Hacker News: bnorton

New comment by bnorton in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

bnorton — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:22:25 +0000

You’re closer to this than I am but do you find it odd that helmets are almost never included? Biking is almost always accompanied by helmets

New comment by bnorton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)"

bnorton — Thu, 02 May 2024 05:27:11 +0000

Chameleon | Fullstack Engineer (Ruby) | Remote before it was cool | $120k - $180k | Full-time | https://chameleon.io Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never really wanted to?! with Chameleon, the Product team can WYSIWYG those into your application with just a few clicks.

We're a great, growing team looking to hire a Frontend and Fullstack Engineer to complement our existing expertise. If you're in the Americas, take a look at the role description and see if you'd be a good fit

Fullstack: https://trychameleon.notion.site/Fullstack-Engineer-be6a2017...

New comment by bnorton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)"

bnorton — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:21:12 +0000

Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never really wanted to?! with Chameleon, the Product team can WYSIWYG those into your application with just a few clicks.

Fullstack: https://trychameleon.notion.site/Fullstack-Engineer-be6a2017... Frontend: https://trychameleon.notion.site/Frontend-Engineer-2665cd449...

New comment by bnorton in "Show HN: I built an alternative to product tours"

bnorton — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:40:22 +0000

i can only see the screenshot for "Example 1"

New comment by bnorton in "Show HN: I built an alternative to product tours"

bnorton — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:34:47 +0000

How you do you solve for, or imagine solving for the hiding of potentially important UI without running to risk users not finding what they are looking for and not realizing it is "just hidden". Without having to first know that they are missing something, how will they know? Is there a partial-hide?

New comment by bnorton in "Show HN: I built an alternative to product tours"

bnorton — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:30:14 +0000

yes and now it looks like you need a product tour

New comment by bnorton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)"

bnorton — Tue, 04 May 2021 04:33:07 +0000

Chameleon | Frontend Engineer (React) | Remote before it was cool | Full-time | https://trychameleon.com

Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never really wanted to?! with Chameleon, the Product team can WYSIWYG those into your application with just a few clicks.

We're a great, growing team looking to hire 2 Frontend Engineers to complement our existing expertise. Take a look at the role description and see if you'd be a good fit!

https://www.notion.so/trychameleon/e38d308f67f641e8aaa0e4f68...

New comment by bnorton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)"

bnorton — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 04:49:27 +0000

Chameleon | Full Stack Rails Engineer + React | Remote before it was cool | Full-time | https://trychameleon.com

Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never really wanted to?! with Chameleon, the Product team can WYSIWYG those into your application with just a few clicks.

We're a great, growing team looking to hire 2 Full Stack Engineers to complement our existing expertise. Take a look at the role description and see if you'd be a good fit!

https://www.notion.so/trychameleon/Work-with-us-at-Chameleon...

New comment by bnorton in "In 2000, Blockbuster with 7700 stores declined to buy Netflix for $50M"

bnorton — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 05:27:14 +0000

Netflix would have not become Netflix if Blockbuster had purchased them. This notion of a missed opportunity is flawed

New comment by bnorton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)"

bnorton — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:46:35 +0000

Client side JS is Backbone + HTMLbars Node.js Rails AWS Lambda MongoDB & Postgres

We have some interesting requirements that we must conform to in order to be part of our customer's web applications. We'd love to explore those constraints and benefits with you.. Brian - co-founder @ Chameleon

New comment by bnorton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)"

bnorton — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:18:54 +0000

We've all built and [not] maintained product tours, now its time to pass the torch to our business compatriots. Chameleon enables them to show off the product without developers as the linchpin for the whims of late-night copy changes.

We've built a product that runs wholly inside another companies interface allowing them to create and edit right where it matters (engineering wise there are many challenges this presents).

Our engineering motto: If product can think it up, we can built it -- all product needs to do is figure out what is most important ;)

Backbone Mixpanel - Log all Backbone.View#events to Mixpanel

bnorton — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:55:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bnorton/backbone-mixpanel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381949

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bnorton in "#tap_if - a new type of conditional for Ruby"

bnorton — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:25:50 +0000

the magic is here: https://github.com/bnorton/tap_if/blob/master/lib/tap_if.rb

New comment by bnorton in "#tap_if - a new type of conditional for Ruby"

bnorton — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:24:07 +0000

Instead of assigning a variable or bloating the length of your statements, use this method to to return the caller and only execute the block if the condition passes.

User.where(:email => email).first.tap_if(:present?) {|user| user.send_update }

#tap_if - a new type of conditional for Ruby

bnorton — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:21:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bnorton/tap_if

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5111142

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by bnorton in "Sprite Cow: Generate CSS for sprite sheets"

bnorton — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:21:04 +0000

multiple file uploads. :)

New comment by bnorton in "Oracle Acquires Involver"

bnorton — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:45:38 +0000

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/involver/ind...

New comment by bnorton in "Everyone should be using low level caching in Rails"

bnorton — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:43:47 +0000

This is good information, but could you explain why you think that everyone should use caching? You don't mention testing in this article so is it safe to say that you don't? Do you have performance tests that show that the caching actualy matters for you application workload?

New comment by bnorton in "Why are pages intentionally left blank?"

bnorton — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:46:06 +0000

what is paper?

New comment by bnorton in "Integration testing Backbone.js"

bnorton — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:39:30 +0000

http://blog.involver.com/2012/01/26/testing-backbone-js-best...