Hacker News: mud_dauber

New comment by mud_dauber in "RF Cafe"

mud_dauber — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:58:38 +0000

Old school Japanese sites - same vibe.

New comment by mud_dauber in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"

mud_dauber — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:07:37 +0000

I previously asked ChatGPT (albeit several months ago), as an experiment, to answer some general questions in the voice of Don Rickles. I’m hoping this capability somehow survives.

New comment by mud_dauber in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

mud_dauber — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:16:16 +0000

Don’t pass up Marfa Burrito, just off Highland Ave. Gigantic and extremely good. It’s a cool town on the edge of nowhere.

New comment by mud_dauber in "The seven programming ur-languages (2022)"

mud_dauber — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:03:52 +0000

It did my heart good to see Forth listed.

New comment by mud_dauber in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

mud_dauber — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:32:09 +0000

Location: Charleston WV

Remote: yes (reluctantly)

Relocate: no (elderly parents)

Technologies: semiconductors, rails, bash, python

Resume: LinkedIn.com/in/brianpiercy - bjpcjp@gmail.com

I’m in WV helping my parents. That workload has diminished over the last year, and I need a purpose.

I spent 30+ years at Freescale Semi, GSI Semi, AMD and a couple of startups. PM, operations, supply chain, SW development.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

New comment by mud_dauber in "Eat Real Food"

mud_dauber — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:56:21 +0000

I'd almost pay attention to the message, but Kennedy has no credibility with me. Giving up 90% of animal protein has made me leaner with vastly lower cholesterol.

New comment by mud_dauber in "27M Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing"

mud_dauber — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:44:43 +0000

Sounds like a good reason to not invest in parking garages.

New comment by mud_dauber in "California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month"

mud_dauber — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:07:02 +0000

Meanwhile over here in WV, we are saddled with above-market electricity rates thanks to our state (non-)regulatory commission and a desire to keep old coal-fired generators operating. It drives us nuts.

New comment by mud_dauber in "The Beer Can (2023)"

mud_dauber — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:22:41 +0000

R.J. MacReady approves this sentiment.

New comment by mud_dauber in "The Unforgotten"

mud_dauber — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:43:38 +0000

It’s an incredible piece of writing.

New comment by mud_dauber in "Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance"

mud_dauber — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:43:03 +0000

his notes are EXACTLY my experience. bookmark it.

New comment by mud_dauber in "The append-and-review note"

mud_dauber — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:54:14 +0000

I use RememberTheMilk for this work - especially the notes feature for appending thoughts. Giving items a due date ensures I need to review things.

New comment by mud_dauber in "Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?"

mud_dauber — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:52:22 +0000

Raindrop

New comment by mud_dauber in "Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)"

mud_dauber — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 01:43:42 +0000

Kinda surprised to not see Forth listed.

New comment by mud_dauber in "OpenEoX to Standardize End-of-Life (EOL) and End-of-Support (EOS) Information"

mud_dauber — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:35:49 +0000

JEDEC has long maintained an EOL/EOS standard for semiconductors. This was a big part of a previous PM gig. Sounds boring, and it was. But having a process kept us out of serious hot water.

New comment by mud_dauber in "When flat rate movers won't answer your calls"

mud_dauber — Sun, 04 May 2025 00:54:44 +0000

Boy, if robotics could learn how to bubble wrap, tape, box and stack both hard and soft items… They could hitch a ride on the back of a panel truck. Somewhat similar to forklifts on the tails of Home Depot delivery trucks.

New comment by mud_dauber in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

mud_dauber — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:41:49 +0000

Not exactly Nobel worthy. :-)

I’m rebuilding a learning library. Webpage bookmarks (with big help from raindrop.io), PDFs (hundreds of them, mostly book chapters), images, jupyter notebooks, markdowns, etc. using a Jekyll static site generator to minimize the tech stack hairballs.

The interesting part is that nearly all of the content is tagged to associate with two or more domains ex:

Goodreads-history-truecrime

PyTorch-Jupyter

Rubyonrails-Testing

Behavior-Gaslighting

Semiconductors-GPUs

And so on.

It’s an exercise in taxonomy creation. Searching by tag doesn’t quite get it. And we all know PDF auto summaries are tough.

I’m not expecting anybody to be impressed. It keeps me occupied while learning how to be (unfortunately) retired.

New comment by mud_dauber in "I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language"

mud_dauber — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:10:07 +0000

It certainly was for me. I learned how to build Forth on my Commodore.

New comment by mud_dauber in "Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?"

mud_dauber — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:00:43 +0000

I’m hesitant to simply say “read this”, but please consider The Mom Test. It’s a quick read & teaches how to structure conversations with potential customers.

New comment by mud_dauber in "My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)"

mud_dauber — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 18:19:09 +0000

I got a taste for this years ago at Harris Semi. Grokking their RTX microcontrollers was a ton of fun. (Not so much for customers, who'd never seen such a thing.)