Hacker News: usmanity

New comment by usmanity in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

usmanity — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:51:12 +0000

I've seen a lot of your work around the internet!

New comment by usmanity in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

usmanity — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:50:05 +0000

wow! I love how the background/header generates as the page loads and you can click to add things on it. Overall, the design if amazing!

New comment by usmanity in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

usmanity — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:48:11 +0000

https://usmanity.com

I've maintained a very basic homepage for a long time now and I'm using subdomains for projects and other web stuff.

New comment by usmanity in "ChatGPT Health"

usmanity — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:26:00 +0000

this seems to be a memory problem with ChatGPT, in your case, I bet it was changing a lot of answers due to that. For me, it really liked referring to the fact that I have an ADU in my backyard, almost pointlessly, something like "Since you walk the dogs before work, and you have a backyard ADU, you should consider these items for breakfast..."

New comment by usmanity in "Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids"

usmanity — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:40:53 +0000

you could try GMRS over FRS which ends up having more range and only costs $35 for a 10 year license (no test / certification needed). I was recently trying both types of handheld walkie talkies and the FRS range was almost 1/5th the range that GMRS was able to do

New comment by usmanity in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

usmanity — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:43:28 +0000

this is cool, if you'd like some help on the web UI stuff, I'd love to contribute.

New comment by usmanity in "Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell"

usmanity — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:05:16 +0000

I started using Pure prompt since I'm only ever using zsh and it seemed to cut down a lot on the setup required, I do have to spend like 15-20 mins on a new computer to get everything working as expected but once it gets going, it feels like the best mix of customization and speed.

New comment by usmanity in "Should we design for iffy internet?"

usmanity — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:07:07 +0000

100% this, I am almost always on 5G or LTE but in some areas in my city it seems like not even a webpage will load on either. In this case, using any apps is useless and google/kagi search feels like it takes too long to find something basic.

New comment by usmanity in "Show HN: I made a URL expander because short links are too mainstream"

usmanity — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:57:16 +0000

this is great, my succinct little domain that's 6 characters long including TLD was turned into 4000 characters, awesome!

New comment by usmanity in "Helios"

usmanity — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:36:11 +0000

I had no idea Helios is also Goldmund. The sound is so different. I found them both on Spotify.

New comment by usmanity in "Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox"

usmanity — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:27:08 +0000

man, I wish you guys were looking for a front-end developer! :D

Mailbox is live in the App Store

usmanity — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:20:16 +0000

Article URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailbox/id576502633?mt=8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5183640

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by usmanity in "_why's site is back up"

usmanity — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 09:18:56 +0000

Could be a private repo.

Meet MailBox, put email in it's place

usmanity — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:05:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.mailboxapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4917074

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

New comment by usmanity in "The Node Beginner Book"

usmanity — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:13:32 +0000

This is great for starting out with node, any recommendations on a more advanced node book?

New comment by usmanity in "A less cluttered whatismyip"

usmanity — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:01:32 +0000

There's a CSS issue that made me a bit irritated. The element has a margin of 8px, change that to auto so you won't get an annoying horizontal scroll on webkit browsers.