Hacker News: Crisco

New comment by Crisco in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

Crisco — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:06:19 +0000

I’ve worked with people who I appreciate for their unapologetic willingness to be who they are. I might not agree with their opinions and think they’re a little extreme, but I’m glad people like them exist and enjoy seeing what they devote their time to. Based on the rest of Mitchell’s response, I think something like that is what is appreciated about Zig.

I don’t use Zig, and frequently use Rust, but I’ve never really interacted with the core development team for either. I don’t think it’s necessary to care about whatever culture is driving development once it has sufficient velocity. The Rust I use today is more than enough for my needs. Maybe if I were more involved in open source I would better understand why culture matters, but unfortunately I’m mostly a consumer of it, not a producer.

New comment by Crisco in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"

Crisco — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:16:05 +0000

I did a quick skim and the usage of phrases like "snappy stylist" and "speed-and-value monster" were what instantly stuck out to me as AI. I decided I probably didn't need to actually read the article after that.

New comment by Crisco in "Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console"

Crisco — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:09:02 +0000

I recently got into GBA development and was planning on figuring out how to do this exact thing today, so I’m happy to have found this article.

Anecdotally I’ve found that GBA and embedded development is very fun, especially since I’ve set the rule for myself to never use LLM generated code. I don’t really have the ability to not interact with LLMs at work, so being able to return to how things used to be and feel the satisfaction of building a project from scratch has enhanced my interest and excitement for personal projects.

New comment by Crisco in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

Crisco — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:27:43 +0000

I wouldn't say I love tmux, but I have a configuration file that I put on every computer I use regularly that is very comfortable for me. I basically live in the terminal across many different machines, and having the same interface for managing panes and tabs even when using ssh is invaluable.

I also use vim (well neovim) as my primary editor, and have set up tmux to integrate well with it, so that might contribute to my appreciation and continued usage of it.

New comment by Crisco in "State of the Fin 2026-01-06"

Crisco — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:58:31 +0000

Swiftfin is the tvOS app: https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

New comment by Crisco in "Ask HN: Where do you guys find audiobooks?"

Crisco — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:22:08 +0000

I purchase my audiobooks from libro.fm. It’s like Audible where you subscribe and get a credit every month, but part of the profit goes to support local book stores, and the books are DRM free.

New comment by Crisco in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

Crisco — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:19:35 +0000

Congrats! I’ve been a customer and have used it monthly since April 2021 when I first saw it here. It has been essential in planning out major life financial decisions as I’ve changed jobs, gotten married, and now as we consider children and purchasing a home.

I’ve appreciated the addition of new features over time and have recommended the tool to many friends and relatives. Hope to see another post in a couple years when you’ve hit $10M/yr!

New comment by Crisco in "Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates"

Crisco — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:10:53 +0000

Are there any performance implications for the final binary because you’re splitting it up into thousands of crates?

New comment by Crisco in "Rust Is Eating JavaScript (2023)"

Crisco — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:13:51 +0000

I’m not sure if calling Rust “what’s in fashion this week” is accurate since it has been common for at least five years (if not longer) for posts that include “in Rust” to blow up on HN.

It has been the Most Loved/Most Admired language on Stack Overflow’s developer survey for 9 years in a row. I know that’s a relatively short amount of time for a programming language, but to me it seems like it has some serious staying power.

New comment by Crisco in "A Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O'Brian"

Crisco — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:48:33 +0000

I read through the series my first time last year and as I was nearing the end I felt a deep sense of melancholy at not being able to continue on for another 20 books. I’m usually a science fiction and fantasy reader, so I was not expecting the Aubrey-Maturin novels to become one of my favorite series, but here we are.

New comment by Crisco in "What if I were 1% charged? (2013)"

Crisco — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:24:26 +0000

I'm pretty sure it's a joke about the Electron software framework.

New comment by Crisco in "Alpha-Gal Syndrome"

Crisco — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:43:33 +0000

I'm not sure about Alpha-gal Syndrome, but thankfully in Idaho you won't contract Lyme disease from tick bites.

