Hacker News: avanai

New comment by avanai in "Exapunks (2018)"

avanai — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:17:30 +0000

Make sure you get those JIRAs filed and pointed. Standup is at 10:30.

New comment by avanai in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

avanai — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:32:48 +0000

I think you just described cash.

New comment by avanai in "Apple Watch for Your Kids"

avanai — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:08:39 +0000

I got one for my grade schooler and it's mostly great. She can text or call me or her mom or her grandparents (but no one else), we can know where she is, and there not too much she can play on it. It gives her a bit more freedom because she can get in touch with us to make plans or wander off out of sight but still be in touch.

I'm kind of annoyed with "schooltime" on the phone, it has a fixed (boring) watch face, it doesn't actually stop a kid from exiting schooltime, they just have to press a button and we can see if she did it in the app. It's also either on on a weekly schedule or totally off, so she has to whine at me to turn off schooltime on holidays and then it's easy to forget to turn it back on. There's also no provision for multiple family members to manage kid watches. I set up her watch so my wife can't also manage it. Also, there's no way for me to install apps. I'd really like to install Home Assistant on her watch so she can unlock doors, but...I can't. Can't be done.

Overall I'd say they built out a nice system for a while and then...stopped. I bet there's a PM at Apple that had the rest of the features all ready to go and then got moved off onto the Vision Pro or something. Every now and then they're talking to their old teammate and they sigh about what it could have been. I'll buy them a beer sometime.

New comment by avanai in "Just Use Go"

avanai — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:14:39 +0000

    var _ MyInterface = &MyStruct{}

Now your compiler will tell you you stopped implementing the interface. Pretty? No. But it works. And gopls will even offer to implement stubs for missing methods.

New comment by avanai in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

avanai — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:42:50 +0000

“Ask an LLM to hack your app” should be a production-readiness step from now on.

New comment by avanai in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

avanai — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:58:11 +0000

Same. I also use Ian's Secure Knot in places where you'd use a double-knot https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

New comment by avanai in "Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]"

avanai — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:51:50 +0000

Man I loved my Pebble but I’d say the three things I use my Apple Watch for most are: telling time (++), reading notifications (~), and getting Siri to set timers or control my Home Assistant* (—-).

Since Apple simply won’t allow 3rd party apps the full api access they need to do everything, I’m stuck with my Apple Watch if I want all the Apple stuff, and I’m too lazy/annoyed to try to switch ecosystems.

*via Apple Home via Homebridge

New comment by avanai in "I drank every cocktail"

avanai — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 02:47:15 +0000

The other magic ingredient is salt. A tiny pinch of salt can balance out sour and bitter flavors in surprising ways, and be otherwise undetectable. I’ve “fixed” a lot of cocktails that way.

New comment by avanai in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

avanai — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:24:27 +0000

A "eulogy" is a speech you make at a funeral in honor of the dead person. I think you meant "apology".

Separating work and personal config [Git, Emacs]

avanai — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:31:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.emoses.org/posts/keeping-work-separate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755560

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Go Puzzle: How can this panic?

avanai — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:43:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.emoses.org/posts/go-puzzle-nil-panic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475058

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by avanai in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

avanai — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:09:10 +0000

Too late. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/science/measles-vaccinati...

New comment by avanai in "A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago"

avanai — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:59:34 +0000

> Try to solve bugs one layer deeper

This is one of the main things I try to impart to junior folks when I’m mentoring them or reviewing code.

It’s also one of the biggest red flags to me of someone who’s working above their level when I have to repeatedly press a more senior person to dig deeper and fix things at a deeper level.

You need to take the time to understand why the bug happened, or you’re just going to be patching wallpaper instead of fixing the plumbing leak.

Emacs Tidbit: rectangle-number-lines

avanai — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:25:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.emoses.org/posts/rectangle-number-lines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40146325

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Building a custom Emacs auth-source

avanai — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:03:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.emoses.org/posts/emacs-custom-auth-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38824493

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by avanai in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

avanai — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:05:33 +0000

I’ve been using Firefox almost exclusively for years with two exceptions. The web dev tools in Chrome are really just better. And recently my work made the decision to only allow Chrome for security reasons. I’m annoyed about that but I understand why, it’s not necessarily that Chrome is more secure but the central management tools are stronger and if they were only going to support one, they picked the one more people use.

New comment by avanai in "The worst programmer I know"

avanai — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 15:35:16 +0000

The most impressive thing about this story is that they figured out the answer. They did the research, and nailed down that it was Nyquist who was was the productivity booster. It’s the exact opposite of the OP’s story, where management tried to fire the Nyquist-equivalent.

New comment by avanai in "Celsius Was Lying"

avanai — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:45:38 +0000

Clicked to find out about how we're all measuring temperature wrong.

New comment by avanai in "Names should be cute, not descriptive"

avanai — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:52:31 +0000

I'm not a huge fan of cutesey names but a lot of those names are variations on or homages to Kubernetes (Greek for "Helmsman"): e.g Skipper, Harbor, and Helm from your list.

New comment by avanai in "Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids"

avanai — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 14:51:37 +0000

OK I read this as carbon-scrubbers which grow marijuana. I dunno, maybe it helps oxygenate the air. Or maybe I haven’t had coffee yet.