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serge-rgb
milton
C++2017–2025
serge-rgb / milton

milton

An infinite-canvas paint program

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

An infinite-canvas paint program

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-07-31 02:51:37 UTC to 2025-03-15 16:35:49 UTC.

012017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I have used Milton for this for about a year or so. One thing I really like about Milton is the Grid tool, to create rows and columns. It’s great for sketching out ideas or calculations when learning. From what I can tell, Lorien just has Rectangles, so Grids would be a nice addition. I think the Linux code for Milton had one or two issues when compiling on a modern Arch system, but I have a simple fix laying around if anybody else has trouble. I should try Lorien though. https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton
In Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
I was basically introduced to Twitch by Handmade Hero, and Casey (the host) seems to have brought a bunch of his contemporaries in as well. Handmade Hero: Complete game from scratch (nothing but platform libraries). Has spawned a number of small projects, like 4coder (https://4coder.itch.io/4coder) and Milton (https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton) and a lot more: http://handmade.network/ https://handmadehero.org/ Bitwise: Complete hardware/software stack for a RISC-V computer from scratch (compiler, assembler, ...) https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise Sean Barrett: He's the author of the excellent stb header-only libraries, does the occasional live coding video. https://www.twitch.tv/nothings2 https://www.youtube.com/user/silverspaceship/videos Jonathan Blow: He's the game developer and designer behind Braid and The Witness. He's design
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ing a programming language (JAI), works on that and shows off features, as well as doing game development, on his channel. (And occasionally playing games.) https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88 with no schedule VODs: https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/videos Martin "quill18" Glaude: He's primarily a game streamer, but also a consistent Ludum Dare participant, with some high placement in many of them. He has a series of programming videos. https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 Vods: https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18creates/videos They have different approaches, but mostly ignore the chat during the stream, but often the chat has very bright folks who can help out.
In Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one

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