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by hugs 1y ago
wow, that's nuts. i don't see the connection, though? were people using selenium on the gradebook? selenium drives chrome, too. haven't used helium before.
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by hugs 1y ago
i'm always amazed by the over-the-top criticism. did you pay money for it? were you forced to use it? did you try to help improve it?
93.
by hugs 1y ago
the project that selenium was extracted from was... a timesheet and expense reporting system!
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by hugs 1y ago
a slightly more generalized re-mix: skynet inventor credits dystopian fake news for inspiration to create dystopian reality
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by hugs 1y ago
I kinda have the print edition of the Onion to thank for my career. Back in 2000, I had a "100% travel" tech consulting job. My favorite part of the week was finally getting back home to Chicago, grabbing a sub at a sandwich shop,
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by hugs 1y ago
awesome! tell them there are dozens of python fans. dozens!
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by hugs 1y ago
i was going to ask the same to you. :-) i'm just stubborn enough to find out, though. and i still have a few contacts at the googleplex...
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by hugs 1y ago
i'm at the edge of my chrome internals knowledge here, but i'd answer the question with a question: isn't backendnodeid only stable within a single session? that might not matter if the agent is re-finding the element between
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by hugs 1y ago
re: ms -- thank you for calling that out. i've been thinking we had been collectively sleepwalking into ms owning everything (again). they've owned everything once before -- it wasn't great! related side-note: have you had to
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by hugs 1y ago
speaking of priors... sauce labs existed for three whole years before browserstack (selenium and sauce founder here. :-) i like that there are new startups in the space, though. things were getting pretty stale and uninspired.
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by hugs 1y ago
i like that the post uses the phrase "time is a flat circle". it is indeed. once upon a time, most devs only cared about one browser -- internet explorer. then for a good chunk of time, cross-browser compatibility was highly value
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by hugs 1y ago
i suspect this is how vim and emacs developers feel every time someone announces a new vscode fork.
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by hugs 1y ago
it's all good, man. if it makes you feel better, i don't like rust. ;-) my eldest son loves it, though! fun-fact: i've never used mercury. when i came up with "selenium" -- it was because a colleague saw an early de
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by hugs 1y ago
yeah, i continue to be amazed at how google dropped the ball on this one.
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by hugs 1y ago
thanks! yeah, playwright was a huge improvement there -- waiting until an element was actually ready. the official posture from the selenium project ("figure it out, be explicit") wasn't always the most user friendly messagin
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by hugs 1y ago
yeah, i noticed that. apologies if i missed a post about it... what do you wish didn't suck about selenium?
107.
by hugs 1y ago
that's what i thought. :) personal life accomplishment was seeing wikipedia add a disambiguation link on the element's page. you know, because it's right up there in importance as the periodic table, obviously.
108.
by hugs 1y ago
selenium creator here. hi!
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by hugs 1y ago
the clock at the top? it's just a clock to give the whole site a "mission control" / "astronaut trainer/simulator" vibe.
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Show HN: 3D Chess(testtrack.org)
4 points by hugs 1y ago|3 comments
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by hugs 1y ago
hi hn! i'm making a test site for testing browser automation tools called "test track". i started the selenium and appium projects, and now i'm working on vibium -- an ai-native successor to selenium, based on the new we
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by hugs 1y ago
Bets on where everything/everyone goes next? Will it be like the transition from SourceForge to GitHub, where the center of gravity moves from one big place to another big place? Or more like Twitter, where factions split off to severa
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by hugs 1y ago
it's all motorized, so it can be wall-mounted or table-top mounted.
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by hugs 1y ago
I'm working on something similar, but 3D and faster motion: PinThing / TAP (Tangible Actuated Pins) [1] "Motorized pin art display" is what i'm going for... The problem with passion projects: Progress is never as mu
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by hugs 1y ago
Yup, I recently started doing more development in Nim. I love the language, but the user community is (currently) small, which means the ecosystem of libraries available isn't as big. But LLMs are a massive equalizer here and has made
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by hugs 1y ago
Nim might hit the sweet-spot here: typed, compiled, and Python-like. I wrote this [1] comment a few weeks ago: """ ... Claude Code is surprisingly good at writing Nim. I just created a QuickJS + MicroPython wrapper in Nim wit
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by hugs 1y ago
"Vibe coding" is too perfect of a phrase. It's the next "cloud computing", where it continued to expand in meaning until even Gmail was considered "cloud computing". ("Cloud computing" used to ha
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by hugs 1y ago
that yc app deadline is just around the corner, isn't it? :)
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by hugs 1y ago
Unfortunately answering question with: "yes, crypto". (Sorry?!) the Bitcoin Lightning Network could be a very good backend base. You can even try it today (Using Cash app's built-in Lightning support to buy a meal at Steak &#
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by hugs 1y ago
They are tools I want/need for my business (like creating software libraries for various things). My $10K number is how much I would have paid a contractor in the past to code it for me.

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