Hacker News: jordanwallwork

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

jordanwallwork — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:46:04 +0000

The terms "board game" and "tabletop game" are considered pretty much interchangable by the vast majority of hobby board gamers, "board game" just tends to be the default. There's no requirement for a board game to have a board. BGG is full of card games, tabletop RPGs, dexterity games like jenga, junk art etc - none of which have boards

New comment by jordanwallwork in "How to draw construction equipment for kids"

jordanwallwork — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:52:12 +0000

I'm at Diggerland right now, watching my 9 year old drive a 8.5T JCB on his own lol. This place is so much fun, I'm glad to have it nearby!

New comment by jordanwallwork in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

jordanwallwork — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:05:07 +0000

Maybe I misread it then. I interpreted it as "not low for the average person, but not that expensive _for someone with greater than average wealth_"

New comment by jordanwallwork in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

jordanwallwork — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:20:25 +0000

I think you misread it. The context was, _not low_ (ie. high) for the average person. For someone with a higher than average wealth however, £5k isn't all that much, especially if it could potentially protect the value of their assets

New comment by jordanwallwork in "A physicist's guide to ice cream"

jordanwallwork — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:25:21 +0000

Or infuse them in the milk/cream and then strain out?

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]"

jordanwallwork — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:23:13 +0000

For most games you _don't_ study a manual for hours. Of course there are some crazy epic games for really hardcore gamers, but rule books for mid-weight game tend to take 5-15 minutes to read through and then you're ready to play, and a lot of people enjoy that time - familiarising yourself with something new, trying to understand what makes it tick. I personally find it an enjoyable ritual. Depending on the quality of the rules / complexity of the game, the first play through might be a bit ropey, but it's usually fine, and after that you're left with something that you can get hours and hours of fun from. Board games are awesome

New comment by jordanwallwork in "An Introduction to CSS-Doodle"

jordanwallwork — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:14:55 +0000

Another consequence of this is that there's no way to share a specific "slide", which is a shame because there's an example about 2/3s of the way down that's really cool but there's no simple way to send anyone straight to it

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Show HN: The Uncolouring Book"

jordanwallwork — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:11:34 +0000

Ctrl+Z for undo would be super helpful here, I kept doing that out of habit and it was annoying to have to go into the corner to click the undo button

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Show HN: The Uncolouring Book"

jordanwallwork — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:10:13 +0000

Is making that button clickable the solution here? Presumably the text is there to inform the user that they proceed by clicking on the arrow in the corner. Letting them proceed by clicking the arrow would just mean they didn't know what to do next, wouldn't it?

I did the same, tried to click it, and had to look around to find what I was actually supposed to click on. Maybe the better solution would be to make it clearer where to find the correct button?

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Ask HN: Fastest way to turn a Jupyter notebook into a website these days?"

jordanwallwork — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:09:21 +0000

From the Jupyter front page itself:

> Voilà helps communicate insights by transforming notebooks into secure, stand-alone web applications that you can customize and share.

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine"

jordanwallwork — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:55:44 +0000

I was shocked to see Stephen Merchant as a co-founder

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?"

jordanwallwork — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:53:15 +0000

Absolutely, just google 'css animated checkboxes' and you'll get a tonne of solutions

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Windows 98 icons are great (2015)"

jordanwallwork — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:53:33 +0000

I guess it would depend on what you're looking to get out of your car.

I only open the door twice - once to get in, once to get out - so a small nuisance like being harder to open wouldn't bother me as it's only a fraction of the time spent engaging with the car. However I have family members with terrible arthiritis who struggle opening car doors anyway, so it'd definitely be a factor for them.

I'm also not typically in a rush when I'm driving, so if the car is a little slower that doesn't bother me as much as whether I'm comfortable and enjoying the drive. Or even if the car was no more comfortable, but just looked better, I might actually feel some pride in it and that would give me a lift and result in an improvement to my mood. If my goal was to get from A-B as fast as possible though, then it absolutely would bother me.

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Replace the “very” in your sentence"

jordanwallwork — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:23:27 +0000

I find it frustrating that you have to click to refresh the result. Why it doesnt't autorefresh after a short period makes no sense to me. I kept typing in words and thinking it was getting no results before realising I had to keep hitting the refresh button

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?"

jordanwallwork — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 08:58:53 +0000

I've noticed that a lot of my daughters friends put on American accents when they're playing; we're in the UK, so presumably they just watch a lot of american tv. I don't think it's particularly alarming though, I wouldn't think to warn someone to 'be careful' of letting their kids watch My Little Pony because they might imitate the accents

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Show HN: SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers"

jordanwallwork — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:44:14 +0000

Took about 4 seconds for me. Still, regardless of load time I found it annoying that that was all that happened

New comment by jordanwallwork in "15.ai"

jordanwallwork — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:46:21 +0000

Just search the source for one of the random texts, they're all just there in an array

New comment by jordanwallwork in "How to pick the least wrong colors"

jordanwallwork — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 10:44:29 +0000

It's worse than that even. The actual color blocks are the same size, the gap is added on, so Safari gets about an 8% "boost" just from having multiple chart elements

New comment by jordanwallwork in "GameBoy Graphics: Tiles, Palettes, and Encoding [video]"

jordanwallwork — Fri, 20 May 2022 09:57:58 +0000

I agree, some interesting info there but I struggled with the delivery

New comment by jordanwallwork in "Coloring computers: non-electronic computers that work when you color them"

jordanwallwork — Mon, 16 May 2022 08:00:38 +0000

I think that's correct. If I were to do it for my kids I'd probably whip through and colour in the squares and circles beforehand to make it simpler for them