Hacker News: felixthehat

New comment by felixthehat in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"

felixthehat — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:24:40 +0000

The same guy (Johan Jarnestad) has been doing all the nobel prize illustrations and infographics for years!

https://www.infographics.se/

https://www.behance.net/JohanJarnestad

New comment by felixthehat in "Greek Alphabet Cards"

felixthehat — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:45:04 +0000

I vibecoded myself a little web app to help me learn the greek letters/numbers/colours. helped me a little!

https://vibecards.blackspike.com/

New comment by felixthehat in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

felixthehat — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:23:38 +0000

I think it’s a jokey term for when you use ai to copy an existing project

New comment by felixthehat in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

felixthehat — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:12:51 +0000

Ah nice! I enjoyed trying out your product when it was launched which called this app to mind. Commendable attitude!

New comment by felixthehat in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

felixthehat — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:10:51 +0000

Maybe a little harsh yes. But compare these screenshots of the two products/features

https://imgur.com/a/41BybD1

New comment by felixthehat in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

felixthehat — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:39:38 +0000

Did you try the shader.com shader editor where you stack shaders and effects in layers? V similar approach!

New comment by felixthehat in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

felixthehat — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:09:00 +0000

I heard the term used on the shoptalk podcast about cloudflare slopforking wordpress!

https://shoptalkshow.com/709/

New comment by felixthehat in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

felixthehat — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:15:09 +0000

looks like a slopfork of the fairly new https://shaders.com - frustrating for them!

New comment by felixthehat in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

felixthehat — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:08:10 +0000

yeah I didn't notice the CM wasn't out til september and searched for it too.

The I wasted time reading (very mixed!!) reviews for the ones I'd not read so I just pulled the trigger on Revelation Space and will see how I get on!

New comment by felixthehat in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

felixthehat — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:38:45 +0000

I found the sci-fi tag interesting and a managable 32 books!

https://odd-lots-books.netlify.app/?q=tag%3Asci-fi

New comment by felixthehat in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

felixthehat — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:31:07 +0000

Yeah civ VI on my iPad with an apple pencil kills flights

New comment by felixthehat in "Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?"

felixthehat — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:29:52 +0000

yeah check out https://front-end.social - some popular front end dev accounts:

https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs

https://social.lol/@db

https://front-end.social/@piccalilli

https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000

https://indieweb.social/@addyosmani

https://front-end.social/@jensimmons

https://mastodon.social/@adactio

https://zachleat.com/@zachleat

https://front-end.social/@rem

https://front-end.social/@chriscoyier

https://front-end.social/@AmeliaBR

https://front-end.social/@rachelandrew

https://webtoo.ls/@astro

https://webtoo.ls/@antfu

https://front-end.social/@bramus

https://front-end.social/@5t3ph

New comment by felixthehat in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

felixthehat — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:50:35 +0000

Phil Gyford just posted about "Trying out eight macOS alternatives to Lightroom Classic to see if I could switch to one of them." which covers some of those points

https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-ligh...

New comment by felixthehat in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

felixthehat — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:17:40 +0000

Internal Revenue Service for anyone else wondering!

New comment by felixthehat in "Spike.News – Simple News Aggregator"

felixthehat — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:19:08 +0000

I made this! Excited to be featured on HN again, and thanks for all the nice comments. I built it for myself really but happy others enjoy it. It uses nuxt/supabase/netlify functions. Happy to answer any questions either here or on my contact form https://www.blackspike.com/contact/

New comment by felixthehat in "Bluesky signups are now open to the public"

felixthehat — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:16:58 +0000

ha same! I just last week started building an app for myself where I can cross post to mastodon and bluesky (& twitter is in progress, threads doesn't seem to have an api yet). https://grater.app (screenshot at https://imgur.com/lyefPGv )

New comment by felixthehat in "Confessions of a Country Parson"

felixthehat — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:29:21 +0000

He’s an excellent follow on mastodon (and Twitter)

https://mastodon.social/@parsonjameswoodforde

https://twitter.com/JamesWoodforde1

New comment by felixthehat in "Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite"

felixthehat — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:37:29 +0000

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New comment by felixthehat in "Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web"

felixthehat — Wed, 03 May 2023 12:37:33 +0000

5 invites here https://arc.net/gift/9534a0b0

New comment by felixthehat in "Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative"

felixthehat — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:18:15 +0000

Icones is my go to https://icones.js.org/