Hacker News: clircle

New comment by clircle in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

clircle — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:38:28 +0000

+1 for FreshRSS (recommended at the bottom of the PC Gamer article). I just started my mass migration to self-hosting (it's way better in 2026 than it used to be), and I'm very pleased with the FreshRSS webapp and NetNewsWire integration. I consider it a solid hedge against enshittification. I probably won't go full self-hosting, but I'm enjoying the move.

New comment by clircle in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

clircle — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:12:38 +0000

> Synctrain

Good tip, I'm going to check that out!

New comment by clircle in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

clircle — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:11:46 +0000

> overkill for a single personal user compared to a kdbx file on a webdav share.

Maybe. I'm looking into VaultWarden for my personal passwords because keeping a KBDX file up to date on iOS is painful (without a corporate cloud backing).

New comment by clircle in "MIT Living Wage Calculator"

clircle — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:35:32 +0000

The standard of living that one could afford with a "living wage" looks to be very very low. Like, 0 vacations and no house low, for my metro area.

New comment by clircle in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

clircle — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:12:26 +0000

Neither is xfce

New comment by clircle in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

clircle — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:25:11 +0000

I resisted Wayland for a longtime, but I'm sold now that I see how well it does on old hardware.

I have an old Thinkpad. Firefox on X is slow and scrolls poorly. On wayland, the scrolling is remarkably smooth for 10 y/o hardware, and the addition of touchpad gestures is very nice. Yes, there's more configuration overhead for each compositor, but I'm now accepting this trade.

New comment by clircle in "GNU Guix 1.5.0 Released"

clircle — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:31:49 +0000

Guix is the combination of so many cool things: declarative OS, lisp programming, hygenic development, bootstrapping. I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old laptop for the last few months. I'm looking forward to putting in on my desktop when I have some free time. I love love love having my whole system (and home) instantiated from a small set of text files.

New comment by clircle in "I'm addicted to being useful"

clircle — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:58:03 +0000

You need a new job to feel energized again (and so do I)

Guix for Development

clircle — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://dthompson.us/posts/guix-for-development.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690592

Points: 138

# Comments: 66

New comment by clircle in "Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs"

clircle — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:50:51 +0000

Is this less buggy than UTM on apple silicon?

New comment by clircle in "Making Google Sans Flex"

clircle — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:00:07 +0000

I find the whole “corporate blogging about fonts” subculture really funny

New comment by clircle in "Announcing the Beta release of ty"

clircle — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:43:26 +0000

Why the “y” look so wrong in the special font.

New comment by clircle in "GitHub no longer uses Toasts"

clircle — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:24:16 +0000

Yeah, probably a good idea to remove it since i use github everyday and have no idea what a toast is .

EmacsConf 2025 as a YouTube Playlist

clircle — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:57:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLomc4HLgvuCVGgvM1ev1Oh2vSZbFPGl3U

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196194

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Planet for Guix

clircle — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2025/planet-guix//

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161025

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by clircle in "Ask HN: Vim, Emacs and the time spent configuring"

clircle — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:59:29 +0000

Taking away Emacs may just lead you to procrastinate on something different, not work on something productive. So, I'm not sure that this is a tool problem or a personal problem.

New comment by clircle in "GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)"

clircle — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:28:52 +0000

What statistic are you proposing? Number of repos / avg stars ?

New comment by clircle in "Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties"

clircle — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:34:23 +0000

Do we really hold editorials to the same standard as the rest of the news? These are opinion pieces, you should expect bias, no?

New comment by clircle in "How to Build a Great Terminal Editor That Is Better Than Emacs and Vim"

clircle — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:51:42 +0000

Such a bitchy blog post

New comment by clircle in "Why use mailing lists?"

clircle — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 03:14:37 +0000

News.gmane.io is up. I use it daily to track a few projects.