Hacker News: jasonpeacock

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Berthd"

jasonpeacock — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:28:47 +0000

So much this. We don't review the assembly/machine-code that the compiler creates, why do we still review the code the AI generates?

If it works as desired then ship it; if it doesn't then iterate until it does.

New comment by jasonpeacock in "What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators"

jasonpeacock — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:00:22 +0000

Tufte CSS[1] provides a style for this, I like the good use of the "wasted" space in the margins of most browsers.

[1] https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

jasonpeacock — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://a6mzero.com/posts/this-pcb-is-brought-to-you-by-fable-5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695689

Points: 160

# Comments: 106

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme"

jasonpeacock — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:51:52 +0000

> My office is in walking distance of my home.

You are definitely in the minority ;)

IMO the commute is the biggest problem with RTO - why must I spend >1hr of _my_ time going to/from an office when I can do the same work at home?

New comment by jasonpeacock in "The Twelve-Factor App (2025)"

jasonpeacock — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:29:49 +0000

It’s always new for someone…

https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS"

jasonpeacock — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:43:50 +0000

it was `zmodem`:

https://b0b.com/ZMODEM.TXT

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology"

jasonpeacock — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:23:24 +0000

The steep rise in the last few decades is primarily due to increased awareness and expanded definition/diagnoses.

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

jasonpeacock — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:41:09 +0000

It's not $5/bag. There's also tools to be bought or rented, knowledge and skills to learn, and time spent. $2k is the cheat code to skip all of that.

My calculus is to evaluate time, cost, and quality. If someone can match or beat me on 2/3 of those dimensions then I'll hire them.

New comment by jasonpeacock in "Conway's Game of Life in real life"

jasonpeacock — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:39:40 +0000

I’ve always wanted to do something similar, but with screen printed capacitive sensors on a pcb with a matching led in each sensor.

Much more scalable in cost.

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.