Hacker News: charsi

New comment by charsi in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

charsi — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:54:51 +0000

The site's cert expired yesterday.

New comment by charsi in "Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?"

charsi — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 01:49:20 +0000

I wrote a little script to constantly check for open appointments on ICBC (for license and motorcycle driving test slots). Has come in handy a few times already since usually everything is booked up months in advance. With this I usually find something much sooner within a few hours of running the script. https://gitlab.com/charsi/icbc-appointment-checker

New comment by charsi in "Setting up my new laptop: Nix style"

charsi — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:56:26 +0000

I am on a thinkpad using an external thunderbolt monitor with several peripherals linked to it. No sweat at all. Never had to install drivers for anything, webcam, wifi, bluetooth etc all works. Linux mint has been rock solid. I've gone through three major OS updates without anything breaking.

New comment by charsi in "PR that converts the TypeScript repo from namespaces to modules"

charsi — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:30:17 +0000

With a .editorconfig[1] file with the correct configs you can get most code editors to insert spaces instead of tabs.

[1] https://editorconfig.org/

New comment by charsi in "Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things"

charsi — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 05:05:58 +0000

Also look at `yq` - https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

This is a wrapper to jq that also supports yaml and other file formats.

New comment by charsi in "DNS SRV Records for HTTP (2009)"

charsi — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:43:13 +0000

MongoDB has been using something similar for a little while now - https://www.mongodb.com/developer/products/mongodb/srv-conne...

New comment by charsi in "Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling"

charsi — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:22:19 +0000

Just disable javascript in ublock origin for the site and you don't have to even worry about clicking anything. Lots of news sites deliver the content and then try to block access to it using javascript.

Palette.fm: free AI colorizer tool

charsi — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:45:20 +0000

Article URL: https://palette.fm/?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32844486

Points: 30

# Comments: 4

New comment by charsi in "We are removing the option to create new subscriptions"

charsi — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:30:42 +0000

Isn't whatbox.ca mainly aimed at hosting seedboxes? They are accordingly higher priced than a VPN. Whats the rationale for using them as a VPN ?

Follow instagram, blogs and RSS feeds in one daily email

charsi — Fri, 13 May 2022 16:07:00 +0000

Article URL: https://briefcake.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31369354

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by charsi in "Create YouTube playlists as links without having to log into YouTube"

charsi — Mon, 02 May 2022 05:18:49 +0000

vlc can play youtube links so you just need to open the m3u file in vlc if you don't want to download.

French President (Again) Calls for an End to Online Anonymity

charsi — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:42:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/18/french-president-again-calls-for-an-end-to-online-anonymity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074765

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by charsi in "Push Options: Control Gitlab CI/CD and Merges with Git Push"

charsi — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:52:59 +0000

I use `git push -o ci.skip` all the time. Also things like ci.variable="DEPLOY_MODE=QUICK" is super handy when I do want to run a deploy in a specific configuration.

Software patents should be abolished (2009)

charsi — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 23:37:36 +0000

Article URL: https://cdixon.org/2009/09/24/software-patents-should-be-abolished/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30873502

Points: 40

# Comments: 3

New comment by charsi in "Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines"

charsi — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 01:04:05 +0000

>.. by composing reusable actions, using an intuitive _declarative language_ and API. Actions can safely be shared and reused thanks to a _complete package management system_ ..

That sounds horrible to me. Yet another abstraction layer and set of tools to do something that should be simple. Shell scripts inherently aren't bad. And I really don't see why they'll need more maintenance than using this new tool.

GitHub – asciinema/asciinema: Terminal session recorder

charsi — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 19:25:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30745754

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by charsi in "A short conversation with a bank"

charsi — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:40:54 +0000

It is called a "punt".

Transport Canada's Drone Management portal is broken

charsi — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:11:23 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/nishilk/status/1476011116648034311

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29720930

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by charsi in "Professional maintainers: a wake-up call"

charsi — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:17:05 +0000

Here is an idea. Make your code royalty free for up to 364 days a year. "MIT-364" is a catchy name right ?

Any company that cannot afford to go without your software for 24hrs per year should pay full whack for a commercial license.

New comment by charsi in "FirefoxPWA: Progressive Web Apps for Firefox"

charsi — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 07:12:02 +0000

"Add to home screen" is the option you'll get if the web app doesn't have PWA support. If PWA is supported firefox mobile will show an "Install" option instead. This works more like a native app. When launched there will be no URL bar and the status bar will take the main colour of the PWA.