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jfg··on Ask HN: What are examples of something overengineered?
The Juicero juicer: https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/
jfg··on System Preferences Reimagined on macOS
looks like an updated version of one of his own designs:

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/making-waves

jfg··on Tell HN: Apple Music Is Down
Apple status page not reporting any problems yet:

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

edit: looks like it changed around 17:30 GMT to correctly show the outages started at 16:32

jfg··on The Evolution of Hacker News (2013)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730229
jfg··on Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet
For me, you can target the sidebar with the rule: div[data-testid="sidebarColumn"] .r-1u4rsef

and promoted tweets (in light mode): .css-1dbjc4n.r-my5ep6.r-qklmqi.r-1adg3ll div[data-testid="placementTracking"]:not(.r-u8s1d)

Obviously very fragile, but has been working fo the last month or so

jfg··on How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
Yeah, looking at the Google maps location of chicken shops in Peckham brings up only about half the shops that are actually there.
jfg··on Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App
Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful.

I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com, I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best' page, and an option to have readability mode on by default.

Very promising though, out of interest how long have you spent on the project?

jfg··on Creating a Realistic Rain Effect with Canvas and JavaScript
http://jsbin.com/EjoGeLo/2/edit
jfg··on Lorem Ipsum translated by Google
also, this is much more useful that you'd think:

http://dferg.us/lipsum-text-workflow-for-alfred-2/