Hacker News: figers

New comment by figers in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

figers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:02:59 +0000

right click on the app and select the window you want...

New comment by figers in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

figers — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:29:39 +0000

If it's tied to web APIs, libraries, or OS version feature APIs that are deprecated it will suddenly stop working.

New comment by figers in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

figers — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:20:02 +0000

I did MP3s on my plex server for a while but with endless new music added to my playlists it became a hassle and Apple Music was just convenient and Shazam adding any song I hear and like is just too easy...it also plays perfectly on my Apple Watch over cellular when I go for a run, but everyone has their own use case and where they want to spend their time...

New comment by figers in "Lock-Picking Robot"

figers — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:25:28 +0000

If it lost it 10 years ago... where's website that still has the hacker ethos?

New comment by figers in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

figers — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:56:48 +0000

We already had Developers and the system in place this was a tiny feature in the scheme of things.

Internally it gives us a competitive advantage of the data being in our system from the beginning of the pipeline through the rest of the system where the data would be needed anyway.

New comment by figers in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

figers — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:37:27 +0000

What did the 3 apps do?

I did the same for one app to give me my speed in MPH as huge text as a HUD in a car

New comment by figers in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

figers — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:34:28 +0000

We were paying for Salesforce, then built the features we needed to do the same tracking into our interal tool and got rid of Salesforce to save money and simplify the data internally across departments

New comment by figers in "AI is making us work more"

figers — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:22:45 +0000

We are a C# .NET Core shop

New comment by figers in "AI is making us work more"

figers — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:22:04 +0000

Yup, better to die on that hill and have a code base that's manageable vs a mess that gets out of your control that you still die on!

New comment by figers in "AI is making us work more"

figers — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:44:13 +0000

I'm in a unique situation where I started the company so there's nobody above me.

New comment by figers in "AI is making us work more"

figers — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:47:57 +0000

I reject commits like this, make them re-write it and explain why such and such coding will never be allowed in our code base.

Forces the change in coding practice.

New comment by figers in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

figers — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:18:29 +0000

I love azure app service because I can focus on our code and code security and leave server management, OS security and physical security to Microsoft.

No servers, no VMs, no containers, just our code to focus on.

New comment by figers in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

figers — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:13:03 +0000

ah, thanks for the tip

New comment by figers in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

figers — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:06:55 +0000

What is a good alternative that allows me out of the box with no extra hardware to install a plex server, connect to Mullvad VPN and start / monitor downloads directly from the NAS device web interface or mobile App?

New comment by figers in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

figers — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:20:25 +0000

I had someone do this in my C# / .NET Core / SQL coding test interview as well, I didn't just end it right there as I wanted to see if they could solve the coding test in the time frame allowed.

They did not, I now state you can search anything online but can't copy and paste from an LLM so as not to waste my time.

New comment by figers in "Children and young people's reading in 2025"

figers — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:49:17 +0000

I have daughters that love nancy drew novels, read to them before bed, currently on book 28.

for a boy the Hardy boys is the equivalent..

Also depends on the age but other good ones are:

Artemis Fowl Alex Rider Berenstain Bears

New comment by figers in "iPhone DevOps (2023)"

figers — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:14:39 +0000

I just remote desktop into a full Windows computer in the cloud to do my C# development in Visual Studio Code.

Works from my iPhone, iPad with Magic Keyboard or Huawei Mate XT depending on what I'm out and about with for the day.

Folding bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mouse

New comment by figers in "iPhone DevOps (2023)"

figers — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:02:51 +0000

Microsoft Bluetooth folding keyboard is great, fits in my back pocket.

New comment by figers in "iPhone DevOps (2023)"

figers — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:54:01 +0000

which UMPC do you use for this?

Which AR glasses are good enough in screen quality for coding?

Do you wear the AR glasses when you're out and about like a coffee shop?

New comment by figers in "Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary"

figers — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:00:37 +0000

This is my dream coding machine with a 10" tri-fold screen and Bluetooth keyboard when on the go and connected to a monitor / real keyboard when home.