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Ivan Rogoz
Personal blog · warped3.substack.comscienceprogramming
Ivan Rogoz writes Barn Lab, a personal blog at warped3.substack.com about science and programming. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Show HN thread about a Winamp-style macOS audio player, with a request for non-rectangular skins. The post covers using the direct Win32 API to make weird-shaped windows.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A weekly roundup of topics, projects, and news that tingle the mind and scratch the itch for learning about obscure curiosities.
Most-linked posts?
- Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-15
What Hacker News says?
Cool. Now please make it support skins that aren’t rectangular. https://warped3.substack.com/p/direct-win32-api-weird-shaped...
Comment linking /p/direct-win32-api-weird-shaped-windows
on “Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS”Submitted Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared as a story · 4 points
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