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New comment by lifefeed in "$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds"

lifefeed — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:33:18 +0000

what material are the shirts made of?

My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler

lifefeed — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:43:33 +0000

Article URL: https://landedstar.com/blog/posts/how-my-application-programmer-instincts-failed-when-debugging-assembler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264742

Points: 45

# Comments: 34

New comment by lifefeed in "Alternative Layout System"

lifefeed — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:02:26 +0000

I'd like to see a layout system that maximizes rivers in the text. Lets make reading weird.

New comment by lifefeed in "Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen"

lifefeed — Thu, 29 May 2025 14:09:28 +0000

I loved that site too.

Nowadays everything is so optimized and efficient, I've become nostalgic for the days when webpages sometimes sucked. At least they had personality, even if they were hard to use. It's like cars, I like looking at super old old cars in museums and wondering what all those pedals and levers do, even if I'm happy to not drive them.

New comment by lifefeed in "One hundred and one rules of effective living"

lifefeed — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:03:19 +0000

> In more than thirty years as a writer, editor, and publisher, I have, to my best reckoning, introduced, abridged, issued or reissued, and read nearly every major work of inspirational literature produced or translated into English.

I'm always wary of people who spend too much time in the world of inspirational books. It's healthy to read a little, and to "sharpen the ax" every so often, but reading too much of this stuff is mind-numbing outside of historiography reasons.

New comment by lifefeed in "Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove"

lifefeed — Mon, 05 May 2025 20:16:25 +0000

Well, shit.

New comment by lifefeed in "Careless People"

lifefeed — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:01:50 +0000

This is a small bit, and I don't know anything about Zuckerberg's personal life, but "he refuses to get out of bed before noon" is normally more a sign of depression than laziness.

New comment by lifefeed in "MacBook Air M4"

lifefeed — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:54:57 +0000

It's been a while since they made a bold choice. When I bought an iPhone a couple years ago, even the apple store employee kinda shrugged his shoulders when I asked if the new 14 phone was better, besides the camera, than the cheaper 13.

New comment by lifefeed in "Go Away Green"

lifefeed — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:39:05 +0000

You get to walk around the underground backstage yourself if you take Disney's "Keys to the Kingdom" tour. Basically, everything the public sees of Magic Kingdom is on floor 2.

New comment by lifefeed in "Some terminal frustrations"

lifefeed — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:58:28 +0000

I've tried a few dotfile management tools, and yeah they're always overkill. Plus it's one more dependency to handle when I'm setting up a new environment.

New comment by lifefeed in "Some terminal frustrations"

lifefeed — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:12:38 +0000

I did the same. I have a little dotfiles repo[0] on github that I clone on a new machine, then I execute a setup.sh file that installs a messy set of aliases and functions to set up my cozy unix world.

[0]: https://github.com/jmcguire/dotfiles

New comment by lifefeed in "Paper Apps"

lifefeed — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:54:33 +0000

I got a little fish in my first capsule (along something useful that I can't remember, maybe a suit). I kept it the whole game, then passed it on in my own capsule. It's silly, but I still think about that fish.

New comment by lifefeed in "Paper Apps"

lifefeed — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:47:07 +0000

I had the Dungeon Notebook. It was fun. I played it until I got bored, which was quick, then gave it away.

The ability to "give away" these little games are part of the fun. I'd like to see a game like this where "giving it away" is part of the game. Something you can pass around a school or a con. Like an analog version of Chain World, which was a mini-Minecraft-on-a-USB-stick that you were supposed to pass on. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_World )

New comment by lifefeed in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

lifefeed — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:40:56 +0000

I wish I could find the original article, it was a link from a link from the bibliography of Chip War.

I think it was things like how you couldn't initially purchase music, and had to sync to iTunes to do that. I think there was more.

I did find this article, on iPhone being basically just a battery: https://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2011/05/blackberry-makers-thoug...

New comment by lifefeed in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

lifefeed — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:30:08 +0000

I cant find the quote and article now, but I read that before it was released no one else believed a computer like that could have any reasonable battery life. Then they opened it up and discovered the iPhone was really just a battery with a small logic board attached to it, and a lot of the heavy computational lifting was done when it connected to your computer.

New comment by lifefeed in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"

lifefeed — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:07:06 +0000

I like the idea of vinyl for kids too, because of how tactile it is, but man, begin with a cheap player and cheap records. No matter how old they are, they will play with it like a toy.

The good news is my father's old slightly warped prog rock records are finally getting a lot of use.

New comment by lifefeed in "In praise of the hundred page idea"

lifefeed — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:59:21 +0000

I think this author is talking about a subset of non-fiction books, and we may as well call them "non-fiction idea" books, where the writer has a single idea they want to convince you of. On Tyranny does that. And sure, maybe books like Checklist Manifesto and The Goal could have been reduced to a hundred tight pages.

The hundred page idea definitely doesn't apply to non-fiction in general though. I can't imagine a history book or a biography covering what they need in a hundred pages. I don't think Chip War could be reduced.

What Makes Punctuation So Confusing? [pdf]

lifefeed — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://textrhet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/whatmakespunctuationconfusing.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42452411

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lifefeed in "Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others"

lifefeed — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:08:33 +0000

try propelauth, for example https://www.propelauth.com/post/chrome-extension-authenticat...

New comment by lifefeed in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

lifefeed — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:50:51 +0000

Having a pocket-sized wifi-only kindle is what saves me from doomscrolling. Instead of spending god-only knows how many hours a week on social media, I read. It's an mental health game changer.