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I love that the comments on some of the posts (like this one) are written by hand too!

https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-...

Ironically, "No feeds. No algorithms. No likes." reads like copy that is, well, not handwritten.

Is this moderated in some way? It is the internet. Hard to see how this doesn't fill with doodles of penises and other similar things or worse.

Fantastic idea! I think the hardest part for people to adopt this will be overcoming atrophied handwriting skills and no autocorrect.

One thing that doesn't seem clear to me from reading without signing up is how do you actually upload content? Do you have to have paper and pen and then take a picture of it, or do you provide some kind of excalidraw-like canvas for writing? I notice there isn't any paper background or line rules, which I think would also be nice for those who fancy a bit of structure when reading/writing.

Reminds me of E. W. Dijkstra's digitized hand-written manuscripts:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/index13xx.html

How about a blog that contains its entire source code inline in the blog itself? [0]

[0] - https://mjwg6zy.blog/

Such that copy pasting its contents reconstructs the blog byte for byte

Very human, well done! Thank you!

Might be missing something but I expected a way to browse the blogs - maybe even a 'random blog' link!

Reminds me of tinyprojects.dev Paper Website project from 2021

https://paperwebsite.com/

this seems to be great for like a single page exhibition or something, but reading long form content from something like this, personally I feel this to be not so intuitive

cool idea, but doesn't this prevent translation for foreign audiences? or even screen reader integration

Well I hoped it was some kind of SVG with alt text for copy.

Turns out it's just a webp.

Hi Emile

I like the concept too. People are losing the ability to read handwritten letters and notes. I'm just curious, how does this all work? Can I simply take a photo of a page?

love the idea! I had a similar thing on my todo list :) Glad u made it.

Similar but for typists, https://onetypedpage.com/

i really like this. my issue is usually i read while selecting so my eyes follow which unfortunately the website won't support

This is beautiful!

Who is this for though?

As a writer, a lot of times I am writing over 5,000 words in a single article. I can type at around 170 wpm but my wrist starts hurting the moment I write more than three pages in my journal. I also use a split ergonomic keyboard which helps my hands a lot. I also revise my writing heavily which is very hard to do with handwritten stuff.

For readers, it will maybe be a novelty but I don't really see why anyone will prefer reading content that is handwritten since it has a lot of accessibility problems which are solved with proper typesetting.

I could see the value if it was a collection of interesting notes or unique handwriting styles etc. But i don't think its usuable as a blogging platform imo