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New comment by dmacj in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

dmacj — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:12:19 +0000

That is reductive, why not call all everything CGI then? Or call CGI pixel art as well? As we’re talking about “art”, it’s necessarily going to be subjective, but pixel art has certain style aspects such as use of 2x1 lines (https://www.the-pixel-artist.com/articles/top-ten-things-new...). This is just an example, while I’m not saying that every convention must be met in order to qualify as pixel art, not having any doesn’t make a useful definition of a genre.

New comment by dmacj in "My role as a founder-CTO: year 8"

dmacj — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:21:41 +0000

I’m sure there are many other more meaningful options, none of which start with the word “buy”.

New comment by dmacj in "When stick figures fought"

dmacj — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:55:36 +0000

Loved Madness, surprised it didn’t get more mentions here. The combination of over the top violence, techno music and hints at a deeper underlying story is what made the series stick for me even more than Xiao Xiao.

New comment by dmacj in "FSF announces Librephone project"

dmacj — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:44:40 +0000

I think it’s referring to this line:

> It is very feminine and obviously doesn't work that well.

New comment by dmacj in "Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?"

dmacj — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:06:13 +0000

This looks great, thanks for sharing! I run a 1-person SaaS on the side and this would help me a lot with keeping it running. Glad to hear that you are able to full time on it.

New comment by dmacj in "Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better"

dmacj — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:46:20 +0000

What was the DB migration required for those particular columns?

I presume this was not the only time such a migration needed to be done to add columns. Is it possible that as new features emerge, new columns and migrations will need to be done anyway and one more or less migration would make less of a difference on the grander scale?