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rayrag··on Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS
> It's a UI builder, not a set of components.

I think it's UI builder that has predefined set of components that user can customise - globally (by customising 'theme' - font family, primary colors etc) or per component (padding, margins, overwriting theme settings). From these components user creates pages/templates. User can create there own components if they want so that's good.

Bu OP doesn't show those predefined components even as images, ever more there's no information how many components there are. And predefined components are important feature of most web builders as they can save a lot of time. Also well designed components (good color scheme, typography, spacing) helps develovers without design skills.

rayrag··on Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS
Your landing page is ugly to be honest, half of links in the footer goes nowhere - this is unprofessional and lazy. There's no clickable demo, not even overview of components. Why do you lauch your product at current state? Why submit it to HN?

There are plenty of other web builders based on Tailwind or Bootstrap, often they have free tiers, and you're charging 249$, for what? For 300$ you can get Tailwindui* from creators of Tailwindcss or something like Shuffle.dev that has components for Tailwind/Bootstrap/Bulma.

https://tailwindui.com/

https://shuffle.dev/

rayrag··on Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered [video]
This reminded me of another classic - saving a cat in russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Nr31Lv6H8
rayrag··on Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?
https://twit.tv/shows?shows_active=1 - more than dozen podcasts: tech news, apple, windows, google android and more.

https://latenightlinux.com/about/ - linux

https://changelog.com/podcasts - few podcasts about various tech subjects: tech/js/ai

https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/ - linux, self-hosting

https://www.latent.space/podcast - new podcast about ai

https://syntax.fm/ - mostly frontend webdev

https://shoptalkshow.com/ - mostly frontend webdev

rayrag··on Visual design rules you can safely follow
> It’s worse than that. I liked this article, but it was anonymous and undated. I looked around the site to find out who this was. Despite the author seemingly wanting you to know about him, what other people think about his skills, etc., he seems not to want you to know what his name is. I find this kind of thing bizarre. Does he want you to guess it from the URL? I finally saw his name in his page about “books I wrote”.

I'm guessing that his website is work in progress or/and he's learning cms he's using.

>I think his design ideas are sound. But visual design without any notion of information design is like having a beautiful car with no wheels. Or something.

Sure, but you should learn from multiple sources as not everyone should teach about everything. It's up to you to connect that knowledge.

rayrag··on Visual design rules you can safely follow
For me pure black text on pure white background looks good, but pure white text on pure black background it doesn't look good, my eyes are getting tired faster but that also depends on what font family/weight/size is used. For thin font weights (100-300) maximum contrast increases readablity, for regular/bold weights it's not neccessary to be pure white on pure black.
rayrag··on Visual design rules you can safely follow
I recently started following author of this article on Twitter, he shares a lot of tips/tricks/insights about UI, visual design, etc. Highly recommended. And you will more articles like this on his website. He should add navigation to article pages, though.

https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/

https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/visualtechniques/

https://twitter.com/hobdaydesign

rayrag··on British Motorway Database
Poland

http://ssc.siskom.waw.pl/ <- contstruction

http://ssc.siskom.waw.pl/mapa-nawierzchni/mapa-nawierzchnia.... <- quality of roads

rayrag··on When is a PC not a PC? The PC-98
There's a twitter account that showcases PC-98 games, some games have really beautiful pixel art. This person also wrote a guide to PC-98 emulation.

https://twitter.com/PC98_bot

https://gang-fight.com/projects/98faq/

rayrag··on Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list
Weektodo is a similar app, it has web version and apps for all OS. And it's open source.

https://weektodo.me/

https://app.weektodo.me/

https://github.com/manuelernestog/weektodo-web

rayrag··on Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse
I've noticed few months ago that Metallica channel didn't had any sorting options. I could only switch between uploads and past live streams.
rayrag··on 2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer
https://tinysheet.com/
rayrag··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
As others said it's a music player, it can also play radio streams and podcasts but that requires plugin.
rayrag··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
I've downloaded few mixes with relaxing music from YT and created a playlist in my foobar, it's simple and it doesn't require browser. I also recommend some radio streams:

https://somafm.com

http://echoesofbluemars.org/

https://plaza.one/

rayrag··on Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist?
Try SubSync, open source movie subtitle synchronization app. Build in feature like this in VLC would be awesome.

https://subsync.online/

Discussion on HN (4 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794153

rayrag··on Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies
Thanks :)
rayrag··on Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies
I have uBlock installed but with default settings and cookie notifications shows up everywhere. Which settings blocks those notifications?
rayrag··on Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies
Try "I don't care about cookies" add-on, personally I haven't used it yet so I don't know how good it is.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

rayrag··on Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]
Discussion/AMA on Reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ta85ql/my_small_modu...

Shorter demo (7:30) submitted to Reddit:

https://v.redd.it/3wfbkleb4dm81

rayrag··on Ask HN: Where do you hang out virtually online?
> talking lessons learned about growing their company, virtually collaborating on problems by sharing ideas, etc.

I don't hang out there but you could check indiehackers.com?

rayrag··on Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
Request: add info about how many loops game had. less loops should add bonus points or more loops should have penalty points.

Otherwise fun game :)

rayrag··on Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
This few lines will improve HN on desktop, IMHO.

body { margin-top: 0; background-color: #EAEBE3; }

.title { font-size: 14px; }

.titlelink { color: #131010 }

.subtext { font-size: 11px; }

.comment { font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; }

.default p { margin-top: 16px; max-width: 100ch; }

https://i.imgur.com/FmbgVOo.png

and moving "Lists" from bottom navigation to the top navigation would good thing.

rayrag··on Czech Dream
If someone wants to see it, it's on YT but only in Czech language.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSAonjhJs_o

Full documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cWrl3AAkYY

rayrag··on Old video game advertisements
Use https://github.com/Liru/tumblr-downloader to download images then upload them to Internet Archive.
rayrag··on Old video game advertisements
There is no scrollbar on sidebar thus tags are cut off so for easier/faster browsing go to archive page: https://retrocgads.tumblr.com/archive

RSS is also available: https://retrocgads.tumblr.com/rss

rayrag··on Tell HN: YouTube is asking for age verification to watch Bret Weinstein's video
I currently don't have NewPipe installed but from I remember age restricted videos are hidden by default. Go to settings and toggle show age restricted videos to see them.
rayrag··on Ask HN: Any History Podcast Recommendations?
War And Conquest: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war-and-conquest/id140...

Our Fake History: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/our-fake-history/id102...

The History of Byzantium: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-of-byzanti...

rayrag··on Tabliss – open-source, customisable New Tab page for Firefox and Chrome
Demo: https://web.tabliss.io/

Github: https://github.com/joelshepherd/tabliss

rayrag··on Tell HN: YouTube is asking for age verification to watch Bret Weinstein's video
If you don't want to verify your ID use FreeTube (desktop) or NewPipe (Android).

https://freetubeapp.io

https://newpipe.net/

rayrag··on Syncthing: Syncing All the Things
Check this: https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextens...
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