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The Serpent in the Grove

tobr — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:46:16 +0000

Article URL: https://granta.com/the-serpent-in-the-grove/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616924

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Coding a Brick Tower [video]

tobr — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:07:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAMiS2PGTEE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602683

Points: 19

# Comments: 5

Hyperblam lets you make music with HTML

tobr — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:06:30 +0000

Article URL: https://hyperblam.how/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598773

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Co/Core – An AI Cooperative

tobr — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:15:30 +0000

Article URL: https://console.cocore.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597286

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tobr in "What every coder should know about gamma (2016)"

tobr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:06:37 +0000

I disagree. If the monitor is mostly black (as close as it can be reproduced), shades of near-black gray are easy to distinguish, while shades of near-white gray blend together.

New comment by tobr in "Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?"

tobr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:35:39 +0000

> But not perfectly and continuously

Isn’t that where the randomness comes in?

New comment by tobr in "What every coder should know about gamma (2016)"

tobr — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:30:47 +0000

Probably because it’s displayed on a white background. A gray or black background would have shown the difference more clearly.

It doesn't matter if it works

tobr — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://henry.codes/writing/it-doesnt-matter-if-it-works/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539412

Points: 28

# Comments: 17

Prop-for-that: CSS reacts, JavaScript just listens

tobr — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://prop-for-that.netlify.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529974

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by tobr in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

tobr — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:12:16 +0000

If you want to discuss the content of the page, it would be nice if you read the content of the page first.

New comment by tobr in "How liminalism became the defining aesthetic"

tobr — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:48:10 +0000

Is CARI part of the ”art world”? Where have CARI said that Frutiger Aero was ”the defining” aesthetic of 2000s? They are working to identify many different aesthetic trends that existed in parallel, not one that defines each decade.

Their description of Frutiger Aero explicitly includes Aqua, both mentioned by name and included visually:

https://www.are.na/consumer-aesthetics-research-institute/fr...

Splash Is a Colour Format

tobr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:22:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.todepond.com/lab/splash/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390269

Points: 80

# Comments: 116

New comment by tobr in "Words of Type"

tobr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:13:32 +0000

I’m not affiliated with the site in any way, but it does not strike me at all as vibe coded. If you dig even just a little you can see that it is credited to studios and individuals who have their own separate web presence. And in fact, their manifesto explicitly rejects using AI even for translation because of quality concerns.

So please offer the evidence that allows you to confidently dismiss it as vibe coded.

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

tobr — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:54:55 +0000

Article URL: https://tomotama.com/kiki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348545

Points: 142

# Comments: 88

Words of Type

tobr — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:28:45 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348286

Points: 132

# Comments: 14

New comment by tobr in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

tobr — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:57:32 +0000

I expected a small tree in black and white pixel art.

New comment by tobr in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"

tobr — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:30:57 +0000

Yes, but it’s not the topic of the article though. The article is about relocation. It describes the general problem and why New Orleans is particularly vulnerable. It would be nice to mention sinking land explicitly, but the idea that there’s some ”agenda” behind why they aren’t mentioning it is ridiculous.

New comment by tobr in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"

tobr — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:37:27 +0000

You can take your tinfoil hat off. In common parlance, ”rising seas” is about relative sea level (RSL), which is what actually matters regardless of the mix of underlying causes. This is how it’s used by e.g NOAA https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/faq.html#q1

New comment by tobr in "The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]"

tobr — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:43:16 +0000

I was just reading about Metafont the other day, so this was quite lovely to come across.

Fig 9 stood out to me as obviously wrong. The two glyphs on the left are pixel by pixel identical, as are the three middle ones, and the two on the right. Quite mysterious though considering this PDF appears to be a scan.

There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going

tobr — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:33:06 +0000

Article URL: https://kottke.org/26/05/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203484

Points: 76

# Comments: 80