Hacker News: meatcar

New comment by meatcar in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

meatcar — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:23:08 +0000

What if instead of needing to run a codemod to cache per-lib docs locally, documentation could be distributed alongside a given lib, as a dev dependency, version locked, and accessible locally as plaintext. All docs can be linked in node_modules/.docs (like binaries are in .bin). It would be a sort of collection of manuals.

What a wonderful world that would be.

New comment by meatcar in "Navigate your code like it's 2021"

meatcar — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:27:49 +0000

https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM for Gnome is just like that, it's a wonderful concept.

New comment by meatcar in "Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager"

meatcar — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 06:38:11 +0000

You can just not hook direnv into your shell, and use `direnv exec` kind of like pipx.

Tools like asdf, direnv, nix-shell, etc. just encapsulate the environment and help set up some guarantees. The referential transparency of shells is something that these tools help enforce, if anything.

I agree that frequent jumping between the fragmented environments is pain point in software development these days. That's due to a lack of tooling to support the new workflow, in my opinion. I hope enough people feel this pain that we see some solutions.

Having an expressive shell like https://starship.rs helps keep you oriented as a sort of HUD. Nix is definitely a life-saver, but you can probably roll your own nix-a-likes. Encapsulate all the "global" precious tools, hardening them against changes in the "local" shell environment. Whether through wrapper scripts, containerization, or what have you, the building blocks are there, the "best practices" are still being created.

New comment by meatcar in "A Light Box in Heavy Times"

meatcar — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:13:23 +0000

Implementing the Conway's Game of Life on a hexagonal grid could be a fun idea. With a slow enough turn clock, you probably don't need a start/stop button, and can just mash a pattern in with one or two hands quickly and see how it evolves. Another plus is that there probably aren't too many famous hexagonal lifeforms, it would be a fun game for all ages.

This is a great reference for starting to work with hexagonal grids: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

New comment by meatcar in "Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack"

meatcar — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:15:32 +0000

This looks really interesting, I like the focus on developer ergonomics, launching with a fleshed-out tutorial is a nice touch. The deployment story, however, seems to be tied to using Netlify as a hosting platform, which could affect adoption. I understand that that's where the roots of this project lie, are there any plans to decouple Redwood from Netlify to enable the framework to be self-hosted or used with other CI/CDN/FaaS services?

New comment by meatcar in "Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)"

meatcar — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:39:08 +0000

I just want to emphasize that wsltty is the only well-behaving terminal currently available for WSL. It's the only one that supports mouse interaction in a terminal like scrolling/resizing panes in tmux/vim, unlike any Microsoft solution.

If you're using WSL on a regular basis, I highly recommend it. Its a huge quality-of-life improvement.

New comment by meatcar in "Emacs Fireplace"

meatcar — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 02:47:33 +0000

Evil, best of both worlds :)

New comment by meatcar in "Passing the torch"

meatcar — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:33:22 +0000

lobsters@denys.me

New comment by meatcar in "Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address"

meatcar — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:30:10 +0000

Im pretty sure theres a set of standard attributes you can set on fields to make them autocompletable. I use this as a reference: https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Autocomplete_Types

New comment by meatcar in "P&G’s Gillette Sues Dollar Shave Club"

meatcar — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:44:44 +0000

An Omega boar bristle brush goes for <$10 CAD in my neighbourhood drug store. They also stock Proraso shaving soaps/creams, a container of which lasts me a good 1.5-2 years. Boar bristle brushes require a bit of prep to use, see https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked_edge/wiki/brushes#wiki_boar_.... I just throw it in the sink for a soak before I hop in the shower.

As with most things, it's easy to get sucked in and blow $100s on your setup, but you don't have to. I spent <$50 to get started.

New comment by meatcar in "2015 Chromebook Pixel"

meatcar — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:57:44 +0000

> charges via the microUSB port

The HP Chromebook 11 is not USB-C powered.

New comment by meatcar in "Using HyperLogLog to detect voting rings (2013)"

meatcar — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:50:03 +0000

Another solution with similar properties (approximate votes, etc) would involve bloom filters on each post, and the vote counter would only be incremented when a user is not present in the bloom filter, and is immediately added to it.

New comment by meatcar in "Show HN: Dddraft – a fast and beautiful publishing tool"

meatcar — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:52:00 +0000

Give me Github Flavored Markdown and I'm in.

New comment by meatcar in "An experimental real world adblock"

meatcar — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:29:43 +0000

I had the pleasure of taking a course taught by Steve Mann, credited as the inventor of visual computing. I recall he mentioned creating a similar device. Not sure if it ever actually happened, but here's a link that I was able to dig up:

http://wearcam.org/diminished_reality.htm via http://cyborganthropology.com/Diminished_Reality

New comment by meatcar in "Gnod News: Search Hacker News and Reddit Comments"

meatcar — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:19:58 +0000

Looks good, and works good too! It would be nice to see if a particular item is from reddit or hackernews, and maybe what section or subreddit. And perhaps the number of other comments in that thread?

New comment by meatcar in "Trial by Fire: Extreme rituals forge intense social bonds"

meatcar — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:15:39 +0000

Do you mind expanding on your first statement, perhaps with an example? How do you apply something like fire-walking to a software team without breaking some workplace safety and labour laws?

New comment by meatcar in "HN. Let's share Twitter accounts"

meatcar — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:34:46 +0000

https://twitter.com/meatcar

New comment by meatcar in "Unfinished, unfair and brutally difficult"

meatcar — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:40:55 +0000

Kerbal Space Program has a sizeable community, and is single player, and real fun to play.

New comment by meatcar in "Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws"

meatcar — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:21:59 +0000

    if (a && b && c) {
        // Do something.
    }

New comment by meatcar in "Pair programming made easy"

meatcar — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 20:45:34 +0000

Needs time-zones on the times available.