Hacker News: altano

New comment by altano in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

altano — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:28:04 +0000

The `gh stack` CLI sounds essential for people using git, but I hope it doesn't become required, as people using things like jj/sl should be able to work with stacks. `gs submit`/`gs push` being the interface is fine, but `gs init` and `gs add` should be optional.

New comment by altano in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

altano — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:25:59 +0000

This _is_ a solution to slow reviews. Smaller reviews are faster to get in. And many small reviews take less time to review than one large review.

Plus there's no review that's instant. Being able to continue working is always better.

New comment by altano in "My Homelab Setup"

altano — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:34:46 +0000

It's better than having to hear them complain every time plex goes down

New comment by altano in "My Homelab Setup"

altano — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:29:42 +0000

In the 1Password entry go to the "website" item. To right right there's an "autofill behavior" button. Change it to "Only fill on this exact host" and it will no longer show up unless the full host matches exactly

New comment by altano in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

altano — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:37:35 +0000

Or those who use pnpm

New comment by altano in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

altano — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:10:05 +0000

Moonlight on the Apple TV works great.

New comment by altano in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

altano — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:08:42 +0000

They added auto-playing, full screen video ads to the home screen. I threw mine in the garbage.

Pride and love, lol…

New comment by altano in "Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal"

altano — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:43:32 +0000

Who’s going to make the rehype plugin?

New comment by altano in "We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch"

altano — Fri, 23 May 2025 09:42:00 +0000

I think it's pretty common for more than one thing to happen on most days.

New comment by altano in "Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner"

altano — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:25:36 +0000

https://lobste.rs/s/a1jo3a/devenv_0_6_generating_containers_...

Why, after 8 years, I still like GraphQL sometimes in the right context

altano — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 06:17:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.magiroux.com/eight-years-of-graphql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40543329

Points: 4

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The Stabilizer Problem

altano — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:44:13 +0000

Article URL: https://ryan.norbauer.com/journal/the-stabilizer-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40194189

Points: 9

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New comment by altano in "Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix"

altano — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 01:28:52 +0000

I think Devbox's killer feature is trivially searching for and installing packages by version: https://www.jetpack.io/blog/how-nixhub-searches-nixpkgs/

New comment by altano in "Live Map of Swiss Trains"

altano — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 15:51:08 +0000

There's no need for anecdotes as the data is published. Only ~1% of connections are missed: https://reporting.sbb.ch/punctuality?=&years=1,4,5,6,7&scrol...

~93% of trains are punctual with a VERY strict definition for punctual: within 3 minutes of the scheduled time.

If you experienced worse, you were in an unlucky minority of people.

New comment by altano in "Building ColdFusion for the Web"

altano — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 04:00:07 +0000

CFML was the easiest way to get into dynamic, server-side rendered pages back in the day. It was insanely productive and easy for a person cutting their teeth on programming as it was such a small leap from HTML.

I don't know of anything that still ticks those boxes but if you're just looking for (1) easy-ish, (2) interspersing HTML tags and code, and (3) server-side rendered simplicity, then PHP is still a very viable successor.

New comment by altano in "Debugging tricks in the browser"

altano — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:55:19 +0000

Oh! I understand the question now.

You can put any expression into a conditional breakpoint, so anything you can do in the console you can do in a conditional breakpoint.

So, if you're doing this sort of thing once, you can just type it into the console and you're golden. But if you want to modify a stack local variable over and over again every time it is initialized, it's much easier to do in a conditional breakpoint because then it will happen every time that line of code runs, and your debugger never has to pause. (see https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks#...)

New comment by altano in "Debugging tricks in the browser"

altano — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:43:22 +0000

Your comment made me want to scratch this long-standing itch and write-up why you should disable source maps. Check this out:

https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/disable-source-maps

New comment by altano in "Debugging tricks in the browser"

altano — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 10:31:43 +0000

Disable source maps in the debugger. They are likely the source of your frustration and frankly I still do not understand why they are on by default given how bad the experience is of actively debugging with them on.

New comment by altano in "Debugging tricks in the browser"

altano — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 10:29:52 +0000

That’s not under the conditional breakpoint heading. You would just override the value to be a getter in the console, or you could even change it in your source code if you have write access.

New comment by altano in "Debugging tricks in the browser"

altano — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 06:01:08 +0000

I'm the author of the article and my advice is that you stop reading it and go learn about Replay.io instead. It's the most slept on web tech and will up your debugging game immensely. Seriously, go check it out.