Hacker News: Ambadassor

New comment by Ambadassor in "Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own"

Ambadassor — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:17:33 +0000

If you're running Home Assistant and your LEAF is from before 2019, you may be able to replace the scraping part with the Nissan Leaf integration https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nissan_leaf/. Their iOS app also has support for custom widgets https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/integrations/ios-wi... which might suffice for what you're trying to achieve.

It's unfortunate that newer cars are not supported.

New comment by Ambadassor in "Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza"

Ambadassor — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:52:35 +0000

> Israel are still currently bombing Gazan homes

And Gaza are still currently launching missiles at Israel.

New comment by Ambadassor in "CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer"

Ambadassor — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:52:57 +0000

I agree, designing for 3D printing and more specifically designing for multi-color or multi-material can help save a lot of time and material.

Additionally, printing any number of copies of the same multicolor object will result in the same amount of waste. This doesn't reduce the absolute amount of waste, just makes it a smaller % of the total material used.

Also worth looking into the "wipe into object" setting in the slicer, which will use the color changes in an extra model instead of purging them.

New comment by Ambadassor in "CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer"

Ambadassor — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:44:49 +0000

That has been my experience as well. I had a bunch of printers before the X1C, from 3 different countries, and all of them needed various amounts of tweaking and hacking to reach the print quality and ease-of-use I was expecting.

Even the Prusa MK3 (upgraded to MK3S, then MK3S+...) required a Raspberry Pi to be able to print without lugging an SD card from my PC to the printer, and a USB webcam to add print monitoring.

Now when people ask for FDM printer recommendations, I tell them that this hobby has two main paths: One path regards the printer as a tool to create things for other projects; the other path has the printer as the project itself.

An analogy I use is buying a car that's working and ready to drive vs buying a car that doesn't work and repairing it. Are you looking to drive or are you looking to fix/build a car?

Bambu printers are an easy recommendation for a printer which is a tool. The new Prusa CORE One might be a good fit as well, but it's still too early to tell what its quirks are. For printers that are projects, the Ender 3 comes to mind as a very cheap base for countless tinkering and upgrades.

Haikunator: Generate Heroku-like memorable random names to use in your apps

Ambadassor — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:21:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/usmanbashir/haikunator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9100632

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Ambadassor in "A polite rant on mobile UX"

Ambadassor — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:57:32 +0000

The part about Android actually applies to all mobile operating systems - they would all rather you'd use their native UX language than invent your own.

New comment by Ambadassor in "A polite rant on mobile UX"

Ambadassor — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:54:19 +0000

I'd like to stress that this is the correct solution. It is not enough to just slap on a "left-handed mode" that mirrors the UI. Most left-handed people don't use just their left hand when operating their phones - they use both, but prefer their left.

New comment by Ambadassor in "A polite rant on mobile UX"

Ambadassor — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:51:27 +0000

> Depending on your target audience, strive for accessibility, create layouts that can be used while e.g. driving, try to make your application adapt to the environment (for example mind the time of the day)

Spotify (at least the iOS version) does this both wrong and right.

When you browse for music, the app offers playlists based on the time of day. This is great, as the time of day has a lot of influence on the mood you'll want your music to convey.

On the other hand, player view got one thing wrong. In this view, you can swipe down anywhere to exit the player view - as the player is "minimized" when you're browsing for music. However, swiping down anywhere really means anywhere - even when you're trying to skip the current song, and your finger happens to move down a little (maybe because you're driving), it minimizes the player rather than skipping the song. The minimized player is a smaller touch target than the playback icons, which makes returning to the player view and ultimately skipping the song extra-hard.

New comment by Ambadassor in "Show HN: Standalone Grafana Server with SSL and Auth"

Ambadassor — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:13:59 +0000

As a person currently in the process of deploying a graphite-based monitoring solution, this is extremely relevant. Grafana was looking very promising but I was intimidated by the installation process, so I skipped it. This looks like a great solution for me. Thank you!

New comment by Ambadassor in "Ask HN: Idea Sunday"

Ambadassor — Sun, 04 May 2014 06:51:06 +0000

BillGuard does something similar - it checks your online credit statement, and notifies you when a suspicious charge appears.

New comment by Ambadassor in "Alias.sh: for finding, sharing and storing bash aliases"

Ambadassor — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:13:32 +0000

I was instinctively looking for a modal window to close to make the colors vibrant again. It's a somewhat jarring experience.

New comment by Ambadassor in "A Slower Speed of Light"

Ambadassor — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:14:15 +0000

Works for me on Windows 7, x64. Try updating your DirectX.

New comment by Ambadassor in "AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others"

Ambadassor — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:08:08 +0000

Reddit is down as well