Hacker News: ckolkey

New comment by ckolkey in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

ckolkey — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:31:57 +0000

owing "nothing to no one" means you are allowed to be unreasonable...

New comment by ckolkey in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

ckolkey — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:31:01 +0000

I've gotta disagree with you here - it's not uncommon for me to be diving into a library I'm using at work, find a small issue or something that could be improved (measurably, not stylistically), and open a PR to fix it. No big rewrites or anything crazy, but it would definitely fit the definition of "drive by change" that _thus far_ has been welcomed.

New comment by ckolkey in "Magit Is Amazing"

ckolkey — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:44:13 +0000

Random, but on line 266 map `P` to `false` not `nil` and it won't show up.

New comment by ckolkey in "Magit Is Amazing"

ckolkey — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:40:57 +0000

First, install doom emacs. Second, create a shell alias for "magit" that is bound to "emacs -nw -f magit". Then just run magit like any other TUI app - the fact that it's in emacs is easy to forget.

Or, if you're into neovim, there's Neogit, which is inspired by magit. And if you're not, there's https://github.com/altsem/gitu

New comment by ckolkey in "Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer"

ckolkey — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:21:37 +0000

I've always just used `:e ` - never saw the appeal of oil.nvim for that use case. But for other kinds of modifications it's nifty.

New comment by ckolkey in "Don't force your kids to do math"

ckolkey — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 05:41:29 +0000

I thank, therefore I am...

New comment by ckolkey in "Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default"

ckolkey — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:08:03 +0000

...seven months ago, no less

New comment by ckolkey in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

ckolkey — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:51:39 +0000

I used Yabai for years until I found aerospace, and switched over instantly. Would highly recommend anyone to try it :)

New comment by ckolkey in "Installed an open source garage door opener, and I'm loving it"

ckolkey — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:28:05 +0000

Huge fan of shelly. I wrote a little sinatra web-server that can just show the current state, and toggle the state, of a bunch of lights around my yard. I really appreciate that all you need is http, no cloud, no fuss to just put together a custom ui for them. Couldn't recommend them more highly

New comment by ckolkey in "Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor"

ckolkey — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:17:37 +0000

Missed it so much in vim I started maintaining the neovim clone.

New comment by ckolkey in "Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi"

ckolkey — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:37:54 +0000

Its just a Scheme dialect. A bit odd, but not crazy.

New comment by ckolkey in "Show HN: Io_uring for Ruby"

ckolkey — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:03:50 +0000

Oh, that meme is old, sorry to say. Here's a nice blog post about ruby outperforming C with the new JIT compiler. Fun times :)

https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/

New comment by ckolkey in "A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

ckolkey — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:13:07 +0000

I've been using flowX for many years, first on android and now on ios. I've found it to be incredibly customisable, and particularly good at visualising incoming weather. Gladly paid for it for years now

https://www.flowx.io/

New comment by ckolkey in "Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3"

ckolkey — Fri, 31 May 2024 07:40:32 +0000

Off the top of my head, in turkish, `i` doesn't become `I`, it becomes `İ`. And `ı` is the lower case version of `I`

New comment by ckolkey in "Tmux is worse-is-better"

ckolkey — Sat, 25 May 2024 21:48:28 +0000

Not that KiTTY, this kitty: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

But it's also foss, so, you're still right.

New comment by ckolkey in "Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana"

ckolkey — Sun, 05 May 2024 19:29:04 +0000

I'm a huge fan of https://www.shelly.com/ - they have a built in webserver and can be controlled via POST requests. No cloud needed.

New comment by ckolkey in "RoR Debugbar"

ckolkey — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:36:16 +0000

One thing to check out: ruby-lsp gets around this by using a custom gemfile, which enhances the project with the lsp's dependencies. That means you can use the gem, with bundler, without adding anything to the "official" project gemfile.

You could probably accomplish something similar, and possibly inject some rack middleware to add the view, or even mount it as a rails engine.

New comment by ckolkey in "Popular Git config options"

ckolkey — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:36:10 +0000

This assumes there's a remote set up called "origin" - also an arbitrary name ;)

New comment by ckolkey in "A Git client for simultaneous branches on top of your existing workflow"

ckolkey — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 13:59:05 +0000

After watching your (very enjoyable) talk in the other thread, schacon, one thing struck me - there _is_ a way to work on multiple branches at the same time: worktrees.

What's the advantage of a tool like this over that?

New comment by ckolkey in "Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)"

ckolkey — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 06:45:07 +0000

Yes and yes.