Hacker News: airlocksoftware

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Claude for Legal"

airlocksoftware — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:13:58 +0000

They solved all this stuff, I'm surprised more people aren't aware of it.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use"

airlocksoftware — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:56:24 +0000

Are you still working on this? Because I like the words I see on your GitHub -- vim-style bindings, keyboard driven, sounds like you write a definition language for your designs, basically?

Lik Matry is to Figma as openscad is to traditional CAD (Fusion 360, etc)?

Though that does sound like a huge project to take on!

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure"

airlocksoftware — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:18:12 +0000

Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but I wanted to share something that was counterintuitive and made a big difference for me.

Not sure what types of exercise you are doing or your background (I could be more specific if you shared, feel free to email me) but in general I find most untrained to moderately trained people exercise at too high an intensity most of the time. Feeling like exercise is torture, and having lower cognitive function afterwards are also strong indicators of this.

Most exercise should actually feel quite easy — perhaps an 80/20 split of easy exercise days to hard exercise days is ideal. For example, if you were running you might switch between running and walking to keep your heart rate at a pretty low level (zone 1 or 2) in some sort of structured program that ramps up intensity over time but keeps you in these lower heart rate zones 80% of your exercise time.

For me personally I started enjoying exercise and getting a lot more out of it after making most of it feel "too easy"!

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Household size and the housing stock"

airlocksoftware — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:25:58 +0000

I'm not sure why you'd want to include AirBnBs and second houses in your measurement vacancy measurement — they aren't available for rent.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Android P"

airlocksoftware — Wed, 09 May 2018 00:24:15 +0000

Location tracking requires specific permission from the user, not as part of installation. I think you're a bit out of date.

https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/deve...

New comment by airlocksoftware in "How I Start: Clojure"

airlocksoftware — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:17:41 +0000

Carin is awesome. Author of such classics as Hitchhiker's Guide To Clojure [1] and World Domination With Hexapods and Clojure [2]. And I think she has a book coming out soonish? Thanks gigasquid, this was a lovely warmup to start my day.

[1]: http://hitchhikersclojure.com/

[2]: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2014/03/20/world-dominatio...

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]"

airlocksoftware — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 05:27:24 +0000

In the same genre, I watch this when I need a touch of inspiration. They're quotations from The Pale Blue Dot, again with the Sagan voiceover.

http://vimeo.com/2822787

Often we forget how far we've come, and how far we have to go. It's easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of regular life. When I listen to Carl Sagan sometimes I feel like I've glimpsed a bigger perspective.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Hacker News API"

airlocksoftware — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:28:06 +0000

Ha! A) Because I love Double-Doubles. B) Because it's more than 2 year old (before there really was a hamburger icon on Android). It's completely redesigned in the next version, though.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Hacker News API"

airlocksoftware — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 02:04:48 +0000

Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I've done that so it should update for you soon.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Hacker News API"

airlocksoftware — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:47:50 +0000

Because it can be better designed, use common design / navigation patterns of your mobile OS, notify you when you get a reply, change the text size, change the theme, have richer animations, and allow you to automatically share content from other applications directly to HN?

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Hacker News API"

airlocksoftware — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:33:47 +0000

I'm not blaming you. It just feels bad, you know? I'll definitely email you in the future about stuff like this. And don't get me wrong, it will be great to be able to throw out the cruft that comes along with parsing the current layout. The app is engineered to be able to drop in a new API pretty quick since I thought something like this would happen eventually.

It would help me out a lot if the current front end would live on under oldnews.ycombinator.com like that until the new API has write access, though. I think it's pretty cool to be able to be reading an article somewhere else, click "Share" in Android and have "Submit to HN" pop up in the results.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Hacker News API"

airlocksoftware — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:23:59 +0000

Oh, I'm well aware. I've had to push many quick fixes when some field gets renamed, etc. It's really not the API change that bothers me, more the lack of features. But hopefully they can add those things soon and I can re-enable them down the road.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Hacker News API"

airlocksoftware — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:21:49 +0000

Thanks! I think you'll like the new version whenever it gets finished :)

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Hacker News API"

airlocksoftware — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:20:02 +0000

This... is cool, but also kinda sucks for me. I've invested dozens of hours into writing an extremely complicated scraper for my Android version of HN.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

The newest version (still under development, probably a month or two from release) adds support for displaying polls, linking to subthreads, and full write support (voting, commenting, submitting, etc). I'm fine with switching to a new API (Square's Retrofit will make it super easy to switch), but without submitting, commenting, and upvote support I have to disable a bunch of features I worked really hard on. Also it would've been cool to know this was coming about 3 months ago so I didn't waste my time.

Anyways, quick question on how it works -- when I query for the list of top stories

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=...

it just returns a list of ids. Do I have to make a separate request for each story

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json?print=p...)

to assemble them into a list for the front page, or am I missing something?

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Show HN: Mjolnir, an automation/productivity app for OS X"

airlocksoftware — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:34:24 +0000

I was going to ask -- isn't this exactly like Hydra? But some Googling indicates it's the same project and was renamed. Explanation of the name change here:

http://sdegutis.github.io/2014/08/11/the-history-and-current...

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative"

airlocksoftware — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:43:43 +0000

Just tried out the beta. I can't import Adobe Illustrator files yet (their forums says this is coming later). But otherwise it seems like a pretty good replacement. The panning and zooming is much better that AI. You can also use keyboard arrows to scroll through fonts and it shows up immediately, which is another thing about AI that has always annoyed me. I don't see any support for scripting (which I like to use to export icons), but it is a beta.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Cloact: Minimalistic React for ClojureScript"

airlocksoftware — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:34:13 +0000

Please yes (on the Light Table demo). I know my way around ClojureScript, and I cannot get the Om TODOMVC demo to run in Light Table. If I get it figured out, I guess I'll be the one writing the tutorial, but so far no dice.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Light Table is now open source"

airlocksoftware — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:52:12 +0000

And Python.

New comment by airlocksoftware in "EFF has 2x matching donations until Dec 17th"

airlocksoftware — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:42:00 +0000

Very cool of the people doing the matching donations. I'm always happy to do anything I can to help the EFF. But now, more than ever, it feels like they might be our best chance to avoid dystopia.

But considering the size of the tech industry and the amount of money the internet / technology is making all of us, I'm sometimes surprised by how small the EFF is. Does anyone have any thoughts on why the EFF isn't larger and better funded like most other industry groups?

New comment by airlocksoftware in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2013)"

airlocksoftware — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 15:31:40 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Salt Lake City, Utah OR Remote

I specialize in Android development (although I sometimes also work with Clojure & Python/Django). I work fast and write modular, well-documented code. I've used a large portion of the Android SDK, including writing totally custom views & controls, mapping, syncing to a local db, integrating with JSON / XML APIs, image manipulation, and resolving memory & performance problems.

I also make the best Hacker News app for Android (at least Play Store search algorithm thinks so), you should check it out:

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

Source on Github: https://github.com/bishopmatthew/hackernews

Website + Portfolio: http://airlocksoftware.com/

Recently, I've been working on apps for Tommy Hilfiger and an online dating startup.

I'm have some availability starting in about a week, so if you need my help get in touch. I'd especially love to be involved from before the first line of code, but I do have a lot of experience saving apps-gone-wrong & doing Android versions of iOS apps.

You can reach me via email - matt@airlocksoftware.com