Hacker News: bpev

New comment by bpev in "Sun Clock"

bpev — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:56:04 +0000

idk. Not the dev, but for me it's seemed pretty correlated to cloudiness.

New comment by bpev in "Sun Clock"

bpev — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:34:29 +0000

Been using https://sundial.page recently for weather

New comment by bpev in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

bpev — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:07:35 +0000

jfc. hold me back.

New comment by bpev in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

bpev — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:50:49 +0000

I mean, this was from a physical therapist at Kaiser Permanente, pinched nerves and referred pain are real things, and whatever happened fixed it for me, so idk? My guess is that it sounds like something a chiropractor would say because they tend to over-attribute pain in general to be referred pain from spinal misalignment? But idk much about chiropractic things.

New comment by bpev in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

bpev — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:40:08 +0000

I feel like wrist pain can have many different causes. I'm a climber and programmer, and I had pretty bad wrist pain for a bit. Went to the physical therapist, and after poking around a bit, she was like "yeah idk if this is actually a wrist issue. I think it might be referred pain from a pinched nerve higher up". Told me to try and sit with better posture, and gave me some tendon glide exercises. Wrist pain went away in like a week or two.

New comment by bpev in "Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned"

bpev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:57:31 +0000

I moved my code off Cloudflare just because I got frustrated on other people's websites. Being the change I want to see, I guess?

New comment by bpev in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

bpev — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:58:39 +0000

Eh, I'd probably leave music off that list. Even mainstream music releases are still pretty easy to buy DRM-free via services like Qobuz, even if the majority of people are using streaming platforms these days. Although I wonder if that's maybe just because music seems like it would be pretty easy to sidestep DRM, even if they do come up with some kind of innovation (heck, even my friend told me he pirated my album... WHICH IS FREE, BTW).

But e-books? Holy crap the drm on those things is soooooo annoying to avoid.

New comment by bpev in "Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform"

bpev — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:39:38 +0000

I mean, LLMs are just imitating prior work, no? Poor designer probably feels like the people who liked using em dashes.

New comment by bpev in "Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing"

bpev — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:08:32 +0000

i mean fwiw can prolly include direct script tag using something like https://esm.sh

New comment by bpev in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

bpev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:09:42 +0000

I use both. Tangled is missing some important features (private repos, protected branches). The ui feels more comfy to me, though. And Codeberg is quite slow for me.

Idk if I can give you toooo much about migration, since I haven't used any CICD kind of stuff; just having repos to push to is super simple if you use their hosted knots. Also not too complicated to host a knot yourself; I'm hosting my own knot, and I like that I own at least one of the servers that I'm pushing code to.

New comment by bpev in "Just Pay the Subscription"

bpev — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:33:22 +0000

I feel like I'd be more comfortable with subscriptions if accounts weren't consistently required for everything. I don't particularly like everything I do being tied to an email or phone or whatever. And all those accounts are consistently a pain in the butt to delete.

Despite their recent news, I do prefer the way Mullvad has done it re this: "Here's an id. If you make a payment, it funds that id.". Then you can use the id to login. They can still enforce limits like # of users, etc, but it still enables you to have an account where you can be sure the company isn't going to ignore your unsubscribe settings, send you upsells, and then leak your phone # in some db breach.

New comment by bpev in "Organic Maps"

bpev — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:59:40 +0000

I didn't dig too deeply into it, because explicitly storing locally just gives a bit more control. Also, since I was kind of imitating the style of Organic Maps, I wanted to give the ability to download entire tiles. I view caching responses more like a performance enhancement, whereas I wanted explicit offline support.

New comment by bpev in "Organic Maps"

bpev — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:34:30 +0000

What can I say? Bens like maps I guess.

New comment by bpev in "Organic Maps"

bpev — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:47:46 +0000

FWIW, I have an experimental open-source implementation of offline-capable PWA protomaps. Haven't advertised it much, because I haven't sorted out performance (particularly on mobile), and it's a bit buggy still. Also, don't have cache invalidation. But it does work. Usually. xD

app: https://maps.bpev.me

source: https://tangled.org/bpev.me/maps

Based on results from indexeddb pmtiles work:

https://github.com/jtbaker/pmtiles-offline

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/issues/395

New comment by bpev in "Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine"

bpev — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:17:53 +0000

With a name like "Golem", I could see a more earthy color scheme with a much more subtle (essentially unnoticeable) use of gradients feeling real nice with this product.

New comment by bpev in "Bandcamp has laid off most of their engineers"

bpev — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:23:45 +0000

fwiw, currently moving my music to subvert.fm. In the past, Bandcamp has been the first place I pointed people. But have slowly felt more and more uncomfortable with it ever since the initial Epic acquisition.

New comment by bpev in "Whimsical Animations Course Open House"

bpev — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:01:57 +0000

Neal.fun AND Josh posts in the same week?? The whimsy is strong rn.

New comment by bpev in "San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names"

bpev — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:32:13 +0000

I mean the opposite of that is like the one time where I was meeting a friend at something like 7th avenue (or some # I don't remember), and accidentally went to 7th street... on the other side of the city. You don't forget to pay close attention after that xD.

New comment by bpev in "Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans"

bpev — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:15:49 +0000

yup yup I also came here for electronics/digital audio without finishing reading the title. DAC is super standard to read in those spaces.

New comment by bpev in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

bpev — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:07:03 +0000

Motorola + Graphene coming 2027. I'm at least waiting to see what comes of that before making any decisions on my next phone.