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If your question was about using Ardour, I used it a bit and I managed to make a tune. I recommend this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACJ1suTVouw

New comment by Nales in "Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in"

Nales — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:53:01 +0000

From the home page of the website.

> I also teach workshops on AI development for engineering teams

So yet another article playing on FOMO about how urgent it is to get in tune with LLM usage written by someone who teaches how to use LLM.

New comment by Nales in "Mapy.com"

Nales — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:13:32 +0000

Not to be confused with the already existing "mappy.com".

New comment by Nales in "Why We're Moving on from Nix"

Nales — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:09:34 +0000

Have you tried GNU Guix (the package manager, not the system) as a viable option to replace your Nix usage?

New comment by Nales in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

Nales — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:29:19 +0000

I am using Haxe which compiles to other languages (C++, JavaScript, PHP...). This is a nice language when you want to create a web application or a even a CLI.

If you have played video games by Shiro Games (Evoland, Dune Spice Wars) or Motion Twin (Dead Cells) or even Paper Please!, then you had been exposed to this language.

New comment by Nales in "OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era"

Nales — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:23:19 +0000

I think this is the same reason why people preferred a "Call of Duty" over "Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory" when playing a multiplayer FPS. You do not necessarily want to invest a lot of time to enjoy something.

On a personal note, I really enjoyed "Dune 2000" and "Emperor: Battle for Dune" but I have never really been a huge fan of the "Age of Empire" series. Recently I tried "Impossible Creatures" and it was frustrating. I suppose for I am a very casual RTS player. Each to their own.

Flickle – The daily movie guessing game

Nales — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:26:57 +0000

Article URL: https://flickle.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664189

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Nales in "Ask HN: How do you organize files on your computer?"

Nales — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:09:06 +0000

I think you should really check out Johnny.Decimal[0] as a lot of other comments mentioned. Even if you do not apply the decimal prefixes, it will help you reconsider your file organization. The author explains well his concepts of area and categories.

About what I do. In my home directory on my computer, I have one directory called "Zarchive" where I put all the stuff I want to keep. (I called it "Zarchive" because it is a French pun. I keep "mes archives" in it.) The other directories in my home directory are symbolic links/shortcuts linking to directories in "Zarchive" or they are things I do not care to lose.

To organize things in my special directory, I first used Johnny.Decimal. Then, I got rid off the decimal prefixes because I am the sole user of this file hierarchy.

Here is a summary of the directory organization in this directory. I did not put all the directories but you get the idea.

    .
    ├── index.txt           A file explaning what each directory are for.
    ├── Configuration       Conf for my PC (dotfiles, scripts...).
    ├── Knowledge           My notes.
    ├── Media               Things I keep but I could find online or in store.
    │   ├── Books
    │   ├── Games
    │   └── Videos
    ├── Personal            All things that are personal (pictures, GTD...).
    ├── TODO                Things I should do one day (
    │   ├── 2024-08-17 Articles to read
    │   └── 2024-08-17 Phone pictures
    ├── Various             Things that I do not know where to put.
    └── Work                Anything work related (personal or professional)
        ├── Companies
        ├── Employment
        ├── Freelance
        └── Projects

The big advantage of having a good file hierarchy in one directory is that it makes archiving way way easier. For example when I sync my data with an external hard drive, I can use a script to compare what files changed and another script to copy things between my computer and the hard drive while automatically making zip in my computer to avoid losing something by accident.

Maybe I could do a full blog post on my file organization and its management if you want.

Anyway, to get back on your topic. If I were you, I would put all the files you mentioned in the directory "Personal". Now for your example for the eye doctor: or you could create a directory "2024-09-26 Eye doctor appointment" with everything in it; or you could have directories named "Receipts" and "Health", and in Health you have a symbolic link/shortcut to the receipt in Receipts; or you could have a copy of the receipt in both directory. I prefer to make each directory independent, so I am not fond of the shortcut solution.

For your family member's files, you could have a directory for each of them. Maybe you could create a directory "Family" in the top directory and each member is responsible for his or her stuff.

With that said, it does not completely remove the need to search for files. Yes after doing that you are now organized with a good file hierarchy, but that does not mean you cannot use a good tool for finding files. I do not have much suggestion on this domain because I am lucky enough to be good at remembering where I put stuff. Most of the time... :)

As a final word: I really encourage you first to read Johnny.Decimal, then to really take the time to define the areas and categories without rushing, then to organize the files, and finally to use the search tools. Some people say that you do not need to organize anything and that you can rely only on the search tools but I completely disagree. Tools are not available forever, and it does not solve the issue of syncing correctly your files and archiving them.

I hope I was clear. I did not expect rambling so much when I started to write this post. Good luck for organizing your stuff!

[0] https://johnnydecimal.com/

Ask HN: Why do you write comments/tweets/posts?

Nales — Sun, 12 May 2024 14:00:44 +0000

I personally rarely want to comment articles or videos. Most of the time, I cannot find anything interesting to add; and a lot of time when I read other people comments I do not think most of them add any value.

I am interested to know why you write those comments, tweets or posts. I am specially curious about heavy writers commenting at least once a week.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40334562

Points: 5

# Comments: 5

New comment by Nales in "A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews"

Nales — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 23:56:50 +0000

I saw a lot of articles about preparing for those interviews. I have yet to see articles about how to get an interview.

New comment by Nales in "Tell HN: Burned out and ruined, still trying to end it"

Nales — Wed, 03 May 2023 16:35:32 +0000

Go talk to this person, and accept the job and help. Ignore the thoughts you can have on refusing this person's help. Do the job without pushing yourself too much. Use the money to follow a therapy and to try new things as silly as they may seem (workout, meditation, sophrology, hypnosis...) as long as they are not harmful (drug consumption, gambling...). Let yourself at least a year before considering suicide as an option.

Good luck in your life. You are rock-bottom in your life right now, but that does not mean you cannot have a good and happy life later.

New comment by Nales in "Sega employees will receive a 30% salary increase Effective July 1"

Nales — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:41:19 +0000

How are the working conditions and the wage in Sega or Nintendo compared to the rest of the industry? I know game development has a bad reputation in this regard.

New comment by Nales in "I Dislike Shell Scripting"

Nales — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:17:05 +0000

Thank you for your report. This is strange, everything is alright on my side. I suppose I will have to instigate this issue more later.

New comment by Nales in "I Dislike Shell Scripting"

Nales — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:54:56 +0000

I have just read your article. This is interesting, I keep that in mind if one day I change my mind about Go and use it.

Ask HN: How long does it take for you to write a blog post?

Nales — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:20:26 +0000

I am not used to write blog posts. I have just posted here a quite small technical blog post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34807152). This blog post took me a bit more than six hours to write for the English part, and two more for the translation. I know I would have written it faster if English were my native tongue, if I took less time to test the code snippets, or if I were less verbose.

I am curious to know how long does it take for you to write a blog post, and what advice do you have to speed up the writing process.