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

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 :)

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theletterf 2 days ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	monitron 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This was unexpected and wonderful. Thank you so much!

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PaulBunch 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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?

	▲	theletterf an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Only some of the social buttons

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vunderba 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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theletterf 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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

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theletterf 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	vunderba 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hey, if they're not browsing your site on a proper 14" VGA CRT monitor - they're not really your target audience anyways. :)

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theletterf 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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altairprime 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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!

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syoleene 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.