We're getting close! It's just a matter of polishing and polishing and polishing, but I'm really excited about how close we are to launch.
Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.
This seemed like a solvable problem.
Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, whatever you're curious about.
Here's how it works: Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, get detailed lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn't reach its funding goal within 365 days, automatic refund. All results are published openly. Laboratory.love uses the same methodology as PlasticList.org, which found plastic chemicals in everything from prenatal vitamins to ice cream. But instead of researchers choosing what to test, you do.
The bigger picture: Companies respond to market pressure. Transparency creates that pressure. When consumers have data, supply chains get cleaner.
Technical details: Laboratory.love works with ISO 17025-accredited labs, test three samples from different production lots, detect chemicals down to parts per billion. The testing protocol is public.
So far a couple dozen products have received some funding, six products have been fully funded (five product results published, the sixth is at the lab as I write this!)
You can browse products, add your own, or just follow specific items you're curious about: https://laboratory.love
Also, shipping Bedtime Bulb v2 next month. This is a hybrid LED-incandescent design meant for the evening that is the best of both worlds: low blue light, high color quality, perfect compatibility with dimmers, 10x less flicker than incandescent, includes near infrared, low energy use, long lifespan [1].
[0]: https://restfullighting.com/products/restful-atmos-preorder
[1]: https://restfullighting.com/products/bedtime-bulb-v2-preorde...
- imagine a war scene and you can pick the side you're watching. There can be plenty more story lines than just two sides, e.g. a friendship arc of two soldiers, or a civilian getting their house destroyed, or just a crow on a field watching from distance - riding a train and every section is its own story, and they're all somehow connected. for instance there's a huge fire in the middle of the train. You can rewatch the 3d movie and focus every time on a different section. That way you get a complete story.
Just a seed of an idea, still polishing it
const activeAdults = from<User>("users")
.where((u) => u.age >= 18)
.where((u) => u.active === true);
It'll go into webpods (https://github.com/webpods-org/webpods), which is like firebase but with hash chains underneath.
I was the feature requestor for Claude Code Hooks - and have been involved in ai governance for quite awhile, this is an idea I'm excited about.
Ping below if you want to early beta test. everything is open source, no signups.
Services with stubbed endpoints, UIs with placeholder components, Dockerfiles/Terraform/K8s infra, E2E tests (via declared flows), Github/Gitlab epics/issues/subissues
It's also got github/gitlab webhook integration, so you can do stuff like trigger agents reactively when events occur on a repo, it includes cloudflare tunnel support so you can set up webhooks even in a local dev environment, and the project generator is fully customizable.
There was "choker" back in the day, which I actually never heard about since I wasn't into chess back then. But (1) there was no web version, and (2) it had a specific gameplay that seems too slow for my taste. My version is highly customizable on the setup/rounds/rules, too. From my research, the original was also overrun by bots.
> It’s a cool concept, but terrible app design and it’s all just bots you connect with, making it terribly easy to win almost every game
It sounds like this game needs a better AI opponent then? I don’t know anything about this game but something that learned from your gameplay and figured out how to beat you would be very cool.
I have experienced knowledge gaps and blind spots that I am attempting to fix. For example most users worry about security of hashed passwords and yet they do not realize that the TOTP (eg Google Authenticator) use symmetric encryption and quite a lot of the authentication providers store the private key in plain text in their database. List goes on...
Behind the scenes, we're doing real time code gen to power the monsters!
Would love feedback!
Along with all of that, still working on a lot of stuff using Jason[4] / AgentSpeak[5]. I created a fork[6] of Jason that is meant to be easier to integrate with Spring Boot, and to take more of a "run headless on a server" approach, which meant taking out references to a Swing based in-process logging/management tool. In place of that, I'm implementing a JMX based management interface, and recently I've started to work on replacing the old Swing app with a JavaFX app that can connect using JMX Remoting.
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Semantic-Information-Processing-Marvi...
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Distributed-Processing-Vol-F...
[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Semantic-Networks-Explorat...
[4]: https://github.com/jason-lang/jason
Website: https://colanode.com Repo: https://github.com/colanode/colanode
Launched the initial version a couple of weeks ago and making good progress, trying to share as much of the process as I can on X.
Backend API can be used by any client, but I also built an open source agent in Go that makes setup really easy.
Currently working on a proper log viewer, alerts and visualization improvements.
It started out with bindings for the DOM, Web, and Browser APIs, but as of today I now have custom Web Components support (which is a big deal considering Go's type system quirks).
Tomorrow I'm gonna polish some of the UI components and start refactoring my git-evac [2] repo management tool which is the first app using the gooey framework.
Haven't tested the typecasting that's required for the components yet though, they might break because of some generics quirks (e.g. Wrap/Unwrap helper methods).
It is a desktop app built with Electron and React. I built to help newlywed couples to quickly sort thousands of wedding photos with a Tinder style swipe UI. It is offline first, fully private, and offers one click export of your selected pictures.
