Hacker News: makizar

New comment by makizar in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"

makizar — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:43:50 +0000

Over time I must have spent several dozen hours looking into fonts, but I somehow always end up sticking to Menlo which looks just right to me. But this one looks really good ! I will give it a spin, thanks for sharing.

New comment by makizar in "The Helix Text Editor (2024)"

makizar — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:47:56 +0000

You might want to have a look at Matt Paras’s config. He’s been developping the plugin system using steel, his own scheme interpreter in rust. To send things to the repl, it uses eval-buffer from the helix-ext.scm file.

The integration and customizability is for sure not that of Emacs yet, but with the plugin system soon to be merged, we can hope to have a proper REPL and Parinfer implementation!

https://github.com/mattwparas/helix-config

New comment by makizar in "Clojure MCP"

makizar — Tue, 27 May 2025 21:48:47 +0000

Here's a video with a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F61YWNapxJg

New comment by makizar in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

makizar — Sun, 18 May 2025 19:06:59 +0000

The Maya Angelou quote is a very poor choice. I don't know if the author realizes the absurdity of putting the civil rights movement in parallel with her "PKM journey"

FSZ: Command-line Alfred/Raycast/Rofi replacement and script launcher

makizar — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:46:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Squirreljetpack/fzs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43947911

Points: 2

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New comment by makizar in "Show HN: Torch Lens Maker – Differentiable Geometric Optics in PyTorch"

makizar — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:54:22 +0000

Could you ELI5 what the applications would be ? Could a render engine be built on top of this and hooked up to a DCC like Blender ? Or is this a way to do computational photography, say correct the depth of field of an image of "denoise" it ?

New comment by makizar in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

makizar — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:51:02 +0000

Aha, he's way ahead of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wz7YF2as-c

New comment by makizar in "Pantograph: A Fluid and Typed Structure Editor"

makizar — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:16:56 +0000

(ninth RacketCon): Andrew Blinn - Fructure: A Structured Editing Engine in Racket

https://youtu.be/CnbVCNIh1NA?si=JZxjUdTLbBp6IEaK

New comment by makizar in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

makizar — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:48:26 +0000

source ?

New comment by makizar in "Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"

makizar — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:53:29 +0000

That's a really nice view! Made me think of this map of IP addresses arranged as a Hilbert curve i saw in this Tom7 video: (the rest of the video is wildly good if you haven't seen it) https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio?si=wzFq4p61qYmpT59x&t=360

New comment by makizar in "Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief"

makizar — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:29:47 +0000

The article adresses this:

> Most of the vinyls were packed in boxes or held by relatives and friends before Jula slowly brought them all home

Seems like once she put the collection back together, the order was already lost.

Appart from that, I feel like there is some poetry to her slowly making it her own collection by listening to the records one by one. Kind of like a new like growing from within the records.

New comment by makizar in "Pixelfed Hit 500K Users"

makizar — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:56:17 +0000

Not right now, but it looks like someone is trying to build it on top of Bluesky: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own...

New comment by makizar in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

makizar — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:39:31 +0000

What a beautiful website ! Feels carefully crafted, full of nice moments like the > turning the a - when sections are open in the TOC. Would love to hear more detail on how you went about making it. Did you ever consider sharing parts of the source code ?

New comment by makizar in "What Is the "Mffam" Policy?"

makizar — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:25:03 +0000

> the UX is just so obtuse and pricing unpredictable

Could you explain that in a bit more detail ? I used both OVH, Google Cloud and NFS to host small websites. With OVH and Google, even for small things like setting up DNS I’d get lost in a hellish kafkian maze of help pages, wheras the NFS FAQ is the best one I’ve see. I have yet to find an issue it doesn’t cover. Pricing-wise, I’ve found it pretty transparent, and overall, dirt-cheap.

New comment by makizar in "What Is the "MFFAM" Policy?"

makizar — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:18:03 +0000

I don’t agree, the FAQ answer doesn’t relate « moral alignment » to monetary value. I think it simply states that advocating for free speech doesn’t mean falling into relativism, assigning the same value to all positions and endorsing the most extreme ones. Pretty refreshing in the current context.

New comment by makizar in "Differential Growth Addon for Blender"

makizar — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:56:14 +0000

https://medium.com/@jason.webb/2d-differential-growth-in-js-...

New comment by makizar in "Show HN: Indentation-based syntax for Clojure"

makizar — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:04:33 +0000

The best effort I’ve seen at working around lisp’s parens notation and make its syntax more declarative-looking is Rhombus, which is based on Racket, and actually on track to replace it.

what it looks like:

https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/demo.rhm

more info:

https://doi.org/10.1145/3622818

https://github.com/racket/rhombus

Tiling unique integral squares into a square (1992) [pdf]

makizar — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/2120111/391207.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42266760

Points: 2

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New comment by makizar in "Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)"

makizar — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:29:01 +0000

Went a bit further down the rabbit hole and found the previous devlogs he posted about the topic for anyone interested. [1] [2] Of note was an upsampling algorithm called Scale2X he talked about. [3] Pretty neat !

[1] https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.260 [2] https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121719... [3] https://www.scale2x.it

New comment by makizar in "First scientific study of the Paris catacombs"

makizar — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:23:36 +0000

Architect from Paris here. That’s right, except the mines didn’t cover all of Paris, they were originally outside and eventually built over. [1] The underground networks below Paris are actually said to be even more extensive than the streets and extend many stories deep. These networks are the result of a complex layering of quarries, catacombs, sewers, bunkers, undergound metro, and even waterways [2], large parts of which have been abandoned over time. No public map is available, who knows what else might be hiding there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_of_Paris [2]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Canal_Saint-Marti...