Jokes aside: Dad is a code reviewer skill that focuses on boring correct code. It's my co-worker's personal project, and I found myself using it on everything I do. My actual father remains unable to read code.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512534

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This was entirely vibe-coded, but man did it make my life easier. So I hope it helps you too.

For context, I'd blown through half a million dollars over 4 years and had no idea where it went. So I'm trying to get a grip on it with this app. I can't use bank statements, because I'm using different electronic money institutions (EMI) and Lebanon barely supports paying by card.

It took a while to get a UI I actually wanted to use... The part I'm still unsure about is adding old savings. Some find it intuitive but others find it confusing. That's where I need your help.

I didn't expect it, but the whole family is on it now! My parents, partner, sister, best friend, and his parents. My dad is somehow the power user.

If you want to try it, without logging in to Google: tap the carrot 7 times, and login with user (test@bucksbuddy.com, test, No E2EE pass) or (locked@bucksbuddy.com, test, E2EE pass: test).

If you use the test users, please be considerate with how you touch E2EE. Make sure to revert any E2EE changes, so others can use the account as well. If they're broken, leave a comment below and I'll reset the accounts.

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It's a drop-in Postgres image, with a Golang proxy. :5432 is passthrough, :5433 forks the DB per conn (CREATE DATABASE … TEMPLATE …, dropped on disconnect).

If you use it, let me know what you like or don't like, so I can make it better. Cheers!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129073

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The demo page is rendered as a long list of CSS linear-gradients. Each letter is an 8x8 matrix. Each pixel becomes a tiny background image.

Demo: https://taktek.io Gallery/Debugger: https://taktek.io/gallery Code: https://github.com/taktekhq/taktekhq.github.io

At first, I wrote each linear-gradient pixel manually... When I came to resize each pixel's size, I wrote the generator script.

1. It takes the text -> 2. breaks it into letters -> 3. gets its matrix -> 4. returns the linear-gradients list.

It chooses a variant based on the context window. For example, a period after a sentence ("hello.") should look different than inside a domain ("example.com").

My workflow now is: open the gallery -> generate the CSS in the console -> copy the result into the static page.

It's very small and a dumb tool, but I want it for an upcoming project.

If you have any feedback, maybe some pitfalls, or a better approach, I'd love to hear them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209263

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I am lucky enough to have a job that allows me to focus on life, but I suck at living and I am trying to learn.

I used to take life for granted and lately losing people I care about and riding a motorcycle are really putting into perspective how easy it is to die.

So I'm trying to go on this memento mori quest, to make the best out of every week I have (considering we only have 4000 rougly).

This is my first week, and it has already started with: - 4 kind moments - 1 lucky moment - 1 dressup moment - 6 items gifted - 1 drinks shared - 3 games shared

I missed the sunset, but I'm definitely catching it tomorrow.

I don't know where this is going honestly, I'm going to try to tweak it based on how I feel. But I hope someone else finds a use for it. :)

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I'd love to try this again with a simpler UI. If there's a place I can follow for updates, LMK.

It seems like your program is really capable, but I'm finding the UI extremely overwhelming.

I find myself comparing this to MIT's Scratch, and I know your tool is much more capable, but the user experience makes Scratch so intuitive.

Everything reads like a short sentence, and I can just dive in without understanding what I'm doing.

Any chance this can turn into something like "building legos"?

Blocks can be built exactly like Scratch. And, then, maybe you can map their input/output streams as a way to connect blocks (ideally inferred on the run).

And people can re-use blocks that others have built.

I know this is supposed to be a programming language, not a toy. But, selfishly, I want the UX to feel like it's a toy, so simple to discover it on my own. I can imagine prototyping stuff with it, especially if there's a library of stuff that I can use or contribute to while doing so...

Small request: When I have a document open, ask to prevent accidentally closing the tab.

Large request: Resizing pictures and signatures.

I didn't know I needed this, but now that you shared it—I NEEDED IT!

This is largely because it leaves chance for misinterpretation or miscommunication. Programming languages eliminated misinterpretation and made miscommunication easier to notice through errors.

Programming language enables micromanaging proactively, I specify the instructions before they run. I often find myself micromanaging retroactively with LLMs, until I reach the path I am looking for.

[1]: https://github.com/nizarmah/igatha/issues/5

That's a really cool idea. Kudos!! A companion system should be relatively easy. It's also two single devices communicating with each other which makes things much simpler to build as well. This is worth looking closer into.

It's hard to find a one-size-fits-all solution. I don't know if satellite coverage would still be available under rubble. It's definitely valuable in other situations.

The country coverage is a huge part. My country will likely not get satellite coverage in the next 5 to 10 years. Such countries is where disaster response is worse and infrastructure is more prone to failure.

I find the "instruction app" a little limited because a person needs to be conscious, they need to be calm and collected to remember to open the app, and their phone needs to be accessible.

In its current state, providing instructions is better than just broadcasting BLE which will be weakened and lost by rubble.

In my country, a lot of first responders still rely on asking people to scream if they can hear them. Anyone unconscious would be discovered days later...

There has to be some way of providing an automated signal of life.

The comments about the physics limitations are pretty awesome. They make me wonder if we can assist it in any way... I learned about passive resonators recently. I know they have a short distance transmission, but maybe if they were part of the building material?

I need to start by learning more about the physics. I know I'm limited by it, but maybe there's window we can walk through instead of the door.

I will also try to create a monetized version for specific use. Maybe that can help fund building a solution that's publicly available.

Both of those will increase the chances of it being adopted by smartphones, like Google and Apple. That's why I switched from GPL-3.0 to MIT.

I appreciate the kind words and the awesome suggestion. Thank you!