gen_greyface

199 karma · joined June 19, 2019

Woohoo!!!

gen_greyface··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits

The app's size is 25mb,seems a bit much for minimalist app. what did you use to build it.

gen_greyface··on Another Tale of IBM I (AS/400) Hacking (2022)

unable to signup, sadly.

> Currently there are issues sending mail to hotmail, gmail and yahoo (they use outdated nospam-block lists). Please use a different provider.

protonmail address doesnt seem to work either.

gen_greyface··on Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?

check this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299180 Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

gen_greyface··on Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?

Do you remember what the book was called, or the writers.

gen_greyface··on Petrichor

not just after rain. i've noticed it early in the morning because of dew, albeit milder.

gen_greyface··on Show HN: Yet Another Node.js Framework

https://scrimba.com/scrim/czvKPPsw

Imba was used to build Scrimba, the interactive platform to learn coding(mostly web related courses.)

It's pretty cool. I tried it out in its nascent stages.

gen_greyface··on Real-time internal combustion engine simulation

amazing. a bit of smoke would be lovely.

gen_greyface··on Use.GPU

i've no clue why, but doesnt work even if i set the flag in config.

firefox dev latest on intel mac.

gen_greyface··on How I regained concentration and focus

cant find the rss feed for that page.

gen_greyface··on Save the Soil

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Isha_Institute_of_Inner_Scienc...

Leaving this here.

gen_greyface··on The art of meticulous disassembly (2011)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sachs#Knolling

gen_greyface··on I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps

difference being its an esoteric experiment. and that webapp is used regularly used by thousands.

naive of you to even compare both.

gen_greyface··on I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps

https://www.photopea.com/

this is a webapp

gen_greyface··on Show HN: A stab at building my own string diffing library

when i type long sentences, it starts visibly lagging, input reflection is delayed by seconds sometimes.

gen_greyface··on Tools for a Culture of Writing (2021)

could it be an issue of confidence? i know people who trust the spoken word over the written.

gen_greyface··on Twitter is adding an edit button

even better if twitter itself has a feature where it shows a tweet's edit history

gen_greyface··on Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written 1321 to 2021

Something similar

http://jsomers.net/hn/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888

gen_greyface··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

until then i'll keep the site bookmarked. :-)

gen_greyface··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Hi, It'd be nice if you could add a OpenSearch description document for your site.

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

gen_greyface··on Influential books on Computer Science and programming

'How To Design Programs' is a book https://htdp.org/

gen_greyface··on Vectorization Virtual Workshop

https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/topics

this is a really good resource

gen_greyface··on Evidence found on a second Indian activist’s computer was planted, report says

Not sure what you're getting at.

gen_greyface··on The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past

this is really good.

gen_greyface··on Show HN: Cargo-memex – compile rust code into a meme and run it

the name 'memex', confused me a bit.

this is what comes to my mind on 'memex' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

gen_greyface··on The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently

Doing pottery and kayaking is a better choice for me than reading someone do pottery and kayaking.

Edit: and not everything can be learnt from books

gen_greyface··on Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video

its an elevated platform, the shadow is not visible because its falling on the steps.

here is a opposite view, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtNsnSxVEAE6hJo?format=jpg&name=...

gen_greyface··on Show HN: A cool Drag-and-Drop implementation for Svelte

what else do you suggest as an alternative to GIF.

gen_greyface··on Setting up personal OKR (objectives and key-results)

Any reason you have reading as a separate category? Cant it be merged into the personal and professional categories?

gen_greyface··on Show HN: NoteCalc

This really looks great.. props to you.

just a nitpick.. changing the theme resizes the panels automatically to adjust to the first panel's width

gen_greyface··on HuffPost India is history, thanks to new FDI norms

Ah i feel sad looking at the comments, most trying to fan their arguments against huffpost specifically, but ignoring the FDI norms.

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