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iamthefury··on <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)
I wish I could upvote this comment twice. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.

I recall, in about 2010, hiring a young engineer to help with small marketing pages at an agency in New York City. His work was pixel-perfect at a time when we’d spend days just trying to get things looking reasonable in IE6. He was fast. It was incredible.

He was gone for the day when a last-minute change came in, so another dev went to update his latest work. Turns out he had been exporting the entire designs (from Photoshop, of course, no Sketch or Figma back then) as a BACKGROUND IMAGE and then ABSOLUTELY POSITIONING form fields.

I thought it was brilliant. No one else but the boss agreed. Testing for all of his work had been flawless cross-browser. It just didn’t work well on mobile. But he didn’t have to center things in a div - it was all smoke and mirrors.

I miss those days sometimes.

iamthefury··on Show HN: Bubbles, drop-in screensaver script for websites
I double dare you to
iamthefury··on React Native Isn't as Popular as You Think [video]
I’ve been down the “What is the SOTA PWA framework” rabbit hole a few times and returned with Ionic and not much else. Has that changed?
iamthefury··on Show HN: Solution to RSI and poor Mac dictation, accurately transcribes "memcpy"
Checking this out now - I’ve used Wispr Flow for a while, and it’s….fine. I’d love more control, though.

By any chance, would you be open to paid licensees having source access? Obviously with strict non-compete/non-commercial terms.

iamthefury··on Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems
I helped implement Mermaid as a part of Apollo GraphQL’s public documentation to address the “docs as versioned artifact with code” challenge. It’s a win, but still another Yak to shave since public docs are a product, not the source code for the internal teams’ use.
iamthefury··on Ask HN: Is there a list of grey-hair-friendly IT companies?
This comment is why I come to HN for the comments and articles, but really just stay for the comments :)
iamthefury··on Ask HN: Preferred SMS API Provider?
Honest question: is prelude.so suitable for marketing, including handling STOP replies and such?
iamthefury··on I Received an AI Email
Williams Gibson also describes this in Idoru - a virtual world with digital bugs that eat spam.
iamthefury··on Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
I love the idea and simplicity, thank you for sharing!

Small bit of feedback: would it be possible to make the UI a bit more mobile friendly? Or, alternatively, is there an API that others could use to build different interfaces?

Again, this is a Thing That Should Exist, so thank you for bringing it into the world.

iamthefury··on Show HN: DynamiCrafter: Animating Open-Domain Images with Video Diffusion Priors
Your last paragraph tickles the part of my brain that has read William Gibson’s entire Sprawl series. Thank you for that.
iamthefury··on Full Time
I’m curious about what and how crawling is done. I did a search for my own site and didn’t find it (it’s a redirect to another site, which I’m sure doesn’t help). What’s being indexed right now (out of curiosity, not trying to game SEO - that’s why I’m not mentioning the site I searched for here.)
iamthefury··on Rear-wheel-drive cars are back and we have EVs to thank
Front engine, Front drive vs Front Engine, Rear Drive

The engine can be placed front (in front of the front axle), mid-engine (between the axles), or rear over/behind the rear axle.

It affects weight distribution and therefore the vehicle’s handling.

iamthefury··on Show HN: Backhooks, hooks for Node.js and the back-end
I just stopped by to say: this looks fantastic, and I appreciate OP’s positive attitude and the thoughtful discourse. Thank you all for sharing!