Hacker News: mostafah

New comment by mostafah in "An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode"

mostafah — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:34:43 +0000

Richard is amazing. I briefly worked with him while volunteering on a W3C text layout requirements document. He cares deeply about writing systems, and he has been doing so much valuable work in this space.

New comment by mostafah in "Koto Programming Language"

mostafah — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:05:22 +0000

I agree. Emacs and its Emacs Lisp are one of the best examples of this design. Thank you for the links.

New comment by mostafah in "Koto Programming Language"

mostafah — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:07:54 +0000

Very cool. I really like the idea of implementing higher level features as extensions on top of a smaller core. I wish real scripting languages like this were more common and in use. Lua comes to mind when thinking about a generic scripting language, but even that is not that widespread.

New comment by mostafah in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

mostafah — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:38:52 +0000

My guess is that he was consulting their lawyers during this. IANAL but it might have been a crime if he did not leave the group as soon as he was sure it was real. He keeps mentioning that he was not certain this is real until the first attacks. After the first attack, he could not continue this argument.

Zed Icons, for communication beyond language

mostafah — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.typotheque.com/blog/zed-icons-for-communication-beyond-language

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938413

Points: 18

# Comments: 4

Introducing the Vlt Package Manager and Serverless Registry

mostafah — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.vlt.sh/blog/introducing-vlt-and-vsr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42119567

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New requirement for app updates in the European Union

mostafah — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:42:17 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=yfacfeal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873549

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Other Unix Products

mostafah — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:25:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.levenez.com/unix/other/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41098319

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mostafah in "Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript"

mostafah — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:03:13 +0000

Thank you a lot. Great work. I know it’s still experimental, but over time it will have a big impact on developer experience and will simplify the development workflow for a lot of projects.

Score joins the CNCF as a Sandbox project

mostafah — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://score.dev/blog/score-joins-the-cncf-as-a-sandbox-project

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40946817

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mostafah in "iTerm2 3.5.0"

mostafah — Tue, 21 May 2024 10:31:14 +0000

Genuine question from iTerm users: which of its many, many features do you use most and find most valuable? I have always had it installed, but Terminal.app from macOS seems to have been enough for me. Maybe because I’m always using tmux anyway and that covers some of iTerm’s advantages. But I’m still curious about iTerm.

A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode

mostafah — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/james-stoup/emacs-org-mode-tutorial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40356331

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by mostafah in "Incident with Issues and Pull Requests"

mostafah — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:37:20 +0000

It started for me a few minutes before the status page showed something. Which is understandable, of course.

But strange that it keeps happening almost every day now.

New comment by mostafah in "Conway’s Law (2022)"

mostafah — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:51:26 +0000

A funny and insightful example I’ve heard is that if you assign three teams to develop a compile you will have a three-pass compiler.

New comment by mostafah in "Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares"

mostafah — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 08:36:30 +0000

I’ve been a Fastmail user for about a decade (I just checked; wow!) and am very, very happy with them. I wish more companies were like them. The service is very reliable, the product is great, their support is amazing and very kind. A lot of companies get distracted by big pivots and hyper-growth ideas, while companies like Fastmail focus on doing their main job very well.