Hacker News: citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=citizenfishyHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:33:23 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free"]]>This is just what we need in our small startup. It solves problems we have when working remotely and joint debugging along with walking our customers through tricky issues. Can't wait to give it a spin

]]>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:26:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094634citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094634https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094634<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler"]]>Claude Mods seem to answer this pain better without affecting the model reasoning

]]>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:39:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004163citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004163https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004163<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"]]>Ulysses - again .. hopefully I'll make it this time

]]>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:09:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905453citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905453https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905453<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Without the Hot Air"]]>Lings Cars!

]]>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:26:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894965citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894965https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894965<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)"]]>I wrote this many years ago:-

https://apps.repebble.com/rude-time_543459b072a84da55500004c

]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:45:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686542citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686542https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686542<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]>I managed to publish my second cycling route guide

https://www.adventurebooks.com/collections/our-latest-books-...

It took me three years to write whilst also building a couple of start-up companies

]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:54:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243708citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243708https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243708<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "What “The Best” Looks Like"]]>I built my first company on engineers I hired from the local college by simply asking them to send me students who had clear talent but weren't engaging well in the academic side. We became a local clearing house where we quickly found out whether they could thrive outside of the academic environment. Two of them became "The Best" you talk about. One in DevOps (earns way more than me now) another found his talent in DevEx.

]]>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:23:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768514citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768514https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768514<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "The Zen of Reticulum"]]>Middle out

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:00:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691913citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691913https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691913<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "The Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card (2015)"]]>I have very sadly done the same with ZX Spectrums but the quest is never ending due to all of the baltic clones

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:29:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633893citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633893https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633893<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Gemini in Chrome"]]>Gilfoyle will sort that

]]>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:09:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299171citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299171https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299171<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)"]]>Working in Post Office Research in the 1990's I watched a couple of PDP-11's being hoicked into a skip near our labs. Sadly I lived in a shared house with no room for them....

]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:07:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657130citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657130https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657130<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "ZX Spectrum graphics magic"]]>After reading that article it is mandatory to play R-Type on the Spectrum and truly appreciate the challenges overcome by Bob Pape.

His book is well worth a read: https://bizzley.42web.io/?i=1

]]>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:46:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297601citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297601https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297601<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "Binary Wordle"]]>Isn't this just Mastermind?

]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 07:54:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44178242citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44178242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44178242<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper"]]>Happy to, find me on LinkedIN - Dave Barter CEO Nautoguide

]]>Wed, 14 May 2025 14:35:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985055citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985055https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985055<![CDATA[New comment by citizenfishy in "E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper"]]>I developed so many similar services for the UK Royal Mail in the 1990's

We used Yellow Royal Mail branded envelopes to gain attention.

]]>Wed, 14 May 2025 13:29:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984302citizenfishyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984302https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984302