apankrat

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   by apankrat 6mo ago

   Screenshots are made on Windows 8.1 box, the windows chrome comes from there. Plus the whole thing is meant to work on ancient Windows versions (like, Vista and WS2008 ancient), so that ultimately defines the minimal common UI denominator.
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   by apankrat 6mo ago

   Let me chime in and say that plain Win32 API is a perfectly viable option if you are using C++ (or another "OO" language) and if you are willing to sink a couple of weeks into writing your own MFC-like wrapper. Clearly this is
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   by apankrat 1y ago

   I did something similar 15+ years ago to use as an avatar in forums, twitters and some such - https://swapped.ch/#!/personal-mark
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   by apankrat 2y ago

   Yes, I wrote one [1] and others did too, e.g. [2] and [3]. The gist of it, as mentioned in [4], is that you need to have a web server that implements checkStatus and saveConfig PUTs, and PUT and DELETE for saveBoard. [1] https://
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   by apankrat 2y ago

   Grocery and ToDo lists. That's Nullboard's primary purpose.
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   by apankrat 2y ago

   I showed it around to people that would listen, but otherwise, no, I didn't market it per se.
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   by apankrat 2y ago

   This is mine. FWIW here's a Show HN from 2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077177
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   by apankrat 2y ago

   Well, I didn't have a need to add or to change anything since then. Here's the full timeline to get a general sense of the development pace - http://nullboard.io/changes
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   by apankrat 2y ago

   Thanks for the mention, this is mine. Did a ShowHN few years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20376437
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    by apankrat 3y ago

    A Kanban board - https://nullboard.io/preview A GIF screen recorder - https://iobureau.com/ugiffer A calorie/food tracker - https://i.imgur.com/bSFBFcE.png It was easier to write exact
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    by apankrat 3y ago

    This can be remedied by using tools that can do block-wise (delta) copying of large files, e.g. https://bvckup2.com/kb/delta-copying
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    by apankrat 3y ago

    The GP made generic dismissive remarks on a spherical cow in vacuum and under a blanket assumption that the other person is an idiot. That's not how one starts a "constructive conversation". But, yeah, that's just like m
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    by apankrat 3y ago

    > What’s the upside for the user of a nested sequence of modal dialogs anyway? That's it. Allowing changing things in place is exactly one of the goals.
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    by apankrat 3y ago

    The sidebar is an index of several additional option pages, shown to the right of it. The first one is "Common" and it is shown by default. This design didn't actually make it into the production release, it was replaced with
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    by apankrat 3y ago

    All of them are using a custom framework. Most transitions are trivial to implement - you have a state A of your dialog that looks like this and a start B with your target look/layout - so the framework figures out what needs to move
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    by apankrat 3y ago

    Yes, hell, hell, I'll tell 'ya! Especially horrible the muscle memory aspect for the UI parts that are accessed once a year, if ever. And don't get me started on the situational awareness. Needing to pay attention to the cont
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    by apankrat 3y ago

    I make a boring Windows software that uses this sort of juicing in its UI. Had some doubts if it would go well with, you know, your good old sysadmin types, but it did! A bit of embellishment that doesn't deviate too far from the nat
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    by apankrat 4y ago

    Tangentially related - Few years ago started using asserts as an ad-hoc documentation mechanism for invariants and then also started shipping them in production builds. When triggered, asserts grab the stack trace, write it into the applica
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    by apankrat 4y ago

    Backup software.
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    by apankrat 4y ago

    As a retail online vendor - PayPal is the fourth. Did an AB test a while back and mere presence of the PayPal option boosts sales through all other options plus generates extra sales through PayPal itself. Not something that I was expecti
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    by apankrat 4y ago

    Sort of tangentially related - few years ago and for no particular reason I pinged HN server for 6 hours and then made a "data viz poster" out of it - https://iobureau.com/misc/21600-seconds-of-ping.jpg
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    by apankrat 4y ago

    > Windows 7 is a fine system. It works. Why "upgrade"? Im da sheng, beratna.
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    by apankrat 4y ago

    For what it's worth, we are making a system utility for Windows and our user base in the desktop segment is: Windows 11 18% Windows 10 71% Windows 8.x / 7 11% That is, the percentage of 8/7 is still ve
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    by apankrat 5y ago

    That's I did, but it's on hold and, realistically, not likely to be done. Still not a bad idea IMO.
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    by apankrat 5y ago

    Re: bvckup2 - the UI support for archiving is a part of the next release, looks like this - https://bvckup2.com/wip/r82-backup-settings-archiving.png - and it's available as a part of preview builds - https:&#x2F
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    by apankrat 5y ago

    I made a small JS library to resolve banding in CSS backgrounds with linear gradients. Uses the same idea. https://github.com/apankrat/js-noisy-gradient
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    by apankrat 5y ago

    Thanks. Should be fixed now... I think.
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    by apankrat 5y ago

    Not hiring anyone, sorry.
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    by apankrat 5y ago

    Thanks. It's a Let's Encrypt one. What's your OS/browser?
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    by apankrat 5y ago

    It's not a terribly complicated subject, but you do need a fair understanding of IP and UDP. TCP too, because it is possible to establish direct TCP connection through two NATs using the symmetrical open clause of the TCP handshake.