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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)

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Post by aleqs »

I'm working on a general repo shape/structure linter (language agnostic)[0] - the idea is to enforce things like directory structure, existence of various files (LICENCE, etc.), file naming patterns, jsonpath + schema over json/yaml/toml, absence of potentially malicious unicode. It comes with rule bundles for various languages/presets which can be combined and extended. A goal is for it to be very fast, and useable on huge monorepos. I noticed myself having to add various forms of validation/scripts when coding using AI, and decided to build a reusable, fast tool for this purpose instead of rolling validation scripts for each project.

[0] https://github.com/asamarts/alint

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

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Post by jessecoleman »

Since getting laid off in Feb, I've been spending my free time polishing up my word game Gram Jam (https://gramjam.app).

I finally finished the (monumental) Svelte 4 -> 5 migration that had been getting dusty for the last year. This unlocked a higher performance ceiling for me to polish my animations and UX. Now I'm revamping my onboarding experience and taking another crack at marketing and promoting it. Last year, I was focusing on setting it up as a PWA and integrating Sentry monitoring and Stripe integration. All important stuff but not what got me excited about the process.

I've been pretty tied up with maintenance and admin work, and haven't gotten a chance to work on the actual game design in a while, so I'm very excited to return to that part of the project soon. I have ideas for new puzzles and modes spilling out of my ears and I feel like with LLMs my prototyping can finally keep up with my brain, now that I have a robust foundation for the game architecture.

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

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Post by darkstarsys »

I'm newly mostly-retired as a VFX software developer & CTO. I'm writing about AI, climate change and more in my blog, https://oberbrunner.com, running Long Now Boston (https://longnowboston.org) to promote long-term thinking, and working through my lifetime backlog of "wouldn't it be great if somebody wrote this" ideas using Claude, at https://github.com/garyo.

You should check out my new open source software build tool, https://pcons.org.

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

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Post by ser0 »

I made https://poemd.dev/ as an online markdown scratchpad that supports GitHub Flavoured Markdown and stores all data in the URL. This means there are no accounts to work with and everything is basically stored in bookmarks if you choose to.

The persistence model makes documents somewhat sharable, but I do find Open Graph previews to be mixed. In Messenger it renders the whole URL, which is quite long due to encoding, and that kills the conversation view.

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

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Post by meetingthrower »

https://planoptica.com/

Employee benefit plan analytics. Had a huge dataset long ago as a consultant to the industry and finally vibecoded up a decent frontend. All public data but if you know the data there is a bunch of analytics you can do. Just about to launch and do some marketing in a few weeks, so saw this and thought I'd throw it in!

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