Hacker News: dickfickling

New comment by dickfickling in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

dickfickling — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:57:23 +0000

Got a discount code for the HN family? ;-)

Congrats on shipping. I'm living in the EU working California hours (4pm-1am) and will definitely be buying one.

New comment by dickfickling in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

dickfickling — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:06:19 +0000

https://fickling.us

New comment by dickfickling in "Ask HN: Is noprocrast still working for you?"

dickfickling — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:51:54 +0000

sounds good, thanks for the response!

New comment by dickfickling in "Ask HN: Is noprocrast still working for you?"

dickfickling — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:27:26 +0000

I’ve noticed the same thing. Horrible for my productivity. Paging @dang

New comment by dickfickling in "Ultrathink is a Claude Code magic word"

dickfickling — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 23:32:12 +0000

It’s described here: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...

New comment by dickfickling in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

dickfickling — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:02:48 +0000

It doesn't sound like GP is saying we have to do away with audio, just that it's absurd to stick to _just_ audio. Great to have a screen that shows "Clear for option 25R etc etc". I think I saw the latest Cirrus planes have something like that, doing live transcription of tower/ATC calls.

EDIT: I will add I get that adding something like that to a general aviation cockpit is much easier than putting it on a commercial 787, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

New comment by dickfickling in "Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum"

dickfickling — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:50:59 +0000

I attended Northeastern from 2010-2013. Fundies (the freshman-level functional programming courses) was fundamental (ha) to my growth as a software developer. It taught me how to reason about data and how to design programs (the literal name of the textbook).

I know a lot of students hated it—frankly those were mostly the students that it seemed were only doing computer science programs because they’d heard they could make a lot of money in the field. The “real nerds” all seemed to love it, and now nearly 15 years later those are the engineers in my network who have built the most impressive systems and products.

I guess I’ll have to update my default instructions for recruiters from “automatically interview anyone with a degree from Northeastern” to add “if they graduated before 2025”

The Real Adrian Dittmann

dickfickling — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:01:43 +0000

Article URL: https://thespectator.com/topic/real-adrian-dittmann-not-elon-musk-x-account-fiji/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42598316

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by dickfickling in "Recovering from a kidney donation"

dickfickling — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:18:11 +0000

I’m scheduled to donate one of mine to a stranger in a few weeks. Similar story here—saw Scott Alexander’s story, did some research, decided it was something i had to do.

I’m donating through the national kidney registry, which means that I (and five close family members) will pop to the top of the transplant list if I ever need one.

New comment by dickfickling in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

dickfickling — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:23:33 +0000

off topic: do you have a name or a link for the paper referenced? My company just moved to a new office that's "coincidentally" closer to the CEO's house, and I'd love to send it to him.

New comment by dickfickling in "How random are TOTP codes?"

dickfickling — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:57:53 +0000

I have long considered building a code generator that only serves "nice" codes.

The standard implementation would use a hard coded set of patterns. The enhanced version would pair automatic random code generation with a public site where members of the public can decide in real time whether a given code is "nice" before it's sent along to the intended recipient.

(note @tptacek if you're reading this, I swear it's (mostly) a joke)

2FHey – iMessage AutoFill for Any Browser

dickfickling — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:32:31 +0000

Article URL: https://2fhey.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39750856

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by dickfickling in "Kagi and Wolfram"

dickfickling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:30:12 +0000

The two are unrelated, but they do reference the shareware platform in their FAQ.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#are-you-affiliated-w...

New comment by dickfickling in "Open Source Carta Alternative – Cap.octolane.com"

dickfickling — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:32:20 +0000

ah i think it's a feature for YC founders to identify each other, might not be on for everyone

New comment by dickfickling in "Open Source Carta Alternative – Cap.octolane.com"

dickfickling — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:23:12 +0000

HN highlights your username in orange to indicate that you're a YC founder, and shows that you're a founder of Octolane on your profile. Disingenuous comments like this on a forum like HN are strongly discouraged.

New comment by dickfickling in "HN's HTML Is Invalid"

dickfickling — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:48:57 +0000

(if it wasn't clear, this is submitted in jest)

HN's HTML Is Invalid

dickfickling — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:48:57 +0000

Article URL: https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https://news.ycombinator.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37175568

Points: 43

# Comments: 55

New comment by dickfickling in "ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive (2018)"

dickfickling — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:14:55 +0000

Basically what WorldMaker said. We updated our tsconfig and package.json, updated all our imports to include ".js", and fixed/upgraded things as necessary. The only real hiccup was that `require.main === module` no longer works, so we had to write some workaround code to determine whether a script was being run directly.

New comment by dickfickling in "ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive (2018)"

dickfickling — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:50:33 +0000

If anybody has tried ES modules in the past five years and had to turn back due to incompatibility / lack of library support / javascript is a minefield, I'd urge you to try again. I managed to migrate our Typescript/Node codebase over to ESM about a month ago, with only a few hiccups. It's nice to be able to use the latest versions of all of sindresorhus's packages again.

New comment by dickfickling in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

dickfickling — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:20:04 +0000

I was annoyed by having to reach for a remote or my phone when watching stuff on my Apple TV, so I made a MacOS Apple TV remote[0] that lives in the menu bar. Saves me literally seconds every day.

[0]: https://github.com/dickfickling/honeycrisp