Hacker News: outcoldman

New comment by outcoldman in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

outcoldman — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:22:59 +0000

Maybe, but I switched from IntelliJ to Zed. And eventually stopped paying for Jetbrains products.

New comment by outcoldman in "Ask HN: What Happened to Apple App Clips?"

outcoldman — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:08:24 +0000

I believe the one I have seen a few times paying/ordering in the restaurants is Toast app.

New comment by outcoldman in "What has Docker become?"

outcoldman — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:50:55 +0000

The only big noticeable issue for me was building a large enterprise images (like Splunk). This issue was fixed [1]. Other than that I have not seen any issues with IO or performance. Running Splunk/OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, some performance tests, enterprise software written in Go (building for arm64/amd64). No issues at all.

1. https://github.com/apple/container/issues/68

New comment by outcoldman in "What has Docker become?"

outcoldman — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:42:47 +0000

Not sure about Windows, but yes to Linux. It runs linux containers (not darwin), plus can have rosetta. And I build multi arch images (arm64/amd64). It uses buildkit, the same Docker uses, so I am sure you can build Windows containers with it as well.

Just a note, I am working for the org, that sells enterprise software shipped as container images, publishes on Docker Hub and RedHat. No issues migrating to apple/container.

New comment by outcoldman in "What has Docker become?"

outcoldman — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:19:15 +0000

If somebody missed it, apple/container is a good replacement for Docker for Mac on macOS. I have been using it for the last 6 months, there are issues, but also team is actively developing it.

https://github.com/apple/container

New comment by outcoldman in "Apple M5 chip"

outcoldman — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:31:03 +0000

I referenced everything about comparing to M4. I left outside the comparison with M1.

New comment by outcoldman in "Apple M5 chip"

outcoldman — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:23:28 +0000

Marketing:

M5 announcement [1] says 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4. I guess in the lab?

Both iPad and MBP M5 [2][3] say "delivering up to 3.5x the AI performance". But all the examples of AI (in [3]), they are 1.2-2.3X faster than M4. So where this 3.5X is coming from? What tests did Apple do to show that?

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1. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-th...

2. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unveils-new-14-...

3. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-introduces-the-...

New comment by outcoldman in "Users are downgrading from macOS 26"

outcoldman — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:24:58 +0000

> macOS 26.0 is continuing to appear more often with 28.61% as of end of September 2025. In our dataset, it had a spike to almost 40% in the middle of September, but came back a bit after that.

Compare to macOS 15 which exactly one year ago had 50% of the market share.

Obviously, it is just a subset. But the drop from 40 to 30% is pretty significant even for that subset. (Based on https://telemetrydeck.com/platforms/swift/ - 6,280 apps use it, but that includes macOS and iOS apps)

PS. I am a macOS indie app developer, but I personally do not use TelemetryDeck and I am not in any way related to them. Just found this data being really interesting, so decided to share.

Users are downgrading from macOS 26

outcoldman — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:24:58 +0000

Article URL: https://telemetrydeck.com/survey/apple/macOS/versions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45583168

Points: 22

# Comments: 4

New comment by outcoldman in "ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS"

outcoldman — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:01:16 +0000

FYI: found information here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611748

New comment by outcoldman in "ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS"

outcoldman — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:27:40 +0000

Can anybody explain what is behind this statement? Tried to google, could not find much.

New comment by outcoldman in "(Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore"

outcoldman — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:21:38 +0000

I have been using Apple Watch since series 0. I believe I switched from Garmin fenix 3. I feel like at that time Fenix had a lot of issues, I remember there were some about the maps, maybe they did not even had them at that time. And I was really into hiking. So thought that Apple Watch could be a better watch. Workouts were nice, listening music from the watch was a good addition.

I have not tried new fenix watches. And I would assume they are the same good as Apple Watches as well. But I do like my Apple Watch Ultra (2 or 3, whatever was released this year)

New comment by outcoldman in "(Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore"

outcoldman — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:16:34 +0000

Sorry, I guess I was just reading about them, and went to the original blog post published on 2025-03-18 https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...

I was able to develop apps for Garmin Fenix 3, which was released in 2015 https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/160512/#specs it already supported building apps for the watch. They also had a funny name for the language they built, something like "Gorilla language" or something similar.

EDIT: found it, they call it Monkey-C https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/monkey-c/

New comment by outcoldman in "(Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore"

outcoldman — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 06:12:07 +0000

Pebble does not have GPS at all. You don't have to use GPS on the watch, if you don't need to. You have an option to choose to use it, if you want to. Garmin watches ~2 weeks just as a smart watch, 8-50 hours with GPS on. But you will not have it on, unless you need it for a specific workout.

New comment by outcoldman in "(Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore"

outcoldman — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 05:43:16 +0000

> No smartwatch on the market since the original Pebble watches offers this combination of features…until today!

Is that a lie? What about Garmin Watches?

Sure Google/Samsung/Apple Watches are not "Long battery life", because they are not "Always on e-paper screen", but I feel like Garmin Watches are.

Obviously some Garmin Watches are pretty expensive, like Fenix (I have not used it since I switched to Apple Watch), but there are ~200USD watches as well https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/741137/ with 2 weeks battery life, custom apps, screens, and even GPS.

New comment by outcoldman in "I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story"

outcoldman — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:09:44 +0000

The main concern for me, why this post is not flagged yet.

As for your question. This issue exists forever. If you can build something in a few hours, somebody else can too. If your idea is unique, maybe spend a bit more time to actually ship a product, not MVP.

New comment by outcoldman in "I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story"

outcoldman — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:30:45 +0000

I have seen this post a few hours ago on Reddit. Now I see it here at HN… Now I assume it is just a way for somebody to bring a lot of attention to their app. Nothing else. OP has a great way to promote, upvote their posts.

Just to explain, their app can be written in 24 hours, maybe in 4 hours with some vibe coding. This app does not provide more information than System Information app on macOS. And we are talking about it on HN. So yes, this is clearly to bring attention to the app, and get more installs.

I am surprised this submission has not been flagged.

New comment by outcoldman in "Vibecoding my personal site into the 512KB Club"

outcoldman — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:15:59 +0000

Very good point. I actually had to check my blog/personal website - yes I do not use any JS as well (other than google analytics)

New comment by outcoldman in "Vibecoding my personal site into the 512KB Club"

outcoldman — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:36:49 +0000

Maybe just use http://vanilla-js.com

New comment by outcoldman in "Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given"

outcoldman — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:01:55 +0000

Something is happening right now at Apple, as I have seen another post on reddit about that (could not find it), where people complained about their Dev Accounts were banned as well, when they even did not have any apps, just used dev accounts to notarize apps for themselves.

It does suck, A LOT