Hacker News: martinsb

New comment by martinsb in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

martinsb — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:36:12 +0000

Does Kagi still use Yandex index behind the scenes? If this is true, then certain fraction of the payment goes to Russian Federation and financing its war and genocide in Ukraine. This is the reason I have to refrain from using this otherwise excellent service.

New comment by martinsb in "“Your frustration is the product”"

martinsb — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:44:44 +0000

I really wish that browsers natively supported some sort of "402 Payment Required" HTTP status code (or any other well-known specified indicator) that users could pay with micropayments, so that they wouldn't have to drown us in this ad garbage. I would gladly pay small but justified sum for an article without setting up payment method on each site and be able to return to it. I would be glad even to donate some amount of money to some authority that'd pay for viewership of those less fortunate and not being able to afford reading quality news.

New comment by martinsb in "Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around"

martinsb — Tue, 31 May 2022 07:44:08 +0000

So sorry to hear your story, in some ways I can relate. Others have already given great advices, I don’t have to repeat them by myself. Just one specific thing regarding the “brain fog” you mentioned: check your vitamin, iron, and ferritin levels in your blood. And, of course, rest more, apparently you are holding a company on your single shoulders, you can say no from time to time.

Wishing you all the best and good luck!

New comment by martinsb in "Facebook loses users for the first time"

martinsb — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 08:26:00 +0000

For me, personally, FB just became boring and uninteresting at some point. I sometimes open FB for Marketplace and, I think, this is it. Had no need to go cold turkey and delete the account. I still have it for Messenger which I use as an app both for desktop and mobile because I don’t want to lose touch with my friends, esp. during these times.

New comment by martinsb in "Next Gen Static Blogging"

martinsb — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:13:55 +0000

How well is this handled from the accessibility point of view? I imagine that wrapping text in consecutive “p” tags is semantically clearer, however on the other side it shouldn’t be too hard for any accessibility software to recognize this pattern described in the article.

EDIT: some wording changes.

New comment by martinsb in "The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?"

martinsb — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:14:58 +0000

Re: black screen when using Teams from browser. Check you have environment variables set correctly: XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland and XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway. I set up them in my .zshrc before starting sway. This helped me to fix the black screen issue. Hope it helps you too!

New comment by martinsb in "How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes"

martinsb — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 08:32:30 +0000

From my experience: they end in a situation where nobody is happy - they both try to figure out what is the best for the other person and in the end they both end up in a situation that is not good for both of them. I know, twisted.

New comment by martinsb in "I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS"

martinsb — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:03:11 +0000

Not so ironic any more if we consider Microsoft’s work on WSL in a last couple of years.

New comment by martinsb in "Linux Desktop Setup"

martinsb — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:07:58 +0000

Sadly I'm not able to test this since I'm not running Fedora and GNOME. I'm using sway. Interestingly enough, Zoom change log does not seem to mention anything related to Wayland support: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/205759689-New-Upda.... Thank you for your comment, will try this in GNOME some time.

New comment by martinsb in "Linux Desktop Setup"

martinsb — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:22:06 +0000

Which version are you using right now? I have the latest one and it does not allow me to share anything else than a white canvas. Do you launch zoom somehow differently? For me it behaves like a regular XWayland app

New comment by martinsb in "25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning"

martinsb — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 13:05:06 +0000

I cannot express in words how much I feel I relate to this post. Big thanks to the author of the article and OP for posting it here.

A few thoughts:

* Don't compare yourself to others, nothing, absolutely nothing, good comes out of it. Ever. I know this is especially hard in times when anyone can brag about their accomplishments in a blink of an eye on Twitter, Facebook or anywhere else. Follow those people, learn from them but don't compare yourself to them.

* Even if you did not finish your projects you still have learned something which makes you a better programmer.

* Programming is just a tool. Nobody will care much about your code as long as it does its job - be it a great application, service or a useful library.

* Your job pays your bills, if you earn more than others (a very common case if IT jobs), donate money to charity, to a good cause.

* The author has taught a person to program and he created a website. This is not something to be jealous about, the author should be proud of himself. It sounds to be that the author is a good tutor, maybe there's an opportunity to participate in local meetups, organize workshops or start a career in that direction?

* As others already mentioned, programming is not the only thing in life. Maybe there can be other hobbies like painting, carpentry, or gardening?

EDIT: formatting

New comment by martinsb in "Americans are spending less on clothing"

martinsb — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:09:12 +0000

I think this is very good news. Fast fashion leads to resource and people exploitation. This is great that people use their old clothes and refrain from buying new ones for no other reason than the old ones have become unwearable. (edit: typo)

New comment by martinsb in "XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available"

martinsb — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:42:52 +0000

I have previous generation XPS 13 Developer Edition with hi-res touch screen. I chose the touch screen mainly because of the high resolution it provides however while using it I realized that touch screen can be quite useful sometimes. My best use case is reading long documents while commuting by train with the laptop in my lap. I find swiping with my thumb much more convenient than scrolling or pressing up/down keys. Not that it is a killer feature but still nice to have.

New comment by martinsb in "Using Go Templates"

martinsb — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:42:34 +0000

Regarding (1), os.Executable function introduced relatively recently could make things better for you. https://golang.org/pkg/os/#Executable

New comment by martinsb in "Stali: A new static Linux distribution"

martinsb — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 05:15:05 +0000

It is quite hard to take seriously any project that so much uses word "suck" to describe other projects, i.e., other people work, or their approaches.

New comment by martinsb in "Nvidia CEO: We'll be solving VR immersion problems for the next 20 years"

martinsb — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 07:49:27 +0000

I wander why Huang did not mention -- in my opinion -- the main issue with VR - the fact that many people (including myself) cannot use those headsets for a longer time than say 10 minutes without getting dizzy and sick. Or are these the consequences of those issues he mentioned - like "the physical worlds do not behave according to the laws of physics"?

New comment by martinsb in "Jolla C, a new Sailfish OS phone from Jolla"

martinsb — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:17:19 +0000

To add some (ar least for me) irritating issues:

- frequently restarts for no apparent reason,

- no global copy and paste. I was hoping that would be implemented in 2.0, and I was very disappointed it had not.

Although now I have switched to an Android phone, I wish Jolla best of luck. Hope to try their products in future.