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New comment by kown7 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

kown7 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:18:07 +0000

Trying to summarize my career advice reading: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2026-07-12-collected-career-...

Open to feedback and missing pieces.

New comment by kown7 in "'There Is No Going Back': The Inside Story of Europe's Rupture with America"

kown7 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:10:04 +0000

At least historically, this isn't supported. I'd refer to Sarah Paine's talks for more details.

More fault lines and pirates and no one to police them.

New comment by kown7 in "But yak shaving is fun (2019)"

kown7 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:49:20 +0000

My favourite Yak from Malcolm in the middle.

https://youtube.com/shorts/kSJgLA1frS4?is=2RA7C0EDEe7Mg8Fp

New comment by kown7 in "Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?"

kown7 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:33:36 +0000

Have you considered P? It feels like a good abstraction for engineers as it's "proper" code.

https://github.com/p-org/P

New comment by kown7 in "My AI-Assisted Workflow"

kown7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:29:55 +0000

If people actually read the original paper by Royce 1970 they would see that it's an iterative process with short feedback-loops.

The bad rep comes from (defense|gov.) contracting, where PRDs where connected to money and CR were expensive, see http://www.bawiki.com/wiki/Waterfall.html for better details.

New comment by kown7 in "Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig"

kown7 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:12:40 +0000

But where?

New comment by kown7 in "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"

kown7 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:27:48 +0000

What solved some of my problems was a Firefox plugin called MarkDownload. Instead of saving a bookmark, just download the thing (as a text file) which makes it easier to find by search (or just grep -R).

New comment by kown7 in "FPGAs Need a New Future"

kown7 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:33:05 +0000

That was my point as well: what can't you do with a uC or RPi?

It feels the use cases are dwindling and eaten by ASICs and uC

New comment by kown7 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

kown7 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:54:21 +0000

The live site has a blogging feature: Title, Text, Picture. Once I'll get to it, it'll be added to the demo site.

Comments is just the text aspect. So it's already working!

The question here though: in a low-trust environment, i.e. the public internet, what do you do with API key for your GitHub Actions/CI pipeline. Can they be narrow enough to be considered public? Can you get rid of the Cloudflare Workers?

New comment by kown7 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

kown7 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:10:58 +0000

I'm in the progress of open-sourcing (and extending) my static-site generator "CMS" (with big air-quotes).

The idea is to add dynamic content, i.e. reservation tool, to what is essentially a statically hosted web page.

Demo: https://astro-booking.pages.dev/booking/

A bit more details: https://www.nordstroem.ch/posts/2025-01-15-to-the-stars.html

New comment by kown7 in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

kown7 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:15:47 +0000

I like Tasks.org for Android and I think it syncs with CalDAV that comes with my e-mail provider. That should just about do the trick, even with Thunderbird.

New comment by kown7 in "20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)"

kown7 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:19:38 +0000

Office works like a charm if you install Chrome. That's a whole other can of worms though.

New comment by kown7 in "I'm tired of talking about AI"

kown7 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:39:12 +0000

It's such a wild clash of (sci-)fi dis-/utopias. It's almost dialectic.

New comment by kown7 in "Pocket Keyboard Design Contest"

kown7 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:03:52 +0000

I'm having this idea of using an Xreal Air 2 Pro combined with an RPi Keyboard as a mobile computer.

But these keyboards might be even better.

Just power an RPi with a large power bank in your pockets.

New comment by kown7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)"

kown7 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:42:02 +0000

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Remote: yes / hybrid

Willing to relocate: depends

Technologies: python, VHDL, hardware-in-the-loop verification engineer, regulated industries (space, railways, interested in medical). General fullest-stack developer from PCB to web.

Résumé/CV: on demand atm

Email: info@sltoo.dev

New comment by kown7 in "Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?"

kown7 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:16:14 +0000

and then my coworker comes up to me saying my blog post from years ago fixed his problem. It's a small world

New comment by kown7 in "Big Ball of Mud (1999)"

kown7 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:17:02 +0000

If it were that easy, why do most systems converge to The Big Ball of Mud?

New comment by kown7 in "The Economics of Status (2006)"

kown7 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:32:57 +0000

As stated elsewhere, flat org charts lead to informal hierarchies which adversely affects already marginalized groups.

Not sure if that's the answer.

New comment by kown7 in "Constellations are younger than continents"

kown7 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 14:53:23 +0000

There are no trees ;)

New comment by kown7 in "Why Emacs Keys Are Painful"

kown7 — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:51:42 +0000

I've started swapping ESC and caps-lock first using emacs. However, I feel, if you have a good MX keyboard and press Ctrl with your palm. It is actually really nice