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Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment

passo.uno

32 pointstheletterf27 comments

The style is really fun, and your writing is interesting.

I find it slightly ironic, though, that many of your articles that make a case against AI-generated writing are illustrated by AI-generated images. I forget who made the insightful comment that most people seem to think that AI should take over in every field except their own :)

OP here. You know? Yours is the comment I needed to read. You're right. I'm going to remove them.

This was unexpected and wonderful. Thank you so much!

Nice job. Some feedback:

- Clicking the minimize arrow should collapse the File Manager down to the classic file drawer icon.

- Detect if the browser agent is Internet Explorer with ActiveX to enable the A/B icons drives by iterating through the user's drive collection.

Ha! Thought about implementing real minimize, but then it'd be really hard to find the way back in mobile...

Hey, if they're not browsing your site on a proper 14" VGA CRT monitor - they're not really your target audience anyways. :)

I've made the minimize button functional. If you select maximize, there's a surprise (chord.wav!)

Really like how clear and readable the whole UI feels. Ironically, the old Windows 3.1 style makes everything more scannable than a lot of today's minimalist designs.

The limited color palette and crisp icons buttons work great together. Did you design UI elements yourself?

Only some of the social buttons

It looks beautiful, but unfortunately, on mobile, the titles get truncated at about 4 words for me. I had to enable desktop mode to read enough of the title to get the context.

Fixed!

Definitely windows-y. But makes me want to see what Windows 3.1 could have looked like at 216ppi without the visible pixels, though. Would it still have the Windows aesthetic or would people think it’s confusingly familiar but not recognize it or would it be something else altogether? No one’s mentioned that the minimize icon is not pixelated, and I only noticed because I went looking for it — so clearly it’s theoretically possible for it to pass!

I can't seem to find it, is there something you have to do to see it?

Author was forced to revert.

Found this link on the author's repos on github https://theletterf.github.io/hugo-win31/

Moved here! https://passo.uno/win31/

@dang Could we edit the link to https://passo.uno/win31/ ? Had to move the theme.

reminds me of that:

https://institut-fdh.de/

but your's is way better implemented it seems - very nice!

(disclaimer: it's my site, shameless-plug)

I like it. Yours definitely has that old-school Norton Commander vibe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander

That was the goal, yes (⌐■_■)

Really nice retro vibe. Feels clean and focused.

Author here. I'm reverting the theme, but will make it accessible through a link / open source it.

Looks cool and super nostalgic

This is really cool, feels super nostalgic. Good writing too

That's really cool.

That is a nice style.

Somehow disgusting but also lovely :). Now i want one styled after OS/2 Warp for my own site.

I feel soiled. (lol, it's good)

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