I'm purchased a business (kwesforms.com) to follow my dream of being my own boss and right now I'm working on learning. I've built so many different pieces of software but never been in a position where everything is new, I'm playing every role (learning dev ops, marketing, sales etc too) and I have full control to make it the best it can be.

The biggest piece thing I'm working on is bringing some automated form generation tech I've been working on as a side project (ottoiq.com) to it.

I'm also working on a little AI tool to turn todos into actionable plans by gathering additional context and breaking it down. If anyone is interested in talking about their mental models for problem solving, my email is me@<my name>.com.

https://rockyai.me/ - a free chrome extension that lets you chat with any webpage using LLMs (ex: for summarizing articles, HN comments, drafting personalized linkedin outbound messages, etc).

It also lets you use your own OpenAI key for folks that are concerned about privacy. Here's an article an early user wrote about this https://medium.com/p/fae6467fc7d4

Large foundation models for undersea acoustics and for high resolution synonym (synthetic aperture sonar) and a fudemental research project trying to make a training pipeline run with completely synthetic data but perform as well as if trained with real data.

Still working on my game engine. I was sharing my game around, and it was challenging for people to find people to play with. Added on an "arena" mode for my web games. Player will join a room running "indefinitely" :

https://pixelbrawlgames.com/game/blast/r/arena

Still have a few issues and bugs I have to fix: I'm in Asia and the server is in the US I feel like the latency is quite high. Players are popping up in some limited area. I hope to bring this mode to all my future games.

I'm building a native Windows application for exploratory data analysis with SQLite. Much of the functionality is present but still have a lot of clean up, testing, and loose ends. I also haven't decided on product name yet and don't have anything for a website yet.

After the Windows application is launched, I plan to work on native macOS version of the same application. I already have a good bit of it implemented.

I'm continuing my deep dive into Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism is AI. [0]

I've recently started adding sources that exist only in image form, such as Nick Land's Shorelines text, which, like Machinic Desire, contains the famous passage:

"What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources."

I'm currently transcribing his latest 3-hour interview and extracting the bits that relate to his core thesis.

[0] https://retrochronic.com/

I'm working on a notifications service as part of a bigger project for a team.

I'm also working on adding new features and modifying previous ones for a web application I built for a client.

I'm also working on a personal project inspired by Booksy, just as a learning experience.

I've been working on https://www.techtalksweekly.io/ which is a free weekly email containing a list of all the talks from almost all software engineering conferences[1] uploaded in the past week. The goal is to save my readers from scrolling through messy YouTube subscriptions and make it easier to find great talks.

From time to time, I also put together extra editions summarizing the most popular and most-watched talks in categories like Java, Python, JS, Rust, Backend, Frontend, Web Dev, Data, ML, ...

If you enjoy watching tech talks, you might find it useful.

[1] GOTO, NDC, Devoxx, PyCon, CppCon, JSNation, RustConf and many more. Here's the full list of conferences I have on my radar: https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/tech-conferences

I’ve been working on machine learning techniques to turn sparse GIS point data into fully realized predictive surfaces. A small way to go before “launch” but here’s a peek at the project as it’s in development. www.aigrids.xyz

We're french engineers / designers building a repairable and fireproof e-bike battery! Check it out here: https://get.gouach.com :)

https://www.tubeshotapp.com/ - I'm working on a Free Chrome extension to help reduce time wasted on YouTube.

I'm building a website to explore Unicode properties in a way not seen before. A bit behind because I need to catch up on graph theory. stay tuned!

I've developed an AI search product that has gained some traction, reaching over 10,000 users globally.

However, I'm facing challenges with international market expansion, particularly in countries like Germany, Indonesia, and Japan.

The main difficulty lies in understanding how to effectively approach and connect with users in these markets, given the cultural and business differences in each country

Ok... this is a wall of text, looks like a screed... suggestions welcome for taming it down, and making it reader friendly would be most welcome.

Here are the current things in the "Mike invents the future" queue. Everything is open source, and out in the public, and I'm happy to collaborate.

BitGrid - a cartesian grid of cells[1], each currently a 4x4 bit look up table, and a latch, so that you have all local connections once programmed (to keep dynamic power low, and clock rates up). Currently it's all ideas that have been bouncing around in my head... and I've been optimizing them "in theory" forever.

The main principles I've settled on as absolute are that every cell must be identical, no matter what features you add to it, and every cell must be clocked/latched, to eliminate timing as a concern. Once those are met, new ideas like reusing the cell latches as "Isolinear Memory"[2] are optimizations to consider.

BitGrid Simulator - I've written Pascal[3] and React[4] based simulators for a basic bit grid. I need to write one in Verilog, and get it running on an FPGA. Even better would be an emulator running on a Raspberry Pi Pico, it would be slow as snot, but you could easily tile them to get more performance at $4/node.

BitGrid Tiny Tapeout - I need to build an actual chip, so I can get real world performance numbers to use. It could be either way more efficient than anything else out there, or it could be abysmal... as the man at the start of Dirty Harry says "I've gots to know"

BitGrid object format - Bitgrid needs to be programmed from a directed acyclic graph of logical binary operations. I need to settle on a text and binary format that makes sense.

How would you write do this? I could really use a push here.

BitGrid compiler - I need to figure out how to generate the files above from source code in something more familiar. Eventually I'd like both TinyGrad and LLVM to target BitGrid.

BitGrid story - I need to take my blog [5] and various mentions here and elsewhere, and put them into a Book, YouTube videos, etc.

The whole BitGrid saga has been out in public for over a decade. Currently the Bus Number is 1, and I'm not in great health... it would be awesome to increase this number.

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Capability Based Security - Computer Security is a SOLVED problem, I've been trying to keep that knowledge alive and discoverable by pushing it where I can. I'm hoping to run Genode as my daily driver, but I'm not there yet.

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Open source Data Diodes... I think 2 Raspberry Pi computers each with Ethernet, and a unidirectional driver could make an effective open source data diode.

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Phase Coherent SDR - I'd like to build an N channel phase coherent SDR, it should be possible to build it for somewhere around $(100+20N)

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Metamine - briefly there appeared a language called MetaMine, and it was magic. It could mix declarative and imperative code, and had sane rules for doing so. It represented the most powerful language I ever saw. It would be nice to bring those features into a Pascal or Python or Forth/Stoic environment.

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[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

[2] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/2024/09/bitgrid-and-isolinear-m...

[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

[4] https://github.com/mikewarot/bitgrid-react-app

[5] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/