Hacker News: swhitf

New comment by swhitf in "Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free"

swhitf — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:46:13 +0000

Omg I thought Pop was dead. We used it for literally years. Even emailed support multiple times asking if dead. Wtf???

New comment by swhitf in "City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2"

swhitf — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:49:56 +0000

Good luck with the launch!

New comment by swhitf in "Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons"

swhitf — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:43:41 +0000

The GOAT. I remember when basically every page on the internet had one of these icons on.

New comment by swhitf in "Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help"

swhitf — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:21:38 +0000

One of the things I was most surprised about recently is just how buggy and unpleasant to use the Cloudflare dashboard is. We only moved to them recently and I was really shocked. I had one situation where the dashboard literally showed me the wrong domain but rules for another, which I think was a session or caching bug. I really thought it would be better for a company that size!

New comment by swhitf in "Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism"

swhitf — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:54:21 +0000

I followed this project from when it was announced but it was unfortunately abandoned a few years ago. It's probably not worth wasting any time on now.

New comment by swhitf in "Largest Wildlife Bridge Spanning 10 Lanes of CA 101 Is Nearly Complete"

swhitf — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:49:09 +0000

Not your fault but holy shit that site is awful on mobile!

New comment by swhitf in "No One Lives Forever (NOLF) Revival Edition"

swhitf — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:41:56 +0000

I haven't seen a .tk domain in probably 20 years. It was super popular with young gamers during the early 00s due to the free domain. What a blast from the past!

Also a blast from the past, the OMM review of NOLF: https://www.oldmanmurray.com/longreviews/751.html

New comment by swhitf in "How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear fast"

swhitf — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:06:04 +0000

Yeah! I don't know if it's still there but I kitted out my first company's office with chairs from there! It was a cool place.

There's also a junk shop, for want it a better phrase, just off the top of Brick Lane that is similar, it has office stuff but also way more general stuff too.

It doesn't even have a GM listing but it's here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CWDZ3goLKXeJb3eAA?g_st=ac

The mural on the wall is of the guy who used to own the shop. He'd sit outside all day in his car. I can't remember his name now but he was famous locally.

New comment by swhitf in "Ask HN: What is the best product documentation you’ve ever seen?"

swhitf — Sat, 06 May 2023 16:33:32 +0000

Personally I think MDN is one of the best examples of a really good docs site: https://developer.mozilla.org/

New comment by swhitf in "Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?"

swhitf — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:35:05 +0000

https://metroretro.io - started as a hackathon project in 2016. I found people using the barely functioning prototype a year later for actual work meetings and decided to started improving it. I went perm on the project 3 years ago and this year passed 10k MRR (100% self funded). Still doing all the dev and ops solo, but I have two co-founders doing all the sales, support and finance stuff. We are going for a specialized whiteboard for software/agile angle rather than generalist whiteboard app currently.

I think I'll be working on this product for a long time as I believe there is a new generation of collaboration software coming to replace the current leaders and I would like to be one of them. I think about this product night and day, and wouldn't want to be building anything else!

New comment by swhitf in "“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (2014)"

swhitf — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:25:28 +0000

Usually it is to detect the user is registered to (or their domain is mapped to) an account with SSO or Social Auth and prompt them for that login mechanism. If the user is being required to go via the SSO provider, it makes sense to ask for the email first before they input their password so that they can be redirected it neccesary.

New comment by swhitf in "Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler"

swhitf — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:31:39 +0000

You know you are getting old when you watch the arrival of the fourth JavaScript build tool of your career. I still remember when everyone was waving goodbye to Gulp in favour of Webpack. Webpack was going to save us all from the hell of massive convoluted gulp.js files. Fast forward five years and it's the same mess it was supposed to avoid. Slow, bloated and confusing.

I just switched to esbuild on our main project and the build time went from 7 minutes on CI to 1 second. Kinda stupid really. Anyway, here's to the future, let's hope it works out this time!

New comment by swhitf in "The surreal experience of my first developer job"

swhitf — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:18:23 +0000

He doesn't explicitly say he knew of his notoriety when he joined and could very well have only discovered after. Alternatively given the economic circumstances he could have needed the job enough to take the risk. To be honest, your comment seems unnecessarily snide and mean spirited for no reason.

New comment by swhitf in "Columbo: an origin story (2018)"

swhitf — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:03:56 +0000

The BBC drama The Missing and spin off Baptise have a calm and friendly lead detective. Not sure where you are but it you can get them in your country maybe give them a try.

New comment by swhitf in "Google is capping Meet’s group video calls to an hour for free accounts"

swhitf — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:23:36 +0000

Even a 60 minute cap is generous. If they made it 75 minutes why would anyone ever pay for it? The point of the cap is to be annoying enough to temp and upgrade without making the service unusable.

New comment by swhitf in "The Development of Erlang (1997)"

swhitf — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:20:13 +0000

I learned using https://alchemist.camp/. Some content is premium but the free stuff is very good if you don't want to commit.

New comment by swhitf in "A React library to design Diagrams with ease"

swhitf — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:50:33 +0000

Are you talking about mobile touch gestures or touch gestures via a laptop trackpad?

New comment by swhitf in "Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world"

swhitf — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:47:55 +0000

All the time.

New comment by swhitf in "Coronavirus: Some scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives'"

swhitf — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:39:20 +0000

If you watch the press conference from a few days ago they say that their aim is the complete opposite.

Show HN: Metro Retro – a free tool for retrospectives and workshops

swhitf — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:36:59 +0000

Article URL: https://metroretro.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258183

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