Hacker News: _ix

New comment by _ix in "Open Heart Protocol"

_ix — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:42:29 +0000

This is dumb; I love it.

New comment by _ix in "Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor"

_ix — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:08:22 +0000

I do. It works so well I've almost taken it for granted.

New comment by _ix in "Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML"

_ix — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:31:15 +0000

This looks neat! I've never really been in to web development, but I'm curious... is it possible to create a standalone .html file for a browser-delivered app? Like, not just PWA or SPA, but... a single HTML App?

If I had modest amount of data in JSON baked into html, what's the barrier to something interesting, say... implementing a minimal spreadsheet or maybe just a sortable/filterable table?

New comment by _ix in "Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman"

_ix — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 13:05:24 +0000

I wonder if Rancher Desktop, et al, works with testcontainers.org?

New comment by _ix in "Reasons to Drop Docker for Podman"

_ix — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 13:02:35 +0000

Just joined a team and received an M1 Pro laptop but licensed docker isn't in the budget... tl;dr a bit early to tell, but I think it works.

podman-desktop is pretty rough, but it gave me enough confidence to start using podman generally. podman-mac-helper solved a few docker compatibility problems I had in previous attempts in 2021 and 2022.

It seems like my problems getting started with podman just last week wete mainly due to the abundance of already outdated tutorials. Maybe those who are more active in this space can weigh-in, but fixes and common work arounds documented as recently as 6 months ago aren't necessary an longer? For me, podman works without nearly as much fuss as I remember.

New comment by _ix in "Help! Is This Arabic?"

_ix — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:21:51 +0000

I agree. It doesn't take long to get to the author's thoughts on the most common cause: lack of subject matter expertise. That's cold comfort for those who are working against a tight deadline, though.

New comment by _ix in "This is the year of the RSS reader?"

_ix — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:00:44 +0000

I'm not sure what you're missing. I think aggregators are great for a lot of things, but I primarily use it for discovery. I infrequently contribute (like this, I guess?). After discovery, RSS is really convenient to continue consuming that source's content, regardless of its appearance on an aggregator a second time.

New comment by _ix in "D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML"

_ix — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:21:05 +0000

Thank you for sharing this.

New comment by _ix in "A step by step guide on how to become a DevOps engineer"

_ix — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:19:11 +0000

Ha! That’s not all that different from my experience. I was going to ask if we’ve collectively given up on arguing against DevOps as a title, role, department, etc.

New comment by _ix in "Learn Awk with Emacs (2020)"

_ix — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:00:29 +0000

I love org-babel, but am I alone in thinking it’s probably best-used for well-understood workflows? Prototyping something with org-babel usually forces me to kill emacs when it hangs for any number of reasons–I imagine it’s choking while trying to reformat as a table. I’ve experimented with ob-async, but it seems unreliable so far. I wish emacs really were more like an os and could multitask a bit better.

New comment by _ix in "Linuxgems – A succinct cheat sheet for newbie Linux coders and sysadmins"

_ix — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:49:59 +0000

Never mind! I see that this was committed some 10 years ago now. I'm not sure how long GitHub has been doing org-mode rendering or if this was originally hosted in GitHub.

New comment by _ix in "Linuxgems – A succinct cheat sheet for newbie Linux coders and sysadmins"

_ix — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:44:39 +0000

'publishing' is doing some heavy lifting here... I wonder why the author didn't prefer a .org extension on the file. GitHub does a pretty decent job of displaying org-mode as if it were written in Github flavored markdown.

New comment by _ix in "GitHub Broken Download URLs"

_ix — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:15:24 +0000

Naively, I imagine the rate of 404s or the percentage of 404s as compared to all responses could be helpful in such a service.

New comment by _ix in "Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2021"

_ix — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:50:51 +0000

Neat!

Though, I’m a little surprised to see #lispgames still on Freenode. Is the drama behind us already?

New comment by _ix in "Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods"

_ix — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:46:40 +0000

In recent podman releases, yes.

https://podman.io/blogs/2021/01/11/podman-compose.html

New comment by _ix in "When it comes to Git history, less is more"

_ix — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 17:20:13 +0000

In a sibling comment, I was wondering about projects that are trying ASTs. I haven't read deeply about it, but I recalled that [pijul][1] might be a way forward.

[1]: https://pijul.com/manual/why_pijul.html#comparisons-with-oth...

New comment by _ix in "When it comes to Git history, less is more"

_ix — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:48:32 +0000

I've seen the suggestion of VCS/SCM storing ASTs rather than plaintext for a decade now. Are you aware of any projects that are trying to address this?

New comment by _ix in "Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2"

_ix — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 14:27:35 +0000

I started writing a long-winded thing to enumerate the problems with Teams that no product person at Microsoft will ever see, so why bother? It's a terrible product. The purported sticker price for enterprises disguises the costly loss of productivity due to this mess. It's just a godawful mess.

New comment by _ix in "Show HN: Land 10 interviews a month with 0 effort"

_ix — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:58:22 +0000

I’m really not trying to be too snarky, but with the labor market as it is in 2021, 10 interviews in a month is achievable by merely possessing a pulse. What am I missing?

New comment by _ix in "Python Language Summit: PEP 654 – Exception Groups and Except"

_ix — Sun, 16 May 2021 15:02:22 +0000

I’m a bit of a pythonista, but I haven’t worked on anything very complex for a couple of years. Maybe my experience is still a little shallow in SWE topics, but can you reify this a bit? What kind of situations have you run into where handling multiple exceptions would have been handy? Maybe it’s telling that I’d have to admit that I’m not sure how big a difference there is between error code returns and exception handling.