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

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

#712
I'm currently researching how I transfer my risk management skills from traditional finance into decentralized finance. I'd like to put decentralized finance on a sound footing by building risk management infrastructure for it. One thing that has become apparent to me is that I have some deficiencies in my computer science skills. As a result, I've enrolled in a Masters of Science in Computer Science from CU Boulder through Coursera to remedy those deficiencies.

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

#715
Still working on Bitwit, my CS/math spaced-repetition education site [1]

I'm dogfooding it heavily. The bugs at this point tend to be in card formatting. I ended up delaying the introduction of TeX/MathJax until I had quite a few cards written, and man oh man, it's tedious to go back and fix that formatting in hundreds of cards.

The real question: does it work? I _think_ so. I'm learning, and I feel like I'm retaining more, and I think the general structure counteracts or compensates for most of my issues as a learner. I think the science is pretty solid, but I'm also experimenting in a few areas, so... eh, we'll see.

If anyone is interested in trying it out, you can use it for quite some time (several months, maybe a few years) without needing to provide an email address or sign up.

[1] https://bit-wit.com/

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

#717
After more than a decade of developing various websites under the brand https://anoa.ca I am pivoting the brand entirely to a creative niche: portfolio websites for the film industry. I created a new, general brand for the rest of my front end development work: https://lodewell.co

It feels like a small change, but it really makes sense in my brain and I'm glad I finally made it happen. My services feel properly positioned under these distinct brands. Now of course when I get time I need to redesign both of my own websites.

Ideas wise... I like the static website world. I use 11ty, but there are others moving in this direction. Clean, performant, simple html / css / js websites that should last for decades. I like the idea of publishing them to IPFS, creating an indie web with some permanence to it.

We just launched a portfolio for Director of Photography Joel Honeywell: https://joelhoneywell.com/

This is a simple static site, no CMS, built with 11ty.

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

#719
Yesterday - The start (rendering) of a basic voxel editor for generating OBJ and STL files with just the keyboard. To solve 95% of my 3D modelling needs it turns out I likely just need cubes.

Today - Parsing a website's HTML (lots of pages, lots of links) to update an RSS feed that accepts filters. Rather than manually checking a website and losing track of what I have or haven't reviewed, the idea is to feed it into an RSS aggregator.

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

#720
I'm working on building a co-pilot that will help chip engineers (VLSI) build chips faster. The process to build a chip is quite different from a software lifecycle and we want to fix that gap using agents that will act as a bridge the reasoning provided by claude and the traditional chip design eco system. https://www.archgen.tech/index.html
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