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Amy Goodchild
Personal blog · amygoodchild.com/blogdesignprogramming
Amy Goodchild's personal blog at amygoodchild.com covers design and programming. Since 2023, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Coding My Handwriting”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Amy Goodchild's blog for art-and-code work, especially her handwriting encoded as JavaScript paths to generate text and pen-plotter output. One commenter added the site to an RSS watchlist.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Coding My Handwriting6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-05-17
- A Message Drifts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
- Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-29
- Computational geometry: building shapes from paths with a planar graph2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-18
What Hacker News says?
Awesome find. https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog The HN homepage has two brilliant articles from Amy. The website is now on my RSS Watchlist. There are quite a few interesting articles about the soothing existence between Art and Programming.
Comment linking /blog
on “Coding My Handwriting”Submitted Coding My Handwriting as a story · 833 points
HN discussionI wonder if there's any way to transform this approach taken by Amy Goodchild into actual font files: https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
Comment linking /blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript
on “Making a font of my handwriting”Submitted Chaos in the medium: Watercolour plotting as a story · 229 points
HN discussionIt's also coded in javascript but based off my own handwriting (and I am indeed a left handed woman). I have another article about it here - https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
Comment linking /blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript
on “Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences”Submitted Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences as a story · 212 points
HN discussionSee their previous blog post, which also got featured on HN: https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
Comment linking /blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript
on “Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences”Submitted Generating the Alphabet as a story · 182 points
HN discussionAmy Goodchild has done some incredible work in this vein, involving pen plotters even. https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
Comment linking /blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript
on “Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI”Submitted What Is Generative Art? (2022) as a story · 152 points
HN discussionA related but different approach I liked was taken by Amy Goodchild, who is an artist that uses code for her creations. She encoded her handwriting as paths in JS (rather than as a font): https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
Comment linking /blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript
on “Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font”Submitted Coding Handwriting in JavaScript as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meaningful nonsense: How I generate sentences as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding My Handwriting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Message Drifts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Message Drifts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Message Drifts: Explorations in meanings from randomness in generative art as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating artist Sol LeWitt’s procedural wall drawings with GPT-4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Closing the Loop: Building Shapes with a Planar Graph as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computational geometry: building shapes from paths with a planar graph as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributing Randomness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Packing and Expanding Polygons: An Ongoing Exploration as a story · 1 points
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