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ben85ts··on Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'
potential ad free alternative https://userheist.com
ben85ts··on Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar
Thanks for trying it! I commented on the gist with the bookmarklet version I'm using in chrome.
ben85ts··on Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar
cool! just made one for the URL bar: https://gist.github.com/bsawyer/bc0cb3ec3a86b29e76a23104fc44...
ben85ts··on What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?
JsonML
ben85ts··on Browser-based climate change simulation
There's a tech group https://techimpactmakers.com/ with a couple startups in the slack workspace.
ben85ts··on I’m sick of Facebook. Let’s steal their users
Abuse and illegal content is a huge worry of mine. Maintaining a moderation working group is a concern at scale for sure. My aim is to adopt a volunteer moderation program similar to reddit.
ben85ts··on Ask HN: Should I make a Facebook alternative?
Decided to put this up after the awesome discussion here https://userheist.com
ben85ts··on I’m sick of Facebook. Let’s steal their users
Haha I hope I don’t turn into one! It’s hard to get it all on a page and still be a little concise. Would love to answer any questions. There certainly are many options, for the ones you mentioned federated or decentralized I feel like the concept while really cool isn’t as accessible as just a website. Other options are also too niche. I think Facebook did a couple things well one of which was have a diverse user base.
ben85ts··on Ask HN: Should I make a Facebook alternative?
Really great info, thanks for sharing. WT.social's model is almost exactly what I was thinking. Like you said, it's a different feature set from Facebook but it's great so see that the idea works for social networks.
ben85ts··on Ask HN: Should I make a Facebook alternative?
Thank you for sharing the video is great!
ben85ts··on Ask HN: Should I make a Facebook alternative?
I think the concept of decentralization is certainly appealing especially when it comes to trusting 1 or more other parties with personal information. I think encrypting data with only the parties you want to have access is extremely powerful. I might be wrong but as I understand it there is always an amount of trust whether it be in a blockchain or a single party. I understand that if the one party is compromised or decides to change their policies and sell your data etc. that it is a larger risk in that regard. On the other hand adopting a decentralized network takes a good amount of understanding and participation that might be lost on the average user. My hope is that, with a solid foundation, it would be possible to establish the initial policies to maintain and grow a network that was never owned by anyone e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content
ben85ts··on Ask HN: Should I make a Facebook alternative?
Haha yeah I see what you mean. I was thinking more along the lines of never selling analytic data to third parties (something Facebook has capitalized on quite a bit). I think a lot of people see this as an invasion of privacy.
ben85ts··on Ask HN: Should I make a Facebook alternative?
Wow, thank you I will check this out.
ben85ts··on Ask HN: Should I make a Facebook alternative?
Awesome list! I hadn't heard of some of these. At a cursory glance it appears more of the same. I don't think I need a crypo currency when I post a picture of my dog to share with friends. I'll do more research on current alternatives but from what I've seen they don't seem to offer the basic functionality of Facebook. Maybe I'm over simplifying the concept but wasn't the idea of Facebook just a website to share stuff with friends and family?

Enhancing an existing alternative is interesting. Do you think it would be a matter of contributing to some of the current open source alternatives?

ben85ts··on Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
Drew them in figma
ben85ts··on Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
Sure, thanks for the suggestion!
ben85ts··on Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
That’s a really good idea!
ben85ts··on Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
Just separating different css transform animations across nested divs
ben85ts··on Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
Been a frontend dev for 10 years angular and react. You’re right it’s a little mix of functional state management and imperative structures for the game objects.
ben85ts··on Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
You’re absolutely right, would love any suggestions!
ben85ts··on Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
Thanks, glad you like it!
ben85ts··on Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
Thank you! It is definitely hard to find time. Certainly helped that she wanted to “help”(she’s 6) write it with me sometimes :)
ben85ts··on Show HN: Slasher – browser extension for editing complex URLs
Working as an engineer at a big e-commerce company we have ridiculously long and complicated URLs both internally and in production. I wrote a little extension to help manage them and thought I'd share it here. You can try it out on the landing page https://bsawyer.github.io/slasher/ without installing the extension. I would love any feedback or suggestions!
ben85ts··on Show HN: The easiest way to get emailed from your site
Sorry, I just saw this. Thank you for pointing that out, I've fixed it ;)
ben85ts··on Tailwind: A Utility-First CSS Framework
In the post you mention extending the first class, author-bio, to the article class. When you introduced the idea of the media-card wouldn't it make sense to have both the author-bio and article classes extend from it, maintaining the semantic naming but also making it easy to override or change some style for one in particular?
ben85ts··on Show HN: Start a small crowdfunding campaign to prove product demand
that's a cool idea
ben85ts··on Show HN: Make your own UI starter kit for Bootstrap
Simple and thought out, this is definitely a useful tool!
ben85ts··on Show HN: Windsock.js – A flux inspired library for building web applications
Absolutely! It's a collection of loosely coupled classes that can be used along side or in place of larger frameworks like Angular and React. It consists of a super fast and efficient virtual DOM with batched manipulations similar to Vue.js. It adheres to the flux principle of unidirectional data flow, providing synchronous store mutations with the store class. Highly configurable data bindings coupled with the reusable components makes it easy to come from other MVC frameworks. The router fully supports asynchronous activate and reactive life cycle hooks as well as parameterized paths. The Http class wraps an xhr client with template urls, promises, and exposes an interceptor pattern for all requests. All this bundles down to 36.2 KB. There is a full TodoMVC implementation in the examples directory for considering possible use-cases. Hope this helps and if you have any questions/ suggestion don't hesitate to bring them up in the Gitter channel!
ben85ts··on Windsock.js 0.2.3 release
A flux inspired library for building web applications built on top of an observable JSONML compliant virtual DOM. This is a pre-alpha release.