Hacker News: atomicstack

New comment by atomicstack in "Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots"

atomicstack — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:36:36 +0000

tmux might be getting a native save / restore feature for v4.0: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/5693

New comment by atomicstack in "So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?"

atomicstack — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:35:42 +0000

I got lucky and picked up a second hand HP-7475A for $50 about five years ago. It's the GPIB version, not native RS-232, so I also had to find a way to connect it to a modern PC. Ended up going with a GPIB<->USB adapter from AliExpress (about 10x cheaper than one from Prologix) to plug it into an RPi, which I can use to send HPGL files to get plotted.

Also got a friend to hack away a chunk of the plastic casing with a circular saw so I could use pen adapters for modern Sharpie and Stabilo markers, which are much easier and cheaper to acquire than old format plotter pens.

New comment by atomicstack in "Noise"

atomicstack — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:08:20 +0000

Quantising the oscillator pitch into discrete steps like this is pretty common when it comes to synthesisers. Generally there is also a fine-tuning control that allows the user to offset the output by up to an octave. Makes it easier to not be out-of-tune with other instruments.

New comment by atomicstack in "p5.js"

atomicstack — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 21:25:59 +0000

https://fglock.github.io/Perlito/perlito/perlito5.html

New comment by atomicstack in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

atomicstack — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 02:26:51 +0000

About a year ago I stayed in a hotel and the door lock started misbehaving one morning while I was at breakfast. Went to the front desk, got a new card, went back to the room and discovered it still didn't work. After doing that two more times, someone was sent up to the room with a mysterious, palm-sized device with a USB cable hanging off it, which they plugged into a well hidden USB port on the bottom of the lock. The device performed some black magic, and after about 30 seconds a light on the lock changed colour from orange to red and it started functioning correctly again.

New comment by atomicstack in "Hidden gems of moreutils"

atomicstack — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 15:26:28 +0000

I use `ts` quite often in adhoc logging/monitoring contexts. Because it uses strftime() under the hood, it has automatic support for '%F' and '%T', which are much easier to type than '%Y-%m-%d' and '%H:%M:%S'. Plus, it also has support for high-resolution times via '%.T', '%.s', and '%.S':

  echo 'hello world' | ts '[%F %.T]'
  [2023-12-30 16:25:40.463640] hello world

New comment by atomicstack in "Fzf Integration with Zsh Completion"

atomicstack — Sun, 10 May 2020 08:11:40 +0000

This is a very impressive integration of fzf's speedy fuzzy-match CLI, with zsh's completion menus for command line parameters:

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

https://asciinema.org/a/293849

Fzf Integration with Zsh Completion

atomicstack — Sun, 10 May 2020 08:11:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23131077

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by atomicstack in "Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs"

atomicstack — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 10:14:48 +0000

I like this one, it has more options and also features a JS-based offline version: http://donjon.bin.sh/5e/dungeon/index.cgi

New comment by atomicstack in "How Booking.com manipulates users"

atomicstack — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:34:14 +0000

Not quite... the first 30% of your salary is tax-free:

https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontenten/...

New comment by atomicstack in "Dungeon Generator"

atomicstack — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:51:40 +0000

I started running some games of Paranoia last winter, and found this tool to be quite useful for generating layouts: http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/dungeon/

There is also a pure-JS version which works offline, downloadable from here: http://donjon.bin.sh/apps/

New comment by atomicstack in "Sydney's fun police have put out the light of the nightlife"

atomicstack — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 14:19:12 +0000

It's also now illegal to sell kebabs past midnight:

http://stoneyroads.com/2016/01/there-is-now-a-lockout-law-fo...

Native Sydney-sider, lived there for 25 years, not sure I'd enjoy living there any more.

New comment by atomicstack in "Keystroke shortcuts in bash"

atomicstack — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 09:01:40 +0000

Slight errata: This part of the pipeline: `bind -l | sed 's/.*/bind -q \0/' | /bin/bash 2>&1 | grep -v warning:`

...can be replaced with `bind -P`.

Also, \e represents ESC; tab is represented by \t.

New comment by atomicstack in "The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer"

atomicstack — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:36:21 +0000

"Perl (and I mean Perl5) is antiquated, and no modern shop I'm aware of uses it."

30 seconds of Googling puts this fallacy entirely to bed:

http://perl.la/ http://www.perl.com/pub/2014/02/perl-today-february-2014.htm... http://moose.iinteractive.com/about.html

New comment by atomicstack in "Memcached turns 10 years old today"

atomicstack — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:19:46 +0000

Yes, another of his inventions (or something he was at least involved in implementing) is Gearman (http://gearman.org/), a queue/worker system which I used in my last job at a domain registrar/web host to hack up parallelised domain name look-ups. Similar to memcached, it was ridiculously quick and easy to set up and use, and bought me massive efficiency gains with very little implementation cost.

New comment by atomicstack in "Memcached turns 10 years old today"

atomicstack — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:10:30 +0000

The other thing that nobody seems to have brought up is the forks, descendants and similar pieces of software it inspired in one way or another: e.g. memcachedb, Tokyo Cabinet, Redis, etc. Memcached's release was very much a watershed moment.