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New comment by aubergene in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

aubergene — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:27:48 +0000

This seems more to do with how JSON works than Temporal. There are libraries such as Devalue which will handle this for you

`devalue.parse(devalue.stringify(Temporal.PlainYearMonth.from({year:2026,month:1}))).subtract({ years: 1})`

https://www.npmjs.com/package/devalue

New comment by aubergene in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

aubergene — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:42:08 +0000

Just to add Svelte (`pnpm create vite -t svelte-ts`) ~8KB

  dist/index.html                  0.46 kB │ gzip: 0.30 kB
  dist/assets/index-yJpzg09Q.css   1.26 kB │ gzip: 0.63 kB
  dist/assets/index-CxtJFQC8.js   17.91 kB │ gzip: 7.72 kB

New comment by aubergene in "It’s time to leave the leap second in the past"

aubergene — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:09:18 +0000

Whoever made that first line chart should have used step interpolation. There is no point in time when none integer amounts of seconds have been added, but it gives the impression it's been smeared over the whole year

New comment by aubergene in "Americans are drowning in spam"

aubergene — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:18:14 +0000

When I moved from the UK to USA it was the same in reverse. I had just got a new phone and number and immediately started getting spam calls and texts. I asked my colleagues how I could report or block these and they didn't really have an answer. OFCOM in the UK largely deals with spam and when I've had spam it's usually been that it comes from outside the UK but will still eventually get blocked

New comment by aubergene in "Open source “split-flap” mechanical display"

aubergene — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:43:40 +0000

The contrast is very high, so easy to read in bright sunlight

New comment by aubergene in "Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can"

aubergene — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:13:21 +0000

perhaps internal reflection within the beer can

New comment by aubergene in "Reviving Sandstorm"

aubergene — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:34:07 +0000

How does Sandstorm compare with Freedombox

https://freedombox.org/

New comment by aubergene in "Old CSS, New CSS"

aubergene — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:53:44 +0000

I used to write XHTML and found that if you server it with the mime type application/xhtml+xml then the browser will validate it, which can be a problem if you can't reliably output valid XML

New comment by aubergene in "Bacterial cells are small 'eyeballs', scientists discover"

aubergene — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:25:11 +0000

The diagram showing the DSLR with the image the right way up as opposed to the eyes, is misleading as the camera is also captured upside down and then flipped in software.

New comment by aubergene in "Swift Style Guide by GitHub"

aubergene — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:10:41 +0000

I agree, particularly with Elastic Tabstops

http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

New comment by aubergene in "A game made with CSS/HTML only"

aubergene — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:28:13 +0000

Do you know if this intentional behaviour in Chrome? it can be annoying for some types of interaction, any good workarounds?

New comment by aubergene in "52 Places to Go in 2016"

aubergene — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:06:40 +0000

The image for Phnom Penh has some terrible compression artifacts, the other images and videos are beautiful and worth the bandwidth

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/11/10/places-...

New comment by aubergene in "A size 8 dress today is nearly the equivalent of a size 16 dress in 1958"

aubergene — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:57:55 +0000

See this great interactive, What Size Am I?, by Anna Powell-Smith

http://sizes.darkgreener.com/

New comment by aubergene in "Legends in D3"

aubergene — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:36:41 +0000

Looks very good.

For the size legend, the defaults are a bit odd. You should almost always be using d3.scale.sqrt() as you're comparing area, also zero in the domain should usually map to zero on the range.

I made a similar legend for circle areas, but they are stacked within each other. http://bl.ocks.org/aubergene/4723857

New comment by aubergene in "Life paint"

aubergene — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:15:49 +0000

Side note, but this would be great for some creative graffiti uses

New comment by aubergene in "Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates"

aubergene — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:25:43 +0000

So many acronyms, this page could certainly benefit from using the tag to explain, or link off to a definition of what they stand for.

New comment by aubergene in "Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war"

aubergene — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 23:06:53 +0000

I was given a Firefox OS phone at Mozfest last year. I lost my other phone earlier this year and so used it exclusively for four weeks. I'm sorry to say it's pretty terrible at this stage. I was using v2 of Firefox OS.

The problems are broadly that it was slow, unreliable and poorly designed. It would just become completely unresponsive a couple of times a week, requiring the battery to be removed to restart. There are very few well known apps. Twitter seems to be the only one, and it was so slow for scrolling that I gave up using it. The included apps were just placeholders to install apps, almost all of them only worked online. I wouldn't recommend getting one to anybody. I'm sure you could buy a cheap secondhand Android and have a better experience. It was worse than Android 1.6.

There's such a huge mountain of work for the Mozilla developers to get this to be in anyway competitive to Android. I think Mozilla would be better to concentrate their resources elsewhere.

New comment by aubergene in "Heroku DX: The New Heroku Developer Experience"

aubergene — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:24:25 +0000

I've been considering using CartoDB to replace Heroku. I only use basic geo stuff and their maps would be handy. The specs don't really tell you want you get for you money, there's a $29 which might be ok. http://cartodb.com/pricing/

New comment by aubergene in "How a new HTML element will make the Web faster"

aubergene — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:21:30 +0000

There's no syntactic difference between an attribute, an object and an array.

New comment by aubergene in "How a new HTML element will make the Web faster"

aubergene — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:19:22 +0000

That isn't well formed, you're missing two .

I dislike XML, the confusion between attributes and sub elements is one of the worst bits.