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Current official state in the repo: outdated dependencies, build process, etc. I looked into doing it manually, but gave up. Way too much dirty work and me no energy for that. Then I discovered that claude CLI got good - and told it to do it (with ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Things I've Done with AI"}, {"id": 750385456, "item_id": 46899091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899091", "by": "lukan", "date": "2026-02-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Wick editor was quite close, by outputting standalone html files", "excerpt": "We have the web, we don't need ruffle, what we need is indeed a open source flash editor. Wick editor was quite close, by outputting standalone html files https://www.wickeditor.com/ Of course, not at all on the same level like flash was, but some parts worked really nice. Unfortunately it is abandoned. 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But doing it manual, was too much work, outdated and broken build pipeline, stuck on an older node version, deprecated and abandoned dependencies .. so I stopped the experiment. Then I gave it a try with claude beginning of this year. I remember not expecting anything, but did a ", "context": "", "use_case": "Flash-like web animation editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "What was your \"Oh Shit\" moment with GenAI?"}, {"id": 757064240, "item_id": 47316515, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316515", "by": "lukan", "date": "2026-03-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "A working editor that was abandoned and missed features", "excerpt": "For instance, there is a abandoned open source project, I would have liked to see revived, https://www.wickeditor.com/ (a attempt at recreating flash with web technology). Current official state in the repo: outdated dependencies, build process, etc. I looked into doing it manually, but gave up. 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This brand new fork: https://forum.wickeditor.com/t/started-my-own-fork-luke-tools/24363/3", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Adobe Animate will be discontinued effective March 1, 2026"}, {"id": 750385456, "item_id": 46899091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899091", "by": "lukan", "date": "2026-02-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Wick editor was quite close, by outputting standalone html files", "excerpt": "We have the web, we don't need ruffle, what we need is indeed a open source flash editor. Wick editor was quite close, by outputting standalone html files https://www.wickeditor.com/ Of course, not at all on the same level like flash was, but some parts worked really nice. Unfortunately it is abandoned. 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I've dreamed of using a stylus and tablet since reading _The Mote in God's Eye_ when I was young, and have preferred to use them since using a \"Koalapad\" attached to a Commodore 64 in the school computer lab when I was young. The NCR-3125 I had was donated to The Smithsonian by the guy I sold it to, along w/ a lot of other materials on pen computing --- PenPoint was my favourite OS alongside NeXTstep, and the hi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware"}, {"id": 743859568, "item_id": 46491223, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491223", "by": "WillAdams", "date": "2026-01-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "see the opensource Wick Editor", "excerpt": "For folks who are curious about what drawing in FutureWave SmartSketch was like (it was one of my favourite PenPoint apps, and I also bought copies for Mac OS and Windows), see the opensource Wick Editor: https://www.wickeditor.com/editor/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Macromedia Flash, from an Animator's Standpoint"}]}