Hacker News: nickmain

WebRacket

nickmain — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:40:43 +0000

Article URL: https://soegaard.github.io/webracket/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129298

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

TextKit 2 – The Promised Land

nickmain — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:26:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.krzyzanowskim.com/2025/08/14/textkit-2-the-promised-land/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44917450

Points: 111

# Comments: 32

OCaml Cross-Compilation: An Experiment

nickmain — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:58:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chrisarmstrong.dev/posts/ocaml-cross-compilation-an-experiment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906595

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Melange 5

nickmain — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:59:13 +0000

Article URL: https://melange.re/blog/posts/announcing-melange-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43327109

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The First WASM_of_OCaml Release Is Out

nickmain — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:37:52 +0000

Article URL: https://tarides.com/blog/2025-02-19-the-first-wasm-of-ocaml-release-is-out/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103212

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum

nickmain — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:07:02 +0000

Article URL: https://huntnewsnu.com/82511/editorial/op-eds/op-ed-northeasterns-redesign-of-the-khoury-curriculum-abandons-the-fundamentals-of-computer-science/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655283

Points: 162

# Comments: 185

Dynamicland Front Shelf

nickmain — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:13:26 +0000

Article URL: https://dynamicland.org/#updated-9-04

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41448140

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickmain in "Remember for iOS"

nickmain — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:04:33 +0000

This is interesting because it demonstrates that Racket can be used for an iOS app.

Remember for iOS

nickmain — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:03:43 +0000

Article URL: https://defn.io/2024/04/09/ann-remember-for-ios/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909673

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Pre-Scheme Restoration

nickmain — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:40:54 +0000

Article URL: https://prescheme.org/posts/announcing-the-pre-scheme-restoration.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737511

Points: 201

# Comments: 59

Hoot's WASM Toolkit

nickmain — Fri, 24 May 2024 19:07:49 +0000

Article URL: https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/24/hoots-wasm-toolkit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469480

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Apple will allow users to download apps directly from a developer's website

nickmain — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:20:18 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/12/iphone-app-store-changes-web-distribution-more/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39678607

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data

nickmain — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:22:22 +0000

Article URL: https://jsoncanvas.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39670922

Points: 841

# Comments: 164

Omni Roadmap 2024

nickmain — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:10:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omni-roadmap-2024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39387041

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickmain in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)"

nickmain — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 11:22:10 +0000

Location: Southern California

Remote: Yes, occasional on-site meetings in California

Technologies:

  - 8 years Swift on iOS, tvOS. SwiftUI, UIKit

  - Past: Java, back-end and Swing. JVM bytecode instrumentation, transpiling

  - Casual: Typescript, Haxe, Python, Racket, Prolog, CLIPS

  - Currently hacking on Swift wrappers for CLIPS rules and SQLite virtual tables

Resume: https://github.com/nickmain/nickmain.github.io/blob/primary/...

Email: icons.comedic0@icloud.com

New comment by nickmain in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

nickmain — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:22:31 +0000

> Developers who adopt the new business terms at any time will not be able to switch back to Apple’s existing business terms for their EU apps.

This seems like an understated gotcha.

New comment by nickmain in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)"

nickmain — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:52:22 +0000

Location: Southern California, US

Remote: Yes, Occasional in-person in California OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, iOS, Haxe, Typescript, Java, CLIPS rules

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/nickmain/nickmain.github.io/blob/primary/...

Email: icons.comedic0@icloud.com

I've been developing in Swift on iOS/macOS/tvOS since it launched and I switched from back-end Java. Currently deep into SwiftUI and exploring DSL/API design with ResultBuilders.

Building tools and bridging technologies are my passion.

Anyone want to leverage Omnigraffle as a programming tool? Reverse engineering the file format and writing plugins are a current project.

Pre-Scheme

nickmain — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:59:09 +0000

Article URL: https://prescheme.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485791

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Guile Hoot v0.2.0 Released

nickmain — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:16:47 +0000

Article URL: https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v020-released.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477820

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickmain in "Fruit flies are invading Los Angeles. the solution? More fruit flies"

nickmain — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:03:06 +0000

Yes, being allergic to mosquito bites, I haven't been able to be in my yard for more than 5 minutes for the last 2 or 3 years.