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I ended up on Google Sheets with some simple formulas. Other groups also started using it. It seemed to be something I could generalize with a bit more work, and here we are.

Welcome any and all feedback.

thomasparkon Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games

Thanks for the feedback, the current iteration is definitely a work in progress and mobile needs much polish. Your bottom tab idea is a good one for mobile.

I'm not a regular Scrabble player so feedback from actual players is helpful. I've seen the play column and thought it was a neat-to-have feature, but on mobile it's a different story.

thomasparkon Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games

Good thought, I'll add it to todos.

thomasparkon Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add it.

thomasparkon Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games

I'm accepting suggestions for games to add, since pretty I'm out of touch with the scene and there's so many amazing new ones to keep up with.

As far as contributing, maybe I'll put this up on GitHub...

thomasparkon Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games

Absolutely! I meant to add it back, I originally had one front and center on the landing page. Lots of uses for it.

thomasparkon Codections #1

My take on NYT Connections, aimed at devs!

thomasparkon CarPlay Karaoke: Playing music videos and lyrics through cover art

Thanks for the suggestion! Podcasts crossed my mind but I didn't find any examples of chapter art or even know if the feature existed. That sounds like a promising avenue.

thomasparkon Games Worth Continuing to Develop (Part 6)

Cool site. Here's the rest of the series:

https://c64games.net/2022/04/15/abandoned_games/

https://c64games.net/2022/07/23/abandoned_games_2/

https://c64games.net/2022/07/27/abandoned_games_3/

https://c64games.net/2022/08/21/abandoned_games_4/

https://c64games.net/2022/10/06/abandoned_games_5/

I always felt Starcraft: Brood War was a near perfectly balanced game worthy of preservation.

thomasparkon The original “Bambi”

I made a browser extension called No Scary Parts that skips traumatic scenes on Disney+ while trying to hold together a cohesive plot. Mainly for young kids who enjoy the music and other scenes, but aren't ready for the full story yet.

https://thomaspark.co/projects/no-scary-parts/

Fantasia was easy. Managed to do The Lion King. Haven't been able to pull off Bambi yet...

thomasparkon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

I make coding games at https://codepip.com

Flexbox Froggy took off and I kept going.

thomasparkon Notches Gone Wild

This takes me right back to those quirky old Mac OS 7/8/9 extensions that destabilized your system.

thomasparkon More fuckin' user interface design

If you think Gmail's bad, check out Google Analytics icons:

https://twitter.com/thomashpark/status/1005090263499530240

thomasparkon NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework

One for your nostalgia section, Geo for Bootstrap:

https://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

thomasparkon Ask HN: What are you working on?

https://thomaspark.co/projects/no-scary-parts/

A Chrome extension that skips creepy scenes on Disney+. Supports the movies you'd expect like Lion King, The Little Mermaid, and Fantasia. Bambi next?

thomasparkon Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document

On a side-note, I made a thing a few years back that does academic papers with CSS, with examples of ACM and IEEE format:

https://thomaspark.co/2015/01/pubcss-formatting-academic-pub...

https://thomaspark.co/projects/pubcss/demo/acm-sig-sample-we...

thomasparkon Toddler Password – Get a secure password generated by a toddler

Well done on the site, lovely style and funny idea.

thomasparkon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

I run Codepip (https://codepip.com), coding games for learning web dev.

Started out making a single game as a weekend project, it got a good reception, so there was obvious demand for learning to code in this interactive way. Have since branched out to more games covering different HTML, CSS, and JS topics with more coming. It's continued as a one-person operation, for the time being.

thomasparkon Show HN: I've made a rotary dial number input, because why not?

Agreed, it's like the principle of Fitt's Law and screen edges having infinite width.

I made a version a little while back that takes this into account: https://github.com/thomaspark/rotary

thomasparkon New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub

It's no coincidence that so many phones are adopting the notch right after Apple, like so many other design trends.

thomasparkon Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

Great execution, plan to give is a whirl:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thomaspark

thomasparkon Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid

Yeah, although the problem is that using 33fr 33fr 33fr, will have the same effect and lead to that perfectly reasonable conclusion.

I'll work on improving the explanation of level 21 and fr units in general.

thomasparkon Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid

Yup that's the idea. Trying not to overload people focusing on a single new property, while still giving the full context of the ruleset. I will see about bumping up the contrast a bit.

thomasparkon Google Fonts Redesigned

Lovely redesign that addresses usability complaints I had with the old version. In fact I built my own search tool for Google Fonts a few months back because of these issues:

http://fontcdn.org

Some of my critiques of the old version:

http://thomaspark.co/2015/08/a-better-way-to-search-google-f...