Hacker News: ramones13

New comment by ramones13 in "SVGs that feel like GIFs"

ramones13 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:42:22 +0000

I can’t comment on this one specifically, but SVG animations take notably more CPU usage to render/animate in Chromium browsers compared to GIF or WAAPI. And they block the main thread for at least some animations.

New comment by ramones13 in "Microsoft Dependency Has Risks"

ramones13 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:46:24 +0000

Software from big companies can be made with love too?

New comment by ramones13 in "Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?"

ramones13 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:26:06 +0000

If you ever want to go all out with a musical light show, I have some recommendations here: https://aluhrs.com/blog/holiday-lights-electronics/

For your specific question, Wally’s Lights is great, and like others have mentioned, something running WLED to control them is a great choice.

New comment by ramones13 in "If not React, then what?"

ramones13 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 01:38:30 +0000

I didn’t say don’t use libraries at all. There’s a wide spectrum between rolling your own everything and putting a massive abstraction layer framework between you and the platform.

New comment by ramones13 in "If not React, then what?"

ramones13 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:10:36 +0000

My experiences don’t really align with yours - most people are playing “follow the leader” with tech - “X uses Y, so we should to” and that’s it.

To your point though - use the platform. Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS. All of that will be reusable no matter where you pivot and not lock you in to a pattern that might not work well for where you land.

New comment by ramones13 in "If not React, then what?"

ramones13 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 01:08:40 +0000

To your third point - the author would recommend doing research and prototyping with all the options you might consider based on your use-cases. He actively avoids being prescriptive in generic contexts like this because he wants to avoid arbitrary dogmatic solutions (like React tends to be).

Source: I work closely with him and have been frustrated with this stance until I saw people using Next and Remix for things like landing or contact pages.

New comment by ramones13 in "Show HN: Firecrawl-Simple – Stable fork of Firecrawl optimized for self-hosting"

ramones13 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 02:48:13 +0000

Cool project, a mild pet peeve with this type of thing - I have to read 75% of the README before I find out what it even does. The first bits make a huge assumption about what the reader knows.

New comment by ramones13 in "Web components are okay"

ramones13 — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:11:28 +0000

There’s a pretty thorough post covering this here - https://infrequently.org/2022/03/cache-and-prizes/

New comment by ramones13 in "AI copilots are changing how coding is taught"

ramones13 — Sat, 04 May 2024 02:48:35 +0000

I don’t need 90% of my IDE features.

For me personally, it’s a fantastic way to learn. I could definitely see people just using it and not actually learning, but to each their own.

New comment by ramones13 in "AI copilots are changing how coding is taught"

ramones13 — Sat, 04 May 2024 01:28:13 +0000

I’ve had a project I’ve been doing for ~6 months learning python through Copilot+ChatGPT. It feels like any other project that accrues technical debt, but that debt is just a lot weirder. It was rough at first, but refactoring has gotten a lot better recently with bigger context sizes.

New comment by ramones13 in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

ramones13 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:25:18 +0000

Which hits the problem pretty well, right? To do something efficiently on an iPhone, buy a Mac.

New comment by ramones13 in "Speedometer 3.0: A shared browser benchmark for web application responsiveness"

ramones13 — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:22:16 +0000

Speedometer 3 is designed to handle the real world you describe. Edge’s post has some details - https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/03/11/contributing-...

New comment by ramones13 in "Previewing Changes in Windows to Comply with the Digital Markets Act in the Euro"

ramones13 — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:16:48 +0000

"relies on Edge" is a bit inaccurate. WebView2 and Edge ship from the same codebase, and are hardlinked if they both exist, but are separate from an install/uninstall perspective.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/co...

New comment by ramones13 in "Microsoft is removing Maps and Movies and TV from Windows 11"

ramones13 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:11:41 +0000

It's not Electron, it's using Edge WebView2 which is drastically different from MSHTML.dll in many ways. If you have it installed you can see the msedgewebview2.exe processes in Task Manager.

New comment by ramones13 in "Microsoft is removing Maps and Movies and TV from Windows 11"

ramones13 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:10:52 +0000

It's not Electron, it's using Edge WebView2 - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...

If you have it installed you can see the msedgewebview2.exe processes in Task Manager.

New comment by ramones13 in "Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web"

ramones13 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:05:06 +0000

You might want to check out CapacitorJS - https://capacitorjs.com/

It’s more web than RN and depending on what you’re doing might not feel as native, but it’s pretty easy to make a solid app with it.

New comment by ramones13 in "Threads, an Instagram app"

ramones13 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 03:29:20 +0000

That seems like a lot of gross simplifications with hindsight bias.

New comment by ramones13 in "Threads, an Instagram app"

ramones13 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:48:06 +0000

Metaverse? Llama? They’re doing both.

How well they’re doing those is up for debate, but they’re doing interesting stuff too.

New comment by ramones13 in "New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta"

ramones13 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:23:08 +0000

I also switched from Monica because of this. I love the features, but no iOS syncing was too painful of a gap.

New comment by ramones13 in "Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces"

ramones13 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 05:02:29 +0000

Talking about “actually” learning something feels very “no true Scotsman”. You could replace GPT in your comment with StackOverflow, Google, or a textbook and they’d read like the same criticism, right? Referencing something until you remember it is normal learning?