Hacker News: ktrgardiner

New comment by ktrgardiner in "The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable"

ktrgardiner — Thu, 29 May 2014 05:12:26 +0000

Almost any vegetable tastes amazing sautéed in butter with shallots and garlic. You can also add plain breadcrumbs once done. I say this having just made brussel sprouts that way for dinner. Very simple and very delicious. And I used to hate brussel sprouts.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "Show HN: Snappy Checkout – Stripe Checkout with full-featured dashboard, admin"

ktrgardiner — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:08:22 +0000

This looks great. I've already signed up as I've been looking for a replacement for Gumroad for awhile now. Their UI just isn't suited to physical subscriptions. This looks much better.

Found an error: My login date under sessions is "Sat, Dec 30, 1899 @"

Feature request: product variants ie. shirt sizes, phone types, colors, etc.

Ask HN: First time in San Francisco. Can I visit your startup?

ktrgardiner — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:22:32 +0000

Hi HNers! Came to San Francisco for the first time to attend the Female Founders Conference. Flight back home to NJ was cancelled due to weather. Now I'm here with my fiancé until late tonight. I'd love to use this extra time to meet interesting people building cool things and experience a day in the life of a Silicon Valley startup. If you wouldn't mind a visitor in your office for a bit, let me know here or email me at katy{at}forge518.com. We've got a car so anything in the area works for me. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335362

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by ktrgardiner in "Show HN: Customizable themes for iOS"

ktrgardiner — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 01:03:45 +0000

Your templates are nice and have good use of color. But why would you have the stock photo promo pics as your product images instead of the mockups? I can't decide if it comes off as gimmicky, as in you're trying to be trendy with no justification beyond that, or deceitful, as in you're hiding the product/trying to make it look better than it is. Neither could be the case but that's how I interpret it. Either way, that's not good. You're clearly a good designer; own it!

Also, your Twitter link in the footer is broken.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "MailChimp Annual Report"

ktrgardiner — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:49:47 +0000

I loved this up until the end when I went to hit the back button. Clearly the last number should be 29 (or whatever it actually is but I think it's somewhere around that): the number of times you'll have to hit back to get to the last page you were on. That's always a pain. Good thing they made up for it beforehand by making such a great report.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "Show HN: I made 22 apps and games this year mostly by myself – here they are"

ktrgardiner — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:53:57 +0000

That's much better. You're welcome.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "Show HN: I made 22 apps and games this year mostly by myself – here they are"

ktrgardiner — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:28:07 +0000

Good for you for accomplishing and creating so much. Congrats on that. But good god, the background of your site is an eyesore. It literally hurt my eyes as I read through your list. You're going to deter a lot of people with such a bright background. Beyond that you're detracting so much attention away from your content. Feel free to completely ignore this, but I would change the background to something subtler or at least monotone if I were you. It will bring the focus back to where it belongs, your content, and it will give a far better first impression to new visitors.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "Ask HN: Should I get mentored by this guy?"

ktrgardiner — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:09:08 +0000

Mentorship does not mean being reshaped in the form of your mentor, as if you are supposed to become a carbon copy of them. It means learning from someone more experienced than you in a more controlled environment. And not just learning from situations you wouldn't normally find yourself in and thus benefitting greatly from specific context, but learning from a different perspective that you can incorporate into your own. You are being given an opportunity to grow and diversify your way of thinking and executing. Embrace it.

The Conclusion of My Standing Desk Experiment

ktrgardiner — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:40:22 +0000

Article URL: http://katygardiner.com/standing-desk-conclusion.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6407546

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Never Create in a Bubble

ktrgardiner — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:55:11 +0000

Article URL: http://katygardiner.com/creating-in-bubble.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6252925

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

An Exercise for Clearing Mental Clutter

ktrgardiner — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:41:49 +0000

Article URL: http://katygardiner.com/mental-clutter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226641

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ktrgardiner in "Highly customizable checkboxes and radio buttons"

ktrgardiner — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 06:59:48 +0000

These are great. Very well done. Two issues/suggestions. The checked radio button in Flat: the outer circle should either be thinner or the button should just be a circle with a hole in the middle. The checkbox in Polaris: don't have the check extend outside the box as it doesn't look consistent with the rest of the style.

Those are my suggestions. Do with them what you may.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "What Readers Found in Facebook’s ‘Other’ Folder"

ktrgardiner — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 21:40:43 +0000

I agree with you. However, this was an invitation from the friend's sister, who I am not friends with (even on Facebook) and who was planning the party in secret. So Facebook was her only means of contacting me.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "What Readers Found in Facebook’s ‘Other’ Folder"

ktrgardiner — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:56:38 +0000

Sigh. Like others posting here, I checked my other folder. I missed a message from May inviting me to a bachelorette party for a friend getting married in September. It was last month. I know this because I saw the pictures on Facebook and was saddened that I wasn't invited. Now I'm even more sad.

So thanks Facebook. You had one job: to facilitate my connections to people. And you royally screwed up and caused me to miss out on a very special day in a close friend's life that I will never be able to get back.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "Designer News + Hacker News = The News"

ktrgardiner — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:10:18 +0000

The HN side goes from 19 to 21.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "John Gruber and friends launch Vesper note capture app"

ktrgardiner — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:37:03 +0000

To attempt to answer your question of what is the opposite of flat design: I refer to it simply as detailed and minimalist. Therefore, skeumorphism would be a specific type of detailed design. Flat and minimalist are far more similar but I think flat has a more restrictive meaning. This also allows for the middle grounds of semi-detailed and semi-minimalist.

New comment by ktrgardiner in "The Hidden Costs of Starting a Company"

ktrgardiner — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:58:08 +0000

It seems as if the college idiom has graduated alongside the people going on to found startups. In college it was "Good grades. A social life. Sleep. Choose two because you can't have all three." Now it's the more mature but still very similar "Startup. Significant other. Health."

Founder Guilt

ktrgardiner — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:26:26 +0000

Article URL: http://singlefounderproblems.com/founder-guilt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687091

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ktrgardiner in "10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out"

ktrgardiner — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:35:59 +0000

And then of course there is further segregation based on academic ability, which may be even worse than age segregation.

Show HN: Research Design Repeat - An Analytical Approach to Web Design

ktrgardiner — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:25:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.designrepeat.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5681694

Points: 2

# Comments: 0