Hacker News: yesthisiswes

New comment by yesthisiswes in "A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use"

yesthisiswes — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:50:11 +0000

Why use lot word when few word do fine.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste"

yesthisiswes — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:05:43 +0000

These are awesome! I’d love to use some of these for my solitaire game.

Weird thing when I preview one of the backgrounds then scroll down the page on mobile the images disappear. I have to refresh the page to view all the backgrounds again after selecting one.

I wonder if you should add names for the patterns so we can pick favorites?

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

yesthisiswes — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:24:59 +0000

TIL I should never be responsible for hot swapping pumps! Great idea and execution. We need more of these types of projects to exist in the world.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

yesthisiswes — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:28:35 +0000

It needs to be at least three times this size!

New comment by yesthisiswes in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

yesthisiswes — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:43:57 +0000

I live in a neighborhood where every street has a cul-de-sac. Outside our neighborhood is a busy road. About 6 months ago our 100lb Great Dane escaped out the front door while we were bringing in groceries. My wife and I chased her around the neighborhood trying to get her back. We lost sight of her and she eventually ended up in the middle of that busy road. A young college aged kid saw her in the road stopped his car and chased her back into our neighborhood. We cornered her and I grabbed her collar. The guy headed back to his car after the dog was caught. I should have got the guys name. I was so angry at the dog I didn’t really know what to say to the him but I am still so thankful. It could have been a very sad day for our family without his help.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Last Issue of "ECMAScript News""

yesthisiswes — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:37:45 +0000

I like bytes.dev

https://bytes.dev/

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)"

yesthisiswes — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:34:21 +0000

This is so true. I took a figure drawing class in college and we were instructed to draw with a cloth and charcoal dust. Easily some of the best work I made came out of that restriction.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut"

yesthisiswes — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:31:33 +0000

The cricket episode is so good! It gets me everytime.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "How to Implement a Cosine Similarity Function in TypeScript"

yesthisiswes — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:16:59 +0000

I liked your article. The chart with the vectors on it was cool though kinda hard to use on mobile.

I went to the typescript tag and tried to read a few other articles and got 404 errors. Just wanted to let ya know.

Nice blog and good work!

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes"

yesthisiswes — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:21:41 +0000

Awesome thanks! I’ll give the second challenge a go

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes"

yesthisiswes — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:32:35 +0000

This is cool! Great job! I completed the first challenge.

I guess I’m used to sql server management studio I tried running multiple queries at once and wasn’t able to. I also tried writing a comment with two dashes to keep track of the id’s and it replaced most of my query with dashes. It might have something to do with being on mobile on iOS.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game"

yesthisiswes — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:55:32 +0000

Agreed! Am I supposed to call the number on the bottom of the router lol. I called it.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game"

yesthisiswes — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 01:10:51 +0000

The reminds me a lot of a dark room! Awesome game thanks for the adventure!

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

yesthisiswes — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:33:18 +0000

My neighbor and I were talking a few months back and he had the same idea. He said he drove by the historical markers all the time it would be cool to know what they all said. Cool idea just sent him this app!

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI"

yesthisiswes — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:49:09 +0000

I used to love table plus. My favorite part was that you could hook a query up to a chart. Then you could have the query fetch fresh data every second to give you a live dashboard.

At the last company I worked for I made a command to ssh into our servers and extract job data. I saved the data in a local SQLite database. Then I made a dashboard in table plus to show the it in a chart that would refresh every second.

I had a real-time dashboard in about an hour once I figured out all the job info I wanted to capture. It was really cool!

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time"

yesthisiswes — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:28:37 +0000

My father setup his own solution for robocalls. If the phone rings more than three times it kicks the call to the fax machine. Apparently fax lines are supposed to be kept clear because of legal reasons? All I know is half the time I call I get a dialup sound as my call gets routed to the fax machine.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131"

yesthisiswes — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 11:41:05 +0000

Awesome demo. I’ve really missed that map it’s been too long.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Ink: React for interactive CLI apps"

yesthisiswes — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 01:08:21 +0000

This! I hit both of these issues. I tried building a solitaire game using ink. I couldn’t stack and offset the cards on top one another so they took up a lot of screen real estate. Then when I had re-renders the screen would flicker. Other than that it was a joy to use. I think I even tried flipping the solitaire board horizontal but that felt too weird.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: I built an open-source local-first app to track my workouts"

yesthisiswes — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:49:06 +0000

Congrats on shipping. This is a cool project!

One thing I noticed I was able to start a workout without giving it a name. Then when I got to the timer the time in the top left of my screen was a second faster than the main timer. When I clicked done it told me the time from the main timer and not the one in the top corner. I’m wondering if you need the timer in the corner at all?

I like the design I think I might try it out for my next workout.

New comment by yesthisiswes in "Show HN: OptionPayoff"

yesthisiswes — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:33:52 +0000

This is cool! The design is cool

I tried editing the bid and ask prices but wasn’t able to. I’m on mobile