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New comment by microflash in "Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history"

microflash — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:04:36 +0000

BTW, if you use Nushell, you can opt into sqlite backed shell history and press Cmd+R (or Ctrl+R) for search, all without any specific dependency.

New comment by microflash in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

microflash — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:14:57 +0000

As a very heavy user of IntelliJ and associated family of IDEs, I’d say they are extremely bloated compared to a few years ago. My latest annoyance with IDEA has been extremely slow disk sync. If I edit something outside the IDE, it takes a while to appear in it.

They should cut down the binary size and ship a leaner version without all the bundled plugins. They should improve performance on extremely large projects (both memory and IO).

Although I have let my personal Ultimate subscription expire, I still use it at work because debugger, codenav and autocompletion are still best in class.

New comment by microflash in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

microflash — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:57:07 +0000

I was answering to the storage part. Blacklisting is the attestation part which is definitely a concern. Again, you can use passkeys as a yet another way to login. You can still use passwords. It doesn’t have to be one or other.

New comment by microflash in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

microflash — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:19:54 +0000

It depends on the app you’re using to save passkeys. Use Keepass and it saves the passkeys into kdbx file (similar to SSH keys).

New comment by microflash in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

microflash — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:14:50 +0000

You can store your passkeys in Bitwarden or Keepass vault. Then you can use them through Bitwarden or Keepass apps on any other device. Been using passkeys like this for several years, and it works pretty seamlessly. With Keepass vault, I even have an offline copy as backup.

New comment by microflash in "Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

microflash — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:57:25 +0000

My problem is not with the marketing; they do their own thing all the time. It’s the people who drink the cool-aid and force “the tool” on others who are a problem.

New comment by microflash in "Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

microflash — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:51:23 +0000

To me, “AI is just a tool” argument sounds so fake and hypocritical because that is not how the proponents of AI talk about it. Instead, it is marketed as “the tool” and in some cases, “the only tool”. This completely shifts the incentives, the balance of empowerment and narrative from the users to toolmakers. At that point, AI stops being “a” tool.

New comment by microflash in "How to read more books"

microflash — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:42:02 +0000

> Audiobooks are just a different medium.

When I read I build internal voices of the characters or narrators through the pages as a part of my imagination engaging with the words of the book. With audiobooks this never happens.

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

microflash — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:10:25 +0000

> It's also entirely free with no gotchas.

Not true since it requires you to sign in with Canva account.

New comment by microflash in "Astro 7.0"

microflash — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:22:36 +0000

Unfortunately, I've also come across .astro files that I'm not allowed to touch and yet have to work with them (some internal corporate dinosaur which has not been updated for a while).

For my personal site, it was a 5 minute work, as usual :)

New comment by microflash in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

microflash — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:19:04 +0000

It's Nokia all over again: Having all ingredients for success and yet stubbornly not succeeding.

New comment by microflash in "Astro 7.0"

microflash — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:09:15 +0000

The switch to strict HTML compilation is just not cool, and actively prevents upgrading sites which need to deal with remote content that is not written in strict HTML.

I also wish there could be a general purpose content processing API so I can plug a different format than markdown (such as typst)

New comment by microflash in "Latta Java"

microflash — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:33:27 +0000

IntelliJ has free open-source distribution so you don’t need to pay anything for using it. To each their own, I guess.

New comment by microflash in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

microflash — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:25:59 +0000

https://www.zardui.com

New comment by microflash in "My favorite keyboards"

microflash — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:45:45 +0000

Or PERIBOARD-413 if you need steeper angle. Perixx keyboards are cheap (and you’ll feel this cheapness every time you use them) but that’s why they are so good: a low-barrier entry to try out ergonomic keyboards before moving on to something more premium.

Inkterface, an e-ink faceplate for your Steam Machine

microflash — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:48:57 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamHardware/SteamMachine/inkterface

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774388

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by microflash in "Mojo programming language will become open-source soon"

microflash — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:04:48 +0000

Sorry, should've put this:

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company, who might be only interested in the talent and not what that talent has been doing at Modular.

New comment by microflash in "The Unglamorous Side of Rust Web Development"

microflash — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:59:10 +0000

Out of all the things listed, dependency tree and compile times are the most problematic things I face in Rust projects. As stated at the very end of the article, if you need tighter feedback loop, you might be happier with other languages.

I do feel weird about a major chunk of this article dedicated to ORMs; I guess people think they are still worthwhile, somehow.

New comment by microflash in "Mojo programming language will become open-source soon"

microflash — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:07:33 +0000

It’s now on the whims of Qualcomm, a for-profit company.

New comment by microflash in "Mojo programming language will become open-source soon"

microflash — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:07:12 +0000

Once upon a time, I was looking forward to open source Mojo, but over years that interest has waned. And with latest acquisition event, the entire thing might as well be dead and buried.