Hacker News: passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=passthejoeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:42:06 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto"]]>The dev calls it "Atto Emacs"

https://github.com/hughbarney/atto

]]>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:31:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289730passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289730https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289730<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto"]]>I didn't realize the size difference was so huge.

Atto has a great man page that would give a user everything they needed to know if they were unfamiliar with emacs keybindings.

]]>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:21:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289570passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289570https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289570<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto"]]>Good point

]]>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:42:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288905passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288905https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288905<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto"]]>Micro is MIT licensed, so it should be shippable in NetBSD base.

https://github.com/micro-editor/MICRO

]]>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:05:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288330passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288330https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50288330<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization"]]>Today's generation of kids is using Google Apps in school and has no ties to MS Office. SAAS in general will make MS Office much less relevant. Things like Canva and Photopea are doing the same to Adobe.

]]>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:43:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757728passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757728https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757728<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Why I love FreeBSD"]]>Having ZFS baked into the installer and fully supported by the project is a huge motivator for using FreeBSD.

I know that Linux distros can accommodate ZFS, but it's a fair-weather situation due to licensing and most distros' preference for BTRFS.

]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:47:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414332passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414332https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414332<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "The next two years of software engineering"]]>If the economy is profoundly affected by employment conditions going forward, how can housing costs not drop?

]]>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:00:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594249passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594249https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594249<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Bear is now source-available"]]>Most static site generators offer a Bear Blog theme, including Hugo and Zola.

So you can get a self-hosted site that looks and acts like a Bear Blog, but run it yourself with a free software SSG.

]]>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:33:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45096817passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45096817https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45096817<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Bear is now source-available"]]>The license disallows use of the software for what it is intended: setting up a multi-user blogging system.

]]>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:07:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095104passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095104<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Build Your Own Z80 Computer: Design Guidelines and Application (1981)"]]>I used to have this book and loved it. Kid me could never have built this. Adult me couldn't either, but the idea that somebody could was pretty extraordinary.

]]>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:42:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41417346passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41417346https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41417346<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"]]>Golang's not so secret weapon

]]>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:59:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764052passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764052https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764052<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"]]>This has bitten me many times

]]>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:58:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764046passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764046https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764046<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution"]]>Puppy was my first distro. Loved it back in the day.

I discovered so many great apps through Puppy, including Geany, ROX Filer and gFTP.

]]>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:07:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733907passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733907https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733907<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%"]]>If I had a nickel for every SO thread that came up in my Google searches that could have answered my question if only the SO moderators had allowed it to be answered, I'd be able to buy a few steak dinners.

]]>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:46:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903486passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903486https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903486<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online"]]>This book was my World Wide Web as a kid

]]>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:41:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877095passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877095<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "The future of AlmaLinux"]]>Alma also has a live ISO.

]]>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 02:14:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36718646passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36718646https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36718646<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)"]]>> Pay for RHEL or use Debian

In this climate, that is a solid philosophy

]]>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:46:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625956passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625956https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625956<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)"]]>The decisions seem rushed, not borne out of consensus, and not well thought out

]]>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:40:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625905passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625905https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625905<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)"]]>This exactly

]]>Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:39:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625896passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625896https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625896<![CDATA[New comment by passthejoe in "Apple Introduces M2 Ultra"]]>My 2011 iMac is screaming fast with Debian Linux.

]]>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 01:14:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36206794passthejoehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36206794https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36206794