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New comment by ctrl4 in "The Emacsification of Software"

ctrl4 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:10:14 +0000

Not OP: - One shotted script that I schedule through cron that sends me a message when a new one piece manga chapter releases. - Also a simple script that moves my cursor one pixel every 30 seconds. Cannot disclose why I need this.

New comment by ctrl4 in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

ctrl4 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:29:24 +0000

This used to happen to me. But there was a time I just had two different drives. With different OS in it and used the bios selector to boot what I wanted

New comment by ctrl4 in "Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry"

ctrl4 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:52:42 +0000

I cry every time I see the movie Coco. I've found that things that have to do with grand parents makes me cry the most. I've losed my grandfather on covid's because they stopped treating him to focus on younger people.

New comment by ctrl4 in "-2000 Lines of code (2004)"

ctrl4 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:04:13 +0000

Oh boy! This reminded me of one of my worst tech leads. He pushed secret tokens to github. When I asked in the team meeting why would we do this instead of using secrets manager, the response was: "These are private respos. Also we signed an NDA before joining the company"

New comment by ctrl4 in "Systems Design for Advanced Beginners"

ctrl4 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:00:33 +0000

I once read about devs that get bored with long projects and thrill at starting new things, and the other kind that doesn't want to take new projects until the one that she/he is working on is "finished". Maybe you are the first kind and that's why you are enjoying the unexpected situations you face giving technical support.

New comment by ctrl4 in "Mosh"

ctrl4 — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 13:46:10 +0000

You can code locally, push to a repository, and have the changes almost instantly on your server ready to be run.

New comment by ctrl4 in "Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook"

ctrl4 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 15:22:06 +0000

Just a little note on using Facebook for the calendar. That was also an excuse for me to not deleting Facebook, but I imported the calendar to Google. It's been a year and I don't miss any of it.

New comment by ctrl4 in "Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?"

ctrl4 — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:38:18 +0000

Yup. I did this with a local Android app, that tells you the gps location of a public bus. I sniffed the http packets, found the requests i needed and made a python script that pinged me at slack when my bus was 5 minutes from my bus stop. Useful when I worked at night.