Hacker News: andrew_shay

New comment by andrew_shay in "Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website"

andrew_shay — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:34:16 +0000

Very cool

New comment by andrew_shay in "Cosmopolitan Third Edition"

andrew_shay — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:01:27 +0000

Thank you

New comment by andrew_shay in "Cosmopolitan Third Edition"

andrew_shay — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:57:53 +0000

Which options do you choose on that page before uploading?

New comment by andrew_shay in "Cosmopolitan Third Edition"

andrew_shay — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 03:32:50 +0000

Really cool!

New comment by andrew_shay in "Ask HN: Why are so many OSS communities on Discord?"

andrew_shay — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 20:07:41 +0000

It's super easy, no maintenance, and free.

Every minute spent dealing with a chat server is one less minute working on your project, or spending time with your family.

New comment by andrew_shay in "Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust"

andrew_shay — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:16:41 +0000

I use it for a desktop file transfer app [0]. I chose Rust because my primary language is Python and I just wanted to learn something new and really different for this project. Go would have been easier, but Rust just feels bullet proof. It's so strict. If it compiles, it works! It's been a very interesting journey.

[0] https://github.com/transmitic/transmitic

New comment by andrew_shay in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

andrew_shay — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:20:37 +0000

Blog and digital garden, but I don't write much https://andrewshay.me/

New comment by andrew_shay in "Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?"

andrew_shay — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 03:26:05 +0000

"It seems Destini may have caught up with us"

New comment by andrew_shay in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

andrew_shay — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 03:37:01 +0000

Blog and digital garden https://andrewshay.me

New comment by andrew_shay in "Digital Gardening"

andrew_shay — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 23:15:41 +0000

Mine https://www.andrewshay.me/

New comment by andrew_shay in "Rust 1.63"

andrew_shay — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:56:31 +0000

I've built a p2p file transfer program [0]. All my development experience had been in Python, but I really wanted to try a statically typed, low level language, and decided to give rust a try.

It was hard to get going, and I still only know basics, but everything just works! Typing, borrow checker, the matched results, all of that makes code bullet proof.

[0] https://github.com/transmitic/transmitic

New comment by andrew_shay in "Zas Editor"

andrew_shay — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 23:01:03 +0000

This looks really impressive. I wish there was a Windows client because I would try it now.

New comment by andrew_shay in "Show HN: Zaplib – Speed up your webapp with Rust+Wasm"

andrew_shay — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 23:00:40 +0000

Great to see more work in the Rust+Wasm space. Interested in trying this out at some point.

New comment by andrew_shay in "Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?"

andrew_shay — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:02:42 +0000

Pros: It is as light weight as it claims (at least when I did a basic test I was more than happy). Seamless deployment, no setup or dependencies or anything. For instance I'm using Rust and it was the only front end that _just worked_ when I started a year or 2 ago. The creator is very active and very helpful on the forums. He will answer your questions and give you the solution you need, but also give you a more proper solution, if applicable. It appears cross platform support _just works_ as well, but I haven't tried yet. It's nice that it's HTML, CSS, and JS so you can share knowledge among projects.

Cons: Not as much documentation and help online as you might be used to from larger projects, but the documentation and samples are good enough if you're willing to grep and dig a little. It doesn't have the same parity as exiting browsers, so some existing web frameworks (like bootstrap) won't work (at least I couldn't get it to work). No debugger that can step through JS that I can find. But it does have "inspector.exe" which is like a simple Developer Tools from browsers to see the HTML with an active JS interpreter.

New comment by andrew_shay in "Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?"

andrew_shay — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:30:30 +0000

Sciter is great. It's similar to Electron but very light on resources. The creator is very active on the forums too. It'd be great to have a GUI/widget toolkit that would look native across all platforms but also work be valid HTML/CSS/JS on current browsers. It really feels like there is a lot of potential for sciter to take over.

New comment by andrew_shay in "Rust 2021: GUI"

andrew_shay — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:21:53 +0000

Sciter is what I'm using, and I love it. It's not a pure Rust solution though.

https://sciter.com/