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matthuggins··on QR codes that route to the appropriate app store
Yep, that's what it is.
matthuggins··on Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
Who could have foreseen a tool by Elon Musk doing such a thing?
matthuggins··on First time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day
Are we great yet?
matthuggins··on Claude Memory
Where can I find docs about Claude @ syntax?
matthuggins··on Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design

    I wish to opt out of receiving exclusive promotional offers and updates about products I might be interested in.
I legitimately think the phrasing on this one is wrong if you're expecting unchecking it to be the way to avoid a dark pattern. The follow-up explanation is written as though there's a double negative, but there isn't one here.

Other than that, fun project!

matthuggins··on Ruby 3.4.0
I would love that!
matthuggins··on Super Mario 64 on the Web
No sound on Edge either.
matthuggins··on Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)
We also used to use image maps for this kind of thing, at least once that tag became available. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
matthuggins··on macOS Cursors
I set this up for my daughter on her MacBook, and she quite enjoys the custom cursors. It definitely requires some technical expertise even after installing the app though, as it doesn't ship with extra cursors; you have to configure them yourself.
matthuggins··on Winamp source code leak
I never even accept the iTunes TOS on any MacBook I purchase. I just refuse to let it run.
matthuggins··on Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
NIH?
matthuggins··on Writing HTML in HTML (2019)
Did you see his update below that paragraph? He admits that he had to update everything, and his pages are not currently a time capsule. It basically negates his entire message.
matthuggins··on A File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal (2019) [video]
Good job selling yourself this time!
matthuggins··on Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
Here's an idea for OP:

- track what users are searching for in an area (e.g. toilet paper)

- use GPS to determine who is at a store nearby that hasn't had that item updated recently

- prompt the user via notification with something like "Does [grocery store you're in] have toilet paper in stock?"

Admittedly it's not motivating anyone to answer, but it might help to keep data fresh.

matthuggins··on Ask HN: How do you search for $string if a webpage “supports” infinite scroll?
Google Drive does this within Google Chrome, fwiw. I don't disagree with the spirit of your comment though.
matthuggins··on Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
As a developer, the Touch Bar as a whole is trash. I want to type without looking at the keyboard, and now I suddenly always have to look at the keyboard.

Accidentally pressing the escape key is just one of many issues I have with that "feature".

matthuggins··on New Features in ES2019
What if you tried to sort an array of objects or functions?
matthuggins··on Show HN: Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser
Looks like a Geocities site. Would have been great 25 years ago. :)
matthuggins··on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
Ugh, I can't stand the menu reordering for drafts!
matthuggins··on Thanks Gitlab
What am I looking at?
matthuggins··on Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
They went back on that decision.
matthuggins··on Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
Sounds like the app I'm building now. :)
matthuggins··on Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
Funny, I use Facebook for the exact inverse of this. I actively avoid messenger, group, and event features. I use it to keep in touch with family and share family photos.
matthuggins··on Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally
Context?
matthuggins··on Looks like JP Morgan got caught buying Bitcoin today (use google translate)
You should check out NEO.
matthuggins··on Bitcoin Fork Countown ends today
Where is this from, and why should I trust it?
matthuggins··on Coinbase is down
I'm sure the maintenance page phrasing is their top priority.
matthuggins··on Show HN: React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component
Looks nice, but the keyboard doesn't come up on mobile (Android), so all the demos are unfortunately read-only.
matthuggins··on Choose SQL
> What you gain from not having to worry about modifying schemas and enforcing referential integrity, you lose from having to add more code to your app to check that a DB document has a certain value.

This × 100. The app I'm working on has so many `if model.value` calls scattered throughout the code that it becomes difficult to follow and make sure no spots were missed. Simply adding validation to the app before writing data isn't sufficient since there are other ways to persist data and NoSQL provides no sense of data integrity.

matthuggins··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
Still green for me
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