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

jtha — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:14:11 +0000

https://monofocus.lovable.app/

Yup, it's another task manager.

I made it for myself to help me focus on one task at a time, hence the name.

It implements my number one productivity hack of picking a task and setting a timer. Time spent on a task increments.

Data is stored locally in the browser although there is a sync option i wouldn't shake a stick at if I hadn't built this myself.

Plus it's a PWA! Those are lovely.

Nvidia Timeline in Pure HTML

jtha — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:36:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nvidia.com/content/timeline/time_93.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645033

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jtha in "Victorian Glass Fire Grenades (2020)"

jtha — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:54:19 +0000

Ah yes, the good old days.

New comment by jtha in "Everything will be alright in Iceland"

jtha — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:33:23 +0000

That would be the infamous Icelandic verb of "nenna". It's used as such "Ég nenni þessu ekki", which translates roughly to "I don't feel like it" or "I don't want to".

But we have a word for both want and feel like, but they're different from "nenna". In some ways a better translation would be "I can't be bothered to".

The word is somewhat socially acceptable as an excuse not to do something.

"Þetta reddast" and "Ég nenni þessu ekki" are words many of us Icelanders live by.

New comment by jtha in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

jtha — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:59:29 +0000

If you're talking about European banks they all have APIs. But only licensed companies can use them directly. Those companies are called AISPs within the PSD2 framework, sometimes referred to as aggregators. Some of them have ways for individuals to access their own accounts at banks via the AISP APIs. But there are limitations, one major one being that PSD2 doesn't cover credit card data or anything other than deposit accounts. [I'm a product manager at a bank]

New comment by jtha in "Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library"

jtha — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:13:37 +0000

I've been using a simple home-made Autohotkey script for years (decade?) to do it more like rmcd is doing.

Here's an example for opening Chrome or switching to it if it's open. If there is more than one Chrome window open it cycles between them by minimizing the current one, then opening the next one etc.

SetTitleMatchMode, 2

#c::

IfWinExist, Google Chrome

  IfWinActive

    WinMinimize

  else

    Winactivate

  else

    run,"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

return

New comment by jtha in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

jtha — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:17:55 +0000

Is it a platform to connect providers and customers? What's the business model?

New comment by jtha in "Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free"

jtha — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:51:22 +0000

Did not know that!

You just saved me $5 per month. Happy holidays.

New comment by jtha in "Ask HN: I achieved my dream of being a self-taught dev. I hate it. Now what?"

jtha — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:44:18 +0000

Have you thought about product management?

The coding experience cam help, and it provides more opportunities for being around people.

Short vs. Long-Form Articles

jtha — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:48:26 +0000

Article URL: https://johannesthor.medium.com/short-vs-long-form-articles-6d5cf85b39cb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25374932

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Are Banks Dying?

jtha — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:35:27 +0000

Article URL: https://fintechconfidential.substack.com/p/are-banks-dying

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25073081

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

America, your time is running out

jtha — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 18:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://johannesthor.medium.com/america-your-time-is-running-out-207d745763c1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24982135

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Why everything is your responsibility, and why it’s the best thing you’ll hear

jtha — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 13:21:05 +0000

Article URL: https://johannesthor.medium.com/why-everything-is-your-responsibility-3ecf9c7c796b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24879038

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jtha in "Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language"

jtha — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:11:34 +0000

I truly hope you will succeed in your mission. It looks like it could solve so many problems that I've come across as a result of confusion and miscommunication when people with a common understanding step away from the whiteboard and start coding. It can be so hard to align the implementation with the visual abstractions we so desperately need to communicate as humans.

New comment by jtha in "Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work"

jtha — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:25:38 +0000

Google screws up cables as well. My Chromecast (V1) came with a dud cable that will provide some charge to some devices, but won't power or charge anything I've tried it on. So my Chromecast is now powered courtesy of Lenovo.

It's a statistic though, just as anything mass-produced. But I found his comment on the quality of 3rd party manufactured cables vs Google and Apple slightly amusing. Apple cables in my household and everywhere I've come across them are no prize pigs. Samsung Galaxy provided cables on the other hand have proved to be exceptionally durable in my experience. Nokia cables and chargers also seem to be made out of solid Kevlar or some flexible Titanium, seeing that every single one I've owned since the late '90s is still working. My blue LED modded Nokia 3310 is still going strong, battery and all, but that's another story.