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New comment by deckplecksetter in "Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?"

deckplecksetter — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:12:41 +0000

I like the design of https://dbushell.com/blog/

Though mainly I just like the general 50s aesthetics of it, rather than specific UI elements.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

deckplecksetter — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:33:29 +0000

I'm curious about this too. This is the first time I've heard of Garmin being a bad company.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

deckplecksetter — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:38:01 +0000

For me, using Bluetooth headphones with my (Samsung) phone is smooth and trouble-free. The experience is miles better than wired headphones, and I would never go back. Meanwhile, connecting to my TV with Bluetooth is an exercise in pure frustration.

So it seems to me like the problem isn't Bluetooth, it's shitty implementations of it.

And it's not just cheap devices. My TV is a fancy LG OLED. For the price I paid it should handle Bluetooth just fine.

It's a real shame. When Bluetooth works, it's awesome, but a lot of people have had their opinions tainted by bad devices.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "My lobster lost $450k this weekend"

deckplecksetter — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:53:40 +0000

I wish more people had watched Mrs. Davis, it was excellent.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Windows 11 growth slows as millions stick with Windows 10"

deckplecksetter — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:11:28 +0000

I wish I'd stuck with 10. I upgraded to 11 and it's just a slower, shittier version of 10.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names"

deckplecksetter — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:11:21 +0000

We can find all the problems in Unicode by making a list of all the non-problematic characters and then circling the ones that aren't on the list.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Firefox tab groups are here"

deckplecksetter — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 02:45:29 +0000

Amazing news. This was the one thing keeping me from switching from Chrome to Firefox.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads"

deckplecksetter — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:04:26 +0000

Is there some kind of database for stuff like this, where people can report abusive products? That would be a great way to avoid such things while also naming and shaming companies who do it.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues"

deckplecksetter — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:42:13 +0000

It was similar for me. I'd get migraines a few times a year. I couldn't find any food correlation, but it seemed to often happen the day after doing strenuous activity, sweating a lot and drinking a lot of water. I started to suspect it was related to lack of electrolytes, so I began taking electrolyte solution after running or any other sweaty activity. In the few years since then, the migraines have been much less frequent, and about half as intense.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)"

deckplecksetter — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:20:46 +0000

I did that once. I wanted to go for a run, and I also wanted to buy some soup spoons from Ikea. So I ran to Ikea (about 4km away), and had to walk through the store all smelly and sweaty. It felt inconsiderate to the people around me. Then I ran home holding the spoons. Running while holding things is awkward. So there's two reasons. I haven't done that sort of thing since.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "It's Not All In Your Head"

deckplecksetter — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:26:31 +0000

This was funny, a few paragraphs in:

"For Freud, this was just another confirmation of his theories. He wrote in a letter to Fliess:

THIS IS THE FIRST OF YOUR THREE FREE ARTICLES FOR THE MONTH."

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Show HN: Remake – Build web apps with HTML"

deckplecksetter — Fri, 14 May 2021 07:25:50 +0000

This looks interesting, I might give it a try over the weekend.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives?"

deckplecksetter — Sat, 01 May 2021 23:43:24 +0000

If only someone could invent a cryptocurrency that incentivises something good instead of something harmful.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Based Cooking"

deckplecksetter — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 05:51:42 +0000

Ingredient from the curry recipe:

> More spinach than you think you need

What? Just tell me how much goddamn spinach to use.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Show HN: A cool Drag-and-Drop implementation for Svelte"

deckplecksetter — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:29:42 +0000

Not sure how similar it is, but react-beautiful-dnd is pretty nice. https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform"

deckplecksetter — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 06:47:36 +0000

I love the simplicity of this. If it had a proper editor, I could totally see using this for small prototype webapps.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]"

deckplecksetter — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 07:48:05 +0000

It's used to some extent in the aviation industry for flight-critical software. So maybe huge in some contexts.

New comment by deckplecksetter in "Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?"

deckplecksetter — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:12:06 +0000

It's not that it's evil to make money. It's that the most effective ways to make lots of money tend to be unethical, so a company whose sole mandate is to make as much money as possible will tend towards evil acts.