Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes(optician-sans.com)

302 points by exvi 1 year ago | 60 comments

Rauno's Field Notes #2(rauno.me)

19 points by acmnrs 3 months ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps(konty.app)

338 points by niklauslee 2 years ago | 124 comments

Landing page for Konty, a desktop app for quickly making hand-drawn style lo-fi wireframes of app ideas, positioned as a Balsamiq alternative.

Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths(futurefonts.com)

193 points by tobr 11 months ago | 45 comments

A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet(messenger.abeto.co)

1938 points by thecupisblue 1 year ago | 314 comments

Messenger, a browser-based WebGL game in which players deliver messages around a tiny planet; the page was captured on its loading screen.

Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes(shortbread.ai)

198 points by Fengjiao 3 years ago | 53 comments

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer(tibinotes.com)

387 points by tb8424 1 year ago | 156 comments

A Substack essay by Tibi Iorga on how startups can work out their user experience without a dedicated designer, time, or budget.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font(arcade.pirillo.com)

437 points by rendx 7 months ago | 145 comments

FontCrafter is a free in-browser tool that converts scanned handwriting samples into installable font files like OTF, TTF, and WOFF2.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)

325 points by themanmaran 9 months ago | 59 comments

Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.