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Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
923 points by kbst on Feb 15, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 182 comments
We had some free time during the Chinese New Year vacation (we live in Taiwan). So I thought it would be fun to work with my daughter on a little web project.

She did all the drawings. I digitized them and added them to the page as inline SVGs. Then I wrote the code. Nothing fancy — it's just one HTML page with a few links. But I like the end result (yes, I'm 100% biased): https://kevin.tw

Fun technical facts: the page is entirely self-contained (except the favicon). It doesn't have any JavaScript at all. And it weighs 35Kb total (52Kb if you include the favicon).




A few years ago, the company I work for acquired a small web agency. I was tasked with migrating their client sites to our infrastructure. One of the gems I found was https://www.jubyla.com/.

After a little asking around, I learned that it was created by the daughter of one of the agency's employees.

I couldn't be responsible for depriving the world of this, so I left it running.


I loved it when the web looked like that. Like a giant art project made by people just having a fun time being expressive.


22 Feb should be Intergalactic Jubyla Day.


Yeah, while I hated so many designs, it was still great to see see what people were coming up with and the content wasn't posted for "likes" or fakes internet points. It was just stuff people wanted to share. There was also a lot of copying in those days. People would find a cool gif or background image on one site and add it to their own sites. There were all kinds of layouts too. The entire web felt very collaborative and experimental before everyone got corralled into corporate controlled templates and DMCA notices started flying around everywhere.


Yes before all the joy, colour and happiness of the digital world was sucked out by flat design.


Very nice.

My 8-year-old is wanting to start a podcast where she reads aloud the stories she has written. She was disappointed when I told her I probably wouldn't be able to get them listed on Audible or on Pinna, but I think a website like that might be just the ticket.


It's really easy to get a podcast into Apple Podcasts, just submit a URL for the RSS feed. If you don't mind intervening to edit the XML when a new episode goes up, all you need is a directory on a web host somewhere... you drop in a hand-jammed XML file for the RSS feed and all the mp3 files.


Heads up, I think you're still on the hook for download bandwidth though. Bandwidth is one reason podcast hosting is so popular.

If you use a service like Transistor.fm, you can get a website generated for your feed automatically. Not much customization options, but probably enough to get by. For $9/mo, it's not a bad option.


Here’s a tutorial on how to do it. https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2018/08/10/how-to-submit-your-p...


That sounds lovely. Please encourage her and help her. It's an amazing feeling when you put your work on the web on a safe manner as a kid.


Please check out https://anchor.fm/ , all you need to start a small podcast. Please don’t shut a child dream like that, I will be a recurring listener!


You should encourage her. If anything, in a few years, hearing it will trigger memories from this time.


> reads aloud the stories she has written

That sounds fantastic!


This is great. Thanks for maintaining this artifact of pre-Web 2.0 days. And who knows, the next hot startup Jubyla may want to buy the domain for millions.


Eventually six-letter domains will be the new 5-letter domains!


This is brilliant. I love finding old pages, my uncle used to have a page way back in the day and I remember (as a kid) being absolutely fascinated by it. Seemed like magic to me. It's now mostly defunct (nothing works anymore, the tabs don't even show up, but it still has a landing page) http://wildrock.de/


I've seen this exact java support before and modernized it. Here's some new source for your uncle, though without the colored glow effects added by the java applet: https://gist.github.com/Efreak/7d51382bb1787b9e34f3428a61ad7...

Since I first did this years ago and this was a simple copy/paste of that on mobile, it uses javascript to change img src instead of css :hover to change a background.


that's so awesome, thank you!


Another gem: http://www.christianpoulet.com/iemac/en/indexf.htm


Weird -- I reloaded the page, but the view counter didn't update!


This is insanely cute, and posting WAV audio files on a website in 2000 strikes me as pretty sophisticated! Did you or someone else convert some older audio-playing mechanism to <audio> tags? I don't remember those existing back in 2000.

My two boys both have colds today, so the little-kid congestion in the recordings is extra adorable for me at the moment. Thanks for sharing.


When I first came across the site in 2017, all the audio files were in embed tags and they all autoplayed at once. It looks like one of my coworkers "fixed" that in 2019.


