Hacker News: ideasman42

New comment by ideasman42 in "Zed 1.0"

ideasman42 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:04:25 +0000

This was reported for Blender/Wayland, they might be able to use a fix like this: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/eaf63a35...

New comment by ideasman42 in "A Textual widget for beautiful diffs in the terminal"

ideasman42 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:28:51 +0000

What benefits does this have over https://github.com/dandavison/delta ?

New comment by ideasman42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

ideasman42 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:28:06 +0000

My own modal editing system for emacs:

After using evil-mode and meow, this is a system I've come up with that addresses issues I ran into with both.

https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/emacs-meep

New comment by ideasman42 in "Meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs"

ideasman42 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 03:38:17 +0000

Had a similar experience, tried to switch to Meow twice, it's really nice in most ways. But I found lack of vim-style repeat and accidental "dropping" the selection to be so unwieldy that I couldn't stick to using it.

Ended up writing an alternative to Meow which addresses the issues I had.

It's currently in review for Melpa, see:

- https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/emacs-meep

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqX8Z64k0c

New comment by ideasman42 in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

ideasman42 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:39:36 +0000

This has also been going in in Libraries in Australia. Go to the library - toddlers Rush to play on the computer.

I wouldn't mind so much if it was available for those who wanted it but in my experience it tends to be central and noisy - difficult to avoid if that's not what you're after.

New comment by ideasman42 in "The future of large files in Git is Git"

ideasman42 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:50:25 +0000

Something they missed out with the GitLFS cons is authentication, if you don't use SSH-agent, pushing involves authenticating multiple times, sometimes more than 2-3 times in my experience.

New comment by ideasman42 in "Blender 4.3"

ideasman42 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:15:51 +0000

I remember downloading it from my library on a floppy disk (hoping the librarian wouldn't hear it the floppy drive working - since it wasn't allowed). :)

It's in fact still quite small if additional 3rd party libraries are disabled.

It's possible to make a much smaller download that removes OpenCollada, FFMPEG, OpenEXR, OpenImageDenoise, OpenVDB ... etc. However it's a hassle to distribute a second version at a time when the current size is manageable for most users.

New comment by ideasman42 in "How to find your perfect keyboard?"

ideasman42 — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 02:27:58 +0000

You need to consider

* How much time you are willing to invest in learning something "different/cusotm".

* How much time are you interested to spend setting up your custom layout.

* How much do you care about muscle memory with other keyboards you're likely to come across.

For example, why not use something like https://svalboard.com (seealso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand)

Or, do you prefer regular keys - split/ortholinear ... etc. (ergodox, dactyl... etc).

Show HN: TopazNG - Amiga system font for coding and terminal use

ideasman42 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 06:44:27 +0000

For some reason I've always had a soft-spot for the quirky Amiga workbench aesthetic.

I find modern fonts, while functional to lack the character & charm of some of the fonts on older systems.

I've been using this font daily on my terminal & for editing code recently and like it so far.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41755279

Points: 6

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New comment by ideasman42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

ideasman42 — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:13:26 +0000

https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/font-topaz-ng

Re-creating a vectorized version of Amiga's system font.

Since I've always found font's online to be unreasonably opaque, the glyphs are stored in a TOML file, edited in Blender and exported using FontForge.

New comment by ideasman42 in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

ideasman42 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:00:27 +0000

ORG's tightly integrated into emacs & it's ecosystem. It's fine but I don't think there is an equivalent to Sphinx for large cross referenced documents, with different outputs formats & support for translations (different languages).

Perhaps some of these things exist - I may be wrong, if they do I doubt the system is as mature or well supported as Sphinx's.

New comment by ideasman42 in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

ideasman42 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 01:40:51 +0000

Strange that everyone seems to think it's simpler, it seems might be a web-developer bias here.

I'm not a web developer and I don't find markdown especially easy/pretty/simple... I find it annoying when the same markdown can't be used in different places based on the rendering engine and there aren't standard ways to extend it.

Also, having trailing whitespace as part of the spec.. tsk!

New comment by ideasman42 in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

ideasman42 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 01:38:27 +0000

Right, this is the one fairly clear down-side of RST, in practice I've found it's never been an issue - but it does seem like a strange constraint.

If you really want you can define bold italic text using some styling magic, but that's quite awkward.

New comment by ideasman42 in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

ideasman42 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 01:35:52 +0000

Keep in mind you might not _only_ be exporting HTML.

New comment by ideasman42 in "I prefer rST to Markdown"

ideasman42 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 01:35:09 +0000

I've written a few Sphinx extensions ... it seemed OK to me, a bit awkward but long term - this is the kind of thing you do rarely & use often, so how nice it is to write extensions is barely an issue.

New comment by ideasman42 in "Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source"

ideasman42 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 03:50:59 +0000

I've been using emacs as my main editor for years now and don't find the startup speed to be an issue - to the point I've never bothered with emacsclient:

It starts up with ~77 packages in half a second.

This is my config.

https://gitlab.com/ideasman42/dotfiles/-/tree/main/.config/e...

New comment by ideasman42 in "StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech"

ideasman42 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:03:31 +0000

Once this is working, is there a simple way to switch voices with the default downloaded models? Or does this require downloading other models or generating them?

New comment by ideasman42 in "StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech"

ideasman42 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 23:08:16 +0000

When trying to input a larger amount of text I get the error:

The expanded size of the tensor (4293) must match the existing size (512)

Any way to fix this from the IPython notebook examples?

New comment by ideasman42 in "Show HN: I automated half of my typing"

ideasman42 — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 03:16:54 +0000

The down side of this is you have to remember them, for some time now I've been writing with n-gram auto-completion based on a large body of text (including code-comments for projects I work on), see https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/emacs-mono-complete

I have it configured to be enabled when typing in code-comments or commit logs & it often gives helpful suggestions.

New comment by ideasman42 in "Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?"

ideasman42 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:25:35 +0000

In fact no, Python 3.10 is OK new enough.

There is still the lag though, Python 3.10 was out for quite a while before PyPy supported 3.10.