didgeoridoo (u/didgeoridoo)

didgeoridoo commented on Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step markdown-ui.com/... · Posted by u/yaoke259

threetonesun · 2 days ago

It's very silly. Given that Markdown fully supports HTML I have built sites using just Markdown + web components but that's... just how it works.

What's really needed is a better editor experience.

didgeoridoo · 2 days ago

Nice discussion on this here just a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865997

didgeoridoo commented on An interactive guide to SVG paths joshwcomeau.com/svg/inter... · Posted by u/joshwcomeau

manveerc · 6 days ago

Very nice! We had a use case where we needed to convert some images into SVGs. Since AI performed poorly at that task, we had to spend time reading and understanding the SVG code. This makes things much easier.

didgeoridoo · 6 days ago

Were they images of pelicans on bicycles?

didgeoridoo commented on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition projecthyperion.org... · Posted by u/codeulike

herval · 22 days ago

most importantly, will we carry 1000 of the best minds of our generation, 1000 hairdressers/insurance salesmen/management consultants or 1000 billionaires and their direct families?

didgeoridoo · 22 days ago

Downvoters apparently still sore about the Golgafrinchan B Ark incident.

didgeoridoo commented on Figma will IPO on July 31 figma.com/blog/ipo-pricin... · Posted by u/nevir

bko · a month ago

One thing I thought would have been incredibly useful for me is to go from HTML -> Figma

There is a ton of focus on going from Figma to something you could presumably dump into react or html. But I found nothing in the reverse.

Realistically, for a lot of applications, there are more things in production than in Figma. It's just not practical to spec everything out when you're moving fast. But when you do want someone to look at it or tinker, it's a huge lift to migrate your current production to Figma. I wish they would use some AI for that. Just take a webpage, and build the Figma design docs. Doesn't even have to be perfect, just good enough to get help from designers

didgeoridoo · a month ago

Check out html.to.design

didgeoridoo commented on Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty... · Posted by u/lightlyused

papercrane · a month ago

The lead pipes theory is mostly just pop-science. Romans were likely getting more lead exposure from using lead cooking vessels and utensils.

didgeoridoo · a month ago

Plus literally “flavoring” their wine on purpose with lead acetate.

didgeoridoo commented on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well goto10retro.com/p/vibe-co... · Posted by u/ibobev

DecoySalamander · a month ago

> This is not a bug

It's not a bug if we're talking about a mischievous jinn granting wishes instead of a productivity tool.

didgeoridoo · a month ago

Can’t it be both?

didgeoridoo commented on Claude Code Unleashed ymichael.com/2025/07/15/c... · Posted by u/ymichael

cess11 · a month ago

Looking at ChatInterface.tsx/handleSendMessage in https://github.com/pixlie/Pixlie/commit/3c0bd23ff16c0fcdac80..., I'd have rejected this if it came up in a PR and would not consider this production quality software.

Rewriting it to something sane would be harder and more time consuming than just writing a decent implementation upfront.

didgeoridoo · a month ago

This may not be the best example, but it’s worth considering: if the code is never meant to be reviewed by humans, and it’s an ephemeral implantation detail that will only ever be read & edited by machines, do certain traditional measures of software quality even matter anymore inside the module boundary?

didgeoridoo commented on Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent github.com/jeffmccune/son... · Posted by u/JeffMcCune

xandrius · 2 months ago

Great way to allow your kid to play the Frozen song on repeat every hour of the day :D

didgeoridoo · 2 months ago

In my experience there is no way to avoid this short of eliminating every trace of copper and silicon from your home.

didgeoridoo commented on Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent github.com/jeffmccune/son... · Posted by u/JeffMcCune

dintech · 2 months ago

For those that love the idea of this kind of child-friendly media consumption but maybe don’t have the time, consider Yoto. You can make your own cards that can contain one track or playlists of mp3s that you drag and drop onto a web interface. The yoto then downloads and stores those files, playing them whenever that card is inserted. You can also use the ipad app to browse and play the same content.

didgeoridoo · 2 months ago

Yeah Yoto is our family’s iPad alternative to avoid exposing the kids to too much screen time. On car trips or when they’re just being wild we break them out and the kids love trading story cards and then zoning out and listening. Highly recommended.

didgeoridoo commented on Monorail – Turn CSS animations into interactive SVG graphs muffinman.io/monorail/... · Posted by u/stanko

efskap · 2 months ago

Cool stuff! Flattening things like colours into a 1D value is an interesting challenge here. How did you decide to weigh the R channel an order of magnitude higher than G and so on? I might've tried working with HSV for instance, since it feels like animations would often be along one of those axes, but maybe not.

didgeoridoo · 2 months ago

Is that what’s happening with the color? I assumed it was doing (R+G+B)•Opacity, so the max would be 255•3=765 and the min would be 0.

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KarmaCake day6890January 30, 2012

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I run design for PayPal merchants & developers.

Formerly Salesforce/Heroku.

Swift/iOS indie hacker, currently working on clearlyhq.com

Dad of 3 if you don’t count the dog.

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