<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: greggturkington</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=greggturkington</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:20:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=greggturkington" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "Browse the web like its 1999"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you link to this please? Intuitively it seems every Core Web Vital would be improved by less code.<p>I found this post [1] but it seems a but outdated and references AMP, which Core Web Vital metrics are supposed to replace (right?).<p><a href="https://danluu.com/web-bloat/" rel="nofollow">https://danluu.com/web-bloat/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29737220</link><dc:creator>greggturkington</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29737220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29737220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "Truth Social broke software rules, says copyleft group"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only ~60% of eligible US voters voted in 2016 and 2020, Trump lost the popular vote both times, "half of the country" did not vote for him.</p>
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<p>Not gone, but that's the direction we're heading (hopefully).<p>> it may currently still be best to use a framework or library to present these, or to use a custom input of your own. Another option is to use separate date and time inputs, each of which is more widely supported than datetime-local<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime-local" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:31:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803168</link><dc:creator>greggturkington</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "Is Ford about to reinvent the bicycle derailleur?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair gripes, although bikes have "dealerships" too that will typically help you select and maintain your steed.<p>The problem with lighted turn signals is that motorists don't expect them, and don't look for them. Pointing with your hand and head are just more safe and effective.<p>> how the bike should be totally custom<p>Ignore them. It should be what suits you, what makes you feel comfortable and safe when you ride.<p>> Why don't more people bike?<p>There's also not a lot of infrastructure outside of major cities (in the US). Unsafe for cyclists, annoying (at best) for motorists.<p>> the entire biking community, culture<p>Let's not paint too broadly, there are plenty of elitists, but big parts of the cycling community are inclusive; community rides, community maintenance co-ops, things like that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:17:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28790149</link><dc:creator>greggturkington</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28790149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28790149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "Is Ford about to reinvent the bicycle derailleur?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One drawback being how easy today's derailleurs are to adjust and tune with simple tools. Run the cable, set the High, set the Low, and you're done.<p>> the Ford derailleur appears to be aimed at the e-bike market<p>...and possibly pros? They mention Di2 in here, I don't know anyone (outside of Freds) that are riding Dura-Ace-level grouppos that actually do their own maintenance, so this probably won't be targeted to enthusiasts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28789995</link><dc:creator>greggturkington</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28789995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28789995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "Refined Hacker News"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you understand what a "class" is in HTML? Do you understand that the class "commtext" doesn't appear anywhere in the source code for HN? The comment colors are controlled by classes like "c00" etc. Chrome has a tool called "DevTools" you can use that will show you. Here's the CSS for this site: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css</a><p>Again, <i>you</i> don't understand it, but want to tell everyone else how easy it is...<p>> not respecting the guidelines is fine for me<p>in contrast I think everyone should be able to use the web, that it should be accessible. This isn't important to you, but sometimes you have to think about other people with a limited set of abilities in a compassionate way. The GP mentions "bad design" and I mentioned an objective measure: text that can't be read by someone without <i>writing code</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:06:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688897</link><dc:creator>greggturkington</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "Refined Hacker News"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The rule is commtext { color: black; }<p>No it's not, it's more complicated: <a href="https://pastebin.com/aMYiGr05" rel="nofollow">https://pastebin.com/aMYiGr05</a> (and there's no "commtext" class). So it's literally harder than you think, and you're presumably a developer. So how about the average user?<p>> It explains why it still is though.<p>Um, ok? And the building only has stairs because the architect didn't consider the needs of people that use assistive devices like wheelchairs. What's your point? "Why?" was not in question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:35:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688283</link><dc:creator>greggturkington</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "Refined Hacker News"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, a custom CSS theme is easy to make, for web developers. <a href="https://pastebin.com/aMYiGr05" rel="nofollow">https://pastebin.com/aMYiGr05</a><p>It's not for my friend, who's a contractor. He finds working with concrete to be easy though. I don't.<p>Being inaccessible <i>on purpose</i> doesn't change the fact that it's inaccessible.</p>
