Hacker News: ericcholis

New comment by ericcholis in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

ericcholis — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:03:48 +0000

HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 will disable this (annoying) behavior. Set it in your bashrc or zshrc.

New comment by ericcholis in "What is a manifold?"

ericcholis — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:17:10 +0000

That's why I clicked the title...thought for sure I was getting some engine knowledge

New comment by ericcholis in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

ericcholis — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:31:11 +0000

This flies a bit in the face of the author's "The sync breaks. The company sells out and dies" point and the simple beauty of a text file. I find that Obsidian.md is just one step above a text file.

Simple daily notes, which are automatically organized into year and month folders. (Tip: Set the date format to YYYY/YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM-DD)

The Sync feature works great, but no reason you couldn't do this with just git on your own.

Plenty of built-in features (Plugins, ToDos, etc...)

Cross platform apps.

Markdown

Free. The sync feature is $4/month. Worth it for me.

They also have a one-time $25 payment to get early access to beta versions and a VIP discord channel.

New comment by ericcholis in "How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB"

ericcholis — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:13:16 +0000

Typsense as a product has been great (hosted cluster). Customer support has been awesome as well.

New comment by ericcholis in "How we built Bluey’s world"

ericcholis — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:25:56 +0000

Tumble Leaf is incredible

New comment by ericcholis in "1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations"

ericcholis — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:14:26 +0000

Reminds me of the CSS Zen Garden https://csszengarden.com/

New comment by ericcholis in "Trivial REST server in various languages to compare"

ericcholis — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:59:40 +0000

I was wondering this as well. The Python example almost felt like cheating with FastApi....but I suppose it's also pythonic.

New comment by ericcholis in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

ericcholis — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 06:36:53 +0000

The Masters app is truly incredible, I don't know if it gets enough praise.

New comment by ericcholis in "Bank of America raises minimum hourly pay"

ericcholis — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:58:08 +0000

My grandmother worked for a bank for the better part of her life. She used to bring old punch cards home to use for notes/grocery lists. My mom and I used to drive through her teller window and send her cookies through the tubes or the document slot.

New comment by ericcholis in "Bank of America raises minimum hourly pay"

ericcholis — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:56:39 +0000

Yes, many banks have drive-through tellers that use Pneumatic tubes to send things back and forth

New comment by ericcholis in "State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant"

ericcholis — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:10:06 +0000

S3 basically killed a perfectly good Dell XPS 15 a few years ago. The fan would never stop running.

New comment by ericcholis in "Region-specific Machines pricing"

ericcholis — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:31:30 +0000

I'm curious as well. Pretty happy with DO overall; but it is relatively vanilla as far as a hosting product goes.

New comment by ericcholis in "Sending emails to my three-year-old"

ericcholis — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:08:16 +0000

I'd like to do this as well. BUT, I have serious doubts that free gmail will be around long enough. Any thoughts on an alternative service? DIY with markdown and git hosted somewhere portable maybe....

New comment by ericcholis in "New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro"

ericcholis — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:39:32 +0000

The pencil for the Remarkable tablet has this feature. I found that it was a great way to ease into digital note taking. Matching a real-world feature felt very natural.

New comment by ericcholis in "IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos"

ericcholis — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:38:35 +0000

I got more than a little excited that somehow O'Shea Jackson picked up an interesting hobby.

Slay the Spire 2 Announced – Using Godot

ericcholis — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:21:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/slay-the-spire-2-officially-announced-first-gameplay-screens-revealed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39994723

Points: 124

# Comments: 30

New comment by ericcholis in "A lost hiker ignored rescuers' phone calls, thinking they were spam (2021)"

ericcholis — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:39:46 +0000

Or leave a voicemail. I'm guessing that their phone service was a landline or VOIP that didn't support sending SMS.

New comment by ericcholis in "The UX of delivering parcels"

ericcholis — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 06:32:50 +0000

Having worked a lot on the shipper side, it's possible that the package hasn't been picked up by the carrier yet. I've seen tracking numbers issued "client-side" that get re-issued or invalidated after pickup as well.

New comment by ericcholis in "ExifTool Turns 20"

ericcholis — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 02:51:52 +0000

This is likely one of those "never done" projects.

New comment by ericcholis in "RIP to my 8-port Unifi switch after years and years of Texas outdoor temps"

ericcholis — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:13:34 +0000

I put a heatsink and fan on the outside of mine. Didn't trust the "passive" cooling