Hacker News: ChrisGammell

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Kagi Small Web"

ChrisGammell — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:10:38 +0000

Yep, insert the "always has been" meme. I learned from my early blogging that finding something that was popular just ended up having me chase that high again, instead of the things I wanted to be writing. True of every platform before and since.

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

ChrisGammell — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:23:39 +0000

2005! Didn't realize it was that long ago. Have been thinking about that book every time I read about people that move to "100% AI coding" in their work. Sure, they might have an increased output, but what happens when their "computer is ripped off their face" like the main character?

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Vimeo's Slow Fade: An Engineer's Front-Row Seat to the Fall of a Web Icon"

ChrisGammell — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:30:11 +0000

I didn't realize the Bending Spoons acquisition was a second time go-round. I do know after they enshittified (sorry, "harvested called for the PE overlords") two other web properties I used and loved back in the day (Evernote, Meetup), and thus I have an unfortunate to-do list item to migrate my 1000+ video library over to something else in 2026. Currently looking at Cloudflare for the files and some kind of player on top.

Sigh.

A Physical Meme Terminal for Distributed Teams

ChrisGammell — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:14:18 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.golioth.io/a-physical-meme-terminal-for-distributed-teams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367656

Points: 7

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New comment by ChrisGammell in "Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces"

ChrisGammell — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:48:16 +0000

Never Trust The Automap

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Interesting SPI Routing with iCE40 FPGAs"

ChrisGammell — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:22:36 +0000

I aggressively enjoyed this post

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Lee Felsenstein"

ChrisGammell — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:22:12 +0000

Interview with Lee at the end of 2024 on The Amp Hour podcast: https://theamphour.com/684-lee-felsenstein-the-computer-revo...

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils"

ChrisGammell — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:04:40 +0000

A message in a bottle, thrown into your own swimming pool every evening. I like it.

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Switch bouncing reference traces for a variety of different switches"

ChrisGammell — Sun, 04 May 2025 12:49:30 +0000

I always refer to this multipart series on debouncing from one of the greats of embedded, (the now retired) Jack Ganssle

https://www.ganssle.com/debouncing.htm

New comment by ChrisGammell in "N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams"

ChrisGammell — Sat, 03 May 2025 15:10:21 +0000

A while back I used it to glue together a bunch of APIs to make a geofence on top of a WiFi location service my company offers. Super easy to prototype external computation without something like severless/lambda (which would be the likely path for production)

https://blog.golioth.io/a-2-geofence-wi-fi-location-here-com...

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation"

ChrisGammell — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:04:50 +0000

I'd love to hear more about how the "sales engineers were the influential ones" manifested. I have an idea in my head, but I'm curious about details.

New comment by ChrisGammell in "A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor"

ChrisGammell — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:50:59 +0000

What is this, a MCU for ant(man)?! It needs to be at least...three times that thick!

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter"

ChrisGammell — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:19:10 +0000

I'm generally in the "never trust the autorouter" camp (and by extension "never trust the bevy of AI tools entering the space"), but it's undeniable there are some big opportunities in the eCAD space to speed up some aspects of layout. I'm probably more likely to use co-creation tools, rather than full auto tools, simply because I rely heavily on iteration. Many times when starting a design my placements aren't set and that has a huge impact on routing. I didn't see on your page whether placement was part of your algorithm. I already rely on tools like push and shove and occasionally auto complete.

I'm always curious about people entering the space though. It is a small market, IMO. The tools are fractured, the existing players are lumbering behemoths, and the users are cranky zealots (you will have to pry KiCad out of my cold dead hands). I noted the step about the AR being written in JavaScript, which I have no real opinion on, but I'm curious about plans to plug into ecosystems (CAD vendors, OS tools) or try and draw people into another new ecosystem.

New comment by ChrisGammell in "Ask HN: Difficulties with going back to school"

ChrisGammell — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 02:25:42 +0000

I'm way late to this party, but I'm happy to give advice as well. Chris {at sign} theamphour.com

I'm an EE with some loud opinions about the state of higher education for electronics, but I'm sure there's a path for you.

New comment by ChrisGammell in "The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)"

ChrisGammell — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:28:54 +0000

Extra points for the ones that sit down at step 4 and lay out all the things they've already tried so the context on the problem is clear

New comment by ChrisGammell in "A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset"

ChrisGammell — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:00:16 +0000

I always drop everything to read when there are new articles. Keep up the great work Ken!

New comment by ChrisGammell in "HP Acquires Humane's AI Software"

ChrisGammell — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:16:26 +0000

Coming soon to your next printer: navigate through menus with a pico projector sending dim light onto your outstretched palm...

Posting to Bluesky from a Microcontroller

ChrisGammell — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:15:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.golioth.io/posting-to-bluesky-from-a-microcontroller/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207603

Points: 5

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New comment by ChrisGammell in "Is it better to fail spectacularly?"

ChrisGammell — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:43:33 +0000

Spontaneous combustion, for sure

Enabling power regulators automatically at boot in Zephyr (RTOS)

ChrisGammell — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:17:11 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.golioth.io/enabling-power-regulators-automatically-at-boot-in-zephyr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39192786

Points: 5

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