Hacker News: lgunsch

New comment by lgunsch in "Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years"

lgunsch — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:00:04 +0000

I took my Seiko 5 in for service mid last year, and after that it kept time well. I don't loose more than a minute over a week or more. But, I specifically sought out a mechanical watch because they're interesting to me. As a software developer, I feel like I don't need another computer strapped to my arm. I appreciate the intricate mechanics.

New comment by lgunsch in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

lgunsch — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:42:54 +0000

If IPv6 was going to be successful, it would have been successful years ago. It seems, people are just more comfortable with layers of NAT than native IPv6 everywhere. I'd guess that it should have been more backwards compatible. Similar to UTF-8 and ASCII.

New comment by lgunsch in "The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail"

lgunsch — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:08:38 +0000

Some of the other practices of CI are also important. Not explicitly mentioned by the article, but perhaps implied. CI is a lot more than just running tests on pull request. It's a whole suite of practices enabling teams to perform and ship better. Some of which include keeping branches short lived by merging back to main early and often. Keeping code ready for deployment at any time by using strategies like feature switches. This keeps the cost of shipping a feature as low as possible, avoiding issues like spending lots of time rebasing and merging long lived feature branches.

New comment by lgunsch in "Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C"

lgunsch — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:30:36 +0000

I was also going to mention this reminds me of Vala, which I haven't seen or heard from in 10+ years.

New comment by lgunsch in "From VS Code to Helix"

lgunsch — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:42:28 +0000

I've been using JetBrains IDEs for the last 11 years. Before that I used Emacs and Sublime Text. I've tried VSCode, Zed, and others. There's just no comparison on the code insights and code manipulation tools. LSP is far behind what JetBrains can do, although it's slowly catching up these days. I still use VSCode from time to time for other languages like Zig.

I've never experienced sluggishness, but, I also keep track of how much memory it's using and ensure I don't run low. It's clearly a huge resource hog, but I'm also glad for that. It's using all of my computers resources to analyze the code in amazing ways which help me develop fast. Emacs, Sublime Text, and others were all about typing speed. Fast development goes far beyond just typing speed.

How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch

lgunsch — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:37:52 +0000

Article URL: https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/container-filesystem-from-scratch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232426

Points: 183

# Comments: 32

New comment by lgunsch in "Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY (2023)"

lgunsch — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:45:40 +0000

I'm happy I switched to Colemak around 13 years ago. Mostly due to elbow pain. I do find it made a difference there.

In general, I do type faster than before, and faster than many people around me. That's likely only because I actually had to practice.

New comment by lgunsch in "Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)"

lgunsch — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:26:25 +0000

I've seen a number of ESP32 IoT devices here on HN, and I haven't heard many of them use firmware encryption with an eFuse.

In this case, it would have been pretty hard to create a certificate if you couldn't read the firmware.

But, also pretty impressed at the same time. I think this is the first Hacker News article I've read about an ESP32 IoT device which has any encryption at all.

Product Development Processes You Might Not Have Heard of (2022)

lgunsch — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:40:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.departmentofproduct.com/blog/product-development-processes-you-might-not-have-heard-of/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038794

Points: 118

# Comments: 29

New comment by lgunsch in "The Format Dialog in Windows NT"

lgunsch — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:23:47 +0000

He talks about it in one of his videos. The zip directory was a product of a side hustle of his, which Microsoft then bought out. In the video he comments how much easier it was to integrate when he had access to more internal apis.

New comment by lgunsch in "Ask HN: Does Microsoft Teams work in Firefox for you?"

lgunsch — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:59:22 +0000

I haven't checked in many months, but in the past it never has. It kind of semi-works but it's pretty buggy. I use Chrome for teams.

I'm on Arch Linux.

New comment by lgunsch in "Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup"

lgunsch — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:31:05 +0000

Years ago I used a very simple bash script font-end for Duplicity called Duply. It worked very well for the half-dozen years or so I used it.

New comment by lgunsch in "Comic Code: Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface"

lgunsch — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:33:03 +0000

This is my most favorite font to date. I've tried lots of others, but I've enjoyed this one the most. 100% worth the purchase.

New comment by lgunsch in "The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3"

lgunsch — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:03:09 +0000

I use iwd and systemd-networkd. I don't use may applet or gui control. With my setup I just and up ignoring network configuration the majority of the time.

Edit: I've found iwd such a huge improvement over past wireless networking solutions. It's a big improvement.

New comment by lgunsch in "Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022"

lgunsch — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 04:17:11 +0000

I've used Roam Research for note taking for the last year. Before that, I spent two months trying out a dozen competitors. Using it the last year has been amazing for me. I definitely can't go without it now.

New comment by lgunsch in "Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online"

lgunsch — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:34:45 +0000

I've been using Duply as a simple CLI front end to Duplicity (not Duplicati) for years now. It's worked great for me on many servers and personal machines.

New comment by lgunsch in "Ask HN: Which are the best open source books?"

lgunsch — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:27:33 +0000

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Very well written read, a fantastic textbook overall.

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

New comment by lgunsch in "Xbox 360 Architecture"

lgunsch — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:12:57 +0000

Working with the ESP32 is what introduced me to the concept of eFuses. Really neat. Allows you to run encrypted firmware images which cannot be easily decrypted even with full physical access to the hardware.

New comment by lgunsch in "The age of Scrum is over"

lgunsch — Fri, 27 May 2022 20:26:18 +0000

What alternatives have people come across? I know there is waterfall: months of planning followed by months of implementation, followed by a single deployment at the very end. Then there is the gradient of in-betweens along the line of scrum to waterfall. I've not encountered any other methodologies yet.

New comment by lgunsch in "How I learned to stop worrying and push to master"

lgunsch — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 03:48:13 +0000

Does the team use a mono-repo? Or have multiple repos and track changes for that week to review?

I'm very curious. Curious enough to even try it.