I played them all simultaneously to see how it'd be and I can confirm it is great


It was quite trivial actually, the problem was that downloading a wav file on dial-up wasn't the best experience so you'd have to make sure to downsample for it to be usable.


If I recall correctly the audio tag RFC first came out in 2000 but I'd be shocked if any major browsers supported it.


You could use EMBED to autoplay WAV and MIDI. IE (in classic Microsoft fashion) also defined BGSOUND for the same.

I remember an email signature from around that time that went "If I wanted your website to make sound, I'd have licked my finger and rubbed it across my monitor."


Since the mid 90s Internet Explorer & Netscape had aiff support and autoplay and Javascript 1.0. We had some good times.

https://auth0.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-javascript/


The earliest browser to support the audio tag that I can find would be Safari 3.1, or the first release of Chrome, in 2008.

(No support in Netscape. Firefox in 2009, IE got it in 2010, Opera in 2011).

Before then, I'd be expecting bgsound on IE, or embed for everyone else, or object and a plugin.


You could do audio with the adobe svg plugin round about 2002-3 I think. I made a pong game with stereo ball noise.


>Please respect Jubyla's Copyright © 2000

Curses! I was totally going to steal this site! Foiled again!


This really makes me think I wonder if someone could get a business model working for "permanent" web presences to be set up for small sites with a fixed amount of traffic per month, where you could pay an up front fee and it will be hosted "forever"


The primary issue would be the domain name which, unlike computing power, keeps going up in price. Once you solve that static site hosting is available basically anywhere from Neocities to GitHub and Codeberg Pages.


The problem with all those free static site hosting providers is that you never know when they'll go away entirely, or change things in a way that'll break your website if you're not around to migrate it.


Well no company can give you a forever guarantee.


According to Archive.org [1], it costs roughly $2.00 per GB for perpetual hosting.

ARWeave is meant to do this: Permanent hosting on web3, with the benefit of persistent URIs (i.e. you don't need to rely on DNS for name resolution).

[1] https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014755952-Arch...


My rough estimate puts that at $300 in expense, to have it permanently hosted:

$1/mo at 4% drawdown yearly is $300.

So yeah, for $500 I’ll figure out a perpetual trust for your minimalistic static, low traffic website.


Some of the big private Victorian cemeteries around London were funded like this. I guess they thought they could get enough money together to create a fund, and run the cemetery off the profits. I don't think it worked out anywhere.


This is great. If some kerbal developers see this please name a planet Jubyla in Kerbal 2.0!


With tons of flowers, and a restaurant and malls!


This would also make a great content addition to Hypnospace Outlaw!


This looks exactly like a site out of Hypnospace Outlaw, an video game where you moderate websites in an alternate 1990s where mind-reading technology exists.


Wow! those butterflies are from CorelDraw. you reminded my childhood. :)


> discovered a new planet named Jubyla. It has rings like Saturn. It looks like chocolate ice cream.

That is so wholesome. I miss the old web.


wow, I can't stop thinking about this! I love jubyla. thanks for posting. any chance you could message me on twitter at @fluffybabycow?


I'm sure you know but you could inline the favicon with a data: uri scheme if you wanted to go completely self-contained

<link href="data:image/x-icon;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQEAYAAABPYyMiAAAABmJLR0T///////8JWPfcAAAACXBIWXMAAABIAAAASABGyWs+AAAAF0lEQVRIx2NgGAWjYBSMglEwCkbBSAcACBAAAeaR9cIAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" />


I for one 'knew' this but had forgotten, as is so easy with this kind of trivia. These little pro tips are a big part of what keep me coming back to the site, and there's always someone who didn't know.

The disclaimer is of course polite, I'm just saying thanks.


I originally added that phase for polite reasons too, hope I didn't come off as preachy or egotistical. I always fret about teaching topics like these lest I come off as a know-it-all.


I'm pretty sure browsers are gonna request /favicon.ico anyway.


It vexes me (though, not as much as the apple variants).

The date the last ~active browser stops requesting favicon.ico if one was already inlined would make a good betting pool.


