Hacker News: martydill

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

martydill — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:05:33 +0000

My fun but ridiculous project is reverse engineering as much of Wizardry VI as I can: https://github.com/martydill/Wizardry-6-reverse-engineering

This is the type of project that I never would have started in the first place if not for LLMs.

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

martydill — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:01:57 +0000

I'm having fun playing around with AI by building a coding agent with both a CLI mode and a web UI https://github.com/martydill/flexorama.

Building something is a nice break from the corporate world.

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)"

martydill — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:15:04 +0000

Location: BC, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: C#, .NET, F#, iOS, Python, C++

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/marty

Github: http://github.com/martydill/

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/184630/marty-dill

Email: martyATcode-ninjaDOTorg

10 years of experience, primarily in the .NET world. Desktop and server as well as web experience. Degree in Computer Science. Experience working with distributed teams as well as working remotely for a centralized team.

New comment by martydill in "Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)"

martydill — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:32:08 +0000

You are right on the money with regards to the changes, but the timeline is a bit off. All FB apps created after April 30 automatically get all the new stuff (whether they want it or not). Existing apps have April 2015 to switch to the new system. So, the outage is probably unrelated to to the new stuff.

Source: I'm a FB app developer who is seriously affected by the Login and Graph API 2.0 changes.

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?"

martydill — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:50:08 +0000

I'd work on my "brilliant but stupid and perhaps useless" idea - automatically generating web apps from desktop apps, in realtime (i.e. as you use the web app, it's really controlling the desktop app behind the scenes).

New comment by martydill in "Poll: Where do you host your production environments?"

martydill — Sat, 24 May 2014 00:21:54 +0000

Yup, exactly this. My own startups are running on Azure thanks to BizSpark, and so is my full-time job. It's a pretty ridiculous amount of free stuff.

New comment by martydill in "Microsoft Azure: Cutting prices on compute and storage"

martydill — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:24:34 +0000

Yup, graduation is now completely free.

New comment by martydill in "Customer Reviews and Ratings for Apple 85W MagSafe Power Adapter"

martydill — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:33:37 +0000

Heck, it's been a problem since 2002. My G3 800 iBook's power adapter literally went up in smoke.

New comment by martydill in "How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven"

martydill — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:30:01 +0000

This has been an issue as far back as a decade ago with G3 iBooks. I had my G3 800's logic board replaced twice under warranty, but it failed again after that. The 'hot coin on the gpu' trick solved the problem, albeit temporarily.

http://forums.macnn.com/69/mac-notebooks/210232/diy-ibook-du...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#Quality_issues

New comment by martydill in "Poll: Is your startup or side project profitable?"

martydill — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 20:08:32 +0000

Sadly, no. Neither http://reminderhero.com or http://surveylitics.com are profitable. And that's not because of high costs - it's because of a lack of sales and customers :)

I think I need more appealing landing pages and better web design in general.

New comment by martydill in "Mono 3.2.7 is out"

martydill — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:13:16 +0000

I started something along these lines a while ago. Haven't touched in quite some time though.

https://github.com/martydill/node.fs

New comment by martydill in "Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?"

martydill — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:25:31 +0000

Unlike my previous side project attempts, I do use http://reminderhero.com a few times a week. It's handy for things or times I need to remember.

Show HN: Reminder Hero -- Smart email and SMS reminders

martydill — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:49:27 +0000

Article URL: http://reminderhero.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6871578

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?"

martydill — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:16:28 +0000

Heh, thanks! It's definitely a challenge, and a work in progress. But it's coming along!

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?"

martydill — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 16:49:55 +0000

http://reminderhero.com - an email and SMS reminder service. Currently in beta.

Unlike some of my previous projects (such as http://surveylitics.com), it's cool because it's actually useful. I've been using it for the past month or two for everything and anything I need to remember.

Show HN: Reminder Hero - Automatic e-mail and text message reminders

martydill — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:34:42 +0000

Article URL: http://reminderhero.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6501143

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?"

martydill — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:54:19 +0000

Well, for http://surveylitics.com, they haven't yet. ~50 people have registered for the free plan, or created a free survey, but no paid signups yet. The site's been up for a few months now.

I haven't done much marketing yet, though. Or reaching out to potential users or industries. Or really, any of the things that you're supposed to do... so it's nobody's fault but my own.

There are lots of great tips in this thread. I'll definitely be giving some of them a try.

My Continued Exploration of Javascript with Codecademy

martydill — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:14:40 +0000

Article URL: http://fitnessprogrammer.com/2013/07/08/my-continued-exploration-of-javascript-with-codecademy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6010034

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Deeper Plunge into Javascript with Codecademy: the Beauty of the Switch

martydill — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:02:19 +0000

Article URL: http://fitnessprogrammer.com/2013/07/04/a-deeper-plunge-into-javascript-the-beauty-of-the-switch/

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New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)"

New comment by martydill in "Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)"

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?"

New comment by martydill in "Poll: Where do you host your production environments?"

New comment by martydill in "Microsoft Azure: Cutting prices on compute and storage"

New comment by martydill in "Customer Reviews and Ratings for Apple 85W MagSafe Power Adapter"

New comment by martydill in "How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven"

New comment by martydill in "Poll: Is your startup or side project profitable?"

New comment by martydill in "Mono 3.2.7 is out"

New comment by martydill in "Poll: Do you actually use the product you are working on?"

Show HN: Reminder Hero -- Smart email and SMS reminders

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?"

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?"

Show HN: Reminder Hero - Automatic e-mail and text message reminders

New comment by martydill in "Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?"

My Continued Exploration of Javascript with Codecademy

A Deeper Plunge into Javascript with Codecademy: the Beauty of the Switch

Learning to program: First steps with JavaScript and Codecademy