Hacker News: mbrezu

New comment by mbrezu in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)"

mbrezu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:25:53 +0000

These sound a little better than I remember. I wonder if the sound was cleaned up?

New comment by mbrezu in "Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?"

mbrezu — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:31:13 +0000

`gdu`, which is like `du` with a TUI.

New comment by mbrezu in "Almighty Lisp"

mbrezu — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:27:30 +0000

Using the Turbo Pascal 6 colors is kind of awesome --- not sure it's intentional, though.

New comment by mbrezu in "Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it"

mbrezu — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:29:42 +0000

I guess the "link" is the implicit suggestion to write your own :-)

New comment by mbrezu in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

mbrezu — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:57:14 +0000

Man, we're old...

New comment by mbrezu in "An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)"

mbrezu — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:27:44 +0000

How long before this is included in an AI benchmark? Can't wait :-)

New comment by mbrezu in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

mbrezu — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:27:51 +0000

Now I would really like to know what these guys think of Omarchy :-D

New comment by mbrezu in "Nebula Sans"

mbrezu — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:16:40 +0000

Look for opentype features in https://practicaltypography.com/. There is more fun stuff, right next to tabular numbers.

And if you want more, there is also https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844....

New comment by mbrezu in "OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback"

mbrezu — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:00:32 +0000

> Let's start with your details

New comment by mbrezu in "How to professionally say (2022)"

mbrezu — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:46:06 +0000

This is such a nice example of high power distance "speak". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_distance

New comment by mbrezu in "Discovery Coding"

mbrezu — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:20:28 +0000

How is this different from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_programming?

New comment by mbrezu in "Ask HN: Recommend me some silent movies"

mbrezu — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 06:08:57 +0000

Yasujiro Ozu, "I was born, but...".

New comment by mbrezu in "Hardest problem in computer science: centering things"

mbrezu — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:19:16 +0000

To some extent, centering is in the eye of the beholder.

New comment by mbrezu in "Show HN: Marimo – an open-source reactive notebook for Python"

mbrezu — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:39:04 +0000

Marimo looks and feels great!

Have you considered adding support for mermaid.js in the markdown? I tried including some mermaid.js in a `mo.md` invocation, but it didn't render the diagram :-)

https://mermaid.js.org/

New comment by mbrezu in "Persuasion through status rather than argument"

mbrezu — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 10:11:07 +0000

plus ça change...

New comment by mbrezu in "Ask HN: How do you organize your life?"

mbrezu — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:49:56 +0000

I use text files. One text file per day, named `yyyy-MM-dd.yml`.

YAML! Shudder! But it's the best way I found to enter Markdown with some metadata at the top.

Each day file has multiple Yaml documents, with ids like `yyyy-MM-dd/number`. I use [ ] for todos and turn them into [x] when they are done. This way, searching/grepping for `[ ]` gives me a list of stuff not done yet. I sometimes have a list of things to do in my day. I move the `[ ]`s to the next day at the end of the current day (or start of the next).

I use Visual Studio Code snippets to enter the metadata.

Example:

    ---
    id: 2023-10-13/1
    links:
    tags:
    project:
    text: |
        This text field is **Markdown**, not **YAML**.

        - first note
            - [ ] todo 1
        - second note

The `links` item points to other notes by id (it's an array).

The idea of having ids with daily counters is from https://www.soenkeahrens.de/en/takesmartnotes.

[edits: formatting the yaml, mention 'how to take smart notes' book, mention that the `text` is Markdown]

New comment by mbrezu in "Launch HN: Noya (YC W23) – a new kind of design tool"

mbrezu — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:30:29 +0000

IMO the end product looking "average" is quite different from the prototype looking "average", and Noya looks great for prototypes/MVPs.

Put differently, Noya feels like an exploration tool. When exploring, tents are fine. They do not provide a lot of comfort, but replacing them with houses while still exploring might not be optimal :-) Personally I don't mind average tents, as long as they don't leak.

EDIT: Hmmm, maybe Noya is actually between a tent (Balsamiq) and a house (Figma) - something like an RV? :-D

JavaScript "macros" via Common Lisp

mbrezu — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:09:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mbrezu/Cheat-JS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4515562

Points: 2

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