Hacker News: conoro

Vibe-Coding an ESP32 Version of Micro QuickJS / MQuickJS

conoro — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:18:38 +0000

Article URL: https://conoroneill.net/2025/12/26/vibe-coding-an-esp32-version-of-micro-quickjs-mquickjs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46390269

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by conoro in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

conoro — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:00:24 +0000

As a long-time Espruino user I was immediately interested.

At first glance Espruino has broader coverage including quite a bit of ES6 and even up to parts of ES2020. (https://www.espruino.com/Features). And obviously has a ton of libraries and support for a wide range of hardware.

For a laugh, and to further annoy the people annoyed by @simonw's experiments, I got Cursor to butcher it and run as a REPL on an ESP32-S3 over USB-Serial using ESP-IDF.

Blink is now running so my work here is done :-)

  led.init(48)
  
  function blink() {
    led.rgb(0, 0, 255)
    setTimeout(function() {
      led.off();
      setTimeout(blink, 500)
    }, 500)
  }
  blink()

Microsoft's NLWeb and Agentic AI could trigger the resurgence of RS

conoro — Tue, 20 May 2025 03:28:07 +0000

Article URL: https://conoroneill.net/2025/05/20/microsofts-nlweb-and-agentic-ai-could-trigger-the-resurgence-of-rss/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44037503

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New Irish AI minister has never used ChatGPT

conoro — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:33:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/new-ai-minister-niamh-smyth-has-never-used-chatgpt-and-doesnt-have-deepseek-but-says-shell-learn-fast/a884585333.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945676

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by conoro in "The tragedy of running an old Node project"

conoro — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 04:52:51 +0000

I had this exact problem with multiple Node blog engines in the past. Constant version breakage was incredibly frustrating. I eventually moved to Hugo. A single binary which I committed with the blog files. Zero issues even years later. I can build the blog on any new machine within seconds. Which was the other revelation of Hugo. 10 seconds to build an 800+ post blog vs minutes using Hexo or similar.

New comment by conoro in "Tcl 9.0"

conoro — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:26:40 +0000

Love reading this. I spent a few years in the late 90s using Tcl/Tk to build cross-platform installers for Embedded tools/libraries, along with Expect for a bunch of our testing. One of those pragmatic toolsets for getting sh*t done.

Running Postgres Inside Node-Red via WASM and PGlite

conoro — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:14:31 +0000

Article URL: https://conoroneill.net/2024/08/18/running-postgres-inside-node-red-via-wasm-and-pglite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287478

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

An RSS Feed for the Google Developer Blog, because these things matter

conoro — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:27:19 +0000

Article URL: https://conoroneill.net/2023/12/12/rss-feed-for-the-google-developer-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38610667

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by conoro in "Pegasus Mail"

conoro — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:48:16 +0000

I adored Pegasus for a very long time in the 90s with a POP3 backend and then UW-IMAP running on various SUN boxes. It eventually got overtaken by Thunderbird but I'll always remember its speed and power compared to the horror of console email at one extreme and Outlook at the other extreme.

RSS is back as an underpinning to SlackOps

conoro — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:40:28 +0000

Article URL: https://conoroneill.net/2022/07/18/rss-is-on-fire-again-and-its-all-down-to-slackops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139612

Points: 197

# Comments: 134

ZX Wordle – Celebrating 40 Years of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

conoro — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:27:09 +0000

Article URL: https://conoroneill.net/2022/03/26/celebrating-40-years-of-sinclair-zx-spectrum-with-zx-wordle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30828420

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

conoro — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:10:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tines.com/blog/my-thirty-years-of-dodging-repetitive-work-with-automation-tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30249518

Points: 170

# Comments: 66

MongoDB Atlas Data API Is Huge for No-Code/Low-Code Automation Tools Like Tines

conoro — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:24:03 +0000

Article URL: https://conoroneill.net/2021/11/22/mongodb-atlas-data-api-huge-for-no-code-low-code-automation-platforms-like-tines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29320460

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Why running TensorFlow Lite Micro on inexpensive devices changes everything

conoro — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:23:00 +0000

Article URL: https://conoroneill.net/2019/12/04/why-running-tensorflow-lite-for-microcontrollers-on-extremely-inexpensive-devices-changes-everything/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21702347

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Bangle.js is the first hackable OSS JavaScript and TensorFlow-driven smartwatch

conoro — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:17:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nearform.com/blog/bangle-js-hackable-oss-js-and-tensorflow-smartwatch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21502616

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

New comment by conoro in "Subscription Friction"

conoro — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:25:00 +0000

There have been many many attempts at micropayments. But it probably needs one of the big guys to get it to the right level of scale. And is it in their interest? Or if they take a micro % of a micropayment, is that enough for them?

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