Hacker News: Qerub

New comment by Qerub in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

Qerub — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:53:53 +0000

You can allow-list certain IP address ranges to not need the local network permission and I believe that should stop the popup from appearing (but I'm not sure). See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3179-u... for more information, TL;DR:

  sudo defaults write com.apple.network.local-network AllowedEthernetLocalNetworkAddresses -array "169.254.0.0/16"
  sudo defaults write com.apple.network.local-network AllowedWiFiLocalNetworkAddresses -array "169.254.0.0/16"

New comment by Qerub in "F3"

Qerub — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:50:36 +0000

This reminds me of Alan Kay's OOPSLA 1997 presentation "The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet" when he describes the Air Force / Burroughs 220 file format from 1961 where the file/tape contained both the data and the procedures to read/write/print them: https://youtu.be/oKg1hTOQXoY?t=1355

New comment by Qerub in "Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image"

Qerub — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:12:26 +0000

With Red Hat's UBI Micro:

  microcontainer=$(buildah from registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-micro)
  micromount=$(buildah mount $microcontainer)
  yum install \
      --installroot $micromount \
      --releasever 8 \
      --setopt install_weak_deps=false \
      --nodocs -y \
      httpd

(from https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introduction-ubi-micro published in 2021)

New comment by Qerub in "Company as Code"

Qerub — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:06:16 +0000

Speaking about high agency workers, this Company as Code framework reminds me a lot of SaaSiroth introduced in https://youtu.be/dLTUqPue9sQ?si=OIxmP5_D-YZZD2UO&t=200 (KRAZAM: High Agency Individual Contributor).

New comment by Qerub in "Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks"

Qerub — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:39:27 +0000

> I was completely struck by how elegant its codebase is.

Well... I like Clojure but I bet you will reconsider that sentiment if you scroll through https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju... .

New comment by Qerub in "The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review"

Qerub — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:30:58 +0000

There's a nice Manning book from 2014 about this way of working named The Mikado Method.

New comment by Qerub in "Low Cost Mini PCs"

Qerub — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:30:23 +0000

Adding product location would be great! As a resident of the European Union I'm unlikely to order one of these mini PCs from the USA due to import taxes and additional shipping costs.

New comment by Qerub in "Gitlab is reportedly up for sale"

Qerub — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:07:09 +0000

Looks like it: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...

New comment by Qerub in "Gitlab is reportedly up for sale"

Qerub — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:02:51 +0000

> aching for some higher level abstraction

CI/CD components (GA since 17.0) improve the situation a notch: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/components/

New comment by Qerub in "Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go"

Qerub — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:15:29 +0000

Reminds me of this previous effort to build upon Go but add a more flexible type system: https://github.com/oden-lang/oden

New comment by Qerub in "Show HN: Winglang – A new cloud-oriented programming language"

Qerub — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:34:09 +0000

> […] they have 4 lines of code in Wing, but the long Pulumi example sets up permissions. So how did the permissions get set up in Wing?

As it says on the page: "Wing allows developers to write very few lines of code and let the compiler take care of IAM policies and other cloud mechanics."

Basically it auto-generates least-privilege IAM policies.

New comment by Qerub in "Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords"

Qerub — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:29:44 +0000

May 23, 2019: "Dependabot has been acquired by GitHub and we couldn't be more excited!" https://web.archive.org/web/20190601064131/https://dependabo...

New comment by Qerub in "NeXT Computers"

Qerub — Mon, 08 May 2023 21:59:53 +0000

Your comment reminded me of this wonderful demo of NeXTSTEP 3 by Steve Jobs himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UiGnpmwAJk

New comment by Qerub in "Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way"

Qerub — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:02:32 +0000

For the record; you were observing the behavior of Apple's Bonjour Sleep Proxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy

New comment by Qerub in "There is no “software supply chain”"

Qerub — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:18:02 +0000

> I simply can not imagine even a whole fortune 500 company supporting their own business logic written on top of Spring, which includes log4j and a whole host of other open source dependencies.

> And what's the commercial alternative? I'm personally not aware of one.

There's commercial support for Spring:

https://spring.io/support https://tanzu.vmware.com/support/oss

New comment by Qerub in "Open AirPlay 2 Receiver"

Qerub — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:42:31 +0000

> […] Airfoil software does all this & more […]

Not quite; Airfoil Satellite does not implement an AirPlay 2 receiver which is what this is all about. See https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/25/current-notes-on-a... :

> Can Airfoil Satellite receive AirPlay 2 audio? Airfoil Satellite receives audio via the AirPlay 1 protocol. Because of this, it can’t currently be part of a multi-speaker group receiving audio from iOS.

Still a great piece of software (that I also can recommend).

Atlassian Compass: Mission control for your distributed architecture

Qerub — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:24:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27813405

Points: 24

# Comments: 5

New comment by Qerub in "If you’re going to put your preschooler in front of a screen, choose a TV"

Qerub — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 13:14:51 +0000

FWIW: Minecraft: Pi Edition is discontinued. It only saw a single release (0.1.1 alpha) in 2013. More info over at https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Pi_Edition.

New comment by Qerub in "Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse"

Qerub — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:43:46 +0000

You don't even have to buy the songs on iTunes to have Apple stream them to all your devices. With iTunes Match (included with Apple Music subscriptions or available stand-alone) you can build a "cloud library" from local files: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146

New comment by Qerub in "Two Years of Squash Merge (2019)"

Qerub — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:36:49 +0000

It would be nice if GitHub allowed comments on commit messages and not only the changes so that they could be discussed for the benefit of learning and improvement.

Squash merge commit messages are currently not reviewable at all since they are not entered until just before the merge.

I'd prefer for nothing at all to be able to enter the main branch without review, if not for anything else to protect myself against my own mistakes.

Guess I should give Gerrit a shot.