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New comment by bjeanes in "Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers"

bjeanes — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:49:00 +0000

Command + P worked for me in Firefox, but Command + Shift + P did not.

Further, because I don't type in QWERTY, I noticed that _some_ shortcuts seem correctly mapped in my layout, but others are not. The Option+N shortcut for a new note just starts the "˜" combining character (expecting a following character like "n" to form "ñ") when using the "n" key in my layout. However it works if I use the physical "n" key (which is my "k").

I feel like that explanation is pretty poor, but yeah basically some shortcuts seem bound to the physical key location whereas others seem bound to the mapped key. I wonder if they are declared differently?

New comment by bjeanes in "Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark"

bjeanes — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 23:15:00 +0000

I just preceded the asterisks with a backslash.

New comment by bjeanes in "Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark"

bjeanes — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:21:47 +0000

> My biggest complaint is that asterisks map to and underscores map to (in HTML terms). This is not backwards-compatible with Markdown where (asterisk)foo(asterisk) gets you foo, and it feels objectively backwards, if that makes sense. I wonder if there's any chance they could reverse that.

Interesting. I suspect something like this will always be subjective, but I find the opposite to be true. *bold* and _italics_ make the most sense to me and is always what I wished Markdown did.

Probably, this is because I was familiar with Textile[1] before I used Markdown, and this is what it does.

Today, Slack also uses this convention instead of the Markdown convention (though I believe it _used_ to use the latter).

[1]: https://textile-lang.com/

New comment by bjeanes in "Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform"

bjeanes — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 23:18:26 +0000

You've made the thing in my brain I've wanted to build for a while but which felt too hard. And you've made it self-hostable! You legend... thank you!

New comment by bjeanes in "An Elixir/LiveView game written entirely by ChatGPT"

bjeanes — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 23:02:36 +0000

> Has to anyone asked ChatGPT to refactor existing horrible code?
I'm not sure if "horrible" but I did experiment with getting it to refactor some code. I also gave it code with a bug and asked it to fix it (I described the bug), which it was able to do. I didn't test very complicated scenarios though. In the bug fix case, it was code to wrap, indent, and prefix a block of text.

New comment by bjeanes in "Hanami 2.0"

bjeanes — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:05:59 +0000

Looks like the new 2.0 guides doesn't have anything regarding views and templates yet. Is that a documentation gap or is it like some of the closer ROM integration, where it will be 2.1 where that is functionally fleshed out?

New comment by bjeanes in "Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS"

bjeanes — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 21:23:07 +0000

I wish Mozilla had been able to keep pushing harder with their servo project. IIRC, one of the earliest upsides I remember hearing about to justify creating Rust (in order to build servo) was that the increased safety with regards to concurrency could allow a web renderer to parallelise computation across _underclocked_ cores, thereby setting a new benchmark for battery consumption.
Granted, that was more about mobile devices but it still stuck with me. Effortless and safe concurrency would tip the scales to having hundreds of low power cores instead of a dozen high powered cores. I want that world, esp for mobile devices and laptops.

New comment by bjeanes in "The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time"

bjeanes — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 23:50:40 +0000

The title text for the image implies it might be about ImageMagick, but that's probably dated now since the likes of vips

New comment by bjeanes in "Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse"

bjeanes — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 23:31:45 +0000

Helix too, it seems, though I haven't used either for more than 10 minutes each.

New comment by bjeanes in "Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager"

bjeanes — Tue, 31 May 2022 01:32:15 +0000

Yeah I use them too. I keep meaning to set up Firefly III to try it but Pocketsmith _has_ been really good. For a period of time I had accounts in a couple of countries and it was one of the few tools which let me get a multi-currency view of all my finances across the globe. Highly recommend.

New comment by bjeanes in "Why did Heroku fail?"

bjeanes — Tue, 17 May 2022 01:30:19 +0000

As an early adopter of actions I remember that it was wildly different in its first version (beta perhaps?) than it is today. I have no source to back this up because it was too long ago, but I feel like I remember hearing at the time that the reason it changed so much was _in part_ because of the ADO presence. So I think you're right that the vision was there before hand, but what we have today is very much because of the influence of ADO (in particular, the mandate to run actions _on_ Azure, IIRC).

New comment by bjeanes in "Why did Heroku fail?"

bjeanes — Tue, 17 May 2022 01:26:49 +0000

Agree 100%. Also, thanks for hiring me into Heroku at the time, even if it's behind both of us now <3

New comment by bjeanes in "Ask HN: How to build empathy?"

bjeanes — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:59:41 +0000

That scene gave me chills while watching it, and chills just now while re-watching it.
So good.

New comment by bjeanes in "Tesla’s new Model S will automatically shift between park, reverse, and drive"

bjeanes — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:51:01 +0000

Yeah. And when you might actually _need_ to change, it could be while doing a 3-point turn in the middle of a busyish street. You really don't want to be lingering in the middle of the road trying to coerce the AI into believing you really do want to change directions...

New comment by bjeanes in "How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku"

bjeanes — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:30:33 +0000

I worked with her (I was on the team she was initially hired onto at Heroku) and she is one of the best hires we ever made, hands down.

New comment by bjeanes in "Nebula, Slack's Open Source Global Overlay Network"

bjeanes — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:04:51 +0000

Tinc is mentioned in the post.

New comment by bjeanes in "WARP is here"

bjeanes — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:02:03 +0000

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xk78x/switter-down-cloud...

New comment by bjeanes in "Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases"

bjeanes — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:33:42 +0000

I've been using Notion for a couple of years now and it has consistently gotten better, faster, more useable, and more exciting.
I cannot recommend this product and the team behind it enough.

New comment by bjeanes in "Simple React Patterns"

bjeanes — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 06:12:38 +0000

Or the use of something like recompose[1]'s `lifecycle` function[2].
1: https://github.com/acdlite/recompose
2: https://github.com/acdlite/recompose/blob/8c4ac2e4/docs/API....

New comment by bjeanes in "One of the lesser reasons Soundcloud deserved its fate"

bjeanes — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:38:38 +0000

> If you're using a Mac there isn't a system volume controller with adjustments for each application, only a single global control
True, but for those looking for a solution like this there are options. I personally use SoundControl 2[1] ($10) but there is also a free open source app[2] and a few other options out there.
[1]: https://staticz.com/soundcontrol/ [2]: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic