Hacker News: shirol

New comment by shirol in "MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format"

shirol — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:20:27 +0000

Unrelated, but I noticed that clicking the logo goes to the current permalink rather than the homepage, might be unintentional.

New comment by shirol in "Monodraw"

shirol — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:36:29 +0000

> Monodraw does not use activation or any other form of DRM. We have complete trust in our customers.

Interesting. But, why?

New comment by shirol in "Hyper Typing"

shirol — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:40:18 +0000

I don't use typing for correctness. I use it for documentation. That's why I prefer JSDoc these days. I only type top-level variables/functions to get hints from my editor. Everything inside a function body remains untyped unless necessary. It’s the benefit of using Typescript without being forced to write dumb code just to satisfy the compiler.

New comment by shirol in "Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle"

shirol — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:02:04 +0000

That's quite challenging for a first puzzle, though it is a well-known mate. Guessed in 3 tries

New comment by shirol in "Manifest V2 phase-out begins"

shirol — Fri, 31 May 2024 23:18:11 +0000

Agreed. It's not just a placebo effect, it really is slower. People often don't notice this because they use relatively high-end machines. If you're skeptical, try running it on a low-end laptop or a Raspberry Pi. The difference is like night and day.

Show HN: I made a highly opinionated web builder

shirol — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:21:28 +0000

Hey folks,

This is my longest and most complex side-project, which took me approximately ~500 hours of work.

- Background I like front-end programming but don't like the process of web design. Implementing design in Figma and then reworking it in HTML feels redundant. I want to skip Figma if possible. A solution to streamline that process would be a web builder, I thought. But a web builder like Webflow feels so much more complicated, they GUI-fied every CSS rule. Everything become sliders and buttons just to set a few line of CSS.

Framer is a better alternative than Webflow, but still, sometimes I can't figure out how to do things that are usually so trivial in CSS. Not to mention that it also doesn't support exporting code.

- Solution I just want a web builder that's basically just text editor but with a few of DX improvements. I think it would be a good idea to couple something like this with a utility-first CSS framework like TailwindCSS. Sure, some people hate Tailwind, but I've been sold to the idea of utility-first CSS since before Tailwind era (using Tachyons). It really improves my dev velocity and I think it can be improved further if there's a better tool that interface with it. That's why I made Rakit Studio. You should really check that out. It's free, basically like JSFiddle but crafted specifically for creating web pages with TailwindCSS.