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New comment by darau1 in "Ferrari Luce"

darau1 — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:05:10 +0000

Maybe I'm being silly, but I felt a strange existential dread watching the video. I asked myself: who is being marketed toward? In my head, it's Apple lovers that want to larp as car people, and having the money to waste on such an endeavor.

edit: I just realized, I don't know the price, but I've basically described tesla people. I wonder how many of these buyers already own one...

edit 2: price is around 600,000 USD -- it's a super tesla!

New comment by darau1 in "CSS Zen Garden"

darau1 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:08:19 +0000

Modern CSS makes me long for Hi5 to make a comback. My profile would be killer.

New comment by darau1 in "Diagram as Code"

darau1 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:35:35 +0000

I'd end up with something like this if I ever had the time. Instead of a corporate wiki, though, I'd probably use something like sphinx to compile PDF files, and store them on the public workspace.

New comment by darau1 in "Diagram as Code"

darau1 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:34:29 +0000

Is this a recent addition? I recall attempting to do this some years ago, failing, and putting the tool out of my mind as a result. Maybe I was doing something wrong.

New comment by darau1 in "Diagram as Code"

darau1 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:33:00 +0000

> the plain text file is embedded

Hold the phone -- some PNG files have plain text representations embedded within? That's nuts, I had no idea!

New comment by darau1 in "Diagram as Code"

darau1 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:17:01 +0000

I have a love/hate relationship with diagrams, and diagrams-as-code-things (plantuml, mermaid, etc). As a programmer, I find myself trying to turn everything in to a software project: everything must be version control-able. Same with these diagramming solutions -- except I nearly never know what I want the digram to look like, when I start "writing" it. This means I nearly always end up on something like lucid.app just sketching out the solution, and thinking to myself that I'll turn it in to a beautiful diagram with one of the earlier solutions, later -- that never happens. So now I have a diagram I can link to (yay), but can't version control (boo).

Then, I discovered excalidraw[1]: it lets me sketch like lucid, but isn't nearly as polished or robust: you can throw together simple shapes, draw lines between them, and the lines stick to the shapes, so you can move them around and the lines move too. You can also group things together, and draw freehand, and also include text -- what more do you need?

The cool thing about excalidraw is that you can share your drawings, and export them as SVG files -- yay! I can version them again. You can also self-host it, which is a massive plus in my book.

/rant

[1]: https://excalidraw.com/

New comment by darau1 in "We need to liberate the Postcode Address File"

darau1 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:29:11 +0000

I hope this happens. I can only dream of the day when my country gets something like this.

New comment by darau1 in "Spot the Drowning Child (2015)"

darau1 — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:56:26 +0000

Yes, panic is a large part of the problem. I think I recall the feeling once, when my dad was teaching me to swim around 4 or 5. I think I tried to stand up, and just sunk, then I tried to pull myself up, and grasped at water. I figure at that point my dad just plucked me out of the water and told me to try again haha

New comment by darau1 in "Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11"

darau1 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:04:00 +0000

The description makes me think this can reproduce a cool workflow demonstration I saw a few years ago on reddit[1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/k1eu0n/durden_wor...

New comment by darau1 in "The Fossil Sync Protocol"

darau1 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:51:41 +0000

That's interesting. I've been using git every day for about 8 years, I've never found myself in a situation where I couldn't fix something I broke. But maybe that time will come.

New comment by darau1 in "The Fossil Sync Protocol"

darau1 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:16:06 +0000

I think this is the first time I've seen someone say they outright hate git. Why?

New comment by darau1 in "Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android""

darau1 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:54:30 +0000

Also, there's snapdrop[1] that does almost the same thing, for free, without the need to install anything. It'd probably be wiser that snapdrop were a native application; then it's dev would not need to pay to host the client application anywhere.

[1]: https://snapdrop.net/

New comment by darau1 in "Emacs-ng: A project to integrate Deno and WebRender into Emacs"

darau1 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:03:50 +0000

I say this as a software developer using Emacs daily as my IDE: emacs is not an IDE -- at least not OOTB. It can become a competent IDE, but that isn't what it's built for. Instead, I think of Emacs as an overengineered elisp REPL.

That said, I would love to see the issues you mentioned addressed, and would love to see how the EAF[1] does in the future.

[1]: https://github.com/emacs-eaf

New comment by darau1 in "GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide"

darau1 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 23:01:49 +0000

> It started off as a way for me to learn ... and somehow turned into something useful

This is the way.

New comment by darau1 in "GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide"

darau1 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:41:06 +0000

Any change you open sourced those parsers? I also switched from GnuCash to ledger-cli a long time ago, so I'm interested to see your solution.

New comment by darau1 in "Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends"

darau1 — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 22:44:26 +0000

I really wish there was a way to annotate youtube videos easily. Kind of like hypothesis[1], but for video/streaming content.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87h0nYi-i9o

edit: turns out there is something already: https://docdrop.org/

New comment by darau1 in "Email and Git = <3"

darau1 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:43:10 +0000

Just dropping this gem of a talk[1], for the uninitiated. There is a place for this, even if people in the thread have never seen it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQjs

New comment by darau1 in "South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children"

darau1 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:58:00 +0000

> What other stuff are they up to?

I see in another comment that he was found out while under investigation for something else entirely.

New comment by darau1 in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

darau1 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:01:56 +0000

This seems seriously cool. I wonder if its constant recording is going to fill up my HDD.

edit: found the storage option. It defaults to keeping all data, but I've changed that to one month retention -- they say they use around 14GB a month.

It reminds me of having to use screen recording software for a previous remote job. I wished I could use that recording to do something exactly like this. Now, if only one could flip the script, and make the employer request that recording, instead of forcing one to share it.

New comment by darau1 in "Why Kakoune"

darau1 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:26:38 +0000

This was exactly my thought process before switching to vim.