More broadly, I spent ages developing a self-solving Kanban for mid-sized companies and enterprises (https://kodan.dev) - controllable autonomy level, multiplayer support, remote coding server, works on multirepo projects, mobile support, previews, and more. The pain exists, but it's pretty hard to break the integration barrier.

So I'm spinning the feature I used the most into a separate, easy-to-understand product for now.

Draws from a bunch of sources, MCP-connects to my agents, comes with a browser plugin to invite meeting bots to calls, lets me (and my testers) leave notes on websites which also gets added in.

The goal is to make work as simple as dragging tickets around, and load as many best practices + review clarity into it

I've set a deadline to finally launch tomorrow, but frankly - I don't know how it's gonna go. Feeling proud, yet a bit anxious about it.

https://kodan.dev, if anyone wants to take a peek

I'm building a system that reads Slack, listens to Google Meetings, user complaints, etc and gives me prompts I could feed into coding agents or planners.

Problem-to-prompt seems like a larger obstacle than coding these days, I wonder if it's solvable, and if solving it makes cheaper coding agents viable.

It starts off with some classical computer vision shenanigans to understand the character movement, map layout, and to create the 'desire' to explore. Then the LLM is given input of images, sound descriptions and prior thoughts, lettting Lara remark on the situation, which feels very surreal and, at least for me - very unexpdcted. E.g. she hears the wolves howl and wonders how they survived in this environment. Or meta-remarks on game music changes.

https://youtu.be/0wTf_bbkW2U?si=tsWJpyLrRpRDSXD9

I guess my brain likes having distinct continuous symbols to represent different operations - it reminds of of math in school & university. And I don't see a problem during editing, knowing they're made of multiple symbols.

And yes - I feel that I do struggle much more without them.

Completely out-of-the-blue, unproven guess - my mind is used to learning new symbols quick, from all the gaming I've done. And it's much easier to learn a new symbol that's cohesive, continuous & unique, rather than having to read disjoint characters and figure out a different meaning for them.

I found, a while back, that things like Lightsaber Fencing, Megagames (board games with 60+ people), dodgeball, Historical Fencing, Ultimate Frisbee, Apenkooi (tag, dodgball, minigames in the Netherlands), etc - I found that those exist. And I finally feel great doing sports - it's great to explore around a bit, do something unusual for once.

The issue is - communities are small, barely known. And it's a wee bit tricky to manage a club as it is, even without doing marketing and outreach.

So I've taken up a project to try and help out. Bundle all the unusuals into one platform, help with club management, help with being seen. In a way, perhaps I can take all of these small activities and form "one big sport" that can grow faster as a result.

Anyway, humble beginnings, but here's the site: https://nogym.co/

Web Dev is only a distant area of expertise of mine. I find learning new things here not complicated, but a bit tedious.

What I'd like is to be able to scan through html files faster. And what hinders me the most, in terms of reading others' code now, is figuring which html classes are custom-declared, and which belong to a design framework, like bootstrap or tailwind.

Being able to tell at skim-speed would be awesome.

It takes space and diatracts a bit.

Bonus points if I could have a, for example "# /assertion_func" comment that would label a whole function to be folded together with asserts.

Rather than downloading all the audio, I made a playlist scraper for the names. Runs once a day on PythonAnywhwre, collects the names into a database, helps me sleep at night.

My mom's a textile designer, contracting with large companies, but somehow not getting to use any fancy tools they. She says design software existd, but it's pretty expensive.

At the core, she's making plaids - a black-and-white pattern (2d grid) corresponding to vertical and horizontal threads being above one another, and color schemes (2 arrays) for the vertical / horizontal strings (in most cases, does not match the size of the grid).

So she made her own monstrocity of a pipeline, with Photoshop, Plaid Maker (a rather old web app, https://www.plaidmaker.com/), screenshots, Excel (for designing stuff - yes!), and an old Soviet-era MS-DOS designer program (in Russian, of course).

Throughout uni, I was jokingly saying I'd build a better Plaid Maker for her, even if the web is not my area of work. After The Great Resignation I figured, why not?

Lots and lots of back-and-forth later, here's the outcome: https://plaid-designer.vercel.app/

Note: not for mobile, but should work on a tablet. Privacy: no analytics are used, but it does rely on Google Firebase for authentication and auto-saving of your designs. Log in to keep them permanently; otherwise, they're saved on an anonymous account, cleared up once a week or so