edmundo
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:45PM (#46624972)
Here’s mine, has a little reading library, some blog posts, and that’s about it: https://edmundo.is/home
Re:Bicycle Rolling Resistance: Tire Rolling Resistance Tests and More
on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:57AM (#40366307)
>Speeds over 30 mph on some descents
All that aero is probably not working so well for you. Even on my mountain bike with grippy and wide tires I get over 40 mph. On my gravel I can hit over 50 mph, and thats with 45mm tires.
Re:Photonic crystals bend light as though it were under the influence ...
on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:59AM (#37912699)
Scientists have theoretically predicted that light can be bent under pseudogravity. A recent study by researchers using photonic crystals has demonstrated this phenomenon. This breakthrough has significant implications for optics, materials science, and the development of 6G communications.
Scientists discover a new antimicrobial molecule and named it after Keanu Reeves
Re:Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
on Saturday January 28, 2023 @11:01AM (#34558641)
I grew up around peanuts. My grandparents had a big peanut plantation at their country house, so they always had tons of peanuts at home.
The first time I took my wife (then girlfriend) to visit them, they were having peanuts in the shell — by cracking the shell open and eating them.
My wife, looking very puzzled and intrigued, asked my grandfather. “What is that?”, to which he replied “Uh… peanuts?”. Oh how we laughed.
She was 20 years old at the time and didn’t know peanuts came from the shell, she’d have only seen them without it.
I still remember my grandfathers smile, he had never met anyone that didn’t “know peanuts”. He found it so funny. I miss him.
Re:I made a virtual bookshelf
on Saturday May 07, 2022 @09:42AM (#31294354)
Very cool! I might borrow some of your ideas and implement them on my own reading log (https://edmundo.is/reading). Right now it’s just a list of all books I have read, but I'm working on implementing filters for genre and year (year only shows on hover for now, or by tapping the book on mobile), and maybe breaking the grid by year like you have!
Dave Matthews Band Chicago River Incident
Lead Poisoning and Rome
Re:Claude Shannon: The Mathematical Theory of Cryptography
on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:47AM (#26492811)
That should be fixed now, thanks!
Ps.: that’s what happens when designers code :P
Re:GitHub Releases Dark Mode
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:50PM (#25351177)
I had LASIK done 2 months ago or so, and I was seeing the same halo effect at first, but it got better eventually and now I'm back using dark mode.
Daniel Shiffman’s explanation of the perceptron algorithm
React Summit Remote Edition 2020 – Recorded Talks
Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @07:09AM (#22944316)
I use Duo almost everyday (and so do my friends) and IMO it has the best audio/video quality overall, speciality on sketchy connections.
Glad to see they are still making improvements, but with Google you know that products are simply abandoned from time to time so can't get too attached to it really.
Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:22PM (#21597460)
I'm a designer and I do user testing for every feature in the app I'm working on – usually using Sketch or Framer X for cases where better prototypes are needed, and in mostly all cases the design changes because of it. It's very hard to get it right in he first try, and I can't believe I'm the exception here.
Funny thing too: because I usually do the implementation of my own designs (react-native app so not so big of a barrier), I usually discover limitations of the original design and have to tweak it to better fit the medium.
Re:Why is Android Studio's Emulator always listening to my microphone?
on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:41PM (#21588859)
The same happens with the iOS Simulator. I noticed when developing an app (that doesn't need any microphone permissions itself), my noise cancelling headphones would stop the noise cancelling feature, like it happens when calling someone and using the microphone. Resetting the permissions and denying “fixed” the issue for me.
Can't understand why the Simulator needs it.
Kalokagathos
Re:The Amazon in Brazil is on fire – how bad is it?
on Saturday August 24, 2019 @04:51AM (#20786051)
Our information ecosystem is truly polluted. It's hard to find impartial journalism these days – or maybe it was always like that? I think that our willingness to share content (without thinking) is exploited to spread disinformation.
Re:Ask HN: Show your own blog/vlog
on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:39PM (#20688911)
https://edmundojr.com
I write about design and code and the intersection between the two (or at least I try to).
The most difficult thing for me is maintaining the blog updated with new content, as every time I write a post I usually feel the need to redesign the whole thing altogether
Coding Design
Re:React Native 0.59.0-rc.0 released
on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:45PM (#19174544)
I'm a designer but I also do front-end development and for me RN is pure fun! Easy to implement screens, add animations… the development experience has been great so far.
Re:InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:01AM (#18662169)
I'd say skip step 1, there is lots of cheap and better UI design tools out there (see Sketch, Figma, et al), and they are very easy to learn.
Start by trying to replicate UI designs in the wild, it is incredible helpful! It helps you develop your taste and understanding of relationship between different elements, spacing, layout, grids… soon enough you start to see patterns emerge, which you can use when working on your own designs.
Focus on learning typography: it’s no secret that UI is mostly typography, if you get it right that is the job! Get a good book such as “The Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst – although is focused on print design, the core principles are transferable to digital.
Hope that helps!
Re:Venezuela’s descent into dictatorship shows democracy can be lost
on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:38AM (#14955067)
> “Under Chavez, elections were still relatively fair. ”
Elections were never fair under Chavez. He seized control of the Supreme Court and undercut the ability of journalists, human rights defenders, and other Venezuelans to exercise fundamental rights.
Re:Ask HN: What is your side project?
on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:21PM (#13690546)
My last side project was this free Tumblr Theme called Dark Side inspired by the Star Wars franchise. Got about 750 active installs in the first month, pretty happy about it: https://www.tumblr.com/theme/40329
I also released on GitHub in case people want to fork and customise it: https://github.com/edmundojr/tumblr-darkside