DitheringIdiot

I made a web extension like this a while back. Called Prod, it’s a similar idea but in the browser. Feel free to use it it’s free and there are no plans to change it. Been around for years.

prodtodolist.com if you’re interested

I built the opposite of this tool. It lets you generate a page to check which meta tags will generate a preview on a given platform.

https://getoutofmyhead.dev/link-preview-tester/

I’m not certain, but I think the bear trap is named after Frank Conibear.

Probably not, but it might stop you getting E.Coli

Yes you're right, that would probably prevent it

I made this one so I'm pretty sure it doesn't do that — but you just got me thinking of all the QR codes on tombstones and inked into people's skin that probably redirect to a pay day loan website or something.

You could always write code that saves the data temporarily until the user reconnects to the internet or even visits the website again. I'm not certain how I would use people's wifi passwords without being at their home, but I'm certain somebody on Hacker News could tell me exactly why it is a bad idea to share your wifi password to the internet.

I meant it to be funny without being ironic. I think this is worth doing if you enjoy this kind of thing. So far the ones I've written about on the site have saved 5g + 0.1g + 0.5g (corners) + 2g = 7.6g, and there's lots more to come.

Well, I didn't expect that to get so many comments.

It looks like there are a lot of people with perfectly valid reasons to keep some or all of these settings on. Which is great. I will rewrite the article to reflect that — and change the title to something more neutral and less absolutist.

My guess is that set has higher resolution images, just because it can.

I was just posting this to see if Hacker News automatically put titles into title case — for an article I'm writing. Looks like it does.

Which in my opinion is a bad thing — but not worth getting upset about.

That's interesting, I'll look into it. Using the method outlined in the article I can get it to the point of being almost not being able to see the screen. Though at night once your eyes adjust, I think going even dimmer could be useful.

We've updated the Niche Zero chart to show the numbers that go beyond the official ones on the grinder itself

Thanks, glad you like it. We decided not to make it embeddable and instead have exportable versions of the chart. But if you have a compelling use case we could always change that!

For the past year I've been collecting what I was calling "life hacks", but are really their own thing — I've decided to call them practical betterments — mostly because the domain practicalbetterments.com was available.

I didn't originally intend for this collection to be a website — but after boring everyone I know with them, it seemed important for my personal life to have an outlet.

If anyone is interested in playing around with dithering, I built a tool for it.

https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/

I actually wish I had Surma's article before I made it — would have given me the knowledge to add blue noise and Riemersma as options.

I built a todo list extension that blocks addictive websites until you finish your tasks. Importantly it redirects you back to your todo list and shows you a pair of disappointed eyes.

I believe it really helped me deal with procrastination, but of course the whole project was just a way to procrastinate.

I planned to make it a business, but many of its features are now built into OS. And Google doesn’t like it.

You can still get it for brave and Google chrome, but I’m no longer working on it. In case it you need it. The Firefox version is not good.

prodtodolist.com

Without a "none of the above" option, it's hard to tell what people really want.

Quite a few comments here aren't happy with any of them.

This is one of greatest resources for understanding depression I have encountered — not only is it helpful for people with depression or who seek to understand what a friend is going through — It's also extremely interesting.

Some more annoyances with ordering on your phone:

- I couldn’t get a coffee recently because there was a couple complaining that their coffee hadn’t arrived. (They took ages) it turned out they had ordered coffee at the wrong location (it’s a chain).

- went for pizza. And had to enable location services to make sure I was in the restaurant. Presumably to prevent the above issue.

- allergies - went to a restaurant where a member of staff has to come out and talk about allergies even though they’re on the digital menu. So you end up ordering twice.

A lot of screen reader users are partially blind, in the process of losing their site, or sharing a screen with someone else. So it’s better to give both experiences at the same time

I’ve written a tutorial on building one of these that uses a checkbox.

There’s more ways than a button or a link. Some people have suggested in the comments using details and summary.

It works without javascript, represents the states open and closed without requiring any aria attributes and some other usability features people might find interesting.

https://endtimes.dev/html-and-css-only-multiple-color-scheme...

Make not drinking part of your identity. Instead of telling people

I’m not drinking

say

I don’t drink

This is a small change in thinking that has a surprisingly large effect for a lot of people. Hope it helps

These notifications are incredibly annoying but have become necessary to do business online to comply with data protection regulations like GDPR.

Alternatively, you can just not track the behaviour of every person who lands on your website.

Use contextual ads instead of personalised ads.

AVIF support is a good thing — hopefully edge will follow and we'll be able stop having three different image types in `<picture>` elements.

Definitely not — i've added a warning to the article.

Doesn't load for me, just says "there's nothing here yet"

That’s equally unreasonable. Is HSBC investing in climate resilience? Obviously not. He’s just making a nonsense excuse. He doesn’t care about Miami or technical solutions, he’s just a selfish man

I think it’s a lot easier to create a harmful deepfake than a helpful one. It’s easier to create harmful lies than helpful truths.

Imagine - you could convince a parent that their child has died. Show them photographic evidence. I don’t know how close to the edge they’d need to be.

This is a wonderful thing. But does it have any positive applications outside of entertainment?

I can think of lots of malicious things it can be used for.