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Screenshots are made on Windows 8.1 box, the windows chrome comes from there. Plus the whole thing is meant to work on ancient Windows versions (like, Vista and WS2008 ancient), so…

Let me chime in and say that plain Win32 API is a perfectly viable option if you are using C++ (or another "OO" language) and if you are willing to sink a couple of weeks into writ…

I did something similar 15+ years ago to use as an avatar in forums, twitters and some such - https://swapped.ch/#!/personal-mark

Yes, I wrote one [1] and others did too, e.g. [2] and [3]. The gist of it, as mentioned in [4], is that you need to have a web server that implements checkStatus and saveConfig PUT…

Grocery and ToDo lists. That's Nullboard's primary purpose.

I showed it around to people that would listen, but otherwise, no, I didn't market it per se.

This is mine. FWIW here's a Show HN from 2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077177

Well, I didn't have a need to add or to change anything since then. Here's the full timeline to get a general sense of the development pace - http://nullboard.io/changes

Thanks for the mention, this is mine. Did a ShowHN few years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20376437

A Kanban board - https://nullboard.io/preview A GIF screen recorder - https://iobureau.com/ugiffer A calorie/food tracker - https://i.imgur.com/bSFBFcE.png It was easier to write e…

This can be remedied by using tools that can do block-wise (delta) copying of large files, e.g. https://bvckup2.com/kb/delta-copying

The GP made generic dismissive remarks on a spherical cow in vacuum and under a blanket assumption that the other person is an idiot. That's not how one starts a "constructive conv…

> What’s the upside for the user of a nested sequence of modal dialogs anyway? That's it. Allowing changing things in place is exactly one of the goals.

The sidebar is an index of several additional option pages, shown to the right of it. The first one is "Common" and it is shown by default. This design didn't actually make it into…

All of them are using a custom framework. Most transitions are trivial to implement - you have a state A of your dialog that looks like this and a start B with your target look/lay…

Yes, hell, hell, I'll tell 'ya! Especially horrible the muscle memory aspect for the UI parts that are accessed once a year, if ever. And don't get me started on the situational aw…

I make a boring Windows software that uses this sort of juicing in its UI. Had some doubts if it would go well with, you know, your good old sysadmin types, but it did! A bit of em…

Tangentially related - Few years ago started using asserts as an ad-hoc documentation mechanism for invariants and then also started shipping them in production builds. When trigge…

Backup software.

As a retail online vendor - PayPal is the fourth. Did an AB test a while back and mere presence of the PayPal option boosts sales through all other options plus generates extra sal…

Sort of tangentially related - few years ago and for no particular reason I pinged HN server for 6 hours and then made a "data viz poster" out of it - https://iobureau.com/misc/216…

> Windows 7 is a fine system. It works. Why "upgrade"? Im da sheng, beratna.

For what it's worth, we are making a system utility for Windows and our user base in the desktop segment is: Windows 11 18% Windows 10 71% Windows 8.x / 7 11% That is, the percenta…

That's I did, but it's on hold and, realistically, not likely to be done. Still not a bad idea IMO.

Re: bvckup2 - the UI support for archiving is a part of the next release, looks like this - https://bvckup2.com/wip/r82-backup-settings-archiving.png - and it's available as a part…