Updating my workout app with final touches. It’s local first, with self-hosted backup server as an option. It’s text based, so it is basically an advanced editor/viewer for one long text note. https://apps.yozy.net/swolog/web/
love the UX
Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#202Working on https://chessnawk.vercel.app/ – a set of auto-grading tasks for middle school students learning programming.
Comes with Robot, Turtle, HTML/CSS (pixel diff tasks) and a gradual introduction into programming concepts. Currently on JS, literally right now GPT-5.2 helps me adding Python.
I've integrated a simplified clone of Replicube. I hope to integrate ideas from Human Resource Machine and Turing Complete later this year.
I bear heritage of Eastern Bloc-typa math/programming olympiads, combined with front-end/product skills. So I kinda owe to ship this thing to community of fellow secondary school CS teachers.
Surprisingly, nothing comes closer in terms of depth and usability in the classroom for ordinary 12yo kids.
I test this thing 5 times a week in my classroom and I constantly polish it at night. 100% vibe-coding.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#203I’ve been putting together a rather silly slide-puzzle game for MENSA-level players: things like arranging the tiles by chemical element name according to atomic number, arranging countries by surface area, etc.
It’s absurd and will probably appeal only to the descendants of Ken Jennings.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#204https://www.bookmarkstuff.com
Another itch of my own to scratch but thought I'd see if I can make some side income as well.
It's a web based bookmark manager with extensions for Firefox and Chrome.
You can easily import and export bookmarks so you have all your data whenever you need.
One main thing I really like that I think makes it stand out is the ability to export the contents of a bookmarked page to an epub file to read later on your Kindle or other e-reader device.
Looking for any constructive feedback on this! Thanks.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#205Is anyone still working on functional immortality? Are we going to get SAGI before it? How is the head/body freezing scene nowadays?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#206Still working on my tool for creating custom Tailwind-style accessible color palettes for web and UI design: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ There's millions of tools that try to autogenerate colors for you using algorithms and AI, but they usually ignore WCAG accessible contrast requirements, don't let you customise the tints/shades, don't let you create a full palette of colors, and the colors often don't look rig…
ChatGPT recommended this to me recently when I was trying to get some assistance with a usable Tailwind palette. I ended up not needing it right away but it's first in line next time I need to make one.
Any details about what problems you were having getting a usable Tailwind palette? There seems to be lots of different use case so I'd love to hear more.
That's awesome, I haven't kept up in what helps to get into AI recommendations. Guessing it's related to search result rankings? Not sure if the site would be in the training data. Curious if you asked about accessibility as that's my focus.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#207Building "human perspective maps" using non-linear dimensional reduction algorithms to visualize the "human value manifold" from hundreds of agree/disagree/pass statements, like Google Maps for complex large-scale conversations:
https://patcon.github.io/polislike-human-cartography-prototy...
Just paint with colors, click a painted group, and see what differentiates your painted groups. (Chrome on iOS has issues fwiw)
This is building on the philosophy of democracy-bolstering tools like Pol.is, which I've worked with (as a researcher/practitioner) for almost a decade
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#208Finally managed to find some time to implement encryption for envelope [0]
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
"birdhomie" 10/10 naming skilz :)
Thanks, it's named after a similar commercial project called Birdbuddy but I didn't want to pay for a subscription and potentially have some e-waste on my hands in a few years. I also wanted to have it integrated in my existing Unifi setup.
Ah yet another glorious yak shave... "Hacker refuses to pay for coercive subscription service which isn't even compatible with the home setup, and spends inordinate time and resources making the thing themselves.".
I approve :)
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
#210Platform for apps, currently Lua support ( future WASM). Think like apk (android app) but spk.zip that has server.lua file for backend and htmt/js/css that get served for front end plus platform gives Files, SQLite db (namespaced/scopped access ), Auth, User management
All in single static binary Cz go
Edit: formatting