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kenrick95

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https://kenrick95.org/

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kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Thank you for your kind words!
kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Thanks for the feedback!

Unfortunately I've been challenged with the Recaptcha quite often too. That part is apparently injected by my shared hosting service (Hostinger) with no ability to turn off even when I check with their support. I hosted this at my main site (kenrick95.org)'s shared hosting service as a subdomain since I don't need to pay extra to do so.

I might consider moving it out somewhere else if I decide to maintain it separately from my main site.

kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
ah damn... this might take a while to debug, as I don't have any error monitoring setup yet ._.

May I check what's your browser & version? Thanks

kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Thanks for the feedback and ideas!

Yeah, some of the input elements are quite 'basic' as they use browser default input element. I shall improve of them in due time...

kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Thanks for your feedback. Yeah I get that everyone has their workflow and it's okay to stick with them. For me, I used to have that Excel + Google Maps workflow too, but I feel like collaborating with person over the other side of the globe is such a pain in Excel, that's why I come up with this thing
kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Thanks for your feedback. I'll add them soon
kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Thanks for your suggestion! I was hesitant at first cause it was under heavy development so anything I put there on main page might get outdated very soon. I'll add them very soon~
kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Thanks for pointing out! Will fix that soon
kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Sorry I couldn't provide them, however you can use throwaway email service to get around that part
kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Haha thanks! Yeah might be a good idea if there are lots of usage, but for now it's mostly me and close friends so not much yet
kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Yeah I agree, haven't get around that part yet since the auth part is handled by 3rd party (InstantDB). However you can use throwaway email service and it accepts that too
kenrick95··on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
Thanks for pointing out! Fix should be deployed soon
kenrick95··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Still [1] working on my travel planning web application: https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/ (repo https://github.com/kenrick95/ikuyo )

This is an example view-only trip: https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/trip/2617cd98-a229-45d4-9617-526...

So far it has:

- Timetable view, with drag-and-drop support. I think it will be useful for planning the activities as I need to be able to quickly swap activities - List view. I think it will be useful for actual travel itself as the day go, I'll need to focus day-by-day - Maps. To make it easier to plan nearby activities, but I think I still need to rely on Google Maps or other kind of maps since I still need the navigation/direction in-between activities - Sharing & comments. Since I plan to use it to collaborate the travel with my friend, this is a must-have feature for me. - Expenses. This is still quite basic but maybe I should also track who owes whom...

I think now I'm happy with the feature set and will start planning my travel using this to polish the UX :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818652

kenrick95··on No as a Service
Classic Hacker News hug of death
kenrick95··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Thanks!

I tried Wanderlog, but didn't get the right 'vibe' for me. The one that I actually used is Navitime specifically to travel in Japan, but didn't have as much function as I hoped.

So most functionalities I had in mind was inspired from my Excel sheets that I used over the years for travel planning

kenrick95··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I'm working on a travel planning application. I know a lot of other apps exist, but I'd like to build one myself.

https://github.com/kenrick95/ikuyo

So far it has some sort of activity calendar + expense tracker

There's still so much ideas to implement, like adding map, improve UX of creating activities, to-do list, etc

I've used it once or twice of a short trip, but in 6 months time, I'll have a 2-weeks trip, so that's my self-imposed "deadline" for this project

Anyway this project is a pure static web page and all the 'back-end' is handled by InstantDB ( https://www.instantdb.com/ ) after I saw their submission on HN >.< So far it has been quite a good experience overall except maybe the permissions model which can be a bit confusing to me

kenrick95··on Sync Engines Are the Future
I concur with this. Been using it on my side project that only have a front-end. The "back-end" is 100% InstantDB. Although for me, I found that the permissions part a bit hard to understand, especially when it involves linking to other namespace. Haven't checked them for a while, maybe they've improved on this...
kenrick95··on Show HN: I made a live multiplayer Minesweeper game
This looks great and well polished!

Brings back memory to the hackathon project that's quite similar to this that me and my friends did back like 9 years ago!? https://github.com/SpanishArmada/Minesweeper-Battle?tab=read...

kenrick95··on Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
Not sure if it's p2p, but I also find that this exist: http://xkcd949.com
kenrick95··on Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/949/
kenrick95··on Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline
I agree with this. Some world events aren't relevant with our lives, and some are quite regional but have vast effects. For example, 1997 Asian Economic Crisis impacted my family quite a bit and I have a fond memory of my parents being worried around that time. I wish I could add/edit/remove some of the "World Events"
kenrick95··on Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365
Because of this Outlook (new) non-sense, few months ago I switched to Thunderbird on desktop and mobile, and it has been quite a refreshing experience. Sure the UI need some time to get used to, but it has been my primary driver now
kenrick95··on Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
ikr, the old UIs have good affordance: whether or not the UI elements are interactable or not unlike the "modern" UIs which are kind of terrible in this aspect
kenrick95··on Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader
Thanks a lot for the prompt support!
kenrick95··on Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader
I tried to import the OPML file exported by https://wordpress.com/read/subscriptions but it says "Failed to parse OPML."

Edit: just managed to find the support email. I'll send you the OPML file through it~

kenrick95··on Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
I was surprised too, cause initially they had some issues with the proposal [1], resolved it few years later [2], and finally implemented it since last year [3]

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194#is...

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194#is...

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753933

kenrick95··on Show HN: Itineraries.io – I built a joint trip planner in between surgeries
This is really cool. Coincidentally I am currently in the process of building one myself (just for personal use), though mine has much less features than this one. I hope this I can take some inspiration from your site.

Some issues I faced after trying it out for few minutes:

- When creating itineraries, I filled in the country field, but upon pressing enter or the arrow button, it just disappeared?

- On the same text field, I'm on dark mode, but the color contrast is quite poor (can't read the placeholder text)

- When I'm on the per-day itinerary planning page, when entering the hh:mm field, it didn't move my focus to the next one (so if I want to enter 08:00, I have to enter "8" then <tab> then "8" then <tab> then "0" then <tab> then "0"

- After I entered the hh:mm and press the plus icon, I suppose we're supposed to enter the plans starting that time. So I enter some stuff to it, and upon pressing enter, it appears there. It's fine, but it feels like the UX would be better if the text box is autofocused again, so we can quickly enter several plans for that timing

- I'm confused with the "edit"/"editing" button, not sure what it does... but when the text goes to "editing", I can delete some items I guess?

Anyway that's all I have for now. Sorry for the long wall of text.

Cheers~

kenrick95··on 12 Months of Mandarin
> DS/algos

How do you study that on Anki?

kenrick95··on Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
> but a clean build still takes something like 45 minutes to finish

I had a similar experience when building Firefox from source >.<

though I recall I had more trouble when pulling the codes as I was naive and pulled all the history

kenrick95··on Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)
Surprised that 949 (File Transfer) didn't make it to top 10

Also "(2022)"

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