Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller(maurycyz.com)

227 points by zdw 5 months ago | 19 comments

Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable(maurycyz.com)

144 points by jllyhill 1 month ago | 150 comments

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity(blog.pkh.me)

85 points by ux 1 year ago | 17 comments

Regressive JPEGs(maurycyz.com)

646 points by vitaut 3 months ago | 65 comments

A blog post explaining how progressive JPEG scans work and experimenting with manipulating them to create 'regressive' JPEGs.

Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine(glyphcss.com)

166 points by apresmoi 4 months ago | 44 comments

You can make up HTML tags(maurycyz.com)

514 points by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | 171 comments

A short blog post explaining that you can use made-up HTML tag names like <cool-thing> instead of divs with classes, and style them with CSS.

A few interesting modern pixel fonts(unsung.aresluna.org)

402 points by zdw 5 months ago | 97 comments

A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog highlighting several modern pixel fonts, starting with Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono, a remake of the VCR OSD Mono font.

Dithered QR Codes(andrewt.net)

337 points by jmusall 2 months ago | 37 comments

A personal web page explaining how to make dithered QR codes that embed a picture, with a generator tool and source code.

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering(alexharri.com)

1271 points by alexharri 9 months ago | 139 comments

Blog post by Alex Harri taking a deep dive into building an image-to-ASCII renderer, with interactive demos explaining why ASCII characters aren't pixels.

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font(codingfont.com)

442 points by nvahalik 7 months ago | 223 comments

CodingFont by Typogram is an interactive game that compares coding fonts side by side in a code editor so users can pick their favorite.

GNU Unifont(unifoundry.com)

326 points by remywang 10 months ago | 73 comments

Unifoundry's GNU Unifont page offering the bitmap font with glyphs for every printable Unicode BMP code point, plus plane charts and downloads.

Maybe you should learn something(marginalia.nu)

399 points by tylerdane 3 months ago | 185 comments

A Marginalia weblog post encouraging readers to spend time learning new skills like pixel art, music, or languages instead of passive scrolling.