We're building a repairable and fireproof e-bike battery! We've just mass-produced our first batch, check it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1T2hAQe8w

More info here: https://get.gouach.com

I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.

- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...

- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2

I keep trying to make TubePen: https://www.tubepen.com/ known and useful for people, It's my first paid product, so marketing and this things are new problems to me.

Also keep working a bit on Cardo: https://cardo-podcast.github.io/, an open source podcast player, but now I'm focused on earn some money or get a job (or both).

Some internal refactoring of ChatKeeper[1] to support a gui in addition to its cli. I could do this very quickly by just building a form that accepts all of its options but the point of the gui is to make it nicer to use for less technical folks.

1. https://martiansoftware.com/chatkeeper

I'm implementing a paper reader for myself, helping me organize research and my notes

https://youtu.be/uU_WeER2PSs

I'm also implementing gaussian splatting from scratch and the GaussianAvatar paper, the goal is to generate realistic 3d talking head from audio/llm.

https://youtu.be/4XBKxCn7D3g

Updating my site: https://leftium.com

- It was just a placeholder for my domain.

- The resume is a human-readable markdown file that has been styled in a clever way: https://github.com/Leftium/leftium.com/blob/5eefe175229fdc36...

- Also plan to make the digital business card (QR code/vCard) dynamically customizable, depending on the level of contact info I want to share.

I'm working on Shepherd. I interview authors and interesting people to get 5 books they love around a topic, theme, or mood, and then try to connect them in fun ways: https://shepherd.com/best-books/history-lovers-understanding...

And I just got user accounts added and readers can share their 3 fav reads of the year and see everyone else's: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024

Working now on more personalization...

I'm making a text-based dungeon crawler [0] with C++. Also working on my Reddit clone [1] a little bit.

[0] https://github.com/ferg1e/stepping-stone-dungeon

[1] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

I am building a merge resolution tool (web application) that fully integrates with Github. It'll be soon available in a closed-alpha. Anyone interested in this area, feel free to send me an email.

Building a prototype for a new idea for lighter than air craft. I can’t quite get the math figured out though. Get in touch if you want to team up.

A tool for creating custom UI/web color palettes that have accessible color contrast:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

Building antivirus software for cloud storage (S3, R2, etc) after having the problem at a job - https://bucketscan.com

You got malware in your cloud storage?

Google Sheets add-on for easy time series forecasting: https://forecastsheets.com/

https://histre.com/ - Easy knowledge management for everyone, not just the hardcore anal retentives

Im building a platform to help people monetize their APIs

https://useultrance.com/

An alternative to Oracle's VBCS Plugin for Excel [1]

Oracle's plugin allows you access Fusion REST Endpoints (your business data) from within an Excel workbook but it only works on Windows machines and has some other limitations

[1] https://vbcs-alt.com/