Hacker News: Globz

New comment by Globz in "Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook"

Globz — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:01:20 +0000

haha this great! I have made something similar for myself but its a tool to manage shell scripts for my projects. I create a grimoire for a given project and add reagents and recipes (shell scripts) those can be mixed individually or brewed together to form a recipe. I also have a concept of spells which are more akin to utility scripts for managing/scaffolding the grimoire.

here’s the tool: https://github.com/globz/witchesbrew

and here’s a grimoire which manage everything related to my emacs config and dependencies:

https://github.com/globz/emacs-grimoire

New comment by Globz in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

Globz — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:27:51 +0000

I’ve noticed this trend in my life where during winter times my consumption goes way up and as soon as spring time is here then my creativity crawls back from hibernation and I quickly regain motivation to continue my side projects. I wish I could be 100% focus year round but for some reason it very hard to keep the inner flame of creativity going during winter times. At least I did noticed this pattern and being aware is the first step to remedy this problem.

New comment by Globz in "Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)"

Globz — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:02:36 +0000

This remind me of tldraw but instead of a screenshot you draw your UI and it converts it to HTML, check out https://drawmyui.com - here’s a demo from twitter https://x.com/multikev/status/1724908185361011108?s=46&t=AoX...

New comment by Globz in "Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children"

Globz — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:49:07 +0000

In your situation I would give him an hour per day (10 minutes is a very short amount of time to do anything fun or see progress in most games) then monitor the outcome based on your previous baseline , does he ask for extra time when its time to call it quit, do you see a negative outcome on his grades, focus and desire to play outside or with other toys, etc. Then simply cut back if you see any downsides with 1 hour per day. You should definitely play with him during that time if you can, it is a great way to bond with your son and try to change the activity during the week, like play lego with him instead of gaming and see what will be his reaction when a video game is no longer involved.

Video games are always good in moderation and there are definitely some great games for kids, exploring with him when searching for a new game will teach you a lot about about why he’s drawn to such and such game and this way you may be able to find other hobbies outside of gaming which are related to his interests.

New comment by Globz in "We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online"

Globz — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:45:31 +0000

Yes, Mortal Online 2 is the closest thing to UO to this day.

New comment by Globz in "Last Pass Hacked"

Globz — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:27:13 +0000

I sync via dropbox and store my kbdx inside a VeraCrypt container.

New comment by Globz in "What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]"

Globz — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:03:07 +0000

Same here, many years ago I made a web app for our sales team and third party so they can sell/buy our products, the whole business is still powered by IBM iSeries. Basically the AS/400 is the source of truth and the web app just pulls the data couple times a day and provide a nice GUI for the users. The sales orders are automatically sent to the iSeries in batch so no more manual entries and their status are reflected back on the web app so you can have an overview of each orders. Sadly we are looking at moving away from iSeries and we will be at the mercy of whatever cloud solution that will meet our needs.

New comment by Globz in "We Need to Stop Pretending we can Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C"

Globz — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 13:17:48 +0000

Yes lets end human civilization once and for all, what a great idea.

We are the ones who needs to be saved not the planet.

This kind of thinking is really scary.

New comment by Globz in "Tibia (1997) is one of the earliest and longest-running MMORPGs"

Globz — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:46:01 +0000

There are MMOs like this but they come once or a twice every decade and fail miserably, full loot PVP MMO are built for a specific mindset of players and there comes a time where the “sheep” are all gone and only wolves remains. This situation creates a dwindling effect on the population and you end up playing with a few hundred players at best in a matter of a year.

In “recent” years I played Darkfall Online and Mortal Online which are very rooted in the early days of persistant virtual world ala UO but sadly they both failed to keep an healthy population.

Have you tried Mortal Online 2? the game just came out and is a true successor to UO in many ways, sadly they had massive problems scaling the game so they had to mirror the main persistent world and added 4 instances of the main world to cope with the demand. The vision is to have a one big persistent world with no instance/loading screen and keep adding more and more continents to spread out the population.

If you liked playing UO I recommend you check it out, its a unique gaming experience which may sadly go extinct in the future!

Issue with email message visibility in Outlook

Globz — Tue, 11 May 2021 21:39:37 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1392208966231355392

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27123869

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Globz in "EmacsConf 2020 Talks"

Globz — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:49:24 +0000

yes for iOS, I suggest you take a look at beorg, it is quite nice for quick editing and note taking. Of course the real magic truely happens when org is paired with Emacs but the app is quite useful for basic tasks.

New comment by Globz in "LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them"

Globz — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:55:36 +0000

Same, I encrypt my KeePass into VeraCrypt container and sync with dropbox, seems fairly secure to me for my use case.

New comment by Globz in "German BSI withholds Truecrypt security report"

Globz — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 15:12:25 +0000

You should no longer use TrueCrypt, if you want an alternative I suggest https://www.veracrypt.fr

New comment by Globz in "Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?"

Globz — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:14:59 +0000

Yes, it uses pmatch behind the scene to match your expr against the evaluator.

https://github.com/webyrd/quines/blob/master/pmatch.scm

I have to agree, this like rank #1 in my book!

New comment by Globz in "Which companies are using Erlang, and why?"

Globz — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:49:40 +0000

Well a Nerves image is a Unix Kernel + Erlang/Elixir & BEAM and whatever else you need, so its a completely stripped down image. It uses the Whitelist model so you add what you need instead of removing what you don't need. This is both more secure and more performant since you don't have 100's of apps/services running in the background, you only run what you need.

You can control everything remotely with nerves-hub, push update, debug etc. Remember you only have to burn the image once, then its all update from here.

You can build a poncho application where everything is side-by-side, lets say you have your app-firmware (you build image from this), then you build separate app-ui, app-logic, app-whatever etc. and simply hard code the path as dependencies in app-firmware and each app has their own configuration.

Everything will be bundled into a single image and protects you from things leaking in from the sides rather than from above.

New comment by Globz in "Which companies are using Erlang, and why?"

Globz — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:45:21 +0000

Yes, take a look at nerves : https://nerves-project.org/

New comment by Globz in "LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site"

Globz — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:33:03 +0000

Just add the original URL into the specified field and copy paste it each time you need to access said website.

KeePass is the best at what it does and stays local as any password manager should do. If you need more security & portability encrypt the DB with VeraCrypt, sync with whatever service you trust.

How Castle Is Building Codeless Customer Account Protection

Globz — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:11:29 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/castle-building-codeless-customer-account-protection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20951005

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Globz in "DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’"

Globz — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:40:50 +0000

It is not as bad as it used to be, if you want to build a gaming PC today it will most likely last from 5 to 6 years without needing any upgrades, most upgrades are barely noticeable if you already use a decent graphic card and NVMe SSD.

If you have no desire to use it as a gaming rig but simply want a beast for compiling your code/video editing then it should last even longer.

New comment by Globz in "Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt"

Globz — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:10:15 +0000

Have you tried edeliver? it make use of distillery and I find it easy to deploy with, I guess it all boils down to your server architecture but you should give it a try someday.

https://github.com/edeliver/edeliver