Hacker News: mac9

New comment by mac9 in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

mac9 — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:56:40 +0000

I have found `mise` to be a pretty good way to install tooling https://github.com/cybernetics/mise-en-place

New comment by mac9 in "Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search"

mac9 — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:43:54 +0000

This is an interesting concept, how do editors like this fair for writing code though?

New comment by mac9 in "Zod 4"

mac9 — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:09:11 +0000

The little animation that highlights what section you are reading currently is beautiful

New comment by mac9 in "A Tiny Boltzmann Machine"

mac9 — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:39:35 +0000

"font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";"

from the css so odds are it's whatever your browser or OS's default sans font is, in my case it's SF Pro which is an Apple font though it may vary if you use a non Apple device.

New comment by mac9 in "An appeal to Apple from Anukari"

mac9 — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:54:27 +0000

Some of them probably do... This is still a funny comment though

New comment by mac9 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

mac9 — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:34:31 +0000

A static site generation library in Swift.

New comment by mac9 in "Deno's Decline"

mac9 — Fri, 02 May 2025 11:43:07 +0000

For me Deno as a technology is great, the development of Fresh has been slow indeed however it is such a clean and effective way to write modern web applications. With KV built-in and deploy you don't really need to install anything other than the core fresh dependencies.

New comment by mac9 in "Deno's Decline"

mac9 — Fri, 02 May 2025 11:35:20 +0000

To clarify KV uses SQLite in development but FoundationDB when deployed to Deno Deploy.