Hacker News: joshmarinacci

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:38:44 +0000

You’re in Eugene!? Me too. I’d love to meet up some time to talk about your software over coffee.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler"

joshmarinacci — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:25:31 +0000

I’ve been following the Ohm project for years and it’s the best way to build parsers I’ve ever seen. I’ve used it to parse many program languages and even markdown. I’m happy to see it get even faster.

https://joshondesign.com/2021/07/16/ohm_markdown_parser

New comment by joshmarinacci in "So where are all the AI apps?"

joshmarinacci — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:22:18 +0000

That is an excellent question. For me the answer is yes, but I'm unusual.

Can we still make software that sparks joy?

joshmarinacci — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:40:51 +0000

Article URL: https://joshondesign.com/2026/03/19/software-joy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455255

Points: 4

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New comment by joshmarinacci in "Nmap in the movies (2008)"

joshmarinacci — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:18:21 +0000

Yes. A reference to the real author who’s work inspired the cyberpunk chapters.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:41:27 +0000

This too shall pass.

Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things:

* Both the downsides and upsides were exaggerated

* A lot of VCs lost money and many of the trillion dollar buildouts didn't happen

* after the hype died down we figured out what AI was actually good for, and what it wasn't.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Font Rendering from First Principles"

joshmarinacci — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:35:24 +0000

Hugged to death?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Fun with Shell Emojis"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:44:01 +0000

There's a lot of other cool unicode glyphs besides emojis that can liven up your shell. I use the Block Elements a lot in my command line tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

New comment by joshmarinacci in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:48:54 +0000

How does this technical issue affect the economy and politics? In what way would the world be different just because we used a better linker?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "The story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) [pdf]"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:11:00 +0000

Yes. There is a direct path from modern Squeak to the original image from Smalltalk 78.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Skeena Indigenous Typeface"

joshmarinacci — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:35:40 +0000

This article went much deeper than I was expecting. Wow. I always wondered what native peoples alphabets looked like since the Latin alphabet was imposed on them by colonialists. Fascinating.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:38:53 +0000

Ooh. Tell us more.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:38:03 +0000

I'm impressed. It runs my dev blog quite well. Some of the CSS alignment is off and it doesn't load web fonts, but it looks basically the same as Chrome. Even the syntax highlighted code snippets work.

https://joshondesign.com/2025/09/16/embedded_rust_03

New comment by joshmarinacci in "DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:11:42 +0000

I don’t hate the C language. I hate the C compiler (and the rest of the toolchain). Anything that helps me not interact with the C compiler is a huge win.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:09:34 +0000

You can do exactly this in rust using non public fields and accessor methods.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Tactility: An ESP32 OS"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:02:50 +0000

I’m currently working on a browser targeting the T-deck in pure Rust. It’s effectively a text mode command line browser good for reading pages with links and nothing else. There just isn’t the ram for anything more. Interestingly, The slowest part is actually SSL connections.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV"

joshmarinacci — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:55:03 +0000

Netflix wants you to watch their own shows, not TV from the 90s that they have to pay licensing fees for.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "What are OKLCH colors?"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:13:46 +0000

Blame Google and SEO

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:07:20 +0000

Incidentally the size of sockets and screws (including the Allen wrench) is very much a technology. William Sellers pushed standards in the mid 1800s specifically to benefit American industry through interoperability. Standards we still use today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sellers

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3102001

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:09:25 +0000

If you are using the lilygo tdeck, I’m working on Rust support here.

https://github.com/joshmarinacci/rust-tdeck-experiments