but I can rationalize it as follows: It allows me to simultaneously learn Common Lisp, as I'm otherwise an OCaml & Scheme guy; 16-bit x86 assembly, since I grew up learning 68k assembly and segments are otherwise disgusting; and also slop generator architecture, right now I don't feel like reading a summary paper, those always leave out details. This is 100% hand-written in Emacs in Evil mode, and with SLIME. I guess that counts as a coding assistant, and it's written in LISP and LISP=AI, so that I can claim that I am familiar with generative AI technologies for coding when applying to jobs.
I have been working on making streaming cheaper/more private/lower latency (via WebRTC) in OBS. Been working on this site to get people excited https://webrtcforthestreamer.com/ after it is done want to record a YouTube video for it.
After that I want to spend the weekend just closing out Pion bugs/relaxing :)
Building a website that helps patients to find clinical trials that are actually looking for patients right now. 70% of contacts listed on governmental website for studies that should be active, do not respond to patients. It’s AllClinicalTrials.com
Good to see this post, a simple non AI tagged post would make it more easier to find useful projects that are not focused on AI, while keeping the community together.
Thanks! Do you mean a [Non-AI] tag or something on the answers to the WAYWO post? That could make it easier to search indeed, if it's somehow standardized.
working on a crossword tool that leans on qxw [https://quinapalus.com/qxw.html] for the grid filler and borrows some UI ideas from it, but adds integrated clue management, as well as experimenting with some UI features that are perhaps too idiosyncratic for qxw to add. I will contribute features back to qxw wherever that makes sense too - largely, the latter focuses on being rock solid, stable, and bug free, and I want to take more of a "let's toss in a bunch of features and see what ends up being useful" approach.
Good timings on this. I think a lot of people are quietly building useful things and just not posting about them because it doesn't get traction next to AI announcements. would love to see more of these threads.
I bought $5 worth of Claude API tokens the other day because Newspeak [0] is implementing an API interface in the IDE.
I work with Newspeak every night building all kinds of crazy stuff, from the raycasting tutorial to an IndexedDB interface. Currently, I have the IDE running as an Isolated Web App for access to TCPSockets [1][2][3].
I'm implementing ancient TCP protocols bringing them to the web.
[0] https://newspeaklanguage.org
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/iwa
[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/iwa/direct-sockets
[3] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/telnet-client (example IWA)
Working and getting crazy good results in compression algorithms :)
Hi, I'm David and I run the "What are you working on?" posts. I hear what you're saying and yet I think it's just the new reality. There will be more projects and some of those will be quickly-made vibe-coded projects. I'm not against it.
In Moveable Feast, Hemingway talks about being opposed to ski lifts (which were probably fairly new at the time). He thought, if you're fit enough to hike up the mountain, you're going to be fit enough to ski down without getting injured; it opens skiing up to people who maybe shouldn't be skiing. I deeply prefer ski lifts. :-) And I love agentic AI coding.
I guess what I'm saying is that we shouldn't compare it to the past, because that's gone. And yet, each month the number of comments breaks 1000, so "drowning" is a fair word for just number of projects alone. And I don't have any answers.
Anyway, you (and anyone reading this) can feel free to email me. My email in my profile.
It doesn't seem like you hear what they're saying at all.
Writing code to coax computers into doing specific things in specific ways is a craft, trade, and art form older than pretty much anybody alive today.
Writing prose instructions to direct LLM's to generate that code also produces software, but it's essentially a different craft/trade/art altogether.
Whatever success the latter claims in commerce or mindshare, both of these arts will coexist for longer than anybody will be around.
It's completely natural to carve out spaces where people who appreciate the process or character of hand-crafted projects can discuss those projects without people talking about a whole different thing crowding out their conversations.
I heard what they're saying, and while I don't personally agree with it, I can see it's shared by a lot of people.
Personally, I'm not sure a separate thread makes sense. What if people mark their project as "[ARTISAN]" like they do with [Remote] in Who's Hiring? Any other ideas?
I would also prefer it to be on the same thread. I think "[Non-AI]" or "[NO-AI]" might be more obvious, though.
I had only ever known ski lifts.
One day, way before the lifts had started, I hiked up the mountain, snowboard under my arm. Trudging, my breath heavy, lungs filling, oxygen, snow, blue sky, cold but my body warmed. There was not one track in the fresh powder. My snowboard was slower in the powder, and I felt safe in the knowledge. I had to work a little harder. Carving.