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Location: India (looking for work from anywhere in the world) Remote: Yes, only remote Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma Résumé/CV: https://rakeshk.com/files/Resume_Rakes…

I guess the hardcovers are better because they are not printed in India. From what I've seen with nonfiction books, the ones printed in India are only softcovers—pathetic paper/bui…

The article could have been more useful if its point was just 'use sufficient contrast'. As it is, the article is overly prescriptive, and feels like trying too hard to be sensatio…

Finally, seems like a real possibility of ditching my Apple device (never used Android because of Google)

Reduce it to the size of iPhone 5 and make the main camera flush with the surface, and I'll buy it in a heartbeat.

"Upnext is shutting down on March 1st" "Our team is now fully dedicated to Brief and Mailbrew" So, for which project are you hiring?

If there’s any uncertainty, adding labels, icons, or textures to each meaningful color of your design will make it accessible to many more people… The author touches upon it; expan…

Thank you for SumatraPDF. I love that it's faster than any other PDF/ebook viewer I tried. I hate that EPUB content doesn't flow fluidly, which IMO defeats the purpose of the forma…

One can try to make 'me things', and strive to make them good enough, or good, or even to their best extent, but not necessarily the best out there, at least always.

An advantage of hngists: you can read all the gists of all the 30 articles on the same page without navigating to a separate article page—a few clicks and a few minutes could be sa…

Now imagine if all such fluffy articles posted on HN have such a gist; how much time and sanity it could save. https://hngists.com is my 15-year-old nephew's attempt to do it. It w…

Gist: The authors think, without interruptions, we get adapted to the pleasures of a show; it becomes less pleasurable as we get used to it. Interruptions re-trigger the initial en…

I've always thought 'don't break the chain' is a flawed technique. When you do something not because you want or have to do it, but for the sake of not breaking the chain, the firs…