Hacker News: holmb

New comment by holmb in "Google Workspace CLI"

holmb — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:20:53 +0000

Thanks for the insights!

We have been doing something similar but it sounds like you have come further along this way of working. We (with help from Claude) have built a similar tool that you describe to interface with our task- and project management system, and use it together with the Gitlab and Github CLI tools to allow agents to read tickets, formulate a plan and create solutions and create MR/PR to the relevant repos. For most of our knowledge base we use Markdown but some of it is tied up in Confluence, that's why I have an interest in that part. And, some is even in workflows are in Google Docs which makes the OP tool interesting as well -- currently our tool output Markdown and we just "paste from markdown" into Gdocs. We might be able to revise and improve that too.

New comment by holmb in "Google Workspace CLI"

holmb — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:44:41 +0000

I would be very interested in this if you could share? Maintaining a Knowledge Base without a Git workflow is a pain currently.

New comment by holmb in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

holmb — Sun, 18 May 2025 21:48:05 +0000

The discontinuation of Syncthing for Android bothers me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718

New comment by holmb in "Tillywork: Open-Source Work Management"

holmb — Wed, 22 May 2024 14:53:16 +0000

For open source project management tools I prefer to use the integrated solution from Phabricator[1], nowadays called Phorge[2]. It has workboards, very good access control and separation of projects (tags). See an example board[3].

1. https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/ 2. https://we.phorge.it/ 3. https://we.phorge.it/tag/phorge/

New comment by holmb in "Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production"

holmb — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:19:34 +0000

The OP is Swedish.

New comment by holmb in "8BitDo Micro"

holmb — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:59:49 +0000

Interesting. The obvious use case aside, I would like to try this out as a presenter tool (next slide, etc).

New comment by holmb in "NetBird – An Open-Source Trailscale Alternative"

holmb — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:11:18 +0000

s/Trailscale/Tailscale/ in the title. \o/

New comment by holmb in "OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves"

holmb — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 09:57:31 +0000

I get the narrative of the article, but I think it is counterproductive to use headlines like this. I have noticed this sentiment that the article author is pointing to ("the world only needs containers", etc) on Reddit and other forums. But the reality is that Openstack is a very capable IaaS platform that does not have a match in the open source space. If you are comfortable using commercial solutions, then yes, there are certainly ones that could compare to Openstack in one aspect or another. But if we are agreeing that open source is good (for the market) in the long term then it would be unwise to think that Openstack is done and over with.

My experience is that Openstack opens up the world of cloud infrastructure to organizations that are either very large and therefore have the inclination to own their services and workloads, or organizations that have specific security requirements.

Openstack is not going anywhere anytime soon.

New comment by holmb in "Nq – A simple Unix job queue system"

holmb — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:40:38 +0000

I wrote an answer on Super User [0] on how to use this neat tool. There are use cases where it really comes in handy. For example when copying a lot of files around to various folders that sits on the same disk so that you can assume that it won't run efficiently in parallel.

When I think of it even lftp has queue and jobs commands. But "task spooler" is the generic tool you can use for more general use cases than file copying.

0. https://superuser.com/questions/220364/how-to-run-commands-a...

New comment by holmb in "Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more"

holmb — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:26:02 +0000

I use this to encrypt files as well and I think Emacs handles this very well for individual files. It is however the notes management tool that doesn't support transparently search through multiple files.

I imagine what is needed is using gpg-agent to handle passwordless decryption of the files at rest.

New comment by holmb in "Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more"

holmb — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:33:42 +0000

There have been a few of these note taking systems that have passed through HN lately. I use org-mode for some notes and sometimes open-junk-file (that I discovered in in Spacemacs). What I miss is a tool that will help me keep some notes encrypted at rest but will allow me to search filenames _and_ content. nb seems to support searching, and encryption, but not the two in combination.

New comment by holmb in "Nb: CLI plain-text note-taking, bookmarking and archiving"

holmb — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:59:43 +0000

New comment by holmb in "WireGuard support in Mikrotik RouterOS v7.1beta2"

holmb — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:37:08 +0000

We built an Ansible role to install and configure Wireguard on EdgeOS. It works well on EdgeRouter Infinity ER-8-XG and EdgeRouter X.

https://github.com/dynamist/ansible-role-wireguard-vyatta

New comment by holmb in "RCE on Telia Routers"

holmb — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:22:00 +0000

This is just plain wrong. There are many ways to handle such a situation. One would be "visstidsanställning" which is employment for a pre-determined period.

New comment by holmb in "Crypton – Secure Anonymous SMS in the Cloud"

holmb — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:07:47 +0000

I noticed that their canary [0] has not been updated and it should have been updated at the latest on 21st of February.

[0] https://crypton.sh/canary

New comment by holmb in "WireGuard is now in Linus' tree"

holmb — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:11:43 +0000

To anyone interested in running Wireguard on Ubiquiti have a look at https://github.com/dynamist/ansible-role-wireguard-vyatta

New comment by holmb in "Requests moved to Python Software Foundation"

holmb — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:01:22 +0000

Downgraded from "You can trust this code" to "You may certianly put your trust in this code" in https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/9d4fd3c968b134d98ed27...

New comment by holmb in "Bitbucket Pipes"

holmb — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 03:56:39 +0000

Seems somewhat similar to resources[0] in Concourse in that they use a container image that has a defined entry point.

Concourse refers to this as a "get step"[1] or a "put step", which calls a pre-defined script inside the container with a custom set of parameters. The "put step" is used when you expect side effects, while a "get step" is used to check status on some resource and trigger jobs.

In general it makes the CI/CD system easily composable and clean. Concourse manages this very well and while I haven't used Bitbucket Pipes I suspect it to be a good experience as well.

[0] https://concourse-ci.org/resources.html [1] https://concourse-ci.org/implementing-resources.html

New comment by holmb in "Finnish bank forbids employees from investing in cryptocurrencies"

holmb — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:51:20 +0000

I have seen these kind of prohibitions at for example Nasdaq OMX. I assume it is legal if it is agreed in a contract. There is a balance here what might be a "human right" and what could be in conflict with the best of the company -- and it would seem reasonable for a company to try this. If they will find people willing to sign that contract is another matter altogether.

Edit: typo

New comment by holmb in "Finnish bank forbids employees from investing in cryptocurrencies"

holmb — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:00:29 +0000

I find it very curious if they have the legal power to enforce this. If it is not in the employment contract then a prohibition like this would not stand. Sure, the employer could try to implement this but I am quite sure it is against their labour laws.