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I decided to buy one when the smoke from the Sydney bushfires blanketed my town. In my bedroom I could see and taste the smoke. The air purifier struggled, but it cleared the air a…

So devastating that such a brilliant mind and wonderful person is gone. I've used FastLED for a lot of projects, and it's always been a joy to work with. Daniel was always present …

When I skimmed over the title, I thought it said "KKK has acquired Corel". That was going to be one of the more interesting reads for the day!

I previously used mine to drive my synchronised Christmas light display. It worked great one year, then for some reason the next year, retrieving the playback position of an audio …

reCAPTCHA pushed me over to DuckDuckGo. I use a VPN, and a fair number of my Google searches are blocked by a reCAPTCHA with 5 or more challenges. Now, I use DDG and fall back to G…

You can get an Arduino Nano clone for considerably less than $5 on eBay. The cheapest price I can find a local Pi Zero for on eBay is $24 AUD (without an SD card). I use Arduinos a…

I wasn't feeling fulfilled by my work either, so I started working on a side project to scratch my creative itch. Over the last few years I've been building a sequencer ( https://g…

I rewrote my reducers with Immer as well. I had some pretty complex nested updates that became super simple with Immer, love it!

In a similar vein, Android has Log.wtf, which stands for "What a Terrible Failure".

Yep, source maps do the trick.

> Unlike JavaScript in the browser, or Java with a powerful IDE like IntelliJ, you can’t just set breakpoints everywhere I'm using IntelliJ to set breakpoints everywhere in a Node …

I prefer ESP32 boards myself. Super fast, cheap and they have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built in. There are some pitfalls, such as the ESP32 using 3.3V logic whereas most LED strips use …

You don't have to tell me twice! I have a giant box full of the things.

This is a fun article, I enjoyed reading about the reverse engineering aspect. These days you can easily buy 5 metres of dirt cheap addressable LED strip and control them with an A…

Evergreen looks quite nice, but their website isn't responsive and that gives me pause when considering it for my own projects. The components themselves may work fine, but I can't…

Old-school Winamp. I use Spotify these days, but man it was fun to customise skins and play with the awesome visualisers. Half-Life 3 would also be nice, but I guess it was never "…

Cool, I understand it's more important to get an MVP up and running before applying optimisations. It's good to know that it's on your radar though :) Thanks for answering my quest…

Thanks for sharing your work! Your demo app has a 1.7MB payload after gzipping (the main.js file alone is 9.5MB before gzip). For me, this alone would be a dealbreaker. Do you have…

I'm definitely keen to collaborate once my core features are a bit more stable! I'm working hard on a stage editor at the moment, I'll send you a video sometime soon :)

Nice to see you on Hacker News Ben! This is Chris a.k.a. ChrisLights, I spoke to you about Sparkled on one of your videos a while back. It's awesome to see you getting some recogni…

I know what you mean about libraries. There are so many out there that cover 80% of my use case, but they're all missing 20% in different areas. I think I've finally found what I'm…

For one of my websites (a static page with some pretties), I challenged myself to remove as much cruft as possible without degrading the experience. I used Fontello to strip out un…

This is really neat, good job! This reminded me of "Code" by Charles Petzold, which I saw you reference in the About page. As a software engineer with an interest (but no professio…

I'm about a quarter way through this book and I'm enjoying it so far. This line, however, didn't resonate with me: > To encourage 8-10 productive hours, serve dinner 8-10 hours aft…