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Max Bo
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Max Bo's personal blog at maxbo.me covers programming and web. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Reactive HTML Notebooks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-01, and you can follow it by feed.
The personal website and portfolio of Max Bo
Most-linked posts?
- Reactive HTML Notebooks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-08
- Gifting Factorio to competitors' employees as cost effective sabotage?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-12
What Hacker News says?
Note that there's nothing stopping you from embedding the Obervable runtime straight into scripts littered throughout a HTML document, see https://maxbo.me/celine/ (my own work).
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on “Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel”Submitted Reactive HTML Notebooks as a story · 361 points
HN discussionSo I've used Observable Notebooks for building interactive articles for a while now (my favorite https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/sydney-qms-panel-public-telep... ). I wanted to see if I could replicate _most_ of the (reader's) affordances of this platform in a context where I have more control. The article is documenting me trying to do that replication. What's it used for? @celine/celine ( https://maxbo.me/celine )…
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on “Reactive HTML Notebooks”Submitted Show HN: celine/bibhtml: a Web Components referencing system for HTML documents as a story · 106 points
HN discussionAuthor: The ergonomics of this _are_ hideous, to my dismay, which was a lot of the motivation behind @celine/celine ( https://maxbo.me/celine , aka me packaging the article up into a library). It's still not quite there as a platform for exploratory data analysis - you don't have the instant reactivity of either a fully-fledged web code editor from Observable Notebooks or the hot-reloading file-watching Observable F…
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on “Reactive HTML Notebooks”Submitted Can we build a reactive article in a single HTML file? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionself-plug that you might be interested in: I built a thin wrapper around the Observable Runtime that allows you to more easily use it in a pure HTML context: https://maxbo.me/celine/
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on “Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview”Submitted Gifting Factorio to competitors' employees as cost effective sabotage? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI use it to display RSS feeds on my personal website ( https://maxbo.me ) as a allusion to news tickers (which are themselves an allusion to ticker tape machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_tape )
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on “<Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)”Submitted Is sending Factorio to competitors' engineers a cost-effective means of sabotage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionself plug: one of my articles also has its own slide infrastructure (exposed to the reader as well!): https://maxbo.me/a-html-file-is-all-you-need.html#:~:text=Sl...
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on “HTML Slides with notes”Submitted Sending Factorio to competitors' engineers – a cost-effective means of sabotage? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have a little theory that a thing that makes Japanese website feel Japanese is their choice of typeface, which will almost always be something with robust CJK character support. This typeface is preserved when Chrome auto-translates the site. But fonts with good CJK support have wider Latin letter-forms, even when not in `font-variant-east-asian: 'full-width'` mode. I write about this here: https://maxbo.me/subord…
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on “The peculiar case of Japanese web design”Submitted Subordinate Latin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://maxbo.me/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”