Hacker News: lyptt

New comment by lyptt in "Show HN: Widget.json and Widget Construction Set"

lyptt — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:12:52 +0000

Seems to be magically working now. Probably some weirdness with GitHub gist URLs.

New comment by lyptt in "Show HN: Widget.json and Widget Construction Set"

lyptt — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:55:26 +0000

This looks awesome, unfortunately my attempts to use it result in showing some kind of placeholder blue image with a yellow and black corner, despite it appearing correctly in the list of available widgets. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.

New comment by lyptt in "Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?"

lyptt — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 22:17:29 +0000

I worked on an ad attribution service for a AAA games company and sold my soul in the process. It was neat maintaining a service that had 130m+ hits a day though, never had to deal with scaling like that since. Even neater was it was just two instances in production. Vertical scaling all the way!

New comment by lyptt in "Let's make the web personal again"

lyptt — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:53:26 +0000

Looks like they've claimed Brian Lovin's work as their own, judging by this commit:

https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...

New comment by lyptt in "Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?"

lyptt — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:17:56 +0000

I found graphics programming impenetrable until I found https://learnopengl.com. Going through the articles there was enough for me to feel comfortable working in all the other graphics APIs, even Vulkan.

New comment by lyptt in "Browsers, JSON, and FormData"

lyptt — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:37:12 +0000

From what I've seen, standards need to be picked up by browser vendors for them to become established.

Usually one vendor will implement it behind a flag, and if it gains traction then other vendors will follow suit before it becomes a generally available feature.

New comment by lyptt in "Browsers, JSON, and FormData"

lyptt — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:14:25 +0000

Looks like supporting an enctype of application/json was proposed, but never went anywhere.

New comment by lyptt in "Just don’t"

lyptt — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 18:02:57 +0000

I've noticed it puts people on the defensive when I put 'just' in a sentence, even though I have no intent to disparage others with my words, so I make an effort to avoid using that word at all in any business setting. I've found it goes over much better when framing suggestions as 'Maybe you could try..." than 'Just do...'.

New comment by lyptt in "Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?"

lyptt — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:59:20 +0000

I've set up a Legacy Contact with my Apple ID, since that provides access to all of my data, with a close friend in the event of my death. It was fairly easy to set everything up and I just had to provide their email address and send them a document produced after the setup was complete.

It's definitely given me peace of mind, as I wouldn't want them to be in a situation where my entire digital life was lost to them. They would also then be able to close all of my accounts and notify others of my passing.

New comment by lyptt in "Which emoji scissors close (2020)"

lyptt — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:35:30 +0000

I never much point in them as a kid. I'm left handed and I found it harder to use left handed scissors in my left hand than using right handed scissors in my right hand.

New comment by lyptt in "State of CSS"

lyptt — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:05:46 +0000

I'd love to see something like constraint layouts in pure CSS. It's an incredibly powerful tool when building user interfaces.

I was really excited to see GSS (http://gss.github.io), however at the time it was far too slow to be usable in real projects.

New comment by lyptt in "Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator"

lyptt — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 19:30:15 +0000

This is a really neat concept. Fairly simple, but great execution. I'm digging the camera roll feature.

New comment by lyptt in "Ask HN: Which web browser do you use and why?"

lyptt — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:37:11 +0000

I like it a lot. My main annoyance is when you have tons of bookmarks like I do the list freaks out and takes a good 5 seconds to fix itself. They're doing great work though, can't be easy trying to maintain parity with Safari while adding web extension support.

New comment by lyptt in "Ask HN: Which web browser do you use and why?"

lyptt — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:22:29 +0000

Currently Orion since that gets me Safari + Ublock Origin. It's a little janky at the moment, but it's nice having Ublock back.

New comment by lyptt in "Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business"

lyptt — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:03:42 +0000

One option may be to investigate migrating rather than continuing to wait on Stripe's lack of customer service. When I was investigating Stripe Connect alternatives I found Square to be a good option. It was easy to migrate our billing code over and it acts essentially the same. The only key difference is the end user would access their own Square dashboard and manage their funds, rather than it all being managed by you.

New comment by lyptt in "Tower 9 for Mac is here"

lyptt — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:44:20 +0000

I've used GitUp for years: https://gitup.co

Free, open source, and has really nice keyboard navigation / shortcuts.

New comment by lyptt in "Tell HN: There needs to be a “right to speak with a human”"

lyptt — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:32:33 +0000

I had an issue yesterday where Comcast forced me to go through their chatbot before I could speak to a human. That drove me crazy, because what I wanted to do I couldn't do on their website at all.

There needs to be some kind of escape hatch where you can get through to a real person. Companies that do stuff like this just make me want to stop dealing with them altogether.

New comment by lyptt in "Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016)"

lyptt — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:32:06 +0000

From what I've seen, it's a common convention with game development to do non-blocking networking and update your network state every tick of your update loop.

It fits in nicely with how everything else works in your game loop, and means you don't need to deal with marshalling data to/from a dedicated thread.

New comment by lyptt in "An oral history of Bank Python"

lyptt — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:38:20 +0000

Reminds me of when I interviewed for an internship at Fidessa in London back in 2011-ish. I remember the team lead talking about an in-house programming language they used called FidessaC which used a mixture of C and SQL syntax.

Seems like a lot of the banking world like to invent their own tech stacks.

New comment by lyptt in "Linux on the Framework Laptop"

lyptt — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:33:08 +0000

Hopefully they ship outside of the US at some point.