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jonas211 minute ago
I love that the comments on some of the posts (like this one) are written by hand too!

https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-...

slicendice4 minutes ago
Fantastic idea! I think the hardest part for people to adopt this will be overcoming atrophied handwriting skills and no autocorrect.

One thing that doesn't seem clear to me from reading without signing up is how do you actually upload content? Do you have to have paper and pen and then take a picture of it, or do you provide some kind of excalidraw-like canvas for writing? I notice there isn't any paper background or line rules, which I think would also be nice for those who fancy a bit of structure when reading/writing.

rgovostes25 minutes ago
Ironically, "No feeds. No algorithms. No likes." reads like copy that is, well, not handwritten.
emilesilvis8 minutes ago
I can assure you it was written by my own hand (but appreciate it might sound like marketing - perhaps I can change it a bit so it sounds more natural :)
purple-leafy10 minutes ago
How about a blog that contains its entire source code inline in the blog itself? [0]

[0] - https://mjwg6zy.blog/

Such that copy pasting its contents reconstructs the blog byte for byte

emilesilvis3 minutes ago
This is cool - I love quines!
donut42 minutes ago
Reminds me of E. W. Dijkstra's digitized hand-written manuscripts:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/index13xx.html

emilesilvis3 minutes ago
Indeed!
est17 minutes ago
Well I hoped it was some kind of SVG with alt text for copy.

Turns out it's just a webp.

2349pmabout 1 hour ago
Might be missing something but I expected a way to browse the blogs - maybe even a 'random blog' link!
emilesilvis7 minutes ago
I have a "discovery feed" on the backlog, but people would need to opt in for their blogs to appear there in any case.
arlattimore3 days ago
Reminds me of tinyprojects.dev Paper Website project from 2021

https://paperwebsite.com/

chrismorganabout 1 hour ago
I was very disappointed, when that happened, that the paper aspect of it was purely at authoring time; that it was converted into text. This one gets it right, preserving the handwriting aspect.
emilesilvis3 days ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
krehwellabout 1 hour ago
i really like this. my issue is usually i read while selecting so my eyes follow which unfortunately the website won't support
emilesilvis2 minutes ago
Yeah I can imagine that's tricky to do in this case. Maybe I can think of something.
cmbza3 days ago
Hi Emile

I like the concept too. People are losing the ability to read handwritten letters and notes. I'm just curious, how does this all work? Can I simply take a photo of a page?

emilesilvis3 days ago
Hi cmbza - yes, you take a photo, which you can then upload through the site or email to a publish address.
sulsabout 1 hour ago
Very cool, maybe add a more prominent header link to https://handwritten.blog/how-it-works. I had to read the comments here to find it
vishnukvmd32 minutes ago
This is beautiful!
emilesilvis6 minutes ago
Thank you!
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brudgers2 days ago
Similar but for typists, https://onetypedpage.com/
emilesilvis6 minutes ago
Interesting, thank you for sharing!
altmanaltman31 minutes ago
Who is this for though?

As a writer, a lot of times I am writing over 5,000 words in a single article. I can type at around 170 wpm but my wrist starts hurting the moment I write more than three pages in my journal. I also use a split ergonomic keyboard which helps my hands a lot. I also revise my writing heavily which is very hard to do with handwritten stuff.

For readers, it will maybe be a novelty but I don't really see why anyone will prefer reading content that is handwritten since it has a lot of accessibility problems which are solved with proper typesetting.

I could see the value if it was a collection of interesting notes or unique handwriting styles etc. But i don't think its usuable as a blogging platform imo

emilesilvis5 minutes ago
For myself, it's really about slowing down my thinking. It's definitely not meant for _efficient_ writing :)
nextlevelwizard24 minutes ago
Blog posts don’t need to be 5000 words nor do you need to write them on one sitting (or under 30 minutes).

For wrist fatigue having better paper and pen help a lot, but part of it is just using the muscles and not having a death grip.

This being said I don’t like that this is hand writing with a device. It just isn’t the same as actual physical media.