travism

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by travism 16y ago
Project Hedgehog ( http://projecthedgehog.com ) was designed to address many of these complaints. The UI is almost completely keyboard-driven and fast, and stripped down to bare bones. It's a desktop app that runs on OS X and Windows. It ha
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by travism 16y ago
"The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one." -- Mark Twain (according to wikiquote) At the beginning, if the problem is vague, I open a text
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by travism 17y ago
I tried to make the image buttons as simple as possible..they're just text surrounded by a drop shadow. I'm surprised to hear objections. Could you describe what you don't like about them in more detail?
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by travism 17y ago
Each dropbox url has a random code appended to the end, so spammers can't step step through all the drop boxes in order and pass in garbage. But otherwise nothing keeps spammers out. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
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by travism 17y ago
Thanks! That encouragement means a lot. Some of my other designs ( http://mushpot.net/ ) weren't so well-received by HN.. It was just dumb luck (plus aesthetic help from my wife) that the box graphic came out as well as it did. I made it in
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by travism 17y ago
Thanks for these suggestions. The design still isn't perfect, but I did get rid of the floats. I'm still thinking about what to do about the lost url problem. There should be a way to see all the drop boxes you created, but I also don't wan
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by travism 17y ago
Done! I agree, so the site is now http://instantcommentbox.com
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Ask HN: Please review my MVP - Instant Drop Box(instantdropbox.com)
25 points by travism 17y ago|27 comments
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by travism 18y ago
SoundManager was central to this project. Not having to deal with flash saved me a lot of time and makes for a more lightweight player, I think.
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One-week side project: a javascript audio player with timecoded DOM modification(feedtheanimalssamples.com)
24 points by travism 18y ago|3 comments
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by travism 18y ago
Sorry to be a hater. I was gung ho OpenID for a while...simple for users, decentralized. But then I tried to get my wife and my mom to log into my site with it and they were baffled. "Login with Facebook" they can sort of get. And then I fo
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by travism 18y ago
Looks like you created an account just to leave this comment...ouch. But seriously, thanks for the feedback. I was trying capture my feelings about FB before I lost them, and I'd be surprised if you were the only one who found the tone obno
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Thinking about using Facebook Connect on your site? Step one: Abandon your will to live.(mushpot.net)
72 points by travism 18y ago|44 comments
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by travism 18y ago
Nice to see that I'm not alone in trying to build a better social news site as a side project. And by the way, when you say "we", we all know there's only one of you. And forget about scaling. Learned that long ago myself... My side project
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by travism 18y ago
I just finished an FC implementation on a site I'm working on. The site still has local accounts, but users can now connect their local accounts to their facebook account Facebook or just login through Facebook (which actually creates a loc
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by travism 18y ago
You only get votes when another user votes on something you post. The original source of all votes is an administrator/editor with unlimited votes. If there were rampant hoarding, maybe some sort of stimulus package would be in order, like
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by travism 18y ago
Ah, hadn't thought of that. I'll fix it tonight.
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by travism 18y ago
should be fixed. sorry about that
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by travism 18y ago
I appreciate the feedback. The body of each item is black, so I figure you're referring to the header text for each item ("by:", "submitted:", etc.) and the links. I've darkened them up a bit.
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by travism 18y ago
When I played Duck Duck Goose as a kid, we called the center of the circle the "mush pot"...that was where you had to sit if you got tagged. I'd consider changing the name, but trying to find good domain names that aren't being squatted on
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I'm trying to make a better voting site: I call it Mushpot. I'd love to hear your comments(mushpot.net)
14 points by travism 18y ago|15 comments