Hacker News: plonq

New comment by plonq in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

plonq — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:54:56 +0000

100%. One big benefit of IDE integration is that it’s the same editor. Same keybindings, same syntax highlighting, etc.

New comment by plonq in "Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces"

plonq — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:52:38 +0000

There’s horizontal scrolling on mobile, which is ironic.

New comment by plonq in "Code review can be better"

plonq — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:53:19 +0000

Unfortunately it’s not feature complete - you can’t paste images in review comments, for example. Still very useful for large PRs though.

New comment by plonq in "Ask HN: What is the best way to learn 3D modeling for 3D printing?"

plonq — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 02:11:16 +0000

I tried FreeCAD, I really did. I gave up due to constant crashes and terrible UX and went to Fusion. Even though it's slow on my laptop it's still a far better experience. I am never going to commercialise my models so it's acceptable for me.

(Note: I would have tried Solidworks given the reasonable hobby pricing, but it's Windows only, and I don't want a web-based CAD tool)

New comment by plonq in "Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages"

plonq — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:21:07 +0000

I’m someone else but for me the point is a serious bug resulted _incorrect data_, making it impossible to trust the output.

New comment by plonq in "Apple squandered the Holy Grail"

plonq — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:22:18 +0000

My hypothesis is that certain products need users and feedback to be good. Maps is one of those, hence why they had to release it in a ‘bad’ state. Apple AI I think is another such product.

New comment by plonq in ": The Dialog Element"

plonq — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:55:24 +0000

The point is it will be possible without a framework

New comment by plonq in "Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made"

plonq — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:53:52 +0000

Why do you care if your personal site is minified?

New comment by plonq in ": The Dialog Element"

plonq — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:39:57 +0000

Once we can use popover and anchor positioning, tooltips and drop downs can also be in the top layer. I can’t wait

New comment by plonq in "VanillaJSX.com"

plonq — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 01:17:44 +0000

I've wondered the same thing. I think one benefit is that it looks like HTML, which means it looks similar to what you see in the browser's DevTools, which makes it easier to compare and debug.

New comment by plonq in "How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?"

plonq — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 02:56:04 +0000

FWIW Tauri has a comprehensive permission system

New comment by plonq in "Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction"

plonq — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:47:25 +0000

Vim makes multi-cursor even more powerful. You usually don’t need to find the right pattern in cases where the lengths differ as this post describes, because each vim movement applies to each cursor independently. So ‘go to comma’ and ‘change in parentheses’ work as expected on each line.

A common action for me is to use (the equivalent of) cmd+d to select the most obvious repeated symbol then use vim movements from there.

New comment by plonq in "Drawing.garden"

plonq — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:19:01 +0000

I believe overscroll-behavior is better

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overscroll-...

New comment by plonq in "Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs"

plonq — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:22:49 +0000

Thats called Modified Preorder Tree Traversal and the reason to use it over simple parent ID and order is performance.

New comment by plonq in "Mac Mouse Fix"

plonq — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:55:56 +0000

I tried most apps suggested in the comments, and IMO nothing beats the scrolling of SmoothScroll!

New comment by plonq in "Telegram Web Apps for Bots"

plonq — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:14:10 +0000

I’m not the other person, but there’s no privacy setting for normal messages, in the iOS version at least. So it’s impossible to block messages from randoms.

New comment by plonq in "French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes"

plonq — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:39:54 +0000

Something similar happened to me (though I did eventually remember). Now I always save PINs and passcodes in a password manager

New comment by plonq in "Show HN: Wolverine: Give your Python scripts regenerative healing abilities"

plonq — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 03:03:01 +0000

That seems… dangerous, to say the least

New comment by plonq in "SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (2021)"

plonq — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:52:30 +0000

Doesn't django use sqlite by default?

New comment by plonq in "Bing AI can't be trusted"

plonq — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:52:44 +0000

Why rtings.com?