I started building it earlier this year after going through my own wedding photo experience and realizing how overwhelming it can be. I saw my wife dragging and dropping photos from one folder to other and thought there has to be a better way for non-photographer folks.
Right now, I have a working prototype, a landing page live, and I am testing distribution and feedback from early users.
Currently at MVP stage, no domain yet.
This is mostly a nostalgia play--I'm pining for a time when app development was much easier. I'm trying to apply lessons from early Rapid Application Development while still providing a full-featured language.
I confess that I haven't gotten any traction at all, but I find it incredibly useful for my own consulting business, so I'm going to keep on working on it.
Non-Profit to make cross-entity financial crime detection a reality using AI and establishing adequate data standards.
Volunteers welcome (-;
A place to build your corner of the internet.
Minimalistic site builder for portfolio, blog, or just link in bio to showcase your projects and ideas.
here’s mine: https://www.autogram.id/alex
Basically I've realised GraphQL has taken me as far as it can, and I should've gone with REST to start with. That, and after I finish the first milestone (uptime checks + cron job monitors), I'll be able to start building a proper terraform provider, and audit logs.
https://onlineornot.com/, since early 2021.
https://github.com/brainless/nocodo
Self-hosted, multiple models, bring your own keys and subscriptions, unlimited projects, tasks, web based, runs on your cloud server.
I found neverthrow's api to be not very ergonomic so I built my own little version.
fp-ts has an Either type e.g. but there's plenty of such libraries.
I've been down a prime numbers rabbit hole. Trying to see the largest prime I can generate in a browser.
We are looking at:
-Objective data: signals from incident management tools (Rootly/PagerDuty), GitHub, and Slack
-Self-reported data: asking the engineers how they feel via short survey
From this, we generate a CBI score (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory). We're still in beta, but we've received positive feedback from our beta testers, especially from manager of large and distributed orgs.
It's fully open-source, you can test it out locally https://github.com/Rootly-AI-Labs/rootly-burnout-detector-we...
Alternatively, we offer a hosted version with mock data, allowing you to play with it. https://www.oncallburnout.com/
If you have any feedback or ideas, shoot them my way :)
Notebook to do it yourself here: https://github.com/dbish/bespoke-books-ai-example
I think there are a lot of really fun projects possible now in the child book creation space, particularly as you build tools that they can use themselves (like adding voice interfaces to building a book or story).
This is outside my 996 job of AI Agent/Assistant infra + ops :)
The community is moving fast though. Now higgsfield allows using arrows and pointers to edit the video but so far, no one is doing a good camera control visually.
It’s a labor of love, but I love it!
I’m currently building a simulation engine that lets you forecast your spending, build scenarios (like taking a year off, getting a cat, move to a new city, etc based on your current spending patterns and assets.
It’s great fun to have a project of one’s own to just toil away on.
The name isn't confusing, per se ("get married to/be exclusive with your finances", OK), but it also isn't very strong... "financé" is also very strange and awkward to pronounce as a native English speaker. Probably because it comes across more as Spanish-seeming despite it being a play on a French work.
same misreading
I'm blaming typoglycemia
Examples:
- Policies are frequently subjective. Hard to codify, but LLMs can evaluate them more like a security engineer would. "IAM policies should use least privilege." What is "least" enough? "Admin ports shouldn't be exposed to the Internet." What's an admin port?
- Security engineers are stretched thin. LLMs can watch PRs for potentially risky changes that need closer human review. "PR loosens auth/authn." "PR changes network perimeter configuration."
- Traditional check runs (SAST, IaC, etc.) flood PRs with findings. Security doesn't have time to review them all. Devs tends to ignore them. Frequent false positives. LLMs can draw attention to the important ones. "If the findings are unusual for this repo, require the author to acknowledge the risk before merging."
https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai
I also wrote a metaprogramming language which generates a lot of the editor UI for the engine. It's a bespoke C parser that supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user through a 'scripting-like' language you embed directly in your source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.
My citizenship wait times page (https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/citizenship-wait-times) has also gotten enough feedback to be useful since its release last month. I'd like to make it more useful with better visualisations.
Now I'm working on another iteration of my health insurance calculator (https://allaboutberlin.com/tools/health-insurance-calculator). It's kind of a big deal both because it's a huge financial decision for recent immigrants, and because it funds a big chunk of all the free stuff I'm putting out. This is especially important with ChatGPT and AI summaries halving my traffic. This iteration will recommend health insurance combinations that work for a visa application and for a long-term stay in Germany. It will provide far better explanations.
At the same time, I'm testing a new insurance broker with far shorter response times, so people can directly ask an expert to help them choose. They're reachable via Whatsapp, and that made a huge difference in how people get advice. It worked so well that I want to do the same for other topics. I'm already talking with an immigration lawyer who's interested.
I like this Facebook feature which shows you "Today 10 years ago", Immich, does have it in it's UI too and perhaps I will mix in those pictures also to show on TV.
