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New comment by peanball in "Cat Gap"

peanball — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:06:38 +0000

A topic of the “Three Robots” episode of Death Love & Robots, kind of. Sorry for the fandom link.

https://lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Robots#:~:text...

New comment by peanball in "Formatting code should be unnecessary"

peanball — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:31:24 +0000

I can only recommend difftastic[1], which is a language aware diff. Independent of linter that shows the logical diff, not an assortment of characters or lines that changed.

[1]: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

New comment by peanball in "Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years"

peanball — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 18:59:30 +0000

Yes.

New comment by peanball in "Presentation Slides with Markdown"

peanball — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:41:09 +0000

I think the use case would be limited to a handful of users (slight hyperbole).

The average user is content enough with using plain PowerPoint and won’t bother with Markdown. People using Markdown are more on the “you’re doing it wrong, put the basics on the slide” side.

The people that make nice backgrounds for their talk, sometimes with a word or two, won’t get there with a text based tool either.

People that use LaTeX, markdown or some other text to slides tool are few and far between.

New comment by peanball in "Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay""

peanball — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:12:19 +0000

For completeness, it does say “one month, one year or forever” in the linked FAQ and makes clear it’s not recurring. GP rephrased the FAQ.

New comment by peanball in "TUI editor and Vim/Neovim alternative"

peanball — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:38:19 +0000

https://micro-editor.github.io/

New comment by peanball in "Ghostty 1.0"

peanball — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:07:54 +0000

I’ve noticed that too when the scroll back buffer is particularly long. iTerm seems to then reflow from the beginning, which can take a while.

I keep using a lot of fresh tabs all the time and iTerm resizes instantly via Rectangle for me.

Ghostty was a bit more sluggish in resizing on an Intel Mac than iTerm in the current latest versions.

New comment by peanball in "Ghostty 1.0"

peanball — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:45:49 +0000

It does, natively.

New comment by peanball in "Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen"

peanball — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:14:21 +0000

I buy flight and other tickets on the phone all the time. Autofill for CC details, quick access to PayPal and other things are all there. One swipe away.

Transport and booking apps (Airbnb, etc) are all pretty decent and similar to the speed on a laptop. But I can do that while walking the dog, while on the bus, and many other situations where I’m not at a proper computer.

Elder millennial (1982), so it’s not just a young people thing.

New comment by peanball in "The withering dream of a cheap American electric car"

peanball — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 05:23:52 +0000

Usually they don’t beep on lane changes when you use the indicators before switching.

The lights in the side mirrors are also not removing the obligation to check your blind spot.

Both help, but don’t take away your responsibility as driver.

New comment by peanball in "Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor"

peanball — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:01:35 +0000

Goland / the Go plugin is great though.

For auch a “heavy” IDE it’s also surprisingly responsive.

New comment by peanball in "Mira Murati leaves OpenAI"

peanball — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:04:44 +0000

Right at the top (at least on mobile): “Posted June 6, 2023”

New comment by peanball in "Show HN: 789-Zip – A native macOS app for 7-Zip"

peanball — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:41:35 +0000

BetterZip. https://betterzip.com

New comment by peanball in "Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)"

peanball — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:29:47 +0000

I have a project with Raspberry Pis up to 3B+ (https://just-functional.com). egl_rpi is not supported on 4, but KMS/DRM is, still headless.

Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework

peanball — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:27:48 +0000

Article URL: https://kivy.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891446

Points: 205

# Comments: 104

New comment by peanball in "Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)"

peanball — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:25:25 +0000

Don’t forget about the Kivy framework. It’s a python framework that renders openGL accelerated UIs, also headlessly on the raspberry pi if needed. https://kivy.org

New comment by peanball in "Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation"

peanball — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 06:33:16 +0000

I had the same thing this morning. Unlock and password reset via another device worked through.

New comment by peanball in "Textual Healing: iOS Text Editing Minutiae"

peanball — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:11:04 +0000

And SWT is built on calling system native components. Of course the “text editor” ends up being one large custom component that has nothing to gain from being in a “native” View.

All of that said, SWT and Eclipse do know that they are running on MacOS. It would be possible to mimic the same behavior, but that’s hard to do because there are so many minute details per platform.

New comment by peanball in "Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading"

peanball — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 07:46:42 +0000

Often you also have the CI system designed in a way to verify a “from scratch” build that avoids any issues with “works on my machine” scenarios due to things still being cached that shouldn’t be there anymore.

New comment by peanball in "Apple Is Approaching Social on Vision Pro the Way Meta Should Have All Along"

peanball — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:13:14 +0000

So far none. It hasn’t been released yet.