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jdefelice··on 15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps
Or it shows the road number and not the name.
jdefelice··on Show HN: The Leica MPi: A Leica M2 with a Raspberry Pi-Powered Digital Sensor
As someone who is in the market for a Leica m2, the prices have skyrocketed in the past few years.
jdefelice··on Show HN: I made a tool to hide HN usernames and reduce bias
The only time I look at usernames is when looking at thread replies to see if the person replying is the same.
jdefelice··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
It doesn't work as it once did, Google will still ignore +keyword, It broke with the introduction of Google's social platform Google+
jdefelice··on Things you don't need JavaScript for
The sidebar work for me with a long press. I would have know to try it if I didn’t read your comment, it isn’t very obvious or intuitive.
jdefelice··on Universe Splitter
First time I've came across the Universe Splitter was from This American Life with a good layman explanation.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/691/transcript

jdefelice··on Humble Decomposition
I thought it was clever and fun and reminded me of when people added creative touches to their websites.
jdefelice··on Does anyone ever use the walkie-walkie function on iWatch?
I've tried it when we first got the watches last year. It worked with various success, but sometimes it would start a facetime call on the receivers phone so we stopped using it.
jdefelice··on Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox
Would love to see a tailwind version of this. As I know the class names and what the properties do, I just forget the syntax without the help of an IDE.
jdefelice··on Iowa man convicted of lottery rigging scheme granted parole
I can't read the article as I'm in the EU but Criminal podcast had a great episode about lottery rigging.

https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-160-hot-lotto-3-12-2021/

jdefelice··on Ask HN: Getting film developed cheap in the US
Developing is still a good option. I develop then scan my photos. Color is arguably easier to develop than b&w, you need a constant temperature and time but you don’t have to worry about pushing or pulling.
jdefelice··on Show HN: CSS Speedrun – A small game to test and improve your CSS knowledge
I got stuck on level 7 because I forgot id selectors where a thing.
jdefelice··on Ask HN: How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?
Not sure if this is entirely what you are after but Andreas Kling of SerenityOS builds an IDE from scratch[1] for his own operating system. While I don't personally know C++ I found the videos interesting and fun to watch.

[1] DevTools hacking playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOpZvQB55bfeIHSA71J8...

jdefelice··on Ask HN: Falling Asleep to Podcasts
I sometimes listen to podcasts to fall asleep. I use the PocketCasts[1] app that has the ability to pause the podcast after an episode is over or after a certain length of time, which is nice if you just want it to fall asleep too and not play all night.

Podcast wise my goto is Phoebe reads a mystery[2], she reads various mystery novels and never fails to get me to sleep (sorry Phoebe). She is also the host of the Criminal podcast which is another good one, but too interesting to fall asleep to.

[1] https://www.pocketcasts.com/ [2] https://thisiscriminal.com/mystery/

jdefelice··on Reimagine Atomic CSS
One could argue that `class="m-0 md:m-4"` is more legible because it describes exactly what is happening. No margin on small screen, margin of 4 units on medium breakpoints. Where the styling on thumbnail is unknown and the breakpoints are unknown, unless you look at the css, then if you need to override that css you have to worry about specificity.
jdefelice··on Reimagine Atomic CSS
Your approach wouldn’t work with media queries. In a system like tailwind you can do class=“m-0 md:m-4”
jdefelice··on “This project will only take 2 hours”
When you make one part simpler, you move that complexity to another part.
jdefelice··on There is a special place in hell for the YouTube product people: Youtube Kids
I think the person above is referring to the text being very small on a mobile device. The font size is set to 2.5vw which renders the text as 9.375px on a device width of 375px.
jdefelice··on Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement
So you have a link to this? Sounds interesting and potentially a good way to understand vue under the hood.
jdefelice··on What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (2018)
"They also made government services much more accessible."

I would say the value of making the forms accessible was worth it. Also with the flexibility to make changes to the forms in the future will save even more time.

jdefelice··on The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram
I think there will be such a group but you won’t know about them because they won’t be on social media telling people about it. I don’t think their identity will be anti-social media, but an identity to strive for a slower way of life.
jdefelice··on A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism
Clickspring has been recreating the Antikythera[1] and findings[2] went into a research paper.[3]

[1] Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE&list=PLZioPDnFPN...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo

[3] https://bhi.co.uk/antikytheramechanism/

jdefelice··on Ask HN: Resources to learn basic UI layout design for React apps?
Second this, Refactoring UI is a good resource, Adam Wathan also created tailwind css and the authors of that book created Tailwind UI which is a collection of UI components based on Tailwind.
jdefelice··on I, Backpack
San Francisco has a a few backpack makers, some of which off a lifetime warranty, Mission Workshops for example.

As an hobbyists backpack maker, who has made backpacks with padding on vintage domestic sewing machines it could have been repaired with the know how.

jdefelice··on Running an Underground Lottery in Detroit
Criminal has a podcast episode about this. https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-108-the-numbers-2-15-2019...
jdefelice··on Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework
It's going to be a component library by the author of Tailwind, Adam Wathan. I guess my comment needed some context.
jdefelice··on Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework
How do you plan to compete with https://www.tailwindui.com/ or do you see it working alongside?
jdefelice··on Autism research on single neurons suggests signaling problems in brain circuits
You can also control this with CSS using font-variant-ligatures.
jdefelice··on UK’s Dixons Carphone admits huge data breach
There is a really good podcast episode about the TalkTalk hack https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/4/
jdefelice··on TSB Bank: Botched upgrade has left customers unable to access their accounts
Have you switched to Monzo as your full-time bank? I use it for everyday spending but I not sure I want to put my wages into it yet.
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