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Keyboardion(ianthehenry.com)
4 points by alexpls 2mo ago|0 comments
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by alexpls 2mo ago
Thanks! Plan's to keep the drawings on the canvas (with the exception of ones deleted by moderation).
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Show HN: bigdraw, a big shared canvas anyone can draw on(bigdraw.party)
1 points by alexpls 2mo ago|2 comments
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Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
104 points by alexpls 2mo ago|1 comments
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by alexpls 8mo ago
Neat! Generating PDFs from RSS feeds is a great idea. Some thoughts: I have a Kindle - something I'd find valuable would be having a digest of "Today's top stories" sent to my kindle's email address as an epub so I
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MagSafe Ice Packs(justin.searls.co)
3 points by alexpls 1y ago|1 comments
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Animating a Mosaic of 90s GIFs(alexplescan.com)
2 points by alexpls 1y ago|0 comments
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Take Screenshots of Your Work(evantravers.com)
5 points by alexpls 2y ago|0 comments
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Okay, I Like WezTerm(alexplescan.com)
488 points by alexpls 2y ago|275 comments
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by alexpls 3y ago
Oh yeah, good pickup thanks!
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by alexpls 3y ago
For folks who wanna see what led to this exploit in a Rails codebase, here’s the commit where it’s fixed: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/commit/c571840ba2f0e9...
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by alexpls 3y ago
I've been playing around with the Playdate SDK ( https://sdk.play.date ) over the holidays and it's awesome for small games like the author describes. Working with a tiny 1-bit screen and ~150MHz CPU puts some serious co
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GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?(alexplescan.com)
448 points by alexpls 3y ago|262 comments
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In-browser transcoding of video files with FFmpeg and WebAssembly (2020)(blog.scottlogic.com)
4 points by alexpls 3y ago|0 comments
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Timeseries with PostgreSQL(alexplescan.com)
3 points by alexpls 3y ago|0 comments
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by alexpls 3y ago
Thanks! And thanks also for your work on ContEx, its Sparkline module [1] was a big inspiration for what I ended up implementing. [1] https://github.com/mindok/contex/blob/master/lib/chart/spark
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Easy SVG sparklines(alexplescan.com)
353 points by alexpls 3y ago|103 comments
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by alexpls 3y ago
This really resonates. It's so easy to get caught up in chasing trends and overlook delivering customer value/stability. Good luck on the next 11 years :)
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by alexpls 3y ago
Congratulations on launching! Some feedback: the first thing I wanted to see on your landing page is what a screenshot taken with the tool looks like. It adds a bit of friction that to do that I need to browse to reddit, find a post, copy i
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Move Fast and Break Nothing (2014)(zachholman.com)
2 points by alexpls 3y ago|1 comments
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by alexpls 3y ago
I try to direct as much news to RSS as possible, where I can group feeds by topic, and not get distracted by a constant compulsion to refresh the page (which I feel strongly on HN and Twitter). Some tools I use: * https://www.fre
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Do It (1982) – User testing the original Macintosh UI(folklore.org)
1 points by alexpls 3y ago|0 comments
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by alexpls 4y ago
Awesome! I had some fun implementing a System 6 inspired theme on a recent toy project for creating custom Slack emojis - https://temoji.me (desktop only). Wish I knew about this framework earlier - would have saved me some time
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by alexpls 4y ago
The global gitignore is super useful! I add a “.x” entry to it so that I can create scripts, drafts, etc in a “.x” folder in any of my projects. Wrote more details about how I do this here: https://alexplescan.com/posts&#x2F
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by alexpls 4y ago
Great presentation! Another short read that covers similar ground is "The Day You Became a Better Writer" by Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert): https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06&#x2F