Hacker News: efortis

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

efortis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:15:13 +0000

I’ve gotten a few emails complimenting the format of this post below. It’s got fragment-links that scroll and highlight the corresponding part in the code snippet.

https://ericfortis.com/blog/freebsd-jails-network-setup

New comment by efortis in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

efortis — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:11:26 +0000

this release fixes a vulnerability reported 10 years ago

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/319816

New comment by efortis in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

efortis — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:58:52 +0000

This is going to be one my next projects for experimenting with the Web Serial API. I got an old Ioline plotter that refuses to die. Any advise or tips for where to start with the SVG to Gcode conversion?

New comment by efortis in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

efortis — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:44:07 +0000

Tabular Eye. Aligns code without modifying it.

https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye

New comment by efortis in "Ask HN: What are the best examples of good technical writing you know of?"

efortis — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:46:53 +0000

The `security` man page on FreeBSD is a good example. Technical, but with guidance.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=security

New comment by efortis in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

efortis — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:41:03 +0000

yes, I stopped reading it because of that, and because it felt AI generated.

New comment by efortis in "Ask HN: What old developer tool do you still miss?"

efortis — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:53:13 +0000

Flash

New comment by efortis in "The worst job interview I ever had"

efortis — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:09:36 +0000

A hiring manager asked me a question like those. I said: "sorry I'm not prepared, I don't remember from the top of my head." Right before that interview I was a solo founder. He said something like: "ok, so you just focus on the work?" "Yes." I got the job.

New comment by efortis in "No more JetBrains products for me"

efortis — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:56:23 +0000

+1 I disabled all that and assigned a shortcut to: Call Inline Completion

New comment by efortis in "No More JetBrains Products for Me"

efortis — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:50:22 +0000

> I cannot instantly create a new file

Agreed, but if you use IdeaVim you can:

  :e src/my_new_file.txt

> The startup times are just abysmal

For quick edits I just use Vim, but disabling unused plugins speeds up startup quite a bit.

> Switching projects has abysmal performance

I reported that bug: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JUNIE-2563/Minor-UX-Slo...

New comment by efortis in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

efortis — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:22:55 +0000

True, I didn't mean to omit other solutions, I thought styled-components were deprecated after React 18.

New comment by efortis in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

efortis — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:17:56 +0000

CSS Modules are a simpler solution to cascading problems. They create unique class names, so your classes don't clash [1]. And they don't have the two main downsides of TW, which are readability [2] and tooling. Tooling for debugging and experimenting interactively with Chrome and FireFox DevTools.

[1] https://x.com/efortis/status/1888304658080256099

[2] https://github.com/ericfortis/tailwind-eye

New comment by efortis in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

efortis — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:47:51 +0000

Benchmarks?

New comment by efortis in "I am worried about Bun"

efortis — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:27:58 +0000

v22.18 promoted type stripping from experimental

New comment by efortis in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

efortis — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:26:04 +0000

With immediate disclosure the provider can decide to shut down while it is fixed. Or to notify users and make it their decision. Or to be prepared with a diversified infra and switch over to a non-vulnerable path. e.g, BSDs are not affected by CopyFail

New comment by efortis in "Show HN: – an iframe element to embed any website"

efortis — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:47:29 +0000

cool demo

New comment by efortis in "Ask HN: Why does Macs don't get heat up and have so long battery life"

efortis — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:33:52 +0000

they do get warm. some programs such as Apple Compressor seem to cap GPU usage to 50% even when cold. but e.g. ffmpeg spikes up temp

New comment by efortis in "Self-updating screenshots"

efortis — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:03:18 +0000

same here, but linking to the screenshots used for pixel diffing, which get committed to the repo.

https://github.com/ericfortis/mockaton/tree/main/pixaton-tes...

New comment by efortis in "CSS as a Query Language"

efortis — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:24:15 +0000

Not sure I follow the scenario this would solve.

For instance, currently you can conditionally change a parent based on its children. For example, this `pre` could either have 16px or 0px of padding. Zero when its direct child is a `code` element.

  pre {
    padding: 16px;

    &:has(> code) {
      padding: 0;
    }
  }

New comment by efortis in "I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable"

efortis — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:45:22 +0000

The simple solution is :enabled:hover. For example:

  .btn {
    &:enabled:hover {
      background: dodgerblue;
    }
    &:disabled {
      background: gray;
    }
  }