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untested.sonnet.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2023
Rafał Pastuszak writes at Sonnet about small creative software projects, notes on tools, and experiments such as Ensō and Sit.
What HN saysCommenters are fans of his projects and link his notes, such as the everything canvas, and the Ensō beta; no critical views are given.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Let's Hold Hands – on building toys for serendipitous, non-verbal communication4 people · 7 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 2Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta3 people · 255 points · first shared 2025 · 87 comments on HN
- 3Show HN: 433 – How to make a font that says nothing2 people · 53 points · first shared 2025 · 11 comments on HN
- 4Disobey2 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Coffeeshop Mode2 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 6Share your unfinished, scrappy work (2023)2 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7Rss.xml2 people · first shared 2023
- 8Homepage2 people · first shared 2024
- 9Defaults Matter%2C Don&2 people · first shared 2024
- 10Insomnia, Control1 people · 72 points · first shared 2025 · 41 comments on HN
- 11Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool1 people · 62 points · first shared 2024 · 35 comments on HN
- 12Gregglogger1 people · 43 points · first shared 2024 · 10 comments on HN
- 13The modern Web has lost the User Agent (2023)1 people · 6 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14Bedtime Doodles, an Anatomy1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15How People Use Ensō1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 3 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
rpastuszak · 2026-06-15
The lack of colour is actually quite cool (and it’s a fun creative constraint). But the lack of backlight and usb (iirc) is annoying. The first because you can’t use it in bed and I like to play something cosy/silly in low light (https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/obsidian-for-vampires/).
The second - because now I need a companion app/script to handle comms over WiFi (bonjour). You can use cable, but if I could pair this with my phone… as a personal assistant - that would be amazing!
gregsadetsky · 2024-11-21
Hi, I’m the “greg”. AMA??
But also, this is Rafal’s project. I’m just a huge huge fan of his..! See:
https://sit.sonnet.io/
https://untested.sonnet.io/
And https://www.potato.horse/ !
smugglerFlynn · 2024-01-04
There is also an amazing “together” mode: https://nothing-together.sonnet.io/
https://untested.sonnet.io/Sit.%2C+(together)
rapnie · 2025-12-07
Nice! You might add Prezi as inspiration for zooming and panning across the live dynamic environments, islands on your everything canvas in: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/an-everything-canvas/
jasonjmcghee · 2025-09-05
Any inspiration from https://enso.sonnet.io?
I'm a big fan of everything Rafał Pastuszak does.
They also recently announced a public beta of a rewrite of that product
https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/new-enso-first-public-beta/
Oh - looks like it's been on HN too. Some good discussions...
New version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44421776
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38025073
listenfaster · 2024-11-20
I really like your esthetic, and look forward to reading more of your open garage thoughts!
Unpacking your state of mind as you try to be vulnerable in your journaling in your coffee shop mode post - something I deeply relate to. Nice to see this up front this morning. https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/sketch-enso-coffeeshop-mode/
ossyrial · 2024-08-15
> Google is a big ass company and enjoys outsized market share because people choose to use it.
If this were true, Google could make the immediate and easy decision to increase their annual profits by $26 billion, by simply stopping to pay browser vendors to make Google the default search engine. https://untested.sonnet.io/Defaults+Matter%2C+Don't+Assume+Consent
jabroni_salad · 2023-12-11
https://untested.sonnet.io/rss.xml
the site uses obsidian publish so a lot of things about it are rudimentary. Obsidian is a nice note-taker but the publication platform bit is just a side thingy. also, you can't comment on TFA because it simply does not do comments.
latexr · 2023-10-30
https://untested.sonnet.io/rss.xml
Website says on the bottom right that it’s “Powered by Obsidian Publish” so that seemed like a request for the platform more than the website. Searched online for “Obsidian Publish RSS” and found a feature request on their forum.
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/rss-feed-for-obsidian-publish/18551
Last post points out there are feeds at `/rss.xml`.
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/rss-feed-for-obsidian-publish/18551/14