Hacker News: mindhunter

New comment by mindhunter in "GPT-5.5"

mindhunter — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:32:23 +0000

A friend is building Jamboree[1] (prev name "Spielwerk") for iOS. An app to build and share games. They're all web based so they're easy to share.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/uz/app/jamboree-game-maker/id67473110...

New comment by mindhunter in "European Alternatives"

mindhunter — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:56:33 +0000

https://www.inwx.de/en

New comment by mindhunter in "Mister Macintosh (2004)"

mindhunter — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:46:47 +0000

Texaco Towers was an Apple office above a Texaco gas station: https://www.folklore.org/Texaco_Towers.html

New comment by mindhunter in "Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics"

mindhunter — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:16:14 +0000

While MP4s don't support transparency, both HEVC and VP9 do and their support is very good these days. I just recently used these formats to add a complex After Effects Animation to a website. It's a bit of extra work to encode two videos instead of just one but the result is great. I used this tutorial: https://rotato.app/blog/transparent-videos-for-the-web

New comment by mindhunter in "YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable"

mindhunter — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 14:00:26 +0000

Do you also cache or proxy the thumbnail? Google can also track them when hotlinking it.

New comment by mindhunter in "Edison Bulb Night Mode"

mindhunter — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 06:15:16 +0000

If he’d run the dark mode JavaScript in the head and control the style through a css class, it would not flash.

New comment by mindhunter in "Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers"

mindhunter — Wed, 31 May 2023 12:31:17 +0000

Exceptionally quick lookups: alt + space and Dash is there with the search focused. I search and press alt + tab or esc to get back into my editor.

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

mindhunter — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:20:39 +0000

I recently made the leap in the opposite direction: after being asked to pay 59€ to continue using the app I downloaded Tower 2. So far I'm not missing anything they introduced since then. I'm actually happy about the old app icon.

When the warning that the license is running out popped up some time ago I expected the app to still work. Just that I won't get any new updates (like Sketch). But no: it just stops working and demands more money. Pew....

New comment by mindhunter in "New WebKit features in Safari 15.4"

mindhunter — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:12:00 +0000

Awesome that you contributed to CSS Motion Path! Such a powerful feature :)

New comment by mindhunter in "The naughty username checking system used by Twitch"

mindhunter — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 06:31:53 +0000

There are more German ones: the last one in is_child_exploitation and nazi stuff in is_hateful.

New comment by mindhunter in "Stripe Press"

mindhunter — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:18:37 +0000

https://twitter.com/bdc was one of the first designing developers there. One of the best of his kind!

New comment by mindhunter in "Digital pollution"

mindhunter — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 13:30:37 +0000

I share the love for hand-made svg. But it has its limits when graphics need complexity. In those cases I use https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner-gui to clean up the svg file after export.

New comment by mindhunter in "Google Ideas"

mindhunter — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:02:03 +0000

you're missing a lot if you're into web design. of course, content is king and google fucked up big times by not having a proper fallback. but that parallax scrolling is the best I've seen so far https://www.google.com/ideas/products/digital-attack-map/

New comment by mindhunter in "Dimensions – Measure everything you see in the browser"

mindhunter — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:10:21 +0000

It's picking up everything visible, not just images.

New comment by mindhunter in "Dimensions – Measure everything you see in the browser"

mindhunter — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:16:51 +0000

I developed it on a mbp 13", just not the retina version. Someone reported the bug that it doesn't work when the browser is zoomed. May that be the case for you?

New comment by mindhunter in "Ask HN: How do you keep track of billable hours?"

mindhunter — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:16:37 +0000

I use timeEdition http://www.timeedition.com/en/features/screenshots.html. Open Source, nice and simple.

New comment by mindhunter in "Web Starter Kit"

mindhunter — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:38:04 +0000

CSS3's flex attribute solves that. It's the holy grail for modern web-interface-development. Vertical center text:

.vertical-text { display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; }

(add ´align-items: center´for horizontal center)

New comment by mindhunter in "Code Reads"

mindhunter — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:32:36 +0000

How I hoped this to be an announcement for a public code reading. Like a author reading a chapter of his book, Jeremy reading and discussing a part of the coffeescript source.

New comment by mindhunter in "Buildy, a real-time HTML5 building game - come build in our biggest world yet"

mindhunter — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:18:01 +0000

Reminds me of Paul Bakaus' Aves Gaming Engine (also canvas based and isometric view).

He was very active documenting his research on it's performance: http://paulbakaus.com/2010/07/19/why-canvas-is-not-an-obviou...

Ninja Object Properties in JavaScript

mindhunter — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:28:49 +0000

Article URL: http://www.patrick-wied.at/blog/ninja-object-properties-in-javascript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4068744

Points: 26

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