Eh, its probably never going to happen. I'm sure less than 1% of sites would serve a favicon via data uri not to mention racing the favicon along with the domain on first visits speeds up the process.

Favicons are already transferred a lot. Back in the day having notifications / unread counts in the favicon itself was very common. It would show up in the tab bar and also the bookmark icon so it was a quick micro-communication channel with a website before all the modern things.


Browsers gotta browse.

They can request but you don't have to respond.


Absolutely beautiful, I was expecting some kid looking fancy website. And I will leave a polite message of encouragement. Instead I thought this is extremely well made. It has the good old Apple skeuomorphism for Notepad which I know HN hated it but I love it.

And it was fast. Very fast. I am not sure if I am impressed by your implementation of your daughter's design or both. Could you describe the process of "digitized them and added them to the page as inline SVGs." ?

You also went from Sales and Marketing to product designer and Founder. This is going to be an interesting read if you ever decide to write about it.


I remember when hand-drawn web design was highly trendy back in 2009-2013, and many of them would be featured on awwwards.com.

They were beautiful.


I've seen a lot of love for skeuomorphism on HN


Skeuomorphism is great if your audience understands the medium you are trying to replicate. I think that's why Apple had such great success with the first iPhone.

As we've become more digitally literate, not as many design cues are needed to convey the intended use. Compared to a plain rectangle, a button with lots of texture, borders, and shadows is going to take more time to develop and code. When time is money, it gets harder to justify if there isn't another reason for the more specialized design.

That said, I still have a soft spot for skeuomorphism as well. :)


It's a good idea to run SVGs through SVGO before you use them. In this case, the robot SVG data can be shrunk by almost 50% by using SVGO (or svgomg https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/) with a precision of 0 and using the 'prefers viewbox' option. I didn't try the others.


FWIW, ImageOptim[0] is a nice, very simple desktop app that includes SVGO and a bunch of other optimizers for various formats. Drop images, done.

[0] https://imageoptim.com


Even if you're looking for a fast Photoshop fix, a decent instructional might help you unwind. https://pathedits.com/blogs/tips/tips-tools-and-how-to-reduc...


nice, I'm going to see if I can compress some intricate SVGs enough to make fancier NFTs with onchain image data instead of IPFS or external dedicated webserver.

fixing one of the criticisms with that technology. a couple more to go


Svgo is so good. It's like a cheat code. I use that GUI too.


Nice!

Did the same kind of thing a few years ago. When my kids were in to tower defense games.

https://pettersson.casa/td2/


Came for copper i found gold. got a nice inspiration by seeing this website


haha the crayon styling is great, care to share any implementation details?


Thanks, courtesy of my kids 8 years ago. =)

The implementation is nothing fancy at all. The graphics is done with PixiJS, and there is a sprinkle of jQuery and TweenMax for the movement.


That's a great idea and it turned out way better than the headline made me fear. You keep the spirit of her drawings but present it in a really creative way.

I also like the no-bs approach on the technical side. This is indeed a page that does not need a single line of Javascript and it's a testament to what you can do with most basic web technology. I hope this lightness will have its big comeback someday.


Yeah I was not expecting to like this as much as I do


> the page is entirely self-contained (except the favicon)

I have made a self contained page as well a few days ago. This is oddly satisfying. I use pixel art to make the illustrations (it's all CSS though).

If you want to take a look at it : https://drdru.github.io/pixel_art_book/pixel-art(1).html


I also like self contained pages, especially how they simplify long term maintenance.

For images I do a different hack, I encode images to base64 and embed them via CSS `background: url('data:image/jpeg;base64,/...')`, or img src. The base64 encoding is not very efficient though, so I wouldn't do this for larger images.

Example: https://merely.xyz (page background has a subtle "concrete" pattern).


I’ve been working on something similar - embedding pixel art as ASCII with some JavaScript to render it as images:

https://memalign.github.io/m/pceimage/index.html


Oh nice! Love that you color the characters in the editor appropriately as well, that makes working with it a lot easier. Would it be possible to have space be #00000000 by default?


