hellojason | 1 year ago | on: Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments
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hellojason | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Donobu – Mac App for Web Automation and Testing
I ran into this issue before when building a magic link system. Seems Microsoft visits the link to check for risks, which in turn nullifies that link before it hits your inbox. Fun times.
hellojason | 1 year ago | on: Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design
Qualitative research is finicky like that. What I’ve seen happen more often is a user is frustrated yet professional enough in some moment to actually provide useful feedback, but they bail when the survey has one too many questions. UXR teams like to organize questions and answers into nice little spreadsheets that ladder back to KPIs, but that’s not how an emotional person with honest criticism wants to share it. So they bail and you lose that moment. I like to do stars or thumb up/down as a pulse check, then a textbox to spill your guts. More work for me, but useful results more often.
hellojason | 1 year ago | on: Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design
It’s called user research
hellojason | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately?
I believe WordPress choosing React as its frontend framework of choice further solidified this point.
hellojason | 3 years ago | on: BlinderKitten: Free lighting software
No SSL certificate on the site, so here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/norbertrostaing/BlinderKitten/
hellojason | 3 years ago | on: Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking
Seconding this. I use Brave strictly as my YouTube viewer.
hellojason | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Veonid – Create a personal website for free
Congrats on the launch, it’s hard work getting to this point. But as others have pointed out, this feels like a solution in search of a problem. The value props just aren’t there to start recommending this service to my family and friends, when more mature and trusted solutions already exist.
hellojason | 3 years ago | on: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
Brave browser blocks YouTube ads out-the-box with no additional extensions or configuring. I use Brave explicitly for YouTube.
hellojason | 4 years ago | on: I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
I think they were trying to convey the idea that not all very qualified candidates would even consider a contract-to-hire option. I know I wouldn't. That’s an unnecessary risk for me to take.
hellojason | 4 years ago | on: National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean
Have you heard about Pluto yet? My very eager mother just served us nachos.
hellojason | 4 years ago | on: Little Free Library
We bought one a few weeks ago and have been assembling and painting on weekends. Fun little project and looking forward to installing it. There are a few in the greater neighborhood already and they get a lot of use.
hellojason | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
Oh right, good point. The repo had to be public until very recently.
hellojason | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
I have to agree with parent. I've had a custom domain without Jekyll on GitHub pages for well over 5 years now, and it's been free the entire time.
hellojason | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Corrily (YC W21) – Price Optimization for SaaS
I’m curious of the legalities of price testing. VWO suggests [0] never offering the “exact same product” at a different price for legal reasons. Your service doesn’t appear to change plan benefits or names, only prices.
hellojason | 5 years ago | on: Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod
I suggest an Evoluent[0] mouse if you’ve never tried one. I use the Vertical Mouse 4 wired edition.
hellojason | 5 years ago | on: Switching to Windows
Avid Windows user here. I had to explain myself so many times to coworkers that I wrote this list [0] to point out differences that users may not be aware of. This list is 4 years old a this point, so a few of the items are no longer true, but overall it still holds water.
I've been forced to use Mac for work for several years now, and I still feel jailed in my productivity compared to Windows. The biggest, most crucial difference that Mac users don't seem to know they're missing is how every single Windows dialog box acts like a complete version of Windows Explorer. The Mac's save and open dialog boxes are absolutely infuriating. Also, why can't I just create a markdown file in a folder, double click it so it opens in vscode, then start typing? Window management on Mac is nonexistent, how come window snapping isn't a native feature? Mission Control is like playing hide-and-seek, not managing windows.
[0] https://hellojason.net/blog/nitpicky-differences-between-win...
hellojason | 5 years ago | on: Vivaldi 3.6 Introduces Two-Level Tab Stacks
I’ve been using 2 hidden features in Chrome and Edge called Tab Groups and Minimize Tab Groups, which let you assign a bunch of tabs to a group and minimize them down to a size the length of text that you named that group. Color coding too. Game changer.
You can enable them in the chrome://flags and edge://flags.
hellojason | 5 years ago | on: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
> auto playing videos on Netflix
You can now disable this at the account level. They added the option a few months back.
hellojason | 5 years ago | on: Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own safety
That’s odd. I’m using an ad blocker and a PiHole, and the site loads fine for me. Ad block detection is hard, I guess.
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