Hacker News: ideasman42

New comment by ideasman42 in "Xicago Mono: Classic macOS font for your terminal"

ideasman42 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:02:19 +0000

Xicago Mono is a mono-spaced font that closely follows Chicago with some tweaks to make it useful for terminal / software development.

Xicago Mono: Classic macOS font for your terminal

ideasman42 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:02:19 +0000

Article URL: https://ideasman42.codeberg.page/font-xicago-mono/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031318

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ideasman42 in "I don't like passkeys"

ideasman42 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:19:26 +0000

They're great when you don't own a phone - when you can't use random 2FA "Apps".

As many USB-security keys can be used passkeys.

New comment by ideasman42 in "GPU World"

ideasman42 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:52:39 +0000

I couldn't believe it when the "real" news headline was reported - destructively scanning books.

I thought this was one of the less plausible parts of the book, Sigh! :)

New comment by ideasman42 in "Hello, me. It's been a while"

ideasman42 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:32:42 +0000

It's always seemed strange to me that it's so common for people to feel the need to have continuous ... radio/podcasts/tv.

It turns out there is a fair amount of research done on this, look into:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_partial_attention

New comment by ideasman42 in "ST-RS: A suckless-like ST terminal in Rust"

ideasman42 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:19:26 +0000

Since moving to Wayland, I missed ST. While there are many terminals available, most seemed too bloated.

This has enough font support to be useful, but doesn't provide scrolling, tabs etc... similar in scope to ST.

ST-RS: A suckless-like ST terminal in Rust

ideasman42 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:19:26 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/st-rs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541689

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

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

# Comments: 0

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.