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bubbab commented on React for R github.com/react-R/reactR... · Posted by u/rrr_oh_man

amarant · a year ago

This is quite surprising to me. My (admittedly limited) understanding of R is that it's focused on data analysis and graph generation. What need does react solve in that context?

bubbab · a year ago

Data visualization! Web is the go-to format for interactive data visualizations nowadays. This package is targeted at other package developers looking to integrate the abundant wealth of React-based data viz libraries into R. Check out https://quarto.org/ for an example of a popular way users publish their data analyses as reports.

(This package isn't really meant to be used directly by the typical user)

bubbab commented on Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game liero.be/... · Posted by u/damir

albertzeyer · 2 years ago

Soldat is open source now: https://github.com/soldat/soldat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058312

bubbab · 2 years ago

Oh wow, a familiar name from the OpenLieroX days! Do you still do any Liero related work? OLX was like peak Liero for me, at least for the multiplayer community, clan wars and all that. Lots of good times back in the 2010s.

bubbab commented on PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities fourth-wall.co.uk/post/po... · Posted by u/thunderbong

bubbab · 4 years ago

I use PowerToys just for the easy key remapping, which I wish was a built-in feature in more keyboards. Works very nicely as a simple alternative to AutoHotKey. My RSI has gotten a lot better by just remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl.

If any PowerToys feature deserves to be added to Windows, it's gotta be the Keyboard Manager.

bubbab commented on Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow? · Posted by u/nineplay

bubbab · 4 years ago

Messy WIP commits that are reorganized to cleaner commits later, like most others have said.

However, instead of rebasing, I often git reset to the beginning and recreate the commits from scratch, using partial file commits (or staged hunks). IDEs/editors like VS Code make it really easy to stage an individual part of a file for the commit. The CLI way (git add -p) has always been pretty confusing to me.

bubbab commented on My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise nathanlippi.com/blog/digi... · Posted by u/frant1c

kuang_eleven · 4 years ago

That's true, I just forgot about them. From what I've seen, the Vive occupies a midpoint in price and quality between the Oculus products and the Index.

EDIT: I hadn't actually seen much of the Vive Pro 2, it looks... comparable to the Index? Both price and feature-wise?

bubbab · 4 years ago

Not really a midpoint, but more on a similar level to Index. Generally, people like Index more than the Vive Pros on most points (display, audio, controllers, etc.) except for the wireless capability, and some niche features like eye tracking on the Vive Pro Eye. If you want a wireless high-end headset, Vive is the only game in town (Index is wired-only) so you have to get a Vive. It'll end up being more expensive than Index because the wireless adapter is $350. Since the Vive Pros and Index share the same tracking system, people do mix and match equipment other than the headset though. Many people will buy a Vive Pro headset and use Index controllers with them, since they're better. Index users will buy Vive trackers for full-body tracking because nothing equivalent exists for the Index.

bubbab commented on How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020) twitter.com/Kristy_Viers/... · Posted by u/eevilspock

econnors · 5 years ago

One thing I've thought about – how much harm did the Chrome team do by adding default outlines to focused elements? Although well intentioned, I think making it the default for all users resulted in pretty much every website adding "outline: 0" to their css: https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+remove+blue+border, which ultimately harmed the ecosystem for keyboard only users.

bubbab · 5 years ago

Hopefully this will start to go away soon. I learned recently that Chrome 90 (released April 2021) replaced :focus with :focus-visible in the default UA style sheet, so the focus ring will only show when using the keyboard now.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/gv69r...

bubbab commented on Accessibility is the hardest thing for me about making things for the web gomakethings.com/accessib... · Posted by u/tate

bubbab · 5 years ago

For me, the biggest hurdle has been education and awareness. At least a few years ago, the courses and resources I used to learn about web development didn't cover accessibility, and I had to learn about it after the fact. I'm glad to see more introductory resources cover it now though, like the MDN docs and web.dev.

bubbab commented on Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere gridjs.io/?hn... · Posted by u/afshinmeh

bubbab · 6 years ago

How accessible is Grid.js? The main differentiator between table libraries for me these days is accessibility. Many libraries and frameworks out there do it poorly. The better ones are often tied to company-specific frameworks.

From playing around a bit, I've at least noticed that sortable headers have no focus indicator, the "sort column ascending" text gets included in the column's accessible name, and un-sortable column headers are read as clickable by screen readers.

I would LOVE a framework-agnostic table library that's both lightweight and fully accessible. If there's a chance for Grid.js to take this in its philosophy, I would be all in!

bubbab commented on Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5 nitrome.com/blog/articles... · Posted by u/danso

bubbab · 6 years ago

I did not know about Nitrome, but wow I love the site design!

On a related note, Neopets has also been migrating their huge catalog of Flash games to HTML5 over the years. I have no idea how that's going though.