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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
3 months ago, I started working on familiar.systems and it's finally at the point where it's clean enough to release the in progress code under its AGPL license. This is also the first time I'm posting anywhere about it, which is exciting!
The basic idea is to take the audio of your TTRPG session and extract it into a knowledge graph that GMs can use to plan sessions and players can use to know what happened while maintaining GM secrets. The arch is here: https://familiar.systems/en/blog/2026-05-02-initial-arch/
I'm taking my super gnarly POCs and turning them into fully authed, actually observable, real production code and it's just been so fun. It's, like, the joy of writing code and running AI experiments is back and I haven't felt that in years.
I had my first kid 9 weeks ago so it's taken me a while to get to this point but I'm hoping that I can turn it into a real business so I can spend evenings with my kid playing DnD and pretend it's for work research. And if it's just a hobby project that lets me combine all of my hobbies then so be it!
Congratulations! On both counts!
Your TTRPG project sounds very similar to my Scribble project! Different goals, but similar methodologies.
Congratulations on your first born! My first will turn 9 this year, but I remember the days you're in right now very clearly. I'm sure you know and have been told this, but if hearing it from one more person helps: You will get to sleep a full night again before 2027 rolls around! Happy mother's and/or (early) father's day!
little break from my canvas notepad app from last week, got an idea stuck in my head for a wordle type info reverse engineery game - but based on simon says
sharing it around to friends has been interesting since even though people are misunderstanding the game slightly, theyve been able to bruteforce it so thats fun. seems to be rather easy even on hard mode but still engaging so with some fettling this might be pretty cool
the idea is kinda like lockpicking a game of simon says? if that makes any sense. you get 6 tries to get the full 6 tone pattern correct. if you guessed green but the answer was on the other side of the colour wheel, the feedback is red. but if you guessed the colour /next/ to the correct answer then the feedback is yellow/orange.
im gonna have a think of how i can do a little info card / tutorial thing up front and how best to communicate how it works without a wall of text or a waffling description like this lol
https://dailygame.duckdns.org/
I've been building TinyFeeds "an optimized, opinionated and minimal RSS feed reader".
I realized with most RSS apps I filter by today + unread and never use other features (like tagging, bookmarking, folders, etc), so I decided to build a reader that focuses on unread articles of the day. It's meant to be minimal, fast and have a binary that's 5MB or less.
This is my first time building a GUI app with Rust (using Iced framework), and it's been a lot of fun! It's all hand coded and fairly functional at this point.
TinyFeeds on Codeberg