Hacker News: somishere

New comment by somishere in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

somishere — Fri, 30 May 2025 23:48:44 +0000

Mainly just questioning in which direction the poisoned chalice is being passed

New comment by somishere in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

somishere — Fri, 30 May 2025 23:38:43 +0000

I think the comments and down votes are fairly self evident here, despite what I may or may not have meant. Discrimination is a fairly well defined term.

Another hot take - the healthiest communities are those that people self-identity into. Like HN ;)

New comment by somishere in "SVG favicons in action"

somishere — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:08:26 +0000

Couldn't agree more. I'm using it for notifications, where icon colour changes depending on the type of notification (colours are also user editable) ... and the notifications can be disabled :)

New comment by somishere in "A Visual History of Chessmen"

somishere — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:59:29 +0000

Lanier Graham is my pick of the bunch. Finally a set that doesn't require a lathe or a chisel!

New comment by somishere in "SVG favicons in action"

somishere — Tue, 27 May 2025 09:08:55 +0000

I use animated SVG favicons in a Firefox extension I've been building. They actually work a treat

New comment by somishere in "2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities"

somishere — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:23:32 +0000

As an aside we went to see the new David Attenborough film Ocean over the weekend. Equal parts stunning and heartbreaking - it sews a compelling narrative for the oceans, spread between climate and ocean ecology, the extent of our exploitation, and the renewed hope (if you could call it that) that it holds for humanity's survival ...

A hard watch but also a must see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZAdCtKT_g

New comment by somishere in "Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2"

somishere — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:40:41 +0000

Two notes:

- is there a sly dig in there at Meta? Ice cream melting ... blue-suited hand

- the Ghibli style feels controversial

New comment by somishere in "Jumping Spiders"

somishere — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 22:56:59 +0000

It's their movement that I find fascinating. It's like they just snap between positions [1]. They're incredibly fast.

Not to mention exceptionally beautiful (often irridescent [2]) and entirely curious.

I have thousands of happy snaps like those from around our old gaf of different pals that caught my eye or walked a web over one of us. So cool.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/kVK8z2p.mp4 [2] https://i.imgur.com/Ig3Nob5.jpeg

New comment by somishere in "Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB"

somishere — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 03:09:36 +0000

I can count on one hand the number of times I've needed something like this in the last decade. But I'd also need to count the same number of times I've implemented a less than ideal solution that's ended up in prod. Great work!

New comment by somishere in "Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS"

somishere — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:49:48 +0000

Also doesn't really work when e.g. flex items are set to wrap

New comment by somishere in "What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)"

somishere — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 04:12:10 +0000

The Marshall Islands tests were carried out after the end of WWII.

It's worth considering that the US also used the islands as a dumping ground for waste from previous tests in the US [1] ... At a site which is now under threat of leaking due to the effects of climate change [2]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-te...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island

New comment by somishere in "What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)"

somishere — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 02:54:34 +0000

My wife is currently in the Marshall Islands commemorating an anniversary related to the nuclear testing. The trauma and fallout, cultural and nuclear, persists to this day - over 7 decades (and how many generations?) since the Bravo test.

I've heard and read a lot about the atrocities visited upon the Marshallese in the name of research in the last six months. Including around the potential "intentionality" of the human testing [1]. It is harrowing. And a hard pill to swallow in any context. The Nolan film did the islands little justice.

As an aside: while indirect, the journey to the Marshalls isn't as onorous as the article suggests - yes there's an island hopper, but United also fly direct from Honolulu. Though getting to Bikini is likely another adventure in itself.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_4.1

New comment by somishere in "Obscure islands I find interesting"

somishere — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 22:03:14 +0000

Inchconnachan is one of the more interesting desert islands I came across while living in Scotland. My introduction to its local inhabitants, expat Antipodeans like myself, was wildly unexpected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchconnachan

New comment by somishere in "JavaScript Temporal is coming"

somishere — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:51:25 +0000

Cannot wait. That said, somehow I don't think it will help us with a UK-based API provider we work with that provide us with ISO-encoded UTC time strings that are actually BST during northern hemisphere summer (or localised strings, e.g. +6 where the datetime component is actually UTC).

New comment by somishere in "Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends"

somishere — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:50:18 +0000

Wow. We have a "Queensland" Grouper here .. similar size to the goliath, but there is no way I would hug it. A mate was a skipper of a dive boat and went for a freedive on their break - got a little bit too close to one that was chilling under the vessel. It opened it's mouth and sucked their head in. Happened very quickly. This person has a pretty decent breath hold, and experienced all round. But they thought that was it - all over. Until they were promptly spat out - never to venture within 10m of a fish that size again.

New comment by somishere in "Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends"

somishere — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:06:24 +0000

During the pandemic / lockdown I was lucky enough to visit one of the reef pontoons off Cairns (Australia, on the Great Barrier Reef) that had been shut for several months. The resident Maori wrasse (a very large fish) at this pontoon, and others, has been known to have a relationship with some of the regular staff - often rubbing up against them in the water. When we jumped in the water that day the fish's reaction was the wildest thing I've ever seen. It was like a small puppy who has been locked inside all day. It literally jumped into my arms, flapping its tail to get closer. I'm going to repeat - this is a big fish, maybe a metre long and stocky, covered in a nice thick layer of slime. It would then swim away and come back and rub up against us. It did this to all three of us in the group ... only one of us was a regular. She hung with us for the whole snorkel and it was a bit sad when we had to get out of the water. Amazing experience. Made me feel differently about wrasses, that's for sure.

New comment by somishere in "Mercator: Extreme"

somishere — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:17:18 +0000

This is basically how my mind works. Mind projection.

New comment by somishere in "Nightclub stickers over smartphone rule divides the dancefloor"

somishere — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:25:00 +0000

I dropped into Fabric on a stopover in London in July (first time back on that floor in probably 15 years). I was surprised when they asked for my phone, but yeah it 100% made a difference. Would have spotted maybe 2-3 tourists taking photos at some point, but that was it. Great vibe. Mix of young and old.

Compare that to a recent bookashade gig in Sydney, which was smaller but was basically a film club event. 100 squares of light on record at any point (all with the same camera UI!) .. older crowd who probably should have known better, at least according to the article.

New comment by somishere in ": The Dialog Element"

somishere — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 13:52:07 +0000

Re. accessibility, the main feature is that dialogs can be "modal" - meaning the rest of the page is non-interactive while the dialog is open - ensuring a focus trap.

Popovers are always non-modal, which can be problematic depending on the use-case. Of course it's possible to manually implement a focus trap, but it's complex and it's javascript.

New comment by somishere in "Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia (2018)"

somishere — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 05:11:10 +0000

I quite like this feature - so much so I've been pushing to build something similar out at work.

The main missing piece is mobile / touch. Not sure if anyone's aware of iterations that solve for this?