Hacker News: ElCapitanMarkla

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

ElCapitanMarkla — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:03:58 +0000

I'm not sure I the Tamagotchi deserves a place on here.

Did anything really kill it? It was kind of just a fad in the late 90s and its still around, not as popular as its fad stages but still reasonably popular. We just got back from Japan last week, there is a newly opened "Tamagotchi Factory" shop which was packed. The kids each picked up one of the latest versions and have been playing with them every day.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Mise-En-Place"

ElCapitanMarkla — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:06:02 +0000

I came from dealing with various node / ruby / python versions across multiple projects where I used nvim / rbenv and some python manager. Miss is nice as you can just switch to it and not relearn anything, it just works with the old configs.

I haven’t tried make with our setup but nix was too much of a hassle. Especially when some projects required old versions of libraries across dev (macOS) and staging/prod for various Linux OS.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Chrome DevTools MCP"

ElCapitanMarkla — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:05:05 +0000

I had this exp too, but I trialed the pro sub a few weeks back and it has been great. I have no complaints this time

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

ElCapitanMarkla — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:54:12 +0000

Not sure about stress, but definitely have the same exp re sleep. If I’m tired the ringing is very noticeable, when I wake up early after a late night it can be deafening. But besides from noticing it being “louder” it seems to go away, or I just ignore it.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy"

ElCapitanMarkla — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:12:43 +0000

Hnprofile.com which has since closed down - lettergram was the author - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942981

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck"

ElCapitanMarkla — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:42:57 +0000

I loved GTA II and spent hours playing it when I was about 14 or so. I don't recall keeping up with III's development at all and I remember seeing it popup on Kazaa one day, in an exe not much over 100mb. I was expecting another top down addition to the series and my mind was blown. Not only that it was this massive 3d game, but that someone had managed to compress it all down to such a small package.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Ask HN: How did Gemini go from being awful to incredible back to awful?"

ElCapitanMarkla — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:59:27 +0000

Gemini has been fantastic for me the last month or so.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

ElCapitanMarkla — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:30:10 +0000

Ugh it annoys me so much that the desktop etc is all in one drive without me setting it that way. But then there is still a desktop/documents directory in the usual spot under your profile, just the files don’t appear if you actually look at the desktop.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

ElCapitanMarkla — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:37:45 +0000

It’s a fantastic feature and works really well, my problem is I can never invest the required time to learn the interface. It all falls apart when I need to switch modes to move something or whatever. With scad can usually knock whatever I want together pretty quickly without having to relearn how to use the tool.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?"

ElCapitanMarkla — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:53:42 +0000

Our Magna tiles get so much use. I should really buy the kids some more.

And that Modu stuff looks so cool, I’ve never seen that before.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?"

ElCapitanMarkla — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:52:22 +0000

5 year old - laser tag, brain rot toys 8 year old - roller skates, make up/face paint

And just random stocking stuffers / books, etc.

One neat thing we found was a frog dissection toy - https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/slimy-dissect-mini-frog-wit...

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'"

ElCapitanMarkla — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:31:38 +0000

Also AI could also generate some code to enable the artists to make their own unique games. There will be loads of creative types out there who can unlock some neat concepts with AI support

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)"

ElCapitanMarkla — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:28:27 +0000

Guess it's time for my annual reading of Andy's Crash blog :D

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox"

ElCapitanMarkla — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:02:39 +0000

Yeah that part was amazing. It was 2006, I'd softmoded the Xbox with the Splinter Cell hack. I had 2MBs ADSL capped @ 10GB for international data but unlimited national. I was in a NZ only private tracker to take advantage of that and then the icing on the cake, streaming the multi volume rar files straight to the TV. It really was magic.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

ElCapitanMarkla — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:26:05 +0000

That wasn't a condescending comment.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

ElCapitanMarkla — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:22:40 +0000

I had a similar script a few years ago when I refused to give up my aging Macbook Air and built a server to host my dev env. I had an rsync command that would sync the differences from my local machine up to the remote box. It was surprisingly quick considering the size of the projects.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

ElCapitanMarkla — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:42:58 +0000

Serious question here, are you all good? Your responses here sound like you’ve been through something.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

ElCapitanMarkla — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:14:17 +0000

Fantastic, my kids are going to love this.

Seconding the call for a video.

Also the instructions to remove the quarantine attr don't work.

xattr -cr ~/Downloads/FartScrollLid.app 11:12:20

option -r not recognized

edit: that should be `xattr -d FartScrollLid.app`

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop"

ElCapitanMarkla — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:52:47 +0000

We have quite a few road side stalls like this around where I live in NZ, Honey, eggs, swedes are a common one. You hear of the odd theft from them every now and then but for the most part it seems to work well.

New comment by ElCapitanMarkla in "So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?"

ElCapitanMarkla — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:33:54 +0000

I have a failed 1x1m cnc build due to a lack of rigidity. I'm in the process of rebuilding it as a wall mounted plotter in my office. I could spend all day watching it move