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DirkJanMeijer

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DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Took me a second to find it. Now the flick clock animation in Firefox is also smooth and does not stop after a short while.
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Better now?
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Menu transitions and toggling seconds on/off are now animated.
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Could not reproduce this one yet
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Now they do
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Whoops! Just now I realize I made a typo in the title :) It must be: "Did I just build.. a clock?"
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Good point! Added that option now: settings > authentic
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Haha, 168 languages, cool! Just curious which cultures without a tradition of written language you've hit?
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Now that you mention BASIC, I had a TI-84PL graphing calculator. One of the first programs I wrote were a school calendar and snake. Good old days.
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Sorry for the confusion. I am human.
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
It reached the frontpage of HN? Super cool! I did not know that.

I admit, not sure whether a clock in general deserves that. But apparently this clock had his lucky day.

DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Well it works on my machine but I guess it was the rate limiter. That should be more generous now. Can you try again?

As a bonus, I added a bunch of features like Stopwatch, Focus mode, World clocks converter and Daylight saving time.

DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Thank you!
DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
Following your suggestion, I added the A文 icon.

Problem was: the fallback language was Dutch. Now it is English. Should make more people happy.

And why only 2 languages when I can add 22? In different locales? Ok.

So now the clock supports English, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Estonian and Icelandic.

Should cover 3 billion people worldwide.

DirkJanMeijer··on Did it just build.. a clock?
I really needed a clock on my second screen. Needed it badly.

No! That is a lie. Clocks are everywhere already. Did not need it at all.

Also don't have time to build a clock. Imagine what I could have done with all that precious time spent on flip clocks, station clocks, you name it. I could have taught my son how to tell time.

Wait!

Did you build a really fancy flip clock!? Yes! I really like that one! That is not a lie.

Phone in landscape mode during cooking? Sure. Timeboxing during study. Alright alright.

But why did you (woow!) took all the effort to make the favicon a realtime clock? Did your agent do it? Didn't read the memo that token-maxing is so 2025?

Well, am I crazy? I liked building it anyway.

DirkJanMeijer··on How reliable is the Stryd elevation data?
I started looking at Stryd’s elevation gain accuracy. To my surprise, it showed up to 25% deviation from a top DSM model. Yes, n=1 for now. Anyone has other experiences?
DirkJanMeijer··on Show HN: Document Q&A with GPT: web, .pdf, .docx, etc.
Can you give some details about the concept of transforming a pdf into a GPT input?