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Ekselio has debuted on Show HN as a tool for building finance workflows, positioned as a local-first alternative in the style of Loveable's app-building approach. The product uses a canvas-based interface that its creators recommend accessing on desktop rather than mobile browsers for full functionality.
A developer published a collection of small, reusable 3D graphics demos recreating old workstation-era visual tricks using WebGL 1 or 2D canvas. The demos are released under a CC0 public-domain license, meaning anyone can copy the code and embed it directly into their own web pages without attribution or restriction.
A retro gaming audio enthusiast recorded 46 classic MS-DOS game soundtracks across seven different General MIDI sound modules and their software emulations, including the Roland SC-55 and Yamaha MU80, producing 322 lossless audio samples for direct comparison. The author also released the underlying MIDI and REAPER project files so others can reproduce or extend the tests themselves.
Frustrated with the state of modern software, a developer decided to build their own text editor from scratch instead of relying on Sublime Text or VS Code's Monaco-based engine. Their first prototype rendered everything on an HTML canvas element, handling basic cursor movement, typing, and line highlighting, but lacked features like text selection, undo history, and scrolling. Realizing canvas rendering was inherently inaccessible, they pivoted to using a contenteditable div with plaintext-only mode as a more practical foundation.