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omgmogon Gluco data handler: Receive and visualize glucose data on Android

Currently the best way to get notificiation/widget support for FreeStyle Libre, and complication support on Wear OS/Pixel Watch.

omgmogon Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

Press the Escape key on your keyboard to regain mouse control

omgmogon Quiet Hacker News (2017)

For anybody wanting to achieve the same effect while using the official HN site, you can use the following as a custom user style:

  tr.athing + tr {display: none;}

This will just turn the home page in to a list of links, without any of the links for comments, upvote counts, etc. on each item.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/MSsblMm.png

omgmogon Hacking Digital Calipers

I would guess that it would be because Notion is mostly designed to be used as a personal note-taking/todo/trello app (which it's great at!)

Though it's possible to "publish" or share your notes it doesn't look like a well designed use of the platform.

omgmogon Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

That's great! Do you have an enclosure design for the home consoles, perhaps a physical pico-8 style enclosure?

omgmogon LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software

I'm also in the same boat as SmellyGeekBoy, and can attest the same. With the Oneplus rom I saw maybe 1.5 days of battery, with Lineage I often see 2-3 days.

This is completely anecdotal however, and it's likely that the reduced battery is down to having installed different/fewer apps on Lineage.

omgmogon Google’s native ad blocker for Chrome shows up in Android developer build

Switching to Firefox Focus [1] is probably a better solution -- it's Webkit/Blink under the hood, but blocks ads/trackers and doesn't maintain a browser history.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/focus/

omgmogon Why I Hate Slack and You Should Too

Sounds like more of a complaint of informal instant messaging in general, rather than a problem specifically attributed to Slack.

Slack has it's problems, but it also has it's place.

For the Slack teams I'm a member of, we've got rules about using @channel and @here, and anybody that uses either is usually shamed to some extent if they do so.

For the complaint about the use of Electron (and all of that overhead), it's trivial for a Slack team to enable the IRC gateway (in /admin/settings#gateways) and connect through your preferred IRC client.

omgmogon GitHub.com with black ribbon – what happened?

mdo says it's the first of many "iterative design changes"[1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440

omgmogon Show HN: Web Bluetooth

It's pretty powerful stuff, though I'm sort of leaning towards the idea of "how much is too much in the web browser?".

I've been playing with some Web Bluetooth enabled things lately, namely the "Puck.js"[1] piece of Espruino[2] hardware and it's Web Bluetooth browser-based IDE[3].

The browser-based controls for device discovery (in Chrome at-least) are quite nice/intuitive.

[1] http://www.puck-js.com/ [2] http://www.espruino.com/ [3] https://www.espruino.com/ide/

omgmogon Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

Hopefully when it ships it'll be more than an Android phone and some 3D-printed ABS...

http://i.imgur.com/VIqWuDG.jpg

omgmogon Show HN: Drum machine in 100 lines of HTML/JS

I had a go at rewriting this to use requestAnimationFrame, and provide more instruments and some random/clear buttons: https://blog.omgmog.net/beatmaker/

Including whitespace it's 102 lines: https://github.com/omgmog/beatmaker/blob/master/js/index.js

An interesting thing, after a short while the browser unloads the page (Chrome on Mac OS) -- probably due to memory usage, which I think this is down to creating a new Audio element each time, rather than initialising them once and then triggering .play() when needed.

update:

Alright I'm using AudioContext now rather than `new Audio`, seems to be performing a lot better. This puts us at about 144 lines.

omgmogon Show HN: Drum machine in 100 lines of HTML/JS

Nice, but your slider is blocking interaction with most of the boxes http://i.imgur.com/Ae4uyoJ.png

omgmogon 21.co Bitcoin Computer Now on Sale

The scrolling behaviour on that page is infuriating.

omgmogon How to master Minecraft?

https://minecraft.net/game/howtoplay

At night time, dig a hole and wait for the sun to rise.

omgmogon Show HN: Aura, Native OS X Notifications for Gmail and Google Apps

Seems not to currently.

omgmogon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

2degrees is looking for a front-end developer to join our Agile team in Oxford, UK.

Full job details in this pdf: https://www.2degreesnetwork.com/files/uploads/careers/Front-...

omgmogon Ask HN: Tool to post new referrers from Google Analytics to Slack?

The way I'd approach this would be something like this:

- Set up a cron job to check the real-time API for changes to your referrers

- when a new referrer is detected, talk to Slack via their WebHooks integration service

You could use Google's App Engine (and Scheduled Tasks with Cron for Python) for the cron job, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron

Read more about the WebHooks integration service here: https://slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook

omgmogon Show HN: Purce CSS cute penguin

So much duplicate properties, this could really be simplified!

Also inconsistency, sometimes using vendor prefixes, sometimes not, smells of copy/paste coding.

Improved version: http://codepen.io/omgmog/pen/ogwKeW

omgmogon Ask HN: Alternatives to Google-Apps Custom Domain Email Hosting

I've been using "Atmail Cloud" for about 18 months now and have had no issues, I've got about 20 domains using the service. https://www.atmail.com/product

omgmogon Joker – Torrents to streamable video

Tested with Big Buck Bunny and it seems to work nice enough.

http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_su...

omgmogon Poll: Will you upgrade to OS X Yosemite right away?

Upgrading right now.

A note to anybody with additional files in /usr/local: the "About a minute remaining" screen will last for ages as it has to copy over each file from your old /usr/local to the new one. You can hit cmd+l to see the status of this.

This applies to anybody who uses node js, ruby, homebrew, python, postgres, etc.

omgmogon Trello rhymes with . .?

I've always said it like "Mellow", "Yellow", "Jello", "Hello", etc.

omgmogon Why your reasons for no-longer using a CSS pre-processor are wrong.

Indeed!

omgmogon Ask HN: Mobile developers, how do you do testing?

The developer tools in Chrome are a good starting point, you can emulate the screen size, user agent and orientation of a number of devices. A quick Google surfaced this article about the emulation: http://www.realeyes.com/blog/2014/02/19/a-quick-guide-to-chr...

Having a range of devices at hand helps too.

omgmogon The Inevitable Demise of CSS Preprocessors

The author clearly doesn't understand the benefit of CSS preprocessors.

Protip: There's more to them than prefixfree and nesting.

omgmogon The mobile Web isn't dying, it’s being killed, slowly, by Apple.

TL;DR: Apple are in control of the feature-set available to browsers on their own closed OS.

This isn't a surprise, just as the fact that "Chrome on iOS is just a wrapper around Safari's Webkit" isn't a surprise.

If you want to use another browser engine, then use a different OS. You won't have this problem on Android.

Apple's iPhone isn't the "The mobile web", it's just a lousy window into "the mobile web" for a fraction of the users.

When developing any responsive (or gasp mobile) site, I wouldn't check it solely on iPhone/iPad, that's crazy talk.

omgmogon Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

A theme for LightDM Webkit that's a mashup of the Google login and Chrome OS login.

Repo: https://github.com/omgmog/lightdm-webkit-google Screenshot: http://uk.omg.li/VE7v