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I've been working on SimpleeFood, a simple self hosted recipe app https://github.com/abhchand/simplee-food

Hello HN - I built SimpleeFood, a simple self hosted recipe app I found most of the self-hosted offerings out there to be too bloated. Recipes aren't complex - you largely want to …

I’m working on SimpleeFood, a simple self hosted recipe app. https://github.com/abhchand/simplee-food I found most of the offerings out there to be too bloated. Recipes are a simpl…

Yes I would say it is used correctly here, with the definition you mentioned. And your english is good for not being an english speaker!

This feels like adding syntactic sugar in some sense. That is, a layer of convenience to accomplish something that can already be accomplished today. It also breaks the following: …

DDG works great for ~90% of my queries. I do fall back on Google every now and then, but DDG honestly delivers results that are just fine.

A lot of webdev content (tutorials, blog posts, documentation, etc...) relies on being able to display multiple files and code snippets at once. I've always felt these files take u…

Author here. A few months ago I saw an article from RefactoringUI posted to HN about building your own color palette. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25180180 The concept seem…

This practice exists in traditional eastern Yoga - breathing out of one nostril and in with the other. A similar explanation is given about it having a calming and energetic effect…

Is there a framework out there that faces as much consistent scrutiny as Rails? It seems odd that for a decade the web dev community has singled out this framework. It's always rel…

I like this idea. In response to it just creating more echo chambers: - it can't be worse than now - At minimum, it's an echo chamber of your own creation instead of being manipula…

It seems that WhatsApp has some oddity in how it handles captions on media items. I forward messages between various groups, but when you forward a media item like an image, it doe…

how'd you take this photo? :)

Just learning more in depth about websockets. It's been around for a while but i've honestly never had the chance to play around with them. Thinking of putting together a small app…

Sadly required, but seems very honest and relatable. Would probably share with any woman in tech. As a secondary point, I find several of these applicable to me as a guy too, altho…

Great concept. I would've prefered an option to switch the days of the week and dates of the month. That way the numbers loop and the day of the week is fixed as a row/column heade…

> While Facebook will select the first 11 members of the board, the eleven will choose the remaining board members, with terms lasting three years. Call me skeptical but that's not…

well that's scary

This was my same thought. Really impressive as an exercise to develop this yourself, but this is core functionality of a lot of ORMS. Rails' ActiveRecord is kind of the shining exa…

For reasons like and to avoid confusion I always name my environment file something specific like `.env.development` or `.env.dockercompose` Any system that reads `.env` files usua…