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New comment by fowlie in "How Complex is my Code?"

fowlie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:06:52 +0000

> if you feel that code is too complex

Now you're assuming a human is actually trying to understand the code. What a world we live in (sarcasm).

New comment by fowlie in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

fowlie — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:12:34 +0000

How cool is that! Feature request: Let the user select another language than English.

New comment by fowlie in "Building a CI/CD Pipeline Runner from Scratch in Python"

fowlie — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:28:49 +0000

When was the last time you used Jenkins? I don't get the hate. Not only from you, but lots of people on the internet. What makes Jenkins stand out IMO is the community and the core maintainers, they are perhaps moving slow, but they are moving in the right directions. The interface looks really nice now, they've done a lot of ux improvements lately.

New comment by fowlie in "Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file"

fowlie — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:23:39 +0000

This is just awesome! But seems like a closed source project, and the pricing page returns HTTP 404.

Are there any open source alternatives like this? First time I hear about this idea. However, I can imagine it wouldn't take much effort to implement the basics. Chromium even has a design mode you can activate by typing `document.designMode='on'` in the console. Then you would just need to write a little javascript that handles auth, a save button, and a backend to persist the altered html.

New comment by fowlie in "Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it"

fowlie — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:37:22 +0000

Are you saying that black holes don't share any information? xD

New comment by fowlie in "The new science of controlling lucid dreams"

fowlie — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:47:21 +0000

Similar story happened to me once: I had recently got my drivers license, and one day went to bed early (completely sober). In my dream that night I got drunk, took my dads car and wrecked it. When I woke up next morning, first thing I did was to take dads car to pick up a friend of mine. I felt so hung over, and was driving like I was "still drunk". I had that feeling the whole day. Still remember it well today, even 20 years later.

New comment by fowlie in "Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model"

fowlie — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:05:44 +0000

One cool use case for this could be "generative hybrid video meetings"; when I participate in a teams meeting and the majority is in the same physical room, the video conference software could read the wall camera video feed and generate individual video streams of each person as if they sat just in front of me.

Of all things this must be the most boring use case for this crazy looking new technology. But hybrid video meetings have always annoyed me and I think to myself that surely there must be a better way (and why hasn't it arrived yet?).

New comment by fowlie in "Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started"

fowlie — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:09:34 +0000

Very interesting! Is there reason to believe that the outcome would be different if the experiment was re-run but replacing the humans with coin-flipping machines?

New comment by fowlie in "A visual comparison of different national layouts on a computer keyboard (2019)"

fowlie — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:42:24 +0000

This is really stupid, old, legacy sh*t. If the USB HumanInoutDevice spec would support full unicode, keyboards could just send unicode directly and not rely on a not-known-by-the-keyboard-firmware language setting. The language settings would be implemented in the keyboard firmware, but with todays hardware shouldn't be a problem.

Edit: typos

New comment by fowlie in "FP-Go: Functional programming library for Golang"

fowlie — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:43:32 +0000

> very important senior grug say "this too complicated and confuse to me"

https://grugbrain.dev

New comment by fowlie in "Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go"

fowlie — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 06:51:44 +0000

Been using LazyVim for professional go development for over a year now. I can't see any features promised here that I do not already have. LazyVim is a NeoVim configuration for those who don't know. Together with the golsp its insane how good it is. Sometimes I miss those heavy refactoring functions that Jetbrains provide though, like extract function etc.

New comment by fowlie in "I have reached Vim nirvana"

fowlie — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:02:27 +0000

Ever since I learned how to use the Miryoku layout, I've been using vim with the hjkl navigation-keys shifted one position to the right. Those are also my arrow keys on a separate layer in the keyboard firmware. And I never looked back, this is how it really should be!

New comment by fowlie in "Cool HTML elements nobody uses"

fowlie — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:24:55 +0000

remember this tag?

New comment by fowlie in "Programming on 34 Keys"

fowlie — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:49:35 +0000

Miryoku user here. Nice post!

Symbols in a mirrored numpad shape to fix $ and ^ seems brilliant, I might have to try that! And the caps word feature, holy crap thats awesome.

Where are your \, ` and F keys, you don't use them? And why stock colemak not mod-dk?

New comment by fowlie in "Our Roadmap for Nix"

fowlie — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:23:38 +0000

I'm a senior software developer and experienced unix user, and I loved the nix principles. So I installed nixOS on my laptop and it worked like a charm! But after a few months those complex corner cases came up and I was forced to write my own packages. At that point there was no help reading the docs, so I gave up and deleted the whole OS. So I really hope things will improve, and if they do I'd give it another shot.

New comment by fowlie in "Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole"

fowlie — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:57:44 +0000

Wow, no this is new to me. Looks a bit heavy for my personal taste, but nice to see some solid quality products like these available on the market.

New comment by fowlie in "Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole"

fowlie — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 08:39:09 +0000

Karabiner looks awesome, thanks for the tip!

Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole

fowlie — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 06:37:38 +0000

Article URL: https://fowlie.github.io/2022/02/25/keyboards-rabbit-hole/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30719263

Points: 260

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New comment by fowlie in "Lessons from seven years of remote work"

fowlie — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 07:08:13 +0000

> And I assume they have similar mental process which recently I have come to realize is not true.

How did you realize it? I'm asking because you sound a lot like myself.

New comment by fowlie in "Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout"

fowlie — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 22:53:41 +0000

Sorry for late response, but no. RightAlt+q gives æ, RightAlt+w gives å and RightAlt+l gives ø.