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javierbyte

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    Comment #45376967

    Hey! For the real-time editor I have an invisible textarea in the background with a monospace font and I'm rendering SVGs on top of it, each character is a React component.

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    Comment #45376931

    Author here! I'm so happy to see Brutalita randomly popping up on Hacker News! I had fun building this small project, there are a few fun things I did to make this work: - The edit…

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    Comment #40087878

    I saw another post an hour ago with a similar demo and was inspired to post it here. Isn't it wonderful that browsers and laptops are so powerful nowadays?

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    Comment #40087827

    Very cool! I also made a CSS based fake depth of field inspired by Shuding :) https://depth-of-field.vercel.app/

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    Comment #29929214

    this is great! how do you feel using the coordinates? can I link the video on the github readme?

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    Comment #29927422

    When you download the font then it is a normal font and that does not happen. On the website, to make it possible to edit the characters in real time I'm drawing the font as SVG be…

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    Comment #29926995

    That would be amazing!

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    Comment #29926864

    I made that change, and added a separate button to delete the layer :)

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    Comment #29923478

    Sounds so good! That is a feature that I want to implement, when I was making the font I wanted the same feature (but decided to finish the font first!) so what I end up doing was …

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    Comment #29923437

    If you open the editor on a bigger window (I think I made it 1000px or more) you'll get the "full" editor with the dots that you are missing. I may make it an option so you can get…

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    Comment #29923395

    1. Noted, the buttons are confusing. In the meantime: "download" downloads the original font that I made, "download edited" download currently edited font (if you have made any edi…

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    Comment #29921138

    Hello HN! I wanted to make a font that I can "snap" to vertices on a grid for an upcoming project, and after starting making it I decided that it was going to be easier to iterate …

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    Comment #29425995

    Yes! Author here, the emojis text with css transforms.

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    Comment #29425736

    Visualize emojis to scale. The chicken is not bigger than the car anymore!

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    Comment #28721605

    I had to check the title to make sure it is not there. I totally read "from COVID-19" in my mind.

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    Comment #28609011

    > I'd like to buy a computer that's just like Macbook, except with repairable/swappable/upgradeable components That's the thing, making something plug and play and mostly "driver-f…

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    Comment #28390495

    > I'm still waiting to hear about the aircraft that has gone down So sad to hear. No one shines a laser on an aircraft accidentally, and it is not like the police are using lasers …

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    Comment #28238721

    I think the point is that if Apple did optimize the algorithm using ImageNet then they and we are seeing the same best case scenario.

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    Comment #28233907

    Still, there is more to it. Don't wait to retire to do what makes you happy.

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    Comment #27422635

    If your phone is broken you don't always have the option to do that.