Hacker News: shaneos

New comment by shaneos in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

shaneos — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:03:00 +0000

Anthropic technically use the Stainless docs platform for their docs, in that it’s all rendered by Stainless components. They just don’t use the full suite of Stainless tools for docs. The ability to use as little or as much as you like was a great feature of the Stainless docs product

New comment by shaneos in "How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps"

shaneos — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:17:13 +0000

Citizens always have a choice. The cost can be terrible, but there’s always a choice

New comment by shaneos in "Show HN: Convert GIFs to MP4 purely on client side"

shaneos — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:26:25 +0000

Author here, happy to answer any questions. The open source code here works server side, in the browser client or in a Worker thread. Hope you find it useful!

New comment by shaneos in "Show HN: Convert GIFs to MP4 purely on client side"

shaneos — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:25:28 +0000

Thanks, done!

Show HN: Convert GIFs to MP4 purely on client side

shaneos — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:00:25 +0000

Article URL: https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/gif-to-mp4-encoding-in-the-browser-the-terminal-everywhere-else/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517791

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

GIF to MP4 encoding in the browser and everywhere all at once

shaneos — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:54:46 +0000

Article URL: https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/gif-to-mp4-encoding-in-the-browser-the-terminal-everywhere-else/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45835939

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shaneos in "Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser"

shaneos — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:55:17 +0000

Whoa, so excited to try this out! As a regular Firefox user, does it pull over my settings?

New comment by shaneos in "Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image"

shaneos — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:12:08 +0000

Author here, hi all. There are a number of ways to skin this cat. This is my preferred method. What's yours?

Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image

shaneos — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:11:16 +0000

Article URL: https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/fighting-with-youtube-to-show-a-preview-image/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865908

Points: 87

# Comments: 22

New comment by shaneos in "Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children"

shaneos — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:08:57 +0000

[author] It's my idea of how app builders should design and build apps. It's an anti-pattern to build an app that allows children to spend their parent's money without express permission.

New comment by shaneos in "Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children"

shaneos — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:09:02 +0000

You can drop balloons full of paint in this, even rainbow coloured paint :-)

New comment by shaneos in "Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children"

shaneos — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:57:25 +0000

The app's audience is children. The blog post's audience are professional designers and engineers. I am speaking their language. People build apps for a variety of reasons - I started off with this app just making it for my kids, until I decided to make an effort to find more users - and one of those reasons is to make a living off the time spent working on it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with hoping to be compensated for your time and effort, and that is why we must discuss user retention and monetization. These are not dirty or exploitative terms in and of themselves, they are simply tools used to measure an app's usage and current level of progress towards your goals so that you can react accordingly.

What is exploitative is the way almost all supposedly child friendly apps try to trick or corrupt children with ads and gamified purchases. My post comes out very explicitly against this, which I presume you read.

New comment by shaneos in "Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children"

shaneos — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:00:57 +0000

So happy to hear it’s helpful! I’d love to check out the game when it’s done

New comment by shaneos in "Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children"

shaneos — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:45:41 +0000

Author here. Not every app needs to be focused on teaching kids to read. When my 3 year old was using the app, putting words on the icons was meaningless, and a sign that I needed to put more effort into communicating visually. Older kids can handle more text, but I found that the app could achieve it's primary functions without it, and there is a beauty in simplicity.

Of course I read with my children every day, and they are now both voracious consumers of real world books. I encourage you to do the same. I also included features in Kidz Fun Art that help kids practice their hand writing and math problem solving. However, trying to have every app solve every need for every child (e.g. reading in this case), just leads to an ugly, messy interface that is off putting to everyone. Add lightness - take things away that are not needed.

New comment by shaneos in "Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children"

shaneos — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:39:31 +0000

[author] If you double tap the rainbow button you can design your own gradient, so use all the shades of brown you like :-)

New comment by shaneos in "Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children"

shaneos — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:36:36 +0000

Author here. I find this to be a pretty cynical take. I tried to express that if I build something and it makes my kids smile then it stays in the app. You appear to have a different take on it. Should we not try to make children enjoy using the tools they use? What's the alternative? Make you app actively hostile and difficult to they'll go touch grass? I'm honestly not clear on the point you're making here.

Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children

shaneos — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:21:13 +0000

Article URL: https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/on-designing-for-children/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711745

Points: 203

# Comments: 76

Search Huge JSON files on the web without crashing

shaneos — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:45:47 +0000

Article URL: https://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/search-huge-json-files-on-the-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44288671

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Using MCP in production: How to scale

shaneos — Sat, 17 May 2025 11:58:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-complex-openapi-specs-to-mcp-servers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013662

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by shaneos in "MCP: An in-depth introduction"

shaneos — Sat, 17 May 2025 11:56:49 +0000

Using MCP in production has a lot of tricky edge cases. This post describes some cool solutions to them https://www.stainless.com/blog/what-we-learned-converting-co...