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Re:All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:03PM (#48298054)
This is cool - I tried automating different recipe formats/visualizations at https://www.gobsmacked.io. I was thinking of trying to do something similar to this next.
Re:Website Is for Humans on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:53PM (#44891593)
Maybe not the most pertinent place for me to share my recipe site project (as it uses a model for reformatting recipe structures), but by rehashing recipes into recipe cards it incidentally but effectively removes the fluff: https://gobsmacked.io
Re:Show HN: Generate 'Cooking For Engineers' style recipe cards on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @06:58PM (#44449715)
I agree wholeheartedly - in fact the css class I actually use for the 'notes' column is MEP, for mise en place. That was the original intent for that column but it has become something of a catch all over time. I wonder if a mise en place component at the top of the recipe, in a separate grid, would be useful?
Re:Show HN: Generate 'Cooking For Engineers' style recipe cards on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:48PM (#44449201)
Would be happy to discuss! Shoot me an email so I can understand a bit more, email can be found on my site in my bio or on gobsmacked!
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to convert recipes to an easy reading graphi... on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:57PM (#44446059)
Thank you for the note! I appreciate the feedback and will test out some bigger sizing, as well as check out the recipe saving.
Re:Show HN: Generate 'Cooking For Engineers' style recipe cards on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:55PM (#44446027)
Thank you! I agree completely. Right now it just uses the units in the original recipe, but being able to toggle between the two is definitely something I would like to do.

Show HN: Generate 'Cooking For Engineers' style recipe cards

Posted by ekglimmer on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:18AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://gobsmacked.io/recipes/beef-bourguignon-48e726f6-66fe-4a9e-b424-52721de36ced

Hi HN,I have been working on a project which can automatically convert a recipe to the tree/graph/tabular style notation that pops up on HN every now and then. It's still early days but I am keen to hear about improvements I can make to the recipe presentation.For reference, the earliest example I have seen of this style of notation is from 'Cooking For Engineers'...

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Re:Show HN: I made a tool to convert recipes to an easy reading graphi... on Friday June 27, 2025 @02:15PM (#44398991)
RE other similar notations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42066358

Show HN: I made a tool to convert recipes to an easy reading graphical notation

Posted by ekglimmer on Friday June 27, 2025 @01:40PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://gobsmacked.io

Hi HN,I have been working on a project which can automatically convert a recipe to the tree/graph/tabular style notation that pops up on HN every now and then. It's still early days but I am keen to hear about improvements I can make to the recipe presentation.For reference, the earliest example I have seen of this style of notation is from 'Cooking For Engineers'...

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Re:Show HN: Whenish – Plan Group Events in iMessages on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:41AM (#44063163)
I like this execution! I created something similar, www.pigeon.ooo, with the intent of eventually adding some scheduling functionality but alas, my own schedule has filled up so have not had a chance yet.
Re:The Mystery Social Media Account Schooling Congress on How to Do It... on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:50PM (#39647955)
I wonder how many layers of irony we can get here.
Re:The Mystery Social Media Account Schooling Congress on How to Do It... on Friday March 08, 2024 @05:12PM (#39647148)
For a second I missed the irony here, genuinely thought to myself 'wow that would be awesome'. Just joined my first fantasy league so I am gung-ho on fantasy now, apologies.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:11PM (#34551920)
Thank you! I would do if it wasn’t just the place holder page. I just like the domain name we chose, I have clarified in the original comment.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:10PM (#34551911)
Nope! Nothing there yet, I just get a kick out of the domain and wanted to share it, even if a bit premature.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:56PM (#34551744)
Ah I love this ask HN!

I'm building an iMessage app (www.pigeon.ooo - nothing here yet, I just get a hoot out of the name) that brings note taking into iMessage. I built it because I wanted to be able to save/pin messages so that I wouldn't have scroll up to find important pieces of info. You can also share the lists directly through iMessage so that the others in the conversation can update the notes, which has been particularly useful for grocery shopping lists and weekly planners with my S/O.

Currently working on a companion app so that I can view all notes not segregated by conversation, or ordered by due date etc.

It hasn't been publicly released yet but it will definitely be net negative. Doesn't matter though because it's useful to my friends and I plus has been fun to build.

Re:Ask HN: Book Recommendations on Western Civilizations on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:25AM (#22866348)
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari. If you have not given this a read yet it gives a good overview of how humanity (and civilization as a whole) developed.
Re:Ask HN: Is now only a GER-language site for fitness gear ok for US ... on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:34PM (#22786963)
On a hunch, probably not. I would assume equivalents of any of these products can be bought on an English language site (Amazon etc.) and in my experience the US & Canadian market will go for the most friction-less purchasing experience. Trying to figure out a German language site (plus trying to figure out currency conversion) makes me think why bother when I could purchase something similar in 30 seconds. Perhaps if these were unique products that couldn't be bought anywhere else I would consider it.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Next Buzzword? on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:10PM (#21650334)
Oh that's a good call.

Ask HN: What's the Next Buzzword?

Posted by ekglimmer on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:46PM
from the ask-hn dept.

This is just out of curiosity, but what do you believe the buzzwords of the future are? Assuming all variations of the almighty "AI" are buzzwords are the past? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buzzwords

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Re:Show HN: Note Kitchen – Learn piano chords and scales on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:54PM (#16507373)
This is really neat. Would love to see a version for guitar as well, but would be a little more difficult to display I imagine.
Re:The case for ending Amazon’s dominance on Saturday February 17, 2018 @01:39PM (#16401983)
Not sure if it was intentional or not but I enjoyed the irony of putting two Amazon links to the book "The Box" directly in the article.

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