vhwalke

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   by vhwalke 2mo ago

   Thank you! It's been fun.
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   by vhwalke 2mo ago

   These are great thoughts. I may do some investigation into how the Federalist Papers spread, but even with AI, these may be significant research efforts. I need graduate assistants!
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   by vhwalke 2mo ago

   Thank you! AI clearly helped a ton, but the number of rounds of me having it render different fonts / formats was staggering. And, I was fortunate enough to come across justif ( https://justif.lyall.co/ ) - I found via
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   by vhwalke 2mo ago

   Thanks for the kind words. It has been fun to put together - Hopefully a good addition to the world.
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   by vhwalke 2mo ago

   Really hugely appreciated. I'm doing an AI pass at removing some more of the AI-ism's. It came up with some good suggestions. I'm reviewing and should have those in before long. I'm sure it won't be complete, bu
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   by vhwalke 2mo ago

   Completely a fair point. Definitely was heavily, heavily AI built (including the copy) - there is no way I could have justified putting in the time it would have taken to build this for a "pro-bono" project pre AI! Even with AI,
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   by vhwalke 2mo ago

   Hi HN, I made this. It started as a weekly reading project with my mother: one Federalist paper a week. I couldn't find an online edition that was actually pleasant to read - most are walls of text or scanned PDFs - so I built one. It&
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   Show HN: The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in(federalistreader.org)

   58 points by vhwalke 2mo ago|15 comments
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   by vhwalke 2mo ago

   I spent the past few weeks building what turned out to be a much bigger project than I thought it would be - with more AI assistance than I've ever had on any project, and I've been thinking about this. In the end, I'm happy
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    by vhwalke 2mo ago

    Implemented on https://federalistreader.org ... made a big difference! You can see the comparison here: https://federalistreader.org/notes/justif/ Nicely done! (and thanks for the fixes with v0.5.0.
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    by vhwalke 2mo ago

    Follow-up, since I asked the questions above: I spent the evening running Justif against the hardest page I have: three 356px columns of 18th-century text set in IM Fell at ~17.6px with 24.3px leading. I came in curious and left planning th
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    by vhwalke 2mo ago

    Wow! I've spent the past few weeks setting 18th-century newspaper text on the web - justified, up to three narrow columns, period ligature, and the gap between CSS justification and real typesetting was a big part of the whole project