Hacker News: honkcity

New comment by honkcity in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

honkcity — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:01:17 +0000

It took me much shorter than I expected, maybe a week or two. I'm quite quick on it now.

New comment by honkcity in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

honkcity — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:48:48 +0000

I use their Pocket reform option pretty regularly, its a gorgeous device. The keyboard is a delight to use and the community is very friendly and helpful. The RK3588 is also plenty fast for the programming I like to get up to -- mostly writing things in Go or Ocaml for myself, but also for larger tasks its worked fine.

It has rough edges but its very usable , especially for somone inclined to hack on their devices. My main trouble being my yearning to use Alpine on it but not quite having the know how personally to get it up and running.

I like it enough though, that I've also got the Next ordered, which I'm very excited for. Being able to upgrade them both more or less ad-infinitum while new boards come out is a big plus too.

New comment by honkcity in "C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell"

honkcity — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:22:49 +0000

Is there a linter to ensure scripts are portable across shells? I try to write them like that but I'm certainly no master so I write them to work with busybox.

New comment by honkcity in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

honkcity — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:13:58 +0000

I'd love to work with Clojure. I have the misfortune of working on something that is stuck on java1.8 and Groovy, part of the issue is the code quality is a disaster (json and xml parsed with regex...). At least with Clojure I'd get to enjoy the repl workflow and usable text editor (emacs). I also just enjoy working with sexps.