<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Javalicious</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Javalicious</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:09:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Javalicious" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Your ePub Is fine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow. This brings up some (bad) memories of working with an .epub export about 10 years ago. We had some embedded fonts to work around some poor rendering in some of the readers we tested, but some of the readers ignored the fonts altogether, causing the content to render boxes (<i>bangs head on table</i>)<p>It looks like not a whole lot has changed in that space -- the readers are still the gate for what you can do with the format. Who's available to make a CanIUse for epub readers, to shame them into compliance? (only partly /s)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:28:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534866</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "New York is rejecting a federal demand to stop its $9 Manhattan toll"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's the States Rights GOP, and then there's the Things Trump Doesn't Like. That executive order about paper straws (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14208" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14208</a>) falls under the latter category.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:46:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197748</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Wends of Texas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A few years ago we did a road trip through that part of Texas, looking at the "painted churches" (<a href="https://thedaytripper.com/the-painted-churches-road-trip/" rel="nofollow">https://thedaytripper.com/the-painted-churches-road-trip/</a> - there are other itineraries). This article sparked that memory, as one of the painted churches is actually a Wendish church.<p>And yes, there's a painted church in Shiner as well! :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667280</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "The Joy of Under-Engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I first started in the industry, I worked in the documentation department of a small company. My boss had me write Windows Help files by hand before using tools like WinHelp / HTMLHelp. Years later I did much of the same thing when I dealt with generating .epub files from an editor.<p>There's something to be said for under-engineering, even if you're using higher-level frameworks. It gives you an idea of what the tools are doing under the hood, where they could possibly go wrong, and how errors can be fixed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:20:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587516</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Atkinson Hyperlegible Font"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I wish they would just keep the boilerplate OFL intact. I spent way too much time trying to figure out what the "real" license was, and if I could use it in my open source projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573803</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "An AI Bot Named James Has My Old Local News Job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If this were Max Headroom snarkily reporting news, I might be more inclined to watch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:06:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41516400</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41516400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41516400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Three questions to turn the table during technical interviews"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup. Which is why this question can give some good insight into how the company runs. Is it chaotic? Suffocatingly rigid? Or is there a pipeline to triage and introduce new features in a sustainable and beneficial way?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:39:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41405495</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41405495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41405495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Costco membership scanners coming to clubs in sharing crackdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They had these out at the local Costco last night. Just a card scanner. Honestly, it wasn't that different from the "wave your card at the person in the front" system they had before -- it didn't slow things down much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:36:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41186944</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41186944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41186944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "The Decline of Mobile Development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hybrid app developer here (Apache Cordova). The work that I do is pretty close to web development + some hooks into native code (which is done by plugins) -- so your skills should transfer pretty readily.<p>The only headache that Donn eludes to that I've experienced had to do with Android's scoped storage. It's taken them a few tries to get it right, and their documentation hasn't really provided good best practices, so I've had to roll with the punches a few times. But I really haven't had to deal too much with Donn's other points.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:05:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41074739</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41074739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41074739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "New Research Finds Differences Between Male and Female Brains"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like they _might_ have been in the study set, but weren't separated out and focused on? At any rate, the author is hoping for the same:<p>"In the first edition of my book Why Gender Matters, published by Doubleday in 2005, I devoted a chapter to kids who are psychologically “gender-atypical.” I suggested that these kids are somewhere in between male and female. But the Stanford study provides little support for that claim. I am hopeful that the researchers will do follow-up studies specifically looking at individuals who are gender-nonconforming, gender-atypical, and who have gender dysphoria, to see whether and how those characteristics influence these findings."</p>
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<p>As a middle-class Gen X-er, the FAFSA gives me PTSD already. ALL the hurdles, knowing that my kid won't get any financial aid anyway. I mean, what's the point? There should be an opt-out button at the beginning: "I know I'm not getting any help. Just finish the wizard and leave me alone."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:51:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923685</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Ask HN: What are the best eBook authoring tools today?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Best" is probably whatever you're familiar with. If your pre-pdf content is in Word, I'd just run with it -- most 'classic' word processors can handle the export to ebook stuff just fine. I've done exports from Apple Pages without issue.<p>That said -- if you're looking for a layout that reflows based on the screen size (read: more suited for mobile devices), you might want to look at exporting to .epub rather than .pdf.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:06:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631404</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "India Eliminates Extreme Poverty"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Care to elaborate?<p>I look at the numbers in the article and my eyes glaze over; the only thing I got out of it was that they're urging India to bump its poverty level numbers. (I am decidedly _not_ and economist)</p>
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<p>In this case, the push towards simplicity and sanity is just acknowledging the reality that front end dev is... not simple. From the blog post:<p>"Sometimes, people get angry at React or other FrontEnd frameworks just because they look scary or too complex. But the reality is, FrontEnd is complex."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 16:58:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502410</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "S.F. Car Break-In Tracker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Poops and car break-ins. Either data science people are really bored, or SF provides some interesting data points.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:38:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39184851</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39184851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39184851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Bene Reader (ePub)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ages ago (2010-2011 I think?), I worked on a tool that exported and packaged text into .epub format. At the time one of the biggest headaches was the lack of good font rendering in ePub readers. Apple's Books app did an okay job, but some of the others just ignored the font settings, _even when an embedded font was packaged in the file_. All the more frustrating when you consider that the text was not English, and the embedded fonts were necessary for properly rendering the code points and not displaying question marks or boxes.<p>No idea if the available readers have improved, but I'm all for this proposal of a self-contained reader.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 03:35:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138638</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "New data shows walking down 36% in USA since 2019"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious as to _how_ the data was collected for this report. Did they use camera feed data? Walk-button push counts? HR rideshare incentive data? Sending out surveys?<p>The article talked about trips -- but I didn't see any differentiation between commutes to work and walking in the park, for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:59:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947835</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a _slightly_ better one on the DOT site (<a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/president-biden-announces-82-billion-new-grants-high-speed-rail-and-pipeline-projects" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/president-biden...</a>), and that site links to a PDF with some more in depth info on the projects (<a href="https://railroads.dot.gov/elibrary/fy22-23-FSP-National-rail-program-project-fact-sheets" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://railroads.dot.gov/elibrary/fy22-23-FSP-National-rail...</a>).<p>The LA-Las Vegas route sounds interesting to me. That road tends to get really bad on the weekends, so I think it would serve a need for the bougie set that don't want to deal with traffic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:56:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571967</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Is Threads winning the war with X?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I resonated with Ezra Klein's "exodus shocks" concepts. With Musk at the helm of X, it just seems like there's the periodic random outrage that pushes people to at least try other alternatives (and maybe stop logging into X itself). Some of it sticks. I ended up with a Mastodon account and it just seems much more chill. YMMV I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:46:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236131</link><dc:creator>Javalicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Javalicious in "Is Threads winning the war with X?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also 
- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=blueskyweb.org">https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=blueskyweb.org</a><p>Is there a way to get Mastodon linked news?</p>
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