Hacker News: markchristian

Axol: Cheerful desktop companion that surfaces alerts from JSON payloads

markchristian — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:26:56 +0000

Article URL: https://roach.github.io/axol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802180

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by markchristian in "Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died"

markchristian — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:21:07 +0000

What a tremendous loss for our industry. Stewart's genuine curiosity was infectious.

New comment by markchristian in "Show HN: The Blots Programming Language"

markchristian — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:30:53 +0000

Super cool! I’ve always wanted to make my own lil language and I’ve always been too intimidated to try.

So Long, ICQ

markchristian — Sun, 26 May 2024 18:49:55 +0000

Article URL: https://writing.markchristian.org/2024/05/26/so-long-icq/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40484442

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by markchristian in "The LaserDisc"

markchristian — Thu, 02 May 2024 01:08:32 +0000

Oh man, let's be friends! Hit me up if you wanna nerd out about LaserDiscs — m@rkchristian.ca. I have a pretty decent collection (https://markchristian.org/files/laserdiscs.txt — around 200 or so, no specific theme other than "movies I would like to have a copy of").

Have you got a setup going for digitizing these things? I've got a pitch reel on LaserDisc for a 1991 interactive TV startup that I'd love to preserve before it bitrots.

New comment by markchristian in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

markchristian — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:47:36 +0000

I love your stuff! As a FastMail user I have to read it in my alternative browser lest I destroy my autocomplete, though. :D

Anyhow; thanks for everything you make! I hope your face is feeling better these days.

Ask HN: I'd like to start reading the Linux source code. Where should I start?

markchristian — Mon, 22 May 2023 04:55:28 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36027606

Points: 27

# Comments: 13

New comment by markchristian in "The Unholy Saga of Phoenix Hyperspace"

markchristian — Fri, 19 May 2023 19:03:55 +0000

Hilariously, I had no idea that this was his site. TIL!

Wither Offline Mode?

markchristian — Fri, 19 May 2023 19:01:43 +0000

Article URL: https://writing.markchristian.org/2023/05/09/wither-offline-mode/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36005630

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Unholy Saga of Phoenix Hyperspace

markchristian — Thu, 18 May 2023 18:32:42 +0000

Article URL: https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992176

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

Lessons learned adding network multiplayer to a web game

markchristian — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:06:37 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/13jonqh/some_things_i_learned_retrofitting_a_browserbased/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35979769

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Saying “sup” with `net send`

markchristian — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 04:47:07 +0000

Article URL: https://drew.shoes/posts/sup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34157636

Points: 497

# Comments: 140

Dev blog exploring retro (Windows 95) computer virus development

markchristian — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 04:05:40 +0000

Article URL: https://log.vexation.ca

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33016195

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Fortran: The Board Game

markchristian — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:17:17 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/chipx86/status/1562211008608813056

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32574925

Points: 18

# Comments: 0

List of Interface Bit Rates

markchristian — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 06:37:06 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interface_bit_rates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32408446

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Entry-level customer success jobs for career switcher?

markchristian — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 23:02:28 +0000

Howdy, y'all!

A friend of mine recently expressed interest in breaking into the customer success field and asked where they'd start, and I had absolutely no idea what to say. All of the places I've worked now do all of their CE hiring outside of the US.

What would you tell them if you were in my position? If anyone happens to know decent companies willing to take the chance on career-switchers, I'd love to hear about them so I can pass it along.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785567

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by markchristian in "Facebook-owned sites were down"

markchristian — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:36:23 +0000

To the communication angle, I've worked at two different BigCo's in my career, and both times there was a fallback system of last resort to use when our primary systems were unavailable.

New comment by markchristian in "Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply"

markchristian — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 21:00:50 +0000

“The wish is granted. Long live Jambi.”

New comment by markchristian in "Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU"

markchristian — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:24:08 +0000

OMG

New comment by markchristian in "Xnu-QEMU-Arm64: iOS on QEMU"

markchristian — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:55:29 +0000

I really wish the opposite of this (QEMU on iOS) existed. The closest I have been able to find is a build of Bochs that doesn't actually work on my iPad. Someday!