Steven Wittens

Most-linked posts?

1. How to Fold a Julia Fractal (2013)
   24 people · 27 mentions · first linked 2016-09-05
2. Hackery, Math & Design — Acko.net
   21 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2012-01-15
3. How to Fold a Julia Fractal
   18 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2013-01-06
4. /blog/on-termkit/
   16 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2012-03-26
5. Hackery, Math and Design by Steven Mittens
   11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-10-27
6. TermKit: A Rich Graphical Terminal (2011)
   10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-07-15
7. Making MathBox: Presentation-Quality Math with Three.js and WebGL
   8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2012-11-15
8. Making WebGL Dance: How, Where, and What to Draw (2013)
   7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-06-02
9. MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die
   7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-09-28
10. Shadow DOM
    6 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2014-03-25

What Hacker News says?

1. pmilla1606 · 2020-02-12

   This is wonderful and I can't wait to go through his other articles. It reminded me a lot of: https://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory/

   Comment linking /blog/animate-your-way-to-glory/

   on “Gears”
2. pimeys · 2011-05-18

   Submitted TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement as a story · 1056 points

   HN discussion
3. callumprentice · 2017-01-06

   https://github.com/unconed/TermKit or https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ TermKit is another terminal app from 2011 designed to modernize the command line experience. Sadly, I don't think it's being worked on anymore.

   Comment linking /blog/on-termkit/

   on “Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust”
4. bpierre · 2015-09-07

   Submitted The Pixel Factory as a story · 739 points

   HN discussion
5. skrebbel · 2011-05-18

   Only his response to the AVS question in http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit#comment-4240 made me realise exactly how powerful this premise is. TermKit could become my OS of choice.

   Comment linking /blog/on-termkit

   on “TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement”
6. teamonkey · 2014-08-14

   Submitted MathBox 2 as a story · 657 points

   HN discussion
7. nighthawk454 · 2018-02-14

   Here's a fantastic one for complex numbers. It visually motivates the "imaginary" axis, how complex numbers describe rotation and motion, and why they're useful. https://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

   Comment linking /blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

   on “Let's Learn About Waveforms”
8. co_pl_te · 2013-08-24

   Submitted 0 to 60 in One Second: Fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML as a story · 373 points

   HN discussion
9. romwell · 2019-12-03

   Acko is Steven Wittens[1]; no need to use a pronoun when we have a name :) [1] https://acko.net/about

   Comment linking /about

   on “Interactive Linear Algebra”
10. michael_nielsen · 2016-03-24

    Submitted Tools for thought: graphical algebra and Fourier analysis as a story · 344 points

    HN discussion
11. thinkingkong · 2019-11-25

    This is based on Mathbox which is... brilliant. Here's the demo blog post that shows off what it can do: https://acko.net/blog/mathbox2/

    Comment linking /blog/mathbox2/

    on “Interactive Linear Algebra”
12. drudru11 · 2013-01-10

    Submitted How to Fold a Julia Fractal as a story · 325 points

    HN discussion
13. carreau · 2022-04-05

    Have you seen https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ from 2011 ? Comments from around this time on various site may give you insight.

    Comment linking /blog/on-termkit/

    on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”
14. robert-boehnke · 2012-01-16

    Submitted Making Love to Webkit as a story · 312 points

    HN discussion
15. pixelbath · 2021-03-18

    There's also MathBox, which seems to take a more D3-style approach to creating diagrams: https://github.com/unconed/mathbox Examples in a presentation: http://acko.net/files/gltalks/pixelfactory/online.html#35 Some documentation: https://github.com/unconed/mathbox/blob/master/docs/intro.md

    Comment linking /files/gltalks/pixelfactory/online.html

    on “Manim – an animation engine for explanatory math videos”
16. tylerchr · 2022-09-24

    Submitted Get in zoomer, we're saving React as a story · 286 points

    HN discussion
17. ryangee · 2012-04-10

    http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

    Comment linking /blog/on-termkit/

    on “Mosh: SSH for 2012”
18. madisonmay · 2014-04-10

    Submitted Shadow DOM as a story · 276 points

    HN discussion
19. shawa_a_a · 2025-08-20

    Surprised to not see Acko.net mentioned in comments already - he uses similar aids in one of his blog posts to break down complex numbers and ultimately fractals. Likely right up your street! https://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

    on “Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization”
20. scribu · 2013-11-27

    Submitted On Asm.js as a story · 240 points

    HN discussion
21. skybrian · 2024-02-09

    This is a good design pattern, but be wary of doing validation too early. The design pattern allows you to do it as early or late as you like, but doesn't tell you when to do it. Often it's best to do it as part of parsing/validating some larger object. See Steven Witten's "I is for Intent" [1] for some ideas about the use of unvalidated data in a UI context. [1] https://acko.net/blog/i-is-for-intent/

    Comment linking /blog/i-is-for-intent/

    on “How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years”
22. puzzlingcaptcha · 2025-08-06

    Submitted Rethinking DOM from first principles as a story · 237 points

    HN discussion
23. tylerc230 · 2018-08-04

    I remember finding TermKit a while back and thinking it had some interesting concepts. Looks like it hasn’t been touched in a while though. http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

    Comment linking /blog/on-termkit/

    on “Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces”
24. bpierre · 2014-06-16

    Submitted How to Fold a Julia Fractal as a story · 231 points

    HN discussion
25. Cadwhisker · 2025-12-10

    I can't see Bruno's site and I assume it's because of the HN hug of death, but an impressive 3D website that always comes to mind is acko.net, with its 3D rendered tubular logo. He even describes how it was done in a blog post. https://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

    Comment linking /blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

    on “Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio”
26. baoyu · 2014-09-22

    Submitted The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics as a story · 202 points

    HN discussion
27. Apofis · 2015-09-07Recommends

    Check out an actual lecture made by the same guy: http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/ It's amazing and I really wish all future science educational materials are like this. His framework MathBox is a really great step in the right direction and I hope it's picked up for some future material. Imagine learning calculus or physics from this? It would be a snap! It really solves the visualization problem i…

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

    on “The Pixel Factory”
28. jashkenas · 2021-07-06

    Submitted Headless React as a story · 201 points

    HN discussion
29. jacobolus · 2015-09-07

    Try the lecture: http://acko.net/tv/webglmath/

    Comment linking /tv/webglmath/

    on “The Pixel Factory”
30. antimuon · 2015-09-28

    Submitted MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die as a story · 192 points

    HN discussion

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