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Mike Williamson

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Mike Williamson writes mikewilliamson.dev, a personal blog at mikewilliamson.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post about Wright Design, a retro graphics program, which includes a zip of the program and tutorial files. The commenter says it combined bitmap and vector artwork.

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  1. For anyone interested in retro graphics programs, you should check out Wright Design. I wrote up a post about it and it includes a zip file of the actual program and tutorial files. I have always secretly hoped that someone would make an FOSS version of this software since I have yet to see anything like it even though it is now more than 15 years old. It seamlessly combined bitmap and vector artwork and was twice a…

    Comment linking /2010/02/16/12-years-old-and-still-the-future-of-design/

    on “Photoshop 1.0 Source Code”
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