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samirsdon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

https://www.carnyx.ai

Multitrack field recorder with automatic cloud sync for iPhone. I use it for hi-fi recording of band practice and sharing demos with bandmates/collaborators. Great way to send stems too as it runs on the Mac as well and has a built in mixer. There's a social graph so you can send someone a session by typing in their handle and granting access.

samirsdon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

working on an app that lets you take multitrack “voice memos” by plugging your phone into an interface. then the audio is automatically synced to the cloud, akin to a primitive dropbox for audio. there’s a simple mixer to adjust levels for local playback. for now i use it to get hi fi recordings of band practice and shows.

https://carnyx.ai

samirsdon The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

self-plug: i built a streaming platform devoted to 90s jungle deep cuts called .mixtape — good curated selection on there https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mixtape/id1391354414

samirsdon Employer used Work Number to out employee with 3 current jobs, fires her

what a joke website

samirsdon React Native is not the future

when you optimize for engineering effort rather than user experience you choose react and accomplish neither

samirsdon Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16

also annoying how when you "sample" a book the title of the book is displayed over every single page. certainly makes me want to buy it just to get rid of that annoying view... the update just sucks.

samirsdon Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16

Yea I felt the same way and cried internally for a bit and then forgot about it. I appreciate someone writing about it. I really hope they bring it back. I don't think the redesign really brought about any improvements... just change for the sake of change.

samirsdon Kanye West is buying Parler

2 * 0 = 0 fyi

samirsdon Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think

very cool! do you have a good guide you could share for setting that up?

samirsdon SwiftUI in 2022

built this https://mixtape.ai entirely in swiftui. some hiccups along the way but overall i don’t regret it. the speed of iteration with swiftui is just incredible. you can A/B feature and ui combinations like there’s no tomorrow.

samirsdon Stripe responds to the Financial Connections/Plaid kerfuffle

Plaid was and is “just a feature” so this day should have come as no surprise… or am I missing something?

samirsdon Stripe Financial Connections

ditto

samirsdon Celery in production: Three more years of fixing bugs

i gave up on celery and switched to huey

samirsdon Epic Games acquires Bandcamp

yea it’s for mobile

samirsdon Epic Games acquires Bandcamp

https://mixtape.ai

big new release coming this month with artist-side album drafting and merch features

samirsdon Show HN: Cloning a musical instrument from 16 seconds of audio

could this model be applied to mimic the characteristics of a guitar amp or pedal for example?

samirsdon A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech

i’m working on a niche electronic music streaming app for what it’s worth

nightly beta: https://mixtape.ai

app store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mixtape/id1391354414

samirsdon Show HN: MiroTalk – an alternative to Zoom / Teams

LOL I love the "meet the team" section

samirsdon Show HN: Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps

very cool. does this work with celery/redis?

samirsdon Homeless encampment grows on Apple property in Silicon Valley

can't even read the article, so many popups

samirsdon uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer

love the design

samirsdon Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

san delila - https://open.spotify.com/track/6zVUrNz4TrLiiyO1GeiALB?si=wU4...

samirsdon CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

i've never used react native but regularly use react for the web and find swift/swiftui development to be faster and less complicated overall

samirsdon Everything About React Server Components

does this work with python backend frameworks like django or flask, or is it strictly node?

samirsdon Ask HN: What are you working on?

wow that’s so cool! do you have any videos of this in action?

samirsdon Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

my only gripe is that it takes too many clicks to change your profile photo, otherwise looks amazing!

samirsdon Show HN: Django and React SaaS boilerplate tutorial

yeah i’m inclined to agree. i’ve had no complaints with the react/django combo.

samirsdon Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

totally agree with you re: django jwt. i actually migrated (back) to firebase auth after several afternoons spent debugging a brittle django auth implementation. i partly blame my own inexperience for that... but i see no reason to bother with django auth anymore as firebase has been rock solid with minimal intervention.