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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the…

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Show DEV: Building Smartphone Specs API with .NET and Caddy

Mobile hardware specification APIs have long been messy and hard to integrate, largely due to incomplete and unnormalized data. Raw strings as specs are frustrating to use in program logic.

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