Hacker News: qn9n

New comment by qn9n in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

qn9n — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:36:58 +0000

I always found it much slower when compared to brew and sometimes would just hang and get stuck when installing something. Plus the lack of casks does make it less of a direct replacement.

New comment by qn9n in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

qn9n — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:25:03 +0000

I've found `mise` more useful solely because it also handles things like tasks and daemons.

New comment by qn9n in "Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor"

qn9n — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:30:09 +0000

It also renders on GitHub in markdown files with ```mermaid``` code blocks so it's super useful for adding architecture diagrams and similar to your README

New comment by qn9n in "MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop for the Rest of Us"

qn9n — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:01:57 +0000

I can't imagine most of the average users, exactly who this laptop targets, are going to remember or even care which port they're plugged into. Most people don't even need to plug in external drives anymore because most of what they are working on fits on their system.

New comment by qn9n in "Parallel agents in Zed"

qn9n — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:56:33 +0000

It has decent git tools, it has had so for a little while now https://zed.dev/docs/git

New comment by qn9n in "Parallel agents in Zed"

qn9n — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:53:59 +0000

I think it's more that you don't need to look at the actual tree structure all that often, especially when most codebases follow logical and conventionalised structures you remember these structures and can use Command-P to search for files individually to open and the tree structure becomes something you peek at infrequently to ensure that everything is going in it's right place.

New comment by qn9n in "Parallel agents in Zed"

qn9n — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:51:00 +0000

https://github.com/thedadams/zed-comment

New comment by qn9n in "Show HN: No JavaScript Club"

qn9n — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:32:04 +0000

I appreciate progressive enhancement and keeping JS minimal, however I think that selective and clever usage of JS is infinitely better than none whatsoever. That said I agree with the sentiment that modern web development 100% has entirely too much JavaScript.

New comment by qn9n in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

qn9n — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:12:01 +0000

https://github.com/allegro-systems/score a full stack Swift web framework with Controllers pattern for the backend and SwiftUI like syntax for frontend code. All renders down to minified HTML, CSS and JS. Includes features for auth, REST, frontend reactivity via signals and more.

New comment by qn9n in "Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

qn9n — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:12:33 +0000

This is cool but most of this stuff for me is just set and forget, I rarely need to change those things so frequently I need it in my menu bar.

New comment by qn9n in "Swift 6.3"

qn9n — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:04:41 +0000

I find rust much noisier, especially at its basics where you write “for item in items” instead of using iter()

New comment by qn9n in "Swift 6.3"

qn9n — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:00:12 +0000

Both are apart of the toolchain now, no external dependencies required: `swift format` and `swift format lint` to access them

New comment by qn9n in "Ghostling"

qn9n — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:03:53 +0000

I agree a screenshot or even better a video of lazygit, btop or something similar running in the tui side by side with the trolley app

New comment by qn9n in "MacBook Neo"

qn9n — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:23:18 +0000

It's UNIX, just open Terminal.app

New comment by qn9n in "MacBook Neo"

qn9n — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:16:04 +0000

Because it's a new base MacBook? so MacBook Neo.

New comment by qn9n in "MacBook Neo"

qn9n — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:14:49 +0000

Average user doesn't know to look at refurb, the M1 Air will slowly drift out of manufacturing due to component sourcing etc.

New comment by qn9n in "MacBook Neo"

qn9n — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:06:31 +0000

Honestly 128MB might be too much...

New comment by qn9n in "MacBook Neo"

qn9n — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:05:53 +0000

I use an M2 Air with 8GB of RAM. I code in Swift, SwiftUI and Rust regularly with Xcode and Zed editor. I play games with Crossover and Native ones such as Control at over 30 fps. The M2 Air is an absolute powerhouse with tremendous battery life. The Neo won't be able to do these things and that's okay, it's not what it's for.

New comment by qn9n in "MacBook Neo"

qn9n — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:04:36 +0000

This! It's enough power for the average user and comes with less headaches than Windows and Linux, plus most users are familiar with iPhone and it's basically the same, easy choice for most people.

New comment by qn9n in "MacBook Neo"

qn9n — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:03:53 +0000

For the average user (office and student) this is all they need, access to office apps, ChatGPT and their google cloud and that's enough. They don't need it to "fly" through coding tasks and games that's not what it's for.