Hacker News: muhammadusman

New comment by muhammadusman in "New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years"

muhammadusman — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:34:10 +0000

would some Casio/watch expert know if it's possible to replace the face plate on these watches? I love the simplicity but I don't like all the text outside the watch itself like "Step tracker" and "Water Resist".

New comment by muhammadusman in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

muhammadusman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:26:49 +0000

Due to the recent Github outages, I've slowly started moving to Gitlab, they've been around longer and seem to have a decent track record.

New comment by muhammadusman in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

muhammadusman — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:39:39 +0000

I moved to using Fastmail as my primary over 7 years ago and I still use it as my main email address but I had hoped I could get rid of my gmail but instead it became a catch-all junk inbox similar to OP's gmail. The main issue is that so many websites use Login in with Google as a way to sign-in that I just had to keep my gmail logged in most of the time.

So instead of "moving away from Gmail to Fastmail" it's more like "using Gmail and Fastmail" for me.

New comment by muhammadusman in "Libre Barcode Project"

muhammadusman — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:23:40 +0000

just curious: are barcodes better in anyway compared to a QR code?

New comment by muhammadusman in "Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone"

muhammadusman — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:24:07 +0000

can you please review login requirement?

New comment by muhammadusman in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

muhammadusman — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:49:54 +0000

my name's Muhammad Usman, let me tell you, there are 1000s of us out there if not more. It's very hard to get a username without numbers on any site except somehow I got it on HN :D

Ghost has raised prices and removed features for the Starter plan

muhammadusman — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:24:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.usmanity.com/ghost-has-raised-prices-and-removed-features-for-the-starter-plan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44818565

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by muhammadusman in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

muhammadusman — Sun, 25 May 2025 20:23:42 +0000

moving off of Ghost to an astro blog b/c I don't write often enough to justify a $110/year fee and I also found out there's no way to moderate spam comments.

New comment by muhammadusman in "Uncut Currency"

muhammadusman — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:46:11 +0000

kinda off topic but since you're an expert here: what do people do with these uncut sheets? Is it mainly for collectors?

also, my favorite form of getting currency is $2 bills in a 100 stack (so $200) from the bank. I used to use these for gift money on holidays :) but unfortunately my credit union doesn't order new stacks anymore, just jumbled up old $2 bills now.

New comment by muhammadusman in "AI Guesses Your Accent"

muhammadusman — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:21:28 +0000

I'm happy with my mix of Urdu + English accent, I got an 80% on Urdu which seems about right. I am impressed by this and now I'd like to hear others and how well it matches their voice. Although, I don't need coaching or anything to remove my accent, it makes me me.

New comment by muhammadusman in "Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative"

muhammadusman — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:47:39 +0000

Don't use the term "hunt" in the name, to me it just screams "dupe" instead of something unique. Go the route of improving what PH has and adding things that are missing.

Some ideas: - Users should be able to update their post to some extent.

- There's no "product page" in your app, build something where I can see people commenting, reacting, and maybe even sharing their own screenshots of it because that's something PH does pretty well but can be improved.

- "LAUNCHES WORTH YOUR SCROLL" sounds kinda cringe, change to something like "Find the next best thing" or make it random on load and have a few less in your face versions of it. Reddit has "homepage of the internet" which seems appropriate. You can have "have you launched yet?", "find the next best thing", "what's trending today"...etc

I have more ideas, feel free to message me or drop a way to contact you if you'd like more feedback :)

New comment by muhammadusman in "Teenage Engineering OP–XY"

muhammadusman — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:09:21 +0000

I want TE to make a keyboard so bad!

Formatting Messages in iMessages (In iOS 18)

muhammadusman — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 23:03:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.usmanity.com/formatting-messages-in-imessages/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42082100

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by muhammadusman in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)"

muhammadusman — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:15:02 +0000

Numeral (https://numeralhq.com) | Infrastructure Software Engineer | Remote (full time) | $150K - $200K

Numeral handles all aspects of sales tax from registration to remittance for e-commerce stores. We offer white-glove service so stores can get back to working on growing their business.

Tech Stack: Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, GitHub Actions, Terraform, etc.

Competitive salary and equity package. Remote-first culture with flexible working hours. Opportunity to work on challenging problems with a talented team.

Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/numeral/jobs/0A0z8tE-i...

New comment by muhammadusman in "100% User-Supported"

muhammadusman — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:16:19 +0000

I started paying for Obsidian last month, it was on my annual cancel vs subscribe list [1], I've been happy using Obsidian for almost a year now and paying for Sync was a nice way to enhance my usage and support the team.

1: https://blog.usmanity.com/cancel-vs-subscribe-2024/

New comment by muhammadusman in "Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's"

muhammadusman — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:22:09 +0000

YES! thank you for doing this, I have been curious about some of the stuff I buy often and I felt like over the last year or two, things have climbed in prices a lot compared to the normal inflation price hikes.

New comment by muhammadusman in "Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?"

muhammadusman — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 05:07:56 +0000

As someone who can’t seem to post on any of the bad platforms mentioned but I find it seemingly freeing to post on my blog. I have the opposite issue, I want my blog to be read by those interested in the content and not by those who happen to be my friends. Because my writing is very different than what gets posted on Twitter/IG/Tiktok. And maybe because I find that my blog posts are sort of just personal journal entries over status updates with rich details like photos etc.

New comment by muhammadusman in "Untranslatable"

muhammadusman — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:54:15 +0000

happened to me as well, might just be linked incorrectly.

New comment by muhammadusman in "Notion Calendar"

muhammadusman — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:24:19 +0000

Your comment convinced me to try Notion’s calendar but then when I went to add calendars, I’m only able to use a Google account, bummer. I have a Fastmail and an iCloud calendar which I’m guessing will come later to Notion.

New comment by muhammadusman in "Notion Calendar"

muhammadusman — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:23:30 +0000

This looks a lot like the default macOS calendar app, enough that I went back to Calendar.app and added back my calendars and now I'm using it again. Someone else mentioned no offline support which is a big thing for me, I like to clean up my calendar and other "productivity" related areas like Reminders, Notes, etc while I'm on long flights which often don't have internet access.