Hacker News: kenrick95

New comment by kenrick95 in "Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps"

kenrick95 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:17:15 +0000

Congrats on the 1.0 milestone!

I had a Show HN that built with Instant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247029 The common request from that thread was to add guest auth, and few months later Instant had it baked in, so it was really easy to add that feature. Great dev experience :)

New comment by kenrick95 in "I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)"

kenrick95 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:14:59 +0000

I used to save Timeanddate's calendar as HTML and adjust them so they fit A4 paper perfectly (also like to remove their logo oops), but have moved on to generating my own: https://kenrick95.github.io/calendar/ Suprisingly CSS Grid is perfect on my use case :)

New comment by kenrick95 in "Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts"

kenrick95 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:08:59 +0000

My gripe is with multi-layer approvals for permission request tickets. If it's only 1 layer, the only layer will make sure the person it's correct. However once there are >1 layer, each layer will think the other n-1 layers will check and turn out no one will check and blindly approve things...

New comment by kenrick95 in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

kenrick95 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:27:08 +0000

I switched to KISS Launcher several years back and had been loving it. I like the philosophy of search-based launcher. This way, if I don't actively search for an app, I won't be distracted into opening one

New comment by kenrick95 in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

kenrick95 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:30:52 +0000

Today I learned about the difference betweeen "preconnect" and "dns-prefetch": https://web.dev/articles/preconnect-and-dns-prefetch

I have thought that they were the same...

New comment by kenrick95 in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

kenrick95 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:17:01 +0000

I want to learn driving.

I live in a city with well-connected public transport (Singapore) so I don't feel the need to learn. However, this year I travelled to some rural areas in Japan and started to feel the pain of relying solely on public transport which is either extremely sparse, or sometimes non-existent which limits the places I want to visit. That's why I felt like if I obtain this skill, I can explore more places in my travels

New comment by kenrick95 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

kenrick95 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:13:23 +0000

I submitted my travel planning web application [1] few weeks ago as Show HN [2] and it received tons of feedback and ideas that resonates with me. So I'm still working on it :)

[1] https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247029

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:46:21 +0000

Thanks. Noticed this too after I added Sentry, should be fixed already :)

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:45:49 +0000

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:45:15 +0000

I feel like once I list down the places in the map, I sort of can grasp which places should go together or play around with the schedules to make things work. Yes it's more manual work, but I feel that's part of the 'fun' in planning? (some people get stressed, but I love the planning part of the trip too)

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:40:37 +0000

Thank you. This app is meant for me to replace my "Excel trip planning workflow" and I'm glad that you like it :)

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:39:35 +0000

The whole back-end is using InstantDB https://www.instantdb.com/ . I don't have export function yet

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:37:51 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that everyone have their own workflow and this might not suit your prefered workflow. Having a 'idea list' is requested several times and I have started working on implementing it. But I don't think this app supports that 'democracy' collaboration yet, nor ticketing constraints...

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:34:19 +0000

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah I think over time I ended up making way too many of the fields being non-optional. I also agree that this is not for everyone, and lean towards my style of having all things planned out.

For now, my workflow of how this app should be used is together with other apps. For example, in a desktop mode, half the screen being this app, and the other half being Google Maps or AI chatbots giving suggestions or searches...

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:12:34 +0000

Thanks for the feedback and trying them out. Having a 'bucket list' of activities (without exact times) is definitely on my horizon to implement next. The 'region' to select is mainly used for map so I can scope down to that region only, but I do see some need to specify several regions as it could be a common case for travel in Europe/Schengen area

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 01:25:14 +0000

Yup, it's using CSS Grid and since I have to declare the grid templates upfront, and my granularity is at minute level, it means I have to declare each minute of the day, i.e. 24 * 60 = 1440, as the rows of the grid

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 01:23:07 +0000

That's a very valid use case I haven't thought of. Thanks for pointing it out!

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 01:04:33 +0000

Hi swyx, great idea! Thanks for your tips

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:15:38 +0000

Yeah this is not that obvious, but the selected 'destination time zone' is the only time zone that one will be working with when planning the activities within the trip. (When inputting/reading the activities' time zone, they are all the destination's time zone)

The only local time zone used is at the comments (but hopefully it is clearer since I show the time zone offset there? I don't show it on the events since I feel it could be way too verbose)

I understand that there could be case where one's trip crosses multiple time zones, but at this moment that wasn't supported yet.

New comment by kenrick95 in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

kenrick95 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:40:18 +0000

Thank you for trying them and providing such a detailed feedback!

- On Trip Sharing, hmm that seems weird. While I understand that there's no 'loading' indicator yet, one should be able to do so if one is the 'owner' of the trip

- Expense split: because that feature isn't there yet

- Thanks I'll consider it

- The map I chose on MapTiler is OpenStreetMap, but I limit it to Point-of-interest only, maybe I need to expand it to match more kind of objects

- Aha, for that case, I find that it's so troublesome that I have to split the activity into two different elements for display in the timetable, so I disabled the case for now. Thanks for a great use case!

- Hmm strange, the activites should reflect live. Maybe the 'back-end' is a bit slow

Anyway, the 'back-end' is InstantDB ( https://www.instantdb.com ) and it's opening a WebSocket connection, that's why you don't see network calls when doing operations

P.S. I don't think I'll monetise this ever. If someone forks it and monetise it, as long as it doesn't affect me, I think I'm fine with it. If I run out of my 'free usage' quota, I'll probably limit the users to only handful of people