Hacker News: alexhornby

New comment by alexhornby in "A key remapping daemon for Linux"

alexhornby — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:16:11 +0000

keyd is great, I use it to have mac-style bindings

New comment by alexhornby in "Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law"

alexhornby — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:39:44 +0000

Few examples I’ve come across: hashing, float summation, reproducible serialisation

New comment by alexhornby in "SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem"

alexhornby — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:24:53 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783525 has previous discussion on why windows filesystem is slow

New comment by alexhornby in "Wrangling 2000 Git Repos at Reddit"

alexhornby — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:21:53 +0000

If you change a core lib CI will build and test relevant code, which will be a lot, but it will scale over a massive CI plant.

Still best to run unit tests locally first of course!

New comment by alexhornby in "Permutation City (1994)"

alexhornby — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:39:58 +0000

loved the dust theory. really stuck with me, bit like the dark forest from three body problem

New comment by alexhornby in "Sapling – A VCS from Meta"

alexhornby — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:35:47 +0000

EdenFS Linux building now as well, problem was some minor python 3.8 incompatibility in a test

New comment by alexhornby in "Sapling – A VCS from Meta"

alexhornby — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:06:42 +0000

Check GitHub actions. Mononoke OSS currently builds and EdenFS did a month or so ago. Not claiming it’s perfect, but the OSS versions are buildable

New comment by alexhornby in "Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?"

alexhornby — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:47:25 +0000

yep both extended it and have versions that can work against GitHub/git servers.

sapling scm from meta has I think the best cli and VS code UX https://sapling-scm.com/

jj from google is also mercurial derived with very similar cli features like histedit and has support for deferring conflict resolution https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

New comment by alexhornby in "$HOME, not so sweet $HOME"

alexhornby — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:03:32 +0000

https://crates.io/crates/directories is a good crate for handling cross platform config locations for rust based tools

New comment by alexhornby in "Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub"

alexhornby — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 09:28:26 +0000

> git-lfs, as in the binary, CLI application is the only (open) implementation in existence. There is nothing else.

There’s at lease one in sapling and Mononoke.

https://github.com/facebook/sapling/tree/main/eden/mononoke/...

New comment by alexhornby in "The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration"

alexhornby — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 06:57:05 +0000

same, KDE has great global menu support

New comment by alexhornby in "Meta developer tools: Working at scale"

alexhornby — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:04:28 +0000

reviewstack is the thing now, adds some parts of phab UX ontop of github apis. Been enjoying using it for oss stuff oursite meta and fixed a limitation of it recently, https://reviewstack.dev/facebook/sapling/pull/656 shows what it looks like with the versioning available

New comment by alexhornby in "Meta developer tools: Working at scale"

alexhornby — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:54:48 +0000

reviewstack adds the missing stack and versioning phab UX on top of github apis, been enjoying using it outside meta for some oss stuff, and fixed a limitation of it recently in https://reviewstack.dev/facebook/sapling/pull/656

New comment by alexhornby in "KDE Plasma 6 Has Reached the Point of Being “Fairly Livable”"

alexhornby — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:53:49 +0000

As a MacOS user wanting global menu on linux KDE is definitely better at that than GNOME. I agree GNOME looks a bit better in default config, but I suppose thats subjective. I use KDE with mac-like shortcuts and menu and like it a lot

New comment by alexhornby in "Ireland will pay you $90K to move to a beautiful island home"

alexhornby — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 08:44:53 +0000

“the house that vanished” may sound like a father Ted episode but actually happened on Tory island https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57720152.amp

New comment by alexhornby in "Keyd: Linux Key Remapper"

alexhornby — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 23:34:06 +0000

KDE has option to swap ctrl and meta or ctrl alt and meta depending on your keyboard. If you then map meta to ctrl in the kconsole settings things are very mac like.

KDE even has good global menu

New comment by alexhornby in "Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)"

alexhornby — Tue, 23 May 2023 08:00:11 +0000

my sister tests all her recipes, takes her ages! https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Cook-How-Jane-Hornby/dp/071485...

New comment by alexhornby in "High velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git"

alexhornby — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 19:31:29 +0000

Been been enjoying using this. Great for regular repos as well despite monorepo in the tag line

High velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git

alexhornby — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 19:31:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32902815

Points: 4

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New comment by alexhornby in "We Halved Go Monorepo CI Build Time"

alexhornby — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:26:00 +0000

Why the described CTC algo instead of querying bazel graph to deduce targets to build given changed files? e.g. https://github.com/bazel-contrib/target-determinator