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New comment by sideproject in "Show HN: I built a tool to extract tables from PDFs"

sideproject — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:25:55 +0000

Can you tell me what is not loading? the homepage?

Show HN: I built a tool to extract tables from PDFs

sideproject — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:03:38 +0000

Hello

It's been quite frustrating to find an online tool that will easily extract tables from PDFs. So I built one.

https://www.tablex.dev

Hope you enjoy it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37688373

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by sideproject in "Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?"

sideproject — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:40:16 +0000

https://aihackers.ai

is a recent community built around AI contents (built on a tool called HN+ - https://www.hn.plus)

Show HN: Hacker News for AI News

sideproject — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:25:05 +0000

Article URL: https://aihackers.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306683

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by sideproject in "We’re all just temporarily abled"

sideproject — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 06:49:04 +0000

I once sat on a zoom call with a vision impaired user to do some accessibility testing on our site.

First, it was enlightening for me to see how she navigated through our site using her screen reader.

Second when she landed on our booking page we got so embarrassed because she couldn’t use our date picker. A basic HTML version would have done the job. But a few weeks back we had debated over which fancy jquery date picker plugin we should use without considering the impact. It was fancy alright, yet it wasn’t usable at all for this user.

I learned and felt many things that day as an engineer. Thinking in depth, across many different personas is a difficult thing to do, let alone building a tool that works well.

New comment by sideproject in "Throw away your first draft of your code"

sideproject — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:09:12 +0000

Well, maybe not throw away everything, but I understand the principle. There are also other areas where this could help - and one of them is "naming". Sometimes when you start a project, you don't really know what the best names are for things. Project name, repo name, service name etc. So you choose something that you think it's ok and you go ahead. As the project progresses, you realise you've named things wrong, but renaming is so annoying and tedious. Often we ignore the bad names because it doesn't seem significant. But names are how people burden their cognitive load (an example, we named our repo after planets rather than describing what the repo does - "acme-customer-module-frontend" but we named it "pluto" - now everyone has to remember what pluto is and make sure pluto is not neptune).

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

sideproject — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:03:41 +0000

Is there anything equivalent for Vue? I know there was VueNative and NativeScript and there is even Ionic in Vue, but haven't really seen any framework that is either dedicated to Vue or has a strong support for Vue.

New comment by sideproject in "Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019)"

sideproject — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:52:43 +0000

I'm genuinely looking for a "calm" company. Is there such a thing? I have a few anecdotal stories of companies being absolutely chaotic (my current one included). I don't know where to point fingers to. I could start at pointing myself. Customers demanding custom features. Execs and sales people asking for unreasonable estimates. Engineers not feeling safe enough to say "no" but have to make something work, introducing tech debts. Engineers picking technology tools without much research, because there is no time, which increases complexity. People leaving, and then new people can't understand everything holistically. All of these factors combined into one gigantic bowl of mess.

New comment by sideproject in "XML is the future"

sideproject — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:37:40 +0000

That post was a good (or bad?) walk down the memory lane. :)

New comment by sideproject in "Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)"

sideproject — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:46:56 +0000

Oh wow. Thank you. Never heard of Yuka until now. Used it all morning to scan barcodes! Love it.

New comment by sideproject in "Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)"

sideproject — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:45:37 +0000

We were recommended Breville. They are more on the pricey end. But we did get them second hand via FB marketplace.

New comment by sideproject in "Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)"

sideproject — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:22:16 +0000

An oncologist in my family anecdotally told me how her patients are getting younger and younger - speculates (with research) that lots of food chemicals might be contributing.

Since the beginning of this year, our family has been much more conscious of the ingredients in the food labels. Lots of additives with many different numbers. We've been trying to get back to more natural things with less numbers. We bought breadmaker and started making our own bread (fun and messy). Bought a second hand ice cream maker (fun, tedious, but yum). Never knew how simple popcorn making was! Lots of colours of vegetables, home-grown spring onions. Our grocery bills on vegetables and fruits went up sharply. But it went down on crackers, chocolates and other things sharply.

I don't feel anything - but it helps me to think that I'm eating less numbers.

New comment by sideproject in "My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do"

sideproject — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:46:16 +0000

I was rummaging through my junk and came across Sony Clie PDA - I'm going to boot it up and write a post about it soon - I do have a font memory of buying this expensive toy thinking I was so busy that I needed an electronic fancy to-do list only to find out later that I was just playing games on it.

New comment by sideproject in "Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)"

sideproject — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 01:14:10 +0000

I bookmarked this just in case I need to read it later. :)

New comment by sideproject in "The Fear of Shipping (2012)"

sideproject — Wed, 31 May 2023 11:33:19 +0000

Oh I'm guilty of this. So many projects that were not launched. And the easy default for us (developers) tends to be coding & building features. But even if you ship, you have to continuously ship. And by shipping, I mean, you need to continuously tell the users. You ship it, you announce it, you need to market it, send out newsletters, feedback, improve, email the users again, cold-reach-out to other users who might be interested, and on and on we go. This is why it's difficult. Are you ready to put in as much work into these non-technical work? I wasn't and I was certainly unaware.

New comment by sideproject in "Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative"

sideproject — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 22:14:22 +0000

I've recently launched HN+

https://www.hn.plus

For anyone interested in HN-type forums (with lots of other features we've built)

New comment by sideproject in "Spinning Diagrams with CSS"

sideproject — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:21:48 +0000

I'm more impressed with the domain name.

New comment by sideproject in "Node.js 20 is now available"

sideproject — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:32:38 +0000

I've used this - https://adonisjs.com/ - I don't think it's "standard". Is there such a thing? I guess Express was a de-facto standard. I'm a bit biased since I come from Laravel background, so adonis feels familiar.

New comment by sideproject in "Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)"

sideproject — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 23:27:48 +0000

As a Korean & English speaking person (Korean Australian) I've grown to love my mother tongue more as I've gotten older, spoke English more, read more Korean books, tried to analyze the differences in languages and communication approaches etc. I just "feel" Korean as a language is, so different to English - more, expressive? nuanced? I'm sure there are plenty of other languages out there that are like that. I don't know how knowing these two very different languages have helped me and shaped me, but I'm certain it's been positive.

New comment by sideproject in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

sideproject — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:53:28 +0000

I built Newsy. It's a tool that automatically generates content-aggregators. I focus on people who have domain names that are unused.

https://www.newsy.co