Six Figures in 6 days • Hacker News Board

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by michaelbrooks » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 12:57 PM UTC

m12k wrote: post #11

All I'm seeing is a completely black page. Wonder if it's uBlock origin, Firefox, or macOS that the page doesn't play nice with.

I thought it was uBlock, and disabled it to see what would happen. Once I refreshed the page, it displayed which led me to believe something weird was going.

I tried again with uBlock enabled and refreshed the page which worked. So the bottom line is, refresh the page, and you should see the content.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by dt3ft » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 12:58 PM UTC

So he says oversharing doesn't exist? I built https://20-things.com but I doubt anyone would care to look at its source code since it was built with ASP.NET MVC (not Core). To publish or not to publish?

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by m12k » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:01 PM UTC

So the trick to being in the right place at the right time is to find the right place, then just wait there for the right time to arrive.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC

m12k wrote: post #23

So the trick to being in the right place at the right time is to find the right place, then just wait there for the right time to arrive.

If you read his post, he says to continually publish to find out what sticks. Your comment sounds like you want to publish once and succeed. You need to also fail to succeed.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:08 PM UTC

dt3ft wrote: post #22

So he says oversharing doesn't exist? I built https://20-things.com but I doubt anyone would care to look at its source code since it was built with ASP.NET MVC (not Core). To publish or not to publish?

Microsoft published the source code for things like calc and other ancient tools (I seem to remember notepad and minesweeper but I could be wrong). The interest was huge and it made the HN front page.

So why not? If nothing else, it is historically significant.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by swiley » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:08 PM UTC

kyran_adept wrote: post #7

As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

Of course most X11 DEs have had this since the 90s.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by m1gu3l » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

LandR wrote: post #10

There is nothing on this blog that I can see except text and some links at the bottom, yet if I have JS disabled I just get a black page. JS to display text. Brilliant.

JS to display text = i don't have to read this.

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by Uberphallus » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:11 PM UTC

elliotbnvl wrote: post #14

LandR wrote: post #10

There is nothing on this blog that I can see except text and some links at the bottom, yet if I have JS disabled I just get a black page. JS to display text. Brilliant.

React.

Doesn't this piss search engines off? Does the content even get indexed?

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by macNchz » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:13 PM UTC

It’s funny how trends change but Apple users’ appetite for icons stays the same...10 years ago Apple made the navigation icons in iTunes greyscale instead of color. I wasn’t sold on it so I fired up ResEdit and quickly edited the old icons into the new sprite file inside the app package.

I saw other people complaining online so I posted the updated resource file on my $5/mo shared hosting and put a link on a forum...it was picked up on some blogs but I didn’t realize it had become popular, then I woke up a couple of days later and I’d blown through 10s of gigs of bandwidth and had my hosting account frozen (conveniently the day I’d planned a long roadtrip to test a gps/photo sharing app I’d been working on).

Years later people were still asking if I could help them change their iTunes icons, or even getting mad at me that I hadn’t updated the file to work with newer versions!

https://osxdaily.com/2010/09/03/get-color-icons-back-in-the-...

Re: Six Figures in 6 days

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Post by falcolas » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

Meta rant: Why, oh why do people use low contrast colors and expect people to be able to read their blog? Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.