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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026) on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:25AM (#50390562)
Werkbook (https://werkbook.app), digital forms and photo reports for field crews. I'm a solo Rails dev, and thanks to Claude it now has native iOS and Android apps instead of Hotwire Native web-view wrappers.
Re: on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:43AM (#49562107)
hurts to see Germany at 0MWe in 2026 :(
My Samsung TV which I bought 8 years ago now suddenly asks me if it's okay they share data with their over 200 partners. They have the nerves to headline this with "protect your privacy". Generally not a big fan of EU policing but I wish somebody sued them over this.

> Improving Your Experience and Protecting Your Privacy on Samsung TV Plus

> Samsung and our 264 partners use information about you and your device in order to provide, analyse and improve the Samsung TV Plus app. This includes the processing of personal data such as unique IDs for personalised advertising.

Why not apply for YC summer batch and see how far it gets you.

Btw: just bought a copy of your app.

Re:PSD Viewing and Diffing on Thursday June 05, 2014 @03:32PM (#7853799)
I wonder if PSD became their favorite file format https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoad...
Re:The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery on Monday August 12, 2013 @12:33PM (#6200095)
We do not change the order of the photos, we just try to find a good set of breaking points inside that order.

Actually, Chromatic tries to read the EXIF "DateTimeOriginal" information to sort the photos and falls back to the "LastModifiedDate" if the former doesn't work.

Re:The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery on Monday August 12, 2013 @08:45AM (#6198858)
Actually, you're right! It's the same picture, scaled down to around 500x500 and with a heavy gaussian blur applied to it. The trick is to have a subtle grain effect over it to eliminate gradient artifacts.
Re:The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery on Monday August 12, 2013 @08:38AM (#6198835)
Yes, we figured the page scrolls slow if there are too many photos in the DOM at the same time so the lazy-load-function also removes them when out of scope.
Re:The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery on Monday August 12, 2013 @06:42AM (#6198548)
That looks pretty nice too! Congrats on the wedding!