Hacker News: chaychoong

New comment by chaychoong in "Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit"

chaychoong — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:00:40 +0000

Great writeup! I've been using `jj parallelize` [1] a lot (and wrote about it here [2]) to fan out a sequence of commits to set up a megamerge, but your stack alias sounds super useful to create them on the fly, rather than at the very end of a work stream. Thanks for the tips!

[1] https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/cli-reference/#jj-parallelize [2] https://blog.chay.dev/parallelized-commits

New comment by chaychoong in "I Made a Font"

chaychoong — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:50:07 +0000

Post author here: thanks! It helps that I stare at code daily, so the urge to create a typeface for code is strong

New comment by chaychoong in "I Made a Font"

chaychoong — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:45:29 +0000

Do it! It's an amazing experience.

New comment by chaychoong in "Show HN: I made an e-signing tool for solopreneurs on a budget"

chaychoong — Wed, 21 May 2025 05:27:52 +0000

Congrats on the launch!

I imagine it will be really hard to compete with completely free alternatives like FreeSign[1]. Have you considered giving a free tier, or at least a free trial of sorts so potential subscribers can test the flow?

[1] https://freesign.org/

Authelia is now OpenID Certified

chaychoong — Wed, 21 May 2025 04:18:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.authelia.com/blog/we-are-now-openid-certified/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44048222

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

localdev.me no longer works

chaychoong — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:48:08 +0000

Article URL: https://til.chay.dev/til-localdevme-no-longer-works/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996847

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chaychoong in "Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library"

chaychoong — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:47:22 +0000

And the "taskbar" at the bottom too!

New comment by chaychoong in "Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary"

chaychoong — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:18:08 +0000

I've always thought that NixOS is a new distro because of the recent hype, but apparently it is older (by about a year) than Ubuntu!

Georgia Tech Commits to Doubling Educational Reach

chaychoong — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 04:29:44 +0000

Article URL: https://news.gatech.edu/news/2024/09/05/georgia-tech-commits-doubling-educational-reach

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478211

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chaychoong in "Create an internal CLI using Just"

chaychoong — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:25:19 +0000

`make` is a great tool, but specifically for this use case (creating a distributable CLI), `just` has lots of batteries-included features such as

* a way to list all available commands

* generate completions

* run shebang commands

.. and many more quality-of-life things.

It is probably possible to achieve these using `make`, but not without some hacking.

Create an internal CLI using Just

chaychoong — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 07:39:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.chay.dev/create-an-internal-cli/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41336374

Points: 38

# Comments: 19

Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang

chaychoong — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 05:05:19 +0000

Article URL: https://pragprog.com/titles/alnpee/network-programming-in-elixir-and-erlang/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41317001

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs

chaychoong — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:01:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225108/microsoft-security-update-windows-linux-dual-boot-errors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41315701

Points: 65

# Comments: 47

Thoughtworks to Be Taken Private by Apax Funds

chaychoong — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 04:49:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thoughtworks.com/about-us/news/2024/twks-to-be-taken-private-apax-funds--4-40-per-share

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178332

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Sharing Secrets Among Friends (1992)

chaychoong — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 02:03:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/1992/04/sharing_secrets_amon.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41105478

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

Email explained from first principles (2021)

chaychoong — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:32:44 +0000

Article URL: https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41105018

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by chaychoong in "Jujutsu: A Next Generation Replacement for Git"

chaychoong — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:16:22 +0000

I have a short blog post here that describes some of my basic workflows:

https://blog.chay.dev/basic-jj-workflows

New comment by chaychoong in "Botlib: C Telegram bot framework"

chaychoong — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 02:39:25 +0000

Do elaborate! I thought antirez is a pretty well respected programmer.

New comment by chaychoong in "Transcribing on Fly GPU Machines"

chaychoong — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:03:11 +0000

Interesting.. according to https://community.fly.io/t/fly-gpus-are-here/16110, these machines use Cloud Hypervisor. I wonder what makes Cloud Hypervisor play better (vs Firecracker) with GPUs

New comment by chaychoong in "FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation"

chaychoong — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 04:01:33 +0000

One nice thing about WSL: GPU "passthrough" (via GPU-PV) is handled out-of-the-box.

There are some solutions (such as https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec/Easy-GPU-PV) that makes the process easy if you are using Hyper-V as the hypervisor, but it is not a straightforward task yet. Hopefully that will change in the future!