airlocksoftware (u/airlocksoftware)

airlocksoftware commented on Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use vecti.com... · Posted by u/vecti

danielvaughn · 2 days ago

there are various little things scattered around the github org - a js framework, a treesitter grammar, some old docs, a vscode extension, a vim-style editor, an AI-powered code editor geared towards design, etc.

https://github.com/matry

airlocksoftware · 2 days ago

Are you still working on this? Because I like the words I see on your GitHub -- vim-style bindings, keyboard driven, sounds like you write a definition language for your designs, basically?

Lik Matry is to Figma as openscad is to traditional CAD (Fusion 360, etc)?

Though that does sound like a huge project to take on!

airlocksoftware commented on Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure alz-journals.onlinelibrar... · Posted by u/gnabgib

lostmsu · 2 years ago

> Exercise improves sleep, improves cognitive function and make tasks easier and more enjoyable.

Sleep maybe. My cognitive function is down for extended periods of time after prolonged exercise. I see no effect on exercising vs my life enjoyability except immediately after exercise I feel happy, because that torture is over and I can resume thinking.

airlocksoftware · 2 years ago

Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but I wanted to share something that was counterintuitive and made a big difference for me.

Not sure what types of exercise you are doing or your background (I could be more specific if you shared, feel free to email me) but in general I find most untrained to moderately trained people exercise at too high an intensity most of the time. Feeling like exercise is torture, and having lower cognitive function afterwards are also strong indicators of this.

Most exercise should actually feel quite easy — perhaps an 80/20 split of easy exercise days to hard exercise days is ideal. For example, if you were running you might switch between running and walking to keep your heart rate at a pretty low level (zone 1 or 2) in some sort of structured program that ramps up intensity over time but keeps you in these lower heart rate zones 80% of your exercise time.

For me personally I started enjoying exercise and getting a lot more out of it after making most of it feel "too easy"!

airlocksoftware commented on Household size and the housing stock kevinerdmann.substack.com... · Posted by u/jseliger

tmnvix · 2 years ago

Your links don't measure underutilised and vacant property (e.g. AirBnBs and second homes, or land banked properties).

From the links:

The homeowner vacancy rate is the proportion of the homeowner inventory that is vacant for sale.

The rental vacancy rate is the proportion of the rental inventory that is vacant for rent.

So essentially this is a measure of how many properties are vacant and available for rent or purchase.

airlocksoftware · 2 years ago

I'm not sure why you'd want to include AirBnBs and second houses in your measurement vacancy measurement — they aren't available for rent.

airlocksoftware commented on Android P blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/alanfranz

angry_octet · 8 years ago

Lots of slick UI stuff, but no meaningful updates to things that are well overdue: - Encryption of specific secrets for each app. - Fine grained control of what information is shared with apps. - Ability to selectively deny particular data (and have the app keep working, e.g by giving it an empty contacts list, fake phone ID, etc). - Ad and js blocking capable browser.

Why should installing e.g. the facebook app, allow it to track my position at all times? Just freaky.

airlocksoftware · 8 years ago

Location tracking requires specific permission from the user, not as part of installation. I think you're a bit out of date.

https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/deve...

airlocksoftware commented on How I Start: Clojure howistart.org/posts/cloju... · Posted by u/gigasquid

msutherl · 11 years ago

A bunch of people are going to think "what's the difference," but it felt awesome to get to the end of this and see that a woman had written it.

airlocksoftware · 11 years ago

Carin is awesome. Author of such classics as Hitchhiker's Guide To Clojure [1] and World Domination With Hexapods and Clojure [2]. And I think she has a book coming out soonish? Thanks gigasquid, this was a lovely warmup to start my day.

[1]: http://hitchhikersclojure.com/

[2]: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2014/03/20/world-dominatio...

airlocksoftware commented on Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video] vimeo.com/108650530... · Posted by u/Thevet

airlocksoftware · 11 years ago

In the same genre, I watch this when I need a touch of inspiration. They're quotations from The Pale Blue Dot, again with the Sagan voiceover.

http://vimeo.com/2822787

Often we forget how far we've come, and how far we have to go. It's easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of regular life. When I listen to Carl Sagan sometimes I feel like I've glimpsed a bigger perspective.

airlocksoftware commented on Hacker News API blog.ycombinator.com/hack... · Posted by u/kevin

kolev · 11 years ago

It works now, thanks! One side question: why is your hamburger (icon) a Double-Double (http://www.in-n-out.com/mobile/double-double.aspx)?

airlocksoftware · 11 years ago

Ha! A) Because I love Double-Doubles. B) Because it's more than 2 year old (before there really was a hamburger icon on Android). It's completely redesigned in the next version, though.

airlocksoftware commented on Hacker News API blog.ycombinator.com/hack... · Posted by u/kevin

kolev · 11 years ago

Nice app! Is login broken though?

airlocksoftware · 11 years ago

Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I've done that so it should update for you soon.

airlocksoftware commented on Hacker News API blog.ycombinator.com/hack... · Posted by u/kevin

piyush_soni · 11 years ago

So why, in the first place, would I want another mobile app rather than just opening the fully functional website (which is pretty simple & basic already) on my mobile browser?

airlocksoftware · 11 years ago

Because it can be better designed, use common design / navigation patterns of your mobile OS, notify you when you get a reply, change the text size, change the theme, have richer animations, and allow you to automatically share content from other applications directly to HN?

airlocksoftware commented on Hacker News API blog.ycombinator.com/hack... · Posted by u/kevin

dang · 11 years ago

I'm sorry you just invested a lot of time in scraping. I know from experience what a pain that is. We said several times that the API was coming, and I've made it clear to anyone who asked, but there's just no way to reach everybody. All: in the future, please get answers to questions like this by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.

Re write access and logged-in access, if that turns out to be how people want to use the API, that's the direction we'll go. But we think it's important to launch an initial release and develop it based on feedback. There are many other use cases for this data besides building a full-featured client: analyzing history, providing notifications, and so on. It will be fascinating to see what people build!

airlocksoftware · 11 years ago

I'm not blaming you. It just feels bad, you know? I'll definitely email you in the future about stuff like this. And don't get me wrong, it will be great to be able to throw out the cruft that comes along with parsing the current layout. The app is engineered to be able to drop in a new API pretty quick since I thought something like this would happen eventually.

It would help me out a lot if the current front end would live on under oldnews.ycombinator.com like that until the new API has write access, though. I think it's pretty cool to be able to be reading an article somewhere else, click "Share" in Android and have "Submit to HN" pop up in the results.