Hacker News: Teckla

I Made a Keyboard Nobody Asked For

Teckla — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:52:55 +0000

Article URL: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-made-a-keyboard-nobody-asked-for-my-experience-making-taptype/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602538

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Hex editor should color-code bytes

Teckla — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:10:52 +0000

Article URL: https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601972

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Teckla in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Teckla — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:15:34 +0000

The Neo is probably the best laptop for typical people.

I don't think traditional desktop operating systems are best for most people. I believe a Chromebook, or an iPad with a keyboard, is best.

New comment by Teckla in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

Teckla — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:36:31 +0000

It's all part of the war on general computing. This dystopian nightmare is coming to desktop operating systems too. See the age verification stuff that's all of a sudden being pushed hard by countries all over the world.

As someone that was going to switch from iPhone to Android/Pixel later this year, at least now I know not to bother anymore, as the locking down of Android won't stop here.

New comment by Teckla in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

Teckla — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:41:14 +0000

When I created an account on LinkedIn, a long time ago, I used the web. When it asked if I wanted to invite other people from my list of contacts, I clicked yes. I thought it would let me manually enter some contacts, or at worst, give me a list to choose from, with some kind of permissions prompt. Somehow, it accessed my entire Gmail contact list, and invited them all. My goodness, that was terrifying (I didn't even know it was possible) and embarrassing. Companies are not to be trusted, ever. Especially now, as they've proven for decades they have zero moral compass, and no qualms about abusing people for profit.

New comment by Teckla in "Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books"

Teckla — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:43:59 +0000

The music was so loud from my monitor's speakers that I nearly jumped out of my skin and rushed to close it, and my volume isn't even turned up much!

New comment by Teckla in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

Teckla — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:18:01 +0000

My experience is the opposite: Bose hardware and sound quality seems excellent to me.

This may be subjective. Bose might sound good to some people's ears and less good to other people's ears.

New comment by Teckla in "The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?"

Teckla — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:05:38 +0000

I wish I was sufficiently dexterous to use your razor thin scrollbars. :(

New comment by Teckla in "Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?"

Teckla — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:49:12 +0000

ZZ will save the file (if there are changes) and quit. Try it as an alternative to :wq.

New comment by Teckla in "HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere"

Teckla — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:53:22 +0000

But because they had an existing body of code that was not class based, it would be more of a re-write (C#) versus a refactor (Go).

I don't understand this reasoning at all, and I'm hoping you can shed some light on it.

As far as I know, C# supports static methods. Thus, using OO in C# would not have been required, would it?

I feel like I'm missing something here.

Software Disenchantment

Teckla — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:25:23 +0000

Article URL: https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347314

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications

Teckla — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:26:30 +0000

Article URL: https://earthstar-project.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42744937

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Teckla in "Dungeons and Dragons rolls the dice with new rules about identity"

Teckla — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:08:47 +0000

Speaking as both a D&D DM and player, the "sub-optimal game play" makes the campaign more fun, more diverse, and offers more thoroughly enjoyable role-playing and problem solving opportunities. It doesn't make it less fun.

Not to mention that D&D rules aren't carved in stone. I've never encountered a DM or D&D group that wouldn't allow players the leeway to create a barbarian gnome or half-orc wizard with their desired stats, if that was important to them.

The changes WoTC made are bad, and make everything less fun and more generic. Their intentions were good, but what they've done really isn't helpful or good at all.

New comment by Teckla in "Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)"

Teckla — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:35:02 +0000

Our contribution to the small web: https://kagi.com/smallweb

After opening this web page, I pressed down arrow a few times to scroll the page. At first, I didn't understand why it only scrolled a few pixels.

It looks like there's a scrollable area within a scrollable area. The outermost scrollable area only scrolls a few pixels.

This is a badly designed web page.

New comment by Teckla in "Booting Linux off of Google Drive"

Teckla — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:42:18 +0000

Thanks to Crostini, Chromebooks are also excellent local computing devices.

New comment by Teckla in "Windows: Insecure by Design"

Teckla — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:51:37 +0000

After over 30 years using Windows, I finally gave up on it last year. It was a difficult choice, but clearly, it's just going to keep getting worse.

These days most people should be using Chromebooks and iPads, which are far and away more secure.

New comment by Teckla in "Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?"

Teckla — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:36:45 +0000

The solution to these issues isn't to simply not have those features, but to make it possible to toggle those features on/off.

New comment by Teckla in "Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?"

Teckla — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:28:13 +0000

Being able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require anything beyond 90 days to be deleted anyway, for some bullshit reason like being open to litigation or whatever and that being subject to discovery.

The company I work for has the same chat retention policy, but despite that, even being able to go back just 90 days has proven very useful!

New comment by Teckla in "Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC?"

Teckla — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:26:18 +0000

The last time I looked at The Lounge, the installation and configuration seemed pretty involved, not to mention ongoing maintenance.

Has this improved recently?

New comment by Teckla in "As you learn Forth, it learns from you (1981)"

Teckla — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:58:00 +0000

All those abstractions are necessary in order to do software engineering of real-world systems at scale.

No, they're not.