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onassar

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- https://olivernassar.com/ - hello@olivernassar.com
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onassar··on Show HN: Test your website on 180+ device viewports (with multi-device mode)
This should be fixed now.
onassar··on Show HN: Test your website on 180+ device viewports (with multi-device mode)
Ahh bug related to how we detect mobile. Would ya mind reaching out at hello@viewport-tester.com so I can get a few more details on this?
onassar··on Show HN: Test your website on 180 device viewports (with multi-device mode)
Great find! I'll create an issue for this one. I'm guessing it's related to the media queries that are taking place (or possibly, JS). Will track this one and comment on your reply again once it's fixed.
onassar··on Show HN: Test your website on 180+ device viewports (with multi-device mode)
Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback :)
onassar··on Show HN: Test your website on 180 device viewports (with multi-device mode)
Whoops! That was only meant to stay in there for an unrelated feature. Removed :)
onassar··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
Bookee: https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/ Chrome Extension to navigate my bookmarks a bit easier (I use the keyboard shortcut 50+ times a day)
onassar··on Draggable objects
Really gr8.
onassar··on Ask HN: What is the most practical tool/website you discovered on Hacker News?
Thanks for mentioning Iconduck. I'm the founder, and always love seeing it pop up. Let me know if you have any feedback.
onassar··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
I built a Chrome Extension called Bookee (https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/) (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookee-instant-boo...)

Not used by many people, but accomplished what I set out to: an extension that is accessible easily via keyboard shortcut at all times, that allows me to visually (open graph images, screenshots, thumbnails) search any bookmarks saved to Chrome.

The search is super-quick, and it has a bunch of other keyboard-shortcuts to quickly navigate my bookmarks.

onassar··on Show HN: Jiter – Just in Time Webhooks
Congrats @josevalerio

So rad! I built an experiment a while back to do exactly this (https://onassar.github.io/experiments/boomerang-webhooks)

It's awesome to see this productized. I had the same annoyance: setting up and managing cron jobs.

Good luck with the launch :)

onassar··on Show HN: Rewind 4, a Chrome extension for bookmark hoarders
Awesome service! Will include something I built recently called Bookee: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookee-instant-boo...

I ran into similar challenges w/ bookmarks: namely, being able to navigate them differently / more visually. It doesn't have the date-centered approach, but I use it daily to access bookmarks quickly (Command+Shift+K), and search/browse through them visually :)

onassar··on Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding
I think clearly and effectively presenting yourself and your idea is something you can get better at. Perhaps right now, being a founder is not the right thing for you, just like perhaps later, it will be. I think it can be helpful to be careful with how you internalize things. Thinking "I'm just not made for being a founder" could become self-fulfilling, whereas rephrasing it as "I don't have an interest in being a founder" or "Being a founder isn't right for me right now" might be more accurate.
onassar··on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
Will use this as an opportunity to share something I built called Bookee: https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/

It's a Chrome Extension that let's me quickly search through my Chrome Bookmarks. It's got plenty of hotkeys, and I use it 20+ times a day.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/NxHfxQC.jpg

onassar··on Show HN: Figma plugin to search 118,740 free, open source icons and emojis
Hi again all. In 2021 I launched Iconduck right here on HN (https://iconduck.com). It was a big thing for me (for more than a few reasons). I'm back sharing the Figma plugin I've built for it.

With the Figma plugin, you can access the 118k+ open source icons, emojis, illustrations and flags right from Figma.

You just install it, open up the plugin, and Iconduck will show up.

This was requested more than a few times. As Figma has grown and grown (I'm using a bunch now), I thought it'd be a fun side project to work on.

Would love any feedback y'all have :)

onassar··on Show HN: Svix – Open-Source Webhooks Service Written in Rust
Haha yeh I try to stay away from SQS when I can ;)
onassar··on Show HN: Svix – Open-Source Webhooks Service Written in Rust
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I didn't mean to imply that it's an alternative to Svix. More as something in the same space :)
onassar··on Show HN: Svix – Open-Source Webhooks Service Written in Rust
Very cool service. I built an experiment a few months back whereby I needed to trigger a webhook back to my server at a specific time in the future.

