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Re:Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:46PM (#50097711)
Omg I thought Pop was dead. We used it for literally years. Even emailed support multiple times asking if dead. Wtf???
Re:City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:49AM (#49951940)
Good luck with the launch!
Re:Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons on Sunday January 18, 2026 @05:43AM (#46666675)
The GOAT. I remember when basically every page on the internet had one of these icons on.
Re:Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:21AM (#45250738)
One of the things I was most surprised about recently is just how buggy and unpleasant to use the Cloudflare dashboard is. We only moved to them recently and I was really shocked. I had one situation where the dashboard literally showed me the wrong domain but rules for another, which I think was a session or caching bug. I really thought it would be better for a company that size!
I followed this project from when it was announced but it was unfortunately abandoned a few years ago. It's probably not worth wasting any time on now.
Not your fault but holy shit that site is awful on mobile!
Re:No One Lives Forever (NOLF) Revival Edition on Sunday February 23, 2025 @06:41AM (#43148609)
I haven't seen a .tk domain in probably 20 years. It was super popular with young gamers during the early 00s due to the free domain. What a blast from the past!

Also a blast from the past, the OMM review of NOLF: https://www.oldmanmurray.com/longreviews/751.html

Yeah! I don't know if it's still there but I kitted out my first company's office with chairs from there! It was a cool place.

There's also a junk shop, for want it a better phrase, just off the top of Brick Lane that is similar, it has office stuff but also way more general stuff too.

It doesn't even have a GM listing but it's here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CWDZ3goLKXeJb3eAA?g_st=ac

The mural on the wall is of the guy who used to own the shop. He'd sit outside all day in his car. I can't remember his name now but he was famous locally.

Personally I think MDN is one of the best examples of a really good docs site: https://developer.mozilla.org/
Re:Ask HN: What's You Life's Work? on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:35PM (#33987771)
https://metroretro.io - started as a hackathon project in 2016. I found people using the barely functioning prototype a year later for actual work meetings and decided to started improving it. I went perm on the project 3 years ago and this year passed 10k MRR (100% self funded). Still doing all the dev and ops solo, but I have two co-founders doing all the sales, support and finance stuff. We are going for a specialized whiteboard for software/agile angle rather than generalist whiteboard app currently.

I think I'll be working on this product for a long time as I believe there is a new generation of collaboration software coming to replace the current leaders and I would like to be one of them. I think about this product night and day, and wouldn't want to be building anything else!

Re:“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:25AM (#33719466)
Usually it is to detect the user is registered to (or their domain is mapped to) an account with SSO or Social Auth and prompt them for that login mechanism. If the user is being required to go via the SSO provider, it makes sense to ask for the email first before they input their password so that they can be redirected it neccesary.
Re:Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler on Thursday October 14, 2021 @06:31AM (#28862499)
You know you are getting old when you watch the arrival of the fourth JavaScript build tool of your career. I still remember when everyone was waving goodbye to Gulp in favour of Webpack. Webpack was going to save us all from the hell of massive convoluted gulp.js files. Fast forward five years and it's the same mess it was supposed to avoid. Slow, bloated and confusing.

I just switched to esbuild on our main project and the build time went from 7 minutes on CI to 1 second. Kinda stupid really. Anyway, here's to the future, let's hope it works out this time!

Re:The surreal experience of my first developer job on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:18AM (#28061268)
He doesn't explicitly say he knew of his notoriety when he joined and could very well have only discovered after. Alternatively given the economic circumstances he could have needed the job enough to take the risk. To be honest, your comment seems unnecessarily snide and mean spirited for no reason.
Re:Columbo: an origin story (2018) on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @02:03PM (#27975526)
The BBC drama The Missing and spin off Baptise have a calm and friendly lead detective. Not sure where you are but it you can get them in your country maybe give them a try.
Even a 60 minute cap is generous. If they made it 75 minutes why would anyone ever pay for it? The point of the cap is to be annoying enough to temp and upgrade without making the service unusable.
Re:The Development of Erlang (1997) on Thursday June 03, 2021 @04:20AM (#27378494)
I learned using https://alchemist.camp/. Some content is premium but the free stuff is very good if you don't want to commit.
Re:A React library to design Diagrams with ease on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:50PM (#25140725)
Are you talking about mobile touch gestures or touch gestures via a laptop trackpad?
Re:Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:47PM (#24201770)
All the time.
If you watch the press conference from a few days ago they say that their aim is the complete opposite.