me_bx's comments

On: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager wit...

[me_bx]

Some benefits I appreciate:

  * All the text is at a readable size, and had sufficient contrast with the background.
  * The clickable and interactive elements are easy to identify.
  * Text is selectable and can be copied.
  * There are no useless animations(there only to give a dynamic feel without having any function).

On: BlenderGPT

[me_bx]

Actually, no. The UI is misleading.

It asks you to first sign up with Google. Then it lets you sign in with your gmail address.

On: Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausibl...

[me_bx]

From my experience, on the server side. Not so suitable if you're hosting a tiny site in a tiny server.

On: Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

[me_bx]

I'm (still) working on my surf forecasting website / PWA [0].

I spent the past few months refactoring most of the site:

  * Find a smarter logic to recommend when to go surfing, based on how the combination of swell and wind indicators are.
  * Add support for other locations (currently: only Fuerteventura, Canary Islands is there) - this means refactoring the way how forecast data is managed.
  * UX & UI: enhance the information hierarchy, menus, create a new visual identity.

Finally soon to be released.

[0]: https://gonna.surf

On: Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hire...

[me_bx]

Not really, but perhaps I did not do it right.

As a solo consultant back in the 2010's, I created a website and blog for personal branding purpose.

* Blog articles about engineering, got well indexed on Google, getting me thousands of monthly visitors. * Articles about business / functional aspects never really got any visibility nor engagement.

So in the end my content has been mostly helpful to peer developers (mostly in India and the US), and did not reach my potential clients / employers in Western Europe where I am located...

I do not know how much effect the website had to recruiters, perhaps it still gave me extra points sometimes...

On: Show HN: Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny...

[me_bx]

Hi, the site looks nice.

It's not working as intended on firefox, though, when autoplay is disabled (this might be the default now, I'm not sure).

There is no way to know that the videos are videos, so the tips looks like a bunch of images. Clicking on them has no effect.

The only way to play a video seems to right-click on it, and select 'Play'.

You might want to add a 'play' button overlay on the videos thumbnail images, and/or show the controls by default...

Hope this helps,

[hollisbrown → me_bx]

Thank you very much for pointing this out, if a play button can be a fallback for those users only I'll put it in there.

I'm a bit weirded out by this being the default even for muted videos. Does that somehow save bandwith because you only get sent one frame of the video? Because otherwise a muted video is just a series of images, and they dont block images by default, right?

[sjagoe → hollisbrown]

I turn off autoplay globally because it's been abused for so long by some news sites, for example, that autoplay a video and then pin it to follow you as you scroll the article.

I find any autoplay, even muted or no audio, to be more of a distraction then helpful in general.

That said, I'm happy to make exceptions for well designed and intentioned sites, and so have allowed it on yours.

[akovaski → hollisbrown]

In case anybody is wondering, Firefox doesn't block muted videos by default. The above poster had changed their settings to block muted video, which can be overridden per site.

On: First Contact with SQLite

[me_bx]

Don't Application-Defined SQL functions fulfill the role of stored procedures?

https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html

[qazxcvbnm → me_bx]

Yes, but you have to write C; I am more confident in SQL, and SQL fits better with the rest of my data stack.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)

[me_bx]

Hi,the job offer is not visible publicly, wellfound.com asks for the creation of an account first. Is this on purpose?

On: Software galaxies

[me_bx]

From the same author:

  * Related subreddits graph - https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=linux
  * Map of reddit - https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/?x=18239&y=12514&z=32433.55559794627&v=2

On: Build a side project using your data

[me_bx]

In case this is your project, there are some issues with the demo dashboard's bar charts (top 20 countries):

* Works well on Firefox mobile / android * On Firefox desktop, only every other country name is displayed, for some reason. The name of other countries can only be seen by hovering on the bars, in a tooltip. This kind of makes the chart not so usable * On Chromium desktop, linux (A somewhat old version, v90), the bar charts don't display at all, the error message below is shown in the console:

    Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: e.at is not a function
        at new bi (VennDiagram.svelte_svelte_type_style_lang.BQFLKn8W.js:1)
        at VennDiagram.svelte_svelte_type_style_lang.BQFLKn8W.js:4
        at /async https:/fc24.fact.ist/_app/immutable/nodes/0.vgSQbLXH.js:1
        at async Promise.all (/index 3)
        at async $p (0.vgSQbLXH.js:1)
        at async Tp (0.vgSQbLXH.js:1)
        at async Pt (entry.CN-1OTG9.js:1)
        at async ut (entry.CN-1OTG9.js:1)
        at async cn (entry.CN-1OTG9.js:1)
        at async Module.hn (entry.CN-1OTG9.js:1)

[creatuluw → me_bx]

Thanks! I will look into it.