Thanks for trying this out! That’s a good idea! For now, you can manually specify “ :#00000000” in the top section.

One reason I’ve been using “.” as the background in my own PCEImages so far is so it’s easy to see that all the lines are the right width.


Pixelart images?? You sir have too much free time on your hands

Love the outcome though


The reason we write software is to save us time :-). The way I do it is :

- download (free) video game tiles

- upload them to https://www.pixelartcss.com/ to turn them into CSS

- use this tool (kindly made by thecodingfox a few days ago) to place the tiles on a grid and create the whole image from the CSS returned by pixelartcss : https://www.thecodingfox.com/interactive/pixel-world-editor/


One word to sum this up: wow


I was wondering why the zoom was all wrong and I had to zoom out 2 steps. Turns out thats what happens when you use 125% ui scaling in windows 10.


Excuse my ignorance. What does self-contained mean? I've seen a lot of people mentioning it but haven't been able to find a good source to read from and learn more about


That it's only the HTML file, no external files (CSS, JS, images, ...) loaded/needed.


Got it. Thanks!


See also: https://www.lilywise.com/

(JeffTK's daughter, he comments around here sometimes)


Her sister has one too: https://www.annawise.net/

The pages look exactly how they tell me they should look, for better or worse.


My fave section on this is “Birthdays I’ve Been To”


The Bad Day - "I didn't like today, and also it was super bad."

Simple and to the point. I love it.


reminds me of geocities


Nah. Needs more animated "under construction" GIFs, a hit counter, and maybe a guest book... lol.

In all seriousness, yeah, I agree. It would be an excellent design if the text were more readable. There's not much contrast between the text color and background image.

Edit: Hey, @jefftk, here's a before and after of a tiny tweak I did to Lilly's page to increase readability: https://imgur.com/a/AEAc4pk

All I did was add

    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px lightgrey;
to the html element style. Maybe you can suggest she and her sister make a similar change? :)


Thanks! I showed it to her when she came home from school, and she decided she liked it, so I've made the change.

(She also updated the picture)


Awesome! Glad to be of help. :)


That is a cool project. And a great way to show her that it is quite easy to create something and put it out there.

I love the site and the story behind it even more.

Thanks for sharing.

ps.: This reminded me of when my dad (in the early 90ies) took me to his workshop and let me help build a shelf. I was allowed to sand the wood and I was allowed to drill holes (I was only a little older than your daughter).

I had an incredibly good time with my father.

Two weeks later it got even better. On my birthday (my mother had taken me on a trip to get me out of the house) my father built the "shelf" - it was a loft bed for me - homemade and just as I had always wanted.

That made it even more awesome for me.


Clickable: https://kevin.tw

I love it!


I just found out that links in the OP are actually clickable now even if they don't look like it. That seems like a new thing.


Interesting! When I first opened the post before I made the comment it wasn’t clickable, and now it is. Maybe it requires a moderator approval?


Yes, moderators manually enable it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28215165


About a decade ago, I asked my little sister to draw a header and a logo to my website https://www.frozenfrog.es

She used watercolor and I think Adobe Illustrator for the logo It is not a very business-oriented design, but most customers do not visit that site at all. They usually go directly to the specific app page.


OT: How is the tech scene in Taiwan?

My wife is from Taiwan. Every time we visit I am very sad to leave. We have thought about moving to Taipei.


Looks like there will be a Taipei Hacker News meetup in 2 weeks :

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taipei-hacker-news-meetup-1-tic...


Also interested in this and also very sad every time we need to leave Taiwan! I've always liked the idea of moving to Taipei though the summer weather does dampen my enthusiasm :D


She's a better web designer than I was at 6!

Did she design it as a website? It's interesting that she went with drawings/a piece of paper as the default presentation. (Assuming that was her decision).


She's a better web designer than I am at age 37 ;-)


She's 6. Of course she didn't. She drew it on paper and then he made a website that looks like something a 6 year old drew on paper.


