Hacker News: joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joelanmanHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 06 May 2026 22:51:47 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"]]>You could play back multiplayer Halo 3 matches in 3D, with a free camera. Was really interesting to see how matches played out, how you got killed and so on, and for taking cool screenshots.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:00:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823991joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823991https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823991<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Designing the Transport Typeface"]]>as used on gov.uk

https://brand.design-system.service.gov.uk/typography/

]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:36:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808453joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808453https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808453<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "An Update on Heroku"]]>https://railway.com is another good one

]]>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:48:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922824joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922824https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922824<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"]]>The regulation is only concerned with cookies that are not required to provide the service. It makes no differentiation between first party and third party - if you use cookies for anything optional (like analytics) you need consent. So you can have third party non-cookie analytics for example without a banner.

]]>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:15:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996458joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996458https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996458<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers"]]>(I worked on this pattern) Our guidance is to accept both names and numbers in the back end so people can enter either. In our testing, text inputs (with a numeric keyboard on mobile) is better than selects. Some people struggle with using selects, we don't see those issues in text inputs. That guidance maybe be about people not knowing the order of the inputs (DD MM YY, MM DD YY) but our pattern is clearly labeled for each input so we don't get that issue.

We did continue our testing which resulted in the pattern in the design system which is linked.

]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:34:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899937joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899937https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899937<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers"]]>For dates people know (say date of birth) just use text inputs

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/date-input/

]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:31:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897718joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897718https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897718<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?"]]>might work out the opposite - 'ah I can do better than that, one more try'

]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:12:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875825joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875825https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875825<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Show HN: Aha Domain Search"]]>ai tab Generate button is disabled for me, regardless of input

]]>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:00:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837822joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837822https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837822<![CDATA['Flutter': The song that saved raves from a government ban]]>Article URL: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/flutter-the-song-that-saved-raves-from-a-government-ban/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629786

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]]>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 22:06:58 +0000https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/flutter-the-song-that-saved-raves-from-a-government-ban/joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629786https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629786<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)"]]>it's true, but these are more fragile than simply having clear link text, especially over time as a site is maintained

]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:59:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445329joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445329https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445329<![CDATA[The UK DVLA API where you can download the entire MOT history of every vehicle]]>Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1967251583931373/

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]]>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000https://www.facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1967251583931373/joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412390https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44412390<![CDATA[Making an LLM/AI web app for Gov.uk prototyping]]>Article URL: https://joelanman.com/posts/llm-ai-prototyping/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050418

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]]>Wed, 21 May 2025 11:46:38 +0000https://joelanman.com/posts/llm-ai-prototyping/joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050418https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050418<![CDATA[Valid use cases for autocomplete=off (2016)]]>Article URL: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647061

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]]>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:02:11 +0000https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647061https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647061<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Things we learned about LLMs in 2024"]]>> if you run the code and get an error you know there's a problem.

well, sometimes - other times it'll be wrong with no error, or insecure, or inaccessible, and so on

]]>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:43:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561248joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561248<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "WP Engine Tracker"]]>Note the downloadable csv of sites that presumably didn't consent to this

]]>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:59:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42075574joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42075574https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42075574<![CDATA[Gov.uk Forms open source on GitHub]]>Article URL: https://github.com/alphagov/forms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42046009

Points: 41

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]]>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:10:57 +0000https://github.com/alphagov/formsjoelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42046009https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42046009<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "HTML Form Validation is underused"]]>exactly. Silently refusing input is an anti-pattern

]]>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:32:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983214joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983214https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983214<![CDATA[A new search engine for Gov.uk]]>Article URL: https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/23/a-new-search-engine-for-gov-uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923919

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]]>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:37:22 +0000https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/23/a-new-search-engine-for-gov-uk/joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923919<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"]]>'transparent' in what sense?

]]>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:27:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915960joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915960https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915960<![CDATA[New comment by joelanman in "World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating"]]>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carrotpop....

]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:50:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41847542joelanmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41847542https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41847542