Hacker News: nfriend

New comment by nfriend in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

nfriend — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:43:49 +0000

New comment by nfriend in "Orbit Spirograph (2019)"

nfriend — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:53:20 +0000

Love it! I'm fascinated by all things Spirograph and built my own digital version of the more traditional toy here: https://nathanfriend.com/inspiral-web

New comment by nfriend in "Useful things I've 3D printed"

nfriend — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:12:41 +0000

I use FreeCAD! https://www.freecad.org/ It's a bit rough around the edges but now that I know its quirks I'm pretty productive with it.

Useful things I've 3D printed

nfriend — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:07:12 +0000

Article URL: https://nathanfriend.com/2024/11/25/useful-things-ive-3d-printed.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42257632

Points: 13

# Comments: 9

New comment by nfriend in "Thomas E. Kurtz has died"

nfriend — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:13:23 +0000

QBasic was my first language! I recently stumbled across all my old QBasic programs from my childhood and resurrected them with DOSBox: https://origins.nathanfriend.com/

New comment by nfriend in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

nfriend — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:39:48 +0000

I had this exact issue on my Pixel 6 Pro! I thought it was done for but it seems to have recovered over the last few months and I don't see it anymore.

New comment by nfriend in "A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem's novel"

nfriend — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 21:56:27 +0000

> And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible.

Unfortunately it seems like the audiobook has been pulled from Audible! (Unless I'm just searching for it incorrectly?) I saw this book recommended in another thread and have been checking over the last several months in hopes that it has been restored, but no luck yet. Tempted to just buy it from another platform.

A light that glows when on a Zoom call

nfriend — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:36:26 +0000

Article URL: https://nathanfriend.io/2024/05/31/zoom-light.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40564394

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nfriend in "Death Metal English (2013)"

nfriend — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:55:33 +0000

ChatGPT makes a great regular-English-to-Death-Metal-English translator when prompted with the examples from this article: https://chat.openai.com/share/261034ff-f5d5-404c-b354-c9d58e...

New comment by nfriend in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

nfriend — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:23:13 +0000

https://nathanfriend.io/

Very infrequent updates on my latest side projects.

I Built a Weird Keyboard

nfriend — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:11:30 +0000

Article URL: https://nathanfriend.io/2023/06/26/i-built-a-weird-keyboard.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36521468

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nfriend in "Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]"

nfriend — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:23:26 +0000

Anecdotally, I gave Dvorak a try and became somewhat proficient, but ultimately reverted back to QWERTY for one reason: keyboard shortcuts! Control-C|V|Z are all transformed into either two-handed shortcuts or right-handed shortcuts. In either case, I can't copy/paste while selecting text with the mouse (since I'm right-handed).

I now use Colemak (https://colemak.com/) which doesn't have this issue and I'm quite happy with!

New comment by nfriend in "Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game"

nfriend — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:31:02 +0000

Think I found a bug! Left the tab (on Firefox mobile on Android) and then revisited it, and now it says: "Perfect landing, incredible, you can't get better than this" with a score of 102.3 (I'm assuming 100 is supposed to be the max score?).

New comment by nfriend in "Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game"

nfriend — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 20:19:18 +0000

Love it! It's like a cross between Flappy Bird and Asteroids. Nice tutorial at the beginning, too.

Just managed to get a 98.5, which I think was mostly luck.

New comment by nfriend in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

nfriend — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:03:00 +0000

True, that's the ideal scenario! We've tried room temperature milk in the past, but our baby refuses it :(

New comment by nfriend in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

nfriend — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:32:48 +0000

As silly as it sounds, this water warmer for baby bottles: https://a.co/d/hhJzLBn

Nothing's worse than trying to mix the perfect water temperature at 3 AM while the baby is screaming, waking up the rest of the family. (We use pre-boiled water for the baby's bottles, so it's not as easy as adjusting a tap.) We bought this after we had our second baby and it's made feeding the baby slightly less stressful.

New comment by nfriend in "Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator"

nfriend — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:32:01 +0000

Done - upgraded to a t3.xlarge. Now it can process 4 images in parallel. Still not enough to keep up with HN demand, but it should chew through the queue a _bit_ faster.

New comment by nfriend in "Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator"

nfriend — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:26:01 +0000

Moving it to a larger AWS instance - will be down for a few minutes!

New comment by nfriend in "Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator"

nfriend — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:01:36 +0000

Fixed! Now abandoning the tab will remove the image from the queue.

New comment by nfriend in "Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator"

nfriend — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:56:56 +0000

Not a bad idea!