Hacker News: azertify

New comment by azertify in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

azertify — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:38:59 +0000

The layout engine is limited. It does flow text quite well, but when I had mine (the screen broke a few months ago) I was working on adding more features to the rendering engine.

It's easy to write a HTML & CSS layout engine to support most of the epub spec, but hard to do it well on such a constrained chip. Even things like nested lists and inline code snippets are a challenge.

New comment by azertify in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

azertify — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:36:16 +0000

The X4 doesn't have a touch screen, so you're safe on those points. The next iteration will do though, although I think you will be able to turn it off in the reader view.

New comment by azertify in "Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love"

azertify — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:02:51 +0000

I really like the Matrix ecosystem, and this client seems like a cool addition, but how are posts like this with a load of AI generated prose getting on the front page?

I can't say how frustrating it is to be midway through reading something and realise there's no human author.

New comment by azertify in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

azertify — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:28:36 +0000

In case anyone is interested, this creator built a remake of Portal for the N64, uploading a really cool set of videos describing the work that went into building it.

He's since stopped to work on his own IP, I believe that the issue was that Valve couldn't allow it because they'd never get Nintendo to agree to it. Something along those lines, anyway.

New comment by azertify in "I was right about ATProto key management"

azertify — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:51:13 +0000

I think the problem is that it's too onerous to run your own instance, but being on anything but the "default" instance means dealing with volunteer moderators imposing their worldview on the available discourse.

Creating a Mastodon account shouldn't mean supporting the particular political affiliation of the moderators, but I think it feels that way for many of the instances.

New comment by azertify in "I was right about ATProto key management"

azertify — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:47:49 +0000

I think finding where the money _isn't_ is a fun way to find interesting projects.

New comment by azertify in "Servo 2025 Stats"

azertify — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:41:39 +0000

I think that Ladybird has driven a lot of the effort, otherwise we'd just see browsers continuing to use Chromium with backports to allow v2 being worked on.

Ladybird was already progressing rapidly within SerenityOS well before it was officially launched, and I think that's given people a new inspiration for how plausible it is to create a browser from scratch. I'm really pleased we're seeing Servo having a resurgence too.

New comment by azertify in ".NET 10"

azertify — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:41:15 +0000

Doesn't it feel like the functional stuff is coming into C# so that F# can disappear? Pure speculation on my part but doesn't seem unreasonable.

New comment by azertify in "How I ditched smartphones"

azertify — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:03:21 +0000

I've got a QinPhone candybar style phone, there are Japanese flip phones that work globally too.

I wasn't able to make the switch, I find that having a good camera on a phone is too much of a convenience.

New comment by azertify in "Libghostty is coming"

azertify — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:53:38 +0000

Search in scroll back is coming in 1.3, unfortunately that's going to be 6 months away.

There's a lot happening in the Ghostty app though, check out the 1.2 release notes

New comment by azertify in "Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]"

azertify — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:45:19 +0000

I can appreciate that per message replies are handy in modern messages. But if you were having _such_ an in-depth conversation at the peak of IRC, you may have moved to email to make it async and allow for more fully thought-out replies.

Email is still a great way to communicate with people today.