Hacker News: jasonpeacock

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it"

jasonpeacock — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:21:33 +0000

Reminds me of Tie::Hash::Cannabinol:

  Tie::Hash::Cannabinol is a completely useless demonstration of how to use Tie::StdHash to 
  pervert the behaviour of Perl hashes. Once a hash has been tied to Tie::Hash::Cannabinol, 
  there is a 25% chance that it will forget anything that you tell it immediately and a 
  further 25% chance that it won't be able to retrieve any information you ask it for. Any 
  information that it does return will be pulled at random from its keys.
  
  Oh, and the return value from exists isn't to be trusted either :)

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Tie::Hash::Cannabinol

Neo: A distraction-free word processor for authors, by a wannabe author

jasonpeacock — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:50:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hughhowey/neo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314647

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

jasonpeacock — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:26:10 +0000

What doesn’t work? It’s my daily driver and it renders every website I visit.

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS"

jasonpeacock — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:41 +0000

There must be something fascinating about writing Markdown apps - either it scratches an itch, or AI is really good at creating them. There's a flood of them on r/macapps and similar places.

New comment by jasonpeacock in "When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (2019)"

jasonpeacock — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:55:18 +0000

Or because rollbacks (and release) are slower than flipping a flag.

I’d rather invest in the feature flag upfront so I can unbreak customers in 2min rather than telling them to wait hours for the rollback.

Why are rollback and release so slow? Because we’re deploying to 40+ availability zones world-wide, totaling many thousands of servers, and we don’t want to worsen the impact by doing an accelerated “everything-at-once” rollback.

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Klara and the Sun Essay Contest – $1k Prize – AI Use Allowed"

jasonpeacock — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:51:45 +0000

Trailer for the movie (coming soon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlwmEqQv82M

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

jasonpeacock — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:44:02 +0000

Change the tmux leader to ctrl-space, problem fixed!

The (new) place for thoughtful puzzles

jasonpeacock — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:55:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.puzzmo.com/today

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709710

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

jasonpeacock — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:50:38 +0000

It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.

https://www.puzzmo.com

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Pull request limits are cutting down the noise"

jasonpeacock — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:58:44 +0000

HEY email service does something like that:

https://www.hey.com/features/the-screener/

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Leave a Trace"

jasonpeacock — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:09:07 +0000

That all sounds exhausting (introvert here).

The last thing I want to do when out in public is be stuck talking with strangers.

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Bringing down my ZSH load times from ~3.1s to ~230ms"

jasonpeacock — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:28:12 +0000

Huh, I just ran the same timing command for my fish shell (with starship prompt) and got 168ms.

What all is happening in the Zsh profile?

New comment by jasonpeacock in "The IRS Moved IT and HR Staff to Process Taxes. It's Not Going Well"

jasonpeacock — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:28:47 +0000

If you don’t owe then you have 3yrs (IIRC) to file.

Of course, you also don’t get a refund until you file.

And you usually have to do all the same work to know whether you owe or not…

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience"

jasonpeacock — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:59:08 +0000

I used to use Glow, but now I'm enjoying mdterm:

https://github.com/bahdotsh/mdterm

New comment by jasonpeacock in "One item purchased, ten emails"

jasonpeacock — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:35:39 +0000

Just wait until you _don't_ buy something...

Throw some items in your cart and enjoy all the emails reminding you to check out, look at similar items, share with your friends, and use discounts before they expire!

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Running out of disk space in production"

jasonpeacock — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:57:22 +0000

> A neat trick I was told is to always have sleep statements in your code. Just a few sleep statements that you can delete in cases like this. This won't fix the problem, but will buy you time and free up latency for stuff like slow algorithms so you can get faster code.

FTFY ;)

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

jasonpeacock — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:47:18 +0000

My viewing distance is one-arm-length (kinda close), when I raise my arm my fingertips just touch the screen. Definitely closer than my previous monitor, as you need to sit within the curved-screen radius to be in the sweet spot.

Looks like it's 32:9 aspect ratio - it's this Samsung, it was on sale last week for $800: https://a.co/d/0f884LPO

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

jasonpeacock — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:03:26 +0000

I just upgraded to a 49" curved display because it lets me view everything I need _for the current task_ at one time.

One virtual desktop is Messages, Slack, and Outlook for all my comms needs.

Another is IDE & browser for development work.

Another is todo list, planner, notes, and browser for task management.

Having to constantly swap app between browser, email, IDE, slack, etc is interruptive. Being able to switch to a single-focus desktop with everything visible is much more productive for me and reduces context switching.

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

jasonpeacock — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:22:41 +0000

My guess is that it's for drop-in compatibility with make.

There is (at least) one open issue about this - the solution/alternatives are not trivial:

https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1459

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Sed, a powerfull mini-language from the 70s"

jasonpeacock — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:31:26 +0000

Long ago, I bought the O'Reilly "Sed & Awk" book with plans to become a true unix guru.

Then I realized I already knew Perl (and Perl one-liners), so there it sat unused on the shelf.