Hacker News: TiredGuy

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

TiredGuy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:03:45 +0000

I agree this can be a bit of a pain if you're used to that. There are ways to partially reduce it: 1. use the timeline panel for an individual file to see all the historical changes to a file, and you can highlight multiple ones to see cumulative changes, and you can filter to only git commits or only local changes etc. 2. use the commit history panel in the source control area to do the same across commits, but it doesn't allow you to highlight across commits for cumulative changes

It does require a bit of a paradigm shift sometimes to not rely as much on seeing all cumulative changes for the ticket highlighted as you code, and instead compartmentalize your immediate view to the current commit's task, but often the above 2 alternatives help suffice. Of course, you did mention that you'll commit stuff you're not likely to touch again, which helps a lot too

New comment by TiredGuy in "Doge Days"

TiredGuy — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:24:48 +0000

Sounds like someone who genuinely wants to make an impact, donated his time to do so, and wrote some stuff to potentially help while giving us a glimpse into the daily life of a high-profile group. I really appreciate this.

New comment by TiredGuy in "America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back"

TiredGuy — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:51:43 +0000

Yeah I think I would say you're right to doubt if this resonates on HN. You're posing it to an audience which has very little GED-level representation. HN more often has people who did well in school and are at a much better disposition for higher-salary jobs.

I'm not part of the target population but my guess is that a large factor has to do with people's tendency to go down the path of life that is most similar to the path they've already tread. If you grew up in a 'cultural center' it's less of a paradigm shift to take the crappy job around the corner rather than move somewhere slightly more remote to start a new career even if in the long run it could actually lead to a more decent life.

New comment by TiredGuy in "Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights"

TiredGuy — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:49:14 +0000

This seems like a really political article with not really any tech-related content...

Also note the article starts with the qualifier "in the first few hours", meaning it's not like they're sitting there all day every day with no lights/wifi. This seems like an exaggerated, politically motivated piece that doesn't belong on HN.

New comment by TiredGuy in "Reasons Not to Refactor"

TiredGuy — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:18:09 +0000

Same. Sometimes the best way to fix a bug is to refactor it out of existence.

New comment by TiredGuy in "Ask HN: What software do you dream about, but do not have time to code yourself?"

TiredGuy — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:59:56 +0000

I wish someone would implement an interface for using color diffusion curves in a vector drawing program: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Diffusion_Curves

When they were first proposed back in 2008 they made a big splash, but afaik they never got past the prototype phase. There was even a push to add them to the SVG spec.

New comment by TiredGuy in "Suspects allegedly posing as firefighters in Palisades had fake fire engine"

TiredGuy — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:58:20 +0000

Were they maybe just wanna-be volunteers that were bringing an extra engine down to help and didn't know the formal process to volunteer for something like that? Sounds like the news has no evidence of actual malevolence, so is it fair to give them the benefit of the doubt here?

New comment by TiredGuy in "I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source"

TiredGuy — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 15:48:16 +0000

On that note, the article states that it donates more to higher risk projects, and risk increases by OpenSSF score. One question I had about the article is does that mean that projects with more security vulns get a higher donation? If so, then that might become a perverse incentive to leave security gaps in your code.

Show HN: Box-n-Weave.js – 0-dependency text-to-diagramming lib (16kb gzipped)

TiredGuy — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:58:45 +0000

I was frustrated with the complexity and size of existing diagram libraries, so I wrote a new one from scratch. Box-N-Weave.js generates box-and-arrow diagrams from text definitions, with a focus on maintainable technical documentation.

Key features:

  - Zero dependencies, tiny footprint (16.2kb gzipped vs 745kb for Mermaid.js)
  - Clean separation of diagram content, styling, and animations
  - Git-friendly text format that can live alongside your code
  - Streamlined syntax for common technical diagrams (architecture, flows, state machines, etc.)
  - Built-in animation support

The layout algorithm was written from scratch (not using dagre/elkjs/cytoscape) to keep it lightweight while flexible enough to add novel features.

Examples: https://box-n-weave-026ffb.gitlab.io/#examples

Repo: https://gitlab.com/andrewfulrich/box-n-weave

I'd love feedback on bugs, the API design, and use cases you'd want to see supported. The goal is to keep it focused on doing one thing well - making it dead simple to maintain box-and-arrow diagrams as code evolves.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42236793

Points: 1

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New comment by TiredGuy in "Sqlite3 WebAssembly"

TiredGuy — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:04:32 +0000

So after downloading from the official downloads page and stripping away all the mjs files and "bundler-friendly" files, a minimal sqlite wasm dependency will be about 1.3MB.

For an in-browser app, that seems a bit much but of course wasm runs in other places these days where it might make more sense.

New comment by TiredGuy in "Ask HN: HTML multi-select not user-friendly on desktop?"

TiredGuy — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:47:41 +0000

Oh right that makes sense thank you!

New comment by TiredGuy in "Ask HN: HTML multi-select not user-friendly on desktop?"

TiredGuy — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:41:01 +0000

Thanks! That reminds me I did bring up the thing about long lists and he said that's even more reason to use checkboxes since the multi-select has such a tiny scroll window it makes it hard to scroll through to find what you need when there are a bunch of options.

Ask HN: HTML multi-select not user-friendly on desktop?

TiredGuy — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:35:06 +0000

Yesterday I was reviewing an HTML form with my UX colleague, and he said we should change all our