Hacker News: alexkearns

New comment by alexkearns in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

alexkearns — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:59:28 +0000

An interactive timeline showcasing all the books I have read (or at least, the books I can remember reading)

New comment by alexkearns in "TimeGuessr"

alexkearns — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:15:21 +0000

Not quite the same but we created a timeline ordering game for US presidents: https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/1842261/US-Presiden...

You can also use our app to create timeline ordering games on subjects of your own choosing.

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

alexkearns — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:37:23 +0000

That's weird. It works perfectly for men much older computers and also on my M2 Mac Pro. What version of OSX are you using? I created that product, btw.

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

alexkearns — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:35:24 +0000

Ha! That's my product. Thanks for mentioning!

New comment by alexkearns in "Frosted Glass from Games to the Web: HTML glass UI inspired by AAA game dev"

alexkearns — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:42:28 +0000

I used a similar technique to create glass-like panels with my online timeline maker (https://www.chronoflotimeline.com). You can see an example timeline with glass-like panels here: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3118/Home-...

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: 3D interactive timeline I made of English and British monarchs"

alexkearns — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:29:20 +0000

Do you mean a list of all monarchs in the world?

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: 3D interactive timeline I made of English and British monarchs"

alexkearns — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:28:35 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I will take a look.

Show HN: 3D interactive timeline I made of English and British monarchs

alexkearns — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:24:57 +0000

Love to know what you think. I have been developing a new 3d timeline visualisation over the past few months for my timeline maker app ChronoFlo (https://www.chronoflotimeline.com). It is now ready to be played with.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698207

Points: 2

# Comments: 8

New comment by alexkearns in "Histography- timeline Using Wikipedia Data"

alexkearns — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 10:38:12 +0000

If you are interested in timeline visualisations, you might like this list I compiled of innovative timeline designs: https://www.tiki-toki.com/blog/entry/ten-amazing-online-time...

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: Sketchy-appearance interactive timeline made using RoughJS"

alexkearns — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:33:21 +0000

I posted this a year and a half ago but got no response. Trying again now as RoughJS is currently trending, and there might be some interest. Would love to know what people think of hand-drawn style timelines.

Credit to Preet Shihn (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shihn) for creating the RoughJS library (https://roughjs.com) that enabled us to achieve the "hand-drawn" look for the timelines.

Show HN: Sketchy-appearance interactive timeline made using RoughJS

alexkearns — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:20:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/blog/entry/hand-drawn-timelines-using-roughjs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29563678

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by alexkearns in "Rough.js – Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance"

alexkearns — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:55:03 +0000

Fantastic library. I used it to create beautiful hand-drawn style interactive timelines. See https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/blog/entry/hand-drawn-time...

New comment by alexkearns in "Rare Bronze Age spearhead discovered intact in Jersey"

alexkearns — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:44:26 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. Mehrgarh is a very important archeological site. But according to wikipedia ancient history has a very specific meaning. If my interpretation is correct, ancient history starts from the beginning of writing or recorded history, which Mehrgarh predates. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history

New comment by alexkearns in "Rare Bronze Age spearhead discovered intact in Jersey"

alexkearns — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:15:53 +0000

If you are interested in the far past, you might consider taking look at an interactive timeline of ancient history I created using data from Wikipedia: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/4392/Ancie...

New comment by alexkearns in "We're Building a Calendar for Work"

alexkearns — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:42:19 +0000

A few years ago, I thought I'd try to redesign the calendar (as these guys seem to want to do). My innovation was integrating a timeline navigation to allow you to easily animate between months and years. Plus, loads of visual customisation options.

Sadly, the product I developed didn't take off but if you are interested in a left field take on a calendar design, you might want to take a look: https://www.chronoflocalendar.com

New comment by alexkearns in "Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination"

alexkearns — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:31:01 +0000

I have long been fascinated by timeline designs. So this is right up my street. So impressive what these artists of old managed to create without access to computers and design software.

For more modern timeline visualisations, you might be interested in this list of timeline designs I compiled:

https://www.tiki-toki.com/blog/entry/ten-amazing-online-time...

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: ChronoFlo – Create timelines you can share on the web"

alexkearns — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:08:02 +0000

That's a good idea. We have created one educational timeline on US presidents (https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...) but could do with creating a lot more.

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: ChronoFlo – Create timelines you can share on the web"

alexkearns — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 18:37:08 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to give feedback. Some good advice there. The feeds idea is a great suggestion.

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: ChronoFlo – Create timelines you can share on the web"

alexkearns — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 18:34:52 +0000

Thanks. Will take a look.

New comment by alexkearns in "Show HN: ChronoFlo – Create timelines you can share on the web"

alexkearns — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 18:32:55 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to offer feedback. It is definitely niche-ish. I don't expect this to turn into a billion dollar company. But a few thousand or so paying customers would be nice!

I am thinking the following markets:

1. Company history timelines (for company's celebrating an anniversary) 2. Educational timelines for use in schools and universities 3. News timelines created by journalists covering a major new event 4. Legal timelines 5. Personal timelines