Sure. I mean, she's 6. The point is that she contributed to it, the point is she collaborated with dad to make a website, just like my 4 year old daughter contributes in the kitchen, 'helping'. Its 'helping' because its helping in spirit. It would be more productive if she didn't help, but then she wouldn't learn from it. Which is the point of this: learning by doing (and its good for the dad-daughter connection). I love the concept (before result), I also love the end result. Well done, daughter & dad. Inspiring (not that I'm into web design, so perhaps rather: encouraging) <3

To draw a parallel: I got skates for my birthday. I got nothing with skating, I will probably dislike it. I haven't used them yet. But I will. And then my daughter will see how I learn it, and guess what? We already bought her skates as well. If she's anything like me (and she is, given she was late walker and finds playground scary), she's gonna find it difficult. But if she overcomes it, she's gonna love it (like I had with running, hiking, swimming). We'll also go to the swimming pool together. We already got 3 bicycles for different stages in her life, also for her brother (she used the walking one already). Its just that she's occupied with a different goal right now (just turned 4, getting out of diapers, going to school, plus we had the Covid pandemic), so I was & am procrastinating.


It could be that the kids artwork is cuter than her dads artwork.


I had a website that was up when I was 6 that an adult had never touched. It was shit, but it existed, and I understood the difference between 'designing' for paper (I also liked drawing) and a website.

I thought it was interesting because when I was 6, it was 1994 and the Web was very different from analogue information, presentation wise, and so I never really tried combining my artistic skills and my Web skills, but now the Web is full of images + videos and everybody knows that using neon text/backgrounds aren't a great idea just because we're not using ink.

So a kid's conception of what can go on a website now is completely different and I thought that was neat. Makes me wonder what a 6 year old designing a website will look like in 2052.


It looks great! :D It's a lovely idea.

Because of the filesize, this would be right at home on the 512KB club: https://512kb.club/


And people say the child labor laws are too strict …

Jokes aside, I can tell from the responses that there are two kinds of people: those with recent experience of a 6 year old, and those without.


Tiny accessibility suggestion:

Add a <span class="sr-only">Kevin Basset</span> into your H1.

    .sr-only {
      position:absolute;
      left:-10000px;
      top:auto;
      width:1px;
      height:1px;
      overflow:hidden;
    }
Source: https://webaim.org/techniques/css/invisiblecontent/


Mostly off topic nitpicking, but...

In the International System of Units (SI):

  k: kilo-   = *1000, prefix
  K: kelvin  = the unit of thermodynamic temperature
In the IEEE 1541-2002 standard:

  b: bit     = the basic unit of information
  B: byte    = a set of adjacent bits (usually, but not necessarily, eight)
This thread contains all possible combinations of the above, with unclear intent, and I don't like it at all. It's not that hard to be unambiguous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541-2002


This is great! I miss the personal site era where you saw different designs all of the time rather than just the common big social network templates.


The design looks great, and behaves good on smaller width screens. However, the site breaks a bit when you have a smaller height screen. Maybe thats something you could fix :)


This is such a cool idea and it looks great. You both did a really good job with this.

On a side note, I miss how creative people used to be with their personal websites. I'm guilty of it too, but everyone's blog is so similar these days. Apart from slight variants in page width and typeface there really isn't much creativity on the web these days. It's nice to see something different.


I know a future web designer when I see one!

As a side note and you're probably not interested in this, but since you mention the total size: your avatar/favicon can be compressed down. to 14.3kb (saving 18,6%) which keeps the Toal just under 50Kb!


Very nice site. Kudos to your daughter :)


The website looks great! It has a really nice feel to it.

It makes me want to see more pages designed by kids, but at some point I think there might be an issue of child labor.

The design feels unique and genuine


This gives be some strong 90s web vibes. Before the days of html5, javascript frameworks and professional UX designers we used [ImageMap|https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images_imagemap.asp].

It was maybe not clean and professional but it felt fun. This also feels fun. It's clear that the person that designed this website found joy in the process.


This is SO COOL! Well done! First of all, it's an adorable idea; second, it looks great!

And the style of the notebook page behind it, fantastic idea. Save this stuff so hard; one day, your daughter might be a professional designer, and this should absolutely be in her portfolio :)


If you want to include the favicon, you can base64 encode it. Works nicely, and it's what I did at https://justyourip.com.

