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Thomas Rinsma
Personal blog · th0mas.nlprogramminggames
Thomas Rinsma's personal blog at th0mas.nl covers programming and games. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Tetris and Doom Built in a PDF”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the author's 2025 post on Tetris in a PDF, in discussions of PDF Doom and programming inside PDF files. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Tetris and Doom Built in a PDF2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
- Doom running in a PDF2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Author of "PDF Tetris" here. Great work! We had the same idea at the same time, here's my version of PDF Doom: Source: https://github.com/thomasRinsma/pdfdoom Playable here: https://th0mas.nl/downloads/doom.pdf Yours is neater in many ways though!
Comment linking /downloads/doom.pdf
on “Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF”Submitted Show HN: Tetris in a PDF as a story · 1289 points
HN discussionYou could have made a deliberately restricted subset of PS without going all binary. Btw, doesn't PDF include Javascript these days? So you can still randomise stuff at view-time in a PDF. See https://th0mas.nl/2025/01/12/tetris-in-a-pdf/
Comment linking /2025/01/12/tetris-in-a-pdf/
on “An SVG is all you need”Submitted Tetris and Doom Built in a PDF as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doom running in a PDF as a story · 3 points
HN discussion