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by kilian 3mo ago
The point isn't showing what they look like, it's that the result is randomized. Screenshots aren't, so that kind of defeats the purpose. The article starts with instructions on how to actually see and interact with the demos
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by kilian 3mo ago
Apparently the cable to the screen is to blame and the workaround is a piece of tape to block UV light reaching that component: https://www.reddit.com/r/xteinkereader/comments/1qlyq3s/this... Personally,
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Experimenting with Random() in CSS(polypane.app)
23 points by kilian 3mo ago|10 comments
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by kilian 4mo ago
The wallet app UI is the peak of Apple's 'single 20y/o in sf' design. Anyone that has multiple card from the same bank (because, say, you have a personal account and a shared account with your partner) has to do the &quo
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Programming principles for self taught front-end developers(piccalil.li)
2 points by kilian 10mo ago|0 comments
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Using Chrome-devtools-MCP with Polypane(polypane.app)
1 points by kilian 10mo ago|0 comments
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by kilian 1y ago
Hey, Polypane founder here hoping to get feedback and iterate ;) Needing to fill in the paperwork for a saas is a PITA. Is there anything I could add to the site or elsewhere that would have made that easier for you?
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by kilian 1y ago
A short, compressed, small video that's edge-cached beats always out a 4K stream, so it even works as a tactic to keep you in that overview longer.
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by kilian 1y ago
This is strongly in tin-foil hat territory but: streaming video costs a lot more money than streaming some JSON to populate a UI. Every minute you spent browsing the catalogue over playing a video is probably a significant costs saving fo
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The WebAIM Million 2025: Solving the most common issues(polypane.app)
2 points by kilian 1y ago|0 comments
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by kilian 1y ago
This reasoning misses a very large portion of Polypane, which is that you use it while developing, not just testing. It's a replacement for your time in Chrome/Firefox/Safari, not your time testing across devices (real or thr
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by kilian 1y ago
Sure. Chromium is an evergreen browser, which means it's continuously patched and updated in the background. Getting a pinned Chromium version takes quite a lot of work, and really only happens in very specific, controlled environments
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by kilian 1y ago
> It just seems insincere for you to advertise browser features that are built in as features of your app specifically Sorry but I honestly don't understand this line of reasoning. Advertising a product having a feature in no way me
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by kilian 1y ago
It should be better now, as I made tweaks to the starfield canvas at the top of the page.
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by kilian 1y ago
I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion with even a superficial reading of the homepage, unless you count ‘shows web pages’ as ‘almost all features’. And even then the homepage only lists about 30% of what Polypane does.
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by kilian 1y ago
Well that’s embarrassing, thats been there for literal years. At least the icons are right!
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by kilian 1y ago
I hired Igalia to work on Chromium recently. Give me a month or two ;)
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by kilian 1y ago
I explain my reasoning elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472234
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by kilian 1y ago
Those are customers. Just like for example on netlify.com. I had a title stating that for the longest time, then I noticed nearly all other landing pages simply have it without title and just a clean list of logos, so I changed it to that a
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by kilian 1y ago
Haha, email me and we’ll see
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by kilian 1y ago
Its free for students through the GitHub Student Developer Pack :)
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by kilian 1y ago
Polypane is a chromium-based browser that you install on your own device and use while building applications that lets you develop at different (emulated) devices and screensizes/variation in one overview, with a bunch of development,
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by kilian 1y ago
Can't seem to replicate that here (m4 macbook), but I'll keep it open for a bit and see what happens. Thanks for letting me know!
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by kilian 1y ago
This feels like a lay-up, but here you go :) https://polypane.app/docs/emulation/#emulation-or-simulation Polypane doesn't simulate the specific rendering engine of other browsers, it just pretends to be ano
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by kilian 1y ago
Yeah, just like Dropbox is two curls duct-taped to an SD card.
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by kilian 1y ago
no I'm not touching that can of worms with a ten foot pole. Someone braver than me can build that!
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by kilian 1y ago
Using Polypane doesn't mean you can skip out on testing other rendering engines. That's such an important point that I even mention it on the homepage! So yeah, you should be testing (mobile) Safari and Firefox too. Chrome on andr
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by kilian 1y ago
Happy to answer this. Polypane is a browser. If you don't keep your browser rendering engine up to date, you're opening yourself to a whole host of security issues (not to mention just generally diverging from what your end users
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by kilian 1y ago
There's a huge list of things Polypane emulates beyond the screen size. For devices: - user agent - reported platform - device pixel ratio - rendering mode (mobile rendering and desktop rendering respond differently depending
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by kilian 1y ago
Hey, I'm Kilian, the creator and solo developer of Polypane. Exciting to see this on the homepage again. Happy to answer any questions folks have!

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