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usmanityon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

A slop detecting browser extension for LinkedIn because I have to use it these days to find a job, I was getting tired of seeing all the AI slop content.

usmanityon Ask HN: Share your personal website

I've seen a lot of your work around the internet!

usmanityon Ask HN: Share your personal website

wow! I love how the background/header generates as the page loads and you can click to add things on it. Overall, the design if amazing!

usmanityon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://usmanity.com

I've maintained a very basic homepage for a long time now and I'm using subdomains for projects and other web stuff.

usmanityon ChatGPT Health

this seems to be a memory problem with ChatGPT, in your case, I bet it was changing a lot of answers due to that. For me, it really liked referring to the fact that I have an ADU in my backyard, almost pointlessly, something like "Since you walk the dogs before work, and you have a backyard ADU, you should consider these items for breakfast..."

usmanityon Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids

you could try GMRS over FRS which ends up having more range and only costs $35 for a 10 year license (no test / certification needed). I was recently trying both types of handheld walkie talkies and the FRS range was almost 1/5th the range that GMRS was able to do

usmanityon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

this is cool, if you'd like some help on the web UI stuff, I'd love to contribute.

usmanityon Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

I started using Pure prompt since I'm only ever using zsh and it seemed to cut down a lot on the setup required, I do have to spend like 15-20 mins on a new computer to get everything working as expected but once it gets going, it feels like the best mix of customization and speed.

usmanityon Should we design for iffy internet?

100% this, I am almost always on 5G or LTE but in some areas in my city it seems like not even a webpage will load on either. In this case, using any apps is useless and google/kagi search feels like it takes too long to find something basic.

usmanityon Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream

this is great, my succinct little domain that's 6 characters long including TLD was turned into 4000 characters, awesome!

usmanityon Helios

I had no idea Helios is also Goldmund. The sound is so different. I found them both on Spotify.

usmanityon Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox

man, I wish you guys were looking for a front-end developer! :D

usmanityon _why's site is back up

Could be a private repo.

usmanityon The Node Beginner Book

This is great for starting out with node, any recommendations on a more advanced node book?

usmanityon A less cluttered whatismyip

There's a CSS issue that made me a bit irritated. The <body> element has a margin of 8px, change that to auto so you won't get an annoying horizontal scroll on webkit browsers.

usmanityon Ask Steve Wozniak Anything

Same situation here. There's no indication if the reply is from OP or not.

usmanityon DeveloperAuction gets developers paid what they're worth

Agreed. I hate how because I don't have a degree, I somehow don't know programming as someone who took english classes for 3 years.

usmanityon Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

I wouldn't call it exactly passive but it's not really a focus right now.

I setup an etsy shop on which I put some posters I've made. http://www.etsy.com/shop/Posterboard

I actually have made -$1.40 b/c that's what it costed me to put up the posters. It's been up for about 2 weeks now.

usmanityon Show HN: SendRail - The easiest way to send files from the desktop

Thank you. This is great that it uses my facebook friends and I don't have to scramble for everyone's email addresses. +1

I did notice that it's not case-insensitive which would help a lot. Also, this might be on your roadmap but a progress bar or some feedback of it being sent would be great.

Also, file seems to be not sent through HTTPS.

usmanityon Show HN: SendRail - The easiest way to send files from the desktop

+1 for this. I was surprised it only asked for Chat permissions

usmanityon My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk.

I recently started working at a startup and before that my perception of criticism was what I saw on tv and heard from people. Fortunately, my coworks and seniors give me some good feedback.

But I myself still can't have the patience to listen and learn, after reading this, I feel like there's an incentive for me to change my behavior :)