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<p>Agreed, it's not accessible; if you write your <i>own</i> accessible theme, it will have an accessible theme.<p>Your apartment building doesn't have a wheelchair ramp? That's on purpose. If you don't agree with it it's trivial to buy a bag of concrete and build one.</p>
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<p>Reddit had large, high-contrast text and tap targets. Downvoted comments did not have their color contrast reduced. If we're getting specific, HN does not look that similar.</p>
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<p>There's "bad design" (subjective) then there's "fails to meet accessibility standards" (objective). HN would not pass WCAG 2.0 AA for a large number of reasons. Tap targets and illegible text being big ones.<p>It doesn't matter if you can zoom into text when downvoted comments have so little contrast with the background (#ddd over #f6f6ef). The "<i>X</i> minutes ago", "hide", "edit" comment header links even fail without zooming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:04:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686860</link><dc:creator>greggturkington</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "What if there were no ad blockers?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is known as "cognitive accessibility" and often neglected. MDN has a good writeup on it and mentions ADHD specifically.<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/Cognitive_accessibility" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/C...</a></p>
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<p>To be fair it was partially related to a bug in Chromium, and was fixed in 2017<p><a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:41:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28558044</link><dc:creator>greggturkington</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28558044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28558044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greggturkington in "A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm searching for information on "dog".<p>Your suggestion of "dog facts" returns 6 pages from the same domain, dogquotes.com. It's unreadable on mobile because it's so old, all the facts are unsourced, and often wrong:<p>> Never assume that a barking dog won't bute <i>[sic]</i>, unless you're absolutely certain the dog believes it too.<p>Also on the 1st SERP, this odd blog post ranting about 4th amendment rights [1], "Media Glamorization of the Psychopath" [2], and this (image-heavy) page about dolphin encounters in the Bahamas ("Sea Dog Facts" is a link on the page).<p><pre><code>    1. http://www.rexcurry.net/drugdogsdan.html
    2. https://www.metaphoricalplatypus.com/articles/psychology/psychopathysociopathy/media-glamorization-of-the-psychopath/
    3. https://www.dolphinencounters.com/education/</code></pre></p>
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<p>What "fundamental redeeming quality" about uninstalling AIM from Windows 3.x motivated making that the 3rd result for "dog"?<p>The 5th result is a tutorial on CSS. This search engine decided it's relevant because it has "dog" in the URL. Is that a better reasoning than Google's? <a href="https://htmldog.com/guides/css/beginner/" rel="nofollow">https://htmldog.com/guides/css/beginner/</a><p>Core Web Vitals ranks sites higher that perform well. Text-heavy sites that are also optimized and relevant would already perform well.</p>
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<p>Wouldn't this just skew towards really old sites?<p>The <i>third</i> search result for "dog" is this page on how to remove AOL Instant Messenger, published in 2002.<p><a href="https://sillydog.org/netscape/kb/removeaim.html" rel="nofollow">https://sillydog.org/netscape/kb/removeaim.html</a><p>No one wants to see newsletter signup popovers, but "modern web design" includes good performance and relevant content. (The search engine itself takes about 2 seconds to first contentful paint, not great.)</p>
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<p>I write CSS everyday and I had no idea what "fs" meant.<p>"fz" is the typical shorthand used for font-size (at least by Emmet-style autocompleters). "fs" is used for font-style instead.</p>
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<p>Can you believe a new iPhone 5 only included a 5W USB-A  power adapter?!<p>Compare that with an iPhone 10 5 years later, which came with a beefy 5W USB-A power adapter.</p>
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<p>And they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.<p>This being a perfect example. Jedberg never heard of Spotify using Scrum "for 10 years" but they'd been using it the whole time, as confirmed by jedberg.</p>
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<p>> Spotify uses agile and some of the teams use Scrum<p>Wait, that contradicts what you just said. Your friend that works there hasn't mentioned Scrum in 10 years!<p>Thanks for confirming that there are teams at Apple using Scrum, like I said. Dev teams at Apple are pretty insular, I'm surprised your friend knows about what every team is doing! Hopefully we can trust them more than your friend who was wrong about Spotify.</p>
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