Hacker News: mgerb

New comment by mgerb in "In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information"

mgerb — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:41:01 +0000

Big fan of miniflux with this dark theme https://github.com/catppuccin/miniflux

New comment by mgerb in "Smart garage door controller is no longer smart"

mgerb — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:32:15 +0000

I haven’t previously heard about the ratgdo, but I recently did this myself with an ESP8266, relay, garage door remote, and Tasmota for the firmware. It works flawlessly with MQTT/Homeassistant. The individual components (excluding the opener) are < $10.

New comment by mgerb in "Low-cost Smartwatch powered by ESP32 module"

mgerb — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 05:18:31 +0000

I love this! As a daily user of the F-91W I do on occasion wish it had a few more features, but it mostly satisfies my needs. I love the form factor and the weight. I just wish it at least had a countdown timer.

New comment by mgerb in "Take more screenshots (2022)"

mgerb — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 06:27:39 +0000

It saddens me that I don’t have many screenshots from when I was younger, even if it was just pictures of my desktop. Although I make an effort to take more screenshots these days, I made a simple tool to take screenshots on an interval. I wish I had done something like this 15 years ago.

If anyone is interested: https://github.com/mgerb/mgcapture

New comment by mgerb in "Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions"

mgerb — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 06:56:18 +0000

On mobile replace the “www” with “i” to get something that actually works on a phone. The new mobile site is such horrible user experience in almost every way.

New comment by mgerb in "Notes on My Colon Cancer"

mgerb — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 05:17:44 +0000

27 at the moment and reading this thread has gotten me worried as I have a family history of colon cancer. Both of my parents get checked regularly and have had polyps removed. I wonder if I should just go or if it isn’t realistic to worry about it at my age yet.

New comment by mgerb in "WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC"

mgerb — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:00:45 +0000

Seems to work well sending images from my phone, but please let me select multiple at one time.

New comment by mgerb in "Reddit has become a guide to personal finance"

mgerb — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:25:57 +0000

I've been doing the exact same thing for quite some time now. Google is filled with so many garbage results. For most things I want to see short and sweet answers by real people.

Just yesterday I searched for "index funds vs etf reddit", as I'm really new to any sort of investing. The first reddit result on google has a simplified response that is to the point.

Now try searching google for "index funds vs etf" and the results are littered with investing sites and long lists of information, that is more than likely helpful, but much more verbose.

New comment by mgerb in "SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM"

mgerb — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:09:26 +0000

Maybe they can finally open up their app registration to 3rd party developers now. It has been down for like 3 years.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNxc82RJuzC0DnISat...