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Re:Salesforce Global Outage on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:37AM (#49725179)
"Trust just got personal!"
this is so sick
Re:First Website on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:46AM (#47164300)
At least partially down at the moment, but it's super fun looking through their service status board. I love little glimpses into other people's worlds. https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal?id=service_statu...
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @07:41AM (#46273721)
Bringing back a podcast I last did 20 years ago. My, how things have moved on!
Re:Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:54AM (#45641006)
...well this explains a lot about how my morning is going...
Re:You don't need a modal window on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:21AM (#36057648)
trolling.
I was once asked to sign an NDA in order to discuss developing an app for someone. Upon signing, I learned that they wanted to make an App that let people check their makeup on their phone, without using the camera, by simply converting the pixels to 'mirror' colour. NEXT!
This is lush – great work
Re:NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video] on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:16AM (#14341279)
its a very good idea – not a good name choice. Healthbuntu maybe at a push.
Re:Show HN: Extremely Simple Note-Taking on Monday February 20, 2017 @07:59AM (#13686829)
I'm sure you're server is busy at the moment, but creating notes is quite slow, certainly over a second.
A scholarly work on how ethics and CSR can be a positive influence on the economic model:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Principles-Pay-Responsibility-...

Re:Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:48AM (#12248666)
Will Self – Great Apes. To remind people that sometimes we're just fucking monkeys.
Re:Global Sea Level Rise Map on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:30AM (#10887926)
i heard more like 0.55m in the next 100 years
Re:A cartoon guide to Flux on Monday October 05, 2015 @10:38AM (#10332073)
didn't get to the end, but your writing and graphic style are excellent and very readable
Re:402: Payment Required on Monday October 05, 2015 @10:22AM (#10331965)
i don't hate this.
Re:Keep Out – A WebGL Game on Thursday September 17, 2015 @09:43AM (#10233266)
unplayable for me (Safari 9.0 on El Cap Beta). moved a few spaces to the left and everything freezes. Shame, as it looks very impressive.
Re:HTML5 Deck of Cards on Thursday September 03, 2015 @10:49AM (#10165228)
the animation is lovely and fluid. bit of a shame that the card faces don't have the pictures for the royal cards and the usual layout of multiple suit signs on the number cards, but this is still super.
Re:Thimble – An online code editor on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @08:28AM (#10151865)
no safari 9 support makes dan a sad boy.
Re:Show HN: Visual risk assessments on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @09:57AM (#10085449)
I'm a serial starter-upper, this project being my fifth push in the past 10 years. Three were quick little things that started and stopped soon after - wrong market, no route to market, stronger competitors etc. One did become moderately successful locally, letting me take on a full time developer for a year before the economic meltdown brought us down. I've never been so excited about an idea as I am with SiteVis.it

Architects and Engineers visit sites every day, and their employers have a duty to ensure that they're safe whilst there. A simple way to comply is to do Risk Assessments for the sites that they visit. These documents should be checked before each trip, people should sign them to say they've reviewed them, and edits should be made if things change. IT NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENS. These things get shoved into a file, and never looked at again.

Whilst this is a monumentally unglamorous problem, it's one that can be at least partially solved by throwing some 'convenience' into the process.

SiteVis.it allows everyone in the company to have up-to-date copies of all of the active risk assessments that the company is working on, edit them intuitively, and track who sees which version. Offline editing, and background data refreshing.

Re:Show HN: Electronic Voting System on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @09:46AM (#10085353)
its an interesting project, but being as how the the topic of the project relates to security, democracy and ease-of-use, I think there is a point relating to each that would be worth addressing if you've not yet submitted this for assessment:

1. Security: i know its a demo, but 'admin' and 'password'? No two-factor for admin login? nor biometrics? not even https?

2. Democracy: Candidate 3 is disadvantaged by the fact that their button is partially off screen when there is plenty of room to show all three (ideally in a randomised order)

3. Ease of use: Some visual feedback about what was happening with the fingerprint scanner would be really helpful. You held your finger there for what felt like a minute and if I couldn't see something on screen I think I'd have given up and walked off or found someone to help.

Re:Show HN: Rucksack – CSS superpowers, built on PostCSS on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @09:24AM (#10085199)
a very tidy set of tools :)
It's a sound idea, and a genuine problem. I'm not 100% sure I'd be comfortable with those spreadsheets sitting on someone else's servers though - even if well encrypted. You presumably have the key too?
looks fantastic - if I didn't have a big family to feed and live thousands of miles away. One thing though; having your prices front and centre would be a lot better. The prices are really good, but I was getting nervous that it would be twice that amount before I eventually got to the menu page.
It's a good idea, and the app looks really nicely designed. One thing though... and i hate to say it... does your icon look a little like someone being sick?
Re:Show HN: Tuesday, a new open-source CSS animation library on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @04:27AM (#10084261)
looking really good to me (Safari 9.0) – very nice work
Re:Show HN: Turn any image into ASCII art on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @07:34AM (#10078612)
that's actually really cool - congratulations. not 100% sold on the colour art, but the B&W one is really clever. no option to save as ascii though?
so new that your DNS hasn't updated I fear? or maybe so successful you've busted your bandwidth? i just get a hosting company holding page.
It's a really pretty looking implementation, but for something so early, i'm surprised it has DoubleClick advertising built in?

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