Hacker News: island_dev

New comment by island_dev in "We ported the original Doom to SQL"

island_dev — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:21:22 +0000

Very impressive work. According to the readme you need cedardb community edition to run it yourself. I wonder if it will also work with other database engines or does it use some specific features from cedardb?

New comment by island_dev in "Muse Gadgets"

island_dev — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:37 +0000

I like the idea of having a simple display telling me what to remember every morning. Having kids in kindergarten and school comes with daily planning, like remember a bycykel, drop them off at a different because it is tour day, etc. All that information comes as emails once or twice a week. Basically I want to feed that information into an agent that can make a summary every day and put it on a display. I find it hard to figure out what model to use since it will get a lot of knowlige about my kids and that is a little unsettling.

New comment by island_dev in "Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?"

island_dev — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:06:04 +0000

Curious George, especially the short stories. Also Harry Potter in the Mina Lima edition is truly a beautiful book (and a good story)

New comment by island_dev in "Show HN: UtilsDock – 200 free tools that run in the browser"

island_dev — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:33:14 +0000

I like the idea of having many small helper tools at one place. Some quick feedback. When using the search field on the frontpage and searching for e.g. "base64" it tell me that it found 1 tool. To see the tool I have to scroll quite a bit. I guess it works more like a filter, so a suggestion could be moving it closer to what it filters.

New comment by island_dev in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

island_dev — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:13:18 +0000

"Into thin air" by Jon Krakauer. A really fascinating book about the disaster on Mount Everest in 1996 where 8 people died on a single day due to extreme weather. If you are into that kind of books "No Way Down: Life and Death on K2" by Graham Bowley is also worth a read.