Readit NewsGavinAnderegg commented on Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability anderegg.ca/2025/10/12/ni... · Posted by u/ulrischa
Actual Nielsen Norman Group article here https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/
Can mods change the linked article away from the thin blog post?
Author here. I was also surprised to see this getting a bunch of HN traffic suddenly. I guess the Liquid Glass hate is pretty strong when a dashed-off blog post about a real blog post can randomly do numbers! Heartened to see that others are annoyed by this design as well, though. Hopefully Apple will do something about it, but I'm not holding my breath.
GavinAnderegg commented on How Deno protects against NPM exploits deno.com/blog/deno-protec... · Posted by u/emschwartz
I really need to give Deno another shot. Supply-chain attacks terrify me, and any Node project these days comes with dozens or hundreds of dependancies. It's basically impossible to vet them all, and I don't think this problem is going to go away. The Deno solution here seems like a nice way to handle this. Almost none of my dependancies need to touch my filesystem or directly access the network.
GavinAnderegg commented on I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022) the.scapegoat.dev/why-i-l... · Posted by u/jonfelsar
Over the last few years, I've found that most sites clients want can be built with static site generators and JavaScript. PHP is also great and easily hosted! But most times when there's a sprinkling of dynamism needed, it's OK if its happens at build/run time rather than when the page is rendered on a seever. This leads to faster page load and less to worry about security-wise. No shade! I've just been finding this has lead to good outcomes for me.
GavinAnderegg commented on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly anderegg.ca/2025/09/08/yo... · Posted by u/geerlingguy
I wrote up notes here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45180555 but this wasn't coordinated. As I mentioned in the first paragraph of the post, I was following a thread on Bluesky where Adrian and Jeff were chatting. I posted the article there. I didn't know Jeff had posted on Hacker News about this already, and I didn't know he would post my piece. I definitely would have done another editing pass if I had known!
GavinAnderegg commented on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly anderegg.ca/2025/09/08/yo... · Posted by u/geerlingguy
Author here. I woke up to a surprising amount of traffic! Some notes based on the discussion.
This wasn't coordinated between Jeff Geerling and myself. However, I did mention the post in the Bluesky thread that Jeff was included in. [0]
I concluded the piece with “[t]his space is ripe for disruption”. That was a really poor choice of words. I've since updated the piece to better match what I was trying to say. Diffs are available. [1]
On YouTube: as I mention in the piece, I think the service is excellent as a consumer, and I pay for Premium.
This piece was mostly written because I've been frustrated that YouTube is effectively the only place for user submitted video on the internet. I wasn't going to write anything until I saw the video from RedLetterMedia that I mentioned in the post. They have a huge following and were blaming something that might be related? Or might not? It's really hard to tell! I'm not a YouTube creator, but I assume having metrics that determine your livelihood shift out from under you as a creator must feel awful.
[0] https://bsky.app/profile/gavin.anderegg.ca/post/3lyeayuckv22...
[1] https://github.com/gavinanderegg/gavinanderegg.github.io/com...
I had a lot of fun with this emulator on Archive.org, and included some quick notes about using it with macOS: https://archive.org/details/canoncat