Hacker News: izoow

New comment by izoow in "Learn Makefiles"

izoow — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:29:59 +0000

The main benefit I see with using Make as a command runner is that it's a standard tool that's installed "everywhere". Even though these replacements seem nicer to use, I never felt like they bring enough to the table to warrant having to install an extra tool.

New comment by izoow in "Ask HN: Developer PC setup automations for company owned devices"

izoow — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:29:55 +0000

> Personally I dislike Git, and haven't found a git UI I like, so throw whatever you want on there. I am not going to like it, but not because I want something else.

I might be a bit off topic here, but if you haven't tried Lazygit yet, I can't recommend it enough.

New comment by izoow in "Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted"

izoow — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:08:50 +0000

Being similarly frustrated with note taking apps lately (Android), I finally discovered one that's pretty amazing, so I'd like to mention it. It's called Zettel Notes [1]. It's all offline, with support for many syncing options, and the notes are simple markdown files stored in a directory.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eu.thedoc....

New comment by izoow in "Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator"

izoow — Wed, 22 May 2024 07:31:17 +0000

I've been using Konsole and I only relatively recently found out how powerful its tab/split management is. You can drag and drop tabs between different windows, and you can drag and drop panes between different tabs to create splits, which also works even between tabs in different windows.

New comment by izoow in "Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years"

izoow — Tue, 21 May 2024 18:04:41 +0000

I wish the bug where the copy option is randomly greyed out even though there is text to copy got finally fixed. It's been driving me insane.

New comment by izoow in "[dead]"

izoow — Thu, 09 May 2024 06:40:36 +0000

I haven't noticed any change just now, but Google search results felt pretty bad for me for a while, even for technical questions. I tried replacing a lot of my searches with ChatGPT, but I got tired of the false information it hallucinates pretty fast. I'm at a point where I'm considering giving Kagi a try and actually paying a subscription for my searches.

New comment by izoow in "Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C"

izoow — Thu, 09 May 2024 06:17:48 +0000

Was just about to mention this. Also, just to add to this, even though it's a zig talk, it's not really the main focus of the talk. I enjoyed it and I don't even know zig.

New comment by izoow in "Cmkr – a modern build system based on CMake and TOML"

izoow — Wed, 08 May 2024 19:51:55 +0000

A build generator for a build generator? Oh boy. This is starting to feel like the JavaScript ecosystem.

New comment by izoow in "Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat"

izoow — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:46:52 +0000

I did try it a couple times in the past, it just never quite felt like home. I don't know why, I couldn't give you an objective reason as to why I didn't like it. I probably should give it another try soon.

New comment by izoow in "Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?"

izoow — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:23:17 +0000

I rely on an unlimited bash history and fzf to fuzzy search through it. Commands that get too long and complicated might get thrown into a simple bash script, often quite literally "thrown" as a single line without any cleanup or extra logic.

I've tried making pretty scripts with many options, but as you said, then you just end up with another tool with many complicated options, not to mention the time it takes. I noticed that the quick and dirty scripts that I often just copy paste and tweak if I want to get a different functionality get by far the most use and survive the longest.

I've also been meaning to have a look at invoke[1] which seemed interesting, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

[1] https://www.pyinvoke.org/

New comment by izoow in "Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat"

izoow — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:21:55 +0000

I'm still torn about whether I want to stick with Ubuntu a little longer or move onto Debian/Fedora. I've been a happy Ubuntu user for a long time, but each package that gets converted to snap makes it harder for me to stay. I'm getting really tired of having to fight the distro and look for a bunch of my applications elsewhere to get a version that doesn't suck.

New comment by izoow in "Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?"

izoow — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:50:18 +0000

> Build stuff in .net is so easy, I just press F5 and I don't even know what happens, it just works

I started out with C# as de-facto my first programming language and this is exactly the thing I didn't like. I had no idea what Visual Studio does and I was lost without it. Later moving onto C and starting from the ground up with just a text editor and a compiler was quite eye opening.

New comment by izoow in "CamSimulate: Python app to stream Videos from files to video devices on computer"

izoow — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:54:34 +0000

I'd sometimes use my Android phone as a webcam by running an app like "IP Webcam" that exposes a video stream of the camera feed and then using the video stream as input for ffmpeg.

New comment by izoow in "CamSimulate: Python app to stream Videos from files to video devices on computer"

izoow — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:40:59 +0000

I don't want to come off as overly harsh, but calling this "Virtual Camera for Linux written in Python" seems a bit too generous considering all this seems to do is ask you for an input file and an output device and then call `ffmpeg -re -i {input_file} -f v4l2 {selected_device}`. Cool idea though, I didn't know you can do this that easily with ffmpeg.

New comment by izoow in "Git as a debugging tool"

izoow — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:24:31 +0000

I recently found out that git rebase has a --exec option that allows you to execute a shell command for each commit. If the command fails, the rebase pauses and allows you to make changes to make the command pass. I use this to make sure that there is no commit that leaves my project in an unbuildable state.

New comment by izoow in "20 Years of Gmail"

izoow — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:49:48 +0000

Thing is, with other providers, all I'm getting is email. With Google, I'm getting a bunch of services, all interconnected, and any of them could potentially get my entire Google account banned. One of the fuck ups I can recall is a bunch of people getting their Google account banned because they typed in chat of a Youtube livestream and some algorithm falsely picked it up, cutting them off from everything.

New comment by izoow in "20 Years of Gmail"

izoow — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 13:38:19 +0000

As much as I used to love Gmail, the past few years I've been getting increasingly more afraid to be reliant on it. I've seen way too many fuck ups from Google where people randomly got banned because some algorithm decided to, and appealing or getting to a human support is pretty much impossible.

New comment by izoow in "NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++"

izoow — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:19:48 +0000

I've been using Sublime Text to do this. I use VS Code/Neovim for my programming, but Sublime Text is still way too convenient as a notepad to keep around, one of the main reasons being this feature.

New comment by izoow in "Notes on EndeavourOS"

izoow — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:24:55 +0000

What terrible experience did you have? I've been daily driving Debian/Ubuntu on multiple machines for years, and I can't complain.

New comment by izoow in "Dead Man's Switch"

izoow — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:56:39 +0000

The local machine would be what's keeping it from firing, not what's making it fire.