Hacker News: jacobr

From building websites to playing Bartók, Pope Leo XIV is reimagining the papacy

jacobr — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:57:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-graphic-designer-pope-five-new

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864926

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jacobr in "Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs"

jacobr — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:47:22 +0000

Could the next-gen version control system just store ASTs? Does this already exist?

Every user gets their own preferred formatting, and linters and tools could operate on already-parsed trees

Add PUT, PATCH, and DELETE to form method attribute

jacobr — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:29:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11347

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150389

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jacobr in "HTML Form Validation is underused"

jacobr — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:33:14 +0000

You can even benefit from the default messages if you want that, grabbing `input.validationMessage` and rendering it as you wish.

Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor

jacobr — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:22:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387624

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow

jacobr — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:10:35 +0000

Article URL: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/how-to-downsize-a-transport-network-the-chinese-wheelbarrow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41016222

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Disappearing Polymorph

jacobr — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:30:46 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974054

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jacobr in "I kind of like rebasing"

jacobr — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:27:43 +0000

Any article about rebase is incomplete without the mention of `git commit --fixup fb2f677`. When committing you usually already know which commit you’re “fixing” so you specify that.

Then you run `git rebase -i --autosquash origin/main` instead and the commits are already in the right order.

New comment by jacobr in "VueJS turns 10 years old"

jacobr — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:37:43 +0000

```

const $ = document.querySelector.bind(document);

$('.box').hidden = true;

$('.box').hidden = false;

```

New comment by jacobr in "What's that touchscreen in my room?"

jacobr — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:58:08 +0000

"The concrete description of what is going on here is spread atom-thin across several websites, all of which expect you to know the terminology. Each of these websites provides you with a tiny piece of the puzzle and you are expected to combine it together on your own."

Oh how I unironically love these types of quests.

New comment by jacobr in "The "Cheap" Web"

jacobr — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:01:54 +0000

There's a shift though, just the last couple of years. Today all browsers support native modals with the dialog element, accordions with details/summary, everything but Firefox supports popovers (dropdowns, tooltips, menus, etc) in plain HTML.

I'd honestly love to be a beginner again learning modern HTML and CSS today, it's not bad at all.

Styling with Classy CSS (2006)

jacobr — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:17:09 +0000

Article URL: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Styling_With_Classy_CSS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112443

Points: 123

# Comments: 67

New comment by jacobr in "Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – The barrel file debacle"

jacobr — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:03:28 +0000

It’s built in to VS Code, see editor.foldingImportsByDefault.

Harmony: Accessible UI Color Palette

jacobr — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:04:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1287828769207775946/harmony-accessible-ui-color-palette

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37719792

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jacobr in "Why Tailwind CSS Won"

jacobr — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:23:24 +0000

Yes, the biggest drawback of Tailwind is React. Or specifically, relying on components as the mechanism for style composition.

Death of Garry Hoy

jacobr — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:50:59 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573715

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jacobr in "Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023"

jacobr — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:22:00 +0000

External css files are render blocking, meaning any content after a will not be visible until the css has been loaded.

New comment by jacobr in "Tennis balls serve as decent bicycle tires that don’t easily puncture"

jacobr — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 22:23:55 +0000

Looks a bit like tire inserts - basically foam rings you put inside the tire, common on mountain bikes. I just installed that on my bike, which not only protects my rims but also lets me ride home from the trail with a flat tire. https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/buyers-guides/best-tubeless...

New comment by jacobr in "No Lodash"

jacobr — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 22:30:47 +0000

Because it’s easier to just not use lodash.

React Is Holding Me Hostage – A love and hate relationship

jacobr — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:28:50 +0000

Article URL: https://emnudge.dev/blog/react-hostage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34927972

Points: 2

# Comments: 0