Hacker News: eliasson

New comment by eliasson in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

eliasson — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:59:37 +0000

I have started working on a standalone, self-hosted, service for an album club (music, that is).

Members takes turn pitching one album per week. Support comments and a handful of emoji-based reactions.

Integration with Spotify for easy pitching and playing (by links only, users are not required to have a Spotify account).

Plan is to keep the clubs fairly small and invite only.

Building it in Gleam which is a lot of fun!

New comment by eliasson in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""

eliasson — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:45:53 +0000

Wait. What? Was that the case? Young me never realised that! =)

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

eliasson — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:36:48 +0000

https://markuseliasson.se/

New comment by eliasson in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

eliasson — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:03:12 +0000

What is even more sad is that not even Swedish regions buy Scania or Volvo busses. Where I live the region just replaced all local busses with BYD.

New comment by eliasson in "Local-first software (2019)"

eliasson — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:34:35 +0000

I used to log my weight lifting in an app but I found it really distracting and time consuming so I gave up. For the last few weeks I have been bringing a small notebook and doing my logging by pen and paper instead. I find it much more relaxing and I only use it to check what weights I used last time, so I don't really miss anything.

Pen and paper is severely underrated today.

New comment by eliasson in "Indentation Style: Notable Styles"

eliasson — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:41:44 +0000

Whitesmiths, if I remember correctly was used in Symbian C++. I remember I found it quite odd (as most things in Symbian) when I started using it. But, it grew on me and I actually thought it improved the readability.

New comment by eliasson in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)"

eliasson — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:26:48 +0000

I have never thought about that!

Even if the last thing going through my head before sleep is related to programming (which is quite often the case), I cannot remember having dreamed of computers, ever.

New comment by eliasson in "Why I'm Bearish on MongoDB After Its CFO's Departure"

eliasson — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:23:24 +0000

> MongoDB operates in the space as a leader in non-relational database solutions, managing data formats across text, video, and more to support businesses. This sounds complex, but it really just involves storing and using company data in a secure, useful, and organized way for analysis and improved customer experiences.

This made me laugh =)

New comment by eliasson in "Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope"

eliasson — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:00:30 +0000

Does anyone know of any good presentations about the Zed architecture and internals around?

I know that they have some recordings from their coding session, but I am looking for something more overall.

New comment by eliasson in "Crokinole"

eliasson — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:08:36 +0000

It is. Every now and then when we have guests at home we bring out the board and it is an immediate success. Age does not seem to matter, I have played with people between 10 to 80 years old everyone gets the mechanics within a few minutes.

Highly recommended!

New comment by eliasson in "A Jenga tower about to collapse: Software erosion is happening all around us"

eliasson — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:07:17 +0000

I am not a fan of comparing bad software with erosion or organic decay. It's feels like avoiding responsibility. Software is software, it is made worse by people, nothing else.

New comment by eliasson in "A Git story: Not so fun this time"

eliasson — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 20:56:05 +0000

Ditto. This was a really nice read!

New comment by eliasson in "TTE: Terminal Text Effects"

eliasson — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:47:49 +0000

Wow, this is astonishing!

New comment by eliasson in "CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser"

eliasson — Sat, 25 May 2024 14:32:08 +0000

Absolutely agree. I just finished a project were where users can design / construct solutions in a specific domain in either 2D or 3D, with support for exporting CAD and STP.

The user works with rich domain objects that limit the possibilities to what actually works or is practice; much like a game level builder. This allows non-experts to design solutions in this particular domain, which of course is great for business / sales.

New comment by eliasson in "Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor"

eliasson — Fri, 24 May 2024 21:20:24 +0000

Apparently ID3 included some strange frames such as the Popularimeter (POPM) for storing emails and ratings! lawik goes through some om them in this post which I found entertaining.

https://underjord.io/id3-specification-and-speculation.html

New comment by eliasson in "A kids traffic mat in Elm"

eliasson — Sun, 19 May 2024 13:56:35 +0000

Thank you for building an writing about it, I have enjoyed reading about your progress over the years!

A kids traffic mat in Elm

eliasson — Sat, 18 May 2024 08:15:11 +0000

Article URL: https://matiasklemola.com/liikennematto-devlog-five

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40397284

Points: 178

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New comment by eliasson in "The Software Architecture of Palia"

eliasson — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:22:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy reading these types of articles.

I was a bit surprised to see Perforce being used (I'm not a game developer), I have not come across it since the early 2000s. From what I recall it was very good dealing with merges.

New comment by eliasson in "Two open source projects with great architecture documentation"

eliasson — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:05:48 +0000

Antirez (redis creator) has written a good post [1] detailing his thoughts on code comments where he identifies nine type of comments used in Redis.

What surprised me was the use of "guide comments" which most people dismiss as too trivial. I agree with Antirez conclusion that they are valuable to help the reader acknowledge their understanding of the code.

[1] http://antirez.com/news/124

New comment by eliasson in "Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music (2022)"

eliasson — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 09:43:48 +0000

I have tried to organize album clubs where you take turns suggesting an album per week among a group of friends. I think this is a great way to discover music.

Unfortunately after about a year people lost interest and the club self died. I been trying to find similar things online but it appears that album clubs are not a thing?