Hacker News: OlegWock

Guide to data tools landscape for developers

OlegWock — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:59:14 +0000

Article URL: https://sinja.io/blog/data-landscape-guide-for-developers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935510

Points: 102

# Comments: 31

I built a notebook inside Obsidian

OlegWock — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:40:59 +0000

Article URL: https://sinja.io/blog/how-i-built-notebook-in-obisidian-emera

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848850

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques

OlegWock — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:29:35 +0000

Article URL: https://sinja.io/blog/bot-or-not

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366057

Points: 73

# Comments: 16

New comment by OlegWock in "Ask HN: To those with successful browser extension(s), how did you grow it?"

OlegWock — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:42:14 +0000

Unfortunately, original poster deleted his account/got banned on tiktok

New comment by OlegWock in "Ask HN: To those with successful browser extension(s), how did you grow it?"

OlegWock — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:55:01 +0000

I was lucky enough that video about my extension blew up on tiktok (it wasn't even my video lol), which bring around 34k users. After that extension started slowly getting more traction from here and there (tech sites, personal newsletters, etc), but that didn't bring any substantial audience, to this day (1.5 years passed) tiktok was the biggest success and provided most of current audience, partially because I stopped actively working on the extension about year or so ago

New comment by OlegWock in "What you can get out of a high-quality font"

OlegWock — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:47:07 +0000

Yeah, that's where I first encountered them too and liked it a lot. I'm now using small caps for links in my Obsidian, I like it a lot

New comment by OlegWock in "What you can get out of a high-quality font"

OlegWock — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:55:27 +0000

I think that might depend on particular font, but from what I tested, manually downloaded fonts do include OpenType features like smcp or swsh

What you can get out of a high-quality font

OlegWock — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:38:50 +0000

Article URL: https://sinja.io/blog/get-maximum-out-of-your-font

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41502721

Points: 347

# Comments: 94

Quick guide to web typography for developers

OlegWock — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:09:03 +0000

Article URL: https://sinja.io/blog/web-typography-quick-guide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41435696

Points: 21

# Comments: 3

New comment by OlegWock in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)"

OlegWock — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 18:48:13 +0000

Location: Slovakia, Europe Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: nope (but I'm planning to move to the UK this/next year)

Technologies: mostly JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and browser extensions. But I also know Python, SQL, MongoDB, and Docker.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fBp7xlqulPV2BwDruitzXYkj...

Email: oleh@sinja.io

Hello, I'm Oleh. I'm a product-oriented frontend developer with 6 years of commercial experience focused on browser extensions. I enjoy turning ideas into working products without compromising the user experience or performance. I have a passion for design and always strive to provide best experience for users.

In my career, I worked a lot on browser extensions, so I have quite a good understanding of browser internals and how JS works. I'm perfectly comfortable coding in vanilla JS (and can reverse engineer JS scripts, lol) as well as using modern tech like React. Besides frontend, I can work on backend too (using either TS or Python) and do basic DevOps.

Beyond day work, I contribute to open source, work on my apps, and write articles for my blog https://sinja.io

I'm looking for a remote position in a product company without a lot of bureaucracy. I'm comfortable both working in team and being single developer. Extra points for you if the position allows part-time employment.

New comment by OlegWock in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)"

OlegWock — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:23:36 +0000

Location: Slovakia, Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: nope (but I'm planning to move to the UK this/next year)

Technologies: mostly JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and browser extensions. But I also know Python, SQL, MongoDB, and Docker.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fBp7xlqulPV2BwDruitzXYkj...

Email: oleh@sinja.io

In my career, I worked a lot on browser extensions, so I have quite a good understanding of browser internals and how JS works. I'm perfectly comfortable coding in vanilla JS (and can reverse engineer JS scripts, lol). Besides frontend, I can work on backend too (using either TS or Python) and do basic DevOps. Beyond day work, I contribute to open source, work on my apps, and write articles for my blog (https://sinja.io).

New comment by OlegWock in "Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab"

OlegWock — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 09:26:16 +0000

On the screenshot there are couple of bookmarks and search widget. It's something user adds on their own, so you're free to not use those services (and even if you do Anori doesn't send any data to them anyway)

New comment by OlegWock in "Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab"

OlegWock — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:53:04 +0000

Calling default choice (which can be changed right when you add search widget) 'shoving Google down my throat' is quite a big stretch, don't you think?

New comment by OlegWock in "Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab"

OlegWock — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:39:24 +0000

Nope, currently it's very dummy calendar which just shows dates. I have vague plans to integrate it with Google calendar at least, but there is not ETA for that

New comment by OlegWock in "Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab"

OlegWock — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:52:15 +0000

Thanks!

1. This issue is fixed (but not released yet)

4. Iframe unfortunately works quite unreliably, especially on Chrome. It uses declarativeNetRequest API and that seem to be hella unreliable for some reason. Usually disabling and then enabling Anori back fixes this issue.

5. If you mean iframe widget which open on click, you can 'detach' this window (button to the left of close button) and then you will be able to resize it or move around the screen. Ordinary iframe widget should be resizable as is (though scrollbar is shown inside the iframe itself, Anori doesn't have access there and can't do anything about it).

Thanks for the suggestions, some of them look really interesting!

New comment by OlegWock in "Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab"

OlegWock — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:32:28 +0000

Who shoves Google down your throat, though?

New comment by OlegWock in "Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab"

OlegWock — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:29:13 +0000

Please open issue in the repo [1]! Currently I work mostly on bug fixes and simple features (don't have much time for pet projects now), but I use issues to keep track of everything.

> Some simple color themes alongside the pictures

You can create a custom theme and upload solid color picture as background.

[1]: https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/issues

New comment by OlegWock in "Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab"

OlegWock — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:26:25 +0000

Sorry! There is a screenshot on anori.app which will tell it better that my words I believe. But in short, Anori allows you to add different widgets to your new tab (bookmarks, world time, notes, etc) and organize them in layout you like.

There was similar product from Google 15 years ago which allowed to create personalized start page with different widgets, but it was closed long ago. I wasn't familiar with it first-hand, but I found it funny how similar concept Anori had to iGoogle when I finally learned about it

Show HN: Composable (as in iGoogle, but modern) privacy-friendly new tab

OlegWock — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:34:12 +0000

I spent quite a lot of time working on this one over the last 1.5 years. It started as a small project for my personal use because I wanted to keep all my self-hosted services visible so I wouldn't forget they existed lol. Using a web page wasn't ideal because of the white flicker every time I opened a new tab, so I decided to make this into a browser extension. From that time on, it became a lot bigger and got some traction (which I'm very happy about).

It's made with React, but I tried to squeeze maximum performance (limited by my skills and desire to keep it somewhat readable, though) out of it. UI/UX was a big priority for me in this project, so I also tried to streamline it as much as possible and make Anori a joy to use. If you decide to try it, let me know how good I did!

Oh, and it's open source [1] and the process of adding new widgets is documented [2], so you can make your own!

[1]: https://github.com/OlegWock/anori

[2]: https://github.com/OlegWock/anori/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT_AN...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084543

Points: 95

# Comments: 37

Utilizing Framer Motion and FLIP to build React tooltip component

OlegWock — Tue, 02 May 2023 08:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://sinja.io/blog/animated-tooltip-with-react-framer-motion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784864

Points: 3

# Comments: 0