Hacker News: bcl

New comment by bcl in "Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)"

bcl — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:02:13 +0000

Filmed in Roslyn, WA - https://movielandmarks.com/#lm-1003

The Animatronic Menagerie

bcl — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://theanimatronicmenagerie.wordpress.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442820

Points: 11

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New comment by bcl in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

bcl — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 18:22:27 +0000

yes.

New comment by bcl in "Old Online Chevy Manuals"

bcl — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 23:51:47 +0000

A similar project has a lot of old brochures as well - https://oldcarbrochures.org/

New comment by bcl in "With ships, birds find an easier way to travel"

bcl — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:47:04 +0000

Just don't let the Pigeon drive the bus!

https://pigeonpresents.com/books/dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-t...

Sailing on a Sea of Seven Segment Displays

bcl — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:37:59 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2023/02/23/sailing-on-a-sea-of-seven-segment-displays/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34928119

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Journey to Speed Up OCI Containers

bcl — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:27:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scrivano.org/posts/2022-10-21-the-journey-to-speed-up-oci-containers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337609

Points: 4

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New comment by bcl in "Inform 7 is now open source"

bcl — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:44:22 +0000

Yesterday's discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31196063

New comment by bcl in "Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro"

bcl — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:14:19 +0000

WARNING: Blatant self promotion follows :)

I've recently switched to using Alpine on my laptop, and have written a bit about setting it up using ansible here:

https://www.brianlane.com/post/alpine-laptop/

And when you can't find the apps you need in the distribution there's always podman:

https://www.brianlane.com/post/prusa-slicer/

New comment by bcl in "March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 Launched (2018)"

bcl — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 16:02:01 +0000

Mine had the unfortunate 'let out the magic smoke' feature :/ Which fortunately led to the upgrade to an Atari 800 :)

New comment by bcl in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

bcl — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 01:38:53 +0000

Ha! I've been working on https://movielandmarks.com/ since 2006 or so. It has gone through various changes (started out as a LAMP stack). It is currently a static site built from a pile of json and a go program to assemble all the parts. I'm the only contributor these days, and only work on it when I feel like it.

At the start I had dreams of selling tons of DVDs via Amazon associates. But I'm terrible at marketing :) So these days it's just a simple site with no ads -- just 1258 landmarks from 322 movies. I sometimes announce new additions on twitter from https://twitter.com/movielandmarks but it only gets about 30 or so visitors a day (mostly bots).

New comment by bcl in "Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?"

bcl — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:14:47 +0000

https://goaccess.io/ is nice, analyzes the logfiles instead of requiring it be added to the pages.

New comment by bcl in "Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)"

bcl — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:29:06 +0000

Shameless plug for my side project - Sneakers HQ https://movielandmarks.com/#lm-1036

New comment by bcl in "Fixing the Logitech MX Ergo Trackball Mouse Buttons"

bcl — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:02:03 +0000

I've had to do the same thing with pretty much all of my Logitech trackballs - https://www.brianlane.com/post/fixing-a-few-logitech-trackba...

They do last for quite a while, but eventually one of the switches will go intermittent, depending on how much minecraft the user has been playing...

New comment by bcl in "The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019)"

bcl — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:20:24 +0000

They link to playable versions on ifdb.org

New comment by bcl in "The pitfalls of using SSH-agent, or how to use an agent safely"

bcl — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 18:06:04 +0000

I would also add 'Always set a timeout with -t' both to protect the keys from misuse, and so you don't forget your passphrase when you rarely type it in.

Interactive Fiction with Automapping

bcl — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB-8oJiFzEs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27117236

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bcl in "FDA urges consumers not use certain hand sanitizer products"

bcl — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 17:02:40 +0000

"Methanol, or wood alcohol, is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested and can be life-threatening when ingested."

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-u...

New comment by bcl in "My First “Conway's Game of Life” Program in Tribute to John Conway"

bcl — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:49:08 +0000

Here's the one I've been playing around with, written in go with the SDL2 library - https://github.com/bcl/sdl2-life

New comment by bcl in "Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games"

bcl — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 01:43:21 +0000

For those of you who are new to text adventures you can find images of most of the game boxes here - http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/ and various other resources here http://infocom.elsewhere.org/