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New comment by aidog in "Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems"

aidog — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:24:33 +0000

Noteworthy in the MRuby universe, which is all about lightweight Ruby implementations is picoruby. You can get an integrated ruby shell on a Raspberry Pi Pico:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiJC_v5Lus8 https://picoruby.org/

New comment by aidog in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

aidog — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:53:55 +0000

It's sad, that android is the only system that can be used to code on the device thanks to termux and now google wants to end this.

New comment by aidog in "[dead]"

aidog — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:25:44 +0000

PHP Maintainer Joe Watkins aka krakjoe story.

New comment by aidog in "A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)"

aidog — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:04:25 +0000

I followed Thor's journey over the years. Great dude and a incredible achivement. Imagine planning for 4 years but hanging on for 10! He also had bad luck being stuck during covid.

New comment by aidog in "Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor"

aidog — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:19:02 +0000

It's something I ran into quite a few times in my career. It's a weird call to get if the client can't save their cms site, due to typing something harmless. I think worst was when there was a dropdown that I defined which had a value in the mod rules that was not allowed.

New comment by aidog in "We're Raising Kids to Prefer AI over People–and No One's Noticing"

aidog — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:36:00 +0000

I saw a child chat with an AI Tom Felton on the bus using her smartphone. I'm not sure if that is healthy.

New comment by aidog in "Mruby/C and picoruby: high level langs in low-level devices?"

aidog — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 22:30:17 +0000

picoruby is a lot of fun. It's a reimplementation of mruby/c which is even smaller. You might be interested in my friend and creator HASUMI Hitoshi's presentation. He shows off his Ruby REPL that runs on the Raspberry Pi pico. Recently he ported picoruby to other microcontrollers.

https://youtu.be/WxZNE5zTAjg?si=7DQUcQg80RMZoU0b

New comment by aidog in "Body Doubling"

aidog — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:04:15 +0000

See also https://adhdactually.com/membership Basically moderated by a small team zoom sessions to body double.

New comment by aidog in "10 Years of HexaPDF"

aidog — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:02:59 +0000

Note: This is by the author of the popular kramdown markdown library.

New comment by aidog in "How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?"

aidog — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:38:20 +0000

I would be happy to just get the old PWA mode back. Turn a webapp into a window.

New comment by aidog in "Short Ruby Newsletter – edition 99"

aidog — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:44:41 +0000

Just read this one. Always a good overview about what happens in the ruby world!

New comment by aidog in "Ask HN: Why do people expect free trial on a $9/mo subscription"

aidog — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:06:45 +0000

Because you can expect the food to taste a certain way.

Computing and Sustainability

aidog — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:02:38 +0000

Article URL: https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40856801

Points: 3

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New comment by aidog in "Japan's mini kei-truck sales surge in US despite safety concerns"

aidog — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:34:41 +0000

Every grandpa in the japanese country side needs a kei truck. It's very practical. I moved apartments using one. The bed is hip height and opens quickly. The safety concern is someone else hitting you. I just got back from the McDonalds drivethrough and there was a lady alone in an american truck blocking everyone. I don't understand why anyone needs a car like that, they seem very dangerous.

New comment by aidog in "Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep"

aidog — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:59:54 +0000

I have the same, it's hard for other people to understand.

New comment by aidog in "Japanese 'My Number Card' Digital IDs Coming to Apple's Wallet App"

aidog — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 08:16:00 +0000

ATMs closing must be mostly because of the scams

New comment by aidog in "Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout"

aidog — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:57:36 +0000

look at the examples they made why it should be in CSS grid. I totally agree it should be in that. It's a form of grid. It should be part of CSS grid.

This is one of the layouts that were just impossible in CSS and we really need it soon. I also needed the feature they talk about with the background colors for css grid tracks in 2012. I solved that with DIVs, but it was hard to make it responsive.

New comment by aidog in "Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout"

aidog — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:53:12 +0000

I absolutely want this. I have wanted this for years. This is a form of grid so it should be in CSS grid. Especially since it has tracks. Browser makers, please just ship this.

New comment by aidog in "RubyJS-Vite"

aidog — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:43:00 +0000

Ruby.wasm is here now, so you can run ruby in the browser. It still a bit big, but it even supports many regular gems. I met up today with a friend who is working on much smaller mruby version. He'll be giving a talk at rubykaigi next month.

I use Ruby.wasm with my own patch. [1][2] You can use the Javascript API and the syntax is a joy. I used it to make an electron app with videoplayer.[3] I also ported the rubykoans[4]

Lots of ruby.wasm talks at rubykaigi next month.

[1] https://github.com/largo/ruby.wasm

[2] https://github.com/largo/ruby.wasm-quickstart.

[3] https://github.com/largo/PsychometricStudyVideoPlayer

[4] https://koans.idogawa.com

New comment by aidog in "When Nostalgia Was Deadly"

aidog — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:21:44 +0000

As Swiss abroad in far away Japan "Kühreihen" didn't make me deadly nostalgic. I guess the soldiers lived in the alps. I miss my family more than mountains.