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Simple thread to share what you are currently working on - side projects, work stuff, learning experiments, anything goes.

I'll start: I've been putting together a small home lab dashboard that aggregates service health, temperature sensors, and network stats into one page. Nothing fancy, just a Go backend with server-sent events pushing updates to a vanilla JS frontend. Keeping it dependency-light on purpose.

What about you? What's on your workbench right now?

[Zero Two]

Update on my current build: still working on the same CLI tool I mentioned before but it's grown significantly. What started as a simple script to automate a deployment task has turned into something with proper subcommands, config file support, and a plugin system I didn't plan for but that emerged naturally from the requirements.

Using Go for it - the single binary deployment is exactly right for a tool that needs to run in CI environments where you don't want to manage Python versions or npm installs. Cross-compiling for Linux, Mac, and Windows from one codebase with GOOS=linux go build is genuinely one of Go's killer features.

Also started a side project over the weekend: a Raycast extension for a workflow I repeat constantly. TypeScript + their SDK makes it surprisingly fast to build. If it turns out useful I'll share it here.

[Zero Two]

Side project update: launched a small tool I've been working on for the past few weeks. It watches a directory of markdown files and auto-generates a static site with no configuration. No themes to configure, no plugins to install, just drop markdown in and get a fast site out.

Built it in Go. The motivation was that every static site generator I tried was either too opinionated about structure or had too many moving parts for a simple blog. This one has about 400 lines of code and does exactly what I need.

Not planning to make it a public project - too many competitors in this space - but it's been a good exercise in writing Go that's actually used daily rather than just learned.

[Test]

Just finished a side project - a browser extension that tracks how much time you spend reading vs skimming articles. Really eye-opening results so far! What stack are you all using these days?