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Show HN: Twitter Logo MAD Fold-In
I've been watching Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, and I've even been personally affected by it (negatively), so I wanted a way to vent using open-source software and some very basic art skills. I woke up yesterday with an idea in mind for a MAD Fold-In[1].<p>A MAD Fold-In is a piece of artwork on the inside-back cover of each issue of "MAD Magazine". The main image can be folded to reveal a hidden, secondary image.<p>I wanted to share my interactive picture with others, but printing a fold-in and mailing it to friends with instructions seemed really hard, so I searched for a digital way to do it.<p>I found a blog post[2] from Thomas Park where he already did 100% of the work necessary to make a MAD Fold-In using nothing but CSS and HTML and a normal PNG image.<p>Using Inkscape and some Creative Commons images, I drafted a rough piece of artwork and tweaked it until the CSS folded it nicely.<p>I wouldn't normally share here, but I think other HN readers may get some utility from seeing and trying out a purely CSS implementation of a MAD Fold-In, even if I didn't write the CSS myself. I'm hoping to start a trend where others make their own fold-ins.<p>Moreover, Elon Musk picked today of all days to rebrand the Twitter logo as a unicode "X" character (đť•Ź). So, the Twitter bird really _did_ die today, as happened in my MAD fold-in, making my post somewhat topical and weirdly apropos.<p>If this post is too off-topic, please feel free to take it down. If it stays up, please let me know what you think. In the event my server goes down, I made a WayBack Machine archive of the site [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in</a><p>[2] <a href="https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effect-in-css/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effec...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230724221700/https://brendenhyde.com/foldin/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20230724221700/https://brendenhy...</a>
Show HN: Twitter Logo MAD Fold-In
I've been watching Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, and I've even been personally affected by it (negatively), so I wanted a way to vent using open-source software and some very basic art skills. I woke up yesterday with an idea in mind for a MAD Fold-In[1].<p>A MAD Fold-In is a piece of artwork on the inside-back cover of each issue of "MAD Magazine". The main image can be folded to reveal a hidden, secondary image.<p>I wanted to share my interactive picture with others, but printing a fold-in and mailing it to friends with instructions seemed really hard, so I searched for a digital way to do it.<p>I found a blog post[2] from Thomas Park where he already did 100% of the work necessary to make a MAD Fold-In using nothing but CSS and HTML and a normal PNG image.<p>Using Inkscape and some Creative Commons images, I drafted a rough piece of artwork and tweaked it until the CSS folded it nicely.<p>I wouldn't normally share here, but I think other HN readers may get some utility from seeing and trying out a purely CSS implementation of a MAD Fold-In, even if I didn't write the CSS myself. I'm hoping to start a trend where others make their own fold-ins.<p>Moreover, Elon Musk picked today of all days to rebrand the Twitter logo as a unicode "X" character (đť•Ź). So, the Twitter bird really _did_ die today, as happened in my MAD fold-in, making my post somewhat topical and weirdly apropos.<p>If this post is too off-topic, please feel free to take it down. If it stays up, please let me know what you think. In the event my server goes down, I made a WayBack Machine archive of the site [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in</a><p>[2] <a href="https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effect-in-css/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effec...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230724221700/https://brendenhyde.com/foldin/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20230724221700/https://brendenhy...</a>
Show HN: Browser extension replacing the X with the original Twitter logo
Show HN: Browser extension replacing the X with the original Twitter logo
Show HN: I built a transit travel time map
This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap.<p>The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city.<p>The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach.<p>This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested: <a href="http://github.com/econaxis/time2reach">http://github.com/econaxis/time2reach</a>
Show HN: I built a transit travel time map
This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap.<p>The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city.<p>The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach.<p>This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested: <a href="http://github.com/econaxis/time2reach">http://github.com/econaxis/time2reach</a>
Show HN: I built a transit travel time map
This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap.<p>The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city.<p>The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach.<p>This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested: <a href="http://github.com/econaxis/time2reach">http://github.com/econaxis/time2reach</a>
Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
Hey everyone! After another year of building as a solo dev on nights and weekends, I'm back with an update on this post: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093</a>.<p>TL;DR - ProjectionLab (<a href="https://projectionlab.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://projectionlab.com</a>) is a privacy-friendly personal finance planning tool where you can create financial plans that go beyond the standard online retirement calculators. And by popular request, it now supports self-hosting for Lifetime users!<p>Something I'm grateful for is that our community here on HN is the difference between PL existing and not. There was actually a time early on when I was one day away from halting work on it. I posted here on a whim, and was shocked to receive some really constructive and energizing feedback that went on to power my indie dev journey over the past two and a half years.<p>As a quick recap, the story started when I dove head-first down the financial independence rabbit hole. I wanted a hands-on and visual way to explore the trade-offs between different life paths. One thing led to another, and I decided to build ProjectionLab.<p>After last year's Show HN, I really put my nose to the grindstone, and here are some of the big developments:<p>- Self-hosting for Lifetime users (spin up your own private deployment, based on Docker Compose, includes support for auth/encryption)<p>- Cash-flow visualization for each simulated year (sankey charts)<p>- Tax analytics (detailed breakdowns for projected income, taxes, marginal rates, effective brackets, etc)<p>- Major redesign of entire app, with landing page and resources now split into separate project<p>- Filing separately option to improve support for international locations that don't have joint filing<p>- Roth Conversions and 72t (SEPP) distribution modeling<p>- Improvements to US tax estimation (Secure 2.0 updates, rental property tax deductions, Medicare + IRMAA, NIIT, principal residence exclusion, etc)<p>- Better support for planning as a couple<p>- More modeling options for cash-flow priorities to support different budgeting philosophies and goals<p>- Extra liquidity + withdrawal options, ability to fund expenses with specific accounts or route income to specific accounts<p>- Customization options for Monte Carlo simulations (characterization of success rates and outcome types, option to set random seed, etc)<p>- And a whole bunch more! (<a href="https://projectionlab.com/changelog" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://projectionlab.com/changelog</a>)<p>The HN community has had a huge role in shaping my overall direction with PL, and I can't wait to hear what you all think of the updates and where you would like to see things go from here.<p>As always, PL is free to try, with no need to create an account. It does not ask to link your financial accounts, and it has a sandbox mode if you just want to hop in and see how it works.<p>--Kyle
Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
Hey everyone! After another year of building as a solo dev on nights and weekends, I'm back with an update on this post: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093</a>.<p>TL;DR - ProjectionLab (<a href="https://projectionlab.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://projectionlab.com</a>) is a privacy-friendly personal finance planning tool where you can create financial plans that go beyond the standard online retirement calculators. And by popular request, it now supports self-hosting for Lifetime users!<p>Something I'm grateful for is that our community here on HN is the difference between PL existing and not. There was actually a time early on when I was one day away from halting work on it. I posted here on a whim, and was shocked to receive some really constructive and energizing feedback that went on to power my indie dev journey over the past two and a half years.<p>As a quick recap, the story started when I dove head-first down the financial independence rabbit hole. I wanted a hands-on and visual way to explore the trade-offs between different life paths. One thing led to another, and I decided to build ProjectionLab.<p>After last year's Show HN, I really put my nose to the grindstone, and here are some of the big developments:<p>- Self-hosting for Lifetime users (spin up your own private deployment, based on Docker Compose, includes support for auth/encryption)<p>- Cash-flow visualization for each simulated year (sankey charts)<p>- Tax analytics (detailed breakdowns for projected income, taxes, marginal rates, effective brackets, etc)<p>- Major redesign of entire app, with landing page and resources now split into separate project<p>- Filing separately option to improve support for international locations that don't have joint filing<p>- Roth Conversions and 72t (SEPP) distribution modeling<p>- Improvements to US tax estimation (Secure 2.0 updates, rental property tax deductions, Medicare + IRMAA, NIIT, principal residence exclusion, etc)<p>- Better support for planning as a couple<p>- More modeling options for cash-flow priorities to support different budgeting philosophies and goals<p>- Extra liquidity + withdrawal options, ability to fund expenses with specific accounts or route income to specific accounts<p>- Customization options for Monte Carlo simulations (characterization of success rates and outcome types, option to set random seed, etc)<p>- And a whole bunch more! (<a href="https://projectionlab.com/changelog" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://projectionlab.com/changelog</a>)<p>The HN community has had a huge role in shaping my overall direction with PL, and I can't wait to hear what you all think of the updates and where you would like to see things go from here.<p>As always, PL is free to try, with no need to create an account. It does not ask to link your financial accounts, and it has a sandbox mode if you just want to hop in and see how it works.<p>--Kyle
Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
Hey everyone! After another year of building as a solo dev on nights and weekends, I'm back with an update on this post: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093</a>.<p>TL;DR - ProjectionLab (<a href="https://projectionlab.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://projectionlab.com</a>) is a privacy-friendly personal finance planning tool where you can create financial plans that go beyond the standard online retirement calculators. And by popular request, it now supports self-hosting for Lifetime users!<p>Something I'm grateful for is that our community here on HN is the difference between PL existing and not. There was actually a time early on when I was one day away from halting work on it. I posted here on a whim, and was shocked to receive some really constructive and energizing feedback that went on to power my indie dev journey over the past two and a half years.<p>As a quick recap, the story started when I dove head-first down the financial independence rabbit hole. I wanted a hands-on and visual way to explore the trade-offs between different life paths. One thing led to another, and I decided to build ProjectionLab.<p>After last year's Show HN, I really put my nose to the grindstone, and here are some of the big developments:<p>- Self-hosting for Lifetime users (spin up your own private deployment, based on Docker Compose, includes support for auth/encryption)<p>- Cash-flow visualization for each simulated year (sankey charts)<p>- Tax analytics (detailed breakdowns for projected income, taxes, marginal rates, effective brackets, etc)<p>- Major redesign of entire app, with landing page and resources now split into separate project<p>- Filing separately option to improve support for international locations that don't have joint filing<p>- Roth Conversions and 72t (SEPP) distribution modeling<p>- Improvements to US tax estimation (Secure 2.0 updates, rental property tax deductions, Medicare + IRMAA, NIIT, principal residence exclusion, etc)<p>- Better support for planning as a couple<p>- More modeling options for cash-flow priorities to support different budgeting philosophies and goals<p>- Extra liquidity + withdrawal options, ability to fund expenses with specific accounts or route income to specific accounts<p>- Customization options for Monte Carlo simulations (characterization of success rates and outcome types, option to set random seed, etc)<p>- And a whole bunch more! (<a href="https://projectionlab.com/changelog" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://projectionlab.com/changelog</a>)<p>The HN community has had a huge role in shaping my overall direction with PL, and I can't wait to hear what you all think of the updates and where you would like to see things go from here.<p>As always, PL is free to try, with no need to create an account. It does not ask to link your financial accounts, and it has a sandbox mode if you just want to hop in and see how it works.<p>--Kyle
Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey
Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey
Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey
Show HN: psitop – top for /proc/pressure
Show HN: Scaffolder, CLI tool to generate project structure, taken from YAML
Scaffolder is a CLI tool written in Golang to instantly generate skeleton project structure with boilerplate code, that's taken from configurable YAML file, to quickly kick-start your project<p>I was tired of manually creating the project structure, with all those folder, files... So I decided to create a CLI tool that allows you to instantly generate skeleton projects, based on a reusable YAML file with boilerplate code if specified.<p>YAML is very easy for both humans and programs to work with and parse, hence why it's the most logical choice in context of Scaffolder.<p>Check out the GitHub page for detailed description and examples :)
Show HN: High school transcript generator for homeschoolers
Hi everyone,<p>Great Books Homeschool has just released this free tool for generating high school transcripts using the standard American unweighted GPA system. It's available to the public at no cost, and no account creation is required.<p>These are both resources that would have saved me time as a new homeschooling parent, and I hope they are helpful to others.<p>Comments and feedback are welcome!
Show HN: High school transcript generator for homeschoolers
Hi everyone,<p>Great Books Homeschool has just released this free tool for generating high school transcripts using the standard American unweighted GPA system. It's available to the public at no cost, and no account creation is required.<p>These are both resources that would have saved me time as a new homeschooling parent, and I hope they are helpful to others.<p>Comments and feedback are welcome!
Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Hello HN!<p>So early this year I decided to build an iOS browser offering a large range of customization options, to accommodate anyone’s usage and visual preferences. Been using it as my default browser for 6 months and not looking back.<p>On first launch it looks and behaves a bit like Safari, but to give you an idea, here are the various ways I customized it on my phone.<p>- More screen real estate for the webpage, less for the toolbar.<p>- A compact toolbar containing only the buttons for actions I use the most: new tab, close tab, open tab list. Since I use them hundred times a day, I need them available with button taps instead of swipe gestures.<p>- A toolbar button layout adapted to my left-handedness.<p>- A toolbar that disappears on scroll to allow full-screen reading.<p>- The toolbar and address bar at the bottom, as they should be.<p>- A popup menu showing the full URL and the buttons I use less frequently: back/forward (already available as screen edge gestures), share, reload, settings, etc.<p>- Showing the page title in the toolbar.<p>- Read time estimation for each tab.<p>- Opening the keyboard automatically when I open a new tab.<p>- Sorting tabs by read time, so that I can decide what to read based on how much time and focus I have.<p>- Grouping tabs by domain.<p>- A flat, condensed tab list, without snapshots.<p>- A full-black toolbar in dark mode to read at night.<p>It’s still early days but things like content blockers, reader mode, iPad support, and more should arrive soon enough.<p>And of course, no analytics/monitoring/telemetry, no account creation, no backend. It’s not open source, but you can also inspect the app’s web views with Safari developer tools to see what’s going on under the hood.<p>Would love to hear if the level of personalization my app provides resonates with like-minded people.<p>Have a great day!
Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Hello HN!<p>So early this year I decided to build an iOS browser offering a large range of customization options, to accommodate anyone’s usage and visual preferences. Been using it as my default browser for 6 months and not looking back.<p>On first launch it looks and behaves a bit like Safari, but to give you an idea, here are the various ways I customized it on my phone.<p>- More screen real estate for the webpage, less for the toolbar.<p>- A compact toolbar containing only the buttons for actions I use the most: new tab, close tab, open tab list. Since I use them hundred times a day, I need them available with button taps instead of swipe gestures.<p>- A toolbar button layout adapted to my left-handedness.<p>- A toolbar that disappears on scroll to allow full-screen reading.<p>- The toolbar and address bar at the bottom, as they should be.<p>- A popup menu showing the full URL and the buttons I use less frequently: back/forward (already available as screen edge gestures), share, reload, settings, etc.<p>- Showing the page title in the toolbar.<p>- Read time estimation for each tab.<p>- Opening the keyboard automatically when I open a new tab.<p>- Sorting tabs by read time, so that I can decide what to read based on how much time and focus I have.<p>- Grouping tabs by domain.<p>- A flat, condensed tab list, without snapshots.<p>- A full-black toolbar in dark mode to read at night.<p>It’s still early days but things like content blockers, reader mode, iPad support, and more should arrive soon enough.<p>And of course, no analytics/monitoring/telemetry, no account creation, no backend. It’s not open source, but you can also inspect the app’s web views with Safari developer tools to see what’s going on under the hood.<p>Would love to hear if the level of personalization my app provides resonates with like-minded people.<p>Have a great day!
Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Hello HN!<p>So early this year I decided to build an iOS browser offering a large range of customization options, to accommodate anyone’s usage and visual preferences. Been using it as my default browser for 6 months and not looking back.<p>On first launch it looks and behaves a bit like Safari, but to give you an idea, here are the various ways I customized it on my phone.<p>- More screen real estate for the webpage, less for the toolbar.<p>- A compact toolbar containing only the buttons for actions I use the most: new tab, close tab, open tab list. Since I use them hundred times a day, I need them available with button taps instead of swipe gestures.<p>- A toolbar button layout adapted to my left-handedness.<p>- A toolbar that disappears on scroll to allow full-screen reading.<p>- The toolbar and address bar at the bottom, as they should be.<p>- A popup menu showing the full URL and the buttons I use less frequently: back/forward (already available as screen edge gestures), share, reload, settings, etc.<p>- Showing the page title in the toolbar.<p>- Read time estimation for each tab.<p>- Opening the keyboard automatically when I open a new tab.<p>- Sorting tabs by read time, so that I can decide what to read based on how much time and focus I have.<p>- Grouping tabs by domain.<p>- A flat, condensed tab list, without snapshots.<p>- A full-black toolbar in dark mode to read at night.<p>It’s still early days but things like content blockers, reader mode, iPad support, and more should arrive soon enough.<p>And of course, no analytics/monitoring/telemetry, no account creation, no backend. It’s not open source, but you can also inspect the app’s web views with Safari developer tools to see what’s going on under the hood.<p>Would love to hear if the level of personalization my app provides resonates with like-minded people.<p>Have a great day!