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by roblh 3y ago
If you go to that website and then back to hn, the hn background looks blue.
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by roblh 3y ago
Me too. I absolutely love svelteKit but this is the most baffling decision, it makes searching for files in vscode so much slower and makes managing open tabs a mess. Even just being able to add an extra word and an extra dot to identify a
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by roblh 4y ago
Those big old RCA ribbon mics like the 44 on the main page are way too cool. I’m privileged to own an old 77DX from the 60s and it’s very special. It’s always fun seeing music stuff on HN.
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by roblh 4y ago
Here's my weird opinion on html/css/general styling of websites: The biggest problem with CSS is it's one language that's trying to do two things. I think that layout (grid, flex, anything that changes the shape of
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by roblh 4y ago
Metalsmith is cool! I hadn't heard of it til now but it looks sweet. I actually made something similar except mine isn't designed for static sites specifically. It just takes markdown, parses it into HTML (with code highlighting o
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by roblh 4y ago
I had a similar feeling about markdown but I went a different direction and wrote a little package that parses markdown with front matter into html and saves it inside an in memory SQLite database. It runs quickly enough that it can hot rel
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by roblh 4y ago
I dunno if you've tried this yet, but if you follow the basic Capacitor plugin guide, you can make an objective C function that calls this to enable it. bridge.webView?.allowsBackForwardNavigationGestures = true; We just call it on sta
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by roblh 4y ago
If you use Capacitor, it’s actually pretty trivial to enable swipeback navigation. All you have to do is write a very simple plugin that sets an option to true on the web view instance. I don’t remember the exact name of the flag, but I can
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by roblh 4y ago
What do you use primarily for writing integration/end-to-end tests? Do you have any specific strategies for it? I’ve been using cypress but not having a ton of success with it, it just feels like everything is permanently broken, and g
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by roblh 4y ago
As a gigging musician, it’s blown my mind how far digital effects have come, specifically amps and pedals. For years I had a fairly extensive collection of pedals, which has now been almost completely replaced by a Line 6 helix pedal that d
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by roblh 4y ago
It’s not so much the hitting escape, but the reorienting yourself on the keyboard after you hit it. Same with the numpad on the right, I’m desperately trying to stop using it, but it’s a tough change.
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by roblh 4y ago
Agree with this. Lately I've been watching more youtube videos about programming than usual, but I still find they take so long to get anywhere. The 5 to 10 minutes you spend watching one could almost always be spent reading an article
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by roblh 4y ago
Seiko’s “Spring Drive” is a really cool bit of technology that sort of bridges the gap between quartz and mechanical watches. It’s basically a movement that mechanically generates power but has a quartz regulator that makes it exceptionally
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by roblh 4y ago
For all the dwarf fortress fans out there, check out Songs of Syx. It’s still early access, but it captures a lot of the same appeal with a slightly more streamlined interface. All built by one dude as well.
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by roblh 4y ago
Freesound is just the most interesting and useful tool, you rock.