I'm originally from Idaho but recently moved to Virginia. I've been far more cautious about ticks here than I ever felt the need to be in Idaho because you just don't get Lyme disease there.

When I go hiking here I treat my clothing with permethrin, wear long sleeved shirts and pants, and use 100% deet on any exposed skin. So far I haven't seen any ticks on my body.

New comment by Crisco in "Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift"

Crisco — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:22:58 +0000

Good point! I mostly deal with embedded systems so I often forget the difficulty of maintaining a piece of software that needs to run on basically innumerable hardware and software configurations.

New comment by Crisco in "Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift"

Crisco — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:55:11 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I guess part of why I'm confused is that they have not stated any plans to stop supporting Switch and Playstation 4 versions of the game and in my mind those are probably just as difficult to maintain as the macOS and Linux version. Do Nintendo and Sony provide support here that make it easier for Psyonix to port to their platforms, or are there just so many more players on those platforms that it is worth the investment?

New comment by Crisco in "Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift"

Crisco — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:47:46 +0000

Yeah, that is completely understandable. I was just curious why they wouldn't invest in developing for a different but more cross-platform library so that maintaining Rocket League on platforms such as the Switch and Playstation 4 (as well as the future consoles from both manufacturers) would be easier. They have stated no plans to remove support from those consoles, and I don't imagine they are much easier to maintain compatibility with than macOS or Linux.

New comment by Crisco in "Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift"

Crisco — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:23:11 +0000

So I have no experience in 3D graphics and very little experience in game design (I wrote a 2D game in high school but that's it), but if they are already going from DX9 to DX11 why don't they go to another library that supports all the platforms they already develop for such as Vulkan? I'd imagine that would better future-proof their game to make adapting to other platforms that are released in the future easier. So how hard would it be to go from DX to something else? As stated before, I have no experience in this area so I'm being completely sincere with my question.

New comment by Crisco in "Brave launches 1.0"

Crisco — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:18:01 +0000

Firefox on Android is a bit clunky, but Mozilla is currently working on a new version that will (hopefully) be much cleaner and faster. You can try it now as "Firefox Preview" on the Google Play Store.

I use it pretty much exclusively now, and though it doesn't block all ads and doesn't have addon support yet, it seems to prevent the intrusive ones from being a problem. I do keep Firefox for Android around with uBlock Origin just in case, but I rarely have to use it.

New comment by Crisco in "Dadamachines Doppler: FPGA open music hardware"

Crisco — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 04:40:27 +0000

If you're interested in a general purpose FPGA I really like the Alchitry boards[1]. They're pretty straightforward and they have an IDE that simplifies the whole FPGA development process significantly. It runs on top of the FPGA's manufacturer's toolchain so when you feel like you need to move on to more complicated projects you can transition to tools like Vivado.

[1] https://alchitry.com/

New comment by Crisco in "I woke up unable to speak English"

Crisco — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:26:24 +0000

I know someone who had a similar experience after an operation where he wasn't able to speak English, only Spanish. Interesting thing was, his mother tongue is English and he learned Spanish when he was around 20. He eventually recovered after a few hours, but I've always wondered how it would feel to know you knew a language perfectly at one point yet be unable to understand it in the moment.

New comment by Crisco in "Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’"

Crisco — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:45:28 +0000

I was also raised in a very Mormon influenced area (East Idaho). I'm still active and believing, but one of the things I do that's more for myself than because of cultural or religious belief is observe the Sabbath. I don't work or do school work and avoid most activities I normally do any other day. Sunday has become my favorite day. I don't worry about the coming week and can truly relax. That isn't to say I don't do anything, some Sundays I'm quite busy, but my activities are usually unrelated to my normal interests, hobbies, or daily life

I think everyone, religious or not, can benefit from having one day a week to truly separate themselves from both the daily grind and from what usually occupies their headspace.