Hacker News: phcreery

New comment by phcreery in "Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore"

phcreery — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:44:47 +0000

The misuse of commas is distracting; at least it’s better than reading ai blogs.

New comment by phcreery in "Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger"

phcreery — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:25:28 +0000

This is not a bad idea ... for public team communication. This pretty much solves the "Discord is not documentation" and the dataloss in forum problems. If the communication was stored in the same place as the repostory, you are guaranteed to have saved and searchable messages. As a side-effect, AI can read all the past discussions for better "1000% vibecoding"

New comment by phcreery in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

phcreery — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:41:03 +0000

I think unified RAM means soldered to the SoC, which is in turn soldered to the mainboard

New comment by phcreery in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

phcreery — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:38:16 +0000

I'm waiting for the AllSpark

New comment by phcreery in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

phcreery — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:05:35 +0000

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/api/trpc/publicStats.get

New comment by phcreery in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

phcreery — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:37:31 +0000

This is expected behavior. The zoom action is into the cursor center. This is the same behavior of many other 2d/3d editors, such as Autodesk Autocad, Inventor, etc. Even MS Paint does this. If you place your cursor perfectly at the origin, it will not appear to drift.

New comment by phcreery in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

phcreery — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:51:08 +0000

In this case, "file" is the arg, not --yolo. `rm` without any args returns `` rm: missing operand Try 'rm --help' for more information. ```

`oxfmt` should have done the same and `oxfmt .`, with the desired dir ".", should have been the required usage.

New comment by phcreery in "Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser"

phcreery — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:33:18 +0000

Why is right/middle click both orbit and pan? Why is scroll wheel vertical orbit? This feels like it was vibecoded using a macbook touchpad

New comment by phcreery in "We rolled our own documentation site"

phcreery — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:59:38 +0000

vitepress seems to use https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/ and the vitepress docs I have built and used are good.

New comment by phcreery in "Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C"

phcreery — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:49:37 +0000

Agreed, using `var` keyword for something that is non-var-ying (aka immutable) is not very intuitive.

New comment by phcreery in "Zed is our office"

phcreery — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:22:47 +0000

optimized for HiDPI screens (like those on Apple devices)

New comment by phcreery in "Zed is our office"

phcreery — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:57:35 +0000

This is also a big issue for me and has one of the largets issues for a while. [1] I wish there was font hinting to the like of windows font rendering.

[1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

New comment by phcreery in "Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code"

phcreery — Thu, 29 May 2025 20:08:55 +0000

I also notice this. Maybe it was not intended to "snap" on animation checkpoints though. Scrolling with a touch scroll or mouse middle-click-and-drag is pretty smooth.

New comment by phcreery in "Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates?"

phcreery — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:21:41 +0000

Additionally, the data is comparable to the census [1] which suggests there is not a lack of data context or translation from DB date format to actual date/age.

Then again, these are just posts of screenshots on a site filled with AI-generated content.

[1] https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1891406665242546383

New comment by phcreery in "Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network"

phcreery — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:31:11 +0000

Possible with https://github.com/dchristl/macless-haystack

New comment by phcreery in "PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights"

phcreery — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:38:03 +0000

WiFi-to-WiFi hotspot is a good idea, I don't think all phones can do that though. I once used my rooted Android to spoof my Wifes MAC address to use her in-flight WiFi she paid for after she was not using it anymore.

New comment by phcreery in "OpenCola"

phcreery — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:58:12 +0000

I know nothing about the Cola recipe, but this fork seems to change some things up [1]. README says it is from "This American Life" [2] but it looks like it is closer to that of colawp.com [3].

'TAL' calls for FE Coca, Alcohol, and Vanilla but 'colawp' does not.

1: https://github.com/mmichelli/Coca-Cola/compare/master...cogn...

2: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-recipe

3: https://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html

New comment by phcreery in "Show HN: Classic Video Poker"

phcreery — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:20:01 +0000

I think it found an infinity money gltich. I held a 2 of hearts and a 3 of clubs on the far left and far right and it glitched out and did not give me 3 cards. Instead it gave me 3 black boxes, a royal flush and says I won "$"aHROcHM6Ly".... Now my cash keeps counting up, it is at over $2,000 now.

New comment by phcreery in "Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide"

phcreery — Thu, 11 May 2023 17:26:15 +0000

Me too! I have never used airtable before but have heard of it. I needed an inventory system but I wasn't satisfied with the options I found so I created my own. Right now it is rudimentary but it can import BoM, export to CSV, "build" BoM's (auto-deduct from inventory), octopart API integration for grabbing component info/specs, and all of this compiled to single binary for lightweight selfhosting.

https://github.com/phcreery/partman

New comment by phcreery in "Orbital Mechanics"

phcreery — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:48:09 +0000

I wonder how they are created