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

I recently created an interactive portfolio in the style of a 2D role-playing game using Kaboom/Kaplay.js: https://tsuilouis.github.io/portfolio-game/ (pardon any broken links, those are works in progress).

It's inspired by a post I saw a couple of years ago: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-developer-portfol.... I thought the concept was neat at the time, but never got around to building my own until last month.

More generally, I'm working on setting up a personal website/blog. Did some research and after considering Jekyll, Hugo, and Eleventy/11ty, I'm going with the third. I've been looking for a new role for the past while but haven't had much success, so I'm trying to market myself this way. I've been interested in creating a website/blog for a long time (not that I expect to be a prolific blogger) and this search has given me the motivation to finally get it done.

Doing a JavaScript port of Reticulum. We'll need it soon for a boat project

This makes me think of MSN,AOL or ICQ which had an online status and notification system.

Why did that go away with modern messaging? WhatsApp and signal don't have it. Sms? Not sure. I think Facebook messenger does.

I can remember this was an important feature that everyone actively used.

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I'm in Year 3 of building a specialist private lender in Australia. Was part time on it for 2 years and jumped in full time in Feb. I was originally involved in building all the tech (and there is a lot of tech) but more recently I've been more and more involved in the finance side. It's my most successful venture to date and it's moving in the right direction. Lending is a really interesting space but i'm always a bit sad there's no one that knows much about it outside of banks and private credit.