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

To relax and reset at the end of the day, my wife plays this simple tetrisy game - fill rows and cols to make points and try not to die. But the game and many of its ilk are super frustrating. They have ads and arbitrarily make it impossible at some point to keep going (in order to show more ads I assume.) So I combined my love of roguelike deck-builders and made a game for her. It's the same basic premise of filling rows and columns but it has a deck you improve over several boards of ever-increasing complexity. And it has cards with special powers (of course.) It turned out to be really fun both to build and play. I'm still working out a few kinks (I built it in Love2D but running inside iOS is a challenge...) But it's live in the App Store. Check it out if you're interested and hmu if you'd like a free offer code - the game is fully playable without paying, but keeps some options behind an in app purchase. https://tetranea.net/

EDIT: It's only on iPhone and iPad for now. Android version coming soon.

I'm working on moving beyond the LeetCode interview for software developers.

Most software engineering interviews are a “signal crisis”. They measure recall, not real-world engineering.

I'm working on moving the evaluation from “writing code under pressure” to technical judgment via structured code review.

https://entrevue.app

Recently on my blog: https://bryanhogan.com/blog

Wrote an introduction to Obsidian referencing other relevant posts, but also keeping it simple.

And the post before that was about creating an app using SvelteKit + Capacitor.

Currently working on some posts about AI coding and my life in Osaka after 3 months here.

Other things I'm working on:

- https://dailyselftrack.com/ - Got into working on it again, mainly solving some UX problems currently.

- https://game.tolearnkorean.com/ - Learn Korean words quickly, words go from easy tasks (e.g.) matchings pairs) to more difficult ones (writting it), currently still needs some slight adjustments, and then I'll release an Android version.

- https://app.tolearnjapanese.com/ - Wanted to learn Hiragana quickly, used my existing project as a base to build this. Needs some adjustments as well, feedback is highly welcome.

- https://tolearnkorean.com/ - Since I'm learning Korean, and also working on an app to better learn Korean, I also want to make a guide on learning Korean, improving my own skills by teaching others.

This is very cool. And I can imagine sometimes it's not even about keeping them accountable, but demonstrating how easy a solution is to a problem that council bureaucrats would not have the capability to solve - likely have to outsource to a vendor that would charge for 'out of scope'.