zachd

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   by zachd 11mo ago

   https://stretchmytimeoff.com An algorithm to optimise vacation days using public holidays and weekends. Especially relevant at this time of year. I created it a year ago and received quite some comments on the Show HN post[1]. L
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   by zachd 2y ago

   Hi, thanks for your feedback. GPT was able to make your change for Monday vs Sunday week starting :)
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   by zachd 2y ago

   Hi, thanks for your feedback! The list of countries comes from a popular ISO-3166-1 npm package. I can see there was already much discussion about this topic over on their repo https://github.com/michaelwittig/node-i18n
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   by zachd 2y ago

   Thanks! Adding customisable fixed holiday days could be a nice idea :)
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   by zachd 2y ago

   Thanks! I made options to change the year and leave balance, but not to change the first day of the year. Let me know if it still works if you enter the right number of days
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   by zachd 2y ago

   Thanks a lot, now there's a quick feature to toggle off certain holidays, I see most US don't get Veteran's day indeed. It should work now, per state as well
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   by zachd 2y ago

   Thanks so much! ChatGPT and I just added a quick feature to hide certain holidays from a particular year, stored in LocalStorage. Let me know if it works like you expect :)
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   by zachd 2y ago

   Thanks, the count could indeed be improved. I left it as counting all clusters > 2 days as valid extra time off, so all 3 day weekends made from national holidays would be included. But of course it's over optimistic :)
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   by zachd 2y ago

   Thanks for sharing! The option to toggle holidays on/off should be working. Being able to arbitrarily add a chosen day isn't there, you just need to +1 to your days off count and let the algorithm choose for you.
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    by zachd 2y ago

    Thanks for your feedback! Indeed the algorithm only gives one result, as it tries to fill all gaps from smallest to biggest in the best way possible to create clusters. Making it super customisable would be tough, as then it becomes just a
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    by zachd 2y ago

    Ah shame, I totally depend on the well maintained npm package date-holidays. But I guess it could use a PR! https://github.com/commenthol/date-holidays/blob/master/data...
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    by zachd 2y ago

    Thanks! ChatGPT and I made the change for per-state support and to hide individual holidays each year :)
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    by zachd 2y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! ChatGPT and I made the change to hide individual holidays for a country per year, click "edit list" :)
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    Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days(stretchmytimeoff.com)

    358 points by zachd 2y ago|174 comments
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    by zachd 6y ago

    I agree. Edit: Removed exclamation point
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    by zachd 6y ago

    Would be awesome if the submission guidelines are linked on the submission page itself