Hacker News: joeframbach

New comment by joeframbach in "In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words"

joeframbach — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:15:19 +0000

Most mobile keyboards will do autocorrect as you describe it, and show top-N alternatives when you go back and tap on the autocorrected word. I prefer this to it mocking my mistakes and making me pay penance by manually accepting the correction.

New comment by joeframbach in "MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant"

joeframbach — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:55:13 +0000

Are you _trying_ to get your entire Google account and all its linked accounts banned and nuked at Google's whims when they flag one of your mp3s as being pirated?

New comment by joeframbach in "Multi-stroke text effect in CSS"

joeframbach — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:36:52 +0000

When I modified your fiddle to use the Apple logo and colors, the first ring is eating part of the apple. The top of the apple is cut off. Any idea why that is?

      --c: #5EBD3E,#FFB900,#F78200,#E23838,#973999,#009CDF;
      @content: '';

New comment by joeframbach in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

joeframbach — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:51:49 +0000

Police departments have already moved on from traffic enforcement to civil forfeiture. Like, a decade ago.

New comment by joeframbach in "It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths"

joeframbach — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:13:27 +0000

The "why would you want to do that?" section ought to be the very first paragraph. I spent half the article thinking, who the hell is collapsing `http://` into `http:/` until I had to deduce from context what this article even was about. The article starts in media res.

New comment by joeframbach in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

joeframbach — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:16:46 +0000

> Python has multiple package managers at this point (how many now? 8?). All must implement dependency cooldowns.

No, nobody _has to_ implement it, and if only one did, then users who wanted cooldowns can migrate to that package manager.

New comment by joeframbach in "Replace axios with a simple custom fetch wrapper"

joeframbach — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:17:03 +0000

In the case of authentication redirect, any inflight request is going to fail and you're about to navigate in a few milliseconds, so I don't resolve those promises. Return new Promise(() => {}).

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

joeframbach — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:28:07 +0000

I figured out why it wouldn't work on my machine:

    @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
        *, *::before, *::after {
            animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
            animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
            transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
        }
    }

With reduced-motion enabled (which is basically required in Tahoe :eyeroll:), animations complete immediately and there is no chance to click the salt/water.

New comment by joeframbach in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:21:07 +0000

I've been involved in so many CRs where I've given feedback over 10 revs, then the submitter cancels the CR and files a new one, for the metrics.

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:12:56 +0000

The fact that there is an entire _industry_ of tools to patch every little shortcoming speaks volumes of Apple's usability.

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:50:47 +0000

Nah, I installed karabiner and set up command+q to require a three-second holddown to activate.

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:23:10 +0000

Is this where I can complain about command+q? All day every day I use command+tab/tilde/w/a/s, and smack in the middle of that is command q. It's like if automobile manufacturers decided to put a third pedal between the accelerator and the brake that immediately shuts off your car in the middle of the highway. And you can't disable it, instead you can map it to such helpful things like... invert colors.

New comment by joeframbach in "No one wants to admit the real reason corporations are laying off thousands"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:59:18 +0000

I'm of the opinion that over-hiring was a strategic move to make hiring more expensive for competitors. Look up those popular profit-per-employee lists that circulate now and then. Spending $1 to make hiring $1 more expensive for your competition makes business sense. And even if Bob and Sue and Jim and Alice have redundant roles in the company, that's three competitors who couldn't fill that role. Does Google _really_ need a South Lake Union office location? Probably not, the entire building is likely redundant. But it siphons talent from the neighbors.

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

joeframbach — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:44:19 +0000

See also: Horcrux. https://github.com/jefdaj/horcrux

New comment by joeframbach in "A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study"

joeframbach — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:41:51 +0000

You realize you are responding to a brand new account posting an obviously AI-generated response?

New comment by joeframbach in "A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study"

joeframbach — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:21:46 +0000

Does the browser expose its accessibility tree instead of the raw dom element tree? The accessibility tree should be enough, I mean, it's all that's needed for vision impaired customers, and technically the ai agent _is_ a vision impaired customer. For a fair usage, try the accessibility tree.

New comment by joeframbach in "Bugs Apple loves"

joeframbach — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:49:43 +0000

esc is the dismiss-the-modal-and-lose-all-your-work key.

New comment by joeframbach in "Bugs Apple loves"

joeframbach — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:19:51 +0000

Yes, every time you send a message from an iPhone you MUST append a trailing space, just to be sure it won't fuck up the last word when it sends.

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same"

joeframbach — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:25:33 +0000

This concept is a duplicate :) we already had r9k

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities"

joeframbach — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:12:08 +0000

Please consider improving the color contrast. The text is gray-on-gray and impossible to read.