Hacker News: Defman

New comment by Defman in "When did Google get so weird?"

Defman — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:51:15 +0000

It's an Easter egg. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25371017

New comment by Defman in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"

Defman — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:25:01 +0000

As an alternative to a script, I can suggest Mos[1], which i've been using for 6 years I think. This is the first app I install on a fresh MacOS because I'm also using my MacBook while it's docked.

[1]: https://github.com/Caldis/Mos

New comment by Defman in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

Defman — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:14:11 +0000

No, you should name it "Your Pictures" because the app is communicating to the user that in this tab there are "your pictures". The article gives an example for the case:

> Similarly, a support agent might tell you to “Go to your cases” over webchat or a phone call. This is confusing if the UI says “My cases”.

Replace "cases" with "pictures" :)

If, however, there's a button which lets you upload pictures, it should be "Upload my picture", because the user is the one who's communicating to the app about their intent.

New comment by Defman in "Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe"

Defman — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:48:00 +0000

Orion browser[1] with uBlock Origin works pretty well for me.

[1]: https://kagi.com/orion/

New comment by Defman in "What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner"

Defman — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 06:32:51 +0000

Yeah, you’re right. This is the visualizer that’s linked in the parent comment. I just wanted to point out that you can use it locally without sending your explain plan to anyone. Sorry for the confusion, I’ll edit my original comment.

New comment by Defman in "What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner"

Defman — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:58:12 +0000

You can download the whole visualizer as a simple html file and use it this way. No need to obfuscate or sanitize anything at all.

https://github.com/dalibo/pev2

New comment by Defman in "XML is the future"

Defman — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:29:59 +0000

It definitely has the chatgpt vibes to me. No concrete answers to any of the points, just some generic definitions and re-wording of the OP’s points.

New comment by Defman in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

Defman — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:31:43 +0000

Not the first time they are doing it, from what I know. There was some AMA controversy that led to a similar blackout and mod replacements.

New comment by Defman in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

Defman — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:30:47 +0000

From the linked post:

> We are open to postponing the API timeline to launch mod tooling, if mods agree to keep their subreddits open. We will discuss this in the Council and Partner call tomorrow

Is that a threat, lol?

New comment by Defman in "uBlock Origin 1.50.0"

Defman — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:57:03 +0000

Have a look at SponsorBlock. It automatically skips this kind of ads as long as someone contributed the time stamps.

New comment by Defman in "The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems"

Defman — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:56:57 +0000

My bad, I meant "bundled".

New comment by Defman in "The Node ecosystem still has tooling problems"

Defman — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 07:09:36 +0000

You can use multi-stage builds [1] so your result image would be as small as possible by just copying the compiled JS from the build stage.

[1]: https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-bu...

New comment by Defman in "Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative"

Defman — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:29:19 +0000

I haven't seen any announcement of this feature from LT, but it looks cool! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by Defman in "Ask HN: What is your experience switching away from QWERTY keyboard?"

Defman — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 15:10:16 +0000

I've been on Dvorak for 4 months. First two weeks will be PITA and you'll lose your productivity at this point, so be careful about that. The most important thing is that you should forget about qwerty at all and don't make yourself switching to it. You must type on Dvorak even if you're very slow. There are a lot of online trainers you can use to learn how to properly type in Dvorak layout. After 2 weeks, you still will be slow but at least you can type something without a lot of troubles. After that, just do typing and you'll increase your wpm. I've printed a simple Dvorak keyboard layout because I were learning blind typing (I don't know the proper name of it, but the thing is that you type without looking at your keyboard) again and it was hard to me to remember new key positions. Don't forget about keybindings, they'd be changed too. I'm using dvorak-qwerty layout for that though, so when I press Ctrl, my keyboard uses qwerty layout. However, you can learn new keybindings if you want.

It's worth it and I don't have any problems using qwerty on other PCs. Not at the same speed as on Dvorak though.

New comment by Defman in "WeChat's App Revolution"

Defman — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:11:34 +0000

It's not oriented on the Russian market at all. Many of us (I'm Russian too) complains about Telegram not having Russian language by default. (but I don't really care about it that much because I know English very well). More over, Pavel Durov said that he won't do any business in Russia because if you don't want to cooperate with their government, you may lost your business. He lost his vk.com because of that.