Also, I LOVE IT SO MUCH. The web needs more of this kind of thing!


Very cool.

I also did a small web project with my 9yo son, while my 1yo daughter stayed on my lap.

He mentioned a website name, tiramacacos.com (means take-boogers). I said we could do something about it and in a few minutes we had the artwork and some minimal html to support it.


And it does all that without requesting untrusted third party JS? Amazing! Have my upvote.


Your coronavirus app misses a significant feature: to select the time frame when doing a logarithmic plot. Without being able to reduce the time to say a few weeks, you can't tell visually if the current situation is exponential or not.


This is so awesome. This is what the web used to look like in the 90s when I was a kid learning to program, and it was glorious. Now everything top-10000 websites looks the same. Let's have more daughters design websites!


It's great! Lacks nothing.

On a related note: I friend of mine once said that an architect (the kind that design buildings) shouldn't be allowed to be older than eight. Still feels like a low-hanging fruit to make the world better.


It looks good, i'd say it's not biased!

Practical: no "actual" portfolio except 2 links/why do you want people to visit the site?

Not everyone likes going to LinkedIn to see more about you, since it automatically tracks the visitors.


> Practical: no "actual" portfolio except 2 links/why do you want people to visit the site?

Not OP, but I hate having to update multiple sources when I update my portfolio. I jumped through some hoops to get around that and I'm still not content with my setup. Not sure if that's the reason OP didn't put his resume on his site, but if it is, I sympathize.


Why would you need to constantly update things? Just give a brief description of yourselve ( eg. like an intro on github). Or give a couple of examples of a portfolio ( doesn't need to be up to date)

They can see employment details on Linkedin, if they are curious.


in a video a developer recalls how his teenage daughter made early progress in webdesign. It was all fun and games until she wanted to show her work to friends. He reached for firebase deploy as an easy means to get files in the current directory uploaded and an url back that is public.

This works with supervising / developer parents and maybe a linked billing account. But what are other easy means in reach for the very young? Mozilla had initiatives like "Hackasaurus" and "Webmaker" since discontinued. Publishing on the phone itself intrigues me the most still.


Maybe neocities? I haven't experimented with it, but you get a gigabyte of storage with the free version, you can use their HTML editor or just upload files, etc. Seems like it abstracts away the un-fun parts and lets you get down to just building the site.


This is cool! Constructive critique: Maybe add some text labels for a11y? From a cursory glance in dev tools it seems a little confusing, looking at the heading and some of the illustrations.


I love this it looks different uniqueness is missing in websites as most people use templates which takes away the art and beauty of most websites …you Should keep her as your design


Teaching my daughter HTML, CSS, Github with this - https://methidal.github.io. The poems are her own.


I mean... to be honest is better than most of the personal websites I've seen. But, the execution of the design is spot on, I think part of the success is due to that :P


Normally I come here for the intelligent discussion, but this made me happy scream at my monitor -- absolutely the cutest thing I've ever seen. Great work Kyra!


From beginning to end, I was completely absorbed by this, even though I'd never written a single line of code in my life. Thank you for your assistance.


Adding to the echo here a bit, but once more: this is so cool! Good on you for sharing something special like this with your daughter. Well done.


So good! Websites rarely have personalities any more.


Very impressive. Congrats to you both. It is an excellent idea, and it would be nice to see a lot more inspired by this. Thanks for sharing.


That's awesome. On FF, it's complaining that there's an issue with the SSL cert FYI: Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER


Love it. Only complaint is the red highlighting since I've got a mild red-green issue it doesn't show up as well as the blue.


The website looks great. Did she do the drawings with an e-ink pen or do you have a process to make these images from a paper drawing?


Love the idea

Fwiw, it’s slightly broken on my iPad; I see the arrow at the bottom pointing to something below the fold but I can’t scroll down


So... why does it look like a snail?


Fantastic idea and fantastic execution. I love that it is different to every other personal website I may visit.


I like it a lot! Looks great on a 4k screen.

Perhaps the next logical step would be to move the blog over at medium to your site.


