Hacker News: gfat

New comment by gfat in "Simple circuits can create complex behaviors"

gfat — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:08:35 +0000

Highly recommend the photovore BEAM robot if you’ve got a soldering iron. It requires a small solar cell and a few analog components from online suppliers like Digikey.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wi2lpRLfsd8

New comment by gfat in "Simple circuits can create complex behaviors"

gfat — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:04:39 +0000

Mark Tilden was the engineer behind this toy and many others like Robosapien.

New comment by gfat in "Simple circuits can create complex behaviors"

gfat — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:03:34 +0000

Same, BEAM was my gateway to electronics growing up.

New comment by gfat in "One Manhattan power room took down FAA air traffic control in 1991"

gfat — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:16:29 +0000

The overall site has a cozy feel to it. Well done

New comment by gfat in "Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator"

gfat — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:27:55 +0000

Love the poster example

New comment by gfat in "Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages"

gfat — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:48:45 +0000

Beautiful work. I did a similar effect for docs using a page turning animation. Might reach for this in the future.

New comment by gfat in "Better Icon and Label Alignment"

gfat — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:47:57 +0000

Recently found the lh unit approach. It’s elegant for centering icons along the first line in dynamic, sometimes wrapping text.

New comment by gfat in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

gfat — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:00:52 +0000

I love the name and idea of the tiny cafe. Heads up on dark mode, the “Open My Tiny Cafe” button is white text on the gray background; a bit hard to read.

New comment by gfat in "CSS Curiosities of the Past"

gfat — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:59:49 +0000

It felt like wizardry tbh

New comment by gfat in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

gfat — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:16:23 +0000

Linear adopted stylex as well and published a comprehensive write up https://linear.app/now/styling-linear-for-the-future-stylex

New comment by gfat in "Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch"

gfat — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:22:13 +0000

Temperature safety test was a nice touch; looks incredible.

New comment by gfat in "Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch"

gfat — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:21:58 +0000

I think AI has played a role in more analog hobby adoption.

New comment by gfat in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

gfat — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:36:24 +0000

I've wanted to build one of these for a while just to have that "going into the office" feel even with WFH; appreciate the detail and breakdown. Also, lovely styled personal site.

New comment by gfat in "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs"

gfat — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:19:49 +0000

.ly

New comment by gfat in "Bugtraq is back"

gfat — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:27:21 +0000

Especially when writing about projects the author cares about. Surely it should warrant a human writing about the thing they built and are sharing with the world.

New comment by gfat in "YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview"

gfat — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:04:06 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538229

New comment by gfat in "Superlogical"

gfat — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:54:29 +0000

It’s probably a good filter too for applicants

New comment by gfat in "Perlin's Noise Algorithm (2023)"

gfat — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:58:21 +0000

My intro to Perlin noise was a Stripe page where their customer wall of logos was floating bubbles. Not a video but actual DOM elements translating around. Stripe always going that extra mile.

https://lokeshdhakar.com/dev-202-scrolling-logo-bubbles/

New comment by gfat in "Show HN: One More Letter"

gfat — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:19:42 +0000

The staggered entry animation of the letters on page load is lovely. The typing also felt rewarding.

Bit of feedback, should the timer pause when reading the how to play or opening settings?

New comment by gfat in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

gfat — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:09:26 +0000

Appreciate the typography and simple design of the site and its registry.