Hacker News: aslilac

New comment by aslilac in "So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS (2022)"

aslilac — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:50:44 +0000

I think the point is pretty clearly “Apple should do better and provide better tools”

New comment by aslilac in "So long, and thanks for all the bytes"

aslilac — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:15:49 +0000

good for you man.

New comment by aslilac in "Dax – Cross-platform shell for Node.js"

aslilac — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:59:15 +0000

curious about this jsr.io thing linked in the article. as a package author, the promise of a package registry that makes things “just work” really excites me, but the website provides no real details.

New comment by aslilac in "Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News"

aslilac — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:54:21 +0000

> like for birthdays and stuff

I would never look them in the eyes again if I found out someone did this to me.

New comment by aslilac in "Choosing Go at American Express (2019)"

aslilac — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:31:57 +0000

not to be the “but rust” person, but I’m curious why Rust wasn’t in the test group. it seems to meet all their criteria, though the community was a bit smaller back then.

Go is a perfectly reasonable choice though, and easier to learn on average.

New comment by aslilac in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

aslilac — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:37:08 +0000

it’s absolutely the right way to do it. third party clients are a dying breed, because people have forgotten why they’re necessary.

New comment by aslilac in "Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)"

aslilac — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 02:29:40 +0000

going off of you saying “micro port” I think you’re talking about USB B.

New comment by aslilac in "Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)"

aslilac — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 01:42:09 +0000

calling USB A “legacy” and a “relic” is so misplaced. we all still own USB A devices. I challenge the author to go find a wired keyboard or mouse that comes with a USB C plug. it’s possible, but not easy.

the thing is, we could just have both! this isn’t some winner/loser scenario. the real question should be why these computers with enough bandwidth for 11+ connectors don’t at least split the difference with 6/5 of each. gives device manufacturers enough confidence that customers will be able to plug in the thing they bought, and gives consumers the ability to plug in anything and everything they need. then in 5 years when things have advanced we can start talking about entirely consolidating on USB C.

New comment by aslilac in "Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM"

aslilac — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:47:59 +0000

again, I would really like to hear what the "activists" are demanding that you think is so unreasonable.

that's a lot to assume from a couple words on a website, but if you're this fun at parties we must really be missing out.

also btw, hi, it's me, the coward who wrote the prose for the website. tho it wasn't _just_ me that thought it was a good idea. it's done a terrific job of keeping "un-politic" buzz kills away.

New comment by aslilac in "Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM"

aslilac — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:17:33 +0000

trans rights are incredibly well defined, actually. they’re human rights. trans people deserve the same rights as every other human. idk what “problematic statements” you’ve heard but it sounds like you need to listen to less ben shapiro. saying you’ve heard “several” without providing any examples sounds like you just don’t like trans people.

I think it’s safe to assume that when a community claims to contain “no nazi bullshit”, they mean that it contains no nazis or their associated bullshit. if you’re worried that that includes you or people you sympathize with, ask yourself “_why_?”, because it makes a lot of sense to everyone in the quite active gleam community.

New comment by aslilac in "Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?"

aslilac — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:07:09 +0000

bit biased, but we use coder (I work at coder)

New comment by aslilac in "React Sees a dip in NPM downloads this week"

aslilac — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:22:02 +0000

homie, this is just what these graphs look like in general. chill.

go click on any package with substantial downloads. svelte is the same way, the downtick is just less visible because of a weirdly massive spike in their downloads.

New comment by aslilac in "UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS"

aslilac — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:02:04 +0000

Asahi Fedora is supposed to come out in the next few days. There’s hope!

New comment by aslilac in "Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64"

aslilac — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 22:20:03 +0000

You do have to build it from source, but the documentation for how to do so is luckily quite good, and there's a dedicated channel in the Discord server for helping people with build issues if you run into any problems.

You're obviously not obligated, but I'd encourage you to try building it if you're interested!

New comment by aslilac in "macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported"

aslilac — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:23:46 +0000

ARM binaries in general tend to be a bit larger fwiw.

New comment by aslilac in "Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files"

aslilac — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:20:30 +0000

am I still the only one who thinks storing all of your secrets in plain text while using a package manager that allows arbitrary code execution is a terrible idea?

New comment by aslilac in "micro – A Modern Alternative to nano"

aslilac — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:52:07 +0000

because it's a text editor that's already fully capable of editing text. not every thing needs to constantly evolve and add features at a break-neck pace.

New comment by aslilac in "Bun v0.7.0"

aslilac — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 16:01:23 +0000

What's left on the roadmap before Bun 1.0?

New comment by aslilac in "Reading is selfish, elitist, and anti-social"

aslilac — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:05:03 +0000

well, I would’ve read this post but I don’t wanna be selfish, so I guess I won’t.

New comment by aslilac in "Val, a high-level systems programming language"

aslilac — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:26:41 +0000

I've had "playing with val" on the back-burner for a while. Finally tried to today, only to learn that even after 4,000 commits it's still a long shot from usable. Most of the examples from the language tour don't compile, even seemingly simple ones.

Carbon has yet to deliver on anything yet, even as Sean Baxter has been making lots of progress on the Circle compiler (including implementing lots of the good bits from Carbon).

Hard to be a successor when you can't really be considered a language yet.