Hacker News: chrizel

New comment by chrizel in "Working with Git Worktrees in Magit"

chrizel — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:35:19 +0000

Like many of you I also knew what git worktrees were but always found them clunky because you mentally had to manage worktrees AND branches at the same time. That's why I didn't bother using them.

A couple of weeks ago I discovered Worktrunk. That's when my whole workflow flipped 180 degrees: I now always use worktrees, love it, will never go back. Worktrunk was the missing piece for me. Very recommended.

New comment by chrizel in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

chrizel — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:39:35 +0000

The Vision Pro battery is already external, isn't it? But the device is heavy anyway, I think because of the used materials like glass.

New comment by chrizel in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

chrizel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:18:28 +0000

In Europe contactless payment is nearly everywhere - nearly every store supports it. Even in Germany (which is historically very pro-cash), since Covid more and more people pay with card and many of whom pay contactless.

In the EU we have some rules that even contactless payments with card sometimes, but not always, need to have some kind of additional authentication in the form of entering your PIN. Contactless payment methods via phone or watch don't have this need because they already have their own authentication methods. That's why so many people pay with their phone or watch. Its just more convenient and always contactless. (no PIN needed)

How is it in the US? Are things like Apple Pay still limited to certain stores?

New comment by chrizel in "I’m joining OpenAI"

chrizel — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:32:14 +0000

I cannot directly answer your question, because I am looking into this topic myself currently, but I found this HN discussion from two weeks ago, which should give you more insights about pi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844822

New comment by chrizel in "Themis (European Reusable Rocket) is assembled on launch pad"

chrizel — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:02:04 +0000

You could argue the same with Boeing vs. Airbus. Why should Europeans build their own aircrafts? Today I think a lot of people are happy, that Airbus exists to compensate for the problems that Boeing has. Competition is good and will lead to better solutions in the long run.

New comment by chrizel in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

chrizel — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:13:23 +0000

Me and my wife had the plans of visiting the US every year for vacation before our daughter starts with school in a couple of years. Not anymore. I think this administration will not only destroy a lot of goodwill and business relationships, but also the dreams of many people who had a positive attitude towards the US.

New comment by chrizel in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

chrizel — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:18:12 +0000

> Also, why does it take 10 seconds for activity monitor to show information? The list goes on.

That's not a bug, but a feature. Under View -> Update Frequency, you can change it.

New comment by chrizel in "London Street Views (1840)"

chrizel — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:38:01 +0000

I was shortly excited because I expected Google Street View from the 1840s, oh well...

New comment by chrizel in "M4 MacBook Pro"

chrizel — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:17:12 +0000

Oh yes, my wife bought a new Intel MBA in summer 2020... I told her at the time Apple planned its own chip, but it couldn't be much better than the Intel one and surely Apple will increase prices too... I was so wrong.

New comment by chrizel in "Sublime Merge"

chrizel — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:48:11 +0000

Using Sublime Merge for over a year now after using Magit/Emacs mostly (and git command line for years before that).

What I like about Sublime Merge is its performance and the stage/unstage UI/UX is intuitive and fast backed by a competent text editor engine, similar to what I liked about Magit. Having multiple repositories open in a tab interface is also nice.

What you have to keep in mind is that Sublime Merge also includes a competent merge tool (hence the name). Sometimes we have to do more complex merges and Sublime Merge does this in an intuitive and integrated way, which would be a completely separate application in many other popular Git front-ends. Therefore the price is IMHO fair and justified. I can recommend giving it a try for a couple of weeks.

New comment by chrizel in "A forged Apple employee badge"

chrizel — Fri, 17 May 2024 07:53:02 +0000

That's not true. I have a German eBay account from May 2001 when we still had the DM. eBay was very popular back then and had a completely different feeling because it was mostly used by private individuals for selling their stuff instead of mostly professional merchants like it is today.

New comment by chrizel in "Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor [video]"

chrizel — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:10:43 +0000

> And from Microsoft / GitHub - who would have a lot additional information (logs, ip-adresses, use of two-factor auth etc.)? Have they made a statement?

Based on a HN comment from a couple of weeks ago, by analyzing the attackers IP addresses from IRC chat logins, it seems they used a VPN service. If you think about it, it makes sense to always use VPN when doing an operation like this. So I think the ip addresses won't be of much use.

New comment by chrizel in "AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now"

chrizel — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 05:09:17 +0000

Exactly. I remember that many PAL PS2 games at the time had big black bars at the top and the bottom, and as a result a distorted image overall. The video game experience was not great for PAL gamers at the time because most developers made bad PAL ports. Most gamers wanted undistorted images and 60fps, which was solved when we came to the PS3/360 era with digital output via HDMI and newer flat screen TVs.

New comment by chrizel in "Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac"

chrizel — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:46:29 +0000

Your privacy policy is very short and missing some important information. Where are your servers located? What cloud providers do you use? Do you use encryption in transit and at rest? How do you protect my data? Where are you located?

Because task managers are storing a lot of sensitive information over time this is an important topic for a lot of people. The website should cover these questions.

New comment by chrizel in "Apple Vision Pro hands-on, again"

chrizel — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:23:20 +0000

I also have the feeling that the Vision Pro will be Apple's Virtual Boy [1].

Impressive tech that would have been very successful in 2020 with Covid, work from home and all. But in 2024?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy

New comment by chrizel in "Trap and test AWS SES emails locally"

chrizel — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:23:43 +0000

We switched from using SMTP to the AWS SDK for SES because when sending an e-mail the SDK returns the unique message ID of the e-mail. This allowed us to have a special process for handling bounces in our software by using an SNS HTTP endpoint. So the SDK makes sense for use cases where the SMTP protocol doesn't provide enough information.

New comment by chrizel in "TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe"

chrizel — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:53:29 +0000

> Curious why they've chosen Dresden though.

The region is known for its semiconductor industry, at least in Germany. Quote from Wikipedia about Dresden:

> Silicon Saxony Saxony's semiconductor industry was built up in 1969. Major enterprises today include AMD's semiconductor fabrication spin-off GlobalFoundries, Infineon Technologies, ZMDI and Toppan Photomasks. Their factories attract many suppliers of material and cleanroom technology enterprises to Dresden.

So it just makes sense to build fabs in Dresden because there is already a lot of know-how there.

New comment by chrizel in "An Open Source Book That Teaches JavaScript"

chrizel — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:32:58 +0000

Another excellent and also OpenSource book, which I used a couple of years ago to refresh my knowledge about modern JavaScript is Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke. Highly recommended. https://eloquentjavascript.net/

New comment by chrizel in "About Security Keys for Apple ID"

chrizel — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:41:14 +0000

According to this recent support article by Yubico, the YubiKey 4 series should be compatible: https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/7449189070620

New comment by chrizel in "iOS 16.3 Is Out"

chrizel — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:01:13 +0000

Advanced Data Protection now for the rest of the world. Any experience how well it works? I'm currently in the process of updating all my devices and activating it as soon as possible.