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As someone from Europe, I had heard before about bankrupting ambulance rides, slavery in prisons, and food deserts. I did not expect to add “lunch money humiliation ritual” to that…

Neat! Wonder though if you should be even offering the BYO option as a separate lite package. As a dev I would not buy this and as a non-tech person I would be confused by your pri…

Of course. The only thing that’s changed (raised) is the baseline. It’s still hard to come up with a winning idea that’s innovative, creative, and polished. It’s also much easier t…

Looks like this is fully anonymous and that your auth doesn’t apply on this page (when I visit it with an active session, it doesn’t show as such). I think if you require people to…

I miss a thorough explanation of how Plain is fundamentally different than Django + extensions. Good luck though

The IndexedDB API [1] is fairly easy to work with. I personally use idb [2] as a wrapper, but that's optional. The hardest part is getting it neatly integrated with whatever you're…

Thank you! So nice to see it's something others were looking into as well. And these are great ideas, I'll add them to the list. Could you specifically clarify on the grouping? I a…

Fully agree, I dislike auth walls as well. It's also great for distribution, so everybody wins.

Good one - that sounds like great optional behavior. Having said that, I consciously built it this way. I personally use simultaneous stopwatches to track a full day of work and ta…

Great idea, thank you! Shorthands are on my list. Would it work if you could immediately start a stopwatch + assign a tag, such as “customer care” with a single click? I preferably…

Any reason why you think it's unreliable? Note my aim is to make it a PWA in the future, meaning it would be installed on your machine and run perfectly fine without an internet co…

Aah love to hear that! I think you should be able to iframe it just fine unless you're using an older Safari version.

Yeah this took quite some weekends :) Just hang in there and you'll get a project shipped too! I'm using Angular (yes, really!), and some date-fns utils for the time-related logic.…

Ah - thanks for reporting. Any details on the device you're using? For me it's working fine on iPhone/Mac. In any case, I had to cut some corners with JS for the UI library I'm usi…

Hi HN, I built TimeRetain: a time tracker for individuals that runs 100% in your browser. No sign up, no personal data stored, and free while I’m working on the beta. Click the whi…

Nice work! Smooth and local. I like it. A tip: it doesn’t detect mobile screenshots (the frame remains in landscape, causing the image to be cut off).

I think your best bet is an insect screen. I have one at home that pops right inside my window frame. Modern frames have standard dimensions, so it's likely trivial to find an inse…

I am a Jekyll user that has switched to Astro. I like it a lot, since it provides me with simple templating, bundling, out of the box TypeScript, and Tailwind support. It can do mu…

Personally I’ve always thought that specialization is what matters. I’ve tended to look up to people who know everything about a single topic. I still do, but in my professional li…

Nice first attempt! What I would try to do is find a design system and stick with that. Someone else already commented about the size of the text and elements. If you’re not design…

Django Ninja allows you to immediately piggyback on all the Django features: the ORM, auth, admin panel, migrations, forms, and so on. If you choose FastAPI you’ll have to add thes…

The one you’re already most familiar with.

Not air tight, not truly “OpSec,” but people do call me crazy for having a separate e-mail for every service. This has caught three leaks so far–if you receive spam you immediately…

Firefox’s right click + Q to immediately focus on a DOM element in dev tools is such a powerful feature. I’d try to get that in your system if you’re a web dev.

I think very few people nowadays have a job where they produce a product that lasts for more than 30 years. Perhaps if you work at Boeing or Porsche.