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ghinda
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About ghinda
I work on Briskine, a text expander for the web. https://www.briskine.com
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Comment #31024624
Great news to hear Lexical replacing Draft. Also great that you're handling `beforeinput` (like Slate). I work on a text expander browser extension and supporting Draft is a pain[1…
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Comment #20992505
Great work! Have you found a way to compress/shorten the urls? I built something similar[1] a while ago, but the urls are still too long for sharing without a shortener. I'm using …
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Comment #18146132
CouchApps had a better vision for the web. You would run a local CouchDB and replicate the app next to your data, rather then giving the app access to your data while hosted somewh…
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Comment #17028233
A bit of a shameless plug, but if you want predictable, I've built a browser extension for the "nudge" part: https://www.nudgeti.com/ It shows a browser notification when you spend…
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Comment #15059653
You have most of these, or at least very similar versions, in Plasma/KDE today: > Document Database This is what Akonadi was when when it came out for 4.x. Nepomuk was the semantic…
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Comment #11944408
I built something very similar a while ago: https://github.com/ghinda/jotted I'd say it's more lightweight by default (it's not mandatory to use an editor like CodeMirror) and more…
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Comment #10904434
Sure, because of the plugin support it shouldn't get too complicated. You can use strings instead of urls, for files. So you could do something like: loadFromS3(function (fileConte…
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Comment #10190664
Ironically IE9+ support for display:table is worse then IE8-, especially regarding inherited dimensions on child elements. I wrote a small grid library[1] using display:table, as a…
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Comment #10086207
GridLayout, a flexbox-alternative CSS grid with support for older browsers. Needs a small script for IE support. https://github.com/ghinda/gridlayout
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Comment #9128988
I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but Webkit was originally a fork of KHTML, which is LGPL, so they were required/forced to release it under the same license. And based o…
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Comment #9093864
I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://www.passwordmaker.org/ . It takes a different approach, but works surprisingly well.
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Comment #8747846
I also have a similar, but definitely not tragic, story. In the late '90s my dad got us a ZX Spectrum, so me and my brother learned BASIC and played Deathchase. Around ~2000 we got…
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Comment #7975259
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania We’re a two-man team good with JavaScript (node, angular, phonegap, etc.), all-round front-end work, and UI design. Lots of exp…
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Comment #7324768
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania We’re a two-man team good with pretty much anything JavaScript (node, phonegap, angular, etc.) and all-round front-end work. Al…
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Comment #7300717
90s? I was still building "DHTML menus"[1] with IE filters[2] in ~2003. Don't know if proud or ashamed. I used to use an editor called Arachnophilia [3], which surprisingly is stil…
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Comment #6621269
I'm working on Business Card Maker( http://bizcardmaker.com/ ), a very simple client-side business card generator that can quickly export PDF or JPEG. It's definitely not as cool a…
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