Show HN: A Personal Blog

2 points by aruss 12y ago ↗ HN

Hi HN,

I know, I know. Not another personal site. I'm just looking for a few quick eyes on my blog[1]. I'm not a designer at all, but would really value any advice you might have (whether or not you're a designer yourself).

I had two specific questions: is the menu ok from a UX perspective (for example, the resume icon isn't that clear)? And, how could I improve the typography? Any/all general feedback would be much appreciated!

I hope to be submitting actually worthwhile content from my site (projects/posts) soon! :)

[1]: https://ahrussell.com/

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dbieber 12y ago ↗

>Experience creating programs to reproduce speech and musical style

Would love to see more about this https://ahrussell.com/projects/fifthseason/run Would be esp. awesome to hear the generated music.

aruss 12y ago ↗

Thanks for checking it out! I'm currently getting into Haskell, and one of my future projects is to use the Euterpea library to re-do this project. I especially want to add in real-time accompaniment using some basic harmonic theory.

Right now I'm working on a Haskell project to do intersolar pathfinding (pathfinding with gravitational effects). I want to see how to get A* or something similar like D* Lite to pick up on gravitational slingshotting by adjusting the heuristic.

auganov 12y ago ↗

That grey in the middle. Feels wrong (reduces contrast too much and thus readability). Navigation looks ok, but I don't understand it. The icons are a bit too cypher'ish.