Hacker News: elsigh

New comment by elsigh in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

elsigh — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:52:51 +0000

Congratulations Tomas!

New comment by elsigh in "Weather app using Nano Banana Pro"

elsigh — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:09:39 +0000

I went to it today but it showed me weather for Dec 1

New comment by elsigh in "Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust"

elsigh — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:10:36 +0000

It's turbopack time: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-16-beta

New comment by elsigh in "Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video]"

elsigh — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:31:35 +0000

> mysterious aliens that pluck you out of hyperspace

This mechanic was so interesting - it would happen to me, I'd manage to survive the assualt, and then be so far away from anywhere to refuel, and without enough fuel to jump again, that I'd be dead-in-the-water every time. It was so weird to win the battle and then.. not. But I couldn't help but always get excited when it would happen! Did anyone ever survive this?

New comment by elsigh in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)"

elsigh — Mon, 03 May 2021 20:46:29 +0000

Vercel | Infrastructure Engineer, Engineering Manager | https://vercel.com/careers

As a Vercel Infrastructure Engineer, you will help to scale and improve our infrastructure, availability, and reliability by working closely with our backend engineers and product team to identify problems, create tooling and automation. If you have a solid background in software engineering and are familiar with Cloud Services (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, or others), Node.js, Terraform, or Kubernetes we'd like to meet you.

New comment by elsigh in "Why forgiving someone else is about you"

elsigh — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:34:17 +0000

Why not move and call it quits? That might actually enable you to forgive them (from afar). Calling it quits was the first step in my forgiveness towards my parents. You could send them occasional updates but you shouldn't feel like you're obligated to otherwise engage (at least for a period of like 6 months - and then reevaluate).

New comment by elsigh in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

elsigh — Thu, 14 May 2020 13:18:32 +0000

Me and a friend are working on a chords/lyrics/music tool: https://Songbook.Studio

It's a PWA, based on Dropbox APIs built using NextJS & MaterialUI

New comment by elsigh in "iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature"

elsigh — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:36:23 +0000

"iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society."

It makes me pretty happy that this is not a VC-backed startup.

How Quip Builds In-Product Debugging Tools

elsigh — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:41:42 +0000

Article URL: https://quip.com/blog/how-quip-builds-inproduct-debugging-tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20843955

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by elsigh in "Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder"

elsigh — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:58:26 +0000

This is cool! Me and a friend have been working on https://chartcomposer.com/ which is specifically hooked up to Dropbox and uses the VSCode monaco-editor as a front end for the ChordPro syntax. Seems like there's interest in this space which is exciting.

http://github.com/elsigh/chartcomposer

New comment by elsigh in "You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers"

elsigh — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 21:19:13 +0000

There is such a steady stream of excellent work and innovation coming from Cloudflare these days - it's pretty amazing.

New comment by elsigh in "Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps"

elsigh — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 06:35:39 +0000

I'm a web developer, and excited about progressive web apps. But until we have access to sensors and video streaming that isn't subpar, and sweet/easy camera APIs - this idea is good but simply not great- and that's a big difference when it comes to making an amazing UX on your crappy little phone. At least today: * service workers only on chrome * the install prompt is totally not a native browser feature * mobile web browsers are straight up slower at rendering

New comment by elsigh in "Mutt 1.6"

elsigh — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:31:34 +0000

> Nothing to envy from Gmail.

I switched because of search, which is amazing in gmail and hard in mutt (for me). What do you do?

New comment by elsigh in "Angular 2 versus React"

elsigh — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 19:24:29 +0000

But it's not just about writing individual components when you build an app (you need something like a router still for instance). I say this as someone who rather likes the model Web Components espouses. Developer ecosystems matter a lot - for development, debugging and hiring. At present you have a great many more resources/communities to reach out if you go with React. When you get stuck with Web Components or polymer, and you will get stuck, you are a lot more on your own. Also, for building you are, at least presently afaik, limited to vulcanize instead of the richer set of tools out there for more typical patterns. Vulcanize is cool, but again - if you get stuck, and you will if you do something complex - you have to rely on a much smaller community to help you out.

How Shift Is Using Depicted and Why You Should Too

elsigh — Wed, 13 May 2015 21:52:47 +0000

Article URL: http://www.idreamofuni.com/2015/05/how-shift-is-using-depicted.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9542202

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by elsigh in "YouTab: Automatically get chords for music"

elsigh — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:01:00 +0000

Certainly love the concept! And the UI flow and automatic lyrics-to-chords feature appears to have worked on my song just great.

But... it doesn't seem to play, which is kind of a bummer.. Maybe the server is being swamped?

https://www.youtab.me/music/XnWT_wslaBc/lindsey-simon/its-a-...

New comment by elsigh in "MathBox 2"

elsigh — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:54:23 +0000

I viewed this whole presentation on a MacBook Air plugged into a 32" monitor, and while 1 or 2 of the slides would pause here and there, overall it was amazingly smooth. Mind blown.

New comment by elsigh in "A Reminder To Investors"

elsigh — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:12:04 +0000

Anyone who worries about this to the extent that they choose not to invest in a great idea/product/company run by females is just a bad investor.

New comment by elsigh in "Ripple.js – A tiny foundation for building reactive views"

elsigh — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:17:14 +0000

Scumbag hamburger menu - links to github instead of showing / hiding unnecessary drawer ;0

New comment by elsigh in "Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development"

elsigh — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:46:20 +0000

I think without a free starting point of some kind, this is going to be a tough sell. Perhaps a week free or something like that would enable someone to see if they like it enough to start paying for it.