It uses 4k stereoscopic capture and bunch of ML models to match bone position with sub-millimeter precision. The surgeon screws a metal base piece into the bone, and we detect where that is in space. Then, a Stewart Platform adjusts another part that is placed onto the base. The robotic adjustment allows the base to be placed in a ballpark area, with the robotically-adjusted piece oriented in the exact spot where the surgeon needs to cut.
The net result is a robotic system that is many times cheaper than the least expensive incumbent, decreases surgery time significantly, reduces error, and basically "just works" as opposed to requiring a ton of training. We are debuting at a tradeshow in October.
to help connect players with daily web games after seeing how hard discovery was.
Mostly because I’m working on a personal library management service called Shelvica to solve my own problems[1], and none of those services provided all the information on a book. One might provide the series, the other might provide genres, and yet another might provide a cover with good dimensions, but none provided everything, so I decided to work on something of my own (called Librario).
While Shelvica is the focus, Librario could become its own thing in time, so I don’t mind the sidetracking.
I also plan on having a “ISBN Search” kind of website that feeds from that database as a way to let users search for information about books, which then feeds the service’s database, making it stronger for Shelvica.
I open source everything I make, but I’m still wondering if these will be open sourced or not. I’ll probably go with the EUPL 1.2 license if I do decide on open sourcing them.
[1]: My wife and I have a personal library with around 1800 books, but most applications for management are either focused on ebooks or choke with this many books. Libib is the exception, but I wanted a little more.
I believe the old internet is still alive and well. It's just buried under a mountain of shit.
Glad I ditched Hugo a few months ago.
- a booking platform for surfing schools - a tool for pelvic physiotherapy practitioners handle appointments and exercise prescriptions
Doing backend and frontend for both, but there is a small team helping with #2. Both come from actual needs of actual businesses.
Tech is pretty standard typescript, react and node.
Would love to be working on these full time.
In Tiled Words you rearrange tiles to solve clues and rebuild a broken crossword.
You can play a demo at https://tiledwords.com - it’s free and web based so it works on whatever device you’ve got.
I’ll be officially launching on October 19th at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. You can sign up to be notified on launch. Starting then there will be a new puzzle every day!
So far I’ve gotten really positive feedback and have around 100 people signed up to get notified. It’s been a lot of fun to build!
I'm putting a bunch of security tools / data feeds together as a service. The goal is to help teams and individuals run scans/analysis/security project management for "freemium" (certain number of scans/projects for free each month, haven't locked in on how it'll pan out fully $$ wise).
I want to help lower the technical hurdles to running and maintaining security tools for teams and individuals. There are a ton of great open source tools out there, most people either don't know or don't have the time to do a technical deep dive into each. So I'm adding utilities and tools by the day to the platform.
Likewise, there's a built in expert platform for you to get help on your security problems built into the system. (Currently an expert team consisting of [me]). Longer term, I'm working on some AI plugins to help alert on CVEs custom to you, generate automated scans, and some other fun stuff.
https://meldsecurity.com/ycombinator (if you're interested in free credits)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45400006
I'm super curious if anybody will pick it up and do something useful with it. This was a couple of years of my life and I absolutely loved working on it but having a child put a hard stop to such entertainment for many years. Now, a good 30 years later I finally found the time to resurrect it.
I'm not sure yet if I am going to do more work on it or leave it as it is, it's good enough to give someone new to OS development a running start and a foundation to build on.
I have a video on how it works on https://kavla.dev/
And a live demo here: https://demo.kavla.dev/
I've been working in the data space for five years now. Kavla is something that I personally feel would make my job more fun!
Built with tldraw and duckdb
The idea is that you build a diagram that contains all the details about the problem and people's thoughts on it, and it's organized in such a way that it's easy to just keep refining, down to the smallest detail. So you build this concrete, shared understanding, and move it forward and forward, until hopefully y'all can make some best decision to improve the situation.
There's a lot to do. Currently working on UX to allow hiding intermediate nodes and still have indirect edges drawn. Want to add an LLM integration to generate/update diagrams via natural language, which I think will help a lot with usage barriers to using the app.
Happy to get any feedback :) https://ameliorate.app/ https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate
This means, instead of the answer to "how do we produce this output data" being "trigger and pray everything upstream is still working", we can answer with "the system was asked to produce this output data partition and its dependencies were automatically built for it". My hope is that this allows the interface with the system to instead be continuously telling it what partitions we want to exist, and letting it figure out the rest, instead of the byzantine DAGs that get built in airflow/etc.
This comes out of a big feeling that even more recent orchestrators like Prefect, Dagster, etc are still solving the wrong problem, and not internalizing the right complexity.
If you can't afford early access, please email me and I'll grant you a free copy: I need all the feedback I can get!
Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it's fun for me I'll just keep adding things.
Next addition will be to add health inspection data from countries that have that in open datasets or APIs, so if anyone know of that I'd be appreciative of hints (know of UK, Norway and might have found for France).
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