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talkingheadon New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

i personally wouldn't described teenagers killing each other with luminous green hunting knives as a 'weird panic' but perhaps something that needs a lot of attention and a multitude of steps to solve. banning these insane weapons is, would you believe it, one quick step that might help.

talkingheadon New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

perhaps people printing their own guns at home is actually quite bad and in fact should be controlled in some way without it being seen as a fundamental incursion on your rights.

just a thought from across the pond.

talkingheadon On Commercial Cooking Robots

How cabbage in vinegar sent me into a Proustian reverie on the streets of Camberwell

talkingheadon Trade in War

I'll have to ask my friend Thomas Pynchon

talkingheadon Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

yes yes yes!!!

talkingheadon Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

what have you been using it for?

talkingheadon Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos

bit rot

talkingheadon How to set junior employees up for success in remote

today is the first time i've seen 'remote' used like this in a sentence

talkingheadon Wapp – A Web-Application Framework for Tcl

i feel like a good business idea would be showing new product names / logos to a group of 50 people from various demographics and ages to see if the name clashes with something else.

bc this one quite quite funny

talkingheadon Ask HN: What are you working on?

thanks! will add some string and trumpet samples just for you.

been plenty of iterations over the past year or so, has been p cool to see people jamming on it between all corners of the world during the lockdown(s)

hope they danced

talkingheadon Ask HN: What are you working on?

https://www.oceanwaves.io

make beats with friends in your web browser

talkingheadon Blokdots – Build interactive hardware prototypes visually

wow team massively well done this looks amazing. today has been busy but i've been checking out the site and i can't wait to fire up a board and get started.

will report back. site looks slick and product looks absolutely brilliant

talkingheadon Control a website by raising your hand – JavaScript library for hand detection

working super smooth even in v low light.

good job! bookmarked.

talkingheadon Why is CSS the way it is?

Great read, a related and entertaining CSS talk is CODE GENIUS - Cascading Shit Show by Jacob Thornton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iniwPUEbPUM

talkingheadon Snapchat adds free phone number verification to its list of SDK perks

why?

talkingheadon The rise of React

increment looks super great just picked up a couple of copies of the mag thanks for sharing

talkingheadon Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page

a text popover feature would be super useful!

talkingheadon Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures

used gatsby for my portfolio website and recently wanted to add a p5 sketch into it and went round the houses for about 2 hours as i did an update which broke everything.

ended up sacking it off, creating a static html/css/vanilla site text right in tag and boom done in about 20 mins.

ridiculously over-engineered. use react if you want the madness, plain if you want to just do something normal

talkingheadon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

https://www.oceanwaves.io

make music together with your friends using just your web browser

got a bunch of buzz during lockdown

talkingheadon Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

example on landing page would be great

talkingheadon An Illustrated Guide to Masked Wrestlers

blazing fast

talkingheadon Show HN: Ocean – Make music together online

added logged out demo page so you can have a shot before registering (beat will save if you sign up) https://www.oceanwaves.io/demo

talkingheadon Show HN: Ocean – Make music together online

first two added now!

we're exploring different options for demo page but signups coming in okay so far. Agree some more optional onboarding is a good idea, we've tested this before to some success..

glad you enjoyed, any more feedback super welcome

thanks

talkingheadon Show HN: Ocean – Make music together online

thought we'd show off our airpod referencing zero state.

will update

talkingheadon Show HN: Ocean – Make music together online

Exciting! let me know how you get on.

Yes there are limited options and can get a lost in endless setup.

Re mobile site, exploring performance and some other features, will post an update in time.

ps thanks everyone who has clicked and signed up!

talkingheadon Show HN: Ocean – Make music together online

pushed a hotfix for a bug which sometimes caused users first project to not work!

talkingheadon Show HN: Ocean – Make music together online

mobile site still under development, thanks for checking out the tracks!

talkingheadon Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?

I would recommend Javascript The Weird Parts. Good pacing and clear exploration of the languages ‘quirks’ and a general tour of vanilla js. Then you can dive into how your own framework can be created, also interesting for obvious reasons.

This course really pushed my js knowledge forward!

https://www.udemy.com/course/understand-javascript/

talkingheadon Show HN: Real-Time job opening notifications from remote-friendly companies

hit your site, understood what it was, tapped ‘add all’, mobile browser auto filled my email, hit go and got the confirm screen all within 5s

good work!