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Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

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Post by alasano »

hacky_engineer wrote: post #71

I made a book, Simple Machines Made Simple, and I got about 11k copies shipped to my house about two weeks ago. I'm now trying to fix all the books and get them shipped out. They are books with little mini demos in them, and about 80% of the books need some type of rework. So it's going to be a long few months. I also made Computer Engineering for Babies which I've posted about on here a couple times before. https://…

That's a really fun project! What kind of issues are you facing that requires that much rework? Is it that the manufacturing of the book wasn't precise enough and the mini demos don't work perfectly?

Beyond the target age of your book but when I was 7-8 years old my favorite book was a science book that had interactive experiments. Hope your book leaves the same kind of positive and memorable impression on kids.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

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Post by BSTRhino »

https://easel.games

Still working on my programming language which makes your game multiplayer automatically. Currently working on improving the tutorials. When writing the tutorials I followed the "focus on the action" principle from Diataxis (https://diataxis.fr/tutorials/) perhaps too much. Easel is a unique language in a number of ways and it really does actually have to be taught, so I'm trying to make it do a better job of that.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

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Post by AtticusTheGreat »

Currently fleshing out my boggle-like empire. serpentinegame.com. I've got ELO rated rooms, a daily room, and a new infinite room. I've been doing this since 2008 but recently rewrote everything from scratch and seeing how far I can push the online multiplayer boggle niche.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

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Post by icdtea »

I've been working on a little social browser based fishing game called Gooblings which is all about collecting and breeding fish. I'm also planning on a Steam release soon.

The demo is available, no account required if anyone wants to check it out :)

https://gooblings.icdtea.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

I’m still building OneBusAway Cloud, which you can think of as being Heroku for public transit.

https://onebusawaycloud.com/

It’s a project of the non-profit Open Transit Software Foundation that we’re using to fund our other initiatives, like bringing real-time transit information to billions of people around the world.

Since last month, I've added a layer of polish to the product, added support for deploying a SMS and phone gateway to realtime transit information, and built out the marketing website to include solutions pages for higher education, SMS, and more.

All of this depends on a bunch of really cool open source projects we’re building, like Maglev, a Golang server that can power realtime transit apps. Maglev is already being used in production, and you can set up a local install in about 15 minutes: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up...

The other OSS projects we have include: building data products, iOS and Android apps, web apps, a Pebble watch app(!), and too many others to list. See them all here: https://github.com/onebusaway/

We’re always looking for volunteers, especially people outside of the engineering disciplines: https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar...

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