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Marin Balabanov

Personal blog · marincomics.com · on HN as marinbaladesignhistoryculture

Marin Balabanov writes Marin Comics, a personal blog at marincomics.com about design, history and culture. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Marin Balabanov, web developer, designer, and comic artist. Here I showcase my side projects about development, comics, retro computers, and computing history.

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marinbala · 52 karma · member since 2023

I'm a web developer and designer from Vienna. Find out more about my work here: https://marincomics.com

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Loved the article. It inspired me to write my own related article on my website: https://marincomics.com/bringing-back-the-weird.html Not sure my site qualifies as hobbyist enough. It is the work of an enthusiast (me) but I used Bootstrap for styling and layout. I use some JavaScript. The site also starts with an animation I made using Tumult Hype. All this is probably too much for a true hobbyist site. Still, I reg…

    Comment linking /bringing-back-the-weird.html

    on “The HTML Hobbyist (2022)”
  2. Submitted Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene as a story · 495 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://marincomics.com/ Writing about the demoscene, retro computing, comics and hackathons

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    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  4. Submitted Retro Gaming Museum in Vienna, Austria as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why I Dislike PowerPoint (At least the way it's used in some large companies) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Love Letter to Time Bandit on the Atari ST as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Turning a Palm and foldable keyboard into a distraction-free writing station as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Show HN: I drew a determined female coder in the style of Socialist Realism as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2023 essay) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted What Does Your Drawing of a Tree Say About You? Applying Koch's Baum Test as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Want to know what it's like at a demoparty? Here's my article about Evoke 2024 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Making Compo Graphics for the Evoke 2024 Demoparty as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted My Delightful Experience at Graffathon 2024 – A Demoparty Report as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Books That Chronicle the History of the Atari ST Demoscene as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted History and Analysis of State of the Art by Spaceballs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Show HN: Using the ClockworkPi DevTerm with an iPad as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Show HN: Story of Shatter, the First Comic Made on a Computer (1985) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Making a Choose Your Own Adventure Game Using ChatGPT as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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