Hacker News: ZachSaucier

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Build Software. Build Users"

ZachSaucier — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:38:54 +0000

Letting the LLM generate use cases is probably not a good idea. But writing common use cases and having a bot crawl your app and then write up how many steps it took to accomplish the goal is a good idea that I hadn't thought of before. You could even set it up as a CI check to make sure that new features that introduce more steps for specific flows are very conscious decisions. In a large application this could be a very useful feature.

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Remove Black Color with Shaders"

ZachSaucier — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:38:05 +0000

That's not CSS, it's GLSL

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Remove Black Color with Shaders"

ZachSaucier — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:40:12 +0000

The author creates art using their own custom library that uses CSS-like syntax to render HTML, SVG, and more recently shaders. The point isn't that this is the best way to do it. It's simply a trick that the author used to do something with their own bespoke library that they were trying to do.

New comment by ZachSaucier in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

ZachSaucier — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:46:05 +0000

Actual checkboxes that are reorderable but otherwise a text file is the way to go.

Longer explanation: https://zachsaucier.com/blog/notes-the-best-todo-app/

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

ZachSaucier — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:29:54 +0000

Ona makes this easy: https://ona.com/

Interlingua

ZachSaucier — Sat, 17 May 2025 22:07:21 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017369

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates"

ZachSaucier — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:45:58 +0000

GSAP is a bit more robust than anime.js. Over the years anime has been adding more functionality and changing its syntax to be more like GSAP's. They're both solid libraries though

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library"

ZachSaucier — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:45:53 +0000

There are other, similar sites which do this. One example: https://madewithgsap.com/

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time"

ZachSaucier — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:00:12 +0000

If you were to die, is there a way for someone to continue with the project?

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

ZachSaucier — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:11:11 +0000

I can't believe you didn't even mention your website dedicated to this, Tim! https://theuselessweb.com/

Longer list here: https://tholman.com/

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?"

ZachSaucier — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:15:15 +0000

Unsubscribing from one Mailchimp subscription doesn't remove you from any other subscriptions...

New comment by ZachSaucier in "European Consumer Organization goes after publishers for their in-game currency"

ZachSaucier — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:43:27 +0000

Most all "real-world" stores offer discounts for buying more things at once. Just think of all of the "buy 2 get the 3rd free" etc. deals. Changing the currency from virtual to "real" does nothing to change that.

Showing the "real" cost should DECREASE the cost because when people see it in terms that they use day to day it feels like it's more expensive, so they are more likely to spend less. This would decrease profits for these video games.

The more likely unintended, if you can call it that, outcome would be that less games are solely free to play, relying exclusively on in-game cosmetic transactions.

New comment by ZachSaucier in "European Consumer Organization goes after publishers for their in-game currency"

ZachSaucier — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:38:14 +0000

I think you missed the joke

New comment by ZachSaucier in "More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents"

ZachSaucier — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 12:55:59 +0000

Also the amount of non-renewable resources used and emissions goes up 7-15x

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing"

ZachSaucier — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:14:32 +0000

Chris now helps run the Frontend Masters blog (called Boost). It's got solid content (some from myself) on there!

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/

Console.delight

ZachSaucier — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:43:38 +0000

Article URL: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/console-delight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504072

Points: 224

# Comments: 31

The AI Stanley Parable is coming

ZachSaucier — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:18:43 +0000

Article URL: https://zachsaucier.com/blog/the-ai-stanley-parable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38682847

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

ZachSaucier — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:49:34 +0000

Reader modes for reading web articles can be really handy for those with HDHD.

I maintain a reader mode called Just Read that is pretty customizable if you're interested: https://justread.link/

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)"

ZachSaucier — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:07:59 +0000

As far as I know, for something like this you can only copyright the specific application. So for example it couldn't be used for social media sites.

New comment by ZachSaucier in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

ZachSaucier — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 22:44:26 +0000

It'd be nice if there was a count of the total # of subscribers across all of the subreddits that have gone dark