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dairylee··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
We do slow down.

I've lost count of the times I've been riding at walking pace behind someone, on a shared path, waiting to get past because they're completely oblivious to the bell ringing, politely asking, or even flashing lights.

dairylee··on Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers
I'm surprised the article doesn't talk about the <datalist> element. It makes the using the native time input much more user friendly as you can populate it with common times (e.g. Every 30 minutes: 09:00, 09:30, etc... instead of allowing every minute to be selected by default)

It's not quite fully supported in browsers but it's a nice enhancement to those where it works.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

dairylee··on The "most hated" CSS feature: cos() and sin()
But it's not really a clickbait title.

If it was clickbait it wouldn't say what the 'most hated' css feature is to bait you into clicking it to find out what the feature is.

> The “Most Hated” CSS Feature

> The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: cos() and sin()

dairylee··on Show HN: CLI for smooth ESLint adding or rules migration
What's the advantages over using bulk suppression in eslint (https://eslint.org/blog/2025/04/introducing-bulk-suppression...) or ignoring revisions in git blame (https://gist.github.com/kateinoigakukun/b0bc920e587851bfffa9...)?
dairylee··on Have you ever seen a goth downtown?
Surely the fact they've linked to a shopping site backs up the opening paragraphs.

> Those are attractive people with heavily vetted idiosyncrasies. Every eccentric fashion choice has been run through a think tank of NYU undergrads that would blow your hair back

> But their actual deal is cookie-cutter counterculture, like it came out of a street punk paint-by-numbers kit

dairylee··on Where is London's most central sheep?
Although it's not quite sheep Newcastle has a Town Moor (Larger than Central Park) which has grazing cattle. There's also a farm not too far from the city centre which has grazing sheep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Moor,_Newcastle_upon_Tyne

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hm60d/p03hm2x8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vojeS3eDTFznpYwMA

dairylee··on Show HN: I made a geography quiz game
I played the Capital City game and the first question was...

What is the capital of Vatican City?

Answers A: Vatican City B: Vatican City C: Vatican City D: Vatican City

dairylee··on Luckily I got hit by a car
I think you're missing the point.

Nowhere in the article does it mention that someone was driving the car. It's just an inanimate car with no driver. It absolves any responsibility to the human behind the wheel.

---

Luckily I got hit by a driver.

Luckily I got hit by a car.

I got hit by a driver on Sunday

I got hit by a car on Sunday.

---

No less catchy. It's why there are media guidelines around reporting on collisions.

https://www.rc-rg.com/guidelines

dairylee··on We’re all just temporarily abled
Her name is Sara[1] not Sarah.

1: https://www.sarasoueidan.com/

dairylee··on OpenBenches – A map of memorial benches
My favourite is on there also:

https://openbenches.org/bench/198

"In memory of jam sandwiches with all my love"

dairylee··on Why Britain doesn’t build
The infrastructure is often insufficient for existing homes nevermind for any expansion.

I've recently moved house but I'm having to stay registered to my Dentist & Doctors 30 miles away because the wait list to get registered in my new town is months.

dairylee··on Eight-mile frieze of Ice Age beasts found in Amazon rainforest (2020)
That one is from the BBC and not Channel 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4

dairylee·
> Filmmakers know that critics are overwhelmingly left-leaning, and taking shots at conservatives will increase their chances of winning Academy Awards. This is called “Oscar baiting.” It results in narratives that reinforce liberal confirmation bias, and co-opts the theater as a place for division.

Haha what? This site is so dumb.

dairylee··on Commuter Cars Tango
Other countries also have weather and they seem to cope ok with it. Obviously there are some extremes which can make it unpleasant but for the most part the weather isn't as big a deal as it's made out to be when it comes to cycling.

E-bikes mostly solve the effort and sweat aspect. But that introduces a larger entry cost.

I'd say distance is the biggest factor preventing it taking off in the US (Outside of Cities). A mixture of cycling + transit could solve the longer distances.

dairylee··on Show HN: A site to quickly find bike parking
What's the advantage over one of the cycle orientated open street maps?

https://www.cyclosm.org

https://www.opencyclemap.org

dairylee··on Show HN: Fort.js – A modern progress bar for form completion
Can't really imagine a use case for this but looking through the code it looks a bit simplistic:

- Only checks for non-empty fields and not valid fields - What use is a progress bar if the progress is invalid? - Seems like it would only work with text inputs (No radio/check/select etc.)

dairylee··on Last.fm turns 20
You can import your Last.fm history over to ListenBrainz too. Most of the 'scrobbling' apps will work with ListenBrainz also.
dairylee··on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
> all the politics was getting annoying

Dumb question but why would this be any different on Mastodon?

dairylee··on How sustainable are fake meats?
> modest goals (replacing the chicken nugget, replacing the pepperoni)

Quorn have made 'Crispy Nuggets'[1] from funghi for decades. They're a great replacement for chicken nuggets and I feel like if someone ate them without realising they wouldn't question what they're eating.

