Hacker News: medwards666

New comment by medwards666 in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

medwards666 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:18:26 +0000

Awesome. Have starred the repo and will have a look through it later tonight when I'm done with work.

New comment by medwards666 in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

medwards666 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:09:02 +0000

True, that's an option, but a native build would be optimal

New comment by medwards666 in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

medwards666 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:47:01 +0000

Presumably though Canva subscriptions?

Shame it's only Mac/Windows compatible. I'd kill for a Linux build.

New comment by medwards666 in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

medwards666 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:11:35 +0000

I had it several years ago when I was running my own one-man consultancy [ie: self-employed] ... somehow I'd managed to have six or seven people on LI claiming to work for the same company.

Reported them to LI and nothing was ever done about it. Eventually the accounts disappeared as I guess they were either shut down or repurposed.

New comment by medwards666 in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

medwards666 — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:10:16 +0000

Love the closeout of the article: "On page 112 there are coffee stains where the caffeine blots are somehow still a valid Perl program."

New comment by medwards666 in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

medwards666 — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:38:34 +0000

There were a couple of cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall that were _really_ well done. (Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music)

New comment by medwards666 in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

medwards666 — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:34:41 +0000

I read it, and I cried like a baby. Still do whenever I reach for it.

New comment by medwards666 in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

medwards666 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:39:46 +0000

> LN2 had something in a bathroom? You have to position yourself in the doorway and do a squat of faith)

Sounds like every time I go to the bathroom ... :D

New comment by medwards666 in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

medwards666 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:50:23 +0000

I get the same. Work has shifted to being agentic first - and whenever I use anything other than Claude Opus it seems that the model easily gets lost spinning its wheels on even the simplest query - especially with some of our more complex codebases, whereas Opus manages to not only reason adequately about the codebase, but also can produce decent quality code/tests in fairly short order.

Oddly though, when using at home I'm using Sonnet via the standard chat interface and that, whilst it will produce substandard code in its output is still reasonably capable - even in more niche tasks. Granted though that my personal projects are far simpler than the codebase I handle at work.

New comment by medwards666 in "Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents"

medwards666 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:54:42 +0000

> "I think it depends on what you find enjoyable"

Exactly this. I use agents every day to either produce tests for code I've written according to the guidelines I set out for it, or to produce the boilerplate code (which is seldom enjoyable) before I get to add the cool stuff.

Furthermore, when I inevitably get stuck on a thornier section of new code, or revisiting a codebase which I've not investigated for some time, I can use the agent to provide ideas and suggestions of where/how to start/get unstuck.

Like any tool - it's how you apply it to the job in hand (and ensuring the job is relevant) that counts.

That, and never 100% trusting the output.

New comment by medwards666 in "Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal"

medwards666 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:16:11 +0000

Cannabis in the UK is still illegal, so unless you're picking up weed from your local dealer, it's not a big thing outside the home.

But price of booze is killing pubs here. Getting close to £8 a pint now in London. £10 for a pint of Guinness in many bars.

New comment by medwards666 in "Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape"

medwards666 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:40:57 +0000

They're mentioned in the article (with a photo)

New comment by medwards666 in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

medwards666 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:20:14 +0000

I always thought the internals were encased in potting compound for these things to prevent exactly this scenario (certainly the ones I had for LightWave back in the day were)...

New comment by medwards666 in "Ask HN: How did you learn to code?"

medwards666 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:06:58 +0000

Copying listings from computer magazines into a ZX81 ... could never get the damn tape drive to save anything that would then reload (either a cheap tape deck, or cheap tapes)... so had no choice but to hand-code.

Also, didn't have the cash to go buy games from the local computer store so this was the next best thing...

New comment by medwards666 in "Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)"

medwards666 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:36:07 +0000

You could try the new remake of Avernum 4: Greed & Glory (first part of the second Avernum trilogy - no need to have played the first trilogy as this is entirely standalone): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3882020/Avernum_4_Greed_a...

New comment by medwards666 in "You have reached the end of the internet (2006)"

medwards666 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:33:47 +0000

Geez ... that's a heckuvalotta pron consumption ...

New comment by medwards666 in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

medwards666 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:49:34 +0000

> How hard is that to fix? Aren't they using CoPilot? Just ask it to fix the invisible icon.

They would, but no-one in the development team are able to log into their PCs due to no longer being able to locate the password icon ...

New comment by medwards666 in "Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem"

medwards666 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:02:11 +0000

This was also similar to my first thought.

Damn. I want pizza now as well...

New comment by medwards666 in "Update and shut down no longer restarts PC, 25H2 patch addresses decades-old bug"

medwards666 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:05:34 +0000

No, the truth of the matter is they needed Copilot in there to analyse and identify the bug for them. And then write the code to fix it...

New comment by medwards666 in "The Debugging Book"

medwards666 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:15:59 +0000

No, but it is an odd trend I’ve noticed on several websites recently, and from an accessibility standpoint is something that should be addressed for any public facing site.