Hacker News: mcjiggerlog

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

mcjiggerlog — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:15:19 +0000

There's one of Madrid that also dates to 1830 that is insanely impressive, too:

https://www.madrid.es/UnidadesDescentralizadas/UDCMedios/not...

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

mcjiggerlog — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:47:06 +0000

You don't need to do any of that to sign and notarize an app that you are distributing yourself.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Is it a pint?"

mcjiggerlog — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:51:51 +0000

Well, depending on the type of beer, that's intentional. It's not always the faux-pas that it would be to do this when serving cask ale in the UK.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Glaze by Raycast"

mcjiggerlog — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:42:44 +0000

This looks super fun, actually.

I wonder what it is actually building. Tauri apps, maybe?

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

mcjiggerlog — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:52:08 +0000

I've been using Synology Drive to sync Obsidian between different machines and my android phone and it works great. I've never seen a need to use the official sync.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

mcjiggerlog — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:54:56 +0000

No, fortunately in my case it's not tempting at all.

It's easy to see how many people in less advantaged positions would end up selling out, though.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

mcjiggerlog — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:45:13 +0000

I was just having a quick search and the only email I can find that offered a price range up front was for $0.1-0.4 per user, and that was from 2023. So I assume up to a dollar per user these days?

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

mcjiggerlog — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:19:10 +0000

I have published an extension [1] that has 100k+ users and I've probably received hundreds of emails over the years asking me to sell out in one way or another. It's honestly relentless. For that reason I also only trust uBlock Origin, Bitwarden and my own extensions.

I'd also note that all this spam is via the public email address you're forced to add to your extension listing by Google. I don't think I've ever had a single legitimate email sent to it. So yeh, thanks Google.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/old-reddit-redirect...

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

mcjiggerlog — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:24:33 +0000

Not that I know of, unfortunately.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

mcjiggerlog — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:03:41 +0000

At the time there was a bit of momentum behind the idea of mutable torrents: https://torrentfreak.com/mutable-torrents-proposal-makes-bit...

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

mcjiggerlog — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:13:01 +0000

This is cool - I actually worked on something similar way back in the day: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext. It avoided the need to have any kind of intermediary website entirely.

The cool thing was it worked at the browser level using experimental libdweb support, though that has unfortunately since been abandoned. You could literally load URLs like wtp://tomjwatson.com/blog directly in your browser.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

mcjiggerlog — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:33:46 +0000

> With the new WhatsApp interface mandated by the DMA, any BirdyChat user in the EEA will be able to start a chat with any WhatsApp user in the region simply by knowing their phone number.

Unfortunately, as it's been implemented as opt-in on WhatsApp's side, this isn't really true. Honestly that decision alone means it's kinda dead in the water.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Show HN: Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker"

mcjiggerlog — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:14:43 +0000

RIP my phone's speakers. Maybe I should have read the post first..

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

mcjiggerlog — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:33:12 +0000

> Imagine you have an AI button. When you click it, the locally running LLM gets a copy of the web site in the context window, and you get to ask it a prompt, e.g. "summarize this".

They basically already have this feature: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-link-previews-firef...

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Codex Is Live in Zed"

mcjiggerlog — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:07:42 +0000

I tried it out this morning and it felt really rough, unfortunately.

It was super slow (thought I think that applies to CLI Codex too), it wasn't outputting any text explaining what it was trying to achieve, and it started off down a path that made no sense. Claude Code in Zed has some rough edges but it's at least usable.

In terms of GUI agents, Cursor is still a lot nicer experience, IMO. Though I do still prefer just using Claude Code cli, personally.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

mcjiggerlog — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:28:37 +0000

I also received the same phishing email and I only have packages with a few thousand downloads per week.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

mcjiggerlog — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:23:01 +0000

I actually also received this phishing email, also read it while half-asleep after a 6 week break and clicked on it. Luckily I was saved by exactly this - no password suggestion made me double check the domain.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse"

mcjiggerlog — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:10:00 +0000

There oddly seems to be a concerted effort online to paint the UK as some kind of failing police state recently. This narrative seems to have really taken off with some Americans, who now seem completely convinced that the UK government is some kind of totalitarian oppressor who are snatching people off the streets.

Meanwhile, Brits just look on at this narrative wondering what the hell they're talking about. Look, I'm against this legislation too, but if you actually live in the UK or even just consume mainstream British media, you'd soon realise that this narrative that's being pushed is a distortion that doesn't match day to day reality.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "What Is HDR, Anyway?"

mcjiggerlog — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:54:36 +0000

For me this crashed in android webview, android chrome, and android firefox. Impressive.

New comment by mcjiggerlog in "Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news"

mcjiggerlog — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:52:25 +0000

I actually did the same video on desktop and the same answers worked fine! Screenshots of it failing in an android webview, but passing on desktop firefox: https://imgur.com/a/vALlFdH.