Hacker News: d3sandoval

New comment by d3sandoval in "Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings"

d3sandoval — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:58:42 +0000

I'm going to use this for user interviews since I have a hard time talking too much during the introduction. Also, stand-ups...

New comment by d3sandoval in "The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces"

d3sandoval — Wed, 25 May 2022 14:27:20 +0000

We have a PHEV from Chevy (the Volt) and it has the best dashboard ever. Knobs for the stuff you want (A/C, Volume, Skip, etc.) And touchscreen for the stuff you don't (GPS, Apple/Android Auto, etc.)

New comment by d3sandoval in "Ask HN: Books for Effective Communication"

d3sandoval — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 01:47:33 +0000

This Technical Communications textbook is one of the best set of instructions and recommendations on how to clearly communicate in written and verbal modes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1319245005/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_...

I always recommend it to researchers and anyone who has to write documents (most folks in tech).

What's new in Svelte: April 2021

d3sandoval — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:11:31 +0000

Article URL: https://svelte.substack.com/p/whats-new-in-svelte-april-2021

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26660034

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by d3sandoval in "Oh Sorry, I was on mute."

d3sandoval — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:26:56 +0000

Just chiming in here as a UX professional to say that design decisions like hiding controls that people obviously need to use the product is 98% of the time a business decision - made by a CEO or anyone far enough away from the product team that they'll disregard any research and overrule the designers because "it just looks better" and their name is on it.

New comment by d3sandoval in "Twitter acquires Revue"

d3sandoval — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:17:12 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. Making automatic alt-text available for those types of posts would go a long way in addressing the accessibility issues that plague image posts on Twitter. Their current UX for adding alt-text is painful and content authors are unlikely to use it... Seems like a great place for automation/OCR

New comment by d3sandoval in "Mozilla Reaction to U.S. vs. Google"

d3sandoval — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:17:17 +0000

That's not true! You can get involved as an individual contributor and become a part of the web standards community. There's even a contribution guide: https://wpc.guide/

New comment by d3sandoval in "Mozilla shares fix for Twitter not working on Firefox"

d3sandoval — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:00:06 +0000

The article does not detail steps on how to disable all service workers, though. It only explains how to unregister the existing twitter service workers. I assume twitter goes and re-registers a new one, once you visit twitter.com again.

What's new in Svelte: September 1, 2020

d3sandoval — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:08:15 +0000

Article URL: https://svelte.substack.com/p/whats-new-in-svelte-september-1-2020

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343320

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by d3sandoval in "First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces"

d3sandoval — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:52:36 +0000

With the release of WSL2 and the new versions of Docker that take advantage of it, I would say that most of the pain around the WSL toolchain has been resolved.

Compared with trying to get anything working in powershell or dealing with the slowness of git bash or Cygwin, WSL2 is a breeze.

The only pain point I still have is running Linux GUI applications. It requires running an XWindow server on the Windows side and letting WSL talk to it over TCP. Apparently MS is working on that now and hopes to have a solution later this year on the slow ring of windows update. That'll make running things like Cypress a hell of a lot easier and (fingers crossed) prevent me from squinting on HiDPI displays.

New comment by d3sandoval in "Firefox Android Build that caused issues is working as intended"

d3sandoval — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:30:01 +0000

For those (like me) who are wondering why their Firefox still looks the same, "If you live in Europe, you’ll find the update available today, August 25, 2020. If you live in the USA, you’ll see the update on the 27th of August, 2020" [1]

[1] https://www.slashgear.com/firefox-daylight-update-revitalize...

New comment by d3sandoval in "Ask HN: What Bookmark Manager (Self Hosting Only) Do You Use?"

d3sandoval — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:41:28 +0000

Wallabag. It's fantastic and I use it daily!

What's new in Svelte: July 1, 2020

d3sandoval — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:04:17 +0000

Article URL: https://svelte.substack.com/p/whats-new-in-svelte-july-1-2020?r=1yus&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=hackernews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23703005

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: I'm starting a Svelte JavaScript newsletter

d3sandoval — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:59:26 +0000

Article URL: https://svelte.substack.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591301

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by d3sandoval in "What does the design team do?"

d3sandoval — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 23:49:47 +0000

This is awesome, Tanner! Thanks for writing it.

One thing I think may be missing from this post is examples on what "include design early and often" and "leverage design for more than UI" looks like.

Some examples–like how design artifacts (like service blueprints, context maps and personas) can help non-design team members contextualize their problem and get to actionable solutions earlier–have helped me in the past make the case for involving designers early and often.

I've often seen how centralized design orgs can get caught in the trap of only getting called when there's "there's some UX to wireframe". Getting ahead of this perception early on in establishing a company's software development culture can do wonders for cross-discipline collaboration!

New comment by d3sandoval in "Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements"

d3sandoval — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:27:38 +0000

This is a great idea but the sentence on the demo / example page really irks me, "cross design off your list and get back to working on the hard stuff"

I think I know what you mean but I can't help but feel like that sentence is denigrating the work of an entire discipline that _also_ works on "hard stuff" like figuring out how to address user need with usable interfaces.

New comment by d3sandoval in "Show HN: Epictopus, a Collaborative Writing Platform"

d3sandoval — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:47:33 +0000

I have a similar app I'm working on called Tome:

- https://tome.cfapps.io

- https://github.com/d3sandoval/tome

Mine is focused on collaborating on Poetry and other Prose. I'm currently working on implementing versioning and sharing features.

This looks like an awesome bit of competition! Is it open source?

New comment by d3sandoval in "I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media"

d3sandoval — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:17:08 +0000

If you really care for each other, they'll find a way. My family has realized that group message are the only way to communicate quickly with one another. I have friends and family with whom I correspond via snail mail. And email bridges the gap between those who prefer digital, but not texting. As others have said, the conversations are more meaningful, even if they are less frequent

Chrome to Deprecate FTP Support

d3sandoval — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 02:44:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6246151319715840

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20711707

Points: 9

# Comments: 10

New comment by d3sandoval in "Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?"

d3sandoval — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:14:10 +0000

You can scroll your thumb along the spacebar to "aim" the cursor on android. I do like the knobs of android better than the zoom-and-select that iPhone does.