This is excellent, much clearer and nicer than all those "minimal" style personal websites.


I wish my drawings at 6 yo were that good. Maybe my kid will beat me when she's 6.


This is the most charm and personality I've seen in a landing page in some time.


Looks nice!

In landscape mode on chrome/android, the footer overlaps the main part of the page.


Landscape on iOS, you can’t even see the header nor can you scroll it.

Given the web today, I wonder is anyone still turns their phone. I hold a phone in landscape sometimes, and see 14px of content, a header, a huge cookie choices bar (scroll to see the “decline cookies” button, which leads to a maze of twisty toggles all alike), and an advertising bar at the bottom with a teeny tiny X. Even broken this site’s design is better.


Love this! My little dude is nearly two, I now have his first project ready.


This makes me feel warm and fuzzy again for the old web. This is wonderful!


Love it! Better looking than most corporate templated websites these days.


I couldn't draw/write that neat until I was probably twice that age.

Nicely done


Beautiful site. Your kid is very talented. Best of luck to you both!


This is awesome and so cool. How did you digitise the drawings?


This is really great, your product website is excellent too.


Finally. Something that ain’t corporate Memphis! Nice work


She designed a better site than I ever will :P


Very Nice and unique, I like its design a lot


This is awesome! You should feel proud dad!


This is awesome! thanks for sharing


I think your daughter has talent!


Drawing talent ?


this is great. it does come as a surprise that almost 40% of the payload is favicon


This is dope, nice work Kyra!


Awesome. I like the style :)


Great! I was like that and this will help her A LOT.

Save this website for later Maybe it could become a NFT haha


Yep! Just as soon as, like my parents used to say, "you become very rich and famous and buy your dear old parents lots of nice things".


thats awesome. nice work:) seems like she has a bright future!


Looks really great!


Great job you two.


It's awesome!


This is so awesome


Very cool site!


Awesome stuff.


i love it. love love love it.


very cool


this is the cutest!


its awesome!


Heartwarming and awesome!


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My son and I made a video game when he was 6 (started at least). I did 99% of the coding, was 3d and math a little advanced but he drew it out, recorded audio and did a lot of research and work for it.

If the kid is excited about project you don’t need to explain much, it’s more holding them back from grandiose ideas. Kid doesn’t need to be a genius, hard work trumps that.


Wasn't it possible to do some antialiasing for Firefox? So painful to look at these stairs instead of good old lined pages from notebooks. And only two holes in the page which meant to be a spring notebook is kind of lame. And afaik margins and holes for spring are on different sides of a sheet. And of course it looks sooo ugly on vertical ultrawide because of noticeable incline of buttons (on usual monitor they are not) and the insane height of a notebook page. BTW it will be interesting to see the design of new (also clickable) arrows gathered in stack when this page will contain more links to your works (now it is progressier.com and coronavirus.app and they are not stacking until some third work will appear). So, your daughter has done a great job but you still have some space to grow.


Firefox has always done a spectacularly bad job of thin and especially thin slight-angled gradients. I’m not sure quite why they allow it to remain so bad. I wish they would fix it—but my wish is nowhere near great enough to try to figure out how to fix it myself, which would doubtless be an arduous journey.


Why am I downvoted so heavily? I tested the website in two computers and have payed my attention to any element in dev console, then wrote down all the issues I have found. If I was rude or something, why not just to tell me?


Was it necessary to say "of course it looks sooo ugly" before delivering your feedback? This sort of phrasing isn't constructive, and taints the rest of your message.

When I was younger, I thought it was enough that I was speaking the truth, even if I phrased things harshly. I'd think to myself "they should listen to what I have to say, because I'm correct. If they don't like how I phrased it, that's their problem." Unfortunately, humans aren't robots. If you're going to deliver harsh feedback, it's important to do it in a way where the other person is likely to accept the message you're trying to communicate. Otherwise, you may as well have not sent any message at all.


The community guidelines are a pretty good start. If I were to take a guess, your comment came off as more of a complaint than constructive feedback. Your point may have been valid, but the delivery was just “off”.




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