Hacker News: bratsche

New comment by bratsche in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

bratsche — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:01:10 +0000

Mine is 2041.

When I was working at Microsoft I got transferred over to GitHub for awhile and someone there noticed my ID and made a big deal out of me having a 4-digit ID. :)

I never thought about it before then.

New comment by bratsche in "Bach Cello Suites (2024)"

bratsche — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:58:13 +0000

I play viola, and usually it's only the cello suites that are played on viola. But I fell in love with the sonatas and partitas. They're just incredible. The only one that I ever learned fully and performed was the second partita. Of course, on viola you have to play them down a 5th but they still work beautifully and sound great.

New comment by bratsche in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

bratsche — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:48:13 +0000

I think what's almost shocking about this is that Google seemed so great in the beginning. "Don't Be Evil" was even like an internal code of conduct slogan or something.

I never worked there and have no inside knowledge of what happened. Did they get taken over by MBAs who gained control of the company? Was it always evil and we were just misled the whole time? Something else?

New comment by bratsche in "Swift-erlang-actor-system"

bratsche — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:51:07 +0000

How does elixir_pack work? Is it bundling BEAM to run on iOS devices? Does Apple allow that?

Years ago I worked at Xamarin, and our C# compiler compiled C# to native iOS code but there were some features that we could not support on iOS due to Apple's restrictions. Just curious if Apple still has those restrictions or if you're doing something different?

New comment by bratsche in "BYD begins testing solid-state EV batteries in the Seal"

bratsche — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 03:58:22 +0000

I have a 2018 Model 3 and your description of BYD is exactly how I would describe my Tesla. It feels cheap and plasticky and it creaks. I also briefly had a Model 3 rental car that was newer than mine (but I don't know what year it was) and it also felt the same.

New comment by bratsche in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

bratsche — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:42:42 +0000

I'd love to be able to configure it to use OpenAI API but with a custom hostname. I found some comments in a forum about how to configure that, but they were pretty old and didn't seem to work anymore.

New comment by bratsche in "I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock"

bratsche — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:10:57 +0000

Thank you! Sorry I missed that.

New comment by bratsche in "I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock"

bratsche — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:06:11 +0000

What kind of 3d printer do you use? Do you like it, or are there things that others do that you wish it did?

Asking because I'm interested in getting one, but I know very little about them and have no idea what to research to help me decide.

New comment by bratsche in "Miguel de Icaza shadowbanned from X for posting about Gaza"

bratsche — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:26:56 +0000

“Free speech absolutist”. What a joke.

New comment by bratsche in "Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source"

bratsche — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:03:21 +0000

Nice Pulp Fiction reference :)

New comment by bratsche in "Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel"

bratsche — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:59:15 +0000

They're also difficult to cancel. They gave me a student discount for using my .edu email address, but after awhile I realized I wasn't really using it so I tried to cancel. They work really hard to make that difficult to do.

New comment by bratsche in "Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar"

bratsche — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:09:55 +0000

This is very nice, congrats!

I find calendars to be interesting projects for some reason. I built one for a personal project recently using Phoenix LiveView and have really enjoyed it a lot.

New comment by bratsche in "When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents'"

bratsche — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:30:48 +0000

> I also made a bit of a splash because I came to the conference with a MacBook

That reminds me of going to a .NET meetup kind of thing at the Microsoft office in Dallas once many years ago, and I came in my Mono t-shirt and my Thinkpad with GNOME and Mono stickers on it. Joseph Hill spots me and comes over to introduce himself. His first words were, "You look like a man on a mission!" :)

Joseph was so cool. There was some guy at Microsoft who was hosting the event, and he was kind of a dick. He kept trying to make jokes about Mono, but most of the people at the event didn't have any idea what Mono was so the only people who knew what he was talking about were me and Joseph.

New comment by bratsche in "US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan posts derogatory to US"

bratsche — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:13:26 +0000

I feel like the rights set forth in the Declaration of Independence are not really what this is all about. The US isn't saying you can't write derogatory things about it online, so it's not denying any rights. But non-citizens don't automatically have a right to enter the country, correct?

New comment by bratsche in "Cleveland launches plan to provide cheap broadband"

bratsche — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 01:06:15 +0000

If you're into music, they also have one of the best orchestras in the country.

New comment by bratsche in "A Breakdown of HTTP Clients in Elixir"

bratsche — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:34:35 +0000

I only know Cowboy and Bandit right now.

New comment by bratsche in "GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help"

bratsche — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:34:38 +0000

Model 3's system is better than other cars I've owned, but not as good as what I think CarPlay can be. The only advantage of my Model 3 vs the rental cars I've used with CarPlay was that Model 3's screen is bigger and nicer and so the maps look nicer and I can have music info/controls on screen at the same time as maps. But both Apple and Google navigation is a lot better than Tesla's navigation. I also use Apple Music and was initially excited about getting integration into Tesla, but I continue to just use it through my phone instead so it ended up not mattering. The one thing I hate about Tesla's system is the semi-frequent UI changes. A moving car with a touch screen is not the place where I want to have to re-learn some aspect of a UI after I get a system update.

New comment by bratsche in "GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help"

bratsche — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:28:21 +0000

I have a Model 3 right now and like it well enough I guess, but I think next time I get a car my ideal is to get a non-Tesla EV that has CarPlay. My hope was that Tesla has pushed the industry enough to start making competitive EVs so that I don't have to get another Tesla. And I think I would prefer using CarPlay. I've used it a couple times in rental cars and really liked it. The screens are smaller and less nice than Tesla's, but the navigation on Tesla kind of sucks compared to Apple and Google and I think that's more valuable to me.

New comment by bratsche in "Senate Bill to Ban TikTok"

bratsche — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:55:34 +0000

Wow, really? That's crazy!

My wife and I use WeChat because her family lives in China and we want to be able to chat and do video calls with her. If Secretary of Commerce declares that WeChat is illegal that is going to put an enormous strain on my family.

New comment by bratsche in "Phoenix 1.7.0"

bratsche — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:44:48 +0000

It fits pretty neatly with components in LiveView, so for the sake of the default generators it makes sense to include. It's super simple to remove it and write components however you want though.