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New comment by braggerxyz in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

braggerxyz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:44:29 +0000

That's why you buy different sized bins, and then you can even combine some forms into one bin (but be careful not to combine similiar forms, this counters the goal).

New comment by braggerxyz in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

braggerxyz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:42:15 +0000

There are less different forms than any normal brick enjoyer has bricks of a specific color. Therefore the lookup is faster ;)

New comment by braggerxyz in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

braggerxyz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:24:15 +0000

> ... and sort LEGO bricks by colour

You never sort by color, ever! You sort by form, and then throw every color of that specific form in one bin. If you throw every red brick in the same bin, you'll never find a specific formed red brick because to many red bricks. But if you first search by form and then by color, you are much faster.

New comment by braggerxyz in "Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation"

braggerxyz — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:37:14 +0000

Every time I read C and memory safety, I just think Golang. Especially for user space

New comment by braggerxyz in "Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage"

braggerxyz — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:20:36 +0000

Na is the safest Alkali, they get increasingly bad as you go DOWN (not up) the perodic table. Learn basic facts before you spit BS

New comment by braggerxyz in "Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux"

braggerxyz — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:07:41 +0000

Ever since Steam released in Beta for Linux (proud owner of the Tux accessory for the Demoman in TF2!) I switched to Linux and stayed there. In the beginning I ran Ubuntu 12.04 and used Steam there. I also used Wine to run Diablo 3 and WoW, although performance was bad at that time. All other programs I needed where there also. (Im a software engineer, so using Linux is even better). But Ubuntu moved to slowly and broke here and there.

What followed was a odyssey between a lot of distributions. Six years ago I tried Void Linux (rolling release without SystemD) and finally settled. Then Steam Proton came around and changed the whole Gaming On Linux scene again for the better. Playing retail WoW with on par performance is now possible. Running any game from Steam on Linux is now a breeze, even if not a native game. Open Source office tools are also on par with Windows / Microsoft counterparts. There really is nothing holding me back from using Linux full time. There is nothing I am missing, and the more I read about problems in the Windows world, the more I am glad I switched all these years ago.

Convincing all my friends doing the same is difficult though. They frankly do not care about privacy or freedom to make the switch. But in the end it is their fault, not mine. If someone comes to me for guidance to make the switch, I will guide them. But I won't evangelise anymore.

New comment by braggerxyz in "Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer"

braggerxyz — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:01:48 +0000

Forklift-Proof ERP was not on my bingo card. Thanks for the laugh :D

New comment by braggerxyz in "Helix Editor 25.07"

braggerxyz — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:49:15 +0000

Life is to short to learn and memorize Vi / Helix keybinds. That's why I stay with Micro as terminal editor.

New comment by braggerxyz in "Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft"

braggerxyz — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:43:36 +0000

Some crypto bro got scammed while being involed in some AI shit? How ironic.

Yet, the extension dilemma is also utterly shit. That's why I stay far away from "VSCode and friends"

New comment by braggerxyz in "Rust Coreutils 0.1.0 Release"

braggerxyz — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:42:34 +0000

Yeah I feel you. So many projects do this nonsense.

New comment by braggerxyz in "RPG in a Box"

braggerxyz — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:58:01 +0000

By looking at the screenshots I thought this looks a lot like Godot. So there is my answer ;)

New comment by braggerxyz in "RPG in a Box"

braggerxyz — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:57:27 +0000

This looks a lot like Godot to me. So I would rather go with Godot instead. But nevertheless this looks like an awesome tool, less friction for creating story driven games is a good thing. Maybe I give it a try.

New comment by braggerxyz in "Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots [showcase]"

braggerxyz — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:39:56 +0000

Yes it does. Also written in Go and pretty hackable.

New comment by braggerxyz in "Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)"

braggerxyz — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 07:11:48 +0000

Oh no, Amazon does comply with regulatory laws of specific countries in order to make business there? How utterly shocking...

New comment by braggerxyz in "argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go"

braggerxyz — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:09:23 +0000

I really favor posix style, which is why I use pflags package for my cli Tools.

New comment by braggerxyz in "JSON has become today's machine-readable output format on Unix"

braggerxyz — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:31:49 +0000

I agree, and I feel like the reason to this is the mere existence of 'jq'. Without 'jq' working with json in a Unix shell would be a lot more uncomfortable, but not impossible.

New comment by braggerxyz in "Ask HN: Riding the Roller Coaster of Development Tooling"

braggerxyz — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:42:54 +0000

I absolutely feel the same way. For me Node/NPM is the stuff of nightmares. It is freaking impossible to maintain any decent sized project (even side project) in this eco system within a reasonable time investment.

Then there is Go + SQLite + HTMX + AlpineJS + and you are done. No complex build / transpile / whatever steps, just go build and done. Deploying consists of copying one binary and one database file to your server and you're done. Building and running stuff is easy and fun again. The JS community can go kick rocks...

New comment by braggerxyz in "Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide"

braggerxyz — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:39:14 +0000

In Germany we have Self HTML (https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/SELFHTML) since 1995. I learned all the web dev basics with it as a 12 year old. It was the kickstart for my career, and 28 years later I can safely say I was successful. And it all started with that.

Keep up the great work with such a guide, maybe you kickstart some careers with it!

New comment by braggerxyz in "Software development topics I've changed my mind on"

braggerxyz — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:59:05 +0000

Today's greenfield is tomorrow's legacy. So this statement still holds true ;)

New comment by braggerxyz in "Software development topics I've changed my mind on"

braggerxyz — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:57:04 +0000

> Monoliths remain pretty good

> It's very hard to beat decades of RDBMS research and improvements

> Micro-services require justification (they've increasingly just become assumed)

That is so true. I am still deploying good old .war files to full blown Java app servers backed by simple SQL databases (all clustered and stuff) with some handwritten cli tools and a Jenkins server. Shit is fast, shit scales, shit just works. It is a pleasure to work with