Hacker News: jollyjerry

What Is Date:Italy?

jollyjerry — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:31:35 +0000

Article URL: http://aesthetikx.info/blog/date_italy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162157

Points: 121

# Comments: 51

Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)

jollyjerry — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:02:01 +0000

Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/hand-drawn-qr-codes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017907

Points: 231

# Comments: 45

New comment by jollyjerry in "I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?"

jollyjerry — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:54:26 +0000

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/

My last use case for it was selling a car and giving away some free stuff. Sadly, those have been replaced by fb marketplace.

New comment by jollyjerry in "I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?"

jollyjerry — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:52:53 +0000

Love rockauto, in the same vein, but not used daily is https://www.mcmaster.com/

New comment by jollyjerry in "The MacBook Neo"

jollyjerry — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:47:46 +0000

This won’t happen, but I would love an Apple implementation of the Samsung Dex - phone soc that can dock into a laptop or desktop enclosure.

Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)

jollyjerry — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:05:08 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-91w-digital-watch-892bd519bd15

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489232

Points: 221

# Comments: 57

New comment by jollyjerry in "Nook Browser"

jollyjerry — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:38:17 +0000

Lot of nostalgia today. This brings me back to compiling Camino, a gecko based browser, on my iBook G4.

New comment by jollyjerry in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

jollyjerry — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:32:21 +0000

I used to have a floppy and a mini-cd boot version of these. The mini-cd looks like a credit card and fit into a standard size cd drive. Reading the history of the project is a bit of a bummer, but still love the project ethos.

New comment by jollyjerry in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

jollyjerry — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:15:50 +0000

Correct and performant way to calculate historical value of a portfolio. I want a pure function, but taking a date as input is insufficient because users can edit holdings, and securities can split.

Weighing the tradeoffs of doing this calculation server or client side. That'll be an architecture shift away from my current set of background jobs fetching state and towards something more functional and on-demand.

https://jch.app

New comment by jollyjerry in "Google Finance Beta"

jollyjerry — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:52:46 +0000

I was just chatting with a friend how it hadn't changed in years, but there's a new beta when I opened it up.

- dark mode

- 3-column responsive layout, interesting it hides the watchlist

- like the view transitions for expanding content

- improved charting

- removed portfolio and holdings. Likely unpopular, but I thought it was a good way to track investments across banks without a 3rd party aggregator

Google Finance Beta

jollyjerry — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:29:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/finance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45666680

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jollyjerry in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

jollyjerry — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:52:36 +0000

I like reading to my kids and try to read to them in English and Mandarin. My Chinese is conversational, but I have a hard time finding books for them because I’m not good at writing. Something like this with language learning tools would be awesome.

I also like making up stories when we go on hikes. Long, rambling stories about unicorns befriending spiders and flying to faraway lands.

New comment by jollyjerry in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

jollyjerry — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:35:54 +0000

Like the layout tiles you have for the photo thumbnails. Will dig through and learn some css. Have struggled with different size content to create a compact masonry layout.

New comment by jollyjerry in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

jollyjerry — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:32:42 +0000

Living in hongkong for a few months, and absolutely love exploring the different neighborhoods. I’d love something like this or walkscore but for local guides to contribute.

New comment by jollyjerry in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

jollyjerry — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:31:21 +0000

Radio is so much fun to learn. It’s liberating to learn for curiosity and joy rather than commercialization. The community is welcoming, and while not directly translatable for most paid work, it does teach general problem solving skills.

New comment by jollyjerry in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

jollyjerry — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:26:25 +0000

Financial independence tracker. https://jch.app

Redesigning investment holdings for wider screens and leaning on hotwired turbo frames. Thankful for once-campfire as a reference for how to structure the backend. The lazy loading attribute works great with css media queries to display more on larger viewports.

Enjoying learning modern css in general. App uses tailwind, but did experiment with just css on the homepage. Letting the design emerge organically from using it daily, prototype with tailwind, then slim it back down with plain css.

Quiet, but Discoverable

jollyjerry — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:38:00 +0000

Article URL: https://jch.github.io/posts/2025-10-07-notifications-quiet-default.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511449

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jollyjerry in "Show HN: Lost $500 because I couldn't find a receipt – built SlipCrate"

jollyjerry — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:12:32 +0000

From a PWA, I'd prefer a push notification, but you'd get a different answer from each person you ask.

New comment by jollyjerry in "Show HN: Lost $500 because I couldn't find a receipt – built SlipCrate"

jollyjerry — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:47:21 +0000

Looks good! Appreciate that it’s a pwa instead of an app because it’d be something I use rarely. My issue isnt with the app, it’s that I’d have to remember to upload a receipt and also to find it in this app if I needed it again.

New comment by jollyjerry in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

jollyjerry — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:03:48 +0000

3 years. Left work because I felt comfortable with finances and family life, but wanted to try something different. It’s been fun working on personal projects and sharpening old tools. Still figuring out what I want to do long term. Some ideas include becoming a CFP because I like helping people with their finances, working for a tech company in that domain, or expanding the personal project (jch.app) and building more community.

In a good headspace now, right after the first year was feeling lost on where to go next.