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Dave Snider
Personal blog · davesnider.com · on HN as snidedesignprogrammingculture
Dave Snider's personal blog at davesnider.com covers design, programming and culture. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Dave Snider is a chaotic good web designer based out of Annapolis, MD that builds in the browser.
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I built a command line bookmark manager in Fish and FZF that stores data in Xata, which I then pull into my website as well. Source and demo available on Github from the article below. https://www.davesnider.com/posts/bookmarks
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on “Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?”Submitted Branch off of main as a story · 41 points
HN discussionFun anecdote time. I worked on (and very briefly ran) MP3.com after the CNET acquisition of the domain (CNET only bought the domain, which I think was for $1 million). It had nothing to do with the original site mentioned here (good on them for archiving it). The initial idea of the CNET version of the site was that in 2004 we assumed you would need a directory of which music was on which service. At the time there…
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on “The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge”Submitted Understanding Engineers as a Designer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI work as a Web designer in Linux. I'm not sure that I could completely get away with it if I wasn't already pretty code / frontend focused. I reach quite a bit to web-based tools (Figma, Whimsical) when I need to do prototyping, and find things like Krita and Inkscape more than competent for actual pixel pushing. Where things fall apart is when you're in larger teams where everyone uses the more common tools on the…
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on “Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux”Submitted I'm a Linux as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRight now Linux on Desktop offers: - The best developer experience with the most hackable toolkit - A great gaming experience that plays the vast majority of titles on Steam - A "dumb by default" non-cloud enabled workstation - IMHO the most well-design, does most things "vanilla" desktop environment with GNOME. The tradeoff is - You will need to learn to update your system and learn some new things. Things will see…
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on “There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux”Submitted Creating for a niche as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNNN has a lot more features and is very customizable. Most NNN users graduate to using it as a small file scripting system through use of plugins. Walk looks minimalist on purpose (which is nice for people that don't need all that NNN has to offer). I made a quick tutorial on NNN showing off the power of its plugin system if anyone is interested. It's become a bedrock tool for me. https://www.davesnider.com/posts/nnn
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on “Walk a Terminal File Manager”Submitted An Activity Feed for One as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSaw this and laughed. While not entirely the same, I made a website with similar goals earlier this year. I am another Dave, another designer. There's a funny part about being a web designer and then having to build your own site. You sort of want to drop all the bullshit, and just focus on typography and spacing. No color, no tricks, just simple stuff. It can be surprisingly hard. I went with Astro, which I think i…
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on “About Dave on Design”Submitted Claude Tips for 3D Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good luck San Francisco (2020) as a story · 1 points
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