Hacker News: colinmegill

New comment by colinmegill in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

colinmegill — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:02:12 +0000

I guess I stand corrected, but I maintain it was word salad :)

New comment by colinmegill in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

colinmegill — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:42:49 +0000

If you are running that thing, and reading this post: just do the right thing and get your own name.

New comment by colinmegill in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

colinmegill — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:07:20 +0000

+1 ti85 7th grade '95

New comment by colinmegill in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

colinmegill — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:24:10 +0000

So good

New comment by colinmegill in "Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere"

colinmegill — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:29:33 +0000

Right on

New comment by colinmegill in "A Nigerian professor who makes more money welding"

colinmegill — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:55:02 +0000

Yeah, well, I happen to know a union leader for teachers in NJ who is losing tenured staff to COSTCO. So. I reject the clickbait headline and the implications.

New comment by colinmegill in "A coder considers the waning days of the craft"

colinmegill — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:16:34 +0000

Melodramatic, pretentious, they just love these puff pieces outside of tech

New comment by colinmegill in "Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?"

colinmegill — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 00:57:47 +0000

Gizmo watch has worked well

New comment by colinmegill in "Why project-based learning fails (2018)"

colinmegill — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:58:28 +0000

It's both. Most education institutions have a problem running any projects at all because they're difficult to support and assess. I've never met an ideological proponent of project based learning who wanted to eliminate discrete skill acquisition — gaining skills unlocks projects, attacking and completing projects engenders feelings of purpose and efficacy that motivate advancement.

New comment by colinmegill in "Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?"

colinmegill — Sun, 21 May 2023 20:25:17 +0000

241 in 1password 340 in Google Password Manager

Reflect.net

colinmegill — Tue, 16 May 2023 15:57:16 +0000

Article URL: https://reflect.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963636

Points: 8

# Comments: 5

On the job training: a stinger, and YouTube

colinmegill — Wed, 03 May 2023 09:31:50 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/tom_bullock_/status/1653526815669977088

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800042

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by colinmegill in "Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years"

colinmegill — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:51:18 +0000

Valve nailed it

New comment by colinmegill in "The Real Book"

colinmegill — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:41:12 +0000

I've used these extensively as a musician, they're amazing

New comment by colinmegill in "Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain"

colinmegill — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 22:36:26 +0000

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d9jBwBooU1zMYlUSeFOf...

New comment by colinmegill in "Pig War (1859)"

colinmegill — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:45:38 +0000

Lived on SJI for 4 years, taught at the independent school there as a history teacher and taught the Pig War. One of the standouts if you're visiting is the contrast between English Camp:

https://www.google.com/search?q=english+camp+sji&rlz=1C5CHFA...

and American Camp:

https://www.google.com/search?q=american+camp+san+juan+islan...

at opposite ends of the island. One is very exposed and windy and an extremely exposed place to set up camp, and the other is English Camp :)

Ospedale Della Piet

colinmegill — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 04:16:06 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ospedale_della_Piet%C3%A0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117362

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by colinmegill in "React I love you, but you're bringing me down"

colinmegill — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:06:45 +0000

recoil is a winner

New comment by colinmegill in "Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling"

colinmegill — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 05:41:31 +0000

Vite has been a lovely tool to work with. Haven't looked back.

Ask HN: What are continually updated books you'd like to see?

colinmegill — Fri, 27 May 2022 23:40:40 +0000

As a community, tech expects documentation to be 'up to date'. Maybe books will be more like this in the future?

By way of example: I'd like to see a continually updated book on climate change, that is both an in depth look at where we are and where we think we're going (new tech, etc). Wikipedia is something like this, but it's not linear, and that format is really helpful for onboarding people to ideas without assuming a lot of background knowledge.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31536185

Points: 1

# Comments: 1