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I looked into my ad profile section and saw that I was worth nothing... I'm not sure if I should be happy or not.

The render of the HN page looks close at first glance, but the engine clearly does not support SVG yet - those tiny arrows are all missing. Also it renders "Hacker News" on the hea…

Typst taking 300ms to do 300 pages cannot be seen as 4FPS - you don't treat the sum of 300 pages as single frame, LOL. And laying out a single paragraph is not 1ms for a whole docu…

The site has an elegant design and exudes a calming, inviting atmosphere. I came across a line in the Social Contract that caught my attention: “The platforms that dominate today h…

I enjoyed the design.

Yes, I agree that nerds still exist… I myself am one, LOL. But there are so much noise out there that our voices can no longer be heard. :(

The nerds era is gone. Welcome to the era of super-villains and self-entitled smartasses.

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Haha, for some reason when phrased like that I get a bad feeling about the outcome of the interview.

I’m not sure if that strategy still works in today’s job market. It might still be, but I’m not the one to answer since I haven’t been on a job interview in quite some time.

Yes, but it feels like yesterday...

The author’s memory is remarkable. I hardly remember my own name that far back, LOL. Back then, I knew I would always struggle with those types of interviews, so I always carried a…

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Yes, it’s a late addition to that library. The dancing text demo uses the “weighted exclusion” feature of the VMPrint engine, which essentially creates an object composed of horizo…

Thank you! This can make it quite easy to create demos like those “dragon swimming through text” animations that became popular recently. I had no idea what other real-world applic…

That’s a cool story! Thx for sharing. Back then programming was rough, but the sense of accomplishment from completing even simple tasks was real and rewarding.

Thanks for the help and clarification.

It's strange that happened. I had no issue loading it on my iPhone 16e in Safari or Chrome... Could it be somehow your browser prevent Javascript from loading?

I did not make the demo specifically for mobile browsers, but it does work rather well on my iPhone 16e with Safari and Chrome. I also tried it on my Pixel 10 and did not encounter…

LOL sorry my bad. Should have been more specific. It’s a demo of my layout library. The stick figure is made with a few primitives to form a so-called exclusion assembly which caus…

The Web is dead anyway. It never became the movement we dreamed it would: the democratization of information, communication, and expression.

You can use primitive exclusion assemblies to create a rig and programmatically control it to animate a layout in Layoutmaster.