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SHOW HN2022
58points
21comments
#893of 2,570 in 2022
Top 35%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Design: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Friendly, polished UI that quickly invites trying programs
From 1 comment
Wow, very friendly and welcoming UI/UX that quickly makes me try out stuff. It looks simple but the flow is very polished. Good job! P.S. Do you have more plans for this app? I…
rambambram on HN
Clever encoding of whole program in URL fragment
From 2 comments
flems.io (lightweight online html, js,css editor) does this also. i was very impressed, when i first encountered this. Everything is encoded in the url to share.…
reneberlin on HNURL parameters starting with # sound interesting, since they are obviously not sent to the server.
chkas on HN
Objections
Long URLs may break on CDNs or some browsers
From 3 comments
Partly this is doable because although RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) specifies a max URL length of 2048 bytes, all the major browsers will process URLs which are much longer, with Safari…
fastball on HNUsing fragments instead of query strings bypasses CDN limits, but obviously those are going to be a lot more fragile in general.
mmastrac on HNTHe URL is 1548 character long, which is below the "safe" length limit for URLs of 2058 characters. With Internet Explorer gone, URLs of up to 8192 chars length should work on…
jansan on HN
Questions
Why are variable names short
From 1 comment
Cool, but why are the variables named like you are trying to conserve memory? I understand `dx` and `dy`, but `thres` and `n_part` ?
mkoryak on HN
How does it differ from Try It Online
From 1 comment
How is this different from Try It Online https://tio.run ?
cmp2tio on HN
Alternatives named
Try It Online
From 1 comment
How is this different from Try It Online https://tio.run ?
cmp2tio on HN
flems.io
From 1 comment
flems.io (lightweight online html, js,css editor) does this also. i was very impressed, when i first encountered this. Everything is encoded in the url to share.…
reneberlin on HN
CryptPad
From 1 comment
flems.io (lightweight online html, js,css editor) does this also. i was very impressed, when i first encountered this. Everything is encoded in the url to share.…
reneberlin on HN