Tim Holman
tholman.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Tim Holman, a developer, shares playful JavaScript experiments and small libraries like Elevator.js, GitHub Corners, and 90s Cursor Effects.
What HN saysHN commenters praise his projects as incredible, and point to his homepage as a source of weird web experiments and The Useless Web.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator7 people · 1.4K points · first shared 2015 · 313 comments on HN
- 2Homepage5 people · first shared 2015
- 3GitHub Corners4 people · 12 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 490s Cursor Effects2 people · 620 points · first shared 2022 · 170 comments on HN
- 5Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be2 people · 282 points · first shared 2018 · 93 comments on HN
- 6JavaScript library to show fullscreen GIFs on hover2 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 7JS library to run animations hidden in comments2 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Texter1 people · 441 points · first shared 2016 · 38 comments on HN
- 9Texter: Drawing with text using JavaScript and Canvas1 people · 77 points · first shared 2012 · 14 comments on HN
- 10Show HN: Discreet Twitter buttons1 people · 16 points · first shared 2013 · 13 comments on HN
- 11Fluid Dynamics in Javascript with Canvas1 people · 8 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
- 12Slack Passive Aggressive Office Simulator1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13Intense Image Viewer1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 14Draw Worms with javascript/canvas1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Generative Art Speedrun1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
ZachSaucier · 2024-10-23
I can't believe you didn't even mention your website dedicated to this, Tim! https://theuselessweb.com/
Longer list here: https://tholman.com/
tholman · 2023-07-04
https://tholman.com/ - Largely JS experiments dating back 10+ years. Sometimes I scroll right back to the start and can appreciate the long journey I've taken from scrappy student to now.
laacz · 2016-02-25
I've been running out of ways to find weird new yet not absurd stuff on the web. All linkblogs are constantly dying. Even these from the beginning of this century. Thanks to author's homepage[1] (can I call it that?) now I have one fresh - http://inspiring.online/.
1: http://tholman.com
drinchev · 2016-02-23
All projects of the author are incredible [1]. "The Useless Web" [2] is something I enjoy every time too.
1: http://tholman.com/
2: http://www.theuselessweb.com/
somecoder · 2015-11-10
Made by Tim Holman:
http://tholman.com/
Velocifyer · 2026-03-28
I made this to learn JavaScript and because retro cursor effects (https://tholman.com/cursor-effects/) was too complicated.
0XAFFE · 2025-03-03
Now combine it with elevatorjs:
https://tholman.com/elevator.js/
metaphor · 2018-09-08
For those of us outside the graphic design bubble, the author's top-level post[1] briefly explaining his madness.
[1] http://tholman.com/post/smelvetica/
chrismorgan · 2017-09-11
http://tholman.com/github-corners/ is another, which gives you straight SVG to inline. This one with a couple of minutes of minification and inlining comes to about 1 170 bytes (no gzip); that one after similar time comes to about 985 bytes and more accessible (see its aria-label/aria-hidden) if you remove the fancy animation which is a bonus.
(I confess I’m addicted to shaving bytes.)
bshimmin · 2016-02-23
I thought I recognised the URL! This is by the same genius as Elevator.js: http://tholman.com/elevator.js/ (Turn your sound on.)
getdavidhiggins · 2015-03-22
Yeah there's a few tools out that I've been meaning to add, like:
http://demo.danielmclaren.com/2015/diacriticism/
http://tholman.com/unicoder.js/
http://animalswithinanimals.com/generator/
dazbradbury · 2016-02-23
It's one of his projects: http://tholman.com/giflinks/