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Re:Making difficulty curves in games on Saturday August 08, 2026 @09:37PM (#49227579)
Unrelated to the article, but keyboard scrolling is not working on this site. It seems to be deliberately disabled with a script called t1.js. I wonder why. Please, don't mess with keyboard navigation on a blog.
Re:Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor on Friday May 09, 2025 @09:29PM (#43942538)
[0]: https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/

There are numerous projects called "SVG Path Editor", among which this is the most advanced and usable one I've come across.

Re:MathML with Pandoc on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:57PM (#43884366)
I love how Keyboard Maestro comes into play. Instead of some Markdown extension doing the conversion on render, the author selects and converts each equation manually. I think it's a good idea to keep MathML rather than LaTeX in Markdown source.

I have written an AutoHotkey script for my own use that does something similar, but for converting Markdown to HTML — so that I can write in Markdown, but fall back to embedded HTML easily if Markdown is not enough. Maybe I shall replace its pulldown_cmark backend with pandoc to get support for MathML.