innerbits
Re:Choosing a Name for Your Computer
on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @07:50AM (#36056709)
I use IATA (3 letters) or ICAO (4 letters) airport codes which make for nice and short host names.
Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:11PM (#34645354)
I should've clarified that I meant closing using keyboard shortcuts
Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:32AM (#34640811)
Firefox is my primary browser at present but definitely has annoyances:
- unable to close pinned tabs without custom extensions
- unable to undo close open tabs after closing last window (also solved with extension)
- pins itself to taskbar and install desktop icon on every install
- I prefer how downloads' progress is handled in Chrome better
- Not all settings are synchronized (esp. around privacy), making it very hard to configure computers the same consistently
Favorite extensions: - Vimium
- Undo Close Tab
- Shortkeys (using it specifically to move tabs around)
- Aardvark Duex
Re:Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP
on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:48PM (#31291154)
I used https://schema.org/Recipe for mine over h-recipe because that's what Google had references in https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...
Re:Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP
on Friday May 06, 2022 @05:09PM (#31289626)
This is a good start. As a foodie who loves to cook and software engineer, I strongly dislike the bloated recipe sites and I have my own mini-site where I share my recipes with friends.
Some ideas to consider, based on my experience building my own Hugo-based static recipe site:
- Search: I decided to use Azure Search because of the flexibility it provides (cost is minimal and covered by my free Visual Studio subscription credits)
- Images: I use Cloudinary's free plan to upload and deliver images -- very important if you want to deliver performance-optimized experience on multiple devices
- Full-screen touch mode: directions only, with easy access to ingredients list. Extremely useful, especially when you have your hands covered in flour and are following directions on a tablet.
- "Tips" section: when technique is important, or flexibility is allowed the directions-only may be insufficient
- SEO: use standard micro-formats for ingredients, steps and time so the recipes can be easily shared, searched, indexed, etc.
- add yield, prep time and total time required
- add ingredient and steps sections: some non-basic recipes benefit tremendously from the added organization (e.g. "dry ingredients", "wet ingredients"
- usability: UI should be usable and text should be readable from 24-inch distance
Re:Show HN: We built a Rotten Tomatoes-style website for VPNs
on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:44PM (#29337014)
I dare say that Wirecutter used to be a great resource before NYT bought them... not so much these days, it's mostly a pay-to-play machine.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/our-response-to-nextdesk/
Don't even get me started with Wine Spectator and wines in general... https://freakonomics.com/podcast/season-11-episode-6/
Like other have pointed out trust is difficult to obtain these days for review sites but I hope you persist and have a successful product.