Hacker News: jfb

New comment by jfb in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

jfb — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:40:54 +0000

You can run macOS in a VM guest on a Mac host; Apple explicitly allows this.

New comment by jfb in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

jfb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:01:04 +0000

The CalDigit TS5+. It's really nice!

New comment by jfb in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

jfb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:29:45 +0000

Yeah, I use DAC for the desktop and fibre between floors. It's just the Mac's desktop that uses RJ45 copper.

New comment by jfb in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

jfb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:05:59 +0000

Yeah, 10Gb ethernet runs hot. I just rewired the house with 10Gb (we have 8Gb FTTP) and it's kind of upsetting how hot my Thunderbolt dock gets.

Running local models is good now

jfb — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:36:57 +0000

Article URL: https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993

Points: 1596

# Comments: 608

New comment by jfb in "Typst 0.15.0"

jfb — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:06:19 +0000

It produces beautiful PDF output from org-mode!

New comment by jfb in "The Future of Email"

jfb — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:47:19 +0000

Postage. Postage. Postage.

New comment by jfb in "The Silent Critic"

jfb — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:44:29 +0000

Yeah there’s a sense in which the approach is a bet on the commoditization of tokens, honestly.

New comment by jfb in "The Silent Critic"

jfb — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:55:46 +0000

Yep! There's a link in the prose, but also:

https://gitlab.com/tftio/tools

New comment by jfb in "The Silent Critic"

jfb — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:28:41 +0000

"cost code" for chrissakes. Sigh.

New comment by jfb in "BBEdit 16"

jfb — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:03:34 +0000

TIL! Thank you!

New comment by jfb in "The Silent Critic"

jfb — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:25:51 +0000

Some thoughts on a world of zero-marginal code code.

The Silent Critic

jfb — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:25:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tft.io/the-silent-critic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316958

Points: 13

# Comments: 7

New comment by jfb in "BBEdit 16"

jfb — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:10:33 +0000

The tab key in BBEdit inserts a literal tab character, or advances to a tab stop. It doesn't indent the line, which is what I would argue it should do when writing code.

New comment by jfb in "BBEdit 16"

jfb — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:30:52 +0000

I wonder if it will ever get emacs tabs.

New comment by jfb in "Code review process is theatre"

jfb — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:12:24 +0000

I think about this has having two separate but related concerns; how do we build tools that focus attention on the parts of the problem where human judgement is highest leverage; and how do we build harnesses that enforce invariants such that humans trust the attention focussing part. It's a challenge!

New comment by jfb in "Code review process is theatre"

jfb — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:24:10 +0000

Definitely.

New comment by jfb in "Code review process is theatre"

jfb — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:30:15 +0000

Some of my personal thoughts on path dependence in the world of zero marginal cost code.

Code review process is theatre

jfb — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:30:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tft.io/your-code-review-process-is-theatre/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718731

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by jfb in "John Bradley, author of xv, has died"

jfb — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:42:05 +0000

Oh man. I used to use xv a lot. RIP, John.