Hacker News: jenscow

New comment by jenscow in "Apple Design Official Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup"

jenscow — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:11:54 +0000

Good news for Apple users

New comment by jenscow in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

jenscow — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:47:48 +0000

But if "free speech is absolute" then it can't be overridden by any other law.

New comment by jenscow in "Window Activation"

jenscow — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:53:05 +0000

An app can still steal focus with `uiAccess=true` in the app manifest's execution level (and the app is signed).

New comment by jenscow in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"

jenscow — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:44:56 +0000

Everyone's shit smells the same

New comment by jenscow in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

jenscow — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:04:22 +0000

Page transitions aren't the reason we're creating single page web apps

New comment by jenscow in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

jenscow — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:23:23 +0000

Yes. It's mainstream search that's either broken, hijacked, or optimised for someone else

New comment by jenscow in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

jenscow — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:30:16 +0000

wasn't generated by their AI, more like

New comment by jenscow in "New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?"

jenscow — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:48:46 +0000

28 reasons to not use the built-in Date class

New comment by jenscow in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

jenscow — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:42:21 +0000

The version wasn't specified in the request

New comment by jenscow in "Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin"

jenscow — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:22 +0000

What about "Professional Image Manipulation Program"?

Digital Image Correction Kit

Touch-up & Image Transformation Studio

New comment by jenscow in "Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs"

jenscow — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:06:29 +0000

"mother" has no need for a 5 button programmable mouse, nor does she have a need for applications beyond the web browser. No troubleshooting required.

New comment by jenscow in "Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?"

jenscow — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:32:12 +0000

> took me ~15 minutes to get working

You didn't blindly use it, you still used your expertise. You gave it a high quality prompt and you understood the reply enough to adjust it.

In other words, you used it correctly. It complimented your expertise, rather than replace it.

New comment by jenscow in "I made $100K from a dick joke"

jenscow — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:12:04 +0000

> who do none of the value adding work of buying large lots and retailing the ...

I think they're saying that is the value added work, which they don't do.

New comment by jenscow in "Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations"

jenscow — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:35:26 +0000

In most cases that only tests a students memory and handwriting ability, while under pressure in a limited time.

Can't perform any research, compare conflicting sources, or self-reflection.

New comment by jenscow in "Proposal: JavaScript Structs"

jenscow — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:57:11 +0000

and pattern matches, primary constructors, range operator, switch expressions, etc. it does add up

New comment by jenscow in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

jenscow — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:43:39 +0000

I also use @my.other.domain for websites, so my human contacts won't assume it is me if they see it.

New comment by jenscow in "Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake"

jenscow — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:47:29 +0000

The only thing Windows is better at (almost equal) is 7-zip decompression. I wonder why.

New comment by jenscow in "Why bother with argv[0]?"

jenscow — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:08:40 +0000

In such a world, shells would probably have something like a $SCRIPT_NAME to work around this.

New comment by jenscow in "Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas"

jenscow — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:14:34 +0000

This is why I set a limit on the tabs in my IDE.

New comment by jenscow in "Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux"

jenscow — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:11:01 +0000

I use BackInTime, which works in a similar way but is much more configurable. I have hourly backups of all my code for the past day, then a single daily for the past week, etc.

Saved my ass a few times.