jollyjerry
Re:The Future of Email
on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:19AM (#48504499)
It's frustrating not being able to send email for my hobby projects even if I follow all the rules and have the correct headers. I enjoyed reading jeremyevan's post on self hosting email, but it's only for receive and not send https://code.jeremyevans.net/2021-07-29-running-my-own-email...
Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?
on Saturday June 06, 2026 @11:16AM (#48425870)
It changed the cost/benefits for papercuts. Instead of thinking, that's annoying, but not annoying enough to fix, I can spend a few minutes running things specific to my configuration. Fixing bluetooth, fingerprint readers were recent ones.
Hand Drawn QR Codes
Re:I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?
on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:54AM (#47628244)
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/
My last use case for it was selling a car and giving away some free stuff. Sadly, those have been replaced by fb marketplace.
Re:I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?
on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:52AM (#47628218)
Love rockauto, in the same vein, but not used daily is https://www.mcmaster.com/
Re:MacBook Neo
on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:47PM (#47342505)
This won’t happen, but I would love an Apple implementation of the Samsung Dex - phone soc that can dock into a laptop or desktop enclosure.
I hacked Casio F-91W digital watch
Re:Nook Browser
on Saturday December 06, 2025 @06:38PM (#46177642)
Lot of nostalgia today. This brings me back to compiling Camino, a gecko based browser, on my iBook G4.
Re:Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
on Saturday December 06, 2025 @06:32PM (#46177609)
I used to have a floppy and a mini-cd boot version of these. The mini-cd looks like a credit card and fit into a standard size cd drive. Reading the history of the project is a bit of a bummer, but still love the project ethos.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
on Sunday November 09, 2025 @07:15PM (#45870689)
Correct and performant way to calculate historical value of a portfolio. I want a pure function, but taking a date as input is insufficient because users can edit holdings, and securities can split.
Weighing the tradeoffs of doing this calculation server or client side. That'll be an architecture shift away from my current set of background jobs fetching state and towards something more functional and on-demand.
Re:Google Finance Beta
on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:52AM (#45666846)
I was just chatting with a friend how it hadn't changed in years, but there's a new beta when I opened it up.
- dark mode
- 3-column responsive layout, interesting it hides the watchlist
- like the view transitions for expanding content
- improved charting
- removed portfolio and holdings. Likely unpopular, but I thought it was a good way to track investments across banks without a 3rd party aggregator
Google Finance Beta
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025)
on Sunday October 12, 2025 @11:52PM (#45564520)
I like reading to my kids and try to read to them in English and Mandarin. My Chinese is conversational, but I have a hard time finding books for them because I’m not good at writing. Something like this with language learning tools would be awesome.
I also like making up stories when we go on hikes. Long, rambling stories about unicorns befriending spiders and flying to faraway lands.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025)
on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:35PM (#45564171)
Like the layout tiles you have for the photo thumbnails. Will dig through and learn some css. Have struggled with different size content to create a compact masonry layout.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025)
on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:32PM (#45564164)
Living in hongkong for a few months, and absolutely love exploring the different neighborhoods. I’d love something like this or walkscore but for local guides to contribute.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025)
on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:31PM (#45564159)
Radio is so much fun to learn. It’s liberating to learn for curiosity and joy rather than commercialization. The community is welcoming, and while not directly translatable for most paid work, it does teach general problem solving skills.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025)
on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:26PM (#45564135)
Financial independence tracker. https://jch.app
Redesigning investment holdings for wider screens and leaning on hotwired turbo frames. Thankful for once-campfire as a reference for how to structure the backend. The lazy loading attribute works great with css media queries to display more on larger viewports.
Enjoying learning modern css in general. App uses tailwind, but did experiment with just css on the homepage. Letting the design emerge organically from using it daily, prototype with tailwind, then slim it back down with plain css.
Quiet, but Discoverable
Re:Show HN: Lost $500 because I couldn't find a receipt – built SlipCrate
on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:12PM (#45362411)
From a PWA, I'd prefer a push notification, but you'd get a different answer from each person you ask.
Re:Show HN: Lost $500 because I couldn't find a receipt – built SlipCrate
on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @05:47AM (#45358142)
Looks good! Appreciate that it’s a pwa instead of an app because it’d be something I use rarely. My issue isnt with the app, it’s that I’d have to remember to upload a receipt and also to find it in this app if I needed it again.
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:03PM (#45307261)
3 years. Left work because I felt comfortable with finances and family life, but wanted to try something different. It’s been fun working on personal projects and sharpening old tools. Still figuring out what I want to do long term. Some ideas include becoming a CFP because I like helping people with their finances, working for a tech company in that domain, or expanding the personal project (jch.app) and building more community.
In a good headspace now, right after the first year was feeling lost on where to go next.
Re:Client side include feature for HTML
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:04PM (#45297532)
Ya, no need comments or updates to it either. But thought it was an interesting piece of web development that's come up in every web framework and server, but has not been pushed into the browser. Would be interesting as a js polyfill even.
Client side include feature for HTML
Re:No CSS, No JavaScript. Longevity on the Web
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:23PM (#45297314)
Thanks for touching on accessibility. I believe that good accessibility leads to a better design. The nice thing about starting with HTML is there are good defaults.
I wrote another post about building a search form about progressively enhancing a search form (https://jch.github.io/posts/2025-01-30-building-modern-searc...). Starting with semantic <search> and <input> elements gives sane browser and screenreader behavior.
Perhaps my title came on too strong, but I'm not advocating against javascript. It's more about understanding capabilities HTML and CSS can handle, and what is better suited for JS.
Re:No CSS, No JavaScript. Longevity on the Web
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:23PM (#45296943)
The guide is concise and well written. I like how it builds in the same sequence I blogged about: HTML, CSS, JS, and introduces each in a small way with links for further study. I like how it starts with a static site, but I think the end of the guide could include an example for server side processing. It was clever to use 3rd party example like search with fetch, but an example with a small JS backend to process a form and persist to a database / file would tie it together. It sounds like server-side is out of scope for the framework, so perhaps a few examples of small backends and how to plug in?
When I was reading the header/footer section, it reminded me of this issue to push for first-class includes in web platform https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791
Re:No CSS, No JavaScript. Longevity on the Web
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:04PM (#45296841)
> Your Rails backend, on the other hand, will experience far more changes and API instability in the long run
I see this as different layers of stability. On the bottom is a solid foundation of web standards that's widely adopted and resilient to breaking changes. Layered on that is the web framework and language. Before ruby, I really enjoyed perl, so I've experienced the collapse of a language and community. Matz had some good insights drawn from the history of other languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MM5b2F9zrM
Javascript is fascinating because of its evolution. Its initial popularity and wide install base guaranteed a lot of resources for it to grow. I'm excited to see whether wasm can bring more languages to the web.
Re:No CSS, No JavaScript. Longevity on the Web
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @02:31AM (#45286226)
Left out of the post, but the stack is rails, turbo, and stimulus. Hosted on a 2016 MacBook Pro with a dead battery in my closet
No CSS, No JavaScript. Longevity on the Web
Re:Show HN: Ductape – Build back end integrations once, reuse them any...
on Thursday May 08, 2025 @12:56AM (#43923182)
Your explanation in this post makes a lot more to me than your site.