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by donbrae 4y ago
Fair enough. I reduced it.
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by donbrae 4y ago
Sorry, that was in celebration of the launch. In fairness to me, I limit it to the first load and don’t run it if the user prefers-reduced-motion.
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Show HN: JazzKeys.fyi – Tutorials for jazz and funk keyboard players(jazzkeys.fyi)
14 points by donbrae 4y ago|4 comments
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by donbrae 4y ago
Even if/when we get the Blink rendering engine in iOS Chrome, I think Apple will still prohibit access to certain features like Bluetooth if they consider it a security or privacy threat. Are Web Bluetooth, Web USB etc. even considered
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by donbrae 4y ago
You can auto-populate the name field by specifying its value in the manifest.json file, eg https://github.com/donbrae/tripods-web/blob/e2fade06991a83ae...
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by donbrae 4y ago
I’ve long been hoping for something like the Smart App Banners[0] that native app developers can use to link to their app in the App Store. It’s relatively unobtrusive and easy for users to dismiss. [0] https://developer.apple.co
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by donbrae 4y ago
A puzzle game: https://www.tripodsgame.com . Wrote a blog post with some background and technical details too: https://www.jamieonkeys.dev/posts/tripods-html5-game .
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Interview with ChatGPT(jamieonkeys.dev)
1 points by donbrae 4y ago|0 comments
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by donbrae 4y ago
I agree about the installation process (though the user shouldn’t need to fill in any info). The actual user experience when using home screen PWAs can be made to be OK, but there really needs to be a meta tag or whatever to allow an ‘Add t
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by donbrae 4y ago
I always put Scottish. British would also be acceptable.
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by donbrae 4y ago
> If the US wasn't how it is, another power would rule. Would that other power be as benign and cooperative as the US has been? In current days, the alternative powers would be China, and I don't think a Chinese world power sys
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by donbrae 4y ago
Of course, sorry, my mistake!
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by donbrae 4y ago
Indeed. Releasing FCP X as an MVP (a concept no-one outside of software dev understands), without the features in FCP 9 that professionals expect, was a bad idea. I know a couple of filmmakers that switched to PC, partly due to the cost of
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by donbrae 4y ago
I stay in Scotland and had always assumed the right to roam also applied to gardens. I thought it was cool that the law would leave it up to individuals to be respectful, and not have to state obvious exceptions in its wording. The law stil
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by donbrae 4y ago
Timers, calculations etc. could be processed on-device, without having to go to the cloud. At least some newer Apple devices do this.
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I was asked to invent the next Wordle. How hard could it be?(theguardian.com)
2 points by donbrae 4y ago|0 comments
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by donbrae 4y ago
I have a lot of respect for voice artists who read out whole novels especially. I recorded a blog post of mine a while back and it was surprisingly really difficult to get right.
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by donbrae 4y ago
I once received a website redesign mock-up made in Excel. Ingenious.
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Finding the perfect domain name(jamieonkeys.dev)
2 points by donbrae 4y ago|1 comments
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Keeping audio and visuals in sync with the Web Audio API(jamieonkeys.dev)
1 points by donbrae 4y ago|0 comments
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by donbrae 4y ago
I use my GitHub gists as a cheatsheet: https://gist.github.com/donbrae .
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by donbrae 4y ago
Scrolling with the trackpad is working fine for me (I’m on a M1 iPad Pro on iPadOS 15.4), at least on the ~7000-line package-lock.json I just tested. The app does have some quirks, mind you, like the native scrollbar obscuring the VS Code s
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by donbrae 4y ago
The native CodeSandbox app[0] is pretty good if you’re a Web/JavaScript dev. [0] https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/codesandbox/id1423330822
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by donbrae 4y ago
It works quite well (I have it ‘installed’ as a home screen app). You can open individual files or remote repos, but not local folders. Seems responsive.
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A calendar and weather forecast in the terminal(jamieonkeys.dev)
2 points by donbrae 4y ago|0 comments
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by donbrae 4y ago
> Self introspectively I have a conflict: I don't like that self checkout takes jobs away […] I used to work as a supermarket cashier. It was incredibly boring. Self-checkouts, for all their flaws, are a step forward for humanity.
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by donbrae 4y ago
Risky in terms of them being 42, or due to the economy maybe not looking too great right now?
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Building an animated piano keyboard with JavaScript and MIDI(jamieonkeys.dev)
2 points by donbrae 4y ago|0 comments
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Gay dating app Grindr to go public in $2.1B SPAC deal(reuters.com)
7 points by donbrae 4y ago|1 comments
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by donbrae 4y ago
Submitted my game https://www.tripodsgame.com . Nae registration, ads or dark patterns; works on mobile and desktop.

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