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

166 points by apresmoi 4 months ago | 44 comments

Sndkit – a toolkit for computer music composition(pbat.ch)

5 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 0 comments

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS(subtls.pages.dev)

1261 points by gmac 3 years ago | 153 comments

Interactive demo page that performs a live, annotated HTTPS request for its own source using subtls, a pure-JavaScript TLS 1.3 implementation.

Asymptote: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language(asymptote.sourceforge.io)

100 points by smartmic 3 years ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Lissom.CSS - A classless, minimalist, and themeable CSS library(lissomware.github.io)

43 points by Looky1173 3 years ago | 38 comments

Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine(byte.tsundoku.io)

356 points by chromy 1 year ago | 61 comments

A zoomable, regex-searchable visual archive displaying all ~100k pages of BYTE computer magazine in a single view.

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.

Monodraw(monodraw.helftone.com)

546 points by mafro 1 year ago | 173 comments

Product homepage for Monodraw, a macOS app by Helftone for creating ASCII art diagrams and text-based drawings.

Lazydraw: Terminal ASCII editor for drawing diagrams and sketches(github.com)

19 points by masterpos 1 month ago | 3 comments

GitHub repository for lazydraw, a terminal-based ASCII editor for drawing quick diagrams and sketches, with a herdr plugin.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

SVGs that feel like GIFs(koaning.io)

420 points by cantdutchthis 1 year ago | 104 comments

Blog post on koaning.io showing how animated SVGs of terminal sessions can replace GIFs with small file sizes and high resolution.

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.