Hacker News: sodimel

New comment by sodimel in "Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick"

sodimel — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:09:17 +0000

This is a really great article! It show some simple tools calls and is still very small (no long wall of text to read). Thank you!

New comment by sodimel in "OpenJev"

sodimel — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:06:53 +0000

I'm working on something from a crappy laptop, those numbers from jev can totally be matched:

    Local Latency: 0.1813 seconds

New comment by sodimel in "“I just chose words carefully”"

sodimel — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:02:38 +0000

I was in awe when I discovered this, and decided to apply this simple rule to the help text of a small command line tool I was working on: https://git.bitmycode.com/sodimel/n#help

New comment by sodimel in "Count Binface"

sodimel — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:12:56 +0000

Even the favicon is great!

New comment by sodimel in "Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)"

sodimel — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:19:29 +0000

Thank you for this tool!

We've just used it to embed the entire django doc + our private knowledge base, allowing us to search in the 2 sources instantly!

New comment by sodimel in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

sodimel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:54:50 +0000

(I may also add that I'm using synthwave 84' in vscode, which adds neon effects on my code using text-shadow)

New comment by sodimel in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

sodimel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:11:05 +0000

My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...

New comment by sodimel in "Show HN: Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves"

sodimel — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:20:03 +0000

If I understood it right, the app allows you to group links by categories (shelves), and share those categories pages?

I haven't found any information about search, tagging, descriptions, saving content. Are those also available features?

New comment by sodimel in "The 49MB web page"

sodimel — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:32:58 +0000

Here's something I wrote in 2021:

> Today, there's ~30 times more js than html on homepages of websites (from a list of websites from 5 years ago).

It seems that this number only go up.

New comment by sodimel in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

sodimel — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:50:36 +0000

That's a nice project!

I searched a few comments I agreed using the "Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?" thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719253) and I'm pleased to see some green comments here and there :)

I also made 2 QoL [fire|grease]monkey extensions for hn:

- display favicons of sites next to links: https://gist.github.com/corentinbettiol/6d9dc3a032c17ebcd94d...

- display karma next to usernames: https://gist.github.com/corentinbettiol/289503b4033a788df91f...

New comment by sodimel in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

sodimel — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:50:03 +0000

Didn't knew that sudo had a website with a... somewhat interesting logo: https://www.sudo.ws/

New comment by sodimel in "RSS Tinder"

sodimel — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:28:51 +0000

That's a nice project, I'm interested to take a look at the source code if you publish it!

New comment by sodimel in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

sodimel — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:08:32 +0000

https://l3m.in - Main website, (for now) in french

https://misc.l3m.in/txt/ - Small rants in txt (fr & english content)

https://links.l3m.in/en/ - List of saved interesting links

New comment by sodimel in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

sodimel — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:37:56 +0000

Trying to rebuild my website (php mvc built a decade ago) using Django. I want to be able to update any page content, upload and display images, have multiple blog instances. I do a lot of django-cms by day, but it's too much for a small personal website, so I started to create a (tiny, foss) CMS based on Django, django-prose-editor for the content, and some new apps (for now, Page & Blog).

The site isn't even online, but for now I'm starting to think about the next steps (seo-related things to implement, generalize app functions to handle not only blog but other (hypothetical) apps as well, improve code quality and repo readability, separate apps from the website so anyone can add them to their django website if they want to). It's a lot of work for something no one will ever use, but I must at least try to make it clean and discoverable :)

New comment by sodimel in "Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers"

sodimel — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:17:51 +0000

I, too, am selfhosting some projects on an old computer. And the fact that you can "hear internet" (with the fans going on) is really cool (unless you're trying to sleep while being scrapped).

New comment by sodimel in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

sodimel — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:04:53 +0000

There is in fact an effort to make a desktop application!

Source (& releases): https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop

Topic on penpot forum: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-desktop-road-to-1-0/72...

New comment by sodimel in "Live Stream from the Namib Desert"

sodimel — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:08:29 +0000

Oh I suscribed to a bot on the fediverse that posts screenshots from this live!

Here's the url: https://puntarella.party/@NamibDesertBot

New comment by sodimel in "Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?"

sodimel — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:30:04 +0000

+1 - Weasyprint is an excellent tool to make pdf from html content, and we're using it at work (with django) to export various documents.

New comment by sodimel in "This website is for humans"

sodimel — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:37:39 +0000

There are already a lot of initiatives following this logic (like the small web movement, the indieweb, gemini/gopher protocols...), but the problem here is that people are using the web, not those projects. Even the fediverse is growing slowly, while it's using the web.

New comment by sodimel in "This website is for humans"

sodimel — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:03:48 +0000

Yeah the AI solve a problem created by the company that made the AI because their algorithms are biased to display websites containing content written for them instead of content written for humans :/