Hacker GitHub

← All repos

RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 26 Swift

A Fancy "Popup Prize-Wheel Spinner" UIControl

21 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2019-06-02 · latest 2026-10-24

Mentions per year 21 mentions · busiest year 2022 (5)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. …to find a place for it, in my software. I think it works much better as a physical control. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2026-10-24 · in Apple Music 404 Not Found
  2. Your code isn't as unnecessarily commented as this. E.g. look at this line https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner/blob/d44ee... An LLM would have commented `// Create temporary UI view.` Completely redundant comments like this…
    comment by IshKebab · 2026-07-08 · in Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
  3. …never been able to justify actually using it for any of my projects. It's too "in your face." [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2026-06-30 · in Free the Icons
  4. …developers into conforming to their UX. It would make me sad, if they blocked things like these: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Checkbox https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2026-06-23 · in Swift Package Index joins Apple
  5. …them "Unit Tests." If you want some concrete examples, here you go: Here's my "Spinner" widget: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner This is the four test harness apps: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner/tree/mai…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2025-08-23 · in Developer's block
  6. That's nice! I wrote a Swift package that does a similar thing (but as an iOS widget): https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner My own experience, is that I keep on not using it in my projects. It's too much of an "in your face"…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2024-08-05 · in Show HN: Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS
  7. …app, were “sexy,” but I didn’t use any of them. The one I ended up using, was a bit pedestrian. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2024-07-28 · in An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
  8. …It's too "in your face." [0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel... [1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2024-01-14 · in What Bed Linen Can Teach Us About Usability
  9. …because it's too "attention-grabbing." There's a reason that waitstaff usually wear black. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2023-09-10 · in SmartKnob – Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents
  10. …I keep trying to use it in my projects, and keep removing it, because it's too "in your face." [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2023-08-24 · in The Dilemma of Icons
  11. …This Solve?” section in my READMEs. https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_TZ_Lookup#what-probl... https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner#what-probl... https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_BlueThoth#what-pro...…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2023-07-19 · in How to write a great README
  12. …raster art, into vector. The designers and non-tech stakeholders seem to like it. WFM. YMMV. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner [1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_MaskButton [2]…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2022-07-19 · in Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together
  13. …for iOS, and I have tried using it a few times, but we always decide that it's too intrusive: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner I generally end up taking "The Road Most Traveled By": https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/t…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2022-06-17 · in The most satisfying checkbox
  14. …I'm not gonna use, into subprojects, for reuse in other projects. Here are a couple of examples: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_CalendarInput I'm not using these in the project…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2022-06-15 · in Write documentation first, then build
  15. …I wrote something similar, for native Swift, on iOS[0], so I know some of the challenges. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2022-03-07 · in Show HN: iPod Clickwheel.js
  16. …available for future projects. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_ParseXMLDuration [1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2022-02-03 · in Code colocation is king
  17. > Check out the READMEs Ok. Tried https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner . >> WHAT PROBLEM DOES THIS SOLVE? Looks like too many caps in titles to me, I'm mildly scared.
    comment by pfalcon · 2021-11-12 · in Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021
  18. …are used in everything I do. Many would consider my workstyle "wasteful," but it works for me. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2021-08-30 · in Software Development Waste
  19. …promising, but my scale is, by necessity, fairly small. But that's just my experience. YMMV. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner#readme [1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Checkbox#readme
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2021-04-13 · in The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)
  20. …is actually just a single source file, and not really worth importing as an opaque framework: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner Same with my persistent prefs project, which is just a single, 300-line file:…
    comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2020-06-14 · in The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolution at NeXT
  21. ▲ 2
    Show HN: A Simple Popup Spinner UIControl for iOS
    story by ChrisMarshallNY · 2019-06-02 · 0 comments