Hacker News: nickporter

New comment by nickporter in "GCP Outage"

nickporter — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:18:48 +0000

having issues with cloudflare as well

New comment by nickporter in "Firebase Auth Services Down"

nickporter — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:18:04 +0000

yes, see other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44260669

New comment by nickporter in "The type system is a programmer's best friend"

nickporter — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 20:53:43 +0000

I bought a domain that forwards *@example.com to my personal email address. Easy to set up on google domains.

This ensures everything before the @ is opaque, i.e. foo+bar@gmail.com is now bar@foo.com

Services that block my domain are usually the ones that also block foo+bar@gmail.com

New comment by nickporter in "Tape Deck"

nickporter — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 03:39:32 +0000

Awesome, I'd love this for VHS covers too

New comment by nickporter in "Take Advantage of Git Rebase"

nickporter — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:42:03 +0000

Love rebasing, love merging, squash or no squash, it all depends on what I'm trying to communicate with my pushes.

Just discovered the --rebase-merges option, worth exploring if you want to edit a commit under a merge commit, but don't want to mess up the merge commits.

New comment by nickporter in "Ask HN: Where are all the cool architecture diagrams?"

nickporter — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:49:47 +0000

I am on the hunt as well. This seems useful, not the prettiest but not the worst:

https://diagrams.mingrammer.com

New comment by nickporter in "Exa: An alternative to Ls"

nickporter — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:17:42 +0000

it's all about the flags, e.g. readlink -f

New comment by nickporter in "[dead]"

nickporter — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 06:16:43 +0000

Google Meet was a big problem for me until I cleaned out the dust.

New comment by nickporter in "[dead]"

nickporter — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 02:39:46 +0000

These things usually fix performance issues for me:

- Open your macbook and clean out the dust. I do it yearly. It always helps.

- Keep macOS and apps (e.g. browser) up-to-date. coreaudiod high cpu was fixed for me in 11.6.

- Review login items, delete what you don't need.

- Reboot, with the occasional nvram, pram reset

- Review activity monitor, find apps that have background processes and delete the ones you don't need.

- Review installed applications, especially ones w/ kernel extensions (e.g. hamachi, vbox). Delete if you don't need them. Easy to re-install.

- Kill docker desktop when not using docker.

- Fine tune spotlight settings.

New comment by nickporter in "Ask HN: What are your favorite command-line applications?"

nickporter — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 05:16:23 +0000

  fzf
  nmap
  socat
  stow

New comment by nickporter in "Ask HN: What are you using as an issue tracker in 2019?"

nickporter — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:21:39 +0000

airtable

New comment by nickporter in "Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch"

nickporter — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:11:34 +0000

I need this in my life. Great idea!

New comment by nickporter in "WebGL Fluid Simulation"

nickporter — Tue, 21 May 2019 04:02:57 +0000

If you guys like this, you'll like Verve (fluid dynamics painting tool):

https://www.taron.de/verve/verve_download.html

New comment by nickporter in "PipelineDB (YC W14) is Joining Confluent"

nickporter — Wed, 01 May 2019 17:52:40 +0000

Congrats guys!

New comment by nickporter in "Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists"

nickporter — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:20:37 +0000

Very cool project, thanks for making this!

New comment by nickporter in "Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive"

nickporter — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 01:17:14 +0000

Congrats dude!

New comment by nickporter in "Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?"

nickporter — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 05:46:29 +0000

Same here. I think it's because most of the time, I have to get up early to catch a flight and I don't get enough sleep.

New comment by nickporter in "Ending Bitcoin Support"

nickporter — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:36:01 +0000

If you want to use it on your website:

https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning-charge

New comment by nickporter in "Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger"

nickporter — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:17:13 +0000

They'd be mining an altcoin because those blocks would be rejected by the network.

New comment by nickporter in "Building for the Blockchain"

nickporter — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:02:05 +0000

Bitcoin whitepaper url is broken.