OuterVale

Content that appears in the viewport before scrolling is considered 'above-the-fold' and is thus prioritised to load quickest. The viewport dimensions are used to figure out what will be above-the-fold.

I ended up just putting together my own bang provider (and stole the snaps feature from Kagi).

https://search.vale.rocks

Heads up. The site you linked is just a wrapping of the original with adverts and tracking scripts. It isn't running the latest version either. Much better off using the creator's version.

https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

Not double saddled, but a circus bike is pretty similar to what metalman was talking about.

https://www.municycle.com.au/catalogue/B-CIRCUS-HOPP20_item....

Unfortunately I can confirm his observations. They're all pretty accurate, though those that stood out to me most are:

> Young men in old cars were very aggressive, acting as if to frighten me off the road—they lowered their windows and shouted abusively, waved their arms, and hooted. I did not see this with women drivers and older men in more expensive cars.

I've had so many slurs, usually of the homophobic variety, shouted at me from cars. Some have felt the need to swerve their vehicle erratically at me.

> They tried to put me off balance by suddenly shouting, jumping out of hiding, kicking a football, throwing stones, or riding a bicycle at me; a few asked for a ride in addition to aggressive behaviour.

I've experienced plenty of teens that are aggressive and then proceed to ask for a go.

The positive experiences far outnumber the negatives overall, though.

Thank you! Oooh, that linked site is sleek. I love the effect they've got going on.

I'm wary with this post that I've highlighted a flaw with my implementation, which is that items overlap on smaller screens when headings have small amounts of text. I was aware this could be an issue but hadn’t bothered to address it, as there were no sections with such minimal amounts of text.

If you're interested in the implementation, I've made notes here: https://vale.rocks/posts/the-implementation-of-this-site#scr...

Electric unicycles (EUC) are an entirely different beast far out of my wheelhouse. I've never ridden one and only once had a fleeting discussion with an EUC rider. I've not previously been asked about them and wouldn't have anything to say. They're pretty different in form factor.

You can absolutely bunny hop (and so much more). With a 24″ or larger wheel, you can pretty confidently do short trips. If you're looking to do a few kms, 27.5″ is the sweet spot I've settled on for the size/speed/comfort trade-off.

Where I live you're even permitted to take them on the bus/train, assuming you're not being too much of a pain. Unicycles are specifically outlined in the terms.

Author here. You really don't want any disconnect between the rider and the uni. You're making tons of constant micro-adjustments, and any lag or reduced feedback would make riding really difficult. Suspension would also allow the wheel to move upward relative to the frame and pedals when hitting a bump.

As well as this, it'd waste energy, which would tire the rider faster and eat hops. There is also the case that most suspension solutions aren't really designed to handle the sort of aggressive lateral torsional stresses of the entire weight of the rider and their movement in the way that unicycles dish it out.

As someone who goes along gravel paths with relative frequency on their unicycle, it isn't too bad. I'm not sure if the dirt bike-style unicycle you're referring to was an electric one, but most municycles (mountain unicycles) have decently thick tyres to handle some of the jolts. Take the model I have as an example: https://www.krisholm.com/en/gear/unicycle/kh27.5

Thanks for the comment. I'll make an update to provide a tad more information on suspension.

This is the natural thing to make with this tool: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5VGLPP70Xtw

There were beta versions available for years, but most feedback was ignored.

Discussion from the other day:

Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign | 119 points, 80 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033435

It uses SVG filters! You can read about the effect here: https://henry.codes/writing/how-to-distort-text-with-svg/

The official title is 'Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse' and I imagine most people would be inclined to vote in favour of that without context.

From the linked article:

> It said the cost breakdown included $4.1 million for the redesign, $79.8 million for the website build, and the site's launch and security testing cost $12.6 million.

The new site post re-development: https://www.bom.gov.au

The old site provided with HTTPS: https://reg.bom.gov.au

The Wikipedia page has plenty of interesting miscellany for the curious reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto

When sharing this post on his social media accounts, Jim prefixed the link with: 'Sometimes its cathartic to just blog about really basic, (probably?) obvious stuff'

Reading most of this advice for the first time, it is both interesting and validating to see many of the recommendations align with what I've already noticed in my own work and adapted to consider.

Even in isolation people gravitate towards the same ideas.

Life imitates art.

GoFundMe CEO: We Could Use A Few Fun Ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIsXEkR5OVs

For clarity, this is a parody of this site:

https://americabydesign.gov

Nope. Nope nope nope. Nope.

I love this tool. I use it not just for SD cards but for all sorts of portable storage.

It seems to fix things where Windows File Explorer's formatter and other tools fail. A simple tool that does a really good job. It has even fixed some partition weirdness I've needed to deal with.

Translated versions are available here: https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/publications

Previous discussion:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463 (21 April 2012 | 16 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818893 (31 December 2014 | 17 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250527 (23 March 2015 | 14 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12157993 (25 July 2016 | 197 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17935030 (7 September 2018 | 31 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33170988 (12 October 2022 | 165 comments)

I loaded it up to find myself presented with a completely broken visual appearance, screaming audio, and all sorts of hate content and other horrors. Absolutely terrible.

I mean, it has been over 7 years since then. I don't think anyone would reasonably assume that to mean it would operate independently in perpetuity.

This site brings me to tears every time I visit. Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad. Usually melancholy.

https://thesoundof.love

That's a great link, thanks.

It's amazing how similar their notes are to mine, despite me never having read theirs. I suppose there are just a few certain things that stick with people and that they hold important.

Looking into all the ways your body can be handled after death is quite interesting. The further down the rabbit hole you go, the more interesting and questionable options you find.

(Thanks for catching that. I was trying to decide whether '.' or '。' looked better next to English text and must have taken off more than I wanted.)

Another really funky way of doing it.

https://css-tricks.com/emoji-as-a-favicon/