Hacker News: parkersweb

New comment by parkersweb in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"

parkersweb — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:48:56 +0000

I have the opposite problem - I live a half hour walk from central Cambridge UK, so results are full of the tourist destinations!

New comment by parkersweb in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

parkersweb — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:49:58 +0000

Can recommend: Mash Gang, We Can Be Friends, Erdinger 0% and I actually quite enjoy Peroni 0% on a summer day. I’m also told that Guinness 0% is pretty good - but I’m not a big Guinness drinker.

New comment by parkersweb in "Sonnet 5.5"

parkersweb — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:50:36 +0000

I like the one where the pelican is using the non-pedalling leg to control the handlebars because its wings won’t reach!

New comment by parkersweb in "Tell the speakers that you liked their talks"

parkersweb — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:36:51 +0000

Anyone else remember Lanyrd [1]? I seem to remember that had a kind of Kudos mechanism for speakers?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyrd

New comment by parkersweb in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

parkersweb — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:18:06 +0000

I’ve not come across Swift Salamander - and it looks interesting (even if the homepage has all the hallmarks of an AI landing page design).

Anyone have any experience of it?

New comment by parkersweb in "OpenLogi"

parkersweb — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:26:33 +0000

If I was going to make a keylogger this is pretty much how I'd do it - no need to sneak an application onto a user's machine to capture keystrokes when they'd willingly install it because it's better than the terrible official software.

I hate Options+ as much as the next guy - but don't have the time / technical knowledge to audit thoroughly enough to establish trust in this.

I'm nearing the replacement point on my current MX Master - so is there a better alternative to Logitech?

New comment by parkersweb in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

parkersweb — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:26:51 +0000

Oh yes - exactly this. The way it articulates re-factors in my current project has got so elliptical I've had to start asking it to translate into human speak - it's like it evolves it's own language to talk about the project. I've lost count of the number of times I've asked it to reenforce in memory not to use such verbose comments - and the number of times I ask it to re-look at an assumption it's made for it to return saying "investigation complete. And it's not what either of us was expecting"....

New comment by parkersweb in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

parkersweb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:55:13 +0000

I have a theory that Claude regresses to complexity. It’s trained to mimic existing patterns - so the smallest grain of over-engineering or spaghetti-code is like a mind-virus, gradually infecting all future output and self-amplifying until all is spaghetti.

New comment by parkersweb in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

parkersweb — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:14:03 +0000

You say that like it’s an infinitely scalable proposition? It really isn’t.

New comment by parkersweb in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

parkersweb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:01:28 +0000

I always assumed this is triggered by Bluetooth connection to the car?

New comment by parkersweb in "Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen"

parkersweb — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:04:50 +0000

I tried Hevy based on hacker news recommendations - but I feel like I want more of a steer on what activities I should be doing. Hevy just seems to give me the same set over and over in trainer mode.

New comment by parkersweb in "Bonnie Tyler has died"

parkersweb — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:09:12 +0000

The exact same NS10s!

New comment by parkersweb in "Bonnie Tyler has died"

parkersweb — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:57:36 +0000

I once worked with a guy mixing TV programmes and live DVDs; I knew he’d been a studio engineer at one point in his career. We were re-arranging our studios one day and as I picked up a pair of NS-10s he casually said “I mixed ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ on those…”

New comment by parkersweb in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

parkersweb — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:48:44 +0000

Bit puzzled by some of the station data. This train:

https://www.map.signalbox.io/?train=202607066710114&location...

is a train from Cambridge to Kings Cross - and in the side panel it shows it as calling at the new Cambridge South station. But Cambridge South isn't shown on the map. That's kinda understandable (because it opened a week ago), but Cambridge North (which opened in 2017) also isn't shown on the map. Neither are offered in any of the auto-complete dropdowns?

I'm wondering if the station data a static dataset which hasn't been updated in a long time?

New comment by parkersweb in "The Website Specification"

parkersweb — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:03:58 +0000

Quite. Or differences in the box-model, appending weird symbols to CSS to target specific browsers, adding zoom:1, praying you didn’t have to support IE6….

New comment by parkersweb in "The $500K AI Film That "Premiered at Cannes" Was Not in the Official Festival"

parkersweb — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:44:13 +0000

Last line of the trailer “That was terrible”… yup.

New comment by parkersweb in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

parkersweb — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:44:12 +0000

Have you also come across this? ‘Flavor network and the principles of food pairing’

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.6074

New comment by parkersweb in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

parkersweb — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:49:52 +0000

I was chatting to a therapist friend the other day about EMDR [0] therapy. In short it’s often used in treating PTSD through alternating eye movement, but also alternating sound in headphones or tapping the body on alternating sides.

The theory is that it helps connect the left and right halves of the brain to allow trauma to be processed emotionally.

I’ve been wondering since if that’s why walking / running helps with creative processing?

[0] https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/types-of-therapy/eye-mo...

New comment by parkersweb in "Why most product tours get skipped"

parkersweb — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:03:32 +0000

I'd argue this is only true for B2C

New comment by parkersweb in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

parkersweb — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:02:33 +0000

It’s a relatively new GOV.UK requirement - this year IIRC.