Hacker News: maniacalrobot

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

maniacalrobot — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:31:35 +0000

Yep, quick trip in your panther clipper to ross 154, park up and buy everything on the planet.

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

maniacalrobot — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:37:53 +0000

Here’s a simple session switcher: `bind C-a display-popup -E "tmux list-sessions -F '#{session_name}' | fzf --reverse | xargs tmux switch-client -t"`. No plugins, nothing fancy, just works.

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?"

maniacalrobot — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:56:00 +0000

Tmux … lots of tmux with lots of Claude code sessions

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

maniacalrobot — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:58:45 +0000

https://maniacalrobot.co.uk/

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Tmux-devcontainers: Tmux Pluging to manage project devcontainers"

maniacalrobot — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:17:53 +0000

After a few months in development and local testing, it's now time to go live with a Tmux plugin that I have been building in my spare time. tmux-devcontainers is a Tmux plugin to:

- Show the status of the devcontainers for the current workspace - A menu that provides quick access to common commands like starting/restarting/removing devcontainers - A key binding to open a new window and execute a new login shell inside the primary devcontainer.

tmux-devcontainers was built to support my personal development environment. It works for my style of development, and my personal projects which are mostly based around docker-compose configuration. I'm sure there are other Docker configurations that may not fully work, but it is also very early days, and there are plenty of bugs, and new features that I plan to implement. Of cause being open source, I'll always appreciate new issues and Pull Requests.

Github: https://github.com/phil/tmux-devcontainers

Tmux-devcontainers: Tmux Pluging to manage project devcontainers

maniacalrobot — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:17:53 +0000

Article URL: https://maniacalrobot.co.uk/var/2025/08/release-tmux-devcontainers-plugin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972400

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by maniacalrobot in "The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps"

maniacalrobot — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:36:22 +0000

Two games I vividly remember taking notes on: Elite, on the BBC Micro, very handy for tracking prices and ship upgrade availability across systems; and Myst, because … well, Myst

New comment by maniacalrobot in "RealDOOM: Doom Ported to 16-bit Real Mode"

maniacalrobot — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:51:12 +0000

It’s all on the spreadsheet. Use the link text to the spreadsheet, not the href (which is broken). FPS on the 8088 is sub 0.2

New comment by maniacalrobot in "WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser"

maniacalrobot — Fri, 21 May 2021 06:35:29 +0000

Just wait till you try vscode devcontainers with GitHubs new code spaces.

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Angela Merkel blasts Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Trump's account"

maniacalrobot — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:15:18 +0000

Shouldn’t it be “content that they deemed illegal”

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page requests just 21 5xx errors"

maniacalrobot — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:21:15 +0000

gov.uk is a fantastic resource, the team behind it, GDS, should be proud of what they’ve accomplished with it

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Ask HN: What are some of the best life hacks you use?"

maniacalrobot — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:07:37 +0000

Not sure why the need to freeze it, just keep it at boiling temp until you need it

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Cheesemaking tips from the ancients"

maniacalrobot — Sun, 20 May 2018 16:42:22 +0000

it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

New comment by maniacalrobot in "The London Beer Flood (2014)"

maniacalrobot — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:19:12 +0000

The principle beer in the article is a London porter, yet there’s a picture of, what appears to be, a bavaiern style larger. This upsets me

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform"

maniacalrobot — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:56:23 +0000

People hear server-less, and go straight to thinking about hardware … in my mind, server-less apps are missing the "application server" software, or it's extracted away so far as to appear to be the operating system from the server-less functions point of view.

New comment by maniacalrobot in "What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”?"

maniacalrobot — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:11:38 +0000

... And here I was thinking all you needed was six points of reference, and seventh point for the origin

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Ecuador says it has granted nationality to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange"

maniacalrobot — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 13:31:23 +0000

Not really, embassy’s are not the sovereign territory of the foreign country, the land still belongs to the host county, so officially he’s still in Britain, but is protected under the Vienna treaty

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Why the Shipping Forecast Is So Beloved in the UK"

maniacalrobot — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:32:50 +0000

This is one of the reasons I still enjoy listening to test march special on radio 4, even if it meant missing an over from the pavilion end

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Command-line tool that reads a file and injects them as env vars"

maniacalrobot — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 07:41:15 +0000

New comment by maniacalrobot in "Why I started Essential (by Andy Rubin)"

maniacalrobot — Tue, 30 May 2017 21:08:09 +0000

possibly, but there's a reason that why companies such as Apple and Samsung can drive innovation and hardware, and that's by selling you a new phone every 2 years. Where's the repeat market if you only sell one device per customer? Ideologically this is noble, but i don't see a successful business case