Show HN: Live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme | Hacker News
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/03
[Wayback/Archive] Show HN: Live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme | Hacker News
As a fun evening project, I made a live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme (based on a panel from The Adventures of Tintin comics [1]).
There’s a page for every timeframe:
- ‘What a day’: https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day
- ‘What a week’: https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/week
- ‘What a month’: https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/month
- ‘What a year’: https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/year
Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP (not logged or stored). No JavaScript is sent to the browser.
[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
It was easy to edit the HTML to change the message and CSS for the text dimensions, see the image on the right.
MacOS users will likely recognise the font as it is the Marker Felt font which is included by default on MacOS.
And it would be cool to alter the speech bubbles to be more like the ones Hergé used, see this comment:
Can’t believe it took me this long to notice, the meme itself is an altered image of the original comic. Obviously, the speech bobbles are too clean compared to the rest of the comic, but I also notice now that they are a poor imitation of Hergé’s distinct speech bobbles.[0]
[0] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/125/139/0ff…
A bit further in the thread, it shows there is a repository:
Source code: https://github.com/dnlzro/tintin
That should be straightforward to make the text and font size editable. Also I would like to find a font that more closely matches Hergé writing style¹ and textbox style².
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Post by @wiert.bsky.social — Bluesky
Met dank aan news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086479
[Wayback/Archive] bafkreibpq6glzvehca2ynjz7ycifidmpxxe3imwes4uy6jbercmxnnlbiy@jpeg (1000×837)
Archived links
- [Wayback/Archive] Marker Felt in use – Fonts In Use
- [Wayback/Archive] What a day, huh?
- [Wayback/Archive] What a week, huh?
- [Wayback/Archive] What a month, huh?
- [Wayback/Archive] What a year, huh?
- [Wayback/Archive] What a Week, Huh? | Know Your Meme
- [Wayback/Archive] 0ff.jpg (809×829)
Englinh Tintin page showing when Captain Haddock first met Tintin. The page has the text boxes as Hergé original drew them.
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dnlzro/tintin: A live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme
[¹ On the fonts
- [Wayback/Archive] Tintin Ultimate Font Post ! : danktintinmemes
- [Wayback/Archive] [OC] I created a font based off Tintin’s English lettering for all of your ‘dank may may’ needs : danktintinmemes
- [Wayback/Archive] Polsyh Font | dafont.com – based off the font originally used in the English Tintin editions (has the original textbox style as well²), for most people this is the most known font:
This is a font based off of Neil Hyslop’s lettering of the Tintin comic series.
- [Wayback/Archive] Download free tintin Regular font | films.tintin_talking.ttf – based off the font originally used in the French Tintin editions, lesser known for more people, but more original:
² High resolution restored images
The below images contain the original textbox style.
From:
- [Wayback/Archive] What a week huh? : MemeRestoration restored both versions below in 2020
- [Wayback/Archive] What a week, huh? – Album on Imgur contains the images (bug Imgur hates the Wayback Machine, so I included them below on my blog upload as well)
Halftone
Regular
The original image panel on the original page
The page picture above indeed is the original one with the original panel on the lower right, see [Wayback/Archive] Veja a imagem original do meme ‘What a week, huh?’ – 21/09/2021 – Herge – Fotografia – Folha de S.Paulo – note the textbox styles vary, and the lightning connections to the figures as well:
--jeroen
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