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swesnow

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    Thanks I agree it is mesmerizing!

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    True, you'd think Safari wouldn't let websites go so crazy with WebGPU :)

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    1: Sorry about that, the default 20,000 is to make it look nice on computers but I should probably drop it a bit for phones, that's reasonable. 2: Yeah this part is important and c…

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    Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator

    A pretty simple but fun to play with simulator for a concept from mathematical physics called the "2D Coulomb gas". I originally made this for my Bachelor's thesis to create pretty…

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    Comment #36067854

    Glad that you like it! It is a BottomSheet ( https://m2.material.io/components/sheets-bottom ) which is a Material design component from Google and they handle a lot of the complex…

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    Thank you very much! I actually made the logo with matplotlib by just plotting a bunch of sines with integer frequencies and put it together in Photoshop and feel like it's held up…

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    Yeah a widget is something that would be nice - I don't use them heavily myself so I guess that's a big reason for why they are not there right now. I do remember Materialistic hav…

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    Comment #36067806

    Very nice - I look forward to a PR. Contact me if you have some question about the code and I'll try to help you out :)

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    Yeah this is something that has been on my mind. It is possible because I know other apps do this but I haven't looked into details of the API. I totally get the appeal and have re…

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    Oh I see, yeah on Android 9 you are getting a fallback color for when automatic theming is not available. I would recommend using the regular light theme as this has a green accent…

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    Hey thanks for the kind words! About the "tabbing" behavior; I know Sync for Reddit on tablets introduced a version of this a while back but as you say getting the UX of this corre…

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    Haha wow that's actually crazy that you switched phone partly because of Harmonic! 1. Deep linking used to work a couple years back but I think there was some Android change making…

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    Glad you like it and thanks! There's been many feature requests over the years of that nature so I am glad they address the same pain points of multiple people. As can be found in/…

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    Thank you! It is partly - I use Sync for reddit as my reddit client and that is an inspiration for much of the UI however I did actually download Relay because I know it had some i…

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    Wow I never thought anyone would be so hardcore as to actually run Harmonic on windows subsystem and Chrome OS - I figured not a lot of people don't use the big screen mode and I m…

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    You're very right - and it's kind of hard to explain even to myself why. I'm glad its done now and people seem to be actually looking into the code

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    You're very welcome! Always nice to hear that someone has been happy with the app for a long time. Would be very cool if you could make some form of contribution. Again I apologize…