Hacker News: koch

New comment by koch in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

koch — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:57:36 +0000

Worth it! Easily one of the first things I install on a new mac. I have three finger swipe left/right to switch between tabs, three finger swipe down to close tabs (chrome, vs code, xcode, finder, anything that has tabs), and four finger swipe to go between spaces without animation.

Vibe/AI coding is going to bolster local first software and self hosting

koch — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:24:37 +0000

Article URL: https://remark.ing/rob/rob/VibeAI-coding-is-going

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702874

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Who is "safer" in the AI era: IC or management?

koch — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:12:38 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44677457

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

Show HN: Social media with text files – like Twitter/X but by writing markwhen

koch — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:43:12 +0000

Article URL: https://remark.ing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44534261

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

koch — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:01:51 +0000

Article URL: https://remark.ing/rob/rob/Thesis-interesting-work-ie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484026

Points: 175

# Comments: 105

Adding to markwhen documents via SMS and email

koch — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:12:29 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.markwhen.com/meridiem/api/sms-email

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370532

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by koch in "CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)"

koch — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:40:14 +0000

What I don't quite understand is why we haven't merely come to the conclusion that, like everything else, the internet costs money. Running servers and services costs money, and by giving it away for "free" from the get-go encases certain types of problems in the platform itself. I'm not talking about paying your ISP, I'm talking about accessing websites.

I guess what I'm getting at is that there is no cost to making a request over the internet. Why not? Why doesn't every http request have a corresponding price associated with it? You can access the resource if you pay. I imagine this would be a minuscule amount ($0.00001 or less per request). Then, instead of trying to solve for monetizing eyeballs or personal data, these problems are solved with economics.

Show HN: Remarking is a microblogging site that aggregates markwhen documents

koch — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:25:43 +0000

Article URL: https://remark.ing/markwhen/remarking/What-is-remarking-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43664169

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

OPM Reply: Automate Your Weekly OPM Accomplishments Email

koch — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:30:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.opmreply.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659394

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Remarking – like Twitter/Bluesky but by appending to a single text file

koch — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:49:31 +0000

Remark.ing is a microblogging site that aggregates markwhen[0] documents. A markwhen document is just a collection of dated entries in a single file. So, with remarking, each of those dated entries gets its own "post" that has its own url and comments and whatnot. It's like handwriting RSS. And your home feed is a chronologically sorted list of those entries from different documents. That's it!

Remarking has its own UI for posting and writing but is backed by the documents you choose to upload/share in meridiem[1]. So you can still use meridiem to add stuff in the future, edit previous posts, etc.

The motivation here is really that microblogging sites need not be anything more than interweaved journals, which is what this is. You can backfill experiences that you want to remember, schedule posts in the future, all with a single text file.

[0] markwhen.com [1] meridiem.markwhen.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43642900

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by koch in "The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income"

koch — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:40:27 +0000

Waste it how? By spending it? By participating in the economy? Thereby turning it into someone else's income?

New comment by koch in "DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards"

koch — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:44:32 +0000

I'm reminded of the story of the Air Force designing cockpits for the "average" pilot, only to find that

> out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions [0]

Surely, there are so many employees in general that probationary employees aren't needed. And surely, most government employees don't need to purchase things on a daily basis, so we can inhibit their credit card use. And most contracts about XYZ aren't crucial, so we can cancel them.

But, my goodness, there is so much nuance and breadth to the things a government does, let alone the government that is responsible for the largest military and that props up a big part of the world economy, that compounding these rash decisions will have far-reaching and serious blowback. I'm all about efficiency, but why be stupid about it?

The plane that we're all on is being dismantled midair, the engines have been turned off, and we're just gliding now. Gliding or falling, anyway

[0] https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...

Ask HN: Git Alternatives – Sapling vs. Jj

koch — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:57:24 +0000

Having worked at Google I have unfortunately been exposed to what is possible when in comes to version control systems. I have been looking for a git alternative that is just generally simpler, more ergonomic, and allows for things like stacked PRs while maintaining git compatibility, since everything is on github.

I am uninterested in `you can do that in git with [insert esoteric commands]`.

My main contenders right now are Sapling[0], a project from Meta, and jj[1]. I am wondering if anyone has experience with either, or definitely those who have tried both, what was your experience? They both have a lot of nice features.

[0] https://sapling-scm.com/ [1] https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/blob/main/docs/sapling-comparison.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351436

Points: 94

# Comments: 64

New comment by koch in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

koch — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 01:25:33 +0000

https://docs.markwhen.com/syntax/dates-and-ranges.html#relat...

It doesn't look at task completion but you can base events on other events

New comment by koch in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

koch — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:03:55 +0000

Just edited the example so it looks like a span, thanks for the feedback!

New comment by koch in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

koch — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:00:13 +0000

Creator here - glad to see people like markwhen!

Been working on markwhen for a few years now, originally inspired by cheeaun's life timeline that another commenter posted about.

At this point markwhen is available as a VS Code extension, Obsidian plugin, CLI tool, and web editor in Meridiem.

Some recent markwhen developments:

- Dial, a fork of bolt.new (Stackblitz's very cool tool that leverages AI to help quickly scaffold web projects): an in-browser editor that lets you edit existing markwhen visualizations like the timeline or calendar or make your own. I just released that yesterday so it's still rough but I have big plans for it (it's one of the visualizations in meridiem)

- Event properties: each entry can have it's own "frontmatter" in the form of `key: value` pairs. I wanted this as I'm aiming for more iCal interoperability in the future, so each event could theoretically have things like "attendees" or google calendar ids or other metadata. This was released in the last month or two.

- remark.ing: this one isn't ready yet by any means but it's like a twitter/bluesky/mastodon-esque aggregated blog site. So you write markwhen and each entry is a post. In this way "scheduling" a post is just writing a future date next to it, and you have all your blog in one file. This one is a major WIP

Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

koch — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:58:48 +0000

Article URL: https://markwhen.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42289690

Points: 912

# Comments: 98

New comment by koch in "Red Mill Burgers (2020)"

koch — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:44:59 +0000

Yes they fixed it, thank goodness! I will continue to think it was because of this article.

Red Mill Burgers (2020)

koch — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:59:48 +0000

Article URL: https://robko.ch/2020/10/31/red-mill-burgers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41261363

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by koch in "Show HN: Word Slicer"

koch — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:14:22 +0000

I want to be able to type instead of clicking on letters