Hacker News: emehrkay

New comment by emehrkay in "Work with the garage door up"

emehrkay — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:12:39 +0000

I really like this website and how the articles stack when you click internal links

New comment by emehrkay in "MacBook Neo"

emehrkay — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:00:19 +0000

This proves macOS should/could just be an iOS app that you can run when docked. It has great suspend and resume, the phones/tables would just need more ram and storage. Maybe we'll see it in the future

New comment by emehrkay in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

emehrkay — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:26:01 +0000

The source code is structured pretty well. I really like the file abstraction that allows for both local and S3 via the interfaces.

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

emehrkay — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:58:25 +0000

I clicked a link in IG once and and it opened via a webveiw. it was one of those "give us your email for a discount" popups so I put in "mark@aol.com" and at a later date, IG asked if I wanted to associate that email with my account (or something along those lines). I tend to take the extra step to "open in native browser" whenever webveiws popup

New comment by emehrkay in "Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites"

emehrkay — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:02:15 +0000

Look at this graph of related articles on this blog, beautiful work https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/YouSim;-Explore-The-Multive...

New comment by emehrkay in "Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking"

emehrkay — Wed, 15 May 2024 18:05:23 +0000

Eye tracking coupled with the show grid feature would seem like using a computer the way that people do in movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxigSW9MbY8

New comment by emehrkay in "Show HN: Building a GPS receiver"

emehrkay — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:05:52 +0000

Does anyone know how the data a stored, where at, what tech etc? I can only assume that the retention policies are in decades

New comment by emehrkay in "1D Pac-Man"

emehrkay — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 05:12:55 +0000

I was expecting the same game, but from paceman's pov. so you'd see a small line for the dot and a bigger line behind it for the ghost. After thinking about it, I think the game would function the exact same as the lined one, just a drastically different perspective.

New comment by emehrkay in "Procreate Dreams"

emehrkay — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:14:11 +0000

I can't think of a better iPad app. Watching people really use it is magical. The same can be said for Sharpr3D (that is a subscription while procreate is a one time payment)

New comment by emehrkay in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

emehrkay — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:21:29 +0000

why arent these strings constants?

New comment by emehrkay in "Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes"

emehrkay — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:07:44 +0000

What tech did you use to pull down all of this data and comb through it?

New comment by emehrkay in "Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic"

emehrkay — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:02:47 +0000

I love writing libs and giving them unconventional names. See Khadijah a go struct to Cypher cRUD query generator https://github.com/emehrkay/khadijah

New comment by emehrkay in "Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED"

emehrkay — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:26:52 +0000

https://en.jingos.com/jingpad-a1/ maybe. I doubt the screen is matte

New comment by emehrkay in "Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go"

emehrkay — Fri, 13 May 2022 21:02:09 +0000

The install link doesnt work. I wanted to view what it did before I ran it `livebud.com/install`

New comment by emehrkay in "Penmanship"

emehrkay — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:42:55 +0000

I studied architectural engineering and hand to take a handwriting course. It is the exact opposite of cursive, youre never supposed to let your pen(cil) connect letters, not even parts of the letter (as the post describes how to write a P). you always lift up the pen and start a new point of connection because it gives you more control of the output. it was an interesting class and changed the way that I write (all caps that basically look like the image in that book) and also anyone I teach to write.

New comment by emehrkay in "My seatbelt rule for judgment"

emehrkay — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 03:05:28 +0000

I feel that I made the transition from jr to mid level developer when I was able to come into some new code and judge it, instantly pointing out what was wrong and how it could be improved, and how it should've been built. I feel that I went from mid to senior when I would enter that same situation and try to understand the why behind the code (even though I probably still thought it was poorly architected) before passing judgement or trying to "fix" it with a refactor.

New comment by emehrkay in "Show HN: Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin"

emehrkay — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:00:30 +0000

I love this and will use it.

I watch video at 2x and made a simple bookmarklet to control speed for video/audio https://github.com/emehrkay/media_speed

New comment by emehrkay in "Show HN: Monty, Mongo tinified. MongoDB implemented in Python"

emehrkay — Sat, 29 May 2021 19:10:32 +0000

I did the same to learn Redis. I wrote a simple graph database using Gremlin's syntax https://github.com/emehrkay/rgp

It was very slow, but interesting.

New comment by emehrkay in "Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua"

emehrkay — Sun, 23 May 2021 18:53:12 +0000

The Flash IDE was top notch. And the fact that it made a one-file executable was pretty cool too. And their version of javascript with classes was damn cool (was it es6?).

Flash had a nice dev-to-executable experience, too bad it was soured by its browser inclusion. It could've been a great alternative to Java/Electron as the build once run anywhere lang. Adobe was a bit too early with Air

New comment by emehrkay in "Half a million lines of Go"

emehrkay — Sun, 16 May 2021 21:54:41 +0000

I cant wait for that slices package. If I have to write this one more time im going to have a breakdown

    func inSlice(needle someType, haystack []someType) bool{}