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New comment by boronine in "I don't like passkeys"

boronine — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:42:30 +0000

Majority of websites use email to authenticate (“forgot password” flow). Passwords/passkey is just an optional convenience for quicker login.

New comment by boronine in "Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box"

boronine — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:07:09 +0000

I use this script for provisioning runners (with org-level single use access token).

https://github.com/vbem/multi-runners

The motivation is simply to have the runners share a local docker build cache rather than pushing and pulling cache from registry which is a ridiculous best practice.

New comment by boronine in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

boronine — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:08:21 +0000

For any small team wanting to try Copilot, heed my warning that you will waste hours navigating their billing settings using various out-of-date documentation. Long story short, I finally got an email from them saying that "Copilot Business is available for teams purchasing 10 or more licenses". This is undocumented but other people are reporting the same: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/199346

We're sticking with Cursor for now, using Kimi as our daily driver (branded as "Composer").

New comment by boronine in "macOS needs its grid back"

boronine — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:28:52 +0000

For anyone wondering, you can use Aerospace purely as a workspace switching solution without the tiling: https://www.boronine.com/2025/02/09/Instant-Workspace-Switch...

New comment by boronine in "LineageOS for QEMU Virtual Machines"

boronine — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:10:34 +0000

You can literally download a file called LineageOS_on_arm64.utm from the Releases page, drag and drop it into UTM and it Just Works. I've been looking for this holy grail for years.

(Seems that the bulk of the work is done by some heroes in the LineageOS community: https://wiki.lineageos.org/utm-vm-on-apple-silicon-mac)

LineageOS for QEMU Virtual Machines

boronine — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jqssun/android-lineage-qemu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417029

Points: 15

# Comments: 4

New comment by boronine in "A faster path to container images in Bazel"

boronine — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:23:49 +0000

I went down this rabbit hole before, you have to ignore all the recommended approaches. The real solution is to have a build server with a global Docker install and a script to prune cache when the disk usage goes above a certain percentage. Cache is local and instant. Pushing and pulling cache images is an insane solution.

New comment by boronine in "What are OKLCH colors?"

boronine — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:46:55 +0000

Wow, this might be the best use of HSLuv so far, I'm going to add it to the examples page https://www.hsluv.org/examples/

New comment by boronine in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

boronine — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:51:30 +0000

I also used yabai for this purpose but found a solution that doesn’t require messing with security: https://www.boronine.com/2025/02/09/Instant-Workspace-Switch...

New comment by boronine in "OpenSCAD: The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

boronine — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:17:56 +0000

I had some success experimenting with this: https://github.com/boronine/the-landing-pad#modeling-a-secti...

h2tunnel – TCP over HTTP/2

boronine — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:32:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.boronine.com/2025/06/01/h2tunnel-TCP-over-HTTP2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149021

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by boronine in "Ask HN: What's the ideal stack for a solo dev in 2025"

boronine — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:11:04 +0000

This is the correct answer. Pro-tip: use Django admin as a user facing interface in your prototype, then you won’t even need to write HTML templates, let alone client-side JS.

New comment by boronine in "Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement"

boronine — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:30:54 +0000

Here you go: https://www.boronine.com/2025/02/09/Instant-Workspace-Switch...

New comment by boronine in "Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement"

boronine — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 05:21:11 +0000

I have been using AeroSpace for this purpose for over a year. I simply disable all the tiling features in the config and only use two shortcuts: switch to workspace and move current window to workspace. It's absolutely essential when working on a small screen.

AeroSpace does indeed suffer from a performance issue but this appears to be inherent to the available macOS APIs: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/131

The way you reproduce it is open Factorio.app and quickly switch between workspaces while the game is loading.

FlashSpace seems to suffer from this problem as well based on a quick test.

With regards to configuration, I think it's cumbersome to configure shortcuts per workspace. In AeroSpace, every letter and number on the keyboard is automatically a workspace and shortcuts are global.

All that said, this is a fantastic tool and I would prefer a tool like this that addresses the pain of macOS workspaces as its primary goal rather than being part of a tiling window manager.

EDIT: After more testing it appears that FlashSpace does not support having different windows of the same app on different workspaces, this is a dealbreaker for my workflow :(

New comment by boronine in "H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies"

boronine — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:39:42 +0000

Oh looks like we misunderstood each other. The fact is that h2tunnel is not using SSH, because my goal was a minimal Node.js native solution. So I had to look for a built-in alternative for multiplexing and found HTTP2.

New comment by boronine in "H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies"

boronine — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:23:45 +0000

SSH does some kind of lower-level multiplexing. Multiplexing is unavoidable here because the local server must maintain simultaneous TCP connections that must be somehow distinguished between each other whereas the tunnel is just a stream of binary data.

New comment by boronine in "H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies"

boronine — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:52:18 +0000

Let me know how to goes! And watch for an update this week. I'm writing thousands of lines of tests to iron out all the event handling quirks in case of bad network conditions etc. I want to make it rock solid.

New comment by boronine in "H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies"

boronine — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 07:44:42 +0000

I was able to keep my code small by leveraging existing protocols: TLS for authentication and HTTP2 for multiplexing, stuffing simultaneous HTTP1 requests onto a single TLS-encrypted tunnel socket.

Hopefully I'll make it on the hall of fame [1] :)

[1] https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies

boronine — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 07:44:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/boronine/h2tunnel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41845934

Points: 45

# Comments: 13

New comment by boronine in "Show HN: Kotlin Money"

boronine — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:58:05 +0000

I think most of this is covered by a good Decimal API, currency stuff probably shouldn't be embedded into a language because it changes: currencies come and go, get redenominated etc. Although one simple thing that would be useful is keeping track of abstract units, e.g. throwing an error when attempting to do 10 USD + 10 EUR.