Hacker News: miccah

New comment by miccah in "Habits I've developed for fast and efficient programming"

miccah — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 09:53:32 +0000

+1 for zsh-autosuggestions. It is the most important plugin I use because all I have to do is remember the first 2 characters of a command to get the suggestion and autofill it on the command line. It saves so much time and frees up space in my head for more important things to remember.

New comment by miccah in "Show HN: Result monad for Elixir inspired by Rust Result type"

miccah — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:21:28 +0000

As a Rustacean currently learning Elixir, I found myself wanting this exact functionality. Kudos for making this, I'll definitely use it!

New comment by miccah in "Ask HN: Have you learned / tried to learn Vim? How did you approach it?"

miccah — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:08:20 +0000

Immersion. The fastest way to get through the "practice hump" is to accept the dip in productivity and keep learning. No turning back to your old method. The same applied when I learned the Dvorak keyboard layout, and I presume the same applies for language learning among other examples.

For vim specifically, I think mode changes are the most important to learn first. Past that, it's building muscle memory for all the keybinds (and actually discovering the keybinds).

Exercism is now the official Go Mentoring Platform

miccah — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://exercism.org/blog/exercism-is-the-official-go-mentoring-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28828841

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by miccah in "Computer Engineering for Babies Book"

miccah — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:13:57 +0000

Nice job! From the video it looks like many of the pages share the same buttons. I'm curious how you detect which page is open to operate the corresponding circuit?

New comment by miccah in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)"

miccah — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:46:20 +0000

  Location: Houston, TX
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Possibly
  Technologies: Rust, GoLang, Linux, etc.
  Résumé/CV: Upon request
  Email: hn at miccah.io

I'm most interested in security and embedded systems. I love learning and am happy to do so on the job.

New comment by miccah in "Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities"

miccah — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 13:53:56 +0000

I'm happy to hear this statistic, but American cities need to change so much to make it happen - mainly removing cars as other commenters pointed out. A good start would be making public transportation more available through buses and trains, followed by limiting cars in already more walkable areas of the city.

Not Just Bikes is a great YouTube channel that explores city planning and often compares American cities to cities in the Netherlands. He has a video on Strong Towns as well.

https://youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes

New comment by miccah in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021)"

miccah — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:37:32 +0000

  Location: Houston, TX (US)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Rust, GoLang, C, Linux
  Résumé/CV: Upon request
  Email: hn [at] miccah.io
  Hours: 15-25 hours/week

Looking for part time remote work, preferably in systems / backend / CLI environment. I very much enjoy working on open source projects, security, hardware, and tooling. I'm adaptible, learn pretty quickly, and I am easy going.

New comment by miccah in "Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend"

miccah — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:21:55 +0000

Does anyone have a good resource on writing compiled languages? I'd like to join this Jam but I don't know where to start.

Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86 (2018) [video]

miccah — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:51:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28017663

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by miccah in "Ask HN: Easiest way to make simple web animations?"

miccah — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 12:34:35 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion! Through that search I found this HN post comparing most of the popular animation libraries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23083730

Ask HN: Easiest way to make simple web animations?

miccah — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:44:33 +0000

I want to create very simple interactive animations for some blog posts (hosted statically). What is the easiest way to go about doing this? I have tried using HTML Canvas but my gut tells me there is a better solution that may already exist.

As an example, I would like to create an animation displaying current flow through a transistor. The user can turn the gate on and off to see the electrons stop and start moving.

Thanks in advance!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27562035

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by miccah in "Ask HN: Would you introduce someone to programing"

miccah — Wed, 26 May 2021 02:19:42 +0000

I agree. The process of programming involves a lot of "head hitting the wall." Having a goal helps you stay motivated when running into such tedious issues.

New comment by miccah in "Ask HN: Tech workers; what remarkably non-tech things do you enjoy doing?"

miccah — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:37:55 +0000

All the parkour I do is at ground level (no rooftops), but even still running and jumping at walls can be dangerous if you slip. All of my injuries since starting 7 months ago have come from slipping on a thin landing (like a rail) and banging my shins on it.

That being said, the great thing about parkour is there are no rules. You can practice only at indoor gyms if you like, or do slower movements. Personally, all the jumps I attempt I'm 95% certain I can do them.

So, yes, it can be dangerous, but at the end of the day it's your choice in how you practice. Feel free to e-mail me if you want to chat more :)

New comment by miccah in "Ask HN: Tech workers; what remarkably non-tech things do you enjoy doing?"

miccah — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 23:58:19 +0000

Parkour.

It's great physical exercise, I get to spend time outside, set challenges / gradually achieve them, and express my creativity through movement.

New comment by miccah in "How I made a profitable Vim course"

miccah — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:53:42 +0000

Congratulations, Slip looks awesome as well! I see only 5 languages are supported right now. Do you have any plans on adding more?

New comment by miccah in "Increasing my contribution to Zig to $200/mo"

miccah — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 03:24:21 +0000

This quote about the V programming language surprised me, because I had the exact opposite experience.

> it was the unfriendly community I came across, the controversy surrounding it, and the secretive nature of the project that made me lose faith in its promise.

I know V has some controversy around it, but the community has always been open and kind in my experience.

New comment by miccah in "“username or password incorrect” is bullshit"

miccah — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:21:32 +0000

The vulnerability lies in the registration page disclosing that information. To show absolutely no signs, you would accept the registration with a message: "An email has been sent to the provided address."

Obviously this is less convenient and arguably not a critical vulnerability for GitHub. The good news is, the registration page doesn't disclose which account an email address is associated with.

New comment by miccah in "Ask HN: Resources for Learning Idiomatic Rust?"

miccah — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:00:31 +0000

I was in a similar position a few months ago. After reading the Rust Book, I felt I knew the concepts but still lacked the experience of writing Rust programs.

That being said, I have found the Rust track on exercism.io the best way for me to become more proficient with the language. It is great working through a challenge, getting mentor feedback, and also seeing how others solved the same problem.

New comment by miccah in "Organizations Using the D Language"

miccah — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:30:03 +0000

Take a look at V. It's like the love child of Rust and Go. It's extremely fast (both compiling and executing), has simple syntax with "one way to do things", has sum types and option/results with enforced error checking, and it even has a REPL.

Oh not to mention it has C interoperability and a native cross-platform GUI library.

https://vlang.io/