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New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

else42 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:36 +0000

https://coolinary.app, a recipe website for people who love cooking but don't know what to cook

New comment by else42 in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

else42 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:35:56 +0000

Wrong. I pay €0,23/kWh, so do your homework.

What exactly is failing in Germany, and why is it important in this context?

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

else42 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:56:01 +0000

https://tailgator.app, playing around with serverless Tailscale nodes

https://coolinary.app, simplifying cooking and recipe ideas

https://capi.tax, preparing capital gains tax reports from foreign brokers for German income tax (still closed)

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

else42 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:33:08 +0000

1) A website to measure and detect coil whine. It's been bugging me on my new Dell screen, but Dell says "it's within specs". 2) An AI-generated artwork platform with open firmware for Eink frames. 3) Server Radar: https://radar.iodev.org

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

else42 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:57:28 +0000

Worked a little on Server Radar [1] again, the Hetzner Auction price tracker.

It's my fun little project to resort to. Implemented dark mode, sorting, grouping and various layout improvements. Also added a Drawer with Auction view the other week. UI is finally fun again with component libraries and LLMs.

Oh, and I added a Cloud Server Availability [2] page as I noticed people on /r/hetzner were complaining about lack of resources. Looks like their Cloud offerings are going quite well.

[1] https://radar.iodev.org/ [2] https://radar.iodev.org/cloud-status

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

else42 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:03:31 +0000

I am currently contributing to [1], a preconfigured *arr stack on NixOS.

I am also working on Plundrio [2], a put.io Download Client for *arr.

My other project Server Radar [3] has been neglected lately, but I wanna move to D1 completely (currently still using DuckDB on the frontend).

[1] https://nixarr.com/

[2] https://github.com/elsbrock/plundrio/

[3] https://radar.iodev.org/

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

else42 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:56:34 +0000

Started a NixOS Flake for declarative network namespace isolation for systemd services: https://github.com/elsbrock/netns-unit/

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

else42 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:37:41 +0000

Been working on a put.io download client for *arr implementing the transmission RPC interface: https://github.com/elsbrock/plundrio

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2024)"

else42 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:23:54 +0000

I'm still working on Server Radar, a price tracker for dedicated servers from the Hetzner Auction and recently added alerting. That included adding a backend to a previously completely static website. I decided to migrate to Cloudflare Pages (from GitHub Pages).

https://radar.iodev.org

New comment by else42 in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

else42 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:35:40 +0000

How is that different to a human reading your code and building up their experience? Is reading code now also covered by a license? It does not reproduce your code 1:1.

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

else42 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:31:33 +0000

Still working on my Hetzner Auction price tracker: https://radar.iodev.org/

First time I'm building a proper website, used a lot of AI. Things that changed over last time: * Switched the charting library from D3 to Apex. D3 was too low-level for my purpose. * Reworked the design and contents of a lot of pages (with the help of AI). * Various bugfixes for the database queries. * Tried to come up with some kind of pricing signal detection, but currently not working well. * Link to the actual auction results. * Minimal E2E validation using Playwright. What a pleasure to use!

I'm planning to add alerting. Not keen on running a backend though.

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

else42 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:13:37 +0000

No, I haven't figured it out yet with D3 :D

Green line: minimal price, red line, highest price (for the selected criteria). Middle one is the mean.

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

else42 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:56:54 +0000

I have been working on a little price tracker for the Hetzner Dedicated Server auction (https://radar.iodev.org/). Using Sveltekit for the first time, and decided to go frontend only with duckdb-wasm.

I pull the data every hour with a GitHub action and redeploy the site nightly. The duckdb is regenerated every time and I can flexibly change its structure as required. So far I didn’t change much (eg. no normalization) since it’s not really needed. It also turns out to be surprisingly small, with compression a few megabytes. I haven’t written much SQL in some time and duckdb is very powerful.

Most of the texts are AI generated as I’m usually very bad coming up with this. I really gotta learn that one day. Webdesign is the other weakness, but with all these UI libraries these days it’s less of a problem.

I guess it’s pretty niche, but maybe interesting for some.

It’s a fun little project.

New comment by else42 in "Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?"

else42 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:30:20 +0000

Watching porn has health risks?