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marvindanig

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I used to write code with my bare hands. I still do. Sometimes. Follow me @marvindanig.

Currently building Achiral AI for SMBs.

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marvindanig··on NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
Somewhat. However, their manuscript → markdown export has issues. I have seen people struggling with the flavor of its markdown a bit as well.

OP has a great solution that focuses on markdown alone. And that's a welcome change!

marvindanig··on Anonymously call out the bad behavior of “ghosting” by recruiters
I’d dump pretty much every VC into the bucket of ghosters as well. And then, you know, from there you get all the trickle-down economics.
marvindanig··on Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life
i spend most of my time on my iphone. when it comes to reading longform, i pick up the iPad or order a physical book because that's how i'm able to read.
marvindanig··on Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life
i tried one of these fancy tricks on one of my Kindle earlier this year. then i threw all the Kindles away.
marvindanig··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I have a tech cofounder who lives abroad. How easy/convoluted would it be for him to come to the US through L1 sponsorship? Does it even make sense?
marvindanig··on iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money
And then all those exorbitant taxes and duties will end up in hidden swiss banks and in the hands of lowly fascists that control India. It's a well-oiled machine if you ask me!
marvindanig··on Faster Web App Delivery with PRPL
Strongly disagree.

You are either using the service worker api wrong or don’t understand how slow and spotty Internet connections can be for a majority of users around the world. PWAs are a massive improvement of experience on the web—it lets you think of the end-user more than the developer experience.

marvindanig··on Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
Now compare these lies of recycling goods and plastic with the other lie of harvesting trees for paper pulp. ;-)

It's a perfect animal farm!

marvindanig··on Show HN: I made a book of 70,000 Baby Girl Names
I made this book for our incoming daughter next week!

It's open source: https://github.com/marvindanig/baby-girl-names

Finding a name for your little one can be quite hard. Nearly all the resources on the Internet focus on what's popular or what's fancy in the community these days and sometimes you just don't want to follow a trend.

I wanted us to avoid the groupthink and skip the confirmation biases of our society and that meant building a resource that's !sorted by popularity or votes/likes.

The book lists all the baby girl names in the world (~70,000) alphabetically instead so one can go after just a few alphabets and find all the names that begin with that alphabet. International names are included so it is useful for new parents around the world as well.

How do you like it? Please do help me spread the word!

marvindanig··on Transparent wood could be the window of the future
> …I'm not sure if any of the wood I use comes from the Amazon.

Wood comes from a place where a forest (like Amazon) once stood.

> …can be forced by strong regulation with the ability to enforce some rules and stop imports of things not meeting.

I doubt that any of the above is possible. Businesses can always weasel their way out and do what they need to do to make money.

marvindanig··on Transparent wood could be the window of the future
Eh, no. That's exactly what the advocates of pulping industry would like you to believe.

Leaving aside the pollution of the rivers and the land and the air over the years, replacing a forest like the Amazon (example) and the ecosystem within cannot be measured in terms dollar incentives to an industry.

Sustainable harvesting is much like clean coal. The math doesn't actually work, but the advocacy sure does. ;-)

marvindanig··on Transparent wood could be the window of the future
Also this:

> Could looking through trees be the view to a greener future?

No. The opposite. It means more harvesting of the trees to yield the raw materials that is wood to produce such a glass.

marvindanig··on The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
let me see. download a PDF. download an ePub. or buy a paperback. or a hardback. hm.

why just the lifeless artifacts for the disk or the dead-tree?

why can't we read the almanack on the web like a clean blogpost or a series of short chapters?

edit: we can. it was down low on the scroll on my mobile. tx!

marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Well, if you sit so close to someone's opinions or comments on the Internet, wouldn't you have to smell whatever whether you like it or not? ;-)
marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Those books do work without javascript. Go troll someone else.
marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Now that I read my comment I see the issue with it.

What I meant to say is that Firefox should focus on implementing cryptographic signing over HTML then. And not a PDF viewer on the web--in that, enabling cryptographic signatures isn't tied to the format PDF per se.

marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
> Do you envision lawyers putting all their legal contracts into fancy flippy books?

Someone will have to solve it for the lawyers in a not so 'fancy consumerish' way. Point is that it is possible to do that, and Firefox shouldn't be solving this problem using an ancient format and a layer of cruft in between.

marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Oh, I'm all in for email/attachment based distribution. Just not with Firefox sporting it on the web browser where you'd in all certainty require someone to host a server and for you to trust them that no changes have been made to the content.

That was the entire point of my comment at the top.

marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Yeah, but does Firefox need to solve the use-case of a court system? Also, tangentially the solution to guarantee "tamperproof" archiving is in cryptography and that's not a feature of PDF.
marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Sure, here's my list: everything + more.

There's nothing a PDF can do that a webpage can't. In fact there are a hundred of things that a webpage can do, but a PDF can't. Including, form fields, input fields and seamless form submissions.

Webpages can also do this: https://bubblin.io/cover/official-handbook-by-marvin-danig#f...

Disclosure: It's my work.

marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Serviceworkers+@font-faces+font-kerning property of CSS3. Done, next.
marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
As someone working on formats, I disagree with your generalization. But let's get into specifics. List the things about PDF that you believe can't be done with web pages?
marvindanig··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Why is Firefox spending all their money and goodwill on a piece of technology that should be done away with?

PDF is a dork. It's an accessibility nightmare with no obvious advantage over simple ordinary webpages. Somewhere in the comments below, it is mentioned that supporting PDFs is a non-trivial piece of technology. May be! Even steam engines have non-trivial technology under the hood.

marvindanig··on Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019
https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/faq-the...
marvindanig··on Toonify Yourself
Ah! Gets excited.

1. Clicks on the browse button to find a good selfie.

2. Uploads the pic to Toonify.

3. Clicks on 'Toonify' button:

> Failed: Didn't find any faces in the supplied image.

Ack what? Ok. The machine is still learning.

(P.S: I like the project though. Hope it will improve over time. But toonification of any pic without deep learning/machine learning thrown into the mix is already a solved problem, no?)

marvindanig··on Applebot
I hate Google maps when it shuts itself off with a 'journey complete' status while I'm still looking for the corner or the building that I was supposed to arrive at.
marvindanig··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
+1. Plus an open access to the web with a choice of browsers is super important too! You can't do all of that with proprietary trash from e-ink––there's nothing good about physical paper (dead-trees) anyway to be promoting your product with.
marvindanig··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
> …on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens.

Are you sure about that? [1]

[1] https://bubblin.io/blog/daylight-energy-fatigue

marvindanig··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
I agree with you. Don't understand why people are downvoting your observation though.
marvindanig··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
No reason at all. At least we get to enjoy books, videos, notes and most importantly open web on proper hardware with the iPad.
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