My Handwriting is, actually, not bad at all. During school days, we four friends used to kinda compete on many things, including Handwriting. We tried a lot, from cursive to type-like to stick, to cowboy’s rope, to queen’s drape, and all sorts.
After high-school, I settled on a mix between a curvy to type-ish Handwriting, which I carry to this day. A few years back, my daughters complained that my Handwriting is “too stylish” for this day-n-age. Even their teachers had to decode why I write some letters the way I write.
So, about a year back, I decided to dedicate a blank Notebook (not ruled or dotted) and I’ve been practicing a simplified version, mostly by removing the curves so they and the younger generations can read it easier. I’m taking it slow - write once a week or so.
For me, it is therapeutic to feel the tactile feedback and listen to the subtle scratchy sound made when the fountain pen writes on well-made paper. https://brajeshwar.com/2025/handwriting/
Embarrassingly, I used to submit my own website’s article. A few of them have hit the front-page of Hacker News. I remember, once submitting it and waiting for it to hit, when it did, I recorded a video of the first few minutes. Then I went to sleep.
> I’m on an adventure to create beautiful and meaningful products to improve the world for my daughters and their friends.
Keep sharing, please. From my POV there’s a lot of shallow, cliche, group-think-y sites / content shared on HN. If you’re true to this mission, yours would be a refreshing change. Thanks.
I’m beginning to like the idea in this space — local first with a backup with your own tool. Recently, https://hyprnote.com was popular here on Hacker News and it is pretty good. They also do the same, works local-first but you can use your preferred tool too.
Totally agreed, huge fan of Hyprnote as well. We work on two slightly different problems, but a lot of our tech has overlap, and our missions especially overlap :)
Any site, especially with a good article that I want to read, I just hit the Reader mode the moment it does anything weird, such as any form of movement or uses bad and undisciplined Typography.
This is what Swarm Technologies, acquired by Starlink, was for. The utility here is not to think of the normal/typical internet usage but for the likes of IoT devices at remote places or moving objects. For $5 /mo (I think per device/connection) is a lot for their use cases — ping the location and some metadata once an hour or so.
After high-school, I settled on a mix between a curvy to type-ish Handwriting, which I carry to this day. A few years back, my daughters complained that my Handwriting is “too stylish” for this day-n-age. Even their teachers had to decode why I write some letters the way I write.
So, about a year back, I decided to dedicate a blank Notebook (not ruled or dotted) and I’ve been practicing a simplified version, mostly by removing the curves so they and the younger generations can read it easier. I’m taking it slow - write once a week or so.
For me, it is therapeutic to feel the tactile feedback and listen to the subtle scratchy sound made when the fountain pen writes on well-made paper. https://brajeshwar.com/2025/handwriting/
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