a_r_8

17 karma · joined June 13, 2018

a_r_8··on Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders

I fondly remember looking through this a few years ago as it was one of the first posts I found at the top of HN

a_r_8··on Almost 70% of Millennials Regret Buying Their Homes

"The survey found one in three millennials dipped into their retirement accounts to pay for their homes"

Retirement account? What's that?

a_r_8··on Show HN: CSS Scan – Instantly check or copy computed CSS from any element

Looks super useful but I don't want to buy before I try. The landing page says "for the price you want", but the product page has a 1.99+ and I can't enter less than that.

a_r_8··on Designing the Perfect Date and Time Picker

A consideration if you're making an accessible website is keyboard navigation. Having numerical inputs eliminates this, however. Still a good read, I have been thinking a lot about date pickers in the last year.

a_r_8··on Genann – Simple neural network library in ANSI C

This is from 2016. Interesting that the authors most recent post is a tool for finding when your projects are being mentioned on HN or Reddit :)

a_r_8··on The US Mint lost $69M making pennies last year

I wish they would take it further. Dimes are the new pennies.

a_r_8··on Show HN: Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript

Off topic but that is a gnarly commit history

a_r_8··on Dank Learning: Generating Memes Using Deep Neural Networks

Examples?