Hacker News: Quiza12

New comment by Quiza12 in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

Quiza12 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:32:53 +0000

One additional benefit (or at least an unproven, theoretical benefit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbJJ8UhM1I

New comment by Quiza12 in "Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites"

Quiza12 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:59:09 +0000

Seeing them "slowly" move (but in reality incredibly quickly) reminds me of reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_(novel)

New comment by Quiza12 in "How to read more books"

Quiza12 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:15:15 +0000

Street Libraries are the best! +1 from Aus

New comment by Quiza12 in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

Quiza12 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:38:11 +0000

Same - what's funny is that if they'd lifted prices 20-30% I might have stayed, but they went with the big bang of 85%.

New comment by Quiza12 in "Setting Up a New Windows Laptop in 2026"

Quiza12 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:56:23 +0000

Like many IT-inclined folk, I was recently tasked with setting up two new laptops for my father and brother, who run a mortgage broking business. Bog-standard Office 365 apps, OneDrive, Chrome over Edge, Outlook set up and all that. Given all the commentary I've read about the decline in quality of Windows, I was interested to see how frustrating the set up would be and how much bloatware and unasked-for installs were weighing it down.

Bit of fun too because it coincided with Australia's first World Cup game!

Setting Up a New Windows Laptop in 2026

Quiza12 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:56:23 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewquerzoli.com/blog/18-06-2026-setting-up-a-new-windows-laptop-in-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592185

Points: 38

# Comments: 24

New comment by Quiza12 in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

Quiza12 — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:25:19 +0000

I agree. I'm in Sydney and certainly the next phase of development going through my suburb is duplexes. Suddenly you've doubled the amount of cars on the same block, and the garage is 50/50 used for one of the cars or not.

New comment by Quiza12 in "Out of Office//Pass the Parcel"

Quiza12 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:06:03 +0000

The fate of all emails in and around Christmastime.

Out of Office//Pass the Parcel

Quiza12 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:06:03 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewquerzoli.com/projects/out-of-office

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908370

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Developer to Manager

Quiza12 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:43:21 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewquerzoli.com/#/blog/08-10-2025-developer-to-manager

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760639

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Digital Admin Day

Quiza12 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://matthewquerzoli.com/#/blog/02-01-2026-digital-admin-day

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726220

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Quiza12 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Quiza12 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:29:07 +0000

https://matthewquerzoli.com

Show HN: Internet Recipe

Quiza12 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:06:30 +0000

Just your average recipe published on the Internet…

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158493

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Quiza12 in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

Quiza12 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:00:56 +0000

Hahaha - I made my own website to mock these ones: https://matthewquerzoli.com/#/projects/internet-recipe

New comment by Quiza12 in "Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?"

Quiza12 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:00:58 +0000

Not forced yet, but we have a lower risk appetite than your average firm. If it is used, instructions are clear that the output should not be treated as gospel and verse. Haven't heard of any major issues as a result of unfiltered, unreviewed AI dumps (yet).

New comment by Quiza12 in "Making the video that made Gorillaz"

Quiza12 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:19:09 +0000

Aside from the numerous So Fresh instalments, Demon Days might have been the first CD my brothers and I played to death. Timeless.

New comment by Quiza12 in "You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase"

Quiza12 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 01:22:16 +0000

Same tactic for the Evernote increase. Finally dumped it for Joplin and haven't looked back.

New comment by Quiza12 in "More than 50,000 Americans died by suicide in 2023–more than any year on record"

Quiza12 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:09:09 +0000

"Suicide's for cowards he said

While sat drinking himself to death"

- Mercedes Marxist by Idles

New comment by Quiza12 in "How to write a novel using the snowflake method (2013)"

Quiza12 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 04:23:45 +0000

You are correct - John Irving writes his endings first.

https://www.backwordsblog.com/single-post/2016/04/27/john-ir...

"People have commented – sometimes with irritation, sometimes nicely – on the amount of foreshadow that there is in my novel. Well, yeah, it’s not that hard to foreshadow what’s coming when you know what’s coming…I write endings first. I write last sentences – sometimes last paragraphs – first. I know where I am going. I write collision course stories."

New comment by Quiza12 in "The Password Game"

Quiza12 — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:10:24 +0000

This is great! I built a very similar thing a while ago - https://www.funnypasswordchecker.com/ Definitely not in the same league but it was a lot of fun!