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New comment by douchescript in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

douchescript — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:54:00 +0000

Yeah, finally some lisp!

New comment by douchescript in "I only use Google Sheets"

douchescript — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:13:05 +0000

Works as long as you don’t have to ask ”which Google sheet” if you just have one sheet for a particular problem you are not in a world of hurt.

New comment by douchescript in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

douchescript — Mon, 26 May 2025 18:32:52 +0000

Nix + flakes & direnv is the perfect dev environment, run it on the Mac and everybody in team can setup any project in seconds. We also have a makefile that sets up Postgres / init,start,stop with a local file socket - so every project instance has it’s own db instance. Very jummy.

That said I wish it was easier to be able to pick a specific build of for example ruby like ruby-3.3.7-p123.

New comment by douchescript in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

douchescript — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:30:31 +0000

It would be a valid thing if there was a documented way to convert a generic node package to import map. Not much stuff in that importmap ecosystem - seems doa.

New comment by douchescript in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

douchescript — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:26:49 +0000

There was also the coffeescript romance, that was brief. But maybe earlier.

New comment by douchescript in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

douchescript — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:41:14 +0000

But how do you integrate and turn on at a specific page/controller view? Look for a specific dom id?

New comment by douchescript in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

douchescript — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:18:48 +0000

What’s the best way to use JavaScript on rails these days?

I’ve been using rails for over 20 years and still love it but the JavaScript story has always been in flux in bad ways. I don’t like the turbo stuff or stimulus. Basically just want to be able to add some nice charts, and some enhancements like confirmation for links. Basically just build admins with it so the caching for partial html just isn’t part of the game. Looked at upgrading to rails 8 now but the javascript in last version of rails was fragmented and complicated, so looking to find a good way to do it in a standard way now, hopefully next version of rail’s doesn’t change everything again.

New comment by douchescript in "Atkinson Dithering (2021)"

douchescript — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:22:59 +0000

I prefer Atkinson dithering. I think it preserves more details when the resolution is very low. For more high resolutions floyd-steinberg is better though

New comment by douchescript in "Atkinson Dithering (2021)"

douchescript — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:16:52 +0000

Please explain what you mean, atkinson dither loses 1/4 of the error to gain in contrast and details, rendering the top whites washed out. What's your recommended formula for converting the image to gray before dithering

New comment by douchescript in "Things to avoid in Ruby"

douchescript — Fri, 24 May 2024 04:51:27 +0000

I do prefer always using self.attribute, it’s a little bit longer but there’s no ambiguity. Otherwise you would have to have all props in your head when reading the code.

New comment by douchescript in "Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple"

douchescript — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 11:43:58 +0000

I do like ruby a lot but I never grokked what was so great about _why, even though I coded ruby when he was active. Felt like a cargo cult. Maybe it was the depressive vibe of his stuff.

New comment by douchescript in "How the C64 Keyboard Works (2017)"

douchescript — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 07:38:03 +0000

No it’s a 32 bit Arm processor most likely. Capable of doing usb and Bluetooth. N-key rollover.

New comment by douchescript in "Geodesic domes made simple"

douchescript — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:21:09 +0000

I have one of their kits. Pretty nice kit and fun to build.

New comment by douchescript in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page"

douchescript — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 05:26:45 +0000

14 kB HTTP site. What about the SSL?

New comment by douchescript in "Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?"

douchescript — Tue, 31 May 2022 20:38:43 +0000

I like to use code coverage tools to understand how things work together. Its especially useful with unit tests. You can see every line that was hit all over the codebase for a particular function or api call, with a heat map of line counts. Makes it easy to know what’s important and what’s cruft.

New comment by douchescript in "Kaiten: Japan’s fully-manned kamikaze torpedos during WWII"

douchescript — Fri, 20 May 2022 04:04:10 +0000

Drafting the Japanese suicide pilots were also a way for the military to clear the ranks of naysayers / peaceniks/ less committed to the cause.

New comment by douchescript in "Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?"

douchescript — Sat, 14 May 2022 12:07:18 +0000

Heh, I’d Pay to get better search results like google was a couple of years ago. Maybe a like/dislike button for search results and some machine learning on top of that would do it.

New comment by douchescript in "The Problem with Frameworks"

douchescript — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 07:27:49 +0000

The problem with the frankenstack, where you levy a couple of hand-picked libraries, is that there’s no guarantee or roadmap that will make newer versions of your libraries (and their dependencies) play together nicely a year or two on. If the number of libraries can be kept to a minimum, then maybe it’ll be a viable strategy.

New comment by douchescript in "Connecting a Macintosh SE to the Internet with a Raspberry Pi"

douchescript — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 07:43:00 +0000

They are not easy to come by. Often it’s the coax kind of ethernet as well. I have done a simular setup to get a shell on my modern mac via kermit over serial cable.

New comment by douchescript in "Arcosanti"

douchescript — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 05:33:54 +0000

They are big on water re-use, greywater and such. The arcology idea is islands of self container cities that are self sustainable isolated ecosystems that recycle water etc. These are islands in a new wilderness around. Some arcologies are in space, some are in jungles, some in deserts. Like noas ark.

However much i like the visuals of solieris vision, concrete, hippie and brutalist architecture in general, i find the idea of life a city that cannot grow but inwards pretty grim.