Hacker News: jsejcksn

New comment by jsejcksn in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

jsejcksn — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:36:58 +0000

Ryan: The style of your blog is easy to read except for the pixelated monospace font. Thanks for sharing this post!

New comment by jsejcksn in "We rendered and embedded one million CAD files"

jsejcksn — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:30:18 +0000

When I search for "duck shaped trampoline", I see mostly fidget spinners…

New comment by jsejcksn in "An exploration of playing three generations of windows games on macOS"

jsejcksn — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:55:40 +0000

I presume this has already been happening for some time

New comment by jsejcksn in "Building a better online editor for TypeScript"

jsejcksn — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:32:28 +0000

The title doesn't make it clear that it's actually about TypeScript plus Deno-specific syntax — and Deno's LSP doesn't run in a worker [1].

[1]: https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno/issues/515

New comment by jsejcksn in "Aglet: A game about tying knots"

jsejcksn — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:27:11 +0000

The developer also posted a short video in which he explains how some of the game’s concepts were implemented: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NeXDCGQ77rI

Aglet: A game about tying knots

jsejcksn — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:27:11 +0000

Article URL: https://galactical.itch.io/aglet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898467

Points: 1

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New comment by jsejcksn in "XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again"

jsejcksn — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:08:21 +0000

Google’s past use of XMPP in an older iteration of its integrated Chat product (it was called Google Talk back then) is what first put this technology on my radar. In recent years I’ve been using Matrix instead — which has been covered often on HN [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=matrix.org

New comment by jsejcksn in "Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck"

jsejcksn — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:39:34 +0000

Is there a public API (or a plan for one)? I'd be interested to see each WOTD in my custom new tab page.

New comment by jsejcksn in "Show HN: Counting Tap Toy"

jsejcksn — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 20:13:11 +0000

Consider adding a configurable setting that skips "14" when counting in order to memorialize the cited reason for your effort. It might also help others empathize with your child. :)

New comment by jsejcksn in "The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019)"

jsejcksn — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:56:38 +0000

Paragraph five:

> This post can be thought of as an introduction to a really interesting problem space, and as a resource for people interesting in making use of some aspects of Vector Networks for future applications. I hope it succeeds in providing value to both developers being introduced to new concepts and ideas, and to designers interesting in learning more about the tool they know and love.

New comment by jsejcksn in "Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum"

jsejcksn — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:04:56 +0000

> When I star a repo I don't get notified when anyone opens a new issue.

You can customize your repository notifications in a granular way, including subscribing to issues (Watch > Custom > Issues), discussions, releases, etc.

This is the primary method I use to track OSS releases. More in the GitHub docs:

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subs...

New comment by jsejcksn in "Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing"

jsejcksn — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:53:25 +0000

Image capture isn't the only fingerprinting technique: there are much simpler signals like patterns related to content navigation (just one example: tap vs swipe for advancing paginated content), and the combination of such signals can create a strong fingerprint

New comment by jsejcksn in "Using Super Glue"

jsejcksn — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:05:36 +0000

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/hands-stuck-laptop-computer-...

Mirror: https://imgur.com/sdexq42

New comment by jsejcksn in "Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?"

jsejcksn — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:16:19 +0000

A blog might also simply be a contribution to readers — distilling insights which required considerably more time to acquire than might be spent consuming their documentation.

New comment by jsejcksn in "Manage like an engineer"

jsejcksn — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:35:41 +0000

Ben’s continuous mantra of observability has resonated strongly with me. I have learned so much more from researching and reflecting on the indexed artifacts of others’ public discourse than from any ephemeral meeting.

New comment by jsejcksn in "A curated directory of 700 Mac menu bar apps"

jsejcksn — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:43:46 +0000

It's nice to see aggregation and curation efforts like this!

It would be useful if the site offered a more compact view and an option for more items per page or "infinite scrolling" (the loading of more results after scrolling past a threshold). Within experiences like these where browsing is the primary mechanism of discovery, it's a positive UX feature to decrease the need for repeatedly clicking/tapping/etc. in order to continue to browse.

New comment by jsejcksn in "Show HN: CodeLink: create links to blocks of code in your IDE"

jsejcksn — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 02:08:46 +0000

Is Slack the only integration? How about support for other platforms? (e.g. Discord is more popular than Slack) Will you support standardized formats like oembed (https://oembed.com/) so that any platform/service which supports such a format can render the code?