Hacker News: Jemm

New comment by Jemm in "Ferrari Luce"

Jemm — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:02:47 +0000

"Designed with Sir Jony Ive"; Yikes!

New comment by Jemm in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

Jemm — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:27:43 +0000

I think the title really should be, "Smartphone keyboards are so bad I carry a physical keyboard with me"

New comment by Jemm in "dBase: 1979-2026"

Jemm — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:41:24 +0000

I worked in dBase professionally for a long time. Loved the system but the database constantly needing repair was an issue.

New comment by Jemm in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

Jemm — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:38:35 +0000

I got tired of the paywall surrounding cabinet design so I created https://cabinet.mycnc.app. Just finished validating the door / drawer front gcode generator by milling a kitchen's worth of doors on a hobby grade CNC.

My thinking was that the money I saved doing the cabinets myself would be enough to pay for the Sienci Labs Longmill that I bought for the project.

New comment by Jemm in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

Jemm — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:34:47 +0000

Would love to see your progress as I am very early on in the same project. I was thinking of using ArduPilot and some custom waypoint generators.

New comment by Jemm in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

Jemm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:23:17 +0000

I got tired of the money wall around cabinet design so I am working on https://cabinet.mycnc.app. Some very alpha features still but getting there.

Making cabinets is not that hard but the industry charges insane amounts of money for it. Since I have to make cabinets for two kitchens I invested in a Sienci Labs CNC so when the cabinets are done I'll have saved money and gotten a CNC out of it which I can then sell or use for other things.

New comment by Jemm in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

Jemm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:23:29 +0000

I just stopped watching movies or anything on broadcast television. Problem solved.

New comment by Jemm in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

Jemm — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:56:47 +0000

If by renewables you mean lumber from Canada, then sure.

New comment by Jemm in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

Jemm — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:23:00 +0000

Or we could let parents raise their own damn kids without making our lives worse. Parents can sign up for parental monitoring or better yet spend some time with their kids.

New comment by Jemm in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

Jemm — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:09:35 +0000

March 1st is now officially malicious compliance day.

New comment by Jemm in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

Jemm — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:13:41 +0000

No! Just No!

New comment by Jemm in "Show HN: AI in SolidWorks"

Jemm — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:23:19 +0000

Windows Defender is flagging this as containing Sabsik.EN.A!ml

New comment by Jemm in "Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021)"

Jemm — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:45:20 +0000

While cool, ultimately not usable due to the very limited hardware.

New comment by Jemm in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

Jemm — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:02:12 +0000

https://sim.mycnc.app/ A CNC simulator that runs in the browser or as a PwA. I wrote this mostly for myself to compliment a g-code sender I am also working on https://mycnc.app/ . The simulator has some basic g-code and cut verification and analysis built in with more to come.

I am learning hobby CNC having come from the 3D printer world and I found that the CNC software is considerably more complex than today's 3D printer software.

CNC seems to be the next hobbyist maker boom with the likes of Makera and Nestworks having very successful Kickstarters.

New comment by Jemm in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

Jemm — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:35:19 +0000

There are millions if not billions of older devices. What we need is an OS that support those.

New comment by Jemm in "Why we can’t quit Excel"

Jemm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:25:46 +0000

For many of the people I see stuck on spreadsheets, Excel is at the limit of what they can comprehend.

New comment by Jemm in "Cloud-Init on Raspberry Pi OS"

Jemm — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:30:38 +0000

And now there are even more outdated tutorials. Not great for a 'beginner' platform

New comment by Jemm in "How to repurpose your old phone into a web server"

Jemm — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:33:14 +0000

I use my old phone to proxy serial data to tcp. Also gives me macros and a video/audio feed. But most relevant to this is it has a built in webserver.

New comment by Jemm in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

Jemm — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:27:43 +0000

Listen up VR companies. We DO NOT WANT SMELL-O-VISION!

New comment by Jemm in "Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing"

Jemm — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:18:46 +0000

Someone want to ELIF the USB support.