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belchiorb

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belchiorb··on Show HN: Base UI v1.0 Unstyled UI Components from the Creators of Radix and MUI
Great to see this finally become stable. Congrats to the Base UI team!
belchiorb··on PastVu: Historical Photographs on Current Maps
Pretty amazing!
belchiorb··on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
This doesn’t seem to work on Safari. Works great on Chrome, though
belchiorb··on Show HN: Daily Lingo – AI daily stories to learn any language
Seems very interesting!

I found that the word reader from the example isn’t using the Spanish language.

It’s using Portuguese, not sure if it’s because it’s able to find my locale or if just a mess up.

Also, it seems like it doesn’t properly handle German separate verbs, so it’s a bit hard to get a single word’s translation.

belchiorb··on Show HN: OpenUX – a free and open alternative to Mobbin
Pretty cool! Nice job
belchiorb··on Why I Switched to Vim Keybindings
Great points! I’ve also done the same. Tried using just vim for some time, but it was too much of a hassle. Now I use WebStorm with vim keybindings and it works great. Even CodeSandbox has it. The only downside is that StackBlitz doesn’t support it and I sometimes use them.
belchiorb··on Show HN: Vacation Maximizer – Maximize PTO by taking days off around holidays
Great! I use the user's timezone to try to guess the country, so it should work well for a lot of countries!
belchiorb··on What's your experience using Lynx (mobile framework)?
Interested in knowing the answer. I’ve used React Native a couple of times, but it’s a bit hard for someone coming from the web, specially styling-wise. I’m curious if Lynx is actually better, though I suspect there will be a lot of shortcomings as it’s relatively new.
belchiorb··on Million Times Million
Isn’t “mil milhões” the proper term in the long scale? “Bilião” would be equivalent to the short-scale trillion, e.g., “NVidia vale $4 biliões”, which is equivalent to “NVidia is worth $4 trillion”.

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belchiorb··on Million Times Million
Portugal uses it, but probably due to foreign influence there’s more and more people that use the short scale, which makes everything a mess
belchiorb··on Show HN: I rewrote an outdated React Native map clustering library
Good point. Is this something that expo maps can’t do?
belchiorb··on Show HN: I rewrote an outdated React Native map clustering library
Looks nice! As a suggestion, it would be easier to understand what this is about by adding a small video/GIF of the library in action.

Took me some time to understand what it was about.