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Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by petemilly »

MzHN wrote: post #20

> As far as I know, there’s no way to set a dynamic width for an HTML input with pure CSS (please lmk if that’s not the case). Setting max-content doesn’t work, for example, because inputs are replaced elements that have intrinsic dimensions and behaviors that are not fully governed by CSS. This is the case currently, but when field-sizing: content; lands, you can do it with a single property. Also I get a weird feel…

Oh cool, I didn't know about field-sizing. Thanks.

And yeah, this definitely set off my alarm bells like "maybe I shouldn't be using React here." I guess the initial goal was just getting something that works out there using the thing I know best (React), and the second phase could be a rewrite using a better tool for the job-open to any thoughts and suggestions on that.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by smokeydoe »

ip26 wrote: post #44
rubicon33 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those questions are the same questions I would have. Not sure there's an easy answer for either of us unfortunately. If I were you I'd probably spend time with my kids. They're only young once and getting to enjoy those years would probably mean the most to me.

Even that can be a puzzle. Kids can be hard work. People like to talk in rosy terms about spending time with kids, especially when it’s the “idea” of kids or the “memory” of their own kids. Yet few parents of presently young children describe their days as blissfully idyllic. So what does “enjoy” really mean? Aside from basics like “don’t work 90 hour weeks” or “don’t travel for work three weeks a month”.

Taking care of kids is hard sometimes, no doubt. But spending time with your young kids can absolutely be fun and truly enjoyable. It takes effort to come up with activities and start them. When they begin talking it gets way more fun. I enjoy hanging out with my child and I would describe my days as blissfully idyllic a majority of the time. If you put in the work it pays off with intense fulfillment, pride, and a best friend. I think for this to work you need to be present with your child and actively engaging almost everyday for long periods.

I admit I don’t know that many parents personal enough to know if most are feeling more burdened than not. I would hope that is not the case.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by barrysteve »

ip26 wrote: post #44
rubicon33 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those questions are the same questions I would have. Not sure there's an easy answer for either of us unfortunately. If I were you I'd probably spend time with my kids. They're only young once and getting to enjoy those years would probably mean the most to me.

Even that can be a puzzle. Kids can be hard work. People like to talk in rosy terms about spending time with kids, especially when it’s the “idea” of kids or the “memory” of their own kids. Yet few parents of presently young children describe their days as blissfully idyllic. So what does “enjoy” really mean? Aside from basics like “don’t work 90 hour weeks” or “don’t travel for work three weeks a month”.

On a basic level, kids give off joy and kids enjoy the world in ways that are long dead to us.

It is enjoyable to watch them grow and putting energy into kids when they are young feels rewarding.

Pretty much everything a kid does is important and/or rewarding biologically to the parents.

I've noticed parents don't talk about it in public, they've forgotten what it is like to be single and wrapped up in work.

Parents often only say that 'you should have kids' and 'it's great' with no further description of what it is like.

Parents are a strange phenomena, they become tribal and grounded, once a man becomes a father.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by accrual »

pedalpete wrote: post #57

About 10 years ago I made an app called Bucket52 which challenged you to record one interesting thing you did each week. How did you make this week memorable. It was amazing how challenging it was to do one unique thing a week. It didn't even need to be anything big, just "what will I remember about this week". I think as a New Years Resolution, I may try it again this year.

I like this idea. I've seen it extended to individual days as well. If I can name one interesting thing that happened in a day, then it was an interesting day with at least one story to come from it.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by euroderf »

samstave wrote: post #15

I have been wanting this for many WEEKS IN MY LIFE... I want to clone this and run it locally and add pics and a family tree and and and.... I love this.

Same here. Starting with Markdown, and with some protocol for specifying links into an external blob store (for pix etc.).

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by MzHN »

petemilly wrote: post #71
MzHN wrote: post #20

> As far as I know, there’s no way to set a dynamic width for an HTML input with pure CSS (please lmk if that’s not the case). Setting max-content doesn’t work, for example, because inputs are replaced elements that have intrinsic dimensions and behaviors that are not fully governed by CSS. This is the case currently, but when field-sizing: content; lands, you can do it with a single property. Also I get a weird feel…

Oh cool, I didn't know about field-sizing. Thanks. And yeah, this definitely set off my alarm bells like "maybe I shouldn't be using React here." I guess the initial goal was just getting something that works out there using the thing I know best (React), and the second phase could be a rewrite using a better tool for the job-open to any thoughts and suggestions on that.

I'm in the same boat with vanilla instead. I start with no dependencies and add some vanilla compatible libraries when needed. But when project size grows the friction makes me less motivated to continue. That's just what I know best and where I'm most comfortable since I control everything.

Unfortunately I don't have more specific suggestions, but just in case the verbosity of vanilla is a turn-off, I will namedrop Bliss.js.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by iamflimflam1 »

wepple wrote: post #37
msie wrote: post #9

Sometimes I think this concept is depressing because it increases the pressure to "do something" with your life. When you are presented with the finiteness of your life you feel pressure to fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile". When someone is enjoying a hobby they will lose track of time yet that hobby may be frivolous in the eyes of someone else. Do they want something like this to trac…

But if you get to decide what is “meaningful”, it’s just a reminder of the finiteness of life. I’ve spent a bunch of this holiday sitting on the couch, relaxing or letting my mind wander or just enjoying being near a warm fire. I don’t think I’ll regret that at the end of my life (provided my life isn’t all sitting on a couch) I’d argue if you feel pressured to do “meaningful” things that apparently don’t bring you j…

This video from Adam Savage talks about this and his way of looking at it is really helpful.

https://youtu.be/nGx-DHjrXAY

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by grogenaut »

On Android the hovers for a cell go away instantly. The age in year also looks kinda dumb if your birthday is at the end of the year like mine. 29 in 2012 when you're 28 until the last 2 days of the year for instance

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by 392 »

pedalpete wrote: post #57

About 10 years ago I made an app called Bucket52 which challenged you to record one interesting thing you did each week. How did you make this week memorable. It was amazing how challenging it was to do one unique thing a week. It didn't even need to be anything big, just "what will I remember about this week". I think as a New Years Resolution, I may try it again this year.

I don't see it on the Play Store, sadly :-)

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by marssaxman »

petemilly wrote: post #64
marssaxman wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I couldn't make the date picker work at all - the scroller kept snapping back to a previous position.

Ah, sorry about that. It is the native date picker as n8cpdx pointed out. I just pushed an update to only update the grid of weeks once the date picker is unfocused (onblur event) rather than recomputing unnecessarily on every change event. I suspect that is what caused the bug you're describing, but let me know if it's still broken.

Yes, that fixed it. Thanks!

(I didn't know the browser had a native date picker.)

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