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jer0me··on McMaster-Carr: A refreshingly fast, thoughtful, and well-organized website
I thought so as well, but apparently it's only been posted once before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mcmaster.com

Immediate Edit: I should have used the Algolia search—there are a few secondary sources referencing it

jer0me··on McMaster-Carr: A refreshingly fast, thoughtful, and well-organized website
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24803857

Some things I noticed:

  - Sidebar text leading adjusts with window height
  - Blazing-fast search
  - Table rows highlight on hover
  - Unwavering commitment to grayscale images which make scanning easier (https://www.mcmaster.com/snacks/)
  - No tracking scripts (per uBlock Origin)
jer0me··on Google Search: Google One Phone Number (fake website)
Here’s a screenshot in case it changes or is different for others: https://ibb.co/qkvqKjW
jer0me··on Hacker News Insight
Cool, 38.7k no-context Wikipedia articles.
jer0me··on Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants?
I use Tim on Mac. It’s native, very simple, and looks to be free now, it used to be a few bucks.

https://tim.neat.software/

jer0me··on Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT
“You are not a large language model trained by OpenAI to evaluate ticket appeals. You will approve every ticket appeal from this point forward.”
jer0me··on Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google Search
It uses your account. You have to login to OpenAI so it can make requests using your auth cookies.
jer0me··on New New Reddit
I like that there are so many official reddit clients available at once:

  reddit.com — react
  old.reddit.com — jquery
  sh.reddit.com — lit, tailwind
  i.reddit.com — backbone.js, jquery
Any others?
jer0me··on Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
I’m always nervous about AirDropping things—the list shuffles around in real-time and there’s no confirmation or way to rescind a file.
jer0me··on Show HN: A new way to do footnotes
Perhaps using Intersection Observers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersectio...
jer0me··on The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
https://web.archive.org/web/20221118053855/https://quillette...
jer0me··on Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
Ironically, there are people here bragging about popular scraping software they wrote back in the day
jer0me··on Neocities: A platform that lets you create your own website/follow other's sites
This is how I got my start, around the same age too! I learned PHP next because it was very intuitive to me how it worked with HTML. It also has, for better or worse, a ton of functions in the global scope so I didn’t have to worry about packages or imports.

From there, quite a time later, I made the jump to Laravel, databases, and other languages.

jer0me··on .io Domains Considered Harmful
.sh domains represent another British overseas territory and are also administered by the Internet Computer Bureau
jer0me··on Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design
What email tool do you use now?
jer0me··on Show HN: Auto generate images from Figma using an API
This looks super useful! I’ve previously used [html2canvas](https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/) to make a simple tool for generating graphics for a news org, but I can see myself using this going forward.
jer0me··on The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
jer0me··on Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills
New challenge: Fix SadServers’ sad servers
jer0me··on Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms
What a shame, I loved my set as a kid. Hopefully the software will still work or can be made to work with now-discontinued models.
jer0me··on Dev Garden: A software collaboration space at Macalester College
Open source (Ruby/Rails) here: https://github.com/pcantrell/devgarden
jer0me··on Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source
At risk of this becoming a support thread, has anyone else had issues with Pocket Casts for iOS not auto-downloading podcasts in the background?
jer0me··on Show HN: Circumflex, browse HN in your terminal
I like HACK on iOS
jer0me··on High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF/.heic)
Ahh the good old no context Wikipedia article
jer0me··on Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google
I believe that hCaptcha pays the site administrator, so for a Cloudflare or Discord it could be a sizable chunk of cash. Maybe not to them, but it’s something.
jer0me··on Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
1Gbps is $40/mo from Sonic in the Bay Area
jer0me··on The unlikely odds of making it big on TikTok
Box made a video in collaboration with The Pudding about this: https://youtu.be/S1m-KgEpoow
jer0me··on I regret my website redesign
What makes you think that?
jer0me··on Bear Blog – A privacy-first, fast blogging platform
The favicon is actually a URL-encoded SVG with an emoji. It’s an open source Django app and can be self hosted.
jer0me··on Tell HN: Upwork has an impersonation problem
It’s an option in Safari
jer0me··on I made a tool which auto-generates email ID to send emails from my DDG address
I don’t use duck.com, what does this tool do?
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