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by rikroots 5y ago
I've finished 3 novels, and one remains half-written. My downfall is always the world building - I often find it's more fun daydreaming the world rather than having to deal with cantankerous characters who refuse to go where the p
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by rikroots 5y ago
I agree. When I started to treat my writing endeavours as a hobby rather than as a path to fame, glory, riches and world domination, I also started to enjoy the writing process a lot more. Nowadays I only write when I want to write, and I o
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by rikroots 5y ago
The alternative, of course, is when a plausible person expresses an implausible-sounding idea which turns out to be, well, wrong. For instance when Noam Chomsky presented his theory of Universal Grammar[1] which managed to impede and derail
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by rikroots 6y ago
> [...] some free software project maintainers think it’s OK to impose their political / ideological stances on who can use their software, and for what purpose it can be used. They are violating the zeroth freedom [The freedom to r
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by rikroots 6y ago
That was a fun presentation - I now want a tool which does that for me, but does it for everything: documents on my computer, files saved to cloud storage, lists written in notebooks, etc. I started working on a personal project a couple of
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by rikroots 6y ago
> I should also like to point out that when I posted this a week or so ago ... To be fair, when the article was posted under its Divio url a year ago it got 717 likes and 199 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by rikroots 6y ago
Have to say I was surprised when I saw Michael Lyons's name pop up as a candidate for Nominet chairman. I went searching and found this The Register article[1] about a report he did for Nominet on their future governance and operations
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Isn't Twitter mostly bots retweeting other bots? Yes. When a human retweets one of my tweets I treat myself to chocolate. The ones that get retweeted most are the ones linking to Codepen demos, rather than my library's landin
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by rikroots 6y ago
I created this effect using Javascript. There's no AfterEffects video embedded somewhere in the code. There's no SVG involved in creating the effect. No GSAP to animate the text, or the gradient. Enjoy!
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Show HN: Animate text along path (with added animated gradient text effect)(codepen.io)
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My first "paid" gig was winning £50 for submitting a game written in AMOS Basic to an Amiga computer magazine, which got picked as the magazine's "Game of the month". It's still an achievement I'm really p
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by rikroots 6y ago
This. As someone who regularly adds (I mean, added) a link to my GitHub library in various comments I make to HN threads, I've learned the bitter lesson that adding the link will often result in the comment getting downvoted. When I di
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by rikroots 6y ago
While there is a degree of ageism in the industry - avoid companies that advertise their ethos as "work hard and play hard" because having to do most of your office politics half-drunk in the bars after work is not much fun - ther
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by rikroots 6y ago
I first programmed a calculator (well, copy-keyed a hangman game program into a calculator) back in 1980. Passed my 'O' level computing exam in 1983. Started building websites in the last years of the 20th century. Looking back, n
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by rikroots 6y ago
For my current personal project I'm having a lot of fun playing with client-side Sqlite[1] via WASM. It's great for situations where you have a set of relational data which you want to query and sift and display on the page in var
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Instead of ads, I thought I would try and sell an NFT of the page [...] In the end it was successful, selling for just over $200 ... It was at this point in the read that I got very excited and broke away from the article to research &
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by rikroots 6y ago
Same here. I've used Svelte on two reasonably hefty personal project sites[1][2] and was pleasantly surprised by how easy they were to build and (now) maintain. The one issue I had with Svelte was Sapper - I didn't get on with it
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by rikroots 6y ago
I agree with this. As much as I like the look of these coding lessons (I am easily distracted by the Shiny), when it comes to learning I find it much better to type out and run the code locally as I follow along with the lesson. A static pr
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by rikroots 6y ago
Maybe if you code up a library that meets a specific set of requirements, but you do it in a way so that using the library seems simple on the surface but, the deeper the end-user-developer goes, the more illogical stuff becomes. At that po
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by rikroots 6y ago
I used this resource as inspiration for when I had to rewrite the documentation for my JS library[1]. There's still a lot of work involved - particularly when it comes to finding the enthusiasm to write up another tutorial lesson or &#
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On a complete tangent - because after reading the link I remain clueless about what services/things varlink wants to connect (and also: why are the error messages not human readable by default?) - I find myself wondering if the time ha
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by rikroots 6y ago
> So what's a side project [...] that hasn't actually earned you money? There was a time when I dreamed that my "side project" - Scrawl-canvas[1][2] - would bring me fame and fortune, or maybe a few sponsorships, or a
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by rikroots 6y ago
Many thanks for the response. I look forward to seeing the outcome of your deliberations in the new year.
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by rikroots 6y ago
Hi, Mek. Awesome project! How do I go about claiming my author page? The current book listed there has been officially "retired" for over a decade now, and I have plenty of other books that I'd be happy to add. https:/&
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by rikroots 6y ago
Writing books is hard work and takes a long time. I've written many half-books before abandoning them for the Next New Shiny. Writing poems is a lot easier than writing novels. Nobody reads poems. There's probably a moral in that
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by rikroots 6y ago
I'm surprised by the (lack of) choices made in the article. jQuery is almost 15 years old; Moment is only 9. Missing are such libraries as Prototype.js, Dojo, MooTools, Underscore, YUI, and (my favourite) Modernizr.
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by rikroots 6y ago
My preferred answer would be: no batteries required.
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Actually can we stop writing tutorials period. No. If I don't write tutorials for my Javascript library thing[1], who's going to bother using it ... or even looking at it? [1] - Obligatory spam link: https://scrawl
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by rikroots 6y ago
Nanowrimo - start writing the book you've always wanted to write! https://nanowrimo.org/
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by rikroots 6y ago
I hadn't thought about the accessibility improvements in the new design. When I was forced to switch I went directly into Grumpy Old Man mode and spent the next couple of days moaning about it. Then I got over myself/it and went b

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