Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
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Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#2Even easier (from the user's perspective) solution:
1. Make a photo of her own radio.
2. Put that photo on a tablet device.
3. Allow her to click on the photo where the buttons are.
4. Adjust stations/volume accordingly.
Next step: physically operate her own radio remotely :)
Or: let her bring her own radio, and use internet and an FM transmitter to relay the signals.
Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#3Slightly off-topic, but as much as I like all these low-tech websites (and I really do!) - I think I need some sort of extension that does this:
body {
max-width:900px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#4Stream decks are really nice, I got one recently and have been playing around with various uses.
So far I've hooked it up to auto-post things to a Slack (using IFTTT) and done bindings for a MMORPG (DDO) as well as it's intended use (scene switching in OBS)
All works fine and it's pretty easy to setup.
Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#5FYI - access to the site via HTTPS is broken, which makes it hard to access on browsers with https-only mode enabled.
Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#6Very wholesome :)
Good way of staying in your MIL good graces too lol
Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#7Big kudos to you for supporting mother-in-law!
Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#8Even easier (from the user's perspective) solution: 1. Make a photo of her own radio. 2. Put that photo on a tablet device. 3. Allow her to click on the photo where the buttons are. 4. Adjust stations/volume accordingly. Next step: physically operate her own radio remotely :) Or: let her bring her own radio, and use internet and an FM transmitter to relay the signals.
> operate her own radio remotely
I can't tell if this is suggesting OP gaslight his mother-in-law
Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#9Slightly off-topic, but as much as I like all these low-tech websites (and I really do!) - I think I need some sort of extension that does this: body { max-width:900px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; } Because trying to read full width text on modern resolutions is way too wide, and I don't even run my browser full screen - I have no idea how people that do, can read it.
I typically read either on mobile, where reader view is a single tap. On Desktop if it’s too wide (and it rarely is since I browse at 150% zoom) then popping the window to one side is generally sufficient (two taps: Cmd-Right), and if that’s not enough, follow up with Cmd-+.
To be honest I never notice this particular problem because it’s easy to mitigate. The one I do notice is when someone creates an unnecessary minimum width so all the text doesn’t fit. I’m not a huge fan of max width either but it usually is a pretty minor annoyance.
Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons
#10Slightly off-topic, but as much as I like all these low-tech websites (and I really do!) - I think I need some sort of extension that does this: body { max-width:900px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; } Because trying to read full width text on modern resolutions is way too wide, and I don't even run my browser full screen - I have no idea how people that do, can read it.
Author here. I agree :)
What I do myself on sites like this is to use CTRL+ until the text is so large that I can read multiple lines in parallell (that is the secret behind speed reading, but the lines can not be too long of course).