Hacker News: bovermyer

What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators

bovermyer — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:48:44 +0000

Article URL: https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/09/japanese-vs-western-heraldry/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878900

Points: 3

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New comment by bovermyer in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

bovermyer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:44:35 +0000

Good lord. I remember having to convert Visual FoxPro "programs" to PHP+MySQL way back in 2011. That was actually a lot of fun.

This is fascinating. The author did great work here.

New comment by bovermyer in "How to Write with an LLM"

bovermyer — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:39:41 +0000

This is close to my approach. I'll use LLMs as a read-only editor for my writing. Sometimes I follow its advice. Sometimes I don't. Other times, it discovers things I want to change, but not in the way it describes.

New comment by bovermyer in "Why every software engineer should play Factorio"

bovermyer — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:10:30 +0000

That's a good point. I think that may be why I can handle Satisfactory more than Factorio - the first-person perspective makes it seem more "hands-on," as you put it.

New comment by bovermyer in "Why every software engineer should play Factorio"

bovermyer — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:02:51 +0000

That's a good writeup!

I've tried Factorio, but I think the very thing that draws some people in is what drove me away. I already spend enough time managing systems and optimizing for load, etc. I don't need to spend my leisure time doing that, too.

New comment by bovermyer in "Show HN: Kage – Real product design inspiration turned into prompts for agents"

bovermyer — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:58:54 +0000

Interesting. So it's structured copy-cat?

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

New comment by bovermyer in "AirPods 5"

bovermyer — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:26:21 +0000

What other effects does that have? Weight, heat, etc.

New comment by bovermyer in "Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom"

bovermyer — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:06:34 +0000

Franklin corresponded from time to time with Sir Francis Dashwood, the founder of the Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe, the most infamous of the hellfire clubs. There is no evidence that Franklin actually was a member of the club or partook of its activities.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/27/archives/the-hellfire-clu...

[2] Ashe, Geoffrey. The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality. Great Britain: Sutton Publishing, 2005, p. 121

New comment by bovermyer in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

bovermyer — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:06:00 +0000

I lost many hours to Populous II. Being able to rain down lightning was just plain fun.

New comment by bovermyer in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

bovermyer — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:50:45 +0000

I'm working on a Python rewrite of Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021.

New comment by bovermyer in "Im 14 and I want to create AI for students"

bovermyer — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:03:03 +0000

If you want to create an AI that will be better at _teaching_ and not just answering questions, you may want to talk to a human teacher about their process.

"Pedagogy" is the term for professional teaching; "pedagogical methods" would be a good term to use in searches, or in querying AI, about processes like this.

New comment by bovermyer in "Claude Opus 5"

bovermyer — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:48:54 +0000

This stood out to me as a little concerning:

> The model hallucinates factual claims slightly more than Opus 4.8, despite being more accurate overall.

New comment by bovermyer in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

bovermyer — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:15:05 +0000

That's pretty cool. The phrase "3D-printed engine" stuck out to me as neat, too.

New comment by bovermyer in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

bovermyer — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:14:40 +0000

You seem to be suffering from the misconception that text-only is a _bad_ thing.

New comment by bovermyer in "Sam Neill has died"

bovermyer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:15:38 +0000

I have only ever seen the 1950s Ivanhoe film and part of a... I think it was a 1990s TV miniseries. I'll have to watch this.

New comment by bovermyer in "Odin 1.0 Announcement"

bovermyer — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:16:42 +0000

What kinds of project would Odin be best suited for, as compared to, say, Rust or Go?

New comment by bovermyer in "Brick by Brick: How My Home AI Is Growing a Body"

bovermyer — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:37:24 +0000

This is both intimidating and fascinating.

I wonder what would happen if the first real android, in the Asimov sense, was birthed in a garage and not in some high-budget corporate lab somewhere.

New comment by bovermyer in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

bovermyer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:44:52 +0000

The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y.

https://bubbles.town/briefing

New comment by bovermyer in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

bovermyer — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:22:29 +0000

Aaaand now I'm using OpenCode instead, and trying out OpenCode Go.

Converting ISO Country Codes to Flag Emojis

bovermyer — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://danq.me/2026/05/31/iso-country-codes-to-flags/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349929

Points: 5

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