jtha
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Monday December 15, 2025 @08:14PM (#46283463)
https://monofocus.lovable.app/
Yup, it's another task manager.
I made it for myself to help me focus on one task at a time, hence the name.
It implements my number one productivity hack of picking a task and setting a timer. Time spent on a task increments.
Data is stored locally in the browser although there is a sync option i wouldn't shake a stick at if I hadn't built this myself.
Plus it's a PWA! Those are lovely.
Re:The Beauty and Danger in Victorian Glass Fire Grenades
on Monday January 15, 2024 @07:54PM (#39008083)
Ah yes, the good old days.
Re:Everything will be alright in Iceland
on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:33AM (#38880097)
That would be the infamous Icelandic verb of "nenna". It's used as such "Ég nenni þessu ekki", which translates roughly to "I don't feel like it" or "I don't want to".
But we have a word for both want and feel like, but they're different from "nenna". In some ways a better translation would be "I can't be bothered to".
The word is somewhat socially acceptable as an excuse not to do something.
"Þetta reddast" and "Ég nenni þessu ekki" are words many of us Icelanders live by.
Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:59PM (#37618888)
If you're talking about European banks they all have APIs. But only licensed companies can use them directly. Those companies are called AISPs within the PSD2 framework, sometimes referred to as aggregators. Some of them have ways for individuals to access their own accounts at banks via the AISP APIs. But there are limitations, one major one being that PSD2 doesn't cover credit card data or anything other than deposit accounts. [I'm a product manager at a bank]
Re:Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:13AM (#36447970)
I've been using a simple home-made Autohotkey script for years (decade?) to do it more like rmcd is doing.
Here's an example for opening Chrome or switching to it if it's open. If there is more than one Chrome window open it cycles between them by minimizing the current one, then opening the next one etc.
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
#c::
IfWinExist, Google Chrome
IfWinActive
WinMinimize
else
Winactivate
else
run,"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue what's your p...
on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:17AM (#35568671)
Is it a platform to connect providers and customers? What's the business model?
Re:Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse ...
on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @06:51AM (#34147868)
Did not know that!
You just saved me $5 per month. Happy holidays.
Re:Ask HN: I achieved my dream of being a self-taught dev. I hate it. ...
on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:44PM (#34143587)
Have you thought about product management?
The coding experience cam help, and it provides more opportunities for being around people.
Short vs. Long-Form Articles
Are Banks Dying?
America, your time is running out
Why everything is your responsibility, and why it’s the best thing you’ll hear
Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language
on Friday June 23, 2017 @07:11PM (#14623443)
I truly hope you will succeed in your mission. It looks like it could solve so many problems that I've come across as a result of confusion and miscommunication when people with a common understanding step away from the whiteboard and start coding. It can be so hard to align the implementation with the visual abstractions we so desperately need to communicate as humans.
Re:Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
on Thursday November 05, 2015 @04:25AM (#10512415)
Google screws up cables as well. My Chromecast (V1) came with a dud cable that will provide some charge to some devices, but won't power or charge anything I've tried it on. So my Chromecast is now powered courtesy of Lenovo.
It's a statistic though, just as anything mass-produced. But I found his comment on the quality of 3rd party manufactured cables vs Google and Apple slightly amusing. Apple cables in my household and everywhere I've come across them are no prize pigs. Samsung Galaxy provided cables on the other hand have proved to be exceptionally durable in my experience. Nokia cables and chargers also seem to be made out of solid Kevlar or some flexible Titanium, seeing that every single one I've owned since the late '90s is still working. My blue LED modded Nokia 3310 is still going strong, battery and all, but that's another story.