Hacker News: WillKirkby

New comment by WillKirkby in "Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font"

WillKirkby — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:21:13 +0000

Bug report: on Chrome 95 / Windows, fullscreened on a 1080p display, the data-testid="RetoolGrid:container_question" element gets a dynamically-calculated translate3d transform that's not pixel-aligned, making all the text in the code regions extremely blurry.

New comment by WillKirkby in "How to format text in Twitter"

WillKirkby — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:16:21 +0000

If you care at all about users who depend on screen-reader software, don't do this.

New comment by WillKirkby in "Ask HN: Wrong Pipe Character?"

WillKirkby — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:21:48 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar#Solid_vertical_ba...

New comment by WillKirkby in "Fix Your Timestep"

WillKirkby — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:49:59 +0000

GTA San Andreas (2004) did not have cross-platform multiplayer, so OP's assessment may be accurate.

New comment by WillKirkby in "G2A pays Factorio developer $40k over illegally obtained game keys"

WillKirkby — Thu, 21 May 2020 12:33:21 +0000

Exactly this.

Typically the keys come from legitimate promotions such as the Humble Bundle, but purchased (as you said) with stolen card details.

New comment by WillKirkby in "Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage"

WillKirkby — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:38:05 +0000

The 64k compo was particularly weak this year. I'd recommend checking out the 4k intro and 4k executable graphics compos for some stellar work.

New comment by WillKirkby in "Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL"

WillKirkby — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:19:42 +0000

And I'm sure this won't be used by bad actors at all...

New comment by WillKirkby in "LeapMotion to be acquired for $30m by UltraHaptics"

WillKirkby — Thu, 30 May 2019 15:53:56 +0000

Magic Leap != LeapMotion

New comment by WillKirkby in "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples"

WillKirkby — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:06:15 +0000

yes, which is mentioned in the article..

New comment by WillKirkby in "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples"

WillKirkby — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:16:08 +0000

Another one for "People’s names do not change." - transgender people will almost always change their name during their transition.

New comment by WillKirkby in "The metamorphosis of Escher"

WillKirkby — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:48:06 +0000

I really wish it didn't do the forced scroll across the whole artwork on first page load. Makes me feel seasick.

New comment by WillKirkby in "Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam"

WillKirkby — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:06:34 +0000

How long until they pull the Android version?

New comment by WillKirkby in "Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files"

WillKirkby — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:09:00 +0000

There's https://modarchive.org/ though it seems they're having some server trouble at the moment. Definitely worth checking out when it's back up though.

New comment by WillKirkby in "Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator"

WillKirkby — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:37:20 +0000

Seems to render The Emoji Demo [0] nice and buttery smooth, though the skintone cube scene appears a tad broken. Quite impressed.

[0] http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=76627

New comment by WillKirkby in "Detecting Screen Content via Remote Acoustic Side Channels"

WillKirkby — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:09:15 +0000

I'm reminded of this DEF CON talk from 4 years ago detailing a similar technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1C3WB8c0o

New comment by WillKirkby in "Ask HN: After 2-3 years, what are your favorite Touch Bar use cases on the Mac?"

WillKirkby — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:59:38 +0000

Touch ID login is super convenient, and remapping Caps Lock as a tactile Esc key has made for a much more pleasant vim experience. That's it.

New comment by WillKirkby in "Microsoft Office rewrite to React.js nears completion"

WillKirkby — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:12:30 +0000

Counter-point: they're awful at optimizing Electron apps as demonstrated by Microsoft Teams.

New comment by WillKirkby in "Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?"

WillKirkby — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:26:18 +0000

115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go (Dan Tentler) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtu7vV_HmY

New comment by WillKirkby in "Ask HN: What are the best man pages to read?"

WillKirkby — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:38:09 +0000

man ascii

New comment by WillKirkby in "Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing"

WillKirkby — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:51:53 +0000

Demosceners are starting to, for sure.

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=69642