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wbobeirne

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About wbobeirne

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Drop me a line at hn at wbobeirne dot com.

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    Comment #49249517

    Not officially, but I did add the ability to drop shared pins on the map for your friends. I also had that in mind, some of the most fun or wild moments have been on the street.

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    Comment #49239164

    I'll be flying to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival in a couple of days, and I've been putting together a much better app than the official one. It builds the full catalog of shows…

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    Comment #49209034

    Funny how at this point election fraud is a bipartisan issue, everyone seems to believe it's happening or will happen!

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    Comment #48984062

    Running a performance profile in Chrome doesn't back this up for me, and looking at the loop it looks like it maintains an active `Set ()` of which components to update, and clears…

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    Comment #48983176

    Do you have reduced motion enabled? That disables all the effects.

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    Comment #48922613

    I'd imagine that it's them doing something they earnestly want to do, but trying to lampshade something that they believe people will perceive of them or be judgmental about. Like …

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    Comment #48912002

    > The makers of both iOS and Android treat the ability to "bookmark" a web URL onto your home screen as a power user feature that requires navigating through complex, technical-sou…

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    Comment #48853142

    Funny, when I saw "FM" and "FF" I interpreted it as "Family Male" and "Family Female." But Father and Mother are those characters gender swapped!

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    Comment #48690588

    Hard to say "entirely" when you also have a movement of people and non-profits who are also pushing for more regulation.

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    Comment #48554788

    Being able to share and replay seeds is a big part of the StS community.

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    Comment #48541097

    Good call, attribution shows up on desktop but it gets covered by the search on mobile. I'll be sure to nudge that up. Thanks!

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    Comment #48535683

    I have been going regularly to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and their app is always terrible. Connectivity is very spotty since the city is swarmed with way more people than usual…

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    Comment #48453593

    As someone who used to pride myself on being able to make complex graphical designs a reality, it has definitely put me into a little bit of an identity crisis. But ultimately I th…

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    Comment #48437953

    I'm glad to see more positive takes on client-side rendering. Unless SEO and crawlability are important for your site, server side rendering is such an overprescribed solution. If …

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    Comment #48035258

    Art is often made from clever use of things that were not intended to make art. Let them have fun.

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    Comment #47983756

    Many websites have looping or scroll-triggered animations, or play gifs / videos that a static image wouldn't capture.

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    Comment #47704330

    You are relying on the wrong people to be able to understand that nuanced distinction.

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    Comment #47661576

    The author touches on this in the last section, but I'd reframe this a different way. The natural conclusion for a company who wants to funnel you to the app is, "the web version i…

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    Comment #47603508

    I cannot get apps on my iPhone from anywhere else but the App Store. While they are dominant, Valve isn't locking anyone in even on their own hardware.

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    Comment #47448924

    I'm willing to bet that many people produce code with Claude code that you would not be able to distinguish from a skilled human. Every tool has its uses and misuses. Edit: just no…

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    Comment #47433352

    As a home owner in Austin, I want my friends to be able to afford homes too and not feel like they have to move to have a yard and a family. Bring on the new construction.

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    Comment #47370293

    > AWS doesn’t charge you in mysterious ways. It charges you in specific, predictable ways that nobody taught you to look for. That’s a knowledge gap. The purpose of this post is to…

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    Comment #47247383

    Reading what they're offering, the stand-out to me is making publishing the applications easy for others on your team to use. That would he a pain point for non technical users.

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    Comment #47176954

    Then the follow up question, how do you combat that? Not likely through developing similar technology.

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    Comment #47116113

    Same on android chrome, bars are the same height and there're no numbers next to the units.