Hacker News: doawoo

New comment by doawoo in "Art Bits from HyperCard"

doawoo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:56:34 +0000

I would love a local-first app, publish to web sure! but local first editor would be fantastic imo

New comment by doawoo in "Art Bits from HyperCard"

doawoo — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:27:45 +0000

We need a modern HyperCard, I want to see more creative computing

New comment by doawoo in "[dead]"

doawoo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:11:18 +0000

Talk to me like a real person please

New comment by doawoo in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

doawoo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:49:39 +0000

It actively ruins multimedia software I use in live performances- so no I don’t just need to upgrade

New comment by doawoo in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

doawoo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:18:14 +0000

No No No No No No

Ask HN: Tell me about your internal tools

doawoo — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:22:52 +0000

I know some of this might end up being covered by NDAs, but, I have an obsession with the small unseen tools that are produced by teams to solve a problem.

Some of them are tiny and plug a small niche bug or workflow quirk, others are basically the control room behind a whole complex system.

I like their quirks, and stories they accumulate as well.

So share stories/musing about internal tools you've made, encountered, or read about.

Good or bad :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866456

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by doawoo in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"

doawoo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:08:54 +0000

This 100% - it’s funny how it’s actually more reliable in my experience to use the encrypted sparse bundle. I can sling it over to my NAS no problem. I’ve restored from one and everything was perfectly fine. YMMV of course

New comment by doawoo in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"

doawoo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:07:21 +0000

Be warned if you actually install beta software and take your device to the Apple Store they will not replace parts because of the chance the diagnostic tools aren’t compatible- this bit me trying to get my iPhone battery replaced

New comment by doawoo in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

doawoo — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:21:39 +0000

+1 I went out of my way to set up a skeleton project that just uses shell scripts to build an app bundle. I really dislike Xcode but Swift itself is actually fun to write.

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

doawoo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:48:48 +0000

https://puppy.surf woof

New comment by doawoo in "Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025"

doawoo — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:16:16 +0000

Thank you. It’s driving me crazy that everyone is just pointing to research and numbers, partly manufactured numbers at that. Go outside and talk to a few real people and see how they’re fairing maybe…

New comment by doawoo in "The port I couldn't ship"

doawoo — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:04:21 +0000

Only because humans before Claude wrote many NES emulators…

New comment by doawoo in "In Defense of Matlab Code"

doawoo — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:14:58 +0000

See the benefit of just using what the original mathematician wrote, is that if they had a problem with a way the graph was rendering, or they wanted to tweak it, they just had to edit the code, no translation layer needed. It shipped like any other component of the product at the time.

New comment by doawoo in "In Defense of Matlab Code"

doawoo — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:20:21 +0000

I want to come out and say that a long time ago at a startup we needed to generate a very particular type of analysis graph for a human operator to review in our SaaS.

and I just straight up installed GNU Octave on the server and called out to it from python, using the exact code the mathematician had devised.

New comment by doawoo in "Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)"

doawoo — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:44:10 +0000

Awesome demo page! SDFs are super fun, and usually pretty useful (in addition to being pretty)

I recall a paper published by Valve that showed their approach to using SDFs to pack glyphs into low res textures while still rendering them at high resolution:

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007...

New comment by doawoo in "iPhone Pocket"

doawoo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:57:56 +0000

Lol it feels like this is their solution to the "phone too big" problem. Anyways, when's the next iPhone Mini???

New comment by doawoo in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

doawoo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:27:28 +0000

The Tumblr app does this and it’s infuriating

New comment by doawoo in "Affinity Studio now free"

doawoo — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:29:41 +0000

Well, time to donate more money to Krita, Inkscape, etc.

New comment by doawoo in "Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation"

doawoo — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:35:15 +0000

> but still in the uncanny valley

that and the guitar player behind the singer in the concert example has three arms :)

New comment by doawoo in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

doawoo — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:59:37 +0000

I've gotten used to it on iOS 26 at least, but, I have been using the official macOS release on my work macbook and it's _horrid_. I'm holding onto macOS 15 as long as I possibly can on my personal machine.