Hacker News: gelatocar

New comment by gelatocar in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

gelatocar — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:14:22 +0000

I switched to zim years ago and found it has all the features that I need but is much faster and I think easier to install (though I haven’t installed either for some time).

https://zimfw.sh/

New comment by gelatocar in "From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries"

gelatocar — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:43:29 +0000

Whenever there are stories about bushfires in Australia there is inevitably discussion about how the regeneration is amazing and how fires are part of the ecosystem. While this is true to an extent, it is important to point out that in recent years due to climate change the frequency and intensity of the fires is causing huge ecosystem change to areas that are burnt multiple times before they can recover.

https://connectsci.au/wf/article-abstract/25/8/831/21102/Too...

New comment by gelatocar in "Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within"

gelatocar — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:08:17 +0000

@ seems to show a list of configurations, not GCP projects

New comment by gelatocar in "Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within"

gelatocar — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 01:38:37 +0000

This is really cool, one thing that would make it much more useful for me is to have the ability to easily select which project you want to use, especially if it could have the same fuzzy search as resources. My company has hundreds of GCP projects. At the moment it seems like I'd have to set up individual configurations for each project.

New comment by gelatocar in "Building a better and scalable system for data migrations"

gelatocar — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 03:58:01 +0000

I found that liquibase doesn't really support rollbacks, particularly with mysql as you can't do transactions for schema updates, if the migration fails in the middle of an update it just gets left in a half-updated state.

New comment by gelatocar in "Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning"

gelatocar — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:27:29 +0000

I tried using wanderlog on a recent 4 month long trip and it became totally unusable after adding maybe 2 months worth of things to it. It has some really baffling UI/UX decisions too, like not showing the address of accommodations, just the name. Really made me feel like no one working on it had ever tried to use it when actually traveling.

They had also gone big on AI slop for recommendations which made it really hard to trust any advice in the lists of things to do.

I think these sort of travel apps are really hard to find an audience for. Very very few people travel often enough to pay a subscription and it is hard to justify spending significant money as a one-off purchase when traveling is already so expensive.

New comment by gelatocar in "David Lynch Interview Project"

gelatocar — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:44:03 +0000

you don't have to! all the interviews are there now https://www.youtube.com/@davidlynchpresentsIP/videos

New comment by gelatocar in "Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work"

gelatocar — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:36:54 +0000

I'm surprised that more comments aren't mentioning this. I've recently moved from a stack managed by AWS CDK to one managed by Pulumi on GCP and the difference is stark. The building blocks that AWS provides allow spinning up complex services with relatively minimal configuration. The pulumi code required to create a simple GCP cloud run service with IAP behind a load balancer is literally hundreds of lines.

Plus GCPs documentation is far far worse than AWS's.

New comment by gelatocar in "StreamPot: Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-FFmpeg compatibility, queues and S3"

gelatocar — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:41:33 +0000

This is great, I don't have a concrete use-case right now but can definitely see myself returning to this in the future. One thing that would be handy is having a way to either accept a ffmpeg cli command, or convert from a cli command to the typescript syntax. My experience with ffmpeg if you often do a lot of copying and pasting of commands from documentation or random guides, it'd save a bit of time if you didn't need to transcribe the commands into streampot's syntax.

New comment by gelatocar in "The oldest known recording of a human voice [video]"

gelatocar — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 07:34:09 +0000

FWIW I found the whole video quite interesting, I had never really considered that there could be sound recordings from before anyone had thought of a way to play them back. Though I do remember an old mythbusters episode [1] where they tested whether it was possible for audio to be "accidentally" recorded on a pot when a piece of grass happened to mark the pot while spinning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2006_season)#Pott...

New comment by gelatocar in "My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)"

gelatocar — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 05:18:20 +0000

that's ease-out

New comment by gelatocar in "Show HN: SQL workbench in the browser"

gelatocar — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:05 +0000

Yep, looking good now, thanks! Other datasets that don't have CORS headers still don't work ie. https://sql-workbench.com/#config=%7B%22plugin%22%3A%22Datag... but I'm guessing that's inherent limitation of running this without a backend

New comment by gelatocar in "Show HN: SQL workbench in the browser"

gelatocar — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:42:48 +0000

Sorry, it seems to still be happening, running:

    SELECT count(*) FROM 'https://data.quacking.cloud/nyc-taxi-data/yellow_tripdata_2023-01.parquet';

Shows the error:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://data.quacking.cloud/nyc-taxi-data/yellow_tripdata_20.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 200.

I get the same issue in both firefox and brave

edit: actually accessing that file directly gets a Access Denied error for me

New comment by gelatocar in "Show HN: SQL workbench in the browser"

gelatocar — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 23:21:32 +0000

This is great, I've been meaning to build something similar for some time. I tried to run the queries from the tutorial but hit lots of CORS errors loading the datasets, is there any way that you have found to work around those?

New comment by gelatocar in "Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours"

gelatocar — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:16:28 +0000

Have you tried getting in touch with GCP to see if they would refund the charge? I've heard plenty of stories of cloud services refunding large one-off accidental spends like this one.

New comment by gelatocar in "The weirdest bug I've seen yet"

gelatocar — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:12:12 +0000

As I was reading this I was thinking to myself "I wonder if it is grammarly related" because I experienced a bug some time ago that presented itself in a similar way. It was impossible to reproduce but affecting lots of people internally within certain departments. Eventually we figured out the thing they had in common was that they had the Grammarly extension installed.

The other key thing was that the bug only appeared on our staging preview urls, not on the live website. It turned out it was because of a bad regex in the grammarly extension that caused the page to hang if the domain name was more than about 100 characters. Our staging domains were pretty long, I think they contained a few subdomains and had a job number or something in there.

This one is more crazy though if it is really caused by the desktop app - that's pretty scary!

New comment by gelatocar in "How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1"

gelatocar — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:50:22 +0000

Not sure if you're thinking more of an official standard but PouchDB is open source and sounds similar to what you're talking about: https://pouchdb.com/

New comment by gelatocar in "Data Rabbit – canvas for composable data exploration and experimentation"

gelatocar — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:10:36 +0000

I've bookmarked this to check out on the desktop later because it looks like it could be exactly what I've been looking for for a while.

But being on a laptop right now I have to say it is a very frustrating experience as there appears to be no way to scroll/move the canvas so that you can see all the blocks.

New comment by gelatocar in "Show HN: Cito – Actionable data observability for data teams"

gelatocar — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:21:15 +0000

This looks really cool, one note on the homepage though - the volume on the intro video is really really low, I had to crank my system volume way up to be able to hear it at all.

New comment by gelatocar in "Phantom forests: Ambitious tree planting projects are failing"

gelatocar — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:56:54 +0000

While that is obviously rorting the system, isn't it kind of ideal from a carbon capture perspective? One of the big problems with planting forests for carbon capture is that they often burn down, and even when they don't, the natural cycle of the forest trees dying or falling and breaking down releases the captured carbon too. Harvesting the trees and using them as a building material seems like a better way to ensure that the captured carbon stays stored for longer. As long as they aren't used for firewood...