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New comment by heatmiser in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

heatmiser — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:14:00 +0000

I read "tmux 2: mouse-free productivity" in a weekend years ago and it may be, pound-for-pound, one of the more impactful books on my productivity.

Seems like they are keeping up-to-date too: https://bookshop.org/p/books/tmux-3-productive-mouse-free-de...

New comment by heatmiser in "Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser"

heatmiser — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:09:04 +0000

I want both ;D I want profiles to have different partitions of plugins and browser configurations. I want containers to partition my browsing data. I want my Mozilla account to sync my browser history across all my profiles.

New comment by heatmiser in "Frosted glass from games to the web"

heatmiser — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:56:23 +0000

would it happen to be "Zones of Thought" by Vernor Vinge?

New comment by heatmiser in "Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts"

heatmiser — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:25:05 +0000

i have a similar setup with a PM box and a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro. i provision VMs with a Terraform provider, have a script that processes Terraform outputs into an Ansible inventory INI file to handle configuration. i find it pretty straightforward and could take it further by scripting my VLAN setup but changes so infrequently i don't mind doing it manually.

New comment by heatmiser in "Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts"

heatmiser — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:14:45 +0000

You can split the difference with the Proxmox provider for Terraform[1]. The workflow would be:

- provision VMs with Terraform - configure/maintain your VM with something like Ansible

The provider also allows your to schedule LXC if you'd like to target that instead.

[1]: https://github.com/Telmate/terraform-provider-proxmox

New comment by heatmiser in "You-Dont-Need-JavaScript: CSS Only HTML Components"

heatmiser — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 23:28:03 +0000

> Please be aware that the demos may exhibit significant accessibility issues, such as problems with keyboard navigation, speech synthesis, and progressive enhancement or degradation.

right off the bat, this callout makes it difficult for me to consider these approaches for any serious project.

New comment by heatmiser in "Drawing.garden"

heatmiser — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:10:38 +0000

I got a big chuckle out of this one. Nice work

New comment by heatmiser in "I'm skeptical of low-code"

heatmiser — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:07:50 +0000

I believe the parent says exactly that, no?

An Exhausting Year in (and Out of) the Office

heatmiser — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:07:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/an-exhausting-year-in-and-out-of-the-office

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38793094

Points: 2

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New comment by heatmiser in "The Curse of Docker"

heatmiser — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 04:35:10 +0000

I like this approach for running multiple services on customer servers/clouds. for my own cloud though, i'll use some orchestrator that makes sense

New comment by heatmiser in "Top Static Site Generator (SSG) Picks for 2023"

heatmiser — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:42:51 +0000

I've used Pelican and switched to Zola a few years ago. I enjoy being able to generate my site with some plain text files and two easily obtained binaries (zola and tailwindcss).

I find the simpler I keep it, the more likely I'll post.

New comment by heatmiser in "Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke"

heatmiser — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:36:48 +0000

Steve would have always had the vision and the drive to see it through. My guess is that yes, Jobs would have started a company pretty similar in success to Apple but it probably would have taken him longer.

New comment by heatmiser in "Ploopy Adept is an open source, customizable trackball that sells for about $60"

heatmiser — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:18:52 +0000

Knowing that I have my hardware "doing what it says" removes a meaningful amount of mental overhead from the equation. I recently switched to homerow modifiers[0] and it was nice to have that done seamlessly across all of my devices by only having to connect my keyboard.

[0]: https://precondition.github.io/home-row-mods

New comment by heatmiser in "Ploopy Adept is an open source, customizable trackball that sells for about $60"

heatmiser — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:58:16 +0000

Having developed upper back pain due to too much desk time, I switched to Logitech's MX Vertical mouse for a few years, along with moving from a typical tenkeyless to an ErgoDox (a F/OSS mechanical keyboard design). This offered relief for the pain in my upper back but a few years later I ended up developing pain in my wrist and forearm. I then move from the MX Vertical to the MX Ergo (thumb trackball) using the included spacers to make it as "vertical" as possible.

These changes, along with a proper desk chair and more awareness of my posture has given many years free of desk related pain.

I would say that fully transitioning to these peripherals did not take any longer than 1-2 weeks. I estimate I was obtained close to 70% of my baseline within a day or two and was close to 100% by the end of week 2. My suggestion is to transition one thing at a time. In my case I transitioned to the split keyboard which I found as harder to transition to compared to either the MX Vertical or MX Ergo.

I am told by various ergo-nerds that the best trackball experience is one use with your index finger, like the Ploopy Classic. I haven't been compelled to switch yet though.

New comment by heatmiser in "Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup"

heatmiser — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 22:46:00 +0000

Pass the underlying disk or HBA to be fully owned by the TrueNAS VM and you will be a-okay.

New comment by heatmiser in "OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera"

heatmiser — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:16:26 +0000

Your other points withstanding but there are some slick PoE boards available for the RP0s.

New comment by heatmiser in "The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing"

heatmiser — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:23:58 +0000

Wink tried this and with little success.

New comment by heatmiser in "Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding"

heatmiser — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:15:57 +0000

It makes sense to me that Facebook is releasing these models similarly to the way that Google releases Android OS. Google's advertising model benefits from as many people being online as possible and their mobile operating system furthers that aim. Similarly, Facebook's advertising model benefits from having loads of content being generated to then be posted in their various products' feeds.

New comment by heatmiser in "Sorry, but Google Meet Is Better Than Zoom"

heatmiser — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 19:01:53 +0000

By no means am I a fan of Zoom and agree browser-based video call platforms are superior but, Google needs to cut the nonsense of treating Firefox (and I guess Safari) as second-class. The only reason I have a de-Googled Chrome on my systems is to use Meet.

New comment by heatmiser in "Curl Command Line Variables"

heatmiser — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 02:12:28 +0000

mac/iOS: Settings > General > Keyboard > Smart Punctuation [(0) ]

To disable.