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0x1don Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I'm just scratching an itch with a side project using Web Audio API. It's free and no ads.

0x1don Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker

Had a similar idea to help with my color deficiency, but never developed it. Would totally use this if it were on Android.

0x1don Show HN: A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes

This is the cleanest HTML5 reference site I've seen. I like that it has links back to MDN as well.

Is it design completely custom or did you use a template or theme? I'm really struggling with the design side of my side projects.

Also, if you don't mind me asking, how difficult was it to get approved for Carbon Ads?

0x1don Ventusky – Weather data visualization

Wow the visualization is great. Probably not as useful as a standard weather website, but blown away by the design.

0x1don Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, website

Really good job! It turned out better than most templates.

0x1don Ask HN: As a single bootstrapper, how do you deal with the pressure?

Create an MVP or even just a landing page before dedicating too much time into any project. Launch the MVP or landing page on places like HN, Product Hunt, Reddit, etc. to gage traction before before moving forward.

0x1don Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

I think this is a good improvement!

0x1don Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

It looks great despite having very little styling!

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

It's sad when you bookmark a website and there's no favicon... I'll have to try your extension.

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Nice! I'm definitely going to use this. The text is barely visible on a lot of the lighter colors right now.

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Yep, this is the strategy that I'm using. I export the canvas to data URL and place the data URL in the href attribute of the favicon <link>. I'm not sure if this works in every browser though.

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

No problem!

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Awesome, let me know if you have any problems with it!

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Right now I'm adding many different image sizes in the ICO file to cover many types of browsers and devices, but it's probably not a good default. I will expose sizing options or default to fewer sizes in the future.

Thanks for feedback!

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Thanks!

I'm thinking about adding some of the Google web fonts.

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

I've used this more than a handful of times. Thank you!

0x1don Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

https://instafavicon.com/

I created this favicon generator a few weeks ago to generate minimal favicons for my side projects. I'm not good with design tools so it saves me time when I start a new project and want a simple favicon in ICO format.

I'm proud of it because it's server-less. I generate the multi-BMP ICO file in binary using ArrayBuffers and Typed Arrays in JavaScript. I use a <canvas> element to create the images/design.

It's not very polished and I'm sure there are bugs, but feedback would be appreciated!