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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#332Ménière Memo, a web app for logging and reviewing Ménière's Disease episodes:
Intended for an audience of one so still a bit rough around the edges, but the intended audience said “excellent” and is actually using it.
Mostly AI-built. Source code is here:
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#333We're working on Drawers ( https://drawers.computer ), a macOS app to give each of your projects its own dock, space, and windows. We integrate with macOS spaces to switch out a project-specific dock on each space, containing only the resources you need for that project. We made it possible to add granular resources instead of full apps to the dock (think specific slack channels instead of the whole slack app), to ke…
Is it free for now? This looks like a huge solve to a problem
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#334I’m continuing to work on my daily puzzle game Tiled Words! https://tiledwords.com Forbes just wrote an article about it which was a fun surprise! [1] It recently turned 6 months old which is wild to me. My wife and I have made a new puzzle every day for half a year! I wrote a blog post about this [2] I recently released user logins. That went well and a lot of people are using them. I also let you filter the backlog…
This is really cool and addictive!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#335I've been working on a set of custom PHPStan rules that started off as a replication / modernization of rules from PHPMD, but has evolved to include more than that.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#336I've made https://rankr.click It's a little web application that allows for the ranking of all kinds of abstract entities. Think of the merging of Goodreads for books, Vivino for wine, Letterboxd for film, etc. This will allow you to instead rank whatever you want across a variety of different categories in a single place. Using your rankings across all these different fields, you can draw analysis of what you like,…
Backend dev gets in a fight with frontend devs. Vows never to built sane UI for his remaning lifespan.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#337[NO-AI] Being a weightlifter for 20+ years now, I'm working on a barbell speed and path tracking sensor based on newer IMU hardware technologies, which makes it both more precise and cheaper than camera- or actuator-based systems. Ultimately it helps you lift and train safer and better. It's an intersection of industrial design, hardware, firmware, and software (and some sport science, of course). This intersection i…
Side note: My LG Watch Sport smartwatch was able to determine what weight training workout I was performing and somehow figured the weight with astonishing accuracy.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#338Building a custom feed for Bluesky which uses collaborative filtering over the likes data: https://foryou.club
How the algorithm works: it finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they’ve liked recently.
Launched the feed a little over a year ago and it has become the most liked feed.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#339I've been iterating on the type system of a somewhat-kooky programming language I'm developing: https://github.com/mkantor/please-lang-prototype
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
#340I'm working on requested features for my social wishlist app https://thingstohave.app: image uploading, passkeys and more clear list organization UI. Everything is in polishing stage, and I hope to release these before June.
Big thing I made recently is moving it from SvelteKit to Hono + Inertia + Vue.
I like SvelteKit, but I was struggling with stability in active development periods, and writing proper tests was very hard due to mocking all the magic, especially outside trivial testing tools.
Now the whole app is straightforward Hono MVC with Vue powered UI. Logic is easy to test, and all UI states exposed in Storybook.
I wrote a custom adapter that makes Inertia run on Hono, and coincidentally same thing was released by Hono author itself as official module, which is great sign for adoption!
So, try Inertia – it is a best of both worlds. You write MVC backend as you like, and use modern JS frameworks for templates.