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cheeaunon Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

Really awesome to see this evolving to this stage :)

cheeaunon Ask HN: Share your personal site

Thanks! Nice to know that it's still useful :D

cheeaunon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://cheeaun.com

List of blog posts and my side projects. Metalsmith, GitHub Pages.

cheeaunon Worldle

Been playing this for the past few days.

Today's (17 Feb) is easy for me. But gosh, last few days were really tough, mostly countries that I'm not aware of or don't hear a lot.

cheeaunon Poll: Where do you live?

Singapore is missing :(

cheeaunon Show HN: Hacker XP – Hacker News styled as a Windows XP Outlook email client

Quite surprised that you're scraping HN and parse the DOM. Maybe should try use the API? https://github.com/HackerNews/API

cheeaunon Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

https://dateful.com/ especially the Time Zone Converter, has been pretty useful for me

cheeaunon Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

hmm yeah, not live. Still looks cool tho'

cheeaunon Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

Ubilabs did a 3D version here https://demos.ubilabs.com/moving-hamburg/

Tweet: https://twitter.com/ubilabs/status/1448271663041220613

Article: https://ubilabs.com/en/insights/potential-of-digital-twins-f...

cheeaunon Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

Following the author on Twitter [1] has been a treat for me. Even right now, he's building a 3D visualisation of runners for Hakone Ekiden [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/nagix

[2] https://nagix.github.io/hakone-ekiden/

cheeaunon Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap?

I’m curious to know if the companies that use OSM actually contribute back? Like fixing all the wrong/malicious data.

cheeaunon TinyVG: A challenger to the throne of vector graphics

Wondering how is this compared to Ian Hickson's research: "A vector format for Flutter (and beyond)" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YWffrlc6ZqRwfIiR1qwp1AOk...

cheeaunon Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

Don't see this mentioned here but recently I've been using this a lot: Kill-Sticky - Remove all elements with fixed or sticky positions https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-sticky/lekjlg...

cheeaunon Open secrets about Hacker News

Actually, I would be interested to know how the comments are sorted.

cheeaunon Show HN: Kizie – Twitter for web, reimagined

That would be cool :)

Also, I feel like there seems to be a lag when clicking on the tabs. Currently using it on Mobile Safari iOS 15. Maybe I'm expecting native-like perf or something :D

cheeaunon Show HN: Kizie – Twitter for web, reimagined

Would be useful for me if this supports lists.

cheeaunon Using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering you like (2020)

I would.

cheeaunon Show HN: PaperDelivery – fetch articles from your Twitter feed

Would be great if this works for Lists too, instead of the home feed.

cheeaunon Show HN: Cascade Timeline Maker

Hey that's me! Wow it's nice to know that my old post/project is still being mentioned now :D

I'm no longer adding features to Life [1]. There were too many feature requests for something that I want to be simple. I'm still updating my own Life events [2] tho'

Two questions/notes:

1. You sort of use a striped-down Markdown(?) format, any reason for that? I use Markdown because it's also can be human-readable in some way, even though I don't really use a legit Markdown parser :P

2. Your date range format seems slightly different than mine. Maybe you need to document that somewhere :)

[1] https://github.com/cheeaun/life [2] https://cheeaun.life/

cheeaunon Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen

Hmm does this support non-English languages?

cheeaunon Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen

Hey this is very useful! I wrote a Raycast (https://raycast.com/) script to invoke it here https://gist.github.com/cheeaun/1405816e5ceb397cbc9028204f82...

I tweeted a GIF on how it looks like https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1395973544983425025.

cheeaunon Sublime Text 4

I've been using ST4 (beta) last few weeks ago, trying to move away from VS Code. I used to use ST2/3 before moving to Atom and then VS Code.

My experience so far:

- Feels so much faster (as expected, but still faster than VS Code - I'm on M1 MBA)

- Settings are still in JSON instead of GUI

- There's no scrollbar markers [1]

- I was struggling set up the system-based light/dark mode color scheme and theme, wished that it was easier.

[1] https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/2072

cheeaunon Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

Nice! One bug report: the "Click here and checkout your esyvite" link seems to be missing the https protocol which makes the link broken (goes to esyvite.com/esyvite.com/e/xxx instead)

cheeaunon Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader

Very similar project, also available as a GitHub Action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/feedsfetcher

cheeaunon Light Pollution Map

Question, how is the gradient heatmap thing implemented?

cheeaunon Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available

I think it's been the same, just recently I need a way to set custom headers for specific paths. Documentation [1] says that I can use * or :placeholder(s?), but there's no examples other than "/*" (which matches everything).

I thought it can do matches like "/folder/*/*.html" but... actually can't. I try look around in the forums, seeing others got confused as well and in the end I gave up :D

As for redirects, I really like :splat [2], but for my use case, I need something can be matched in the middle of the URL string, e.g.: /blog/:splat/whatever. Maybe this is like a weird use-case, or rather I'm thinking of it like glob patterns or regex.

[1] https://docs.netlify.com/routing/headers/ [2] https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/redirect-options/...

cheeaunon Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available

I'm using Netlify for one of my side projects. Liking it so far but been getting annoyed by the limited _headers/netlify.toml config these days (especially custom redirects).

cheeaunon Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available

I've been using Cloudflare Pages for a few of my sites. Been getting issues on one of them for the past few weeks and getting "Failed: an internal error occurred" on the deployment step. I've asked for support and also tweeted [1] but to no avail.

I eventually moved it back to GitHub Pages. My other sites seems okay tho'.

[1] https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/1378709230765580293

cheeaunon Is It Pokemon or Big Data?

Hey thanks, not sure how you add those repos, currently I have to manually run a script to get and update the repos list. Now I'm actually working on automating it (with GitHub Actions).

And now that you mention farfetch'd, I realised it's a bug on my script... https://github.com/search?q=farfetch%27d vs https://github.com/search?q=farfetchd

I probably have to remove non-alphanumeric characters before hitting GitHub's search API...

cheeaunon Is It Pokemon or Big Data?

Shameless plug here: https://cheeaun.github.io/repokemon/