winduptoy

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by winduptoy 7y ago
*writing an ebook on it
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by winduptoy 8y ago
Author here. I agree that it's a hack and I can't say that I like it. Blame the W3C and browser vendors for providing incomplete/barely functional standards like <dialog>.
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by winduptoy 8y ago
Author here. Absolutely, and a ton of commenters (mostly on Reddit) seem to be missing that point. Use the right tool for the job. In the article I explicitly state that I couldn't have built the drag-and-drop invoice editor without Ja
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by winduptoy 8y ago
Yes it's WOFF2, served over gzip. I do not think that I can eliminate extra character ranges because Slimvoice is used all over the world.
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by winduptoy 8y ago
Thank you! I had no idea that iOS required the pattern="\d " attribute. Those inputs require a decimal, so that pattern won't actually work (something like pattern="\d \.?\d*"). If I can get my hands on an iPhone to
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by winduptoy 8y ago
Hey, author here. A lot of things are performed on the server, and then the server responds with a "flash" which is basically a little bar that says "Data saved." or "There was an error: ...". There are a few p
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by winduptoy 8y ago
Hey, author here. Just for reference, 180k of that is fonts. The rest is super tiny. Of course, once you've loaded it the first time, it's cached.
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by winduptoy 8y ago
Absolutely DO NOT use Flippa or BuySellEmpire. I made the terrible mistake of trying to use them. My experience was so bad I ended up saying "screw it" and never sold my product.
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by winduptoy 8y ago
Cox is the worst. The prices magically increase every few months and it always takes a phone call to get them back down to what you originally thought they were.
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by winduptoy 8y ago
I develop on a Lenovo IdeaPad 120S ($249 in 2018). The plastic body is of higher build quality than my last $600 aluminum Acer. The trick is to live with less software altogether. If you scoff at 4GB RAM and 1.10GHz Celeron, remember that i
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Show HN: Tapwater is the simplest way to keep clients and teams on the same page(tapwater.co)
4 points by winduptoy 12y ago|0 comments