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New comment by oweiler in "Docker Offload"

oweiler — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:02:13 +0000

So like Testcontainers Cloud?

New comment by oweiler in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

oweiler — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:39:42 +0000

That game felt like a graphics demo though. Almost unplayable.

New comment by oweiler in "Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost"

oweiler — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:02:50 +0000

https://github.com/helpermethod/pk/blob/main/pk

I have a tiny shell function to kill whatever is listening on that port

New comment by oweiler in "Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)"

oweiler — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:22:58 +0000

His first "what" example actually explains "why" clear is called two times. The code perfectly captures the "what".

New comment by oweiler in "Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers"

oweiler — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:50:18 +0000

You can also check in an .sdkmanrc into each respective project which defines the required Java version.

Then SDKMAN! will perform the switch automatically when you enter the directory.

https://sdkman.io/usage/#env-command

New comment by oweiler in "Chibi Izumi: Phased dependency injection for TypeScript"

oweiler — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:22:03 +0000

It just gets rid of the boilerplate. Never had a problem with ctor injection in Spring.

New comment by oweiler in "Result is all I need"

oweiler — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:40:08 +0000

Use the builtin Result class and runCatching/fold and be done with it. Yes, it has shortcomings but works well enough in practice.

New comment by oweiler in "Page Object (2013)"

oweiler — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:24:24 +0000

This is honestly the main reason I prefer Playwright to Cypress. Playwright leans heavily into using POs, while for some reason Cypress doesn't.

So in almost every project the Cypress tests are a procedural mess, while the Playwright tests are mostly well structured.

I know that Cypress has other patterns for dealing with this but they never seem to get applied.

The Great Bitnami BSI Shift: What the New Costs and Licenses Mean for End Users

oweiler — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:51:12 +0000

Article URL: https://iits-consulting.de/blog/the-great-bitnami-shift-what-the-new-costs-and-licenses-mean-for-end-users

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45125446

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by oweiler in "Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell"

oweiler — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:14:35 +0000

I use Starship without any customizations and its good enough for my every day use.

New comment by oweiler in "DropZap World – My falling block game with lasers, released after years of work"

oweiler — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:19:27 +0000

Reminds me of a game I've played on C64 AS a kid.

New comment by oweiler in "TIL: timeout in Bash scripts"

oweiler — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:31:17 +0000

Bash has no standard library. It has builtins, and commands. And commands are just external tools.

New comment by oweiler in "By default, Signal doesn't recall"

oweiler — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:08:55 +0000

I have read almost the same thing 5yrs ago. And 5yrs before that. And so on.

New comment by oweiler in "Redis is open source again"

oweiler — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:33:43 +0000

Yet. It's a drop-in replacement, and both faster and cheaper.

New comment by oweiler in "Pinball Brothers – A Swedish-Italian Pinball Company"

oweiler — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:46:26 +0000

Can such a company actually be profitable? The market seems tiny.

A Bash function to detect if an alias overrides a command or builtin

oweiler — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:31:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/helpermethod/alias-investigations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43353766

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by oweiler in "Magnesium Self-Experiments"

oweiler — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 08:56:06 +0000

When I started running I had horrible cramps and the mg made them much less severe.

Running for a year now, it doesn't seem to make a difference.

New comment by oweiler in "Why “alias” is my last resort for aliases"

oweiler — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:26:29 +0000

`alias` is shell builtin.

New comment by oweiler in "Why “alias” is my last resort for aliases"

oweiler — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:23:32 +0000

This. Functions are almost always the better solution.

New comment by oweiler in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

oweiler — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:49:51 +0000

This is the first thing I recommend to new Mac users.