Hacker News: news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=news_to_meHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:22:31 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Melonking Website"]]>Here's Seattle's version of that: https://www.dinostomatopie.com

]]>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:30:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869100news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869100https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869100<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025)"]]>SEEKING WORK / Seattle / Remote

I'm a freelance full-stack web developer in Seattle. I've worked with clients on several Elixir web projects ranging from geography-based census data analytics to processing state COVID test results. I've also have experience with Node.js, Django, and React.

In 2023, as a side project, I created a small functional language called Cassette <https://cassette-lang.com>. Now I’m developing an S3 app for a classic Macintosh.

https://zjm.me | z@zjm.me

]]>Fri, 02 May 2025 01:10:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865170news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865170https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43865170<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "I bought a Mac"]]>Yeah it’s good general advice to always discharge the CRT. Although… the flyback transformer on most of these Macs has a bleeder resistor, so I skip it when I’m lazy now.

]]>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:12:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677981news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677981<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "I bought a Mac"]]>Ooh this looks great

]]>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:08:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677969news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677969https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677969<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "I bought a Mac"]]>Yeah, I’ve done it once already, hopefully this time I can do it a little cleaner.

Nice, any goodies you remember from that hoard?

]]>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:08:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677968news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677968https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677968<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "I bought a Mac"]]>Funny timing, I also bought a Mac today - an SE/30. Looking forward to fixing it up.

]]>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:47:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677356news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677356<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Adding row polymorphism to Damas-Hindley-Milner"]]>I'm loving this series, it's one of the best I've found for explaining HM typing in an approachable way. Looking forward to more!

]]>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:08:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927077news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927077https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927077<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Show HN: MacProxy Plus – Surf the Modern Web on Vintage Computers"]]>Oh this looks perfect! I kind of intended to make something like this, but now I don't have to. Looking forward to replacing my macproxy with this to try it out :)

]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:21:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851493news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851493https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851493<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "What you learn by making a new programming language"]]>This is so true. I feel like I've learned more about programming in the last two years making Cassette[1] than in the past decade of professional software development.

Every developer should make a language at some point. I want to see everyone's weird, half-baked languages! I want to hear about what other people struggled with, and the tradeoffs they've made!

[1]: https://cassette-lang.com

]]>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:28:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237448news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237448https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237448<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Can the moon influence human health? New research"]]>There's also a lot less visible sky in a lot of places in a city—it only takes four or five stories to limit your view and block the moon a lot of the time. And in my experience, it's less the brightness of lights than the sheer volume of light from a city that reduces the apparent brightness of the moon and stars. I'm always amazed how you can see the halo of a city over the horizon at night just from its lights.

]]>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:12:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102876news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41102876<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Physicists may now have a way to make element 120"]]>For some background on the quest to discover new elements, I highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8. The main story about Ninov's fraud is pretty interesting, but the beginning does a good overview of the recent history.

]]>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:47:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057666news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057666https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057666<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "The Elegance of the ASCII Table"]]>> "a + ogonek accent" and another (properly) sent "a with ogonek" (these print the same but are semantically different!)

How can these possibly be semantically different? Isn’t the point of combining characters to create semantic characters that are the combination of those parts?

]]>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:35:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41046406news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41046406https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41046406<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Crafting Interpreters"]]>This looks cool! How did you decide on what data types to include?

]]>Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:59:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40951672news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40951672https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40951672<![CDATA[Show HN: A little index card typewriter simulator]]>Article URL: http://card.zjm.me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250849

Points: 6

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]]>Fri, 03 May 2024 18:40:27 +0000http://card.zjm.menews_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250849https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250849<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)"]]>SEEKING WORK | Seattle, Remote

I'm a full stack developer with 11 years of experience. I'm really good at Javascript and Elixir, and I have experience with Django, Wordpress, and Rails. Recently I've been tinkering with programming language design.

https://zjm.me | z@zjm.me

]]>Wed, 01 May 2024 19:46:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228411news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228411https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228411<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2024)"]]>SEEKING WORK | Seattle, WA | Remote

I'm Zack, a freelance full-stack web developer in Seattle. I've worked with clients on projects ranging from geography-based census data analytics to processing state COVID test results. I've designed web APIs, integrated with many third-party APIs, and restructured application architectures.

I have experience with Elixir, Node.js, React, Django, Typescript, and familiarity with other technologies.

z@zjm.me

]]>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:27:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896615news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896615https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896615<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Mandala: A little plaground for testing pixel logic patterns"]]>Per-pixel is pretty slow, most fast algorithms don’t do this. Also, this is on the Playdate, which uses a somewhat lean ARM chip (stm32f7).

]]>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:30:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661856news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661856https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661856<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Show HN: TinyWasm – A tiny WebAssembly Runtime written in Rust"]]>I’ve been working through the WebAssembly spec recently and it’s pretty interesting, there are many design aspects I wouldn’t have chosen.

Was there anything about the spec that was surprising or frustrating to you?

]]>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:57:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631299news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631299https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39631299<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2024)"]]>SEEKING WORK | Seattle | Remote

I'm Zack, a freelance full-stack web developer in Seattle. I mostly work in Elixir, and I've worked with clients on several Elixir web projects ranging from geography-based census data analytics to processing state COVID test results. I've designed web APIs, integrated with many third-party APIs, and restructured application architectures.

I also have significant experience with Node.js, React, and custom Javascript front-ends, as well as some experience with Django, Ruby on Rails, and Wordpress. In my spare time I've written a software 3D rasterizer and a functional language called Cassette in C.

https://zjm.me | z@zjm.me

]]>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:16:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39564820news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39564820https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39564820<![CDATA[New comment by news_to_me in "Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language"]]>Ok, I think I've got it working on Debian now. I've updated the "Getting Started" section with the dependencies: https://cassette-lang.com/#getting-started

]]>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:53:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38922094news_to_mehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38922094https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38922094