Hacker News: wishinghand

New comment by wishinghand in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

wishinghand — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:57:49 +0000

I got laid off a while ago and I’m privileged enough to take time to reconsider what I want to do. I’ve been learning how to sketch which supports my bigger passion- printmaking. I’ve primarily been doing linocut which is carving negative space into linoleum, inking it up, and printing it on paper. I’ve got a membership at a local atelier and have branched out into drypoint, kitchen lithography, and what I guess is called LEGOpress. I’m sparking a lot of joy working with my hands every day. I have been finding adequate challenge in honing my craft as I try to figure out how to draw/carve the images I see in my mind.

New comment by wishinghand in "Just let me select text"

wishinghand — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:27:13 +0000

Instagram is the same way if a link is dropped into the comments. Infuriating.

New comment by wishinghand in "Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster"

wishinghand — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 01:00:07 +0000

Any docs or talks about this somewhere?

New comment by wishinghand in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

wishinghand — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:21:07 +0000

If you're using Apache you could just use Server Side Includes and forget the JS.

New comment by wishinghand in "Why is D3 so Verbose?"

wishinghand — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:59:55 +0000

Vue is about as ancient yet people still use that. Python is even older.

New comment by wishinghand in "The Framework Desktop is a beast"

wishinghand — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:21:45 +0000

Why is that? Why would soldering the connections vs plugging them in affect how much data per second they transfer?

New comment by wishinghand in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

wishinghand — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:51:32 +0000

If they move jobs every two years, that’s 5 periods of interviewing. 40 interviews per period doesn’t seem too out there.

New comment by wishinghand in "Programming on 34 Keys (2022)"

wishinghand — Mon, 26 May 2025 05:19:40 +0000

I can easily switch back and forth. I have more than 34 keys, but I don't use the number row or modifier keys. My layout is also columnar, similar to the OP's.

New comment by wishinghand in "Feather: Feather: A web framework that skips Rust's async boilerplate and jus"

wishinghand — Sun, 04 May 2025 18:09:20 +0000

Could be confused with Feathers, a Javascript web framework.

New comment by wishinghand in "AnimeJs v4 Is Here"

wishinghand — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:02:35 +0000

I’d love to see that.

New comment by wishinghand in "AnimeJs v4 Is Here"

wishinghand — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:02:08 +0000

Maybe it displays oddly on your phone but all I’ve seen is effusive praise for how the landing page is constructed. The graphic is meaningless but the information around it is informative. The graphic itself is meant to inspire rather than inform.

New comment by wishinghand in "The Egg (By Andy Weir)"

wishinghand — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:48:43 +0000

Does anyone remember the parody of this where the answer is an “abbatoir” and the character also has to be every animal?

New comment by wishinghand in "Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]"

wishinghand — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:10:30 +0000

I recall using cartoon logic to think that the web might be stretchy or bouncy. I’m way from my desk right now so I can’t easily consult the doc, but I recall Manny’s observations filling in whatever else I needed to do to solve the puzzle.

The only puzzle that stumped me was much later in the game, when a pneumatic tube demon asked me questions about Maximino where the answer was a number. I was so used to gleaning info from conversations or Manny’s quips that I didn’t realize the demon was using some bingo number picker or something in the background.

New comment by wishinghand in "Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]"

wishinghand — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:19:33 +0000

Perhaps I’m biased because I played the game when I was 14 and had much more free time to dedicate to it, but it’s my impression that Grim Fandango was known for having few of the rubber-chicken-with-a-pulley-in-it type of puzzles.

As for your question about “what is the player being challenged to do?” I had to sit and think for a bit. I think the most straightforward answer is to just think abstractly and make connections in the context of a humorous noir story. You certainly aren’t being challenged to solve a mystery, but I’m not sure it really matters. I’m not sure if you mean it like Chess challenges you to vanquish your opponent and The Witness demands color/pattern/maze analysis.

New comment by wishinghand in "Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?"

wishinghand — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:42:37 +0000

I’d take this comment more seriously if there weren’t car companies that bought up rail networks and shut them down.

New comment by wishinghand in "Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file"

wishinghand — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 02:08:50 +0000

Is there a repo or list of single HTML files like this? I’ve seen people mention Tiddlywiki but that’s it so far.

New comment by wishinghand in "Clay – UI Layout Library"

wishinghand — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:47:11 +0000

It's a good first draft. I do find it a shame that the HTML output is only div elements. I think a little accessibility would go a long way. I also can't select text in many places before some re-render de-selects before I can hit control-c.

New comment by wishinghand in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

wishinghand — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:11:17 +0000

Your concerns about some people being more deserving of a good investigation reminds me why it's great that hospitals will serve everyone, even if they are a gangbanger.

New comment by wishinghand in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

wishinghand — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:33:15 +0000

You wouldn’t be, but the police doing so would be in such a situation, if there was equality.

New comment by wishinghand in "Grim Fandango"

wishinghand — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:53:29 +0000

It’s a film noir coded game. It does nail that dark aspect in many scenes and does it masterfully. I recently replayed it and it was remarkable how great it still is after decades of gameplay evolution.