Gonna share it here incase anyone else finds it useful: https://onassar.github.io/experiments/boomerang-webhooks

It uses AWS API Gateway, Lambda and S3 to allow you to register a URL to be triggered at some future date.

Hope it's helpful!

onassar··on Ask HN: Browser-extension creators, how do you write for multiple browsers?
I ended up writing a build script that makes the required changes for chrome/ff extension.

This will become harder when mv3 gets pushed out broadly, but it's def not pretty :(

onassar··on Show HN: Bookee – Search your bookmarks with screenshots and thumbs (for Chrome)
:)
onassar··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
Would love support / collab on an open source project I'm running, Iconduck (https://iconduck.com/).

I'm actually working right now with someone from the HN community to build a Figma plugin, as well as someone else who's doing research.

Anyone who finds open source icons and illustrations interesting, would love your help :)

onassar··on Show HN: Bookee – Search your bookmarks with screenshots and thumbs (for Chrome)
Thanks for the feedback. Hoping to get out another layout that does exactly this, and let users choose between them.

Would you still want to see a screenshot/thumbnail?

onassar··on Show HN: Bookee – Search your bookmarks with screenshots and thumbs (for Chrome)
Hello again HN; I built a chrome extension called Bookee (https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/).

There are a lot of extensions out there that help you manage your bookmarks, but I wanted one that showed me a preview of each bookmark. Whether those are screenshots, open graph images, or thumbnails, I wanted to _see_ what the bookmark was.

I'll be open sourcing it soon to make the process more collaborative, but in the meantime, it makes it much faster (and easier) for me to search through my 700+ browser bookmarks and find what I'm looking for.

If you have any ideas on features, integrations or design feedback please let me know in the comments :)

onassar··on How I centralize and distribute my bookmarks
Very cool! I've been playing with a side project (link below) to try and make bookmarks easier to search through, and have run up against the whole "normalizing bookmark data" challenge.

Most browsers do seem to follow a standard, but I've yet to find a way to sync them across browsers, devices and machines (without having to use some 3rd party service like Evernote, or what have you). I always prefer solutions/approaches that don't require users to change their behaviour (eg. use another service to track links).

With the forthcoming version manifest v3 for Chrome extensions, this may prove trickier, but it should in theory be possible :)

Bookee: https://onassar.github.io/extensions/bookee/

onassar··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
1. Thanks that's v kind :) 2. A bit complicated, but it's not an added financial burden :) 3. I'd love to grow it, the API, and a bunch of other things related to it. 4. Yeh there are some routes, but for the time being, I'd love to have it serve as an open source resource for people.

Let me know if you'd want to contribute: oliver@iconduck.com

onassar··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
Using PNGs because there's some cross-browser issues with displaying SVGs from a number of the open source sets that I've collected. Rather than going icon by icon to resolve those (which isn't feasible), I render a PNG, make the PNG downloadable (via the button), and make the SVG downloadable (also via the button).

Could probably make it so you can right-click the image and open it in a new tab. Will take a look at that :)

onassar··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
Yep I know of them. They're gr8. We're just positioned differently (I'm much more interested in having everything be open source).
onassar··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
That’d be dope. Send over an email? oliver@iconduck.com
onassar··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
Yeh happy to chat. Wanna send over an email? oliver@iconduck.com
onassar··on Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
I run a side (open source) project called Iconduck (https://iconduck.com). It collects and makes open source icons, illustrations and graphics available to download in various formats.

The goal is to collect sets from across the web (atm, mainly Gumroad and GitHub) that have open source licenses that allow for them to be available on a central site.

I then use a service called Typesense (https://typesense.org/) to make these all searchable.

It's a scratch of mine that I wanted to itch, and it has pretty strong usage (along with a limited user base; around 1k signed up users).

It's a fun project to work on, and I'd love help on this. Anything from design, front-end, back-end, product or marketing.

onassar··on Show HN: Webhook after XX time or days
Oh interesting. Can you elaborate on that? Curious to hear your approach.
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