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steveharrison

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    Show HN: Salary Ticker – a macOS menu bar app that ticks up your pay

    Sometimes I need a bit of extra motivation to get through the work day, so made a little macOS menubar item where you put in your daily rate (you can make it whatever you want, pre…

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    Comment #48729582

    Love the idea, but would help trustworthiness if the design looked a little less vibe-coded.

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    Comment #48729566

    Particularly excited to see reverse image search get added to real estate websites. I think ability to filter listings by aesthetic will save a lot of time.

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    Comment #48654219

    Cool use-case!

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    Comment #48654040

    I hadn't thought about this angle as to why WebKit hasn't implemented this, but yeah 100%.

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    Comment #48653847

    Nice one!

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    Comment #48629388

    I'm really excited about window.showDirectoryPicker and the local-first web apps it will enable. There's lots of talk about local-first sync engines, but the best sync engine is on…

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    Comment #47735518

    > This was on my work computer. Haha love it. Would love to see the IT guy's face handing that back in.

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    Comment #47435825

    Interesting to see whether their data provides a moat or not. Would be great to remove flakey FE selectors but want to see it in action first…

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    Comment #47305942

    I wrote an article about improving my productivity as a programmer. Keen to hear your thoughts and if there's anything I've missed!

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    Comment #47260372

    I like those video effects on Apple landing pages where they map scroll position to the position in a video, so asked Claude Code to generate a working example using the Apple vide…

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    Comment #46629526

    Yes, I’m planning for the app itself to be subscription and/or one-time payment, but of course the database is all yours if you stop paying. I haven’t used double-entry because I w…

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    Comment #46629472

    https://steveharrison.dev - I post about web dev stuff usually! Tech stack: Astro hosted on GitHub Pages

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    Show HN: I built a Finances app for Mac where you own the SQLite database

    Hey HN, I feel like there is a gap in personal finance apps: local-first options typically have less polished UIs, while those with great design like Monarch Money are not local-fi…

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    Show HN: CSS Advent Calendar 2025

    I've updated my CSS advent calendar for this year. Last year, I was using Windsurf to generate the code and content—it had heaps of broken links. This year, I used Claude Code to u…

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    Comment #45896192

    I agree with the other things though like having multiple inputs for date ranges / trying to use native elements with just some custom styling.

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    Comment #45896163

    I think this article misses the fact that the native date and time pickers look ugly in Chrome, and that a lot of websites are ultimately an extension of a brand, not just a tool w…

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