vishnuharidas

Exactly what I came here to say. A robot doesn't have to look like a human. Just a few arms that does the job neatly is more than enough.

+ Also a few diagrams showing the end-to-end data flow and where all these tools fit in.

And here's a UTF-8 Playground: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app

This took me down the nostalgic memory lane of the planet-source-code days. There were hundreds of such projects in Visual Basic, Delphi, C/C++/MFC etc., and text editors and paint clones were the most popular projects.

Also: UTF-8 Playground: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app

Okay, I am NEVER letting an agent make payment autonomously. If there's a payment that has to be made, tell me, I will do that myself.

A screenshot is the bare minimum for such things.

Nothing can't be first-class as long as it is not *directly* replacing the existing first-class citizens.

If Wasm modules can be loaded like this:

    <wasm src="/module.wasm" start="main" data="..." />

...and if Wasm could access the DOM like this:

    import dom, json, re, html, urllib.parse
    from datetime import datetime
    
    params = urllib.parse.urlencode({"category": "news", "limit": 10})
    data = json.loads(await (await fetch(f"https://api.example.com/data?{params}")).string())
    container = js.document.getElementById("app")
    container.innerHTML = "".join(f"..." for i in data["items"])

...then developers would have jumped in right away.

“RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW”: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app/237C

There were many study materials that were made in Flash that came back alive with the help of Ruffle. Here's my fav list: https://astro.unl.edu/animationsLinks.html

A screenshot is the bare minimum for things like this.

https://iamvishnu.com - my personal website/blog running on April⋅SSG, a simple SSG I made for this.

I mistakenly mixed up the abbreviations - it is "Right Hand Traffic"/RHT (which is "Left Hand Driving"/LHD).

Like you said, I enjoy LHD more where I can use my right hand for everything like radio/AC/GPS etc. and most of them work with muscle memory without even taking eyes off the road. Doing the same with my left hand while driving in India (LHT/RHD) is very tough.

I've driven both. Drove LHD for more than a decade in India. Now driving in RHD country for 2y now. Personally, I enjoy RHD more because I am right-handed and I get to do things easily with my RH. Otherwise, I realized that safety benefits comes from the driving discipline and not driving on a particular side of the road. Driving on Aus/Japan is way safer than India, despite all of them being LHD.

Coincidentally, I was vibe-coding a doom-scroller for Hacker News Top Stories today: https://vishnuharidas.github.io/hn-reels/

Washing machines next. A total stupid idea to put capacitive touch on it. Just lean over the counter and it simply resets the wash program to re-run the past 3 hours of progress. Can't think of operating it with wet hands.

A tiny browser-console script for Hacker News that displays each comment's indentation level directly inside the comment cell.

Reason: I lost track of what I am reading on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473348

Screenshot is in the Gist.

Sharing the UTF-8 Playground I built recently: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app/

"Maximum text contrast" requirement removed from WCAG 3.0 draft, leaving #FFF text on #000 background a valid contrast ratio, but not accessible for many users.

Previous draft: https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-wcag-3.0-20241212/

Related discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42762054

https://engineeringblogs.xyz/ is a good place listing more than 500 (and adding more) engineering blogs.

TL;DR: 1. People will be forced to add "human-generated content" disclaimer. 2. AI will be overused everywhere for no apparent reason (Further: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328109)

It was blockchain a few years ago. Everything was on blockchain for no apparent reason. I guess that 2026 will be like "Grab our AI-cooked sandwich with AI-picked ingredients, built on multi-model agentic toaster"

I made an interactive one since I couldn't find anything that allows individually set/unset bits and see what happens. Here: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app/

Fixed that, thank you!

UTF-8 can represent up to 1,114,112 characters in Unicode. And in Unicode 15.1 (2023, https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/) a total of 149,813 characters are included, which covers most of the world's languages, scripts, and emojis. That leaves a 960K space for future expansion.

So, it won't fill up during our lifetime I guess.

Thanks for the contribution, this is now merged and live.

TL;DR for busy readers: this post highlights four non-obvious GitHub Copilot features that feel like magic: 1.Batch Image Processing, 2.Creating Reusable Instructions, 3.Proactive Tool Building, 4.Data Structuring.

Reminded me of LG Smart Diagnosis. Almost every LG appliances come with an audio-based diagnosis system. Look for "LG Smart Diagnosis" on YouTube and you will find hundreds of videos of LG washing machines, AC, Fridges, and other devices using a music-like audio for diagnosis.

June 21 is approaching, and I wanted to visit a place where the Tropic of Cancer passes through just for the fun of it. But I couldn't find any interactive maps showing the Tropic of Cancer line. So I built a simple website that shows the Tropical lines, and we can pick a nearby location to get directions.

docs.new (new Google Doc) sheets.new (new Google Sheet)