Hacker News: mdswanson

New comment by mdswanson in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

mdswanson — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:23:04 +0000

FYI that if you have the right kind of Dell monitor, you can download their Display Manager software to do the same thing (and more): https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/ddpm

New comment by mdswanson in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

mdswanson — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:18:51 +0000

I refer to this as "disposable architecture." Not that architecture doesn't matter, but that the architecture that worked yesterday doesn't necessarily need to be the architecture that works today.

New comment by mdswanson in "Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering"

mdswanson — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:30:58 +0000

https://x.com/anyware/status/2022116613559091241?s=20

New comment by mdswanson in "The Last Quiet Thing"

mdswanson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:03:28 +0000

Sounds like: https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/

New comment by mdswanson in "Descent, ported to the web"

mdswanson — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:18:23 +0000

Yeah. Same. Looked all over for an option to flip the controls!

New comment by mdswanson in "Shades of Halftone"

mdswanson — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:08:20 +0000

Fantastic article! I went down this same rabbit hole in 2011 and built a shader for my iOS app called "Halftone." It took the CMYK route and included factors like ink bleed, paper texture, etc. It was the whole reason for the app! Yet...I received constant e-mail from users who asked "how do I remove the dots?"

Software Interruptions Became Normalized

mdswanson — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:32:56 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791093

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by mdswanson in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

mdswanson — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:46:40 +0000

Over the past year or so, I've built my own system of agents that behaves almost exactly like this. I can describe what I'd like built before I go to bed and have a fantastic foundation in place by the next day. For simpler projects, they'll be complete. Because of the reviews, the code continually improves until the agents are satisfied. I'm impressed every time.

New comment by mdswanson in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

mdswanson — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:59:01 +0000

Also much lower power and heat.

New comment by mdswanson in "Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends"

mdswanson — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:08:16 +0000

Another BirdNET option if you don't want to build your own: https://www.birdweather.com/

New comment by mdswanson in "Aphantasia and Psychedelics"

mdswanson — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:46:26 +0000

An aphantasia "beginner's guide" for those who aren't familiar or just want to learn more: https://aphantasia.com/guide/

New comment by mdswanson in "Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015)"

mdswanson — Thu, 29 May 2025 20:47:40 +0000

Not too many steps away from this: https://blog.mikeswanson.com/spatial/

New comment by mdswanson in "Apple is open sourcing Swift Build"

mdswanson — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:36:19 +0000

Tim is a unicorn.

763-Day Legal Quest Against a Call of Duty Permanent Ban

mdswanson — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:32:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/call-of-duty/for-cods-sake-one-players-763-day-legal-quest-to-make-activision-unban-their-account-ends-in-total-success-worth-the-effort/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867171

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdswanson in "Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat"

mdswanson — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:18:40 +0000

A 2-year legal battle with Activision to overturn a false permanent ban. Activision showed up with zero evidence of cheating and lost: https://antiblizzard.win/2025/01/18/my-two-year-fight-agains...

2-Year Call of Duty False Permanent Ban Reversed by Court Case

mdswanson — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:21:22 +0000

Article URL: https://antiblizzard.win/2025/01/18/my-two-year-fight-against-activisions-false-cod-ban-unbanned/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42750684

Points: 70

# Comments: 32

New comment by mdswanson in "Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro"

mdswanson — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:36:43 +0000

Unfortunately not. I hope we learn more before WWDC25!

New comment by mdswanson in "Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro"

mdswanson — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:26:57 +0000

Thanks! Indeed, there are other formats (like OMAF) that describe some of this. In fact, I helped to author one a long while back called OPF.

New comment by mdswanson in "Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro"

mdswanson — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:25:41 +0000

Thank you! I really appreciate the feedback.

New comment by mdswanson in "Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro"

mdswanson — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:43:12 +0000

I've described what kind of video this camera is intended to capture: https://blog.mikeswanson.com/apples-mysterious-fisheye-proje...