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cryptographyon Show HN: I built a gravity simulator in pure CSS

Noted. Thanks for letting me know.

cryptographyon Show HN: I built a gravity simulator in pure CSS

Thanks for the comment. Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist:)

Yes, you're partially right...if we drop both balls on Moon, they'll fall at the same time. Because there's (almost) no air on the Moon. The ball with less mass has less force of gravity to fight with air resistance on the Earth. Therefore, it falls slower.

Maybe this video can help to visualize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esa0kKECZvM

cryptographyon Show HN: I built a gravity simulator in pure CSS

Hi, HN!

It started as a simple website to show the latest photos from Mars by fetching data from NASA APIs, then progressed into APIs to demonstrate fun space updates (e.g. people in space, space flight table).

It soon evolved into an elementary demonstration of gravity in different celestial bodies (Earth, Moon, Mars, International Space Station for now), which I call 'gravity simulation'. Currently working on more accurate animations to simulate life on different planets. Hope you'll enjoy it!

Tech-stack: React for the web app, the simulator is CSS-only. I used Manim for making explanatory videos.

Disclaimer: just to make it clear, I'm not a physicist or an astronomer, just a space enthusiast. So, I'm sure there might be some inaccuracy in my animations. Would be more than happy if any one of you notice them and let me know.

cryptographyon Poll: How do you handle content blocking?

Fifth choice: I don't serve block-able content

cryptographyon Ask HN: Favourite Long Form Blogs

There is a website called Longreads that features, you guessed it, long form essays and articles: https://longreads.com

cryptographyon Ask HN: Do you post your email address publicly?

Do you know that SSL certificate for www.fogbeam.com has expired? https://crt.sh/?q=www.fogbeam.com

cryptographyon Ask HN: How should I create my personal academic blog?

I recommend either IWantMyName or Namesilo. They have great support and no B.S. upsells a lot of providers have. I am not affiliated with them, just a customer.

cryptographyon Ask HN: Keeping secrets out of public repos

What about API_KEY='42..' in a config file that contains project-wide configuration?

cryptographyon Ask HN: Keeping secrets out of public repos

That's the solution that I adhere to. But on a team with several devs, how do you prevent that from happening? Or how do you prevent yourself from accidentally(!) doing so (i.e. during the late-night coding sessions)?

cryptographyon Ask HN: Have you been rejected by Stripe Atlas?

I have sent you an e-mail.

cryptographyon Ask HN: Django or Rails?

These are the most popular ones: which means more tutorials, more StackOverflow questions & answers, more people involved (i.e. won't vanish in 1 or 2 years). However, I am open to other suggestions.

cryptographyon Ask HN: Django or Rails?

So is RoR something like Flask[0] which provides you with basics and all other bells and whistles (e.g. ORM, Forms, Admin, Auth, etc..) are available via extensions?

[0] http://flask.pocoo.org/