Hacker News: mjbamford

New comment by mjbamford in "Bill Atkinson has died"

mjbamford — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:25:57 +0000

I never met Bill, and he never knew I existed, but he has had such a huge impact on my career, my family and my prosperity. I started my programming passion on the Apple II and switch to the Mac in 1984 after seeing MacPaint. Hypercard was very impactful on my logical thinking, paraded the incredibility of possibilities from this machine, and taught me how to conceptualise information. His humble efforts have had such a profound affect. I'm so very full of grief upon hearing this news.

New comment by mjbamford in "Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read"

mjbamford — Tue, 13 May 2025 02:15:46 +0000

Very helpful example.

New comment by mjbamford in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

mjbamford — Fri, 10 May 2024 07:38:03 +0000

I have been an Apple user since June 1983, and have repeatedly sung the praises of the company, its technology and its vision for decades to friends, family employers and employees. Some of my own identify is strangely drawn from being an Apple aficionado for so long. Personally, this ad was very disappointing, very crushing - to purposefully destroy instruments of creativity is rudely incongruous to my understand of the meaning of Apple.

New comment by mjbamford in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

mjbamford — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 04:49:06 +0000

I've just discovered git-fuzzy - it's fantastic! I missed its announcement on Hacker News some 3 years ago. Thanks for highlighting it in this thread!

New comment by mjbamford in "Heroku Status – Dashboard/API Offline"

mjbamford — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:05:25 +0000

After the large pricing increases, the dumping of free apps, the lack of a facility to deploy to local (e.g. asia-pacific) regions without a "private space", and the astronomical prices for these private spaces, plus the complete lack of innovation, it's time for me to move on and learn a new vendor's offerings. Truly the last straw. Once a successful startup is purchased by one of these legacy giants, it really is the forbidding end of the invention that made the startup a winner to begin with.

Elon Musk Celebrates the Falcon Heavy Launch

mjbamford — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:14:09 +0000

Article URL: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/elon-musk-reacts-spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-space-science/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16363961

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Building Small Apps with React and Cerebro

mjbamford — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 23:20:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/BrainMaestro/primer/blob/master/react/building-small-apps-with-react-cerebro.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13972693

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mjbamford in "Apple pulled Dash from the App Store for “review manipulation”"

mjbamford — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 01:27:13 +0000

Apple, how on earth is this good for existing customers? You're not protecting us - you're discouraging us. We've paid for the application and now can't get access to it. If there's an alternative channel, I'll never buy from an Apple app store again.