1: https://www.quorn.co.uk/products/chicken-style-nuggets

dairylee··on Show HN: Stylemapper – A better way to style React components
> while others make it more difficult to use native CSS features

How do you use native css features with Stylemapper if it's just for utility classes?

> Zero dependencies

Except for a utility css framework...

dairylee··on Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedal-cyclist injury severity
> If you crave physical activity so much there’s many other alternatives

This seems like such a typical American view on cycling. The main aim of regular cycling isn't about physical activity, it's about getting from A to B.

> I had to use a bike (because I was broke)

And this too. Being able to afford to drive a car shouldn't be an aspiration and cycling isn't only for people who can't afford a car.

dairylee··on Ask HN: Meal Planning App?
I'm in a similar situation as yourself and I've been looking to do something similar.

One tool I've had bookmarked for this is Cooklang (https://cooklang.org/) which seems to cover most of the needs.

dairylee··on I think that ghostbanning is unethical
> We're all big boys and girls

Clearly.

dairylee··on In Praise of Stacked PRs
Neither of those cases need to be true for a second PR to be ready before the first has been merged.

For example you do your first PR, mark it ready for review. While doing it you notice there's some refactoring you could do to some tangentially related code. It's very conceivable that the second refactoring PR could be ready pretty quickly.

dairylee··on Music for Programming
For me I find the higher the bpm the easier it is to focus on what I'm doing. The ambient/relaxing stuff just never seems to work for me.

This Laidback Drum & Bass playlist[1] gets a regular run out.

1: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDCLAK5uy_mhouxvxL06...

dairylee··on In defence of garlic in a jar
> If you get the same size of each, do the prices come more inline?

Just had another look and while they don't sell a block that weighs the same as the pre-grated it is much closer in price for a similar sized block.

£9.00/kg for the pre-grated (250g) and £8.64/kg for the block (220g).

dairylee··on In defence of garlic in a jar
In the UK it's a lot cheaper for the blocks:

  - Tesco Extra Mature Grated Cheddar 250g
    - £ 2.25
    - £9.00/kg
  - Tesco Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese 220g
    - £ 1.90
    - £8.64/kg
  - Tesco Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese 400g
    - £ 2.85
    - £7.13/kg
  - Tesco Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese 700g
    - £ 3.50
    - £5.00/kg
edit: Added price for a 220g block of cheese
dairylee··on In defence of garlic in a jar
> Shredded cheese when you could grate your own

I find pre-grated cheese so bizarre. The cost alone compared to a normal block of cheese should be enough to put anyone off. It's not even like it's an arduous task to grate it yourself (Or is it... [1]).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWS3IxfDOHE

dairylee··on Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone?
I was an admin on a forum for a sports management game (Championship Manager /Football Manager) for ~20 years and for us the 'death' came from Steam Community/Workshop, Reddit, Twitter, and Discord.

Visitor numbers always remained pretty high (People coming to the site to download resources etc.) but people were just less likely to contribute with posts as they had other places to use as a community instead.

Here's the number of posts for each yearly release of the game...

  - 2009: 110,000 posts
  - 2010: 273,000 posts
  - 2011: 280,000 posts
  - 2012: 188,000 posts
  - 2013: 196,000 posts
  - 2014: 180,000 posts
  - 2015: 159,000 posts
  - 2016:  96,000 posts
  - 2017:  50,000 posts
  - 2018:  32,000 posts
  - 2019:  21,000 posts
  - 2020:  24,000 posts
  - 2021:  17,000 posts
dairylee··on Eye contact between musicians
Great example of it when Mogwai perform 'Mogwai Fear Satan'. There's a point in the song where it gets extremely quiet before bursting into a wall of noise.

If you watch the video https://youtu.be/FEwnhjItTSs?t=477 from 7m57s you can see them all start to signal to each other to get ready and then 20 seconds later it happens.

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