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New comment by pigcat in "Letting Claude play text adventures"

pigcat — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:38:29 +0000

How does one use tmux to do this? I'm a tmux user for 10+ years, not sure what you mean by this, am I missing something huge?

New comment by pigcat in "Steam Machine"

pigcat — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:35:59 +0000

Can I use it as a jellyfin client? Does that... make sense?

I bought a new tv (samsung s90d) and I haven't found have a great way to watch my jellyfin media. This tv doesn't have a jellyfin client in the samsung app store.

I feel like I'm being stupid here, would love some suggestions :P I've got a local jellyfin server running on a home server in the basement.

New comment by pigcat in "From VS Code to Helix"

pigcat — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:01:31 +0000

Woah, how did I not know about that tip about omitting the search pattern? Love it and will be using that lots!

As a thank you, I'll leave you with the way I learned to search/replace, just to give you a slightly different flavour: asterisk, cgn ([c]hange [g]o [n]ext), type replaced, then . (period, to repeat) until I'm done.

New comment by pigcat in "Why is everything so scalable?"

pigcat — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:25:06 +0000

My friend is the first dev hire at a startup where they prematurely overengineered for scalability. The technical founders had recently exited a previous startup and their rationale was that it makes a future acquisition easier, since a potential acquirer will weigh scalability in their evaluation of the code (and maybe even conflate it with quality). In fact it was a regret from their first startup that they hadn't baked in scalability earlier. I remain skeptical of the decision, but curious if there's any truth to the fact that acquirers weigh scalability in their scorecard?

New comment by pigcat in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

pigcat — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:35:50 +0000

I did the same thing! We had a good laugh.

New comment by pigcat in "Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?"

pigcat — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:31:04 +0000

Making electronic music. Any recommendations for where to start?

New comment by pigcat in "I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain"

pigcat — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:47:10 +0000

Thanks for explaining this so clearly! I'm going to try this next time :)

New comment by pigcat in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

pigcat — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:54:13 +0000

Haha, yeah fair point. My comment does seem trite when you put it that way ;)

The point I was trying to make (which I think you understood) was that it was _surprisingly cheap_ to outsource. In the range of ~$100 for our entire collection.

I should mention that this project was undertaken because a relative's house burned down and, with it, all their family photos. So my comment is meant as encouragement for anyone sitting on a treasure trove of family photos who is thinking to digitize: do it! And to inform that this process that I thought would be very painful/tedious is something that can be outsourced for relatively cheap.

New comment by pigcat in "Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)"

pigcat — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:29:20 +0000

Just to share my experience: My brother and I recently digitized all our family photos. The process doesn't have to be so daunting. We found someone on facebook marketplace with a high quality scanner, and paid them to scan every photo and put it on a USB stick. I don't remember how much it cost but it was pennies per photo.

New comment by pigcat in "Celebrating the Timeless Allure of Tintin's Aesthetics"

pigcat — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:29:48 +0000

That fan art is incredible. I would love to read those!

New comment by pigcat in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

pigcat — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:29:47 +0000

Here's my very simple solution

Add this to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

alias alertme='printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a'

I add this after longish tasks - eg:

python longtest.py; alertme

seeddb; alertme

New comment by pigcat in "The Art of Finishing"

pigcat — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:10:32 +0000

I use the reward system with a slight twist:

I'm not allowed to start a new project until I complete my current one.

Since I have a huge backlog of ideas, my "reward" for finishing a project is that I get to work on the next most exciting idea. Yay!

This forces me to keep the scopes small.

I'm allowed to rescope my current project to something smaller/imperfect after I've started (for example if I discover that my initial vision is going to take too long), but I still have to finish it before I'm allowed to start the next one.

New comment by pigcat in "What advice for moving to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico? (Quora's AI vs. a real answer)"

pigcat — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:03:07 +0000

One of the more striking examples I've seen of an absolutely banal AI response compared to a real answer

What advice for moving to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico? (Quora's AI vs. a real answer)

pigcat — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:03:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/What-advice-would-you-give-to-someone-who-is-moving-to-Coatzacoalcos-Mexico

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690232

Points: 5

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New comment by pigcat in "The Pen Hospital in Kolkata will nurse your broken fountain pen back"

pigcat — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:25:49 +0000

Weird thing... The links in that article are to totally unrelated pages on the same Vogue India site.

eg. the first link `pen` takes you to an article about therapy.

Anyone know why they might do this? Is it some SEO trick?

New comment by pigcat in "Android features I envy as an iPhone user"

pigcat — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:36:33 +0000

I just want to be able to disable future push notifications from the notification itself (long press). That's the biggest thing I miss about Android.

New comment by pigcat in "Duolingo Sucks, Now What?"

pigcat — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:53:16 +0000

+1 for Mango Languages (available free with my Library Card)

It's very well designed. The spaced repetition is effective. The lesson order is sensible. The Romanian lessons have a real speaker narrating the pronunciation, compared to Duolingo's AI narrator, which was terrible for learning.

I tried Duolingo briefly but the over-gamification wasn't for me. Everything was about gems and lives, major turnoff.

New comment by pigcat in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

pigcat — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:36:52 +0000

> My general infrastructure advice is “less is better”.

I found this slightly ironic given there are ~50 headers in the article :)

I liked the format of the writeup

New comment by pigcat in "Modern iOS Navigation Patterns"

pigcat — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:11:57 +0000

Can you expand on the design sins of the Soundcloud app? I use it a lot and have never noticed anything particularly funky. I'm on iOS.

New comment by pigcat in "Ask HN: What photo sharing solution should we use for our destination wedding?"

pigcat — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:03:48 +0000

Re: WhatsApp - Oh my gosh - you are right! Thank you so much!

It's slightly annoying that it's not possible to set that to default, and I reckon a lot of guests won't remember or bother to change that each time, but it's great to know that.