Hacker News: codevark

New comment by codevark in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

codevark — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:27:09 +0000

They've been watching us and what we do to each other.

New comment by codevark in "Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?"

codevark — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:39:15 +0000

I'm tired of working in tech but fortunately (or not) it's my hobby so even if I retired I would still be doing all the techy things at home on my 17 'puters (loose count). Plus being the IT Guy for several extended families. I'm live. I'm nationwide. But, I do plan to do more art, music, gardening, etc.

New comment by codevark in "Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web"

codevark — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:37:21 +0000

Years ago, before Web 3.0, my Mom decided she wanted a computer to do email and genealogy. I bought her one. In one of her first sessions she held the mouse about 8 inches above the mousepad and asked why nothing was happening (shades of Star Trek). When I was showing the family some pictures featuring water on my laptop she said, "It looks so real!", and kept poking the screen with her finger, which produced those colorful (diffraction?) patterns, exclaiming, "It's like water!". I kept saying, "Mom, stop", until my older brother said, "Mom, I think he wants you to stop poking the screen like that."

Even basic computer use is hard for older folks. I can't imaging what they are going through now. I get frustrated every day with the crap we have to deal with, and I'm an IT Guy. Don't even talk to me about AI.

New comment by codevark in "If Anyone Builds IT, Everyone Dies"

codevark — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:21:18 +0000

I thought it said "If anyone builds IT, everyone dies". Maybe I take my job too seriously.

New comment by codevark in "Ask HN: How do you ensure you don't get locked from your email?"

codevark — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:26:16 +0000

Run your own mail server. Or several of them. No more expensive than running your own website(s).

New comment by codevark in "We Grew Up Hating Cottage Cheese. Now We're All Eating It"

codevark — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:48:04 +0000

I haven't eaten cottage cheese in decades. It's a thing now?

New comment by codevark in "Merry Christmas Everyone"

codevark — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 03:38:57 +0000

When I was six my parents got me a 26" Schwinn single-speed bike. It was as tall as I was. I rode it until college, doing things that were heretofore unknown to science. IT WAS GREAT.

New comment by codevark in "Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'"

codevark — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 13:01:40 +0000

Odd. This and other PF audio figured in a dream last night. Then I came downstairs and saw this.

New comment by codevark in "Ask HN: What's your worst programming blunder and/or code you're most proud of"

codevark — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 02:41:37 +0000

At one point in the nineties, while furiously coding a seminal eCommerce app, my friend/boss walked up behind me and said, "Mr. Zoon, you're typing wildly on the keyboard with nothing happening on the screen." I had lost focus to my editor several minute before and being a non-touch-typist hadn't noticed. A few years later, farther into the eCommerce thing, a stubborn bug had held up things for a couple of weeks, Again, my boss/friend walked up behind me and pointed out that I had misspelled a variable name in a certain section of code. The good old days, heh. The code I wrote resulted in a multiple-award-winning product that outsold our competitor's products so quickly that they removed their products from the market. I bought a truck and a house.

New comment by codevark in "The Illusion of a Pagan West"

codevark — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 03:22:03 +0000

For $49/year, I'd rather vote for Cthulhu.

New comment by codevark in "[dead]"

codevark — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 03:17:35 +0000

You're babbling again.

New comment by codevark in "The Next New Thing: architecture's gulf between the traditional and the modern"

codevark — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 01:33:38 +0000

Form vs Function, all over again.

Work the function aspect until it is beyond reproach. Then look at form and tweak things until the neighbors don't complain.

Or move somewhere where there are no neighbors, and skip the second step.

History is still OK, it's already there, we have pictures and drawings, with circles and arrows.

New comment by codevark in "Ask HN: How are you building your content website in 2024 ?"

codevark — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:11:25 +0000

HTML+CSS, as little JS as is possible if any at all. Notepad++

I have a (currently offline) site that uses REBOL+Vanilla for self-modification.

Why complicate your life any more than it needs?

New comment by codevark in "The Electric, Sustainable Snowmobile: Vidde Just Launched Its First Vehicle"

codevark — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 23:26:27 +0000

news?

https://www.taigamotors.com/en/snowmobiles/

New comment by codevark in "High inflation is still squeezing Americans' budgets"

codevark — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:28:14 +0000

It's not inflation, it's price gouging.

New comment by codevark in "Computers should always follow user commands without exception"

codevark — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:56:10 +0000

And they should always respect user focus. Something I got used to on the Amiga, but (Windows) is horrible at this. I'm constantly typing into the wrong window when focus changes in the middle of something. WTF?

New comment by codevark in "Ask HN: Childhood dream vs. your actual job"

codevark — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:27:11 +0000

I wanted to be an astronaut, or the next Jacques Cousteau, or a rockstar guitarist, or a race car driver. None of these things happened.

But I can play guitar pretty well. I work in software and IT. 63yo.

New comment by codevark in "It Is Time to End the War on Remote Work"

codevark — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 04:03:31 +0000

It's time to end work, mofo. There's no shortage of money, we could all live happily ever after, never working a day in our lives, but bossman has other ideas.

New comment by codevark in "Ask HN: How do you describe what you do at parties?"

codevark — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 05:42:33 +0000

I usually start out with, "Have you ever heard of SCSI?"

New comment by codevark in "Amiga 4000T Upgrade Part 1"

codevark — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:25:53 +0000

Frilliant. You are having the fun so many people miss today. Good luck! I've done great stuff with DPaint and Pagestream. Also PageRender3D controlled by Arexx scripts is fantastic. I did a lot of work in CanDo, Helm, and a bunch of other dev tools as well.

Keep Amigas & Carry On.