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Thanks! Plan's to keep the drawings on the canvas (with the exception of ones deleted by moderation).

Hey - bigdraw is a little project I've been working on which lets strangers to draw together on a shared canvas. No signups required - just click on a tile to claim and draw on it.…

Neat! Generating PDFs from RSS feeds is a great idea. Some thoughts: I have a Kindle - something I'd find valuable would be having a digest of "Today's top stories" sent to my kind…

Oh yeah, good pickup thanks!

For folks who wanna see what led to this exploit in a Rails codebase, here’s the commit where it’s fixed: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/commit/c571840ba2f0e9...

I've been playing around with the Playdate SDK ( https://sdk.play.date ) over the holidays and it's awesome for small games like the author describes. Working with a tiny 1-bit scr…

Thanks! And thanks also for your work on ContEx, its Sparkline module [1] was a big inspiration for what I ended up implementing. [1] https://github.com/mindok/contex/blob/master/l…

This really resonates. It's so easy to get caught up in chasing trends and overlook delivering customer value/stability. Good luck on the next 11 years :)

Congratulations on launching! Some feedback: the first thing I wanted to see on your landing page is what a screenshot taken with the tool looks like. It adds a bit of friction tha…

I try to direct as much news to RSS as possible, where I can group feeds by topic, and not get distracted by a constant compulsion to refresh the page (which I feel strongly on HN …

Awesome! I had some fun implementing a System 6 inspired theme on a recent toy project for creating custom Slack emojis - https://temoji.me (desktop only). Wish I knew about this f…

The global gitignore is super useful! I add a “.x” entry to it so that I can create scripts, drafts, etc in a “.x” folder in any of my projects. Wrote more details about how I do t…

Great presentation! Another short read that covers similar ground is "The Day You Became a Better Writer" by Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert): https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_d…