Hacker News: mch82

New comment by mch82 in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

mch82 — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:00:57 +0000

Think of it as a collab between two leading open source organizations. Adafruit has contributed a significant amount of open source software and hardware that improves developer experience on microcontrollers, embedded Linux, and Circuit Python.

Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox

mch82 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:13:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/landing/adafruit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231547

Points: 186

# Comments: 86

New comment by mch82 in "After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news"

mch82 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:26:20 +0000

This article is talking about Portal:Current Events on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events). The current events articles are fantastic! Normal newspaper articles are status updates. Current events articles synthesize news to present the current, comprehensive understanding about an event. It’s cool to monitor how current events articles evolve over time.

New comment by mch82 in "After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news"

mch82 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:06:50 +0000

I’m continually impressed by Wikipedia’s quality controls. In my experience people underestimate them.

New comment by mch82 in "Helm 4.0"

mch82 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:26:44 +0000

Can you recommend any articles about minimum scale necessary to make Kubernetes worth it?

New comment by mch82 in "Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics"

mch82 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:50:06 +0000

The mouse actually works quite well with trackpad mode disabled. I’m using an iPhone Mini. One trick: To select a menu option tap-and-hold a menu title then drag to an option and let go to select.

Really cool!

New comment by mch82 in "Ask HN: What are non-social media ways to share photography/art"

mch82 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 04:55:14 +0000

Are there any artist groups in your area? You might like participating in critique groups, meet ups, or entering shows.

New comment by mch82 in "Engineered Addictions"

mch82 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:26:19 +0000

Those interested in this branch of the discussion might find Dave Winer’s blog series about building an open social network on top of the RSS standard worth a read. Here’s one of many posts: http://scripting.com/2025/06/28/211301.html

New comment by mch82 in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

mch82 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:47:45 +0000

“Explain your terms of service to me.”

New comment by mch82 in "Are fantasy games like Dungeons and Dragons a cure for US's loneliness epidemic?"

mch82 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:11:10 +0000

Fully Automated is a Solarpunk RPG game manual with fun game systems for exploring optimistic tech futures, https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/

New comment by mch82 in "Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete"

mch82 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:28:13 +0000

> even seemingly simple systems are infinitely complex. (As Carl Sagan put it: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”)

Wikiquote cites the book “Cosmos” page 218 as the source of this cool quote. https://lccn.loc.gov/80005286

New comment by mch82 in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"

mch82 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:08:46 +0000

Since the website doesn’t have pictures or videos… Is “webtop” a way to package GUI desktop apps in a Docker container so that the only dependencies to run the app are Docker Desktop and a web browser?

New comment by mch82 in "I deleted my social media accounts"

mch82 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:47:26 +0000

By the dictionary definition, yes. However, there are three key differences. (1) People rank the HN feed instead of an algorithm; (2) the incentives of YC, companies, and the HN community seem better aligned; (3) the user experience degrades significantly when posts get too many comments.

New comment by mch82 in "U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules"

mch82 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 03:41:41 +0000

Your point seems spot on to me. We’ve fallen into the trap of differentiating legislation by implementation (technology) instead of job-to-be-done (societal OKRs). Email is just mail is just a way of exchanging letters. Digital packets and analog signals are just ways of sending data over a wire.

New comment by mch82 in "Blogs rot. Wikis wait"

mch82 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:51:57 +0000

Building on your idea, it’s also important to look at how wikis use Mediawiki. Different wikis in the Wikimedia ecosystem apply different sets of patterns appropriate to their size and purpose. Wikivoyage is a useful example of hierarchical information. Wikibooks shows how subpages can be used effectively.

Aside from Mediawiki.org, Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, has written extensively about wiki patterns. He’s also created a reference implementation for a federated wiki that attempts to solve the fork & revision control use cases centralized wikis struggle with. See https://github.com/fedwiki

New comment by mch82 in "Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?"

mch82 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:09:42 +0000

Adafruit has a couple holiday guides based on their Feather boards and NeoPixel lights. https://learn.adafruit.com/festive-feather-holiday-lights/ov...

New comment by mch82 in "Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO"

mch82 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:25:39 +0000

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab

The team that runs this Hacker News comment site also invests in startups from time to time. GitLab did pretty well.

:-)

New comment by mch82 in "Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough"

mch82 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:00:56 +0000

Focus on your docs, code, and blog because they’re under your control. Write for yourself. Write for the people who use your work. Publish smaller chunks of work. Add value to your real network.

X, HN, and other socials are far less important. You have no control over whether the algorithm decides to amplify your content. Most work that’s foundational to society isn’t popular on socials today and won’t ever be. There’s a lottery chance you’ll get picked for amplification. Winning that lottery is great, but playing the lottery is not investing in your future.

New comment by mch82 in "Our First Generalist Policy"

mch82 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 05:34:22 +0000

Your question is great. It’s easy to forget that people are the point, not the tech.

When I was in college, automation was envisioned to reduce injuries to people, increase access to goods, and to create more discretionary time. Somehow we’ve lost the focus on human outcomes.

New comment by mch82 in "Show HN: I built a task manager that separates "do" and "due" dates"

mch82 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:13:04 +0000

Excited to try this out. Will the app edit my iOS calendar, or is it isolated off?

I love that you’re treating tasks as calendar events. Tasks take time, so that’s how it should be.