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New comment by airblade in "Litestream v0.5.0"

airblade — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:22:17 +0000

This is documented on the Litestream website.

Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor

airblade — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:10:31 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.37signals.com/running-our-docker-registry-on-prem-with-harbor/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038567

Points: 155

# Comments: 77

New comment by airblade in "How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain"

airblade — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:58:41 +0000

A dimmer switch for an LED light is different from a dimmer switch for a non-LED light. If you try to use an LED light with a “normal” dimmer, it won’t work well.

New comment by airblade in "Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)"

airblade — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:26:33 +0000

At first I thought you meant an umbrella that doesn't work very well.

New comment by airblade in "Show HN: Pagecord – Effortless blogging from your inbox"

airblade — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:47:48 +0000

Simple, clean, does exactly what it says. If only more software was like this :)

New comment by airblade in "CyberChef from GCHQ: Cyber Swiss Army Knife"

airblade — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:08:26 +0000

Actually the NSA is the US’s version of GCHQ.

New comment by airblade in "Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video]"

airblade — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:46:04 +0000

That was probably it: not being quite perpendicular. Oh well!

New comment by airblade in "Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video]"

airblade — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:41:04 +0000

That’s very similar to my experience except docking was just too hard. No matter how carefully I tried to match the rotation, 99 times out of 100 I crashed. I still don’t really understand why! So I just stayed around the starting point, which was a shame but still quite fun.

New comment by airblade in "You don't need JavaScript for that"

airblade — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 11:36:55 +0000

XML is brittle which makes it hard to work with. One tiny syntax error somewhere and your whole XML pipeline fails.

XSLT is powerful but harder to get right than just reshaping JSON.

New comment by airblade in "I walked across Luxembourg"

airblade — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:51:36 +0000

But those 70 miles can take a disproportionately long time!

New comment by airblade in "Show HN: Strich – Barcode scanning for web apps"

airblade — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:34:21 +0000

Thanks for building this. I agree there's a gap between OSS libraries and high-end products like Scandit.

Scanning barcodes is harder than it looks. Or rather, scanning an intact, well-lit barcode square-on is easy – but it gets harder as conditions deteriorate.

Are you worried about Scandit's patents?

https://www.scandit.com/patents/

New comment by airblade in "Autocomplete – A JavaScript library for building autocomplete experiences"

airblade — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 08:11:52 +0000

It probably depends on whether you are searching a body of natural language text (use tf-idf) or a list of things (use fuzzy search).

New comment by airblade in "Autocomplete – A JavaScript library for building autocomplete experiences"

airblade — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:45:49 +0000

"Not too bothered about styling" is quite important. Datalists are relatively uncommon and I think many users may not know what they are seeing and how they can interact with it.

Also datalists appear quite different across different browsers, which is fine of course for a native form control, but annoying if you're aiming for a more consistent look.

New comment by airblade in "Progressively Enhanced Turbo Native Apps in the App Store"

airblade — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:54:00 +0000

I believe the maintainers regard authentication, rightly or wrongly, as a business-level feature. Not so much the mechanics of checking a user's credentials but how you want to steer the different authentication flows.