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Will Holt @william.land · 08/04/2026

I made this avatar maker + API source: github.com/WillH0lt/ope...

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Will Holt @william.land · 04/04/2026

Working on an update for ZinesForever. The page flipping is looking good!

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Reposted by Will Holt

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 26/03/2026

A NES-themed CSS framework and it looks exactly as you'd expect it to. nostalgic-css.github.io/NES.css/

nostalgic-css.github.io

NES.css

NES-style CSS Framework | ファミコン風CSSフレームワーク

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Will Holt @william.land · 18/03/2026

I just updated my portfolio and everything is on an explorable canvas. william.land

Reposted by Will Holt

pvh @pvh.ca · 12/03/2026

Local-First Conf 2026 is back, and I want to hear what everyone's been doing this year. What have you built? What have you learned? How about interesting challenges we need to overcome?

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Oh there's a lot to say here, I should really write a blog post about it. It's an approach similar to a last-writer-wins register, except there's a central server to determine the order of events. Clients send merge-patches, the server chooses the winner based on what was received last.

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Wish I could make it out to Berlin to attend the conference! I built a local-first sync library for creating collaborative design software. github.com/WillH0lt/wov...

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I love the idea of this! The slider is a neat way to represent the depth of the layers. I wish it worked better on mobile.

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Will Holt @william.land · 10/03/2026

Latest woven-canvas update: washi tape! Finally I can keep the blocks from sliding around on the canvas. woven-canvas.dev #buildinpublic #OpenSource #vue

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Ever heard of FIGlet fonts? They're the ASCII-art fonts that have been around forever. I needed to convert them into real font files for Asciinotes.com and couldn't find any existing tools. In case you need it: github.com/WillH0lt/FIG... #typography #buildinpublic #asciiart

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Will Holt @william.land · 10/03/2026

Huh I can't even use Microsoft Clipchamp without deleting files in OneDrive. This is desktop software, it really makes no sense. #BadUX #UXDesign #ProductDesign

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Will Holt @william.land · 09/03/2026

Amazing! I love the sound effects.

Will Holt @william.land · 09/03/2026

Now in Asciinotes you can copy a selection and paste it anywhere as plain text. asciinotes.com #BuildInPublic #indiedev

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ah, yes it works with two spaces. Thanks!

This is what I see when I click preview

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I really like a the small details: the green text cursor, the faint highlight of the active line, and the door-like animation for the emoji panel! One thing I got confused with was when I click preview it squishes everything into one line, not sure if it's supposed to do that or not.

Very cool! I like that the 3d oklch looks like mountains.

Will Holt @william.land · 06/03/2026

It's online design software like Canva. People can upload content, share their designs online, and purchase prints.

Will Holt @william.land · 06/03/2026

"...annual costs ranging from about $151,000 to nearly half a million dollars." I'm surprised colleges will pay this much. It seems like it's just a cron job that scrapes their website and uploads the data as a knowledge base to OpenAI. Is there something more going on?

Will Holt @william.land · 06/03/2026

This seems really useful! Definitely beats copy/pasting from another company's policy and changing the details. I'm considering using it but I'm not sure if my business model is within the scope of the project. It would be helpful to have a "who's this for" in the documentation.

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Will Holt @william.land · 17/02/2026

I just added this moving threads animation to the background of the woven-ecs docs. woven-ecs.dev Each thread is an svg and they're moving via css animations. Source: github.com/WillH0lt/wov...

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Will Holt @william.land · 14/02/2026

I just released Woven-ECS! It's a typescript ECS library with built-in multithreading. woven-ecs.dev

woven-ecs.dev

Woven-ECS

A high-performance, multithreaded Entity Component System for TypeScript

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Will Holt @william.land · 08/07/2025

$3.3 trillion is enough to give all 258 million US adults $106 per month for 10 years!

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Will Holt @william.land · 08/07/2025

I've been off Facebook since 2010 and they still send me these messages from time to time.

Will Holt @william.land · 07/07/2025

enhance... enhance... there are some weird artifacts when you zoom in too much.

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The remedy for each of the problems is to make the commands the same as diffs. Diffs are quick, deterministic, and reversable. Using diffs for history/syncing turns out to be a much simpler mental model.

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3. Tricky architecture implications: each command needs to be 100% reversable, so when the command changes the state, each change needs to be tracked.

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2. It's less deterministic: if the clients are out of sync in some way then a command might have different effects on different clients.

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The problems I ran into with command-based history/syncing: 1. It's slower: each client has to execute each command, this is bad if the command involves a lengthy calculation.

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It's tricky to get undo/redo to work with multiplayer. I started with a command-based history/syncing system, ran into some problems, then decided to move to diff-based system.

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Will Holt @william.land · 02/07/2025

After much ado, undo and redo are working with collaborative editing.

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So far with my infinite canvas I've gotten undo/redo working and I've gotten multiplayer working. Now I just need to make them both work at the same time 🤔

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Will Holt @william.land · 24/06/2025

If you're travelling close to the speed of light then Lorentz contraction will make it flat in your reference frame. <some random internet person>

Will Holt @william.land · 24/06/2025

Testing the intersection performance with 5000 blocks. It's looking pretty smooth!

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Will Holt @william.land · 23/05/2025

But before they let me delete my account they make me create a password. And before I can create a password I have to input a pin from 2 factor authentication. It's happened a few times now...

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Will Holt @william.land · 23/05/2025

I deleted my Linkedin account but whenever I visit the site Chrome automatically logs me in with my Google credentials. This reactivates the account and I have to delete it again.

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Will Holt @william.land · 21/05/2025

I built a SaaS product called pixel-art.ai a little over a year ago, now "pixel art maker" is one of the sample prompts in Google AI Studio.