Hacker News: joshmarinacci

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Stdx, Rust's extended standard library"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:02:16 +0000

I like the idea of an extended standard lib for Rust, but coding was never the hard part. The hard part is getting everyone to agree what should be in it. If you can get everyone to agree to an api then the rest can easily be filled in (with or without vibe coding).

New comment by joshmarinacci in "The Field Guide to CSS Grid Lanes"

joshmarinacci — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:05:59 +0000

I love Apple’s efforts to implement web standards and document them well, but I really don’t understand the use for grid lanes. Is there anything I can use it for besides Pinterest clones?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:44:32 +0000

That is an incredibly annoying grunge font. And what is the point of the hidden image in the background that reveals under your mouse cursor.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:54:19 +0000

Wow. Maxime’s site is gorgeous.

Thank you

Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

joshmarinacci — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:35:00 +0000

After ten years I’m working on a redesign of my personal tech blog. I want to look at some other blogs with good modern design. Of course searching for ‘well designed blogs’ or ‘webdesign 2026’ brings up endless marketing listicles. Even after wading through the crap, the advice is focused on advertising and product centric sites, not prose heavy sites with good typography.

So my question to you is: What are some of your favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

I don’t mean the content (though that helps too), but rather sites where the actual experience of reading is pleasant. Think: good fonts, sticky headers (or not), well formatted code snippets, and responsive images. Slide in navbars vs inline table of contents.

Thanks, - j

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466488

Points: 119

# Comments: 30

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:39:02 +0000

True , but if it had a real ISA underneath then we could write custom emulators for them.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "We let AIs run radio stations"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:54:42 +0000

Didn't this already happen in the late 1990s when the telecom act de-regulated radio ownership?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_homogenization

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:50:29 +0000

I’ve been vibe coding a Figma like clone and it’s fun but slow going. Creating real Photoshop clones is still a ton of work with no monetary payoff.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "A Preview of the Future"

joshmarinacci — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:09:35 +0000

Realtime interaction is magic.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:05:59 +0000

Curse you! Now I have to go clean out the attic to find mine.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "I hate soldering"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:02:11 +0000

Where did you buy your populated boards from? I want to make a small in and not deal with SMT at all.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:38:44 +0000

You’re in Eugene!? Me too. I’d love to meet up some time to talk about your software over coffee.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler"

joshmarinacci — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:25:31 +0000

I’ve been following the Ohm project for years and it’s the best way to build parsers I’ve ever seen. I’ve used it to parse many program languages and even markdown. I’m happy to see it get even faster.

https://joshondesign.com/2021/07/16/ohm_markdown_parser

New comment by joshmarinacci in "So where are all the AI apps?"

joshmarinacci — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:22:18 +0000

That is an excellent question. For me the answer is yes, but I'm unusual.

Can we still make software that sparks joy?

joshmarinacci — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:40:51 +0000

Article URL: https://joshondesign.com/2026/03/19/software-joy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455255

Points: 4

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New comment by joshmarinacci in "Nmap in the movies (2008)"

joshmarinacci — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:18:21 +0000

Yes. A reference to the real author who’s work inspired the cyberpunk chapters.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:41:27 +0000

This too shall pass.

Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things:

* Both the downsides and upsides were exaggerated

* A lot of VCs lost money and many of the trillion dollar buildouts didn't happen

* after the hype died down we figured out what AI was actually good for, and what it wasn't.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Font Rendering from First Principles"

joshmarinacci — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:35:24 +0000

Hugged to death?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Fun with Shell Emojis"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:44:01 +0000

There's a lot of other cool unicode glyphs besides emojis that can liven up your shell. I use the Block Elements a lot in my command line tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

New comment by joshmarinacci in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:48:54 +0000

How does this technical issue affect the economy and politics? In what way would the world be different just because we used a better linker?