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Re: Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

#81

I feel people who like this type of blogs and want to try something like a static website would love Styluslabs’ Write https://www.styluslabs.com/ Handwriting is better as SVG if you are writing digitally, and while everyone has their own vector ink based proprietary formats, I like the simplicity and openness of SVG’s!

SVG is completely unsuitable for recording pen stroke data, and fairly unsuitable as a publishing format for handwriting. It’s capable of representing a technical pen/fineliner with opaque, constant-width stroke tolerably well, but nothing else. For all other pen styles, you need variable stroke width (for which you have to switch to using a filled instead of stroked path, bloating it hugely and making it essentially uneditable), and also want some degree of variable opacity and/or texturing of the stroke (both impossible in SVG).

Re: Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

#83
post #27

I love that the comments on some of the posts (like this one) are written by hand too! https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-...

Following the handwritten comments brought me there, which I found to be HN-worthy: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html

Also, as a sign of our times, it hyperlinks to what might have been a Microsoft tech page/knowledge base in the past, now completely replaced by poor taste LLM advertising slop. Good work, Microsoft.

Re: Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

#84

How about a blog that contains its entire source code inline in the blog itself? [0] [0] - https://mjwg6zy.blog/ Such that copy pasting its contents reconstructs the blog byte for byte

This is cool - I love quines!

Heh thank you, more to come. Cool blog btw

Re: Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

#88
post #32

this seems to be great for like a single page exhibition or something, but reading long form content from something like this, personally I feel this to be not so intuitive

I think I agree. I think it's more for the writer than for the reader.

totally banger if so

Re: Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

#90

I feel people who like this type of blogs and want to try something like a static website would love Styluslabs’ Write https://www.styluslabs.com/ Handwriting is better as SVG if you are writing digitally, and while everyone has their own vector ink based proprietary formats, I like the simplicity and openness of SVG’s!

SVG is completely unsuitable for recording pen stroke data, and fairly unsuitable as a publishing format for handwriting. It’s capable of representing a technical pen/fineliner with opaque, constant-width stroke tolerably well, but nothing else. For all other pen styles, you need variable stroke width (for which you have to switch to using a filled instead of stroked path, bloating it hugely and making it essentially…

Yeah i think you have a valid point. I did have this issue come up where i was trying to vectorize an indexed png and no amount of playing with different engines and settings gave me a good enough reduction in size. It was essentially treating my handwritten strokes as variable width.
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