Hacker News: hellojason

New comment by hellojason in "Project Blinkenlights"

hellojason — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:25:36 +0000

Haha yep, first thing I thought of as well.

New comment by hellojason in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

hellojason — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:06:34 +0000

Apologies to parent. This reply was intended for a separate thread.

New comment by hellojason in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

hellojason — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:51:55 +0000

Funny. My read on that language was this person has absolutely no idea what a truly robust and scalable design system and component library actually are, particularly within the scope of a successful business. Well built ones serve every facet of the organization, not just the product.

New comment by hellojason in "Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments"

hellojason — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:33:41 +0000

I was surprised to learn about credit card automatic updater services, which ”conveniently” don’t allow a card to expire with merchants.

https://lifehacker.com/heres-why-everyone-already-has-your-n...

New comment by hellojason in "Show HN: Donobu – Mac App for Web Automation and Testing"

hellojason — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:21:34 +0000

I ran into this issue before when building a magic link system. Seems Microsoft visits the link to check for risks, which in turn nullifies that link before it hits your inbox. Fun times.

New comment by hellojason in "Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design"

hellojason — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:55:21 +0000

Qualitative research is finicky like that. What I’ve seen happen more often is a user is frustrated yet professional enough in some moment to actually provide useful feedback, but they bail when the survey has one too many questions. UXR teams like to organize questions and answers into nice little spreadsheets that ladder back to KPIs, but that’s not how an emotional person with honest criticism wants to share it. So they bail and you lose that moment. I like to do stars or thumb up/down as a pulse check, then a textbox to spill your guts. More work for me, but useful results more often.

New comment by hellojason in "Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design"

hellojason — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:51:05 +0000

It’s called user research

New comment by hellojason in "Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately?"

hellojason — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:56:32 +0000

I believe WordPress choosing React as its frontend framework of choice further solidified this point.

New comment by hellojason in "BlinderKitten: Free lighting software"

hellojason — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 01:08:32 +0000

No SSL certificate on the site, so here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/norbertrostaing/BlinderKitten/

New comment by hellojason in "Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking"

hellojason — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 13:08:04 +0000

Seconding this. I use Brave strictly as my YouTube viewer.

New comment by hellojason in "Show HN: Veonid – Create a personal website for free"

hellojason — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 15:21:08 +0000

Congrats on the launch, it’s hard work getting to this point. But as others have pointed out, this feels like a solution in search of a problem. The value props just aren’t there to start recommending this service to my family and friends, when more mature and trusted solutions already exist.

New comment by hellojason in "Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking"

hellojason — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:09:51 +0000

Brave browser blocks YouTube ads out-the-box with no additional extensions or configuring. I use Brave explicitly for YouTube.

New comment by hellojason in "I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own"

hellojason — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:51:26 +0000

I think they were trying to convey the idea that not all very qualified candidates would even consider a contract-to-hire option. I know I wouldn't. That’s an unnecessary risk for me to take.

New comment by hellojason in "National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean"

hellojason — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 12:33:33 +0000

Have you heard about Pluto yet? My very eager mother just served us nachos.

New comment by hellojason in "Little Free Library"

hellojason — Fri, 07 May 2021 21:26:56 +0000

We bought one a few weeks ago and have been assembling and painting on weekends. Fun little project and looking forward to installing it. There are a few in the greater neighborhood already and they get a lot of use.

New comment by hellojason in "Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?"

hellojason — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:11:19 +0000

Oh right, good point. The repo had to be public until very recently.

New comment by hellojason in "Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?"

hellojason — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 03:21:18 +0000

I have to agree with parent. I've had a custom domain without Jekyll on GitHub pages for well over 5 years now, and it's been free the entire time.

New comment by hellojason in "Launch HN: Corrily (YC W21) – Price Optimization for SaaS"

hellojason — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:22:25 +0000

I’m curious of the legalities of price testing. VWO suggests [0] never offering the “exact same product” at a different price for legal reasons. Your service doesn’t appear to change plan benefits or names, only prices.

[0] https://vwo.com/blog/ab-testing-price-testing/

New comment by hellojason in "Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod"

hellojason — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:06:16 +0000

I suggest an Evoluent[0] mouse if you’ve never tried one. I use the Vertical Mouse 4 wired edition.

[0] https://evoluent.com/

New comment by hellojason in "Switching to Windows"

hellojason — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:44:31 +0000

Avid Windows user here. I had to explain myself so many times to coworkers that I wrote this list [0] to point out differences that users may not be aware of. This list is 4 years old a this point, so a few of the items are no longer true, but overall it still holds water.

I've been forced to use Mac for work for several years now, and I still feel jailed in my productivity compared to Windows. The biggest, most crucial difference that Mac users don't seem to know they're missing is how every single Windows dialog box acts like a complete version of Windows Explorer. The Mac's save and open dialog boxes are absolutely infuriating. Also, why can't I just create a markdown file in a folder, double click it so it opens in vscode, then start typing? Window management on Mac is nonexistent, how come window snapping isn't a native feature? Mission Control is like playing hide-and-seek, not managing windows.

[0] https://hellojason.net/blog/nitpicky-differences-between-win...