Hacker News: barrowclift

New comment by barrowclift in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

barrowclift — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:21:16 +0000

The article isn't "about" ModRetro, please engage with the actual material instead of off-topic political tirades.

New comment by barrowclift in "The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls"

barrowclift — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:57:53 +0000

What serendipity, I've just begun my own play through a few days ago after having learned of the game (as most of those in North America have) through the Link's Awakening cameo. It's thoroughly charming, makes me sad it never enjoyed a proper release outside of Japan.

If any readers here have an interest in retro gaming or (like me) loved Link's Awakening back in the day, I highly recommend giving it a look.

New comment by barrowclift in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

barrowclift — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:17:26 +0000

I'm seeing your comment's downvoted, I'd like to hear from those that did as to why. Doesn't his current venture with his AGI startup Keen Technologies deserve being called out as a potential conflict of interest, here?

New comment by barrowclift in "Apple OSes Are Insecure by Design to Aid Surveillance (2024)"

barrowclift — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:29:00 +0000

This article is in fact from 2023, the only thing from 2024 was an update on 03-11 that confirms the detected issue was addressed in macOS 14.3.1 (and likely earlier versions).

New comment by barrowclift in "An unsolicited streaming app spec"

barrowclift — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 20:40:45 +0000

I've found the heuristics streaming apps use to determine whether or not to show "play next episode" or "continue watching" to be very hit or miss (sometimes due to a bad heuristic, other times due to a given episode having an unusual end point). Providing an accessible means for the user to quickly course correct when this heuristic inevitably breaks would be handy.

As a concrete example, I frequently find Funimation's app recommends I "continue watching" an episode that I'd consider already completed, and unfortunately the quickest way to "fix" instead of backing back out and browsing around is to frantically scrub through to the end so it auto-plays to the next episode.

New comment by barrowclift in "Apple doesn't care about album cover art"

barrowclift — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:39:59 +0000

I think this all ties back to listening habits. I find individuals who share this opinion are typically stream-primary listeners who mostly listen to playlists, singles, and generated "radio" stations (which is entirely valid! Not to mention that's the way most people listen to music, nowadays.)

However, there are nonetheless lots of people like myself that primarily listen to albums, maintain their own digital libraries, and use streaming platforms as a glorified "trial" platform for new music. I find those who tend to listen to music like I do really care about high resolution album art (and by extension the quality and accuracy of track metadata).

Frankly, since both needs are so widely different, I'm not sure there's any one solution for both. Goodness knows Apple Music tries, but to OP's point, it's clearly not succeeding in this effort.

New comment by barrowclift in "The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode (Gatsby/React)"

barrowclift — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:56:28 +0000

Not necessarily true, I'd argue the "perfect" dark mode uses the system's theme by default like you said, but still allows visitors to manually set light or dark should they wish to view the site a particular way (perhaps they prefer the light mode, etc.)

New comment by barrowclift in "Firefox 75.0"

barrowclift — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:12:57 +0000

If nothing else, I really appreciate the summary, with all the comments and various threads on this it's a bit hard to follow exactly what the hold up is.

New comment by barrowclift in "Firefox 75.0"

barrowclift — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:26:39 +0000

And still no movement on finally getting Bug 1178764 out the door, despite every other major browser supporting it. Nope, instead they'd rather faff about with the address bar to resounding universal disgust.

[Bug 1178764]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178765

New comment by barrowclift in "Warming Up to Unit Testing"

barrowclift — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:52:18 +0000

Bit of a disappointing read for me. Given the title, I was expecting more "meat" to the topic, like more details about why and how the author is now warming up to unit tests, anything to get the article beyond a surface-level summary of events. Right now, it simply reads "I didn't previously unit test, then I read some books, and now I do".

Seems to me writing like this is best served with a few book recommendation tweets and doesn't really make sense in this format.

New comment by barrowclift in "Big Ball of Mud (1999)"

barrowclift — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:22:43 +0000

Funnily enough, I recognize this image from The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" soundtrack liner notes (the image itself is from the movie). Why it's included in this article is lost on me.

New comment by barrowclift in "“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story (2017)"

barrowclift — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:57:22 +0000

Previous discussion from May 16, 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347648

New comment by barrowclift in "iOS 13's Music App Sucks"

barrowclift — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:24:41 +0000

Whoa, that's bad. I don't currently have an Android device to test with, but I will get an emulator set up this weekend to see if I can reproduce and fix whatever's causing this. Thanks so much for letting me know about this, I really appreciate it!

New comment by barrowclift in "iOS 13's Music App Sucks"

barrowclift — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:26:28 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Sam :) Unfortunately, I don't believe there's any third-party offering on iOS that supports downloading music within the app from Apple Music or Spotify, I'm fairly certain you'd need to kick off downloads from the first-party player itself. If any folks here are aware of a third-party player that does support this, I'd be interested to know as well.

New comment by barrowclift in "iOS 13's Music App Sucks"

barrowclift — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:58:25 +0000

While I agree iOS 13’s Music.app is pretty shoddy in many respects, there’s plenty of alternatives other than Spotify that might better fit their requirements. (Marvis Pro, Soor, etc.)

I consolidate the biggest players yearly in a review, which might be helpful for the author’s search: https://barrowclift.me/post/second-annual-ios-music-player-c...

Second Annual iOS Music Player Competition

barrowclift — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:48:50 +0000

Article URL: https://barrowclift.me/post/second-annual-ios-music-player-competition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106818

Points: 1

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New comment by barrowclift in "16-inch MacBook Pro"

barrowclift — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:48:43 +0000

That's fascinating, I didn't realize that key serves multilingual support in some countries. Is that the standard configuration in China or a common setting for that key there?

New comment by barrowclift in "16-inch MacBook Pro"

barrowclift — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:43:36 +0000

That makes sense, I didn't even consider that some folks already have the key bound to something else.

New comment by barrowclift in "16-inch MacBook Pro"

barrowclift — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:54:59 +0000

Genuinely curious, why did so many developers ask for the return of the physical Escape key when you could easily re-map it to caps lock? Before this was an officially supported option, I always hated having to do big hand-shimmies every time I needed to press the escape key, which is quite often for programs like vim!

New comment by barrowclift in "Tokyo's 2D Cafe"

barrowclift — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:37:21 +0000

Shoot, I didn't read the titles correctly enough; you're absolutely right, they're two completely different cafes. Thanks for the correction!