Hacker News: gskye

New comment by gskye in "Stringly Typed"

gskye — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:41:40 +0000

xkcd has a relevant take on this: https://xkcd.com/1053/

TLDR, we should totally be celebrating learning in public

Show HN: Fretboard.el – guitar fretboard visualization tool for Emacs

gskye — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:51:33 +0000

Hi Hacker News!

My name is Skye. Long time listener, first time caller.

Have you ever sat down to get ready for a gig, looked at your guitar and thought to yourself: "Why am I not using the worlds most extensible text editor to work on my guitar fretboard fluency?"

Well I have just the thing: fretboard.el, the guitar fretboard visualization tool for Emacs!

fretboard.el lets you see the notes of the guitar in pure text. Immediately upon evaluation of the function `(fretboard)`, you'll be able to recognize where the root note is positioned in relation to the key or chord shape.

With just a keystroke, you can cycle through scale signatures, chord tonalities and guitar tunings!

fretboard.el is free and open-source. Documentation can be found on the repo at https://github.com/skyefreeman/fretboard.el.

Happy practicing!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477725

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Buyers of America, Unite

gskye — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:02:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/buyers-of-america-unite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400299

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gskye in "Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock"

gskye — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 19:18:52 +0000

The uncharacteristic lack of transparency around Buffett’s recent decision making points toward two things: an extremely overvalued market paired with a completely incompetent American political administration - one that has a high degree of probability of crashing the global economy.

But he doesn’t want to say the latter half to avoid the wrath of an administration that has immediately proven to be erratic, vindictive, untrustworthy and cruel.

New comment by gskye in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail 48 1/2 year anniversary in theaters December"

gskye — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:57:25 +0000

Wow. One of my favorite albums from my youth, I never got this until you just mentioned it!

New comment by gskye in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

gskye — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:24:06 +0000

https://skyefreeman.com

Mostly writing about software I'm working on or things I'm thinking about. Technical topics include: software startups, development with iOS, SwiftUI, Common Lisp (which the blog is built/served with!), Emacs Lisp, and soon Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView.

New comment by gskye in "More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com"

gskye — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:32:29 +0000

Brooklyn is overpriced, people are moving to Queens.

Converting Your Bash Configuration to Eshell

gskye — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:19:44 +0000

Article URL: http://skyefreeman.io/programming/emacs/2017/08/03/converting_bash_config_to_eshell.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14935842

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: OnTap – Closure-based touch input handling for iOS

gskye — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:06:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/skyefreeman/OnTap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13807263

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

iOS: The Builder Pattern

gskye — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:00:03 +0000

Article URL: http://skyefreeman.io/programming/2017/02/07/the_builder_pattern_in_ios.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744164

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Swift Coordinators

gskye — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:15:34 +0000

Article URL: http://skyefreeman.io/programming/2016/02/23/playing_with_app_coordinators.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11176959

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

UIStoryboard Woes

gskye — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 01:52:37 +0000

Article URL: http://skyefreeman.io/programming/2016/02/10/storyboard_woes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11084799

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

What makes a developer better?

gskye — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:06:29 +0000

Article URL: http://skyefreeman.io/programming/2016/01/31/what_makes_a_better_developer.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035347

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gskye in "It Just Works"

gskye — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:58:50 +0000

I've been watching apple's software quality decrease over the past few years with increasing disappointment . It still astounds me that their test suites haven't caught the multitude of issues i've seen before shipping.

It makes me wonder if Apple actually uses their own products. Don't even get me started on the Remote app...

New comment by gskye in "Build your portfolio by working on interesting projects"

gskye — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:26:27 +0000

https://zyring.com/#/tracks/ios/projects/messaging

Found a typo, UIBotton