I got laid off a while ago and I’m privileged enough to take time to reconsider what I want to do. I’ve been learning how to sketch which supports my bigger passion- printmaking. I’ve primarily been doing linocut which is carving negative space into linoleum, inking it up, and printing it on paper. I’ve got a membership at a local atelier and have branched out into drypoint, kitchen lithography, and what I guess is called LEGOpress. I’m sparking a lot of joy working with my hands every day. I have been finding adequate challenge in honing my craft as I try to figure out how to draw/carve the images I see in my mind.
Readit Newswishinghand commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) · Posted by u/david927
wishinghand commented on Just let me select text aartaka.me/select-text.ht... · Posted by u/ayoisaiah
Instagram is the same way if a link is dropped into the comments. Infuriating.
wishinghand commented on Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster abortretry.fail/p/the-sto... · Posted by u/BirAdam
Setting up the audio propagation in the Thief level editor is super tedious but it’s hard to argue with the results. You draw “Room brushes” (basically boxes) to encompass space and sound will propagate across where they intersect with each other. An Environmental audio setting is applied to a room brush and will be applied to all the audio heard by the player when inside the room brush.
Any docs or talks about this somewhere?
wishinghand commented on Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML picocss.com... · Posted by u/mpweiher
I use picocss for my personal site [1], which I just recently converted to plain html. I just realized that, with a bit of plain vanilla js, I can easily create a header and footer for every page. I need to write some kind of markup anyways, so why not directly write html? Also, picocss comes with dark mode, which I personally prefer.
[1]: https://g5t.de
If you're using Apache you could just use Server Side Includes and forget the JS.
wishinghand commented on Why is D3 so Verbose? theheasman.com/short_stor... · Posted by u/TheHeasman
First of all, shocked people still use d3. Hasn't there been something better? It's pretty ancient by javascript standards. Do people still use jquery too? Haha... been about a decade since I touched this stuff!
Second of all, isn't it ungodly slow? I get that it can draw a few boxes nicely, and maybe shuffle them around, but I had to write my own engine using html canvas because d3 couldn't get svg to flow properly if I had thousands of pixels in my image.
Honestly, if you're going to go through the trouble of understanding d3, I would just write your own javascript canvas to animate things.
Vue is about as ancient yet people still use that. Python is even older.
wishinghand commented on The Framework Desktop is a beast world.hey.com/dhh/the-fra... · Posted by u/lemonberry
The RAM is soldered on all Halo Strix platforms because physics is getting in the way. With pluggable DIMMs the memory bandwidth would be halved, at best.
Why is that? Why would soldering the connections vs plugging them in affect how much data per second they transfer?
wishinghand commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
> I have 9 YOE now so I've done the usual gauntlet hundreds of times by now.
I'm not sure how to parse this.. you've done hundreds of interviews, as the candidate, in 9 years of experience?
If they move jobs every two years, that’s 5 periods of interviewing. 40 interviews per period doesn’t seem too out there.
wishinghand commented on Programming on 34 Keys (2022) oppi.li/posts/programming... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Looking at things like this is like gazing into an alien world. I wonder if people who do this are able to use a regular keyboard layout, or if their muscle memory has been completely replaced with that of their custom input device. A standard full-size keyboard works best for me, having experienced the frustration that is modern laptops' castrated layouts.
I can easily switch back and forth. I have more than 34 keys, but I don't use the number row or modifier keys. My layout is also columnar, similar to the OP's.
wishinghand commented on Feather: A Rust web framework that does not use async github.com/BersisSe/feath... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Could be confused with Feathers, a Javascript web framework.
Hey I'm the author of the lib, I'm thinking about making a course on how to re-create the landing page, would that be something you're interested in?
I’d love to see that.