Launching https://leafy.you soon - a general-purpose in-browser assistant. Compiles reports, fills forms, interfaces with 900+ services you own.
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.
I've got a taskboard that auto-completes easy tasks, specs out and visualises hard ones.
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.
I want to automate the first half of software engineering work.
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 has to be the auto-playing Tomb Raider agent, where LLMs were used to give Lara self-awareness. I've never seen anything like it.
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.
Ligatures became one of my favourite features after trying out Fira Code. It felt like an obvious improvement that I was yearning for, for years.
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.
In Edinburgh (2013) we did get Haskell as the very first language of the very first course (yes, functional programming before OOP!). Having coded before, I was pretty confused, why would they do that, but it ended up being an amazing equalizer. We all started at similar levels of understanding and ramped up together.
So, here's the thing - there's a secret world of sports and odd activities that, I feel, only a select few know about, that are both more fun, cheaper, and more beginner friendly than mainstream stuff.
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.
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.