Hacker News: iveqy

New comment by iveqy in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

iveqy — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:54:33 +0000

The way I usually solve this is by using git submodules.

New comment by iveqy in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

iveqy — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:33:37 +0000

It does not solve all supply chain issues, it do solve some supply chain issues.

Not being able to see if the source code shipped is the same as been used for creating the binary is scary

New comment by iveqy in "Migrating Dillo from GitHub"

iveqy — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:32:48 +0000

Seems as a good idea to pitch git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise

I'm not part of the project at all, but this is the only offline code review system I've found.

New comment by iveqy in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

iveqy — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:59:35 +0000

I built my own ERP system for handling my business. It's also an TUI and has been here on Hacker News a few times.

About training new staff, there's actually studies done on it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2655855/

My 2 cents is that GUI is good for exploring new software, while TUI is wonderful if you already have a mental map of what you're doing. So for everyday used software I would definitely hope that more TUI's where used.

New comment by iveqy in "Modern Latex"

iveqy — Mon, 05 May 2025 07:23:27 +0000

I'm looking for something that you can embedd in your own application. LaTeX would be great but it's not really nice to have WEB code in your C application. It's also has a bit troublesome license.

New comment by iveqy in "A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers"

iveqy — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:59:49 +0000

I hope you've found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711631/improve-insert-p...

It's a very good writeup on how to do fast inserts in sqlite3

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

iveqy — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:04:41 +0000

Om working om a distributed erp system. The goal being native ui in android, iOS, Mac OS, web, windows, Linux and curses with crazy fast response times. No user operation takes longer than 100 ms.

New comment by iveqy in "Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)"

iveqy — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:42:22 +0000

I'm working with SBoM, one fun side effect is that you can scan SBoM's for vulnerabilities. Suddenly hackers, your customers and your competitors starts do to this and you need to make sure your third party dependencies are updated.

This reveals the cost of dependencies (that often are ignored).

I hope that we in the future will have a more nuanced discussion on when it's okay to add a dependency and when you should write from scratch.

New comment by iveqy in "SSH Remoting"

iveqy — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:37:27 +0000

I also switch between a lot of computers (work computer at home/work computer at work) but have to develop on "big powerful machine at work". My current solution is tmux + nvim and it works really good. I can just pickup a session from whatever computer I'm in front of at the moment.

Am I correct in that neither Zed nor VS Code support this usecase yet?

New comment by iveqy in "Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server"

iveqy — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:35:57 +0000

I think you'll like dwm and other suckless tools. They have configuration as code and require a recompile after a configuration change.

New comment by iveqy in "What 10k Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don't Ship Fast"

iveqy — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:18:25 +0000

I strongly disagree. You should always keep the code as simple as possible and only add abstractions once you really need them.

Too many times I've found huge applications that it turns out be most scaffolding and fancy abstractions without any business logic.

My biggest achievement is to delete code.

1. I've successfully removed 97% of all code while adding new features. 2. I replaced 500 lines with 17 lines (suddently you could fit it on a screen and understand what it did)

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

New comment by iveqy in "Show HN: Vdm, a sane alternative to e.g. Git submodules"

iveqy — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 04:28:38 +0000

This seems to be almost the same as androids repo tool. https://android.googlesource.com/tools/repo

Personally I don't see the difference between this and submodules. Repo stores the information in xml files, vdm stores it in yaml files and git submodules in the git database. I don't really care.

The real headache for me is the trouble of traceability vs ease of use. You need to specify your dependencies with a sha1 to have traceable SLSA compliant builds, but that also means that you'll need to update all superrepos once a submodule is updated. Gerrit has support for this, but it's not atomic, and what about CI? What about CI that fails?

New comment by iveqy in "Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator"

iveqy — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:45:58 +0000

The beauty with a static site is that if you have a copy of the generated output, using the site generator becomes optional. You can always move away from using it (but not moving back).

This means that a "custom buggy sitegenerator" is never a bad dependency to have.

New comment by iveqy in "So We've Got a Memory Leak"

iveqy — Sat, 11 May 2024 10:57:36 +0000

Git is actually using that approach which means that libgit is pretty useless to embed, which noone does anyway since it's GPL and everyone instead uses libgit2.

New comment by iveqy in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

iveqy — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:31:31 +0000

I'm actually developing this as a ERP system. It has been featured here a few years ago, and old demo can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kpD7om_aQ

The goal is to have a fully distributed multi UI ERP system, with TUI, web, android, ios, etc. all native. It's moving forward every year :)

New comment by iveqy in "Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative"

iveqy — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:28:30 +0000

PlasticSCM has semantic merge that does something like that: https://docs.plasticscm.com/semanticmerge/intro-guide/semant...

New comment by iveqy in "Ayllu: Hackable Code Forge Built on Open Standards"

iveqy — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:55:56 +0000

I would really love to read a comparison with sourcehut

New comment by iveqy in "You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience"

iveqy — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:50:59 +0000

Developers has solved this is most VCS by merging changes. The trouble with merging is that it's hard to explain and hard to visualize for non technical users. Once that problem is solved, there's a lot of nice tools to use for collaborative experiences.

New comment by iveqy in "Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using?"

iveqy — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:33:24 +0000

There more I work the less I care about no-code or development languages.

The cost is in requirements and dependencies. The tools and implementation is the cheap part.

New comment by iveqy in "Generate invoices from the command line"

iveqy — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:48:29 +0000

Isn't it a huge performance problem? Running a headless browser is quite heavy?