I used to save Timeanddate's calendar as HTML and adjust them so they fit A4 paper perfectly (also like to remove their logo oops), but have moved on to generating my own: https://kenrick95.github.io/calendar/ Suprisingly CSS Grid is perfect on my use case :)
Readit Newskenrick95 commented on I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me) blog.notmyhostna.me/posts... · Posted by u/dewey
I learned about the consequences of overloading the human operator when working on the primary UI for a manufacturing business. A natural inclination is to put things like confirmation dialogs around dangerous activities. I had managers telling me that one confirmation wasn't enough and that we had to add additional because people were still missing.
Eventually, we tried removing the dialogs altogether and the incident rate approached zero. If you take away the guardrails completely, it radically alters the psychology and game theory around user interaction. Imagine climbing a tall building with multiple layers of protection vs having none at all.
I strongly believe in ideas like "safety 3rd". It's not that I want the humans to be maimed by the machines. Quite the opposite. The difficulty is in understanding higher order consequences of "safety" and avoiding the immediate knee-jerk satisfaction that first order resolutions may provide.
My gripe is with multi-layer approvals for permission request tickets. If it's only 1 layer, the only layer will make sure the person it's correct. However once there are >1 layer, each layer will think the other n-1 layers will check and turn out no one will check and blindly approve things...
kenrick95 commented on Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking lemdro.id/post/lemdro.id/... · Posted by u/celsoazevedo
Any good alternatives people are using? I've used Nova for absolutely ages
I switched to KISS Launcher several years back and had been loving it. I like the philosophy of search-based launcher. This way, if I don't actively search for an app, I won't be distracted into opening one
Today I learned about the difference betweeen "preconnect" and "dns-prefetch": https://web.dev/articles/preconnect-and-dns-prefetch
I have thought that they were the same...
kenrick95 commented on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? · Posted by u/meridion
I want to learn driving.
I live in a city with well-connected public transport (Singapore) so I don't feel the need to learn. However, this year I travelled to some rural areas in Japan and started to feel the pain of relying solely on public transport which is either extremely sparse, or sometimes non-existent which limits the places I want to visit. That's why I felt like if I obtain this skill, I can explore more places in my travels
I submitted my travel planning web application [1] few weeks ago as Show HN [2] and it received tons of feedback and ideas that resonates with me. So I'm still working on it :)
kenrick95 commented on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application ikuyo.kenrick95.org/... · Posted by u/kenrick95
kenrick95 commented on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application ikuyo.kenrick95.org/... · Posted by u/kenrick95
This is funny (in a good way) because there's a YC company that actually does the same: https://www.flowtrip.app/
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
kenrick95 commented on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application ikuyo.kenrick95.org/... · Posted by u/kenrick95
Would it be possible to determine the best order for visiting a set of places?
Yes it is a sort of TSP, but you cannot assume fixed weights (as some roads can be open only some times of the day)
I feel like once I list down the places in the map, I sort of can grasp which places should go together or play around with the schedules to make things work. Yes it's more manual work, but I feel that's part of the 'fun' in planning? (some people get stressed, but I love the planning part of the trip too)
kenrick95 commented on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application ikuyo.kenrick95.org/... · Posted by u/kenrick95