sheep.horse
sheep.horse · Personal blog · on HN since 2016
sheep.horse is a personal blog covering programming, C++, retro topics, books and web design, including dithered images in HTML.
What HN saysCommenters link it as an example of a blog with no third-party resources, and one praises its pixel-accurate dithering post.
20HN people shared it
7linked it in comments
38stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Micropayments4 people · 10 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Homepage4 people · first shared 2016
- 3Pixel Accurate Atkinson Dithering for Images in HTML3 people · 9 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 4Safety and Performance – Threadsafe Datastructures in C++2 people · 92 points · first shared 2022 · 51 comments on HN
- 5RIP Apple MacBook2 people · 61 points · first shared 2016 · 66 comments on HN
- 6Yo Google, Thanks for the AI Overview but Your Search Sucks Now2 people · 13 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Show HN: Voyage of the Marigold – A Scifi Adventure2 people · 8 points · first shared 2024 · 4 comments on HN
- 8So You Want Me to Hire You as a C++ Developer?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9Improved Web Component for Pixel-Accurate Atkinson Dithered Images2 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10How far is TRAPPIST-1 – visualizing distance2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · 2 comments on HN
- 11A Cassette Audio Control for the Web2 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 3 comments on HN
- 12So you want to start an unpopular blog2 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Crossfading Photos with WebGL – Boston Bridge Project (2017)2 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 14The Worst Web Analytics2 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Quiz planet from doctor who or hair care product2 people · first shared 2020
What HN people wrote when they linked it
AndrewStephens · 2017-09-12
None of the static-site generators I looked at really competed with WordPress on a feature-by-feature basis.
WordPress is easy to set up, supports users and comments (if you want them) and has a lot of really nice features and plugins. WordPress is also slow and a pain in the neck to maintain, but I can understand why people might think the tradeoff is worth it.
I also run my site[1] using my own custom-built generator and I haven't looked back, but even I sometimes miss the ease-of-use that my old WordPress site provided.
[1] https://sheep.horse/
detritus · 2017-03-27
Also, I'm amused to live in an age where http://sheep.horse is a valid URL :)
rsync · 2017-01-05
"I went a step further and designed my blog (https://sheep.horse/) not to use any third-party resources at all. This was easy for me because I am never going to make money from my ramblings about Rogue One or the last book I read."
We (Oh By)[1] did this as well - the difference being that there is probably a fair amount of money we will miss out on in the coming decade by making this decision.
It's an attack vector, it's user hostile, it's slow, it's fragile and it supports an industry that has only degraded the promise of the Internet.
It makes me happy to run a service that doesn't touch it at all.
[1] https://0x.co
devrandoom · 2025-04-10
It's https://sheep.horse/
_ache_ · 2025-04-13
I did the same like 2 weeks ago. In Rust. ^^
I'm still trying to improve it a little. https://git.ache.one/dither/tree/?h=%f0%9f%aa%b5
I didn't published it because it's hard to actually put dithered images on the web, you can't resize a dithered image. So on the web, you have to dither it on the fly. It's why, in the article, there is some artifacts in the images. I still need to learn about dithering.
Reference: https://sheep.horse/2022/12/pixel_accurate_atkinson_dithering_for_imag…
Cool links about dithering: - https://beyondloom.com/blog/dither.html - https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-art-of-dithering-and-retro-sha…
edent · 2020-10-28
I like your quiz! https://sheep.horse/2019/5/quiz_-_planet_from_doctor_who_or_hair_care_…
thanatosmin · 2018-05-31
Hidden in the vast expanse of unicode.
https://sheep.horse/2012/5/blackletter